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After Divorce, What to Do, What Not to Do is for men and women transitioning from separation and divorce into a new life. There are countless books that claim they can walk you through the divorce process step-by-step, from beginning to end. Everything from custody battles to division of property is discussed in these books, but few offer advice for the emotional side of divorce. And for those of you that believe the psychology of divorce should be left to the psychologists.

While growing up in the ’70s, Mark Edwards was surrounded by bullies. As a kid back then, you would eventually find yourself with older kids, whose only purpose was to threaten and pummel the crap out of you. All you had to do was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was the age before political correctness and the peak of the bullies. They were everywhere.

Mark Edwards is infatuated with Vicky Thornton. Right after he enters the seventh grade at Tecumseh Junior High School, he decides to participate in a pie-eating contest. Not just any pie- eating contest, but The Great Lemon Meringue Pie Eating Contest of the seventh grade. Mark has to win to prove his worth to Vicky Thornton.

Michael Eads was ready to go home until he heard his wife crying in the darkness of the hospital room. He decided it was time to speak to God and thank him for his life, should he be no more. The excruciating pain from acute pancreatitis inflicted its unique stamp of mortality in a man's mind and body. The cold feeling inside his soul was acquiescing to the inevitable reality that his life was slipping away. But not before one last prayer, one last chance, and perhaps one final answer.

On February 29th in a leap year, Mitch Lucas shook hands with destiny. An extra one quarter day left over each year that added up to one day out of every four. A day mankind needed to balance the books after he discovered the passage of time.

It was the spring of 2010. Steve Jobs had come to terms with his illness and fate. Instead of succumbing to it, he embraced it. He assembled the greatest scientific minds of our time into a group he affectionately called The Super Seven.

Was the Civil War the greatest war in American history, or was it the biggest mistake in American history? Was the blood of more than one million men spilled over countless battlefields necessary to get rid of slavery? Was the country we called free for everyone just an idea? Was a nation born and then destroyed because of an institution that was nothing more than peculiar? Does the flag of a dead country that still flies over courthouses in the South speak for a nation?

In the fall of 1969, three brothers, Adam, Carl and Mark, venture out on Halloween night in what would be their last time trick-or-treating together. On the most sacred of all nights, these brothers will try almost anything in their relentless pursuit to acquire as much candy as they can during the Super Bowl of sugar bliss, Halloween. The oldest brother (Adam) creates a plan of attack that will allow them to retrieve the maximum amount of candy in the shortest period of time.

A Killing At The Rock exposes all the human elements of fear and desperation. It is where one man's obsession to kill another man causes each man to fight for their lives. To make matters worse, the chase happens in a cold, murky lake where almost anything can go wrong. And depending on what side you're on, the fine line between what's right and wrong can be distorted. Especially when justice has no eyes and the innocent are invisible.

Why don't New Year's resolutions work? The answer is simple; at the very best New Year's resolutions are weak attempts at perpetuating the status quo year after year. Is it any wonder why so many people fail at their resolutions? It doesn't have to be that way. No New Year's Resolutions will help you establish realistic goals that you could start on right away.

Mark was born on the third of July. He grew up believing his birthday had no meaning other than the day he was born. At the end of the school year in the fifth grade, his strict but fair teacher, Mr. Herzog, tells Mark about a great battle that happened on his birthday. His teacher called it, "The defining moment in American history." Mark celebrates his eleventh birthday followed by America's independence in none other than Independence, Missouri.

A unique book, which addresses a calamity many men face, was written by the Northwest Author, Michael Louis Eads: A Man's Feelings, Finding Closure After Divorce.

Divorce, a word synonymous with failure, disappointment and heartache; any man who loved his wife and went through divorce feels the stigma and loss. The courts use these words: dissolution, irretrievable and broken. These heartless terms create turmoil to a man going through divorce.