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BOOK
Penalty Stroke
By Susan Leigh
Shallcross
A Prison of Lies
by Robert Thomas
Doran
FAMILY/CHILDCARE
A Prison of
In his novel, A Prison of Lies, Robert Thomas Doran portrays a troubled youth, who
confronts a world of sadness and hopelessness and comes to question the existence of God.
Beset by challenges on every quarter: unable to fit in with his peers, shamed by his sexuality,
ill equipped for emotional intimacy and unable to express himself with girls; he slips from
a depression into full blown mental illness. In the depths of his illness, he battles internal
demons that threaten to steal his innocence with evil thoughts and hallucinations.
P
A Prison of Lies is a brutally honest look into one man’s odyssey into the darkness of mental
illness and finally out into the light where he finally heals his broken spirit and begins a
new chapter in his life.
As this fiction is inspired by his own struggle with mental illness Robert Thomas Doran is
grateful to god for helping him recover from mental illness. Today he lives in Pennsylvania
with his wife of fifteen years. A Prison of Lies was written as an act of faith and with the
hope of helping others afflicted with mental illness.
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Age of the Gentiles
and the White God
Delusion
by Timothy Hugee
T
he book is a
logical Bible
study and in-depth
examination of Race,
Sex, Power, Politics
and War. The
Author addresses
the false doctrine
and propaganda that has been fronted for
centuries, by Christianity and Judaism, as to
their supremacy above other religions and black
and Semite races.
www.authortimhugee.info
Available at Authorhouse, Amazon,
and BarnesandNoble.
RO B E RT TH O M AS D O RAN
enalty Stroke is a
thrilling mystery
centered on the
wealthy, aristocratic
Abbott family—and the
dark secrets of their
past that haunt the
present. When Lady
Madison’s university
friend unexpectedly dies at a charity polo
match, no one believes it was murder, except
Madison. Not knowing who she can trust—
maybe not even herself—Madison struggles
to solve the mystery and her erase her own
haunted past.
www.susanleighshallcross.com
Available at Amazon and Audible.
Lies
In A Prison of Lies, Doran presents a story of anguish, breakdown, and recovery with the
hope that this journey through mental illness might raise our consciousness; kindle a
common understanding and most importantly, facilitate the recovery of individuals who
may be similarly afflicted. As he offers this compelling glimpse into a man’s personal
crisis that includes the reasons why he loathed himself and developed a massive inferiority
complex, Doran illuminates an intriguing and often frightening path into what exactly
motivates suicides and fuels crimes of passion. Highlighted in his story are insightful
poems and compelling conversations therapists and hypnotists.
W
ith its brutal
honesty,
witness one man’s
odyssey into the
darkness of mental
illness and his slow
A Prison of
emergence out of
ROBERT THOMAS DORAN
that darkness where
a broken spirit is healed and a life begins anew.
A Prison of Lies offers a candle in the cave for
those seeking to understand and for those who
are themselves lost and unable to find their way.
(Mature content)
Lies
www.aprisonoflies.com; www.stopharm.com
Available at Amazon, BarnesandNoble,
and iUniverse.
Blooms on
the Bones
by Yvonne Kohano
Who’s next
for romance
in Flynn’s
Crossing?
O
ld bones,
predestined
love, and troubled
adversaries clash
as an unlikely
relationship soars to conquer the spirit world.
The story of Tess and Powers is heating up Main
Street!
www.YvonneKohano.com.
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paperback vendor.