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This is the story of a sandlot football team; its genesis is in 1948 on the upper East Side. In 1952, the team took on its name, the Warriors. Spanning decades, the Bronx Warriors exists to this day as a Youth Football Organization. This is also the story of one man, the original quarterback in 1948, Jerry “Jay” Demers who never let go of the team he put together. From player/coach to coach to head administrator, Jerry has coached over ten-thousand players and influenced many lives. He has been honored with a proclamation from Senator Jeff Klein and an award from Bronx County for his service to the community and its youth. The story of Jerry Demers and the Bronx Warriors are intertwined. You cannot have one without the other.I do hope that in reading this account will provide you with fond memories and takes you back to your youth.

During the summer of 2014, twenty-year old Mathias Kamau-Barrett decides to take a hiatus from college so that he can spend time on Battersea Island. He is hopeful that he can get involved with the residents and help them in their huge tax assessment problem, which threatens the homeland that has been in their families’ possession for generations. The college student takes off for the Georgia coast. Upon his arrival to the remote location, he discovers the beauty of the island and the warmth of the people as well as a special gift that he possesses within him, the Sense, a paranormal ability to read people and situations. He quickly becomes acquainted with the inhabitants by striking up a friendship with Harper Shaye, the lead advocate in the fight against the county, and becomes immersed in the situation. Through Harper, he is introduced to Bethany Cormel; a paralegal working to help the families get over the hurdle of the county’s zoning issues and a property tax increase. She calls on Mathias’s educational prowess to assist her with legal research. Mathias’s effort is not only met with opposition buy a mysterious set of circumstances, including a death, on the island. The Sense guides Mathias to believe that there are ulterior motives within the county and the state to remove an indigenous population from their land. Can the residents win their legal battle with Mathias’s assistance?

On a frigid winter night,a massive house fire kills all of the Opperst family except for Lacey, a nine-year old. The next-door neighbor, a young adult named Ezekiel, seeing this disaster, comes to meet Lacey for the first time as she is wheeled out from the scorched home. As Ezekiel stands over her gurney, Lacey unexpectedly requests that he visit her at the hospital. Keeping his promise to her, Ezekiel does visit her and is taken by the cute and bright child as the two quickly form a bond. While being with Lacey over the course of a week, Ezekiel meets Gia, Lacey’s nurse and becomes enamored by her. As Lacey has no family or relatives to take her in, Child Protection Services is her only option. Wanting to keep Lacey out of the foster care system, Zeke takes Lacey into his home becoming her legal guardian. Ezekiel soon learns that the fire was no accident and that there is a gangster, Bernie O'Lara, looking to find her. Ezekiel, using every resource he can, he rearranges his life to tend to Lacey’s and to safeguard her from Bernie O’Lara’s pursuit. Along the way, Ezekiel discovers that Lacey has the paranormal capacity to astral project. An out of body experience where the soul or consciousness separates from the physical self and can travel throughout the universe. As a precaution to keep Lacey out of harm’s way, Ezekiel and Lacey flee New York City and with the aid of Gia’s family, finds residence in the Caribbean. Their travel to escape danger takes them beyond anything they could imagine, but can they stay out of Bernie’s grasp.Ezekiel, using every resource he can, he rearranges his life to tend to Lacey’s and to safeguard her from Bernie O’Lara’s pursuit. Along the way, Ezekiel discovers that Lacey has the paranormal capacity to astral project. An out of body experience where the soul or consciousness separates from the physical self and can travel throughout the universe. As a precaution to keep Lacey out of harm’s way, Ezekiel and Lacey flee New York City and with the aid of Gia’s family, finds residence in the Caribbean. Their travel to escape danger takes them beyond anything they could imagine, but can they stay out of Bernie’s grasp.

Dwelling on the all-time favorite genre of romance, this is a fictional tale contains slight spiritual messages and subtle social issues sprinkled into it. Billie Barrett was an odd one, straight and true, misery and anger all wrapped into one lonely soul It is a love story between a young angry hateful shrimper who lives in the village of Edgewater which is located along the St. Johns River in northern Florida and a young Gullah woman who is from an island St. Helena Island off the Beaufort coast of South Carolina. Shrimping had been what he had grown into and what he intends to do throughout his lifetime. His world comes crashing down upon him when, after a boating accident, he is washed ashore on a barrier island, off the coast in the Gullah region on Hunting Island, South Carolina. After medical attention is given to Billie he is taken in and cared for by a Gullah family living in St. Helena Island. It is in this household that he meets Bridgette Kamau who tends to him on a day to day basis. Billie has a change of heart and finds himself falling in love. A connection is made between the two and a story of romance and hope comes to life. As their relationship develops Billie experiences a change of heart and belief. This story displays how love can change a person whose mindset was once plagued by ignorance and hatred. A triumph of the good in man over his dark side, Billie Barrett's journey to finding love and self-redemption makes this story the perfect personification of the human aspiration to ultimately obtain love, peace, and equality in life.You will read into it what you will and get out of it what you perceive.