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At 84, Author Fred Self Recounts a Life From Arkansas Cotton Fields to the Boardroom
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Fred Self has published "Exciting Adventures & Hidden Miracles: From the Cotton Fields to the Board Room," a memoir tracing his life from a Depression-era childhood in the Ozark Mountains to a career building two businesses and manufacturing patented products distributed internationally. The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing.
Self was born in Arkansas during the Great Depression, and the book describes a childhood marked by poverty common to the era: crossing rivers on logs, riding mules to church, working barefoot through summers. His family migrated across several states, including Indiana, California, Oregon and Washington, following farm work, according to the author’s own account of the book. That early material appears to draw on an earlier work of his, "The Miracles of Time," which covered similar ground.
From that start, Self’s path included high school and college education, military service in both the Army and Merchant Marines, and roles in transportation and law enforcement before establishing his enterprises, according to the announcement. He is credited with patented inventions that were manufactured and distributed internationally. Now 84, he frames the book as a record of divine providence through both hardship and success, dedicating it, in his words, to "God, county, and family."
"This account serves as my testimony to a significant chapter of American experience," Self said in a statement accompanying the release. "I have been blessed beyond measure, and I wanted to honor God by recording how He guided our family through the trials and triumphs that defined our era."
The book runs 438 pages and is available as an ebook and in print through major retailers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play and the Apple iTunes Store, as well as through Christian Faith Publishing’s website.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a familiar but durable genre: the self-published memoir that treats a long American life as a kind of testimony, written less for a mass market than for family, church, and readers drawn to stories of faith sustained through hard times.
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New Book from Author Susan Callender Argues Modern Gender Confusion Traces Back to 19th-Century Ideology
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Susan Callender has published a new book, "Who is Woman?", that traces the modern debate over gender roles back through more than a century of philosophical and cultural change, arguing it begins with a departure from a biblical model of men and women as equal partners with distinct purposes.
The book, published through Christian Faith Publishing, builds its argument in stages. Callender starts with what she describes as the original creation design, then examines how that design was fractured by sin and, later, by men who she argues prioritized the privileges of leadership while neglecting its responsibilities. From there, per the press release, she then addresses more debated subjects: the emergence of Marxist thought in the nineteenth century, which she argues reframed relations between men and women through a lens of oppressor and oppressed, and later the sexual revolution, which she ties to the spread of contraception and describes as having split sexuality from what she sees as its original sacred purpose.
The publisher contends that the book argues both men and women have departed from scriptural guidance on their roles, and that this drift has encouraged a culture that favors emotion over objective truth, producing confusion around gender, sexuality, and identity. Callender frames her project as a call for Christian readers to return to biblical teaching in what she characterizes as an age of moral relativism.
"My deepest desire is to help readers understand God’s design for women and men—not as a limitation, but as a liberating truth that brings wholeness and purpose to our relationships and our faith," Callender said in the announcement.
The book lands in a crowded field of faith-based writing on gender and scripture, including other recent titles arguing from a complementarian or restorationist reading of biblical texts on women’s roles in family, church, and society. "Who is Woman?" is available in paperback and digital editions through major booksellers and online retailers.
Studio CarryOnHarry will be watching whether Callender’s framing of Marxism and the sexual revolution as linked causes draws engagement beyond readers who already share her theological starting point.
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Jenison Retiree’s Memoir “The Miracle Man” Recounts Heart Transplant After Years of Cardiac Decline
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William Breimayer, a retired Jenison, Michigan resident, has published a memoir detailing the decade-long medical ordeal that led to his heart transplant. "The Miracle Man: A Remarkable True Account of Faith, Healing and Restoration in the Face of Impossible Odds" is published through Christian Faith Publishing.
According to the announcement, Breimayer suffered a major heart attack just months into retirement, requiring four stents and a twelve-day hospital stay. Over the following six years, he worked to rebuild his heart function, the announcement states, until a serious bout with RSV triggered congestive heart failure. A second near heart attack required three additional stents and left him with damage to both sides of his heart and three separate arrhythmias, per the account.
Breimayer’s condition continued to decline over the following months despite medication and medical devices, the announcement states, reaching stage 4 congestive heart failure. An emergency room visit found thirty-five pounds of fluid retention and failing kidneys, and a cardiac resynchronization device ultimately did not resolve his symptoms, according to the account. He was transferred to the Corewell (Meijer) Heart Center in Grand Rapids, where doctors installed two small pumps in his heart ventricles to sustain him while he and his wife, Gayle, weighed a mechanical heart against a transplant. They chose the transplant, the announcement states, and Breimayer received a donor heart with what he describes as only hours left to live.
Breimayer has been married to Gayle for forty-eight years, according to the announcement, and in retirement volunteers restoring World War II-era aircraft at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo and supports a Legacy Thrift store and his church’s Go Serve ministry. He also lists fishing, model railroading, and building model aircraft among his hobbies.
"The Miracle Man" is available through major booksellers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the Apple iTunes store, as well as through Christian Faith Publishing directly.
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