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Mia Sanchez Miller’s New Memoir “Moon River” Traces Her Path from the Philippines to a Nursing Career in America
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Mia Sanchez Miller has published a new memoir, "Moon River," recounting her journey from a childhood of poverty in the Philippines to a decades-long nursing career in the United States. The book, a 104-page paperback, was released in October through Page Publishing.
According to the announcement, Miller grew up in circumstances that offered little promise but held onto an early determination to pursue education and a life of service. The book follows that path across continents and decades, covering what the announcement describes as the trials and transformative moments that shaped her move from poverty toward the career she eventually built as a nurse.
Miller wrote the book after finishing that nursing career, describing it as something she wanted to leave behind for her grandchildren and for readers facing their own difficult circumstances. She noted in the announcement that "my story is their story", "proof that hope, combined with determination and faith, can carry us through anything." The publisher’s description frames the memoir around themes of family, faith, sacrifice and perseverance, and positions Miller’s own experience as a nurse and immigrant as the foundation of the account.
"Moon River" is available in paperback and ebook formats through major retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play and the Apple iTunes Store, as well as through Page Publishing’s own site.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees these kinds of personal immigrant narratives as a steady, often underappreciated current in independent publishing, and we’ll be curious whether Miller’s nursing background gives this one a distinct voice beyond the familiar arc of the genre.
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New Book Imagines Thomas Jefferson Wandering Into the Modern World
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David E. Pullmann has published "Zechariah meets Thomas Jefferson," a short novel built on a simple premise: a young man named Zechariah finds Thomas Jefferson wandering his neighborhood, invites him home, and ends up walking the third president through two centuries of change. The book, published through Christian Faith Publishing, runs 20 pages and became available in paperback on September 17, 2026.
As narrator, Zechariah introduces Jefferson to the digital revolution, advances in medicine, social progress, and the evolution of the democratic ideals Jefferson himself championed. According to the publisher, the book uses that setup to ask how a founder might judge whether the country lived up to what he envisioned, and what from his era still holds up.
Pullmann spent more than three decades at the Library of Congress, starting as a music cataloger before moving into systems analysis, where he wrote software for cataloging operations. He holds a graduate degree in musicology and a library science degree from Catholic University, and worked separately as a flight instructor in the Washington, D.C. area. The publisher’s announcement frames that career-long focus on how information gets organized and passed down as the throughline behind the book’s premise.
"I wanted to create a space where readers could reimagine history through fresh dialogue," Pullmann said in the announcement. "By placing Jefferson in our world, we can examine both how far we’ve come and what we might have lost in the process."
The book is described as blending humor with more serious reflection as Jefferson reacts to a world he couldn’t have anticipated. It’s available through major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and the Apple iTunes Store, as well as through Christian Faith Publishing directly.
Studio CarryOnHarry finds the premise an efficient device for a civics conversation dressed up as fiction — the kind of book likely to find its audience among readers already inclined to think about founders and legacy, rather than one aiming for a wide crossover readership.
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Gordon Gabelmann’s New Book Argues for a Direct, Unmediated Relationship with Christ
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Gordon (Gabe) Gabelmann has released a new book, "The Church Breaker: God’s In-House Evangelist," laying out what he describes as a spiritual awakening that reshaped his understanding of Christian faith after decades in the church.
Gabelmann identifies himself as a cradle Christian who spent years sensing a gap between regular church attendance and what he calls authentic relationship with God. According to the announcement, that gap closed through what he describes as a divine vision revealing what Scripture terms the Way of the Breaker, a concept he ties to Micah 2:12-13. He has worked as an evangelist since 2007, and this book follows an earlier one documenting his first steps into ministry; the publisher describes "The Church Breaker" as the point where that calling, in Gabelmann’s account, took its clearest shape.
The book itself, per the publisher’s description, combines personal narrative with scriptural argument to make the case that the Spirit of Christ lives in all believers independent of religious ritual or institutional structure. Gabelmann presents the matter as urgent and contemporary, contending that believers can access the supernatural realm of God in the present moment, not reserved for an afterlife.
"My passion is to awaken the Church to understand that Jesus Christ is alive and present today," Gabelmann said in the announcement. "I want to lead God’s people out of the confining walls built by religion and into the true freedom of a relationship with Christ Jesus."
The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available in paperback, as well as through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble. Studio CarryOnHarry notes that Gabelmann’s argument sits within a long tradition of evangelists distinguishing personal faith from institutional religion — the specifics of his biblical interpretation are what readers will have to judge for themselves.
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