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  • Personal Perspectives on Counseling and Psychotherapy with African Americans
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Personal Perspectives on Counseling and Psychotherapy with African Americans,' is a book of eleven papers that deal with a variety of topics related to counseling and psychotherapy with African Americans. The author wrote these papers several years ago and recently decided to convert them into a book. The papers do not for the most part emphasize any particular therapies but s...
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    23,17 €

  • Rough Around the Edges
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Rough Around the Edges,' is a book of captivating fictional short stories about some aspect of the author’s past. The author has written twenty interesting and exciting short stories. The stories describe some of his experiences as he grew up and as an adult. The stories reflect some of the author’s past, but in no way are a depiction of reality, and are simply designed to ent...
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    23,39 €

  • Never Underestimate the Baby Boy
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Never Underestimate the Baby Boy,' is a collection of essays about being the baby boy of a siblingship of ten children. It tells how the author survived and thrived and was able to make it despite his circumstances. He at sometimes lived at the end of a muddy trail with only a horse and wagon for transportation. He concludes that it wasn’t his birth order that hindered or adva...
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    15,52 €

  • 360 Degrees of life in America
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Three-Hundred-Sixty Degrees of Life in America,' is a book of sayings, statements, ideas, thoughts, maxims, and affirmations. It describes the author’s experiences as he navigates from a beginning in rural East Texas town, to college, to the military (in the military he spent time in Orlando, Florida; Great Lakes, Illinois; and Chelsea, Massachusetts), back to Houston, Texas t...
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    18,88 €

  • Where I’m Coming From
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Where I’m Coming From: My Life in Verse,' is a book of forty-six poems that is a kind of memoir written in poems. The author covers the beginning of his life in East Texas, going to college, to the Navy, back to graduate school, and finally settling in a South Suburb of Chicago. The author came from humble beginnings, but was able to attend college, and have a wonderful family...
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    20,12 €

  • Thanks for Saving My Life
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'Thanks for Saving My Life,' is a tribute to all the people who were responsible for literally and figuratively saving the author’s life. The author has written fifteen brief essays for the purpose of elaborating on this issue. Some of the individuals, organizations, and scenarios saved his life by what they did; others saved it by what they didn’t do. Some were aware they were...
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    20,25 €

  • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,' is a book of sayings, thoughts, ideas, statements, and affirmations about some of the truths the author has come to realize. He developed these truths from his experiences while growing up on a farm in East Texas, going to college, then to the Navy, back to graduate school in Houston, and then settling in a South Suburb of Chicago. The auth...
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    24,45 €

  • I Got My Reparations
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'I Got My Reparations: You Can Get Yours Too,' is a nonfiction book about how the author got his reparations. It details how his family was poor and had a slave and sharecropper’s mentality. They were also plagued with mental illness and other problems. He attended a school that existed on a shoestring budget. He graduated by the skin of his teeth. He graduated college with a B...
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    20,18 €

  • How I Became Dysfunctional
    Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
    'How I Became Dysfunctional: Notes from a Personal Perspective,' is a book of essays about the author’s family dysfunctions. It outlines the experiences of the author’s family and many other Black families in this country. It pinpoints the Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome as being responsible for most of the dysfunctions in the Black family. The author gives details about his fami...
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    20,12 €

  • Sexual Storms
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This is a novel about a young man coming of age in an isolated-rural area of East Texas. He grew up, went to college, to the military, to graduate school, and then moved to a South Suburb of Chicago. He grew up doing farm chores from sunup to sunset. There was little time for social or recreational pursuits. He was however able to finish his high school education and go on to c...
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    22,78 €

  • Country Boy
    Jay Thomas Willis
    'Country Boy: Way Down Home' is a book of sayings, thoughts, and ideas. These thoughts came from the author’s own cerebral processes. He simply sat down over a period of many months and forced his conscious and subconscious mind to produce these ideas. They are meant to inspire and to motivate. You will find them interesting, captivating, entertaining, and stimulating. It took ...
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    20,89 €

  • What Kind of Fool? and Other Short Stories
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This book contains twenty-four short stories from what the author considers the best stories from seven of his other books of short stories. These stories have been revised and re-edited. They come in part from his life experiences. They mimic his life experiences, but in no way are a direct depiction of those experiences. They are far from reality, and more like the author’s f...
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    23,03 €

  • It’s Good to Be Alive
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This book is a collection of some of the author’s best published and unpublished sayings, short stories, and poems. Some of the previously published material in this book have been revised and reedited. All these sayings, short stories, and poems relate to the idea that it is good to be alive and focusing on the positive rather than the negative. The author emphasizes that no m...
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    23,04 €

  • Promises I Must Keep
    Jay Thomas Willis
    The author has written fifteen short stories that come straight from his cerebral-conscious and -subconscious mind. Each story contains approximately 2,500 words. These stories are easy reading, original, and guaranteed to entertain. They are congruent, sensible, and logical. They are fresh, entertaining, and creative; also succint, down to earth, and will force one to engage h...
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    19,88 €

  • Why I Write
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This is a book about the author’s writing career. It shows the blood, sweat, and tears that went into his writing: his background; why he must write; how he got a grip on the writing process; and how he began to write for his life. He suggests that everyone has a purpose in life, and writing is his purpose. He also puts forth the idea that there is nothing better than a writing...
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    20,05 €

  • No Worldly Options Except Suicide or Schizophrenia
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This is a novel about two boys who grew up in a rural area of East Texas. Neither of them had telephone, gas, or plumbing until later in life. They did get electricity by the time they entered first grade. Their early education was designed to poorly develop them. In addition, they both had schizophrenia as a strong genetic factor in their family’s history. You might say they b...
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    20,22 €

  • God Told Me to Tell You
    Jay Thomas Willis
    Many minister’s and others will say, 'God Told Me to Tell you . . .,' as if God actually told them to say it. We all know that God never told anyone to tell anyone anything. The author begins his life on a small-dirt farm in East Texas, plowing a mule from sunup to sunset; he then received an inadequate education from a rural all-Black school, where was neglected and abused; af...
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    20,22 €

  • Random Thoughts on My Reality
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This book consists of seventy articles written about items in the daily news. They are 700 to 1,000 words each. The articles consider aspects of how Blacks are going backward rather than forward: educationally, politically, spiritually, socially, psychologically, and economically. Ideas were germinated from the Internet, TV, magazines, newspapers, and a lifetime of experiencing...
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    20,92 €

  • Man’s Basic Purpose
    Jay Thomas Willis
    It is contended in this book that much of the literature elaborates on a rather religious explanation of 'Man’s Basic Purpose' for being on Earth. One religious explanation says that 'Man’s Basic Purpose' is to worship, praise, and glorify God. It is the author’s view that we were not put here to glorify God. Here a more secular view of 'Man’s Basic Purpose is given. One secula...
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    20,01 €

  • Going with the Flow
    Jay Thomas Willis
    Willis has created the majority of these sayings from his cerebral consciousness. A few of them he has heard repeated over and over throughout his lifetime. He repeats them here from memory; it would be impossible to trace them to their original source. He simply sat down and let his thoughts flow. This is how he derived the title, 'Going with the Flow.' They are not erudite, b...
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    20,21 €

  • Longing for Home and Other Short Stories
    Jay Thomas Willis
    I have written this book of eighteen short stories. A representation of my longing for the past, yet I realize one can never go back into the past. Each story contains approximately 2,500 words. They will take all of us back into our own private past. They imply that you can never go back home; because, home will be different after all these years. But in some cases, home can b...
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    10,90 €

  • Dream On
    Jay Thomas Willis
    Each of these thirty-five short stories comes out of my night dreams or daydreams. The stories are approximately 2,500 words each. They are easy reading, original, and guaranteed to entertain you. Though each story comes out of a dream, they shed some light on my thinking. The stories are not all pretty, but all dreams are not pretty. Some of them are raunchy and will cut you ...
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    15,91 €

  • It’s a Good Day to Die
    Jay Thomas Willis
    This book of poetry traces my struggles from childhood, through college, military, and adult years. My poetry is mostly free verse and rhyme. I utilize my life experiences to present a mesmerizing book of poetry. I present over fifty poems in this collection. The title is appropriate, because in reviewing my life, I conclude that any day has always been a good day for me to die...
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    11,09 €

  • Got My Own Song to Sing
    Jay Thomas Willis
    I describe in this book how the Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome has historically and currently affected my own family, and subsequently many other Black families. The book suggests that pre-slavery, Middle Passage, post-slavery, and modern-day conditions contributed to the Black family’s pathologies. It goes on to demonstrate the manifestation of some of these specific problems i...
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    11,10 €