3-Author Book Signing with Robert Harrison, Melvin Pugh & Stacey Turis March 17, 2012

The Barnes & Noble at Bradley Fair located at 1920 N. Rock Road will host a book signing with three authors on Saturday, March 17, from 2:00-4:00 pm. The three authors are: Robert Harrison, author of the poignant cancer memoir God’s Plan for Annie: Why She Had to Die; Melvin Pugh, author of the historic prophecy book Roman Rule: The Eternal Empire; and Stacey Turis, author of the rollicking memoir Here’s to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit—Oh, Look! A Chicken! . The authors will be available to chat with customers and sign copies of their books. The books are available at Barnes & Noble at Bradley Fair in Wichita and at www.bn.com .

God’s Plan for Annie: Why She Had to Die by Robert Harrison is a poignant and heartwarming memoir of a husband’s journey through his wife’s tragic and painful battle with Multiple Myeloma, a rare blood cancer of the bone marrow. “It is my belief that when Annie was born, God had a plan for her. I was placed in her life to assist in fulfilling his plan.” Married for 39 years, Annie was an atheist. When she was diagnosed, the prognosis was 4 weeks. While in the hospital an angel visited her bedside. From that day on Annie began to climb that spiritual mountain, and God graced her with the time and the tools to do it. The book takes the reader through their 30-month journey, through all of the raw emotions, miracles, trauma, intimate conversations, laughter, grief, and pain. The reader will learn more about this rare and lethal disease, as well as experience it’s progression first-hand. God’s Plan for Annie is an amazing story that is both a tribute to a beloved wife’s memory and also a detailed and ultimately redemptive journey through a fatal disease.
Robert Harrison and his beloved wife, Annie, ran Abbey Antiques and Collectibles together, in addition to a successful auction business. By telling Annie’s story, the author wishes to raise awareness and help others in their fight with Multiple Myeloma and other dreadful blood cancers, as well as give readers the hope and inspiration that in every battle they face, God is there fighting with them. You can visit Annie’s memorial page at www.forevermissed.com/annie-barber-harrison/ .

Roman Rule: The Eternal Empire by Melvin Pugh explores the many similarities and parallels between America and the Roman Empire. Fascinated with art and history at a young age, the author started noticing the many influences, connections, and parallels with the Roman Empire and the modern United States. The premise that these two seemingly divergent world powers share an almost mystical bond beckoned and taunted the author for over 20 years. Roman Rule reveals the many ties both subtle and overt that are associated with the Roman Empire and that of America. The adoption of the Roman form of government, religion, calendar, social mores, and the hybrid structures of the Republic are irrefutable. But more intriguingly, the author also finds uncanny parallels between pivotal ancient Roman events and strikingly similar events whose effects helped to shape modern America. The book suggests that America is the direct descendant of the Roman Republic, and is traveling on the same trajectory as that ancient empire. This book is the author’s contribution to historic prophesy. Are these similarities simply coincidental, or is history repeating itself?
Melvin Pugh is a U.S. Navy veteran and served during the last years of the Vietnam War. He is an instructor at a college that specializes in vocational studies. He is an accomplished refridgeration engineer, and also holds a degree in business and management. When he is not traveling the world he can be found tinkering with one of his cars, as he is an avid automobile enthusiast.

Here’s to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit—Oh Look! A Chicken! by Stacey Turis is a hysterical romp through a life so convoluted and chaotic that you know it has to be true. Stacey’s debut is a rip-roaring and bracingly honest depiction of a life that seems to be constantly going off the rails, and it gives a voice to the genius yet tormented souls suffering from giftedness, ADHD, or a combination of both (a condition known as twice-exceptional). The book chronicles her life journey from a state of self-loathing to one of self-acceptance, incorporating the resulting lessons and reflections gleaned from each adventure. Never suffering a dull moment, she recounts the tragic details of a horrifically abusive time in her childhood to her comic adventures such as deciding to dye her hair plum the day before an important presentation only to have it turn out purple. With over three hundred million people suffering from ADHD worldwide, Turis’s goal is to share her experiences so others can rid themselves of the shame of hiding their behavior.
Stacey Turis has a degree in broadcast journalism from Wichita State University. She co-produced and hosted a TV show before pursuing a career in advertising, then graphic design, then market research, then photography, then IT, then acting… In 2006, she became certified to teach Yoga but didn't, then founded www.pawsforpeace.com , an online, holistic pet-health site, with an iPhone app called Dr. Shawn's Natural Pet Therapies to match. She has unsuccessfully started twenty-seven businesses but can't remember most of them. In 2010, she started a Facebook page called “ADHD - Tales of an Absent-Minded Superhero” that is still exciting enough to hold her interest. Stacey now spends her time speaking to groups of those same kinds of wacky people, where she’s not afraid to stop in the middle of a speech and ask “What was I talking about?” She lives in Texas with her husband, two kids, a dog, three cats, and eight goldfish. Her website is www.staceyturis.com .