James Michael Pratt Books In Order

The Last Valentine

Television reporter Susan Allison is looking for the perfect story about true love, yet she doubts where such a thing really exists, Neil Thomas, Jr. wants to share his parents’ bittersweet love story with the world. On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said good bye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For fifty years, she waited for him until a miracle happened, and she received his last valentine. In the present day, when Susan and Neil meet, can the story of Neil’s parents bring them together in a love as powerful as she dreams of and he remembers?

The Lighthouse Keeper

THE BELOVED BESTSELLER THAT WILL TO SHINE IN YOUR HEART FOREVER…
From the acclaimed author of The Last Valentine comes an unforgettable story about family, loss, and eternal love. Bestselling writer James Michael Pratt once again touches our emotions and our spirit as only a great writer can…
Nine year old Peter O’Banyon’s life changes forever when his family dies in an accident. Orphaned, he goes to live with his garrulous Uncle Billy, the keeper of the Port Hope Lighthouse in Massachusetts. There, as the beacon leads sailors safely home, Peter learns an astonishing truth about Billy’s past and the power of love. This message guides Peter’s life, even when World War II’s brutality rocks his faith, even when he returns to his young bride and an unimaginable tragedy. Now, in the final days of his own life, Peter needs to pass on The Lighthouse Keeper‘s secrets to his own daughter, but to do it may take nothing less than a miracle…
. AUTHORBIO: JAMES MICHAEL PRATT is a business executive whose activities have included real estate business development and investment consulting. He is a frequent motivational speaker and instructor, as well as a talk radio guest. Nationally recognized radio syndicator Broadcast 1 has announced the Year 2000 launch of Mr. Pratt’s own radio show called The Bestsellers. He is a native Californian and now resides in Utah with his wife and children.

Ticket Home

Lucian and Norman Parker are as close as twin brothers can be. Together with their father, they run a railway station in Warm Springs, Oklahoma, during the Depression. But when both brothers fall in love with the same girl and Lucien marries her, a rift they never imagined begins to form between them. Soon, World War II takes the twins away from home, to the Pacific, and it is there, as prisoners of war, that their bond is forever broken: one of them dies, and the other makes an agonizing decision that will change his life forever. Ticket Home takes readers on a journey back through youthful days of wonder, past the loss of innocence, and explores the power of the kind of love that can salvage dreams. AUTHORBIO: James Michael Pratt is a full time writer and radio host. His weekly syndicated radio show, ‘The Bestsellers Show,’ is produced by PCBroadcast. com and is heard in a growing number of markets nationwide.A native Californian, he has been married to his wife Jeanne for twenty four years and is the father of two children, Michael and Amy. Before beginning his writing career he was active in financial and real estate related business in SouthernCalifornia.A frequent guest speaker, James focuses on the motivational themes of hope, belief, love, and achieving success with a balanced life. ENDISBN: 0312266928 TITLE: Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir AUTHOR: Horn, Stacy DESCRIPTION: You’ve passed forty. You’re single, deeply addicted to watching television, and obsessed by the past. Your business seems to be failing. You’re hopelessly devoted to two diabetic cats, whose dietary and medical regimens dictate your schedule. Not only are you informed your apartment is haunted, you’re actually starting to believe it may be true. This is a life? Waiting for My Cats to Die is Stacy Horn’s heartbreakingly honest and achingly funny reply to her own question. Here is a memoir that goes straight to the indignities and preoccupations of midlife: what happens the moment we realize that life has a distinctly downward pull to it, and that death is more than simply some theoretical possibility. Stacy decides dying is not something she’s going to take lying down. Having polled subscribers on echonyc. com, the online service she founded, for advice, she concludes that the best strategy in the battle against aging is a frontal assault. We’re all going to end up in graveyards? Fine. Let’s make them as homey and welcoming as we can. She clears away underbrush from abandoned cemeteries, wipes cobwebs from forgotten crypts, looks for gems amid the clutter of storage rooms and baseme*nts, tracks down precious records of long dead relatives, interviews the elderly for the wisdom of their age, and pores over local archives, seeking the identity of her ghostly roommate and hoping to learn why it seems to have nothing better to do than hang around a small one bedroom apartment in the West Village of Manhattan. As this wonderful, courageous, and irresistible memoir shows, acting out can be both survival strategy and affirmation. There’s no avoiding the day when the credits will roll on your life, so accumulate as many credits as you can that way, they’ll take longer to unroll. Stacy seizes her days with fierce passion: she learns to drum, sings with a choir, writes treatments for TV shows, somehow manages to keep her business on an even keel, and freely embraces all the fantasies and denials that sustain every one of us. And those poor afflicted cats? Their furry, stubborn will to live provides reason enough to celebrate. Waiting for My Cats to Die will make you weep, laugh, commiserate, and fall back in love with life. AUTHORBIO: Stacy Horn is the founder of echonyc. com, a virtual community, and the author of Cyberville. She and her cats, Beems and Buddy, live in New York.

Paradise Bay

The New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author James Michael Pratt brings you to a small, coastal Californian town and delivers a poignant and unforgettable novel woven between the Vietnam War and the present day…
. Jack Santos never had a father or so he believed. All his life, he was told his father was killed in the Vietnam War. Jack was raised by his mother alone, and all his life he was searching for something he couldn’t name.A twist of fate changes everything he thought he knew, however. He discovers his father isn’t dead after all and that for the past decades he has been suspended between life and death; between dreaming and waking. Jack is hungry for everything he can find out about this father, Levi Harper. And the only link he has to the past is through Levi’s journals. It is through these journals that Jack discovers who his father really is:from a small boy in Paradise Bay, California, to an eager young man going off to Vietnam, to a young husband who desperately wants a future for his wife, Levi Harper reveals his loves, dreams, hopes…
and secrets. Can Jack discover the truth about his own life?And can he find the love that will always bring him back to Paradise Bay?For anyone who came of age in the 1950s, 60s, or 70s, Paradise Bay is a story that will show you the true meaning of love, and will take you home again. AUTHORBIO: James Michael Pratt is a full time writer and radio host. His radio show, The Bestsellers Show is heard in a growing number of markets nationwide.A native Californian, he has been married to his wife, Jeanne, for twenty five years and is the father of two children, Michael and Amy. Before beginning his writing career, he was active in financial and real estate related business in Southern California.A frequent guest speaker, Pratt focuses on the motivational themes of hope, belief, love, and achieving personal success with a balanced life.

The Good Heart

He expected peace, but it had not come. Would God require something from him for the secret he had kept for more than 40 years? One mad dies, and another lives through the gift of a transplanted heart. As the recipient heals, memories he was never aware of come to him in dreams and in bright flashes of recognition that have no past. As the ‘heart memories’ become more vivid, Mike Stone begins to understand that the secret imbedded in his new heart can destroy the very person responsible for saving his life. After years of hard living, Mike has experienced a literal change of heart. Passionately in love for the first time in his life, he is desperate to survive and to redeem the recklessness of his youth. But as he follows the trail of memories encoded in the donated heart and wrestles with issues of integrity and forgiveness, someone else seems determined to make certain the secret is never revealed. Torn between his newfound values and a desire to protect his family from harm, Mike must decide if exposing the truth is worth the risk. Set in the fast paced, power hungry climate of Washington, D.C., this gripping new novel combines political intrigue with passion and danger while unraveling the mystery behind a brotherly pact that threatens all in its path.

The Christ Report

A story of the Holy Birth, Passion, Hidden Secrets, and Everlasting Hope
By New York Times Bestselling Author James Michael Pratt

Destined to become a Christmas classic and Easter perennial, The Christ Report is a magical tale told from the perspective of radio and television host Sam Robertson of CNTV’s Robertson Reports, readers go on a journey of imagination; interviews and being interviewed in the year 30 AD. Or was it simple imagination? After all the name and places come from the Gospel of Luke and it all seems so real…

Story Summary:
A secret kept since the Holy Birth will be revealed when two men, separated by two thousand years in time, search for a meaning greater than themselves. Both suffer from broken hearts, yearn to keep the women they love, and worry about their legacy. One, Sam Robertson, the world famous host of CNTV’s The Sam Robertson Report, will soon find that only a life saving miracle can bring him the hope his sense of self importance cannot offer.

The other man, battered by regrets as ancient as the biblical story in which he played a key role, once was an innkeeper indeed, the very one who had rejected the parents of an infant destined to become immortalized as the Son of God in countless pageants and dramas. Now it’s the innkeeper s charge to convey a vital message to the world, a message that has been kept hidden for two millennia. This secret, kept even from those who understand the stories of the Holy Birth and the Passion, was not so much a secret that must not be known, but, rather, something sacred, kept hidden for so long because of mankind s self serving stubbornness.

Now, not only will Sam land the interview of a lifetime, but he ll win another chance at life and love. And Cleopas the Innkeeper will likewise gain a second opportunity to redeem his soul and clear his name as the most vilified innkeeper of all time. Their secret? It is only to be found in The Christ Report.

As a Man Thinketh…in His Heart

This unprecidented work includes 2 titles in 1 including the 20th century bestsellers As A Man Thinketh by James Allen and also includes As A Man Thinketh…
In His Heart by New York Times Bestselling Author James Michael Pratt. Millions of readers worldwide have credited the reading of James Allen’s non fiction As a Man Thinketh 1902, as a changing point in their lives. Now 100 years later, James Allen’s gentle spirit comes alive in, As a Man Thinketh…
In His Heart. New York Times bestselling author, and master of inspirational fiction James Michael Pratt, offers an unforgettable journey to a magical time and place holding secrets of success and personal development for a world riddled with doubt, stress, and loss of innocence. FranklinCovey Co Founder, Hyrum Smith said: Whoever reads this book, filled with life changing secrets for the 21st century, will be infused with not only the desire for a better life, but the belief that positive change is possible.’ The lovers of James Allen’s work will be thrilled as James Pratt goes on the hunt for the mysterious writer of a partially completed turn of the century manuscript, Hampton of Devon, which he hopes is available for his use as a new novel. His search for the copyright leads him to Ilfracombe, England, hometown and last residence of author James Allen. Little will Pratt realize that time has been suspended at an obscure cottage over looking the Atlantic, and that answers to some of life s most important questions will be given him by the owner, a humble man of modest means. Pratt will come away from the experience with far more than he bargained for in a simple research trip. The pleasant stay, at what Pratt knew as a remote hillside Bed and Breakfast in Ilfracombe, is nothing short of a miraculous transfer of information desperately needed for a world living at break neck speed, self destructive in its cerebral approach to life s urgent problems, and dying from a lack of direction the proprietor of the Victorian era cottage alone may offer. As a Man Thinketh…
In His Heart holds secrets for the reader to a better way to live as it reunites millions with the beloved, but obscure Englishman Allen, who bequeathed a treasure trove of inspiration before dying in 1912. But perhaps death is not what it seems, and great thinkers of yesterday have barely begun their work…
Includes Bonus Book, As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen.

Dad

Recalling his growing up years in Los Angeles following World War II, author James Pratt describes twelve lessons he learned from observing his father, an unpretentious and uneducated man who acquired little of this world’s wealth but who lived an honorable life. ‘For some, these twelve virtues may seem antiquated, out of date, or hopelessly provincial,’ writes Pratt. ‘I don’t see it that way. What my father practiced and conveyed to me were principles that made it possible for children to grow up in a stable, two parent home, where there was a widely accepted code of decency, honesty, honor, and patriotism.’ This book recalls simpler times, when Southern California was still filled with dusty little towns and when a mand could have purchased the bean fields that have become LAX for $5 an acre if he had somehow had five dollars. Readers will enjoy this loving retrospective, a fitting tribute to dads everywhere.

Mom

‘Jimmy, eat your oatmeal, it’ll stick to your ribs.’ I recall as a boy feeling around my rib cage after eating my oatmeal and wondering if it took a trip other foods didn’t. Maybe oatmeal really did hang out down there.’ The advice of our mothers. Maybe we don’t always understand it as children how does my failure to clean my plate affect the starving children in Africa?, but it carries a message of love and concern that reaches far beyond words. In his reflective style, best selling author James Michael Pratt reminds us of the timeless wisdom of our mothers and offer tribute to the unsung hero*ines who have made the world go round. As he acknowledges, ‘Oatmeal might not really stick to ribs, but I never, ever eat it without hearing Mom’s voice. It wasn’t just oatmeal that stuck to this boy, though. It was the time tested values that gave real warmth and protection, like a shield against the punches, life’s knockout blows to the ribcage. Obeying Mom on eating the hot cereal was assuring myself that I could succeed.’