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What You Don't Know About Yvonne Mason…..

Background: The eldest of five children, Yvonne was born May 17, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia.  Raised in East Point, Georgia, she resided there until 1970, then moved to North Georgia where she worked as a Licensed Bounty Hunter for the state of Georgia. In 2006 she moved to Port St. Lucie, Florida where she currently makes her home.

Education: After a 34 year absence, returned to college in 2004. Yvonne Mason graduated with honors in Criminal Justice with an Associate’s degree from Lanier Technical College in 2006.

Awards: Nominated for the prestigious GOAL award in 2005 which encompasses all of the technical colleges.  This award is based not only on excellence in academics but also leadership, positive attitude and the willingness to excel in one’s major.

Affiliations: Beta Sigma Phi Sorority

The Dream: Since learning to write at the age of five, Yvonne has wanted to be an author.  She wrote her first novel Stan’s Story beginning in 1974 and completed it in 2006. Publication seemed impossible as rejections grew to 10 years.  Determined, she continued adding to the story until her dream came true in 2006.

The Inspiration: Yvonne’s brother Stan has been her inspiration and hero in every facet of her life.  He was stricken with Encephalitis at the tender age of nine months.  He has defied every roadblock placed in his way and has been the driving force in every one of her accomplishments.  He is the one who taught her never to give up.

Yvonne Mason’s Current Books:

A Voice From The Grave

Brilliant Insanity

Dream Catcher

Silent Scream

Stan’s Story

Tangled Minds

The last Rites

Yvonne Mason’s Bookstore Purchase Website

http://thebookattic.ecrater.com/

Author’s Other Links:

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A Voice From The Dead  by Yvonne Mason

Best Selling Florida Author Yvonne Mason has just released her latest book A Voice from the Grave. She spent over four years researching and gathering material for this fiction murder/suspense so that the history behind Andersonville Prison would be correct.

Ms. Mason has taken factual accounts of battles of the Civil War and real incidents at Andersonville to spell bind her readers. She takes her readers on a journey that will draw them into the story with abandon.

Ms. Mason is the author of five other books, including her True Crime/Suspense Drama Silent Scream.

Anderson Georgia, the home of Andersonville Prison, the worst prison camp in the south during the Civil War. Archeologist Jonas Biggs has been hired by the Historical Society of Anderson to come and do a dig at Andersonville for historical purposes.

Jonas has been asked to do this dig for two reasons. One he is a home town boy; his family had been in Anderson for years, and two, there is a mystery in the making.

At the dig Jonas Biggs finds more than he bargains for. He uncovers not one but two skeletons at the deadline.

The questions erupt.

Why are there two skeletons at the deadline?

Who are they?

How long have they been there?

Jonas and his family are thrown into a web of deceit, lies and possibly murder as he tries to unravel the mystery of the dead.

Who is trying to kill Savannah his niece and why?

Who is the voice from the Grave?

Why does the past collide with the present?

What does the voice have to do with the mystery?

Read A Voice from the Grave and learn the answers.

Book Details:

Publisher: Lulu; First Edition (February 20, 2010)

ASIN: B003980Y6K

Language: English

Genre: Suspense Drama

Customer Reviews

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Print Price: $22.00

LuLu Purchase Link

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Kindle Format

File Size: 121 KB

Print Length: 226 pages

Publisher: Lulu; First Edition edition (February 20, 2010)

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Language: English

ASIN: B003980Y6K

Text-to-Speech: Enabled 

Lending: Enabled

Kindle Price: $8.00

Amazon Kindle Purchase Link

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Yvonne Mason’s Bookstore Purchase Website

http://thebookattic.ecrater.com/

Author’s Other Links:

www.freewebs.com/yvonnemason

www.myspace.com/authorsdream57

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Brilliant Insanity by Yvonne Mason

Louis Reinhart has five days to live before he is injected with the lethal cocktail. Louis Reinhart has been given permission to tell the world his side of the story. The story which was not allowed to be told in court. The Fort Pierce Sentinel has agreed to send a reporter to interview Reinhart.

However, Reinhart has been very specific as to which reporter he will agree to talk to. Her name is Mandy McQuaid. She is a rookie reporter. This is her first job and she is stuck in the obit section of the paper. Even though the Editor is not happy about Reinhart’s request, he sends Mandy to conduct the interview. Reinhart has his own agenda. He believes he was justified in his quest for retribution and he wants to share it with the world. Not only does he want to share it with the world, but it is very important that he share it with Mandy.

As Reinhart draws Mandy into his web of lies, and narcissistic behavior one wonders where the next bend in the road leads. What surprise, what evil will pop out to shock and amaze even the most seasoned reader.

Book Details

Publisher: lulu.com (August 18, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1458378888

ISBN-13: 978-1458378880

Language: English

Paperback: 398 Pages

Genre: Suspense Drama

Customer Reviews

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Print Price: $23.00

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Kindle Format

File Size: 201 KB

Print Length: 400 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1458378888

Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited

Publisher: Kerlak Publishing; 1st, Unabridged edition (October 1, 2008)

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Language: English

ASIN: B00267SWG4

Text-to-Speech: Enabled 

Lending: Enabled

Kindle Price: $10.00

Kindle Purchase Link

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Yvonne Mason’s Bookstore Purchase Website

http://thebookattic.ecrater.com/

Author’s Other Links:

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www.myspace.com/authorsdream57

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http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/thebookchest

Dream Catcher  by Yvonne Mason

In the years leading up to the 1950’s there were no resources for the challenged. They were placed in asylums or back rooms and left to die. They were never talked about or acknowledged. They were the silent children. The ones no one wanted. The, ones who never given a chance to live.

Florida Author Yvonne Mason has given us a story of success in a time of failure for the challenged. She has given a voice to a child born in 1952 who became challenged. This young man was not put away. He was not shunned and he was not ignored. In her book Dream Catcher, Ms. Mason tells of Stan who was never supposed to succeed. He was supposed to fail.

Ms. Mason takes the reader into the life of Stan’s family as they deal with an older child as well as a baby who is challenged. She brings to life the pain, heartache and deep emotion of the mother as she learns to cope with Stan. Ms. Mason also brings to life the hope, the love and the deep abiding loyalty of the family as more siblings are added to the mix.

The stories bring tears, laughter, anger and feelings of hope, success and belief that behind all of us there is the ability to succeed even when we feel we can’t. Dream Catcher a book that should be in every home and in every teacher’s hands to use as a yardstick for success.

Book Details:

Paperback: 242 pages

Publisher: lulu.com (September 16, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0557074495

ISBN-13: 978-0557074495

Genre: Suspense Drama

Amazon Print Price: $17.32

Amazon Print Purchase Link

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Kindle Format

File Size: 1113 KB

Print Length: 163 pages

Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited

Publisher: Lulu; First edition (June 5, 2009)

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Language: English

ASIN: B002GU6GK0

Text-to-Speech: Enabled 

Lending: Enabled

Kindle Price: $5.00

Kindle Purchase Link

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Catcher-Failure-Option-ebook/dp/B002GU6GK0/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Yvonne Mason’s Bookstore Purchase Website

http://thebookattic.ecrater.com/

Author’s Other Links:

www.freewebs.com/yvonnemason

www.myspace.com/authorsdream57

www.myspace.com/yvonnemason

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/thebookchest

Silent Scream  by Yvonne Mason

The screams which have been silent for thirty four years are no longer silent. They now have a voice. July, 1972 Nancy Trotter and Pamela Sue Wells were taken to a remote area on South Hutchinson Island in Martin County tied, gagged and hung. They were left to die. But they managed to escape. This escape led to an investigation of a crime that before 1972 had no name. Law enforcement was in uncharted waters. The crime serial killings. The killer Gerard Schaefer. Nancy Trotter and Pamela Wells were just two of the nine known and possibly as high as 34 unknown victims. They ranged from Fort Lauderdale Florida to Europe and N. Africa. Silent Scream finally gives the victims a voice – Their screams are no longer silent and with that voice comes peace.

Book Details:

Publisher: Lulu.com (September 28, 2008)

ISBN-10: 0557013895

ISBN-13: 978-0557013890

Language: English

Paperback: 428 Pages

Genre: Suspense Drama

Customer Reviews

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Print: $20.95

Kindle Format

File Size: 892 KB

Print Length: 430 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0557013895

Publisher: Lulu; First Edition (September 28, 2008)

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Language: English

ASIN: B001JQLT1I

Text-to-Speech: Enabled 

Lending: Enabled

Kindle Price: $9.99

Kindle Purchase Link

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LuLu Purchase Link

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Yvonne Mason’s Bookstore Purchase Website

http://thebookattic.ecrater.com/

Author’s Other Links:

www.freewebs.com/yvonnemason

www.myspace.com/authorsdream57

www.myspace.com/yvonnemason

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/thebookchest

Tangled Minds by Yvonne Mason

Tangled Minds is a masterpiece. In the fine tradition of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Yvonne Mason leads the reader through the twisted and tangled lives of Brianna Van Pelt and her son, Josh, thrusting us into a Pygmalion dilemma that has consumed scholars for decades. Is there such a thing as a "bad seed", an individual whose feet are placed upon a path of crime and evil almost from the beginning? If the circumstances of one's birth or the choices one makes cannot be overcome with love, patience and the rarely grasped opportunity for redemption, what chance is there for any of us?

Thwarted by her parents' tough love, seventeen-year-old, single mother, Brianna, allows herself to be drawn into a new world glittering with easy money and false promises, accepting that proposition that no good girl ever should. With her young son, Josh, in tow, she dazzles with new prosperity, fulfilling the fantasies of not only her glorified pimp, Ken Morgan, but those of a judge and a host of depraved, desperate men in their wake. Ms. Mason's familiarity with the legal system and law enforcement showed through clearly in several well orchestrated scenes, as the long arm of the law repeatedly tried to halt the ring of drugs and prostitution and Brianna and her son fled for the safety of the mountains.

Book Review:

Ms. Mason's understanding of mountain people was stellar. These simple folk protect their own with fierce loyalty and Brianna and Josh find shelter beneath their net of poverty, love, moonshine and madness. Here, transgressors simply disappear, never to be heard from again and the mountains hold their secrets close to their chests as nature smoothes the pothole's dark waters and envelops the hills in song and greenery. Even murder seems somehow justified in a place such as this, but the twisted and convoluted logic of its inhabitants finds no sympathetic ear in the outside world and Josh must ultimately face the consequences of his actions.

And yet, within this story, there lies hope. In Hannah and Miss Amy, we see the opposing force of love, the light of goodness that can blaze through even the meanest dark, if only one has the courage to reach for it. Fragile yet steadfast, this gentler emotion finally reaches even Brianna, a woman some would have classified beyond redemption. In love's golden glow, we find hope, hope for Brianna and Josh and perhaps even for ourselves, as well.

Tangled Minds should be required reading for every high school senior or college freshman, although its audience is clearly much wider. Life is, indeed, full of choices and consequences. An individual may be able to run fast and far, but in the end, he cannot outrun the ultimate judge - himself. True redemption begins from within. May love's tiny flame light the way as we reconcile our past, lift our face into the winds of change and set our feet once more upon the good road.

A Masterpiece! An excellent read!

Review By Ann B. Keller (Cleveland, OH USA) (March 5, 2008)

Book Details:

Publisher: lulu.com; 3rd edition (April 11, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0557062977

ISBN-13: 978-0557062973

Language: English

Paperback: 492 Pages

Genre: Suspense Drama

Customer Reviews

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Book In Print Price: $26.39

Kindle Format

File Size: 446 KB

Print Length: 494 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0557062977

Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited

Publisher: Lulu; Second Edition (April 11, 2009)

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Language: English

ASIN: B00267SWLY

Text-to-Speech: Enabled 

Lending: Enabled

Kindle Price: $10.00

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Free Webs Purchase Link

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Yvonne Mason’s Bookstore Purchase Website

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Author’s Other Links:

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www.myspace.com/authorsdream57

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http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/thebookchest

Stan's Story, A Touch of Love by Yvonne Mason

In the 1950's- early 1970's there were no resources for the challenged. Stanley Robinson was born during that time.

At nine months old he was diagnosed with encephalitis which left him both mentally and physically challenged.

Stan's story is not about pity nor is about failure. It is about a child who took the cards he was dealt and became a success. He has never used his handicap to deny himself the ability to succeed. He has never used it to gain pity.

He has used it to show others how to succeed in spite of adversities. He has shown others that life is just life and what one does with it determines one's success.

Stan was one of the original "No Child Left Behind" He started school in 1958 and graduated in 1973 from  Russell High School in East Point, Ga.

Stan has proven over and over that it doesn't matter how much money one makes what matters is how happy that person is making it.

His story will make you strive to be a better person to be all you can be and more.

Book Details:

Publisher: PublishAmerica (January 15, 2007)

ISBN-10: 1424160006

ISBN-13: 978-1424160006

Language: English

Paperback: 87 Pages

Genre: A Love Story/Memoir

Price: $13.95

Free Webs Purchase Link

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Author’s Other Links:

www.freewebs.com/yvonnemason

www.myspace.com/authorsdream57

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The Last Rites – by Yvonne Mason

In May 1975 a decomposed body on Uilrich Rd in Fort Pierce, Florida was found by two fishermen. At first the body was listed as a Jane Doe. When she was identified, the investigation was hampered by all the ones who were talked to by law enforcement. The case went cold for a year; it was only after a prisoner had a case of conscience that the case was finally solved. Pauline Metler was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Pierce Cemetery and forgotten. She will never be forgotten again. This is her story.

Book Details:

Publisher: lulu.com (August 18, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1257967371

ISBN-13: 978-1257967377

Language: English

Paperback: 320 Pages

Genre: Suspense Drama

Customer Reviews:

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Print Price: $24.00

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Kindle Format

File Size: 946 KB

Print Length: 322 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1257967371

Publisher: Lulu; First Edition (August 7, 2011)

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Language: English

ASIN: B005GHFIRW

Text-to-Speech: Enabled 

Lending: Enabled

Kindle Price: $9.99

Kindle Purchase Link

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Yvonne Mason’s Bookstore Purchase Website

http://thebookattic.ecrater.com/

Author’s Other Links:

www.freewebs.com/yvonnemason

www.myspace.com/authorsdream57

www.myspace.com/yvonnemason

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/thebookchest