The Mended Rose is a biographical account that answers the questions: How did Rose (1) survive six years of being raped almost nightly; (2) overcome that trauma to become the loving, vibrant, and productive person that she is now; (3) triumph over tragedy to become a beloved wife, mother, and friend? Also, how did her husband look beyond her past so that the two of them could have a healthy relationship? It is possible to overcome even the most severe adversity and not only endure, but have victory in every area of life.
Lucien Gregoire Livres



"In that it removes the question mark from the end of one's life, this book is a great comfort to the aging and those who contemplate death. Yet, it is most important to the young and those who contemplate life." Howard Jason Smith, Boston Globe Lucien Gregoire, friend-biographer of Albino Luciani, has written books on the evolution of world religions in a simple and enlightening way so that a child can easily understand them. This is one of them. In 1947, Albino Luciani defended his thesis 'The Origin of the Human Soul...' in which he defined the human soul-just what is it one is trying to save? What's more, he stumbled upon the secret of eternal life. The relatively heavy theological intellectual complexity of Luciani's thesis is presented in a series of fun and entertaining conversations with a ten year old boy. As Dante once took the reader through the levels of hell, the reincarnated Luciani takes the reader through the heavens of the Christian, the Jew, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Tao, and one more-a long lost religion holding the secret to eternal life. One no longer has to guess. One can know in this life, one will live forever. Listen as he tells you what he meant, when he told us, "Don't knock yourself out over smart monkeys and Adam and Eve. Each of us is responsible for our own evolution. We can either choose to remain as mortal men, or we can evolve as Gods." Albino Luciani, Gregorian University, doctoral dissertation, Feb '47. "If every teen were to read this book, what a wonderful world we would live in." Dr. Alexis Bishop, London Times.
The author recreates more than sixty little known incidents in the lives of famous people which caused them to rise up as champions of human justice as he traces the history of prejudice in the United States to the Vatican. Included are fun, entertaining and heartwarming stories of the 33-day pope, Susan B. Anthony, Phil Donohue, Anne Frank, John Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, General George Patton, Richard Simmmons, Elizabeth Taylor and other famous people who have led the war against prejudices involving women, Negroes, Native Americans, Asians, Jews, Muslims, the handicapped, bastards, test-tube babies, the diseased, transgenders, transsexuals, lesbians, homosexuals, the homeless, prostitutes, the remarried, interfaith marriage, interracial marriage, gay marriage, the obese, atheists, and even animals.