The Book of Lives

by J.P. Raley

Overview

Everyone has a story to tell. A life becomes a roadmap for others to follow. Like a book that has to be opened to have its contents shared, a person's life has to be shared for it to be understood. From the author, J.P. Raley comes to tell the collection of different lives shared from a personal view, which does precisely that: sharing the stories of lives with a connection that intertwines them all through a single book written. A haunting portrayal of life, a tale of generations, and a passion that goes beyond the world in which we see all around us are all collected in a single manuscript, only known as "The Book of Lives"!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663539724
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/01/2020
Edition description:	First Print ed.
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.69(d)

About the Author

J.P. Raley, when asked where home is, enjoys telling the story of being from everywhere. J.P.'s dad was in the United States Army when it was time to enter the world, so moving every few years became the norm in life. Born in Alabama, living in Germany at different times, and calling Texas home-base when the family was on break from moving, J.P. Raley has seen quite a bit of Europe as well as a little over half of the United States. Garland, Texas, was always the original marker for what would eventually be called home-base, but Germany would seem like an essential part of J.P. Raley's life.

Graduating from Giessen American High School in 1992, J.P. Raley would subsequently go on to obtain a bachelor's degree and an MBA in later years as time went on. However, it was the years spent at different schools in Garland, Texas, that would see J.P. Raley remembering classmates as being a reminder of the simple times of being a child. While J.P. Raley briefly attended South Garland High School as the school in which J.P.'s parents graduated from, it would ultimately be Giessen that would help define J.P.'s dream of becoming a writer from the time of being a Griffin. As J.P. Raley would say with the personal quote created in 1992 during his senior year in high school: "Creativity is the spark of my life and words the life of my soul."

Writing has always been a part of J.P.'s life as long as he has been able to write. Articles, stories, poetry, movie scripts, television show scripts, comic book story arcs, and ideas of books stored over the years, have all been an essential aspect of who he is as an individual. J.P. believes that letting one's soul express itself creatively is just as important as it is to have the physical body eat, sleep, and breathe. History records the events of the past that gives us a look into there lives as we see it from our perspective. So, why not write our stories today so that others may have but a glimpse of our own experiences from the words we share?