Cochise Pendleton has written a book that instead of focusing on Watchtower interpretations of scriptures, spotlights its very  foundations. It also examines teachings the average Jehovah’s Witnesses never knew and will undoubtedly be shocked to learn.  Also known as “Coach,” the author has worked as a tax consultant in California and in the legal area although not as an attorney. AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&submit.x=26&keywords=9781432750398&tag=outskirtspres-20&index=books&submit.y=13&link_code=qs BARNES & NOBLE http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=1432750399 E-BOOKS http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=9781432750398 AUTHOR’S FACEBOOK LOCATION http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?id=100000322233337 BLOG ABOUT THE BOOK http://thebiblevsthewatchtower.wordpress.com/

THE BEAST BOOK: Jehovah's Witnesses & The United Nations -- What the Watchtower Won't Tell You By William H. Bowen Bill Bowen, also known among ExJWs and Friends for his website at http://www.Silentlambs.org which works to help victims abused as children among Jehovah's Witnesses in particular, has also written a book about Watchtower's long-time then secret liaison with the United Nations.   Many of the views etc in the book, you'll get nowhere else; plus it helps to draw a lot of material together for your ease of convenience. To learn more and/or purchase a copy go to: http://jwchildcustody.com/beastbook.html and click either of the Buy Now buttons.

I'M PERFECT, YOU'RE DOOMED Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing Kyria Lydia Abrahams I’m Perfect, You’re Doomed tells about her life from childhood into young adulthood.   Its humor outshines the more somber aspects such as her being denied the chance to have a childhood of happy occasions such as birthdays and Christmas; also denied any normal opportunities to date for fun; and being forbidden to marry outside the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  Her book is honest and funny, not bitter but beautifully expressive.  It is not surprising to know that, when not writing, today Kyria Abrahams is a standup comedian and a poetess of the spoken word. “Best book by an ex-Jehovah's Witness from Pawtucket I have ever read. Very funny. Very, very funny. Very, very, very funny." —Janeane Garofalo EXPLORE KYRIA'S FACEBOOK PHOTOS, VIDEOS, ETC http://www.facebook.com/kyriala?v=photos&sb=4#/kyriala?ref=ts AMAZON.COM http://www.amazon.com/Im-Perfect-Youre-Doomed-Upbringing/dp/1416556842

GROWING UP AS A WITNESS By Joe Lee Jr. Joe Lee Jr. has written Growing Up As A Witness, in which the main character grows up as a Jehovah’s Witness in a very violent and abusive home yet finally breaks free from the cycle of abuse.  The story reflects much of his own experiences, and its intention is to help others living in or going through domestic violence.  Joe describes himself today as a loving, successful man. The book is now available at Publishamerica.com and will be at other book stores November 21, 2009.  Read more about the author at http://www.growingupawitness.com and he is also on Facebook.

The Truth Book By Joy Castro   The Truth Book is a fascinating biography.  In it author Joy Castro is adopted at birth by a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, losing the normal joys associated with childhood but finally regains her life after running off at age 14.  Today she is a literature professor at Wabash College in Indiana.  Because she is tolerant of other people’s religions and no longer a JW, she is now shunned by JWs as an evil “apostate”!  The American Booksellers Association has named her powerful book a Book Sense Notable Book.  It has also been used as a text in courses on autobiography, women's literature, creative nonfiction, women and psychology. Read more about the book and Joy at her website http://joycastro.com/TruthBook.htm

BLOODFLOWERS By David Villa David Villa is a young Mexican American ex-JW author whose novel Bloodflowers is a fictional account about a Jehovah's Witness, Daniel Verona, who is a hemophiliac.  The deaths of JW twins causes him to begin a spiritual journey searching for the real truth about "The Truth."  Along the way he must also fight the fact that he can never live up to "Jehovah's perfect standards." Thus, we see that David's book deals with that most controversial of all misinterpretations imposed by the Watchtower Society over JWs, the prohibition against using emergency blood transfusions even when lives are at stake! http://www.amazon.com/Bloodflowers-David-Villa/dp/1448670373

NEW BOOK BY FORMER JEHOVAH'S WITNESS RICHARD KELLY: GROWING UP IN MOMA'S CLUB Recently Ex-Jehovah's Witness author Richard E. Kelly appeared on Rick Fearon's Six Screens Of The Watchtower telephone conference, which is every two weeks on a Saturday night.  Richard Kelly has said of his book: "When I was four years of age, during my mother’s turbulent five-month conversion process, I thought she was joining a club. Once she became a member, Mama insulated me from an outside world she believed would be destroyed before I reached the age of twenty. While I didn’t know it at the time, my childhood was similar in many ways to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—forced to live with Nurse Ratchet-type rules and surrounded by a supporting cast of unusual and colorful characters."  Richard's website is at  http://richardekelly.com/ and the book is now in its third edition. If you're an author also interested in being on Rick Fearon's phone conference, you can contact him via sixscreens06@yahoo.com.  Those wanting to listen to it live can dial 712-432-8710 at 6:30 EST (or earlier for informal chat), and when asked for your pin number followed by the pound sign, enter 9925#. There is no charge for the call, only your long distance calling rates will apply.  Active JWs wanting to disguise their voices can muffle those some and ask Rick for the voice-changer. http://richardekelly.com/  P.S. When on Rick's conference show, Richard mentioned that a sequel called Ghosts From Moma's Club should be out sometime about December 2009-January 2010.

BRENDA LEE'S OUT OF THE COCOON Brenda Lee was a child in Pennsylvania's countryside, swinging on grapevines, having fun with her farm pets, exploring the forests with cousins, enjoying holidays and birthdays until one day two Jehovah’s Witness strangers knocked at her parents’ door.  Suddenly her childhood swirled into the vortex of a deadly nightmare.  Her life became oppressive.  There was isolation and the numbing loss of normal socializing with other people.    However, as a testimony to human endurance and resilence, ultimately she would not only recover from being a victimized child but rise like a butterfly to change the world for the better about her.  Today Brenda resides near Denver, Colorado.  Her life in a love surrounding is happily filled with scintillating meaning and achievement.  She appeared in a TV documentary in 2009 and has also been in some youtube videos.    Read more at Brenda's website: http://outofthecocoon.net/

ANDY WALKS WITH ME Andy Walks With Me, authored by Ralph Heidler with an assist from his wife Twila, explores the traumatic, abuse-ridden life of young Leroy in his daily encounters with Father, a psychotic, dictatorial, would-be preacher. Compelled to escape Father’s agonizing punishments, Leroy has nowhere to go but within his own mind to find the peace he needs to survive. Father, a harsh and unforgiving tyrant, did not spare the rod in raising his fourteen children. Mother, who was distant and cold, provided the nursing care for her abused children but could not truly love them or heal their inner pain. When Leroy becomes a young man, he assumes his birth name of Ralph, marries and begins to raise six children. One day he disappears and mercifully loses his excruciating childhood memories. Forgetting his immediate past as well, Ralph finds himself on a strange but eventful twenty-year odyssey that will eventually bring him back to confront his childhood demons and the family he left behind. A unique story of surviving human cruelty that devastated an entire family, Andy Walks With Me is heart-wrenching, inspiring, and yes, even humorous. CLICK THIS LINK TO GET A FREE SAMPLE, PRICING INFORMATION ETC!

KINGDOM HALL NO MORE By Daniel Chamberlayne Permission to use the photos above were given by author Daniel Chamberlayne.  From left to right are: Daniel as an adult; Daniel as a child at the baptism about which he had no say; the cover of his book. Daniel Chamberlayne was raised in the middle class area of Hollis, Queens, New York by his parents Warren and Louise Chamberlayne. In September of 1974, at the young age of 7, Daniel experienced the tragic loss of his father while vacationing with his parents in Acapulco, Mexico and soon after, Daniel's mother dedicated her life to Jehovah and became a baptized Jehovah Witness. With Daniel's father now gone, Young Daniel was now indoctrinated as an associate of the Jehovah Witness by his mother and started attending the Kingdom Hall. Daniel tried constantly to cope with the loss of his father by embracing the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses.Of the many lessons learned, the one most favored was a prophecy of Armageddon arriving in 1975 and all who had perished would return.Daniel would wait patiently only to realize there would be no 8th birthday cake, no return of his father, and no answers. Nevertheless, Daniel honored his mother and participated in all the activities of the Kingdom Hall throughout his childhood till his early twenties. Stifled by the organizational rules and a great price to pay for anyone breaking them, Daniel began to live a double life.  He continued on attending the kingdom Hall as instructed by his mother and on September 4, 1988, by no choice of his, Daniel had gotten baptized as a member of the Jehovah Witnesses. 18 months later in the early months of 1990, while being  confronted by the Elders, Daniel's name was publicly read out at the congregation he had been attending for over 15 years that he was now "disfellowshipped" and no longer recognized as a Jehovah Witness. 18 years later, Daniel has lived in New York, New Mexico and is currently living in Atlanta, Georgia with his beautiful wife Kim and their son, Daniel. NOTE: I just interviewed Daniel by phone.  He was and still is a creative person who was being stifled by Watchtower's highly negative attitude and senseless rules until he finally came free of it.  He and his family are Christians.   See more details including pricing at: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PT5U6luPL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Hall-No-More/dp/1434396975&usg=__8_FO47fhssHYneAV6IYTwkbjNKY=&h=240&w=240&sz=13&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=42UGJHOs1EpDpM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3DKINGDOM%2BHALL%2BNO%2BMORE%2BDaniel%2BChamberlayne%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

GOING UNDERCOVER TO RESCUE MY DAUGHTER By Nancy J. Sage Author Nancy Sage puts it succinctly: "No communication was allowed among family members after my husband and I resigned from the church of Jehovah's Witnesses. It became imperative for me to rejoin and go undercover as a member so I could achieve a successful rescue of my daughter which took a two year journey." http://www.amazon.com/Going-Undercover-Rescue-My-Daughter/dp/0941813053

IS THE WATCHTOWER GOD'S ONLY ORGANIZATION? By Peter Gregerson Peter Gregerson's Is The Watchtower God's Only Organization has a message not even the staunchest Jehovah's Witness can deny because it uses the own words of the organization over them, the Watchtower Society. To get this powerful booklet send $3 plus $1.50 U.S. to: JWs Want Truth PO Box 1460 Gadsden, Alabama 35902

CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE By Raymond Franz   In 1981 the Governing Body of the Watchtower Society over Jehovah's Witnesses disfellowshipped Raymond Franz.  This means they excommunicated and ordered all JWs to start severely shunning Franz, and they did so after declaring that his views were "apostate," meaning against their own views about God and God's will.  Franz went on to write this biographic account which tells some of the Governing Body's hypocrisies such as their directing JWs in Malawi, Africa, to not buy a cheap card saying they supported government even though this meant some were imprisoned, beaten, raped and murdered although directing the JW Elders in Mexico to let JW males there keep buying cards false saying they had done a year of military service.   The book reveals many other things that only a former insider at the very top of the organization could reveal.  No Ex-JW should be without a copy of this eyes-opener. P.S. Raymond Franz has another great book called In Search Of Christian Freedom as well as numerous essays.  See his books and those of some others at: http://www.commentarypress.com

DIANE WILSON The Awakening Of A Jehovah's Witness Donald Nelson, a former Watchtower missionary in Brazil has written:  "Diane Wilson, former long-time member of the Watchtower organization, has written a veritable "spiritual thriller", describing her dramatic journey to psychological freedom.  She explores with frankness and passion her unfortunate servitude to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, an organization which views itself as the sole possessor of all religious truth. The fascinated reader will be swept along emotionally as Diane details her odyssey to freedom from what most former Jehovah’s Witnesses describe as a mind-control cult. Diane spells out her initial vulnerability to the unique claims of the Watchtower Society and her fierce struggle to disengage herself from such powerfully persuasive people; in short, she reveals the dark side of Watchtower worship. As a former high-ranking member of the Watchtower Society, I can personally vouch for the veracity of her analysis of Watchtower methods and policies. In my twenty-two years as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, I had attained the position of “Traveling Overseer” both in the United States and Brazil. I am a graduate of the Watchtower Bible School, “Gilead”, and have spent tens of thousands of hours attending meetings, studying their literature, going from door-to-door with the Watchtower message, and giving sermons in hundreds of Kingdom Halls (Witness churches). Diane’s description of life in the Watchtower Society is painfully accurate. If the reader has friends or neighbors or loved ones in that Organization, Diane’s moving autobiography will poignantly underscore the tragic position these individuals are in. The reader will put down Diane’s book (and I’m sure most will read it in a single sitting) with a greatly enlarged understanding of what life in the Watchtower cult is all about. And, perhaps more importantly, with deeper sympathy for those unfortunate people known as Jehovah’s Witnesses." http://www.dianewilson.net/ http://www.dianewilson.net/disc.htm http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=Diane+Wilson+Jehovah%27s&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

DR. JERRY BERGMAN Dr. Jerry Bergman (ExJW Elder) has had more than 40 books, textbooks, monographs and book chapters, plus over 400 articles published in professional journals etc.  His scholarly book, Jehovah's Witnesses And The Problem Of Mental Illness proves the incidence among JWs, unfortunately, far exceeds the average. http://www.amazon.com/Jehovahs-Witnesses-Problem-Mental-Illness/dp/9993195286/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254010833&sr=1-13 Click for some online articles about U.S. President Eisenhower's JW life and connections http://www.seanet.com/~raines/papers.html

Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah’s Witnesses  By BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON Barbara Grizzuti Harrison wrote Visions Of Glory, A History and a Memory of Jehovah’s Witnesses as well as numerous journal articles, essays and travel publications.  Born in 1934, Barbara went from being a JW at Bethel to one of the world's most reknown professional writers.  She knew she was about to pass away in 2002 and so gave permission for her outstanding, information-packed Visions Of Glory to be published online, a true living testimony, an enduring witness to the real truth:  http://www.exjws.net/vg.htm