Those Golden Days
In the true story Those Golden Days, a ten-year-old kid living in South Central Los Angeles grows up in a secluded and poverty-ridden area of The Hood, where gangs, dope, and dope dealers dwell on the streets.
To make a bad situation into a good situation, and to gain experience, the street kids of One Hundred and First, and Vermont and Century, reinvented the wheel to make the best life that could ever be imagined.
With friends like Donald R. Golden, who went beyond the barriers of The Hood to seek out new horizons, the author’s fifty-five-year friendship is to this day still filled with adventures and challenges. From when the two kids first meet at the age of ten, and on into their seventies, these lifelong friends are still “Living the Dream” in California.
Growing up in the inner city in the 1960s was not easy. Michael J. Manley calls himself happy to have survived all those years of “living large,” and knowing that he and Donald are Best Friends forever.
ISBN:
978-1682354889
ISBN/SKU:
1682354881
Caedere: Killer Kids (Caedere: to cut down, strike, kill, beat; to kill self): A short story of why kids kill. (GREEK/LATIN) Part 1
Why do kids kill? Author Michael J. Manley researched the factors that play a role in this deadly phenomenon. His short story is based on research citing acclaimed forensic psychologist and researcher Marcus Martin, who explored the subject for top universities, and on material from psychological journals and news articles.
Is it caused by current events and social media, the easy availability of guns, or perhaps violent video games? Or are the killings simply hidden DNA factors?
The age-old mystery of why kids kill dates back to ancient times. The Romans trained their youth to go into battle at a young age and to fight for their lives. In today’s world of video games, the author proposes that the same urge to kill is happening once again. Young minds assimilate to the killing in the gaming industry’s video games just as they did when they were trained as gladiators.
What happened to the kids who didn’t make it as gladiators and were sent home to their villages? Did they kill their neighbors and parents, just as today’s young people mindlessly shoot others? Is history repeating itself?
ISBN:
978-1949483703
ISBN/SKU:
1949483703
Still Waters Run Deep: The Tales of Two Cities That Suffered from Serial Killings: Springfield, Massachusetts & Los Angeles, California
There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to serial killers. Some are captured and sentenced to death, while others still lurk in communities throughout the world.
Author Michael J. Manley contends that you can’t truly write about something unless you experience it yourself. He lived in the same neighborhood of one of the most notorious serial killers in Los Angeles, and he visited Springfield, Massachusetts, where nine serial killings were committed. He writes of the pain and horror that entire communities experience, as two contemporary serial killers on opposite ends of the country leave their dead to be found in bodies of water or alleyways.
Based on true stories, the novel Still Waters Run Deep: The Tales of Two Cities That Suffered from Serial Killings: Springfield, Massachusetts & Los Angeles, California delves into the behaviorism that serial killers have in common. What is it that drives these mass murderers to kill?
Still Waters is a must-read for those who need to know the mystery inside the murderous minds of serial killers.
ISBN:
978-1681811406
ISBN/SKU:
1681811405
Take the Ride of Your Life, with The Uber-Groover!
This is the true story of how an Uber driver experienced face-to-face fear from drug dealers, gang bangers and criminals as a taxi driver for Uber.
Mitchell Martinez, the Uber-Groover, gives his account of driving for the taxi service Uber, with over 1,000 passengers who experienced the rides of their lives in cities from San Diego to San Francisco.
A “Jerry Springer saga on wheels,” Mitchell Martinez gives his true confession and documents his experience of driving for Uber while coping with a war-time injury he incurred while serving in the United States Army during the Iraq war.
Shocked and disappointed to discover that the German word “uber” is defined as superior; above from the Deutschland dictionary and devastated that he drives for a mobile sweatshop on wheels, Martinez dismantles the Uber organization by filing a class action lawsuit for benefits and fair wages.
Uber, the word, lives up to its name that means in the German language: Slavery for Profit!
ISBN:
978-1681816630
ISBN/SKU:
1681816636
The Gene Factor: Cracked the Code, Genetically, How Communication with God Is Manifest.
The Gene Factor by M. J. Manley portrays a “youthful” mission of the challenges to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that God manifests communications through the DNA of our very souls. The novel is a breakthrough scientifically, on how communications with a highly spiritual being – God – is manifest deep, deep down into the very soul of transmission genetic factors: the DNA cell. Scientific discoveries show how communications through gene factors are transmitted. The scripted discoveries in The Gene Factor tell how blessings, prayers, and having faith are communicated. Manley states that The Gene Factor is the most revolutionary novel ever written about how God communicates man. “I have written, I have researched, and I have documented all the information that is ‘within, not without’ that our heavenly father fulfills all the blessings, the prayers, and the hopes of all mankind and all religions from DNA.” Deeply embedded in our DNA is where communications with God are sent, and where our heavenly father communicates back to us through the living cells and to answer our prayers. The Gene Factor is written so the layman can understand, but this concept is deeper than simply the story of genetic DNA. To fully understand, “I must present my theory and do presentations and promote my premises by giving lectures and appearances.”
ISBN:
978-1622120772
ISBN/SKU:
1622120779
Games of the Gods!: Sequel to The Gene Factor
Games of the Gods, The Mythological Greek Ancient Gods, employ The Youth Video Gamers to fight The Diabolic and Sinister Zoombies, Deadly Spiritual Demons that have burst out of transport waves of the Earth’s Atmospheric Spheres to corrupt the minds of humans. The youthful Video Gamers use their incredible skills, controlling their Joy Stick to a Live War-time Video Battle with Gaming Applications. The Greek Gods, through their Portals on Earth, employ youth throughout the world to FIGHT and KILL their Enemies. Humans were given the ability by the Gods to expertly control the Video Games from implants into their DNA made untold ages ago from The Fox-47, which was placed in the Gene Cell Genome, knowing one day the Gods would return to save Mother Earth. The War of the Galaxy/Gamers begins. Games of the Gods is the second novel in the Gene Factor trilogy. When the implants in the Human Genome, the FOX-47 genetic cell factor that was placed into Man’s DNA awakens, the Gods return into their Portals on Earth to direct the youth who will fight through Video War Technology to kill the enemy. Following the first novel, The Gene Factor; this second book explores the ancient mystery – that Mankind was visited by Alien Gods millions of years ago – and those Gods implanted into the Genome of the DNA the skills to fight Deadly Forces that would be needed one day on Earth. That Day Has Arrived in the novel Games of the Gods. The prolific, mainstream fiction author M. J. Manley has written several novels. A retired behavioral psychologist, his timely writings come from personal experience and research of modern day mysteries.
ISBN:
978-1628578713
ISBN/SKU:
1628578718
Shadow: Based on a True Event
Dr. Michael J. Manley, a therapist for the homeless in Los Angeles, wanted to know what it’s really like living on the streets. So following his retirement, he purposely became like the people he had counseled, discovering that their life is far more difficult than he could have possibly imagined.
African Americans living in the United States are treated unequal to the white Americans. At Starbucks, colleges, and other institutions, due to their color, as the novel Shadow contends.
Manley is the author of seven novels: Parlay; The Emeritus: Who Will Rule; The Tides of Time; The Gene Factor; Games of The Gods; Take the Ride of Your Life, with The Uber-Groover!; and Still Waters Run Deep.
His eighth book is Shadow: Based on a True Event, whichfocuses on his life adjusting to retirement after thirty years working as a therapist at a veterans’ hospital in Los Angeles County.
Manley loves the challenge of switching genres. He has written fiction, nonfiction, romances, thrillers, and mysteries. “Observing people and talking to people made me get into writing,” he remembers. “I like conversing with people and telling my stories to a wide and vast audience of readers.”
ISBN:
978-1948858304
ISBN/SKU:
1948858304
About the Author
Born in the Los Angeles community of Watts, Michael J. Manley graduated from the School of Forensic Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, behavior science and psychology. Now retired, this is the author’s ninth published novel. He doesn’t just write, but researches his stories to “script” the concepts and theoretical premises of people with obstructive, compulsive behaviorism. His novels include Parlay, The Emeritus: Who Will Rule? The Tides of Time, The Gene Factor, Games of the Gods, The UBER-GROOVER, Shadow, Forward/Rewind, Still Waters Run Deep, and Caedere, all available.
