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Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
Jonathan's memoir: growing up unwanted by the mother who was supposed to love him most, and refusing to be defeated.
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Jonathan's memoir: growing up unwanted by the mother who was supposed to love him most, and refusing to be defeated.
“You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But UndefeatedBest friends Claude and Kelly face tragedy together and find out whether friendship can become lasting love.
“It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The UnthinkableClaude and Kelly begin life as a couple, and old relationships and a haunting past put everything at risk.
“It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: Closed Doors OpenNew crises test whether Claude and Kelly can stay true to each other as the world around them gets more dangerous.
A photograph arrives on Kelly's daughter's first birthday, and the man who hurt her is out on bail and five months from trial.
A test changes everything Kelly believed about her daughter, and two families who love the same little girl must decide what makes a family.
On Father's Day, Claude learns the man who raised him was never his father by blood, and has one night before a transplant to decide what he owes him.
A Father's Day invitation to a powerful man's table, and a federal subpoena, force the Richards family to decide what honesty will cost.
The man Anthony testified against claims him as his son, and the family has to choose between blood and the people who chose them.
The quiet housekeeper at the old man's table is the mother Anthony was told had died, and she will tell her story only once, in her own order.
The series finale: a sealed letter, a trial three weeks away, and one promise between Claude and Kelly. No more safes.
Boxing friends Devin and Clinton become bitter rivals when Clinton falls for Devin's sister, and their feud ends up in the ring.
An honest conversation about racism, broken promises, faith, love and the pain that stays, and how to grow a better heart, soul, mind and spirit.
“There is breath in you that did not come from the dirt.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, One LifeWhy so many of us hide abuse and betrayal, what it does to the heart, mind and body, and how so many of us find a way through.
“The responsibility belongs to the person who did the harm. Always.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Abuse and BetrayalFrom a happy childhood in Jamaica to seizures, homelessness and brain surgery, Jonathan shows how to grieve what change takes and let every new season make you instead of break you.
“You were not only made to survive the storm. You were made to grow something after it.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Everything ChangesHonest, practical hope for anyone holding on by a thread, from a man who was told he had no future and decided not to quit.
“Stay because your story is not finished, and the chapter you are in is not the whole book.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Don't Give UpNo diploma, no money, no safety net. The mindset, hustle and honesty it takes to rise from a hard beginning and build something that lasts.
“You were not born to just get by. You were born to make it. Let's start building.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Born To Make ItHow to keep moving one small step at a time, and how to think ahead with your money, your health, your temper and your dreams.
“Two steps forward, one step back is still forward. Keep walking.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Two Steps AheadA memoir about growing up unloved and refusing to be defeated, the ten-book Friends 2 Lovers series about two best friends finding out whether friendship can become lasting love, Fighting To Become Champions, and new books of hard-won wisdom: One Life, Abuse and Betrayal, Everything Changes, Don't Give Up, Born To Make It and Two Steps Ahead.
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Memoir
Jonathan's memoir: growing up unwanted by the mother who was supposed to love him most, and refusing to be defeated.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 1
Best friends Claude and Kelly face tragedy together and find out whether friendship can become lasting love.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 2
Claude and Kelly begin life as a couple, and old relationships and a haunting past put everything at risk.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 3
New crises test whether Claude and Kelly can stay true to each other as the world around them gets more dangerous.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 4
A photograph arrives on Kelly's daughter's first birthday, and the man who hurt her is out on bail and five months from trial.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 5
A test changes everything Kelly believed about her daughter, and two families who love the same little girl must decide what makes a family.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 6
On Father's Day, Claude learns the man who raised him was never his father by blood, and has one night before a transplant to decide what he owes him.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 7
A Father's Day invitation to a powerful man's table, and a federal subpoena, force the Richards family to decide what honesty will cost.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 8
The man Anthony testified against claims him as his son, and the family has to choose between blood and the people who chose them.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 9
The quiet housekeeper at the old man's table is the mother Anthony was told had died, and she will tell her story only once, in her own order.
COMING SOON
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 10
The series finale: a sealed letter, a trial three weeks away, and one promise between Claude and Kelly. No more safes.
COMING SOON
Novel
Boxing friends Devin and Clinton become bitter rivals when Clinton falls for Devin's sister, and their feud ends up in the ring.
COMING SOON
Nonfiction
Why so many of us hide abuse and betrayal, what it does to the heart, mind and body, and how so many of us find a way through.
COMING SOON
Nonfiction
From a happy childhood in Jamaica to seizures, homelessness and brain surgery, Jonathan shows how to grieve what change takes and let every new season make you instead of break you.
COMING SOON
Nonfiction
Honest, practical hope for anyone holding on by a thread, from a man who was told he had no future and decided not to quit.
COMING SOON
Nonfiction
No diploma, no money, no safety net. The mindset, hustle and honesty it takes to rise from a hard beginning and build something that lasts.
COMING SOON
Nonfiction
How to keep moving one small step at a time, and how to think ahead with your money, your health, your temper and your dreams.
COMING SOON
Memoir
This book is surprising, dramatic, unbelievable, heartbreaking expressions said and done. One young man going through trials and tribulations, feeling unloved, unwanted, never needed, and unexpected, from a lady that he had finally understood was his true mother. The one he was told loved him the most in the world no matter what she does and says to him. Growing up and feeling like there was and cannot be any...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 1
It is said that being friends before lovers is a key to a wonderful relationship. When couples are friends first, even when there is no physical loving, there is still caring and communication. Claude and Kelly are friends. The question is do they have what it takes to successfully transition into lovers while keeping their friendship intact for the long haul.In Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable, high school senior Claude...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 2
In the heartwarming follow-up to Friends 2 Lovers, readers can look forward to childhood friends Claude and Kelly s new encounters and their ebb and flow of emotions as they begin life together as a couple. Friends 2 Lovers Part 2 gives fans of the first book a new twist to look forward to as closed doors begin to open and unbelievable things happen. The novel begins as Claude and...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 3
The third chapter of Friends 2 Lovers focuses on new adversities that the pair must face as they move forward in their new relationship. Crises from all angles of life present themselves to Claude and Kelly, testing their resolve to remain true to each other while the world around them becomes more and more perilous. Violent actions enter the love affair several times throughout the novel, forcing Claude and Kelly...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 4
Coming soon. Volume Four of the Friends 2 Lovers series is on its way.One year after Kelly Richards gave up the baby born from the worst days of her life, she marks the little girl's first birthday the only way she can: one cupcake, one candle, and a prayer whispered in the laundry room. Then the mail comes. Inside a plain white envelope is a photograph of a laughing one-year-old...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 5
Coming soon. Volume Five of the Friends 2 Lovers series is on its way.On the night of Anthony and Myra's wedding, under a sky of silver stars, Kelly opens the envelope she has kept hidden in her Bible for months. The test proves Larry Vance is not the father of the daughter she placed for adoption. And if it was never Larry, there is only one other man it could...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 6
Coming soon. Volume Six of the Friends 2 Lovers series is on its way.On Father's Day, Claude Richards holds a yellow envelope from Detroit and learns that the man who raised him since he was seventeen was never his father by blood. Anthony Richards paid for a lie in 2008 so he could bring Claude home. Now, with a kidney transplant scheduled for dawn, Claude has one night to decide...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 7
Coming soon. Volume Seven of the Friends 2 Lovers series is on its way.A year after the operating room, Claude and Kelly Richards are expecting their third child and learning to live with the truth about the man who raised Claude. Then an invitation arrives that Anthony cannot refuse: Father's Day dinner on Key Biscayne, at the home of the silver-haired man the family knows only as Papa, the man...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 8
Coming soon. Volume Eight of the Friends 2 Lovers series is on its way.It is Father's Day, and an old man on a silver-headed cane has just laid a faded photograph on Anthony Richards's tablecloth and called him son. The powerful man Anthony testified against before a federal grand jury is the father who watched him from across the street for fifty-six years, and now Claude and Kelly Richards have...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 9
Coming soon. Volume Nine of the Friends 2 Lovers series is on its way.Flesh and Blood ended on Father's Day with a mask coming off. The quiet housekeeper who served Anthony Richards snapper on Key Biscayne, who stood behind every chair in the old man's house for fifty-three years, is Doreen, the mother he was told had died when he was three. She is alive, and she is sitting at...
Friends 2 Lovers · Book 10
Coming soon. Volume Ten of the Friends 2 Lovers series is on its way.On Father's Day, at a long white table in the Miami sun, the family learns who has been mailing secrets to the federal government for twelve years. The answer reaches back to a kitchen telephone in 2008, and to the night Claude Daniels lost his family in Detroit. Claude and Kelly have built a marriage, three children,...
Novel
Devin and Clinton both discovered the world of boxing at a young age, but each through his own different way. Devin s father, an aspiring boxer himself, never made it to the ring and instead began to train his son as his protégé. Clinton came from a broken home, filled with neglect and anger. Left to fend for himself as soon as he turned 18, Clinton harnessed the anger that...
Nonfiction
Coming soon. A new book by Jonathan Anthony Burkett is on its way.We are given one life. Not a rehearsal, not a draft we can tear up and start again. One. And somewhere along the way, most of us discover that this one life is heavier than anyone warned us.In One Life, Jonathan Anthony Burkett sits down with the reader for the kind of honest conversation most people only have...
Nonfiction
Coming soon. A new book by Jonathan Anthony Burkett is on its way.So many of us have lived through it. The hand that was supposed to protect us. The words that cut deeper than any blow. The partner, parent, friend, or leader who smiled in public and broke us in private. And so many of us hide it, telling no one, doubting ourselves, asking whether it was really that bad,...
Nonfiction
Coming soon. A new book by Jonathan Anthony Burkett is on its way.Every season of Jonathan Anthony Burkett's life ended without asking him first. A happy childhood with his grandparents in Jamaica gave way, at about six, to a house in the States where he felt unwanted. Seizures arrived at fourteen. So did nights in cars and parks. Then came brain surgery on January 30, 2006, and a second chance...
Nonfiction
Coming soon. A new book by Jonathan Anthony Burkett is on its way.Jonathan Anthony Burkett had every reason to quit. He was told, in words and in silence, that he had no future. At fourteen he was sleeping in cars and parks, fighting seizures. When he went into brain surgery on January 30, 2006, he was not sure he wanted to wake up. A hospital worker named Marise supported him,...
Nonfiction
Coming soon. A new book by Jonathan Anthony Burkett is on its way.Nobody handed Jonathan Anthony Burkett a blueprint. No diploma, no money, no safety net, and a childhood that told him he would never amount to anything. He lost a job to his own mistakes and chose to keep building anyway. Today his work includes books, songs, Upstormed Records and Upstormed LLC.In Born To Make It, Jonathan shares what...
Nonfiction
Coming soon. A new book by Jonathan Anthony Burkett is on its way.Jonathan Anthony Burkett learned to survive by staying alert, and he learned to build by taking one small step after another. After a childhood that taught him to read every room, seizures that slowed him down, and brain surgery that changed his life, he found that progress is progress, no matter how small.In Two Steps Ahead, Jonathan shows...
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One Life (Audio) feat. Ambelique
Don't Give Up feat. Polanca Pop
Changes feat. Polanca Pop
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