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I was just published as part of a 10 authors new release!!! Do you believe blessings and curses exist in modern days? Blessings & Curses examines that question through multiple…

Armand Ruci Author Interview When you are not writing, how do you spend your time? I enjoy reading about the life stories of others that have come to this country before myself and this is a topic that I am immersed. …

When I was 15, I faced my own Mount Everest when I was granted a visitor’s visa to play basketball at the National Basketball Youth Tournament in Chicago. I thought about the pros and cons many times, and I made the decision to embark on a new journey to a…

Armand Ruci was born in 1982 in Tirana, Albania and immigrated to the United States at the age of 15 after the Civil War that engulfed his home country in 1997. Growing up, he was fascinated with reading autobiographies, and this interest led to some early exposure to reading since…

Tales of the Great Recession In this book, I want to give a synopsis of my personal experience during the Great Recession in the United States from 2008 to 2011. This time was extremely hard financially for millions of Americans and I was part of that wave of people that…

PREFACE This book is dedicated to my parents who made the utmost sacrifice and supported me in my journey to the United States at the age of 15. Without my two loving parents, I would not be where I am today, and I owe my life to them. A special…

Immigrant Life I remember this one time in Geography class back in Albania. I had completely spaced out and started looking outside the window. At that moment of time, I thought of what life would be like in a new country with different people and traditions. In 1996, my country…

Why did I become a Teacher? Back in 2009 when the economy was in a crisis from the Great Recession I was faced with the reality that the job market went through a transformation and millions of good paying jobs disappeared in less than a year. With the dissolution of…