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Cabbage Heart
by Martin Ramsay
Paperback, 111 pages, $10.00

“You need open heart surgery and you need it soon!” That’s what the cardiologist told author Martin Ramsay after what was expected to be a routine heart catheterization procedure. He went from thinking he was relatively healthy to having six bypasses in the space of a week.

Cabbage Heart is the very personal account of one man’s journey through a life-altering experience: suddenly having his chest sawed open and his cardiac plumbing rerouted. The surgery, called the Cardiac Arterial Bypass Graft or CABG (“cabbage”) procedure, is a major undertaking. Recovery is long and physically demanding. The emotional turmoil is even more challenging. During his long recovery, Ramsay documented his thoughts, feelings during what was an arduous spiritual odyssey.

Ramsay hopes that
Cabbage Heart can be helpful to those who are facing a similar turn-your-world-upside-down changes. Even those who care about someone who is undergoing major surgery can benefit from his personal perspective.



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The Possum Principles
by Martin Ramsay
Paperback, 567 pages, $31.12

Ellen Murphy has just landed her first job—at a company on the verge of bankruptcy, where someone is leaking secrets to its competitors. But her new landlord has challenged her to go on a quest to discover the five foundational principles of business information technology. Will she find the principles in time to help save the company from going under? How should she handle her temperamental but attractive boss? And how does a possum fit in? Join Ellen on her journey for a good story with valuable workplace principles.

“The dialogue is so enjoyable, the plot moves along so well, the characters are well-developed, the tension builds throughout. Well done! … I'm ready for the next one!" - reader comment, July 2019

“I don't know how you pulled it off, perhaps because I feel the theme is quite complex and varied: it is a romance novel with a good story for the regular Joe; there is a lot of nerdy database information for the technician; the book exhorts important business principles for leaders; there are several moral messages for teenagers; and the book functions as a travel book about exciting destinations. But the the whole thing does work. I'm thinking that the enjoyable, masterful dialogue and the plot are the heart of the matter. The reader simply enjoys spending the time in the Possum world!" - reader comment, July 2019

"Finished your book and I loved it. … Great story and I can't wait for the next one!!" — reader comment, July 2019


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Lightly Salted Stories
by Martin Ramsay
Paperback, 196 pages, $19.95

Eleven perplexing parables for postmodern people.

Our postmodern world, for all its claims of openness and progressiveness, is surprisingly closed and myopic. Many of the post-modern era have grown up with a staggeringly limited perspective; it is difficult to even consider such paradigm-shattering ideas as absolute truth, the worth of every individual, or the existence of a meta-reality.

Perhaps these stories can help. This book contains eleven little tales that can jolt the reader out of his or her paradigm by creating an unfamiliar environment or a challenging situation. Each story is followed by discussion questions, suitable for opening up a dialogue about assumptions and a vision for other perspectives.

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Read about the author, Martin Ramsay.

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