It’s a nightmare scenario for many of us: it's late at night, you’re fast asleep … and you hear the jarring beeps of your smoke detector. Your house is on fire. You and your family are lucky enough to escape, but you lose everything. Candace Quinn, lived through a house fire in which all of her worldly possessions were destroyed and she’s written a book about the experience to help people prepare for the worst. The book is entitled I Survived a House Fire...I Wish My Stuff Had.

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Dr. Wayne Bowen comes from a diverse background: he’s a major in the Army Reserve, an alternate delegate at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, and a scholar of Spanish and Saudi Arabian history. He has also written a book entitled Undoing Saddam: From Occupation to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq. Dr. Bowen is also the new chair of the History Department at Southeast Missouri State University.

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