"U Turn," Lester's latest publication, tells the story of how he turned his life around. Our youth DESERVE the chance to read the words of an ex-juvenile delinquent, an ex-drug user, a former thief, an ex-gang member and an ex-defiant son. Our youth can read how a young man overcame numerous odds. When he shares this story with young people they are convinced, compelled and finally---convicted "U Turn" serves as a stethoscope placed on the heartbeat of a young male's experience and self realization. The book explores the environment, circumstances, and happenings that effect and foster a...

The lack of forward mobility and a sense of reasonable accomplishment are natural desires in the human psyche. Deprivation of satisfying achievement has often led to great disappointment, remorse and emotional trauma. In "GETTING PAST STUCK," Terence B. Lester affirms the fact that, at one time or the other, most of us will encounter adversity with the propensity to cause us to fall prey to self-condemnation and a sense of failure and stagnation. The presence of difficulty, within itself, is both excusable and predictable. Lester suggests that the methods employed to find one's way out of...