Lucky Press, LLC: Celebrating 10 Years of Publishing Engaging Books for Thoughtful Readers

"Bud relates his process of growth and the insights that he's developed in a fashion that will help readers make sense of their own networks of relationships and experiences." Charles D. Frame, Ph.D., Managing Director, Center for Healthcare Leadership, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.  

Lucky Press, LLC, a publisher based in Athens, Ohio, has released the second edition of Harold "Bud" Boughton's book The Missing Piece: Our Search for Security in an Insecure World. Originally published soon after 9/11, the book begins with the story of a child spending the day with his grandfather, through whose eyes we consider the priorities of contemporary life. "The inspiration for The Missing Piece came as a result of the end of my 16-year marriage in 1989. Everything seemed to be going right in my life when suddenly my world came crashing down around me. I was devastated," states the author. "As I lived through this painful period, I started to look at the world and myself more closely and wondered why the world I had grown up in was so different from the one I was now living in. The same question kept coming up: Where in this world is there any security?"

SYNOPSIS: Are we truly living our lives? Or are we just coping? Clearly, the world has changed, and continues to change at an ever-accelerating pace. Extraordinarily relevant, and even more so since the disastrous events of September 11th, The Missing Piece is a poignant, honest examination of how each of us seeks to find our own sense of security in what has become a very insecure world.

Beginning with an engaging story about a little boy spending the day with his grandfather, the author takes us on a journey and through the eyes of the wise elder, leads us to consider what really is important in our lives. The Missing Piece then examines the many different ways (formal education, our relationships, marriage, careers, the accumulation of wealth, etc.) in which we strive to find this sense of security. But, one nagging question remains ... Why is it we never seem to get there, to find that sense of security? In the final chapters of the book, the author suggests the possibility of finding something we long for...in essence, a different missing peace.

The book concludes its journey as it revisits the inquisitive grandchild from the story. Now a grown man, he finds himself reflecting on his own life and remembering the words of his grand- father as he accomplishes what, for him, has been a life-long dream.

Ultimately, The Missing Piece is a book about hope. Filled with real-life examples of the many challenges we face in our daily lives, the priorities we set for ourselves and the choices we make as we seek to find a sense of security, the book reminds us that there is always the possibility, the hope, for a better tomorrow.