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Donald Trump Meets His Maker
$11.99This play offers an explanation, albeit fantastical, for President Trump’s inaction and near silence for 187 minutes during the Capitol siege on January 6th, 2021. The play begins with his speech at the Washington, D.C., rally on that fateful day. After he finishes the oration, as opposed to his instruction that he be driven to the Capitol, the Secret Service ferries him to the White House. Once there, President Trump holes up in the private dining room off the Oval Office, which serves as the setting for the remainder of the play. In the dining room, he sits rapt before a gigantic television screen, viewing his followers’ descent upon the Capitol. Suddenly, the Grim Reaper materializes in the dining room, and announces that the time has arrived for him to take President Trump away.
In the hope of dissuading the Grim Reaper from completing his mission, President Trump calls upon the assistance of Satan, whom the president hopes will listen to his appeal for clemency. As did the Grim Reaper, Satan materializes in a burst of explosions, smoke, etc. President Trump attempts to convince Satan to overrule the Grim Reaper by presenting a video playlist titled Trump’s Big Six, containing six of what he considers to be his political career’s highlights.
One of the play’s conceits is that only President Trump, and not his visitors, of which there were a few-for example, Ivanka Trump, Mark Meadows, and Pat Cipollone-can see the Grim Reaper and Satan: “Only he whom we come for can see us.”
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A Haunted Symphony
Price range: $12.99 through $22.29A stolen priceless Stradivarius violin, a poisoned dart, a haunted music library, and a jilted lover present a captivating mystery for the Palms Symphony Orchestra. Who has the motive and opportunity?
Join the Conductor to save the orchestra from thieves, ghosts, and recover the valuable instrument.
THE MOVING WORDS REVIEW
BOOK INFORMATION:
Title: A Haunted Symphony
Author: Michele Wallace Campanelli
Publisher: Author Reputation Press, LLC Publication
Date: November 16, 2023
Review date: November 24, 2023
Genre: Mystery, Supernatural Fiction, Drama
BOOK REVIEW:
Our story begins with Maria, a passionate and dedicated orchestra volunteer, who starts a new role filled with unexpected twists and turns. The symphony, a place of harmony and artistry, soon becomes the background for occurrences that hint at a supernatural presence. The other members and volunteers, each with unique personalities and stories, find themselves involved in secrets and past connections that slowly unravel as the story progresses.
Maria and her colleagues discover that their beloved symphony hall is haunted by more than just the echoes of music past. Strange sounds, unexplained events, and ghostly apparitions begin to stir, bringing to light old legends and tales long thought to be mere folklore. Amidst this, the characters deal with their personal challenges and relationships, adding breadth to the story.
What are the hidden secrets of the symphony’s past, and how are they connected to the mysterious occurrences within its walls? This was the start of a book that promises to keep one fascinated until the very end.
Set against the backdrop of an orchestra, the story peeks into the lives of its characters, including their relationships, secrets, and past events. Michele Wallace Campanelli truly shines in her storytelling in A Haunted Symphony. She created a vivid and attention-grabbing world. For example, the descriptions of the symphony, its music, and the characters’ interactions with their tools and environment are so detailed that readers can almost hear the music and feel the emotions (e.g., Donnie losing a limb).
Campanelli’s characters are well-developed-each with their individual backstory and motivations. How she intertwines their lives and reveals their connections and secrets as the story advances is satisfying. As the pages flip, readers can appreciate the seamless integration of supernatural elements into the tale-the ghostly aspects are handled with a deft touch, ensuring that they enhance rather than overpower the plot.
Overall, A Haunted Symphony is well-paced, balancing moments of tension and mystery. Building suspense is one of its strongest suits, keeping readers guessing and on the edge of their seats. The twists and turns of the story are well-executed, with surprising yet believable revelations. It’s a novel that will appeal to fans of mystery and the supernatural, as well as those who appreciate well-crafted, character-driven stories.
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Life Is Not All About Work
$11.99In an era of employment when change is continually changing, technology is enhanced by Artificial Intelligence, and automation and robotics are having an impact in the workplace, it is often difficult for jobseekers at all levels to truly identify a work environment that offers the benefits of longevity and a sense of belonging. Life takes strange turns, and the 21st century employer driven marketplace epitomizes this fact. This makes the effort to find meaningful employment for best qualified and less qualified even more challenging.
Life Is Not All About Work is designed to educate and bring awareness of workplace practices to younger jobseekers in a non-traditional format. Both experienced professionals and their younger counterparts are encouraged to use the message in each line of every verse as a stimulant to drive professional growth with a focus on self and personal values.
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Variations On The Theme Galina Ustvolskaya: The Last Composer Of The Passing Era
$21.99There is neither in music history nor in the history of art such a closed and contradictory composer and creator as Galina Ustvolskaya. The music of Galina Ustvolskaya (excepting commissioned works written not for internal reasons but for necessity) is a kind of mysterious ritual. What is her music about? What ideas dominate it? Ustvolskaya’s music art is not big in volume, but with a huge degree of tension, it has concentrated the main ideological problems and contradictions of our time. What is culture? What is spirituality? What is the role of art in life? Do we need them? Is it possible to exclude these phenomena and concepts from our being? And why is our era passing away? The book is full of allusions. This is a kind of deductive method, with the help of which the author tries to understand and explain the talented composer who is a drop of water in an ocean reflecting the leading trends and tendencies of twentieth-century art.
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Ash! From the May 18, 1980, explosion of Mount St. Helens
$14.99Five-year-old Charissa is looking forward to a fishing trip with Grandpa and the rest of the family, but a huge storm appears to be brewing on the horizon much to her dismay. The weather event is a complete surprise and one they are not likely to ever experience again. Ash falling from the sky. Ash that turns day to night. Ash that needs shoveling as one would shovel snow. It is 1980, and the volcano, Mount Saint Helens in Washington State, has erupted, spreading tons of ash thousands of miles. Ash! is a true story of the impact the massive ash fallout had on the author’s family who lived directly in line with the fallout zone.
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The Last Western
Price range: $9.99 through $16.99CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865, origin of today’s political, economic and social conflicts and the 19th Century national transformation from farm to factory, town to city, pioneer to wage slave Bible to Darwin, honor to profit. The story of this historic pivot set in Colorado 1882. Strong characters in a vortex of political corruption, genocide, drugs (Merck, the start of big pharma, founded in 1827 to produce morphine and later cocaine; Union army purchased 10 million morphine tablets for field hospitals and more than 200,000 addicts returned home after the war), gun violence (endemic after 650,000 fratricide in the Civil War), abortion, homosexuality and abiding hope. Not to be missed!
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Fools and Children
$14.99Enjoy a romp through the 1950s with two small town boys hell-bent on action and adventure. Fools and Children is an unblinking and touching collection of memorable childhood escapades as it chronicles the outlandish and often dangerous exploits of these creative but naïve lads. Ed Frye and Herb Bierly, with their rogues’ gallery of friends, create havoc and consternation for town residents when they flood a section of town, loose a horse on the streets, and plan a bank robbery. Caves, creeks, hills, and farms are scenes of perilous undertakings.
Millheim provides their earliest up close and personal experiences with death, as well as poignant lessons for life. Along the way, they experiment with guns, horses, the sins of the world, and girls. Frye and Bierly skip none of the rites of passage, but almost always with a twist. Both learn early that the difference between hero and victim is often too close to call.
Filled with leisurely-told tales, colorful characters, cultural references to the Golden ’50s, and humor, Fools and Children takes Baby Boomers back to their own youthful years. With the freedoms available to these young adventurers in a simpler time and place, their zeal for life is reflective of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
What would a reader expect in a collection of leisurely-told tales? Danger? Humor? Sex? Insight? Naiveté? Creativity? Stupidity? Fools and Children provides them all.
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Untoiling Of A Woman: Love Letter To The Father
$8.99L. T. Simmons truly believes that the JOY of the Lord is our STRENGTH! Again, we are admonished, before battle to be Strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Th e author is inviting you to enter a much-deserved strength-inducing rest. As you read, read OUT LOUD and let the Words do the work of strengthening you… transforming you from the inside out.
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Common Thoughts For An Uncommon Feast
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99The author wishes to express the importance of the covenant God makes with the believer, which is consummated through the participation of the Communion service. Author expresses the significance of a personal relationship with God and His Son, Jesus, which is renewed and revived when the believer partakes with the right mindset during the Lord’s Supper.
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The No Money Down System Investor
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Imagine if you can buy a house. Rehab this house. Rent out this rehab house to a qualified renter. You then go to the bank and refinance this beautiful house. Pull some equity out, lower the APR, and then guess what? Repeat. Do it again. This may sound too good to be true but believe me, it’s happening every day. This book will be an eye-opener. It has the side effect of making you lots of money. Start reading now!
* Find the right properties.
* Find motivated sellers.
* Earn 60 percent profit on a 10-0 percent investment.
* Leverage profits and build your wealth.
* Convert problems into gigantic paydays.
* Take action now!
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In His Footsteps
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99In His Footsteps: Is a story that was written with our country’s veterans in mind. It is also for the survivors left behind, by the ones that died in battle.
Jeff O’Connor is a thirty plus year old man who lost his father in the Vietnam War. He wakes up one morning feeling his life isn’t worth much as it was. Though he is a successful business man, a father of two, his wife has divorced him. He figures his problem comes from not having been raised by his parents, but his grandmother. Though she did her best, she couldn’t give him what he needs as to information about his father. To add to that, she told him all about his mother, but she wouldn’t talk about her son. It was this lack of information that didn’t allow him closure. He feels if he had a better understanding of who his father was it would help him. Though he knows that he’ll never get his father back he feels the next-best thing would be to walk, “In his footsteps.” In doing what he proposed to do may give him something to start a new life from.
Though he sees some problems in what he decides to do, he also feels it will be worth it. As with so many things we decide to do, he finds himself with more than he expected. One of the things he learns is that no matter what you do; you’re apt to touch the lives of others.
So if you’re up to a story full of adventure, action, mystery, suspense and a few tears: Start turning the pages for a story you will find hard to believe.
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HOPE BETRAYED A STRIPPING OF TRUST
Price range: $14.99 through $29.99James Armstrong, a man diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and his traveling companion, an attractive physician from Italy are chased around the world in a dangerous cat and mouse game by pursuers that want to keep their secret protected and their millions protected. Adding to James urgency is the diagnosis of his sixteen year old daughter with same disease.
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¡HASTA PRONTO!: Una historia de esperanza de la vida de Danielle Grace
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99“Hasta pronto!: Una historia de esperanza de la vida de Danielle Grace” es una narrativa breve pero poderosa que habla sobre el trauma de lidiar con la pérdida de un hijo. Honrando a Danielle Grace, la narrativa trae gloria a Dios al ilustrar cómo la confianza en Dios y las oraciones han ayudado. El autor, Daniel Carfrey, escribe versículos personalizados de la Biblia y oraciones de consuelo y soledad para fortalecer e iluminar los corazones y mentes de los padres desconsolados. Hablado con una potencia emocional cruda, el texto de Carfrey contiene recuerdos de experiencias personales, y la narrativa muestra los ciclos emocionales, así como los ajustes físicos hechos durante el testimonio de su hija y yerno, padres de Danielle Grace. Las madres embarazadas y las madres que han perdido hijos examinan las actitudes esperanzadoras y la fortaleza espiritual que solo Dios puede proporcionar. Esta guía proporciona al lector un comentario paso a paso sobre las formas en que otras madres que han experimentado pérdidas similares lo han superado, capturando las emociones en un tono personal. Daniel Carfrey ha predicado por más de 50 años y es graduado de la Universidad de Bob Jones, el Seminario Teológico de Dallas y el Seminario Bautista de la Biblia. Ha fundado dos iglesias y es autor de “La misteriosa desaparición”, un libro sobre el
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Too Close to Call
Price range: $15.99 through $22.99Homicides are down in the cities, but accidental death rates are up. Why? Buf Collins investigates and gets embroiled in presidential re-election politics.
William Buford (Buf) Collins, VI is trying to help an old friend find out what happened to her husband who turned up dead in a hotel room. They are sure that he was murdered, but the city officials do not agree. There was no gunshot or knife wound. So, according to them it’s an accidental death.
It turns out there is a lot of this going around in all the major U. S. cities.
Someone in the FBI notices this and writes a report and the sitting president appoints a special prosecutor to look into the matter.
Buf Collins’ father-in-law is a very wealthy and powerful man and he gets the president to name Buf Collins as the special prosecutor. The opposing party suddenly loses its presumptive nominee for the presidential election and the old man somehow is able to get Buf nominated! Crazy!
The president is now in a classic political quandary: He appointed Collins to look into the possibility of corruption in the cities, but now his appointee is his opponent. He can’t dismiss him as this would look like he is using his power to his own advantage. And, as Collins is unable to get a continuance on the case, he is precluded from campaigning.
The judge on the case decides to let the media cameras into the courtroom. The president feels like he can’t compete with Collins who is fighting city hall on national t.v. and seeming is winning. So, he tries to undermine Collins’ case in order to ensure that he loses and thus will look bad to the public. He gets the charges to be upgraded from corruption to conspiracy. But, Collins is ready and handles the change seamlessly. Then, the president gets the Attorney General to upgrade the charges from conspiracy to cover up. And, Collins handles this as well.
All the time the election is getting closer, and closer . . .
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Annabelle’s Baby
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Seventeen-year-old Annabelle is going to have a baby by a boy who wants no part of it, or her. Unwed and pregnant – the worst catastrophe to befall a middle class, Catholic girl in the 1960’s. Desperate to hide their daughter’s condition from friends and neighbors, her parents send her to live with strangers. When Annabelle gives birth to a boy, her father, a man who has sired three girls but yearns for a son, decides that he and his wife will raise the child as their own. He forces Annabelle to pretend to be the baby’s sister.
