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Murder at the World’s Fair
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The Vatican has given permission for one of its greatest treasures to be exhibited at the New York World’s Fair in 1964. As America prepares to receive one of the most revered works of art in the world, others are planning for the greatest heist of the century. Into this mix of celebration and theft planning come, two buddies, Ron De Cenza and Bob Wentz who are studying for the priesthood. With them is a girl from Georgia, Susan Liguori, who fancies one of them. Together they find themselves searching for a dead body, matching wits with a police detective, trapping mobsters, spying in the United Nations and finding justice for a murder victim and an accused murderer.
“Murder at the World’s Fair” will have you rubbing elbows with diplomas and prelates, escaping the clutches of henchmen out to kill, uncovering a secret love, witnessing faith come to life, entering the realm of the underworld, revealing plots, clues, and true identifies while combating rage which turns the white Carrara marble red with innocent blood.
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Disillusioned: A Journey from Certainty to Faith
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Disillusioned is a memoir, a spiritual how-not-to, and a revelation of hope for experiencing God and living the message of Jesus in a bold new way. In this candid and moving story, former mega-church pastor Dan Cox shares how, after a lifetime of Christianity, he watched his long-held belief systems go up in smoke. And how, like burning a field for new growth, his disillusionment allowed him to grow spiritually in ways his old faith never allowed.
Cox had erected a perfect Christian framework around his life: Overseas mission work. Pastoring a fledgling church into a 6500-member church. Building a family. But even as he seemed to have all the answers, Cox became filled with doubts about his ministry and his marriage, and deeply depressed. Facing tremendous trials and feeling a disconnect between his theology and his experience, he prayed fervently. Yet God seemed absent. Eventually, all his certainties-about marriage, prayer, the Bible, and even salvation-lay in ashes at his feet. So he had to start over again. And on that seared ground, God and his grace met him, and he began to radically reconstruct his life-this time supported by true faith.
Disillusioned is an honest exploration of what happens when the answers you’ve grown up with-and doled out to everyone else-don’t make sense anymore. Around the world, there are millions like Dan who, dissatisfied with their Christian experience, are walking away from church. This book is for those on the edges. The faint. The fallen. The desperate. The doubters. Here is a hopeful story, offering comfort and a fresh vision for a renewed and authentic life of freedom in Christ.
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The Bruz
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Aiden “Fierce” Chance is the Bruz. His life as a fraternity adviser at a small southern HBCU is turned upside down by a hazing incident, quickly turning him from an academic golden boy to a campus pariah. Aiden is constantly redeemed by his friendship bonds within the fraternity, but his final redemption threatens to stretch his fraternal ties to the limit. The question is, will they break?
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Murder in the Vatican
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The Second Vatican Council meeting in the Eternal City of Rome is about to open the windows of the ancient Church. While that fresh air is about to fi ll the world with hope, along the banks of the Tiber River a shocking attack is taking place. It is one which will bring light to a plot set shortly aft er the end of World War II rocking Italy to its foundation. Th e attack is being witnessed by two seminarians who are Council Assistants from the Apostolic College.
So begins a new mystery for Ron De Cenza and Bob Wentz to solve. Only this time the duo is expanded not only to include that fake Southern Belle whose heart belongs to one of them but also Ron’s sister who has come to Rome for her college studies.
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Murder in Mellifont
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99“The blood splattered chancel stone glistened as if the life force spread across the limestone could tell a story of its own…”
And so begins the mystery of the Lady in Black and the quest for what she sought. Once again two friends on leave from the sessions of the Vatican Council in 1965 find themselves embroiled in murder, mystery and ancient prophecies. This time the detective duo of Ron De Cenza and Bob Wentz is joined by a girl from Georgia, Susan, and Ron’s sister Jan not to mention their new friends on a research holiday in Ireland. There amongst the ruins of Mellifont and ancient castles and Hermitage of Medieval Monks a story as old as the mystical Nuatha who came to settle the Emerald Isle and as new as greed possessing mere humans is discovered. There amongst the footsteps of St. Patrick, St. Malachy and St. Erc they find themselves struggling with their own feelings of who they are and what they are called to be. There in Ron’s arms a dying woman sends him on a journey to find the truth.
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Astrology and Consciousness
Price range: $3.99 through $16.95There are many books on astrology but few relate it to the nature of human consciousness and spiritual development. This book will enable the reader to enhance their self-discovery and personal growth. Rio Olesky is a master astrologer who condenses decades of professional practice in this eminently readable volume full of humor, human insight and practical advice. Because of his skill and heart-centered approach, this is valuable book for anyone whether they are new to astrology or have studied it for years.
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Jimmy
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99JIMMY is the perfect story for anyone searching for the love to accept themselves or the grace to forgive. A terrible accident carries Jimmy and his father down different forks in the river. While Jimmy refuses to be defined by his new physical limitations, his father struggles with emotional wounds that threaten to consume him. Through Jimmy’s eyes, we see the immense natural beauty of the Ozarks and we remember that friends bring joy to life and soften the pain of loss. Jimmy is the caring, emotionally brave hero we all need. JIMMY is a baseball story, a tale from the Ozarks, and a salve for the soul.
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The Island of Madness
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99A group of college students are taken from a charity event and taken to the island of Oasis. The Island is filled with bizarre experiments and tainted creatures that only exist in your nightmares. They must find each other and pull themselves together to escape the Island of Madness with their sanity intact.
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Stuart Duffelmeyer and the Masters of Plagues
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99Mystical powers. Cosmic adventure. Universally dynamic forces. A certain gifted individual is granted all three. Meet Stuart Duffelmeyer. Brilliant, kind-spirited, and 100% human best describe him. He is an NYU student whose classmates play a horrible prank on him and his life spirals into utter agony. Fooling with him was their ultimate mistake. Stuart suffered severely as a result of their malicious behavior and is bent on getting even with his tormentors.
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Sharecropper to Entrepreneur to Pastor
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99There’s an old question about whether a person will be a thermometer or a thermostat in life. A thermometer merely registers the temperature of the surroundings, but a thermostat actually controls the temperature. This inspiring story demonstrates how during the major junctures in his life, John Womack has and continues to be a thermostat.
Growing up in a Virginia sharecropping family in the midst of pernicious racism and economic deprivation, Womack was able to learn how to overcome these obstacles without losing his belief that human beings are basically good and will do right when given the opportunity. Throughout his life, he combined his creative vision not only with the necessary business acumen, but also with moral and ethical responsibility in spite of an environment of greed, egotism, and selfishness. Regardless of his position–whether in the navy or as an entrepreneur, husband, father, student, pastor, board member, and friend–Womack has acquitted himself with a spiritual consciousness that girded him with the capability to overcome the barriers to progress and prosperity.
He never abandoned his fundamentally Christian orientation amid a variety of temptations.
Remaining humble through all these endeavors, Womack longs to share his life work with today’s youth, young adults, and others. He yearns to encourage them to believe–despite surrounding hardships and institutional barriers–that they can transcend their existential circumstances and make something out of their lives. By sharing his life story, Womack hopes to encourage others to confront today’s challenges with wisdom, faith, hope, and love. Certainly, the Rev. Dr. John Womack–sharecropper, veteran, entrepreneur, husband, father of three, pastor, and author–exemplifies this possibility and personifies this truth.
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Mobile Tales: Short Stories for Positive Change
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99It’s a new world order: Have Fun and Be Kind, once everyone gets The Message it’s time to clean up here on Planet Earth. Mobile Tales is a collection of short stories that tell about characters you met in “The Gods Played Here” and have met in your real life, who are doing what they can to heal our Planet. A look at a few of the 23 short stories in this book.
I Hear Music sounds off about a young man’s journey for his heart’s desire that saves him and the rest of us, as the final step that puts an end to war.
Changing Places about ways people share their best stories to change their world.
The Puzzle Box a liberating story of how Ed breaks out of jail and never returns.
Catch The Great American Review on tour, starring Cherry Hill prostitutes and their Madame.
Plus 19 more stories about our Planet healing ways that look like fiction but are happening now.
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Abundant Blessings From My 60 Years of Ministering
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99This book share over 60 years of my ministry in four churches and traveling ministry of 20 years. It is also a look into my 90 years of life which should teach some wisdom as Job 32:7 says. There are many seeds to be sown into your life from these pages which I hope will bring forth good fruit into your life like I have experienced. There will be treasures that will surprise you and bless you.
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HOW TO END POVERTY IN THE WORLD IN JUST 15 YEARS
Price range: $3.99 through $9.95Today, with so much know-how existing on this planet, there are still billions of people in extreme poverty. Outside of developed countries, a large part of humanity lives in poverty, and governments of the majority of countries do not know what to do to bring prosperity to the countries they rule.
The people who live in poor countries have lost hope and do not know what to do to solve the chronic problem of poverty they live in. These people have accepted poverty as a fact or something they cannot do anything about. The unique solution that many people find is to travel to a rich country and become illegal immigrants. But is poverty really a problem nobody can do anything about? Can all the people of the world solve the problem of poverty and live a life characterized by prosperity like the one found in the United States? If you want to know the answer to these two questions, this book is for you.
In this book, I will describe a brand new economic model that, as you will see, will be able to bring prosperity to any country in the world, and bring the standards of living of the poorest countries in the world today to the standards of the most developed countries in as little as fifteen years. So hold your breath and read this book, and you will see how I leave no stone unturned when proposing a new economic model that will be able to put an end to poverty in the world within our lifetime; culminating in the establishment of a perfect society on earth; a society where reigns harmony, peace and love.
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Paradise Lost
Price range: $3.99 through $12.69‘This book is set in London and Southern France at the end of the 20th century. There are two central characters, Judith and Annabel. Judith is a young artist who meets and falls in love with Claude who is doing his doctorate on the painter Vincent Van Gogh and the causes of his mental disintegration. Judith’s mother is an alcoholic. Her father is a property developer. Annabel is a financial advisor to the NHS. Her job is deficit reduction within the NHS. These two diverse characters are drawn into a complex relationship, which is not of their making, and for much of the story they are unaware of the threads that bind them. These threads slowly tighten and strengthen until they are inexorably bound together. We are asked to explore the question of how much one human being owes to another, and whether or not some people deserve to be murdered. Can murder ever be justified?’
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Home Run
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Did it ever happen to you that a brief incident in your distant past, that you nearly forgot, comes back to you to help you solve a modern dilemma? That’s what happens to Bob Campbell. As a young boy he hit a foul ball that landed at a cemetery grave. A brief look at the tombstone at a name that meant nothing to him at that time, helps him reunite a wayward son with family he never thought he’d meet. It shows that sometimes foul balls can win games.
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Evergreen Pines: Book of Religious Poetry
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99When I was pondering a name for this book, I heard a small voice saying to me, “Look at you. You are like an evergreen pine that has stood the test of times. It bends in the wind, bears the summer heat and the winter snow, laughs at the coolness of fall, and gets ready for the songbirds to nest in the spring.”
At that time, the name Evergreen Pines: Book of Religious Poetry was born.