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Playing Hurt
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99BRIAN is playing his last high school football game. When he gets hurt, the coach tells him he must stay in the game since there isn’t anyone to replace him. Brian is worried about his future and his love for DEANIE, a beautiful cheerleader.
After the game, trouble develops when BILL, Deanie’s old boyfriend returns to town. Brian is distracted by e beer party and mischief with the rival school. Deanie is with her girlfriends when Bill appears. Deanie is coerced into his car and forced to have sex. Deanie doesn’t tell Brian. Bill leaves town, promising to return in the spring.
In February, Deanie tells Brian she is four months pregnant. Brian counts the months back and suspects that Bill might be the father. Deanie confesses and Brian is devastated. When Bill returns, Brian lures him out of town. Bill is severely beaten, but when Brian’s back is turned, Bill manages to get into his car and grab his pistol. Brian is shot in the arm. With the barrel pressed against Brian’s head, Bill blurts out that he had sex with Deanie many times. Suddenly there is another shot, but this time a bullet slams into Bill’s chest. Deanie is holding Brian’s rifle. Bill dies at the hospital.
In the summer, Deanie gives birth to a baby with dark hair and eyes like Bill’s. Heartbroken, Brian enlists in the army. Aboard the bus, he agonizes over leaving Deanie. Alone and afraid, he slumps back in the seat. Then, he remembers what his coach said about playing hurt, and he realizes that he must go on, even if it does hurt.
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Poems
$8.99‘Poetry is a collaboration between readers and author. The author writes his impressions and understanding of a given subject but relies on the imagination of the reader to share and explore the implications of his words. Although we are separated by time and distance, a spiritual and emotional
bond is achieved when author and reader share the epiphany of a poem.’
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Poems 31
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Linda, the “You need to Listen” leaping Lizard
Listen class – line up! Please. We’re going outside.
Today, we are playing leapfrog. Doesn’t that sound fun!
My good friend Leonard, the frog – developed this game.
Boy! could he jump!
Yes, Johnny! But Linda, I want to play on the monkey bars.
Okay! Johnny, we played on the monkey bars yesterday.
On the playground, (today) we are playing leapfrog! You got that, Johnny!!
Listen Linda, I don’t want to play leapfrog.
Johnny, we are not playing on the monkey bars.
But Linda, why can’t we play on the monkey bars? Because I said so!
You’re not listening Linda Listen LINDA!! I want to play on the monkey bars!
Johnny, you got one more time to but Linda me. Okay! Class, are we ready to go? Yes, ma’am!
Johnny, where are you going? Listen, Linda
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Poems and Other Nonsense
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99These poems are a compilation of my view of life and the human experience. I wrote these poems for my own amusement. If the reader enjoys these poems, I consider that “icing on the cake”.
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Poems From Her Heart
Price range: $3.99 through $6.99This is the first book I have ever written. I am a housewife from Nebraska. A couple of these poems are about pets I have lost in the past two years. It’s a painful thing to lose a pet you loved as your own child. I cannot have kids. These poems are things in my life that mean a lot to me. I’m thinking of writing a short book of holiday poems. I’m nervous though. We’ll see how everyone likes this book first. I hope with all my heart that there are poems in this book that will touch your heart as they have mine.
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Poems from Still Waters Running Deep
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Poems from Still Waters Running Deep presents a collection of poetry written by author Emma McClain over a period of forty years. Penned at various stages of her life, they echo the thoughts, feelings, and transitions of those moments. She touches on topics ranging from experiencing her freedom from her mother for the fi rst time in “Farewell Song” to marveling at the fact she has found with her one true love in “My Man” She also carefully examines her relationship with God and the depth of his loving-kindness.
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Poet and Priest
$3.991968-1970 Dobbins Vocational School Degree in Computer Science
1971-1974 Community College of Philadelphia Associate Arts and Sciences
1974 Naropa University – Audit
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
1992-1998 International Christian University, Masters of Arts Degree
June – 1993 – Ordination – Jameson
Evangelical Association, Reverend
Married Dec 9, 2000 to his sweetheart Emma Ruth Shumsky
A member of Deliverance Evangelistic Church 10/2012 to present
30 face to face meeting with Jesus since August 1979
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Poetic Heaven or Hell
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book of poetry presents a thirty year collection of thoughts, both about life in the here and now and life in the hereafter. It shares the message of God’s forgiveness and seeks to awaken the spiritual beings in everyone.
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Poetry and Thoughts Throughout My Years
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Growing up in Ohio, Mildred Thayer Carneal enjoyed all the pleasures and pains life had to offer. But it was when she entered third grade that she realized how she could express herself through the magic of poetry.
Written over fifty-eight years, from 1954 to 2012, Poetry and Thoughts reveals Carneal’s life from childhood through adulthood by using anecdotes, thoughts, and poetry. Her words reveal a diverse perception and a keen attention to detail, and each section is filled with vivid imagery.
Whether Carneal reminisces about the apple trees and cows of her childhood, meditates on the emotions of motherhood, or inspires others to remember the true reason for Christmas, her accessible language and thought-provoking turns of phrase will encourage you to think about God and where He is in your life today.
Enjoy the comforting feeling of God’s hand caring for those you love or the memories of times shared with loved ones now grown or gone.
Whatever inspiration you need, you’ll find it in Poetry and Thoughts.
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Poetry for the Soul: Plus Satire
Price range: $11.99 through $18.99God’s spirit can fill our very soul;
We are restored, and love reigns whole.
God blesses freedom and allows you to choose,
But those who steal freedom are destined to lose.
Bad thoughts from the past can be banished at last. Then your heart is set free to be all you can be.
What you think is what you feel.
Emotions are but mirrors real.
The Lord will protect better than ever we can,
For even in the worst of times, He can perfect His plan.
What sets this collection apart is McPhee’s versatility as a poet. Each poem is a testimony to her ability to seamlessly transition between introspective messages and razor-sharp wit….Yet beneath the humor lies a deep sense of compassion and understanding, reminding us that laughter can be a powerful tool for introspection and growth.
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Poetry in Motion: The Lyrics and Poems of Carolyn Luger Vermes (Original Edition)
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99‘Uplifting’ is the term that best describes Carolyn’s verse. Humor and poignant reflection exist side by side in her world of individuals at the crossroads of change.
Like her sister, novelist Sondra Luger, she believes in happy endings. As she expresses it, “All endings are really beginnings. The ‘happy’ part is ours to create.”
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Poetry to Meditate On
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Poetry to Meditate On is a continuation of Poetry to Live By. The book is about living by and through many trials and tribulations for spiritual growth and edification in all aspects of Christian life and being blessed by them.
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Polyxena: A Story of Troy
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99After Troy falls, Polyxena, daughter of King Priam, faces death for having rejected the advances of her captor. She relates her thoughts to Aphrodite, the Goddess she holds responsible for having orchestrated her fate, to find solace and overcome her fear of death. She recounts how she was sent as an envoy to the Amazons to secure them as allies in the war and how she becomes a captive of Achilles when he defeats them and the two find romance in each other. After returning to Troy, she tries to keep their forbidden love a secret but, through treachery, her brothers learn of it, leading to a tragic outcome for them both. As she tries to make sense of it all, Polyxena’s introspection leads her to surprising conclusion about the life she has lived. All the personages associated with the Trojan myths – Helen, Cassandra, Priam, Paris, and others—are given fresh life in this epic retelling of the classic story.
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Pony Ride to an Awakening: The Journey of a Mystic
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99We are closest to the Spirit at the beginning of our life, just entering incarnation from the Spirit, and at the end of our life, as we prepare to return to the Spirit. Along the way, encounters of an otherworldly kind happen to many people; by sharing them, we can find similarities among us and trust that these events are real and not imagined.
In Pony Ride to an Awakening, author Hedin E. Daubenspeck described spiritual episodes from early childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, maturity, retirement unto renunciation, and then consciousness beyond death. He presents some of his psychic experience and a few stories of his friends and family in the hope that they serve as a guide for those seeking spiritual awareness. We come from the Spirit and will return to the Spirit. There is nothing to fear from our teachers and ancestors in communicating with the Spirit to give us guidance, answer, wisdom, and vision in this often difficult earthly life experience. As we unfold our development going forward with open eyes and mind, we find that the truth unfolds and becomes more refined, like a lotus flower.
Building on personal narratives, this guide to spiritual awareness considers psychic experiences, intuition in daily life, and the mystical inner journey that can lead to self-realization.
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Poor Barnum’s Journal
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99I was born in Manhattan General Hospital in New York City, and grew up in North Bergen, New Jersey. At the age of 6, my family (Mom, Dad and younger sister Carolyn) moved to Far Rockaway, Long Island, New York and I attended P.S. 106 Horace Mann Public School and Far Rockaway High School. I graduated both and attended Syracuse University majoring in Industrial Design, graduated with a Degree in Industrial Design, and immediately went to Greenwich Village, New York and became a Stand-Up Comedian, did Summer Stock in Plattsburgh in Upstate New York, and have been performing in show business ever since.
