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The Great Abortion: A Holy Book for Isolated Souls
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99These assorted poems are philosophical works as much as they are art. The myriad of subjects contained in this collection cover freedom, depression, lust, solitude, paradise, risk, labor, spirituality, and transformation to name a few. As diverse as these topics are, they all coalesce into an insightful and provocative spirit of exploration and moral exhortation. I have titled this work of mine as The Great Abortion hoping that it will become exactly that to the majority of people who have turned away from poetry. I aim to stop a mindless tradition of emotional stimulation, which neither betters the writer or reader. There are countless poems that have become nothing but an endless stream of adjectives that create great mental pictures, but drown out the few words dedicated to the actual content. Each of my poems combine to create a great halting power, and an eventual abortion. These poems operate by lifting the veil of curiosity on philosophical verities without the rigors and stagnation of logic. These poems strike through carefree levity, sharp barbs, and creative allegories. Weather the reader finds themselves in agreement with these works or not, they will consider meaningful life subjects with a fresh new energy supplied by these poems. I promise the reader a new spirit of contemplation upon completing this book.
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Must I Tell It? I Gotta Tell It!
Price range: $3.99 through $15.00Dr. Addie June Hall is a retired Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Department Head of ABE, and Director of Minority Recruitment at Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, Florida. She is also a retired United Methodist Minister. Presently, she has a radio ministry. Dr. Hall is a motivational speaker, an author, and works with many organizations and volunteer groups. Dr. Hall received her Bachelor’s degree from Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Fl., Master’s degree from Columbia University, NY, NY, Ph.D. degree from Florida State University , Tallahassee, Fl. After retiring, she received a Master of Divinity degree from Emory University, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Captivating Connection
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book is based on true events that are triggered by one particular one night stand. This is an inspirational story about a relationship between Lisa and Burt that expresses emotional issues that brings you to question your self’s true being. Within this book lies the truth of your self’s righteousness, you will create a new face upon life, and learn to discover who you really want and cherish in your life.
The characters are confused and running with the flow of the other. There is no correct turn and the roads that are chosen seems to be right but are always wrong. Almost every weekend Lisa has to choose between what is right and what should not be. There is a part of her that knows to walk away but he has a grasp on her. She cannot release him for she is connected to him within her heart, and it hurts her not to follow through with his wishes.
The difficulties that are laid upon Lisa are extremely hard with sensitive emotions and feelings. She is out there only to find that one, but willing to sow her oats. She ends up finding a man that intrigued her every muscle. She has the perfect man, by appearance, but soon finds out that he does not want a real relationship and is only in this for the sex. So, Lisa accommodates his mind and turns her focus only for the sex as well.
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Sin: Walk of Shame
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99SIN; WALK OF SHAME is a story that I created as an adolescent about the Seven Deadly Sins and the people in Hell who must find the Seven Heavenly Virtues in order to escape slavery by the Sins. Their journey through the various parts of Hell in their enslavement to SIN and see the workings of all of the Sins as well as the Virtues against the Sins. This story is a precursor to other stories that I have created and hope to spread a message with, as well. I hope that the stories I create are influential to those who read them.
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A Mother’s Good Grace: How Far Will It Go?
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99I guess that’s why they say family will always protect each other from the things that the outside world has to offer and though we always may hurt each others feelings and know that were all crying on the inside we will always create a protective coating to shield each other from showing it off on the outside but everyday seems perfect until you see who they really are on the inside but the one thing that everybody fails to realize is that they wouldn’t and wont trade in their imperfect families or imperfect lives for anyone or anything in the world and you sometimes just have to learn how to endure a lot of things in order to enjoy these types of things and or comforts in our lives my life maybe messed but its perfectly messed but most importantly so is every body else’s life.
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Bring Back Summertime
Price range: $12.99 through $26.99When Jeanne Starr Gater picks up the phone one morning, she receives the shock of her life. Her strong, robust, athletic husband, Dr. Julius Gater, is in the hospital! — comatose, suffering from a stroke, broken bones … Dr. “J” IS DYING!! A car accident that morning has left her husband unconscious, though still alive and hanging on for dear life! ..And it had been a good life — full of sunshine! Why this! .. Dear GOD! … Why this?! She knows she must get to him — and fast! They had come through too much together. If she gets to the hospital in time, they will come through this awful thing too But she needs all her resources now. In her inner spirit, she petitions her God for mercy and compassion and strength to bring Dr. ‘J” back from near death. Next, over time, she contacts her family and friends for their positive thoughts and prayers. She begins her long hard journey to “BRING BACK SUMMERTIME.” Thus begins the remarkable true story of one woman’s courage and faith in the face of the bitterest of odds, and one man’s miraculous recovery despite doctor’s dire predictions. Family, and friends, new and old gather round to offer support, faith, and love, as the Gaters’ begin their trek back to a normal life. They encounter incredible (and numerous) obstacles from resistant medical personnel and uncooperative rehabilitation staff to other family misfortunes. Their very survival as a family depends on their determination to hold fast to their hopes and faith. BRING BACK SUMMERTIME is a soul searching story of a family’s struggle for the restoration of physical strength, grace, and human dignity. A story that portrays the power and strength of human bonding, prayer and the belief in the power of God to sustain and revive. This family somehow does not allow itself to be thrown even by this devastating accident. They continue their noteworthy accomplishments, as they struggle to deal with the prolonged recovery of Dr. “J”. Their story is truly an inspiration to all.
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Stealing Man’s Greatest Blessings: War on the Unborn
Price range: $3.99 through $18.50Stealing Man’s Greatest Blessing is both a spiritual revelatory and educational manual aimed at enlightening humanity of the spiritual atmosphere around us in relation to man’s behavior. Revealing the beauties of God’s blessings, at the time exposing the invisible hand of the devil in our lives, our children, our families, and our homes which resulting from how we treat the temple of God, our bodies. The awareness and prevention of such practices gives no room for the devil. This is revealed as we proceed to turn the pages in this book.
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Two Cowboys in New York
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Two Cowboys in New York is the story of what happens when two cowboys come for a friend’s wedding in the big city and find when they arrive that the bride’s father has disappeared. They offer to try to find out what happened to him after he left a meeting at the Port of New York and they become entangled with the New York’s Mafia, who was robbing passengers at the port.
The Mafia never ran into adversaries like these two cowboys before in their history. Indian Leader and Rocky Stone just didn’t play by the same rules that the Mafia was used to facing. They were men of the west and lived by the code of the west.
Indian and Rocky didn’t back down, they would never quit until they either won or died trying. By the time they were through, things at the Port of New York would never be like it was before they came calling.
Can Indian and Rocky find the bride’s father and let their friend’s wedding finally and corral the Mafia at the same time?
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Lost in Democracy: “An Analytical Inquest Into Africa’s Difficulties with Democracy and the Prospects of Finding Alternative Systems of Government That May Work Without Hitches.”
Price range: $3.99 through $15.00Lost in Democracy is an exposé on Africa’s difficulty with democracy. It examines the indigenous systems of government that existed in different parts of the continent prior to the arrival of explorers and colonial adventurers in the continent as well as the introduction of the western sociopolitical systems. It compares African leadership with leaderships in other parts of the world with similar colonial experiences and identifies the problems posed by global powers protecting strategic interests in Africa. It also identifies the strength and weaknesses of democracy in the continent against the backdrop of all such difficulties as well as the up and down sides of the primordial African indigenous systems. It concludes with suggestions of possible alternatives to the current unworkable systems.
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Preacher’s Kid
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Being a member of a preacher’s family brings on a myriad of expectations. The preacher’s wife must always project an image of being in tune with godliness. That is a learned condition where she walks around with an angelic smile and speaks softly to the congregants and is always available with a sympathetic ear and assurances that she will bring up their concerns to the pastor.
The preacher’s progeny is expected by everyone to be an example that all people can point to as a kid that the congregants can hold up to their normal children to aspire to. This is not only the expectation of the congregants but also of the preacher. Their mother, who did not get the calling, is responsible to see that they live up to their expectations as the preacher is too busy counseling the congregants and their children.
It is expected of a preacher’s kid, that they attend and lead in children and youth groups and that they by example extend the Christian teachings of their father. Also, is expected that a preacher’s kid is not worldly. He or she does not really know what life is all about for those who must struggle in the real world to survive. He or she have never been subjected to the words that get a mule team moving on a cold morning or the vagrancies of a Jersey cow who will only quit kicking at the milk bucket when she is told loudly that she is about to receive a swift kick in the ass with proper invectives. They don’t really know what life is all about and therefore are really not viable functioning people like normal kids are.
Of course, there is the other expectation of the maverick preacher’s kid. He is the kid that gets in trouble just like any normal kid and because he or she does not participate in the ministries to the church is considered a bad seed and unfortunately hinder the ministry of the preacher to his congregants.
The following is the story of a real preacher’s kid and his family from the recollections of a preacher’s kid.
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Hope and Destiny: Truman, Eisenhower, Fulbright, and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1958
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Hope and Destiny is a work of historical non-fiction that fully elaborates on how the United States became involved as the lead nation in foreign policy dealing with the Middle East. It is a work that focuses on how two US Presidents, Harry S. Truman and Dwight David Eisenhower, established Middle East foreign policies that would pave the way for all US Presidents who followed after them. The Middle East, regarded as the most challenging region for every US President since 1945, is as ambiguous and filled with ongoing events that are as unpredictable today as they have been over the past eight decades. The reason that Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright has an equal footing with both President Truman and President Eisenhower is the fact the he worked tirelessly for a policy that would focus strictly on Middle East issues, such as borders and Israeli-Palestinian issues. Better known for his stance against the Vietnam War, this book brings to light the enormous efforts that Senator Fulbright made for a more peaceful Middle East. Many of his ideas mirror those of President Lyndon Johnson, who established the “Five Major Principles” for a Middle East peace after the 1967 War and lead to Resolution 242 that stands as the standard for peace in the region in the twenty-first century. In addition to writing the Fulbright Resolution for the establishment of the United Nations and the Fulbright Act that established the flagship scholar program around the world, he also challenged US presidential power. The focus of this book is on the Truman Doctrine of 1947, the Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957 and the Fulbright Resolution of 1957. There are many actors presented in this book, US and foreign, that had a very significant place in shaping US foreign policy. Primary source research for Hope and Destiny includes those found in the Truman and Eisenhower Presidential Libraries and the Papers of Senator Fulbright at the University of Arkansas. Numerous Arabic and some Hebrew sources are spread throughout this work, as well as official sources from archives in the State of Israel. Numerous books were read as well as newspapers, journals and magazines.
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How to Make Divorce Fun
Price range: $3.99 through $18.00Anyone who has been through a divorce can tell you that it is a sad, miserable experience. The cruelest part of divorce is that it is the death of a dream. Both parties feel angry and betrayed, and they want to lash out at the other person. This anger and animosity can be unbearably painful. The good news is that it does not have to be this way. Don’t pick up that hatchet just yet. Yes, you heard us right: DIVORCE CAN BE FUN! This witty and charming book offers a quick read guaranteed to put a smile on the face of anyone regardless of how depressed they may be. It offers hilarious and rea-world advice for people facing this horrible tragedy. DON’T SURVIVE DIVORCE; HAVE FUN WITH IT.
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Indian Leader Trail Boss
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99INDIAN LEADER TRAIL BOSS is the story of a trail drive led by Texas’ most famous trail boss, due to never losing a herd or a man on a drive.
Indian Leader was contacted to lead 3,000 head of Longhorns from the Star Ranch, to Dodge City. He agrees to take the job when he finds the owner killed by rustlers and his daughter Serene, desperate to get her cattle to market to pay off a loan when her bank threatens to foreclose on her ranch.
They have all the normal problems of a trail drive; too many miles; too many rivers to cross as Indian has people trying to kill him for killing their brother.
Indian and Serene find they are falling in love during the trip while a neighboring rancher, Kent Eagle, is determined to do anything he can to take over Serene’s ranch.
Indian’s problems grow with every mile: getting the cattle to market; staying alive while people are trying to kill him; selling the herd; pay off the bank loan, and keep Serene.
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A Synopsis of the History of American Civilization
Price range: $5.00 through $15.00This book is a synopsis of the history of American civilization which provides certain historical and intellectual materials toward a fuller understanding of American culture in twentieth and even twenty-first century. By its form and content, it is also intended as a textbook or a reference manual for both high school and undergraduate students and teachers in American history and civilization courses, whereas the general reader may consider it as his/her window on the New World
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Destiny
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Many children were born into poverty, and thus had no apparent reason to try to succeed. That was the case with Mahlon “Dick” Palmer. Dick was the youngest of four boys and was certainly not a welcome addition to the Palmer family. He was born in the midst of the greatest depression the country has ever experienced, thus another mouth to feed. There was one positive benefit though; this child did provide a cheap source of labor. As you will discover, Dick was expected to work 12 to 14 hours every day until he left home to join the Air Force when he was seventeen years old.
Dick’s very best childhood friend was his dog King, who is on the cover of this book. Without King, Dick’s childhood would have been very very difficult, for they were always together.
Life was about to change dramatically when Dick joined the Air Force when he was 17 years old. The title of the book, “Destiny,” is very appropriate since it was at that time when destiny played a major role in Dick’s life.
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Visions from God
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99If you believe, there is more than what you can see, there is. If there is any doubt within you, doubt no more. God is looking for a heart to dwell in. If you want to see God and His love for you, you can do so by reading this book. If you believe love is somewhere out there, He is. God blesses the soil which drinks in the rain that often falls on it… Let the words of this book rain down on you. Just believe. Jesus Loves you.
