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A Roof Over Our Heads and Food on the Table
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Pat Kavanaugh wanted to major in English at Nutmeg State University. His parents persuaded him to major in accounting because it would be more practical than being a writer. At NSU, he met his roommate named Sean Donnelly. Both Irish-Americans, they became friends despite Sean’s troubling secret. Pat then becomes a cashier at Delacroix’s Grocery Store. After graduation, Pat continued working at Delacroix’s, but the chances of advancement are rather slim.
Pat then began a job search. Along the way, he moved to his own apartment, attended Sunday Masses at All Saints Church, became friends with another parishioner, and met a young woman. He also invested in a business that his parents felt was unethical. In the end, Sean was always there for him. -
Almost Heaven
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Almost Heaven was originally titled Ballengee. I wrote during the early 80s while driving an eighteen-wheeler across the fruited plain of America and Canada. The characters of Almost Heaven are based on my memories of folks I knew while spending time with my summer parents on the farm in Ballengee, West Virginia. My Summer parents were named Lester and Fonda Lively. Ballengee was a farming and dairy country filled with unique folks. I started going there in 1954 and continued each summer until 1965. I always thought fiction was born of truth, and I filled Ballengee with fictitious characters from impressions of the folks I met there. The storyteller of the work never revealed his name, but if he had, it would have been Ragamuffin. It was a name given to me by Lester when asked who the little boy was hanging around him in the summer. Lester said, “Why, he is my Ragamuffin.” Ballengee is a real place, and I turned it into a small town filled with interesting folks who made it Almost Heaven.
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Chance of Precipitation
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99After 22 years as a college coach, a new athletic director and a restless alumni group has Randy Albertson ready for a change. His best friend, Adam Chadwick, has a successful car dealership in another state and Randy makes the jump, but not with the backing of his family he soon realizes.
After a promising start a series of calamities befall Adam and Randy is swept up in the tide. After Adam is arrested and charged with fraud, Randy is all that is left to run the lot. The bad press from the charges and the recession cause car sales to lag severely and Randy soon loses everything, including his family.
With everything and everyone gone, Randy finally faces his problems and struggles forward to get back on his feet with the help of his best friend, an old acquittance, and the hope of getting his lost family back.
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DINGS
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99DINGS tells of a mother’s struggle to support her son in the midst of a mysterious condition. Conner’s school believes that he is not ready for promotion into the third grade. His teacher recommends that he repeat the second grade. Conner’s dad is on a combat tour in 2006-7 Iraq; the adults in the boy’s life assume that stress and anxiety about his father serving in a combat theater have interfered with his school achievement. Meanwhile, Sandra is embittered; she is forced to deal with her son’s problem alone.
A psychologist identifies Conner’s anxieties and works to alleviate the child’s stress. But, the boy’s actual condition eludes the adults. He has unrecognized blank outs-his friends think that he acts “weird” sometimes.
Sandra’s husband returns from war, but all is not well. He has changed. She recognizes PTSD symptoms-Sam drinks more, snaps at the family and he has bad dreams-yet, he denies that anything is wrong. Sandra’s emotional stresses mount. She sees that her husband is incapable of emotionally supporting her as they struggle to understand their son’s difficulties; she is uncertain that she can keep her family together.
One night, Conner gets a high fever and he has a convulsion. At the local E.R., he has a brain CT scan and he gets a spinal tap. The doctor suggests to the parents that epilepsy is a possible cause of the convulsion. He refers Conner to a neurologist. Sandra interprets the mere mention of epilepsy as a personal affront. How could her son have such a stigmatizing and debilitating disease? He has never had any seizures before.
All of their lives change when they meet the neurologist. When epilepsy is diagnosed, Conner’s mother is devastated. She questions if her child can be considered normal now-could he ever really lead a normal life?
The reader will accompany this family as they travel their fascinating joint clinical and emotional journey to help their son. Sixty million people worldwide, including three million Americans, are afflicted with epilepsy.
DINGS is fascinating and educational reading for anyone, and especially those touched directly or indirectly by this condition.
For the readers’ convenience, a practical glossary of epilepsy terms and medical information is appended at the end of the book.
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Fingers and Paws: Poems For The Active Mind
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Fingers and Paws and Other Poems for the Active Minds is a collection of poems all written from a child’s perspective. These poems cover a variety of topics that will naturally spark a conversation with any child.
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Grandmother’s Cherry Cake
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99In Grandmother’s Cherry Cake, Janice (Taylor) Peek shares one of her childhood memories that left a lasting impression on her life.
Peek’s grandmother said she would make cherry cake for the children – and the author and the other children were so excited.
Many lessons were learned throughout the author’s childhood. When you do not have everything, you need to make an item, you should just be flexible and think outside the box! You can discover new ways to make things. It will be fun!
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Jack: A Story of a Young Boy’s Faith
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Jack: The Story of A Young Boy’s Faith is a heartwarming story of Jack Andrews and his friends as they learn of life, friendship, and faith. This book promotes family values, individual character, and faith in Christ Jesus. The story is a work of fiction, based upon the author’s love for his own growing years and his desire to draw readers’ attention to the importance of God’s Word in everyone’s life. This is a story readers of all ages can enjoy.
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Jennifer’s Destiny
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Dear Readers,
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine I’d be writing this to you, but here goes. I always assumed someone else would write about the author, but this time I decided to do it myself. I’m not much of a reader, mostly for research, but I love to write, poetry, newspaper articles, short stories, and that’s what sort of got this project started. More years ago than I’d like to admit my mom, knowing I like to write, sent me a magazine she subscribed to with a note on the front to look on a certain page where I found a full page describing an amateur writing contest they have every year. It’s been so long ago that I don’t remember what the prize amount was, but it was five figures I do remember that and it could only be up to 25,000 words, I think. Gee, I thought that was an awful lot of words. Had no idea what I might write about, but agreed I’d give it some thought.
Then one day on the USPS rural one hundred and nine miles mail route I used to run an incident that happened to one of the girls in our high school years ago crossed my mind. I was never sure how the unfortunate situation was handled, but while I drove the rest of the route I began to imagine what I’d would do if I was in the same situation. That was the beginning of my short story. I’d think of something out on one of those lonely roads, like it and couldn’t wait until I could get home and put it on paper. When I finished that idea the story contained too many words to enter their contest.
And besides that it didn’t feel finished to me anyway. That’s when my vivid imagination really began to work overtime. As it happened at the time I was going through a divorce and had an abundance of time on my hands, so just let my mind wander. Where would the story go from there? And why? What motivation would that girl have? Really! But fate had in for her something she, like me, could never have imagined. I hope you like what she did, experienced, learned and enjoyed along the way. I think she did!
Donah
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Love Made Well-The Trilogy to “How I Killed My Father” and “Connections”
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99Join Claudette King-Welcome as she enters the worlds of three extraordinary women who play out their innermost fears over a period of fifteen years.
Gabrielle Fairchild can no longer violate her conscience, and her secret life is about to become public. Millions of dollars are at stake…all of which she’s willing to walk away from just to see her children happy and at peace.
Her estranged sister, Marlene, and stepmother, Mrs. Tate, thorough pride and prejudice, are pitched hard against the harsh realities of life, while their fractured lives keep unfolding, God, the fixer of all things, is doing all the mending.
King-Welcome, creates a cast of unforgettable characters and a thoughtfully compiled novel where the readers an grasp the phenomenon and the sufficiency of forgiveness.
Love Made Well, is truly inspiring, funny, and thought-provoking work of fiction.
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Remembering ZEOLA
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99The stories Zeola told about herself show aspects of her character that was budding at age four and five, for example learning to clean and care for her home and to beautify it. After marriage, she expressed her love for husband and children as she labored daily to take care of them. Preparing three meals daily, washing and cleaning as well as teaching and training her children to work and care for the home are all expressions of her love without using words. She loved her home and cultivated many flowers and trees on the outside. She worked hard to clean and beautify the home on the inside too. For example, she made curtains for the windows and doilies for many tabletops, cushions for chairs and tablecloths for tables. She and Brenda partnered to make quilts and bedspreads for the beds. The church and community were very important to her, and she gave herself to teaching children in Sunday School classes. She loved to sing and worked with the children’s choir at church for many years. Her devotion to Jesus Christ was shown in the zeal with which she took on tasks such as tending to the sick about her and helping those who were in some kind of need. Many of the examples I recount bring to light her service to others. She persisted in the face of multiple trials and afflictions; always getting up and trying again without giving up under their weight. When I began to think about her legacy, I rejoice as I look back over her life and realize that she developed enduring faith and Christian character through all of these things. She chose not to grow bitter because of them, but to submit to God’s will and to press toward victory that would someday be hers.
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Storms
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99Although the news bulletin confirmed her decision to evacuate, Elise didn’t want to hear another minute of forecasts, preparations, and predictions. Brad searched until he found a nice easy listening channel, and drove through the rain on surprisingly deserted roads. Apparently, the rest of the city heeded the warnings long before the Steiners. As the car ventured through the quiet stillness of the calm before the storm, the children slept, while their parents and grandparents sat in silence, looking out at the Louisiana wetlands bordering the interstate highway.
At one point, in their lonely journey, a caravan of paramedic units and ambulances passed them up, in the left lane Elise felt her flesh creep as she watched these people go by, imagining how frightened they must be, dealing not only with the pain and uncertainty of an illness, but also, their sole reliance on total strangers to fi nd a safe haven for them during the storm Each of those patients was someone’s mother or father, a grandparent, or a sibling, or, worse yet, someone’s child. “Thank you, God,” she whispered, again, and turned around to look at each member of her family, as though she had to make sure everyone was still there with her.
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The Adventures of Maximillian P. Dogg – Rescue Dog: Max Finds a New Home
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99This is the perfect book for the family thinking about adding a dog, especially if they are willing to consider a “rescue” dog. It may also bring back fun memories for you if you already have a dog, or had one growing up.
It is the fun, entertaining story of a family going from one rescue shelter to another, seeing lots and lots of dogs, until they find the one that is just right for them. He is Maximillian P. Dogg, Max for short. You and your child will be thrilled with the realistic, artistic illustrations, and will be repeating the sing song phrases in the book to one another, even if your child cannot read. -
The Arkansas Lawyer
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99The Arkansas Lawyer is a meticulously detailed account of one family’s long and frustrating sojourn through the loopholes, disappointments and deceits of a labyrinthine legal system, in innocent pursuit of an equitable estate disbursement according to their beloved uncle’s documented financial wishes. Anyone who has ever had to endure the injustice of our current court system, which focuses more on “what is legal” than “what is right,” will draw comfort from this well-written case in point. Beginning with a glimpse into the lives of a family the reader will come to truly care about, and moving on to an unintentional clerical error compounded by a corporation’s unscrupulous moves to cover their ass-ets, a well-intentioned lawyer’s early misunderstanding of a simple situational fix, the lower court judge’s careless findings, state Supreme Court efforts to countermand those rulings, monies unjustly obtained and devoured by greedy in-laws, and ultimately the whisking away of a large portion of an inheritance by an incomprehensibly self-serving attorney, this account is fast-paced and never dull. The story is backed with revealing email chains and court documents that will be of interest to laymen and legal professionals alike. Join The Arkansas Lawyer on a unique roller coaster ride through a prevalent and important aspect of our lives
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The Helpmate
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is a well-orchestrated prose-work, fiction. Although events in the narratives are mirrored to reflect real life occurrences. It is a tragic story. A tale of struggles, hardship, fortune, survival and death. The Book has fifteen chapters in total running into 108 pages with intriguing starting ending narratives which qualifies the story as comical tragedy.
It touches on some cultural demeanors of people from certain tribes in Africa (Nigeria as a focus) where extra-marital affair is silently prevalent despite legality to engage in polygamy. The book: Helpmate muckrakes the evil of broken-homes and parental negligence on young adults. The strenuous roles of fending for self as a child and taking up the responsibility of an adult in the process of survival is pivotal incident within the pages.
Man’s love for beast is not always without the influence of what they could produce. This statement is justified by the roles the Dog: ‘Riro’ plays on Dara’s path to fulfillment. These unique roles have usually been sanctioned to be the reason why many pet-owners (especially in Africa) own their Dogs and cater for them and not really because of unaligning love for these animals. The story justifies this more with the dramatic risk of life efforts ‘Riro’ (the Dog) had to make to preserve Dara’s life whle the Dog owner-Dara could not be said to attempt similar efforts to the turn of substituting his own life to rescue the Dog when her own (the Dog’s) critical situation beckoned.
We dream, we hope, we expect with longings in life, but we do not know what tomorrow holds. This is explained by the unexpected and sudden end of Riro. For this sudden and unexpected end of Dara’s lover bring him back to a zero level of fulfillment, bruising his desires like the impact of the sun upon a fallen leave…
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The Love Flower
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99The story begins in Ireland. There was a mighty, evil king named Giardino, who ruled everyone by cracking a whip. He lived in a castle surrounded by a moat. A fire breathing dragon operated the long drawbridge. The king’s pride and joy were his garden, which was visited by people from all over the country. One day another king came to visit and to admire the beautiful flowers. He told King Giardino that he did not have the most beautiful flowers. There was a lady who grew an enchanting flower in her garden which she called “The Love Flower”. King Giardino sent his knights to find this “Love Flower.” They brought it back and the king had it planted in his garden. He was so impressed with the flower’s amazing colors. However, the next morning, when he went to admire his “Love Flower”, he found all of its petals on the ground. The king viewed this as a curse and immediately went with his knights to find the lady who was growing these “Love Flowers”. They couldn’t even find her house, let alone the lady. When they returned to the castle, he found his dragon so sick he could not even breathe fire. He was so upset, he retired to his chamber. Later that night, an angel appeared to him and said, “Look at all your evil ways and realize all the suffering you have caused.” That visit from the angel changed King Giardino forever…
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Transcribed Rhymes
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This Anthology is the first in a series which contain “Transcribed Rhymes”. The poems in this collection are “Heard Words”, not unlike the song writer who simply writes down the tune he or she hears, in his or her mind, and the artist who applies paint to the canvas of the picture he or she envisions.
These poems were given and received as a window, through which to view and clarify thoughts and moments, regarding experiences of life. The subjects are universal in nature, in that, they are applicable to the vagaries of the lives of the many readers, who are then able to apply the poem’s teachings to their own situation. If applied, this teaching window could become a door.
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We Run over Snakes: A Fictional Novel in a True Historic Setting and Time
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99“WE RUN OVER SNAKES” is a fictional novel set in an actual historical time and setting. It is a story of the struggle of military veterans and their families carving homestead farms from dirt, sagebrush and rattlesnakes in rugged Wyoming. The lives of three families become intricately interwoven as they form friendships and partnerships in battling the rigors of scratching out a living on soil that won’t cooperate. Wanting only to be left alone to love their land and their families, the farmers find themselves drowning in politics as they discover the government had misrepresented the capabilities of their homestead land. This is a story of disappointment and hope, of pain and triumph, of fear and faith.
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Words: My Words and the Lords: My Words and the Lords
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99At the present time I live in British Columbia, Canada, but was raised in Alberta, Canada. I grew up on a farm in a family of seven with loving hard-working parents. I am married and have three grown children and one grandchild. I have been a Christian for about thirty-five years and am thankful for the friends who brought that about. I am so thankful to God for all He has done for me and the things He has brought me through. I look forward to serving Him always.