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War Is Hell: A Tale of War And One’s Man’s Search for Meaning
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99This story is told by a soldier who was a part of the bloody war in Burma, the executive officer of a rugged group of American jungle fighters. He tells us in great detail what the war did to him and how he feels about taking another man’s life even to protect his own as he searches for meaning in it all…
World War II is winding down in the summer of 1945, but not for Major Jenkins and his band of Merrill’s Marauders. They have spent months combing the Burmese jungle for the notorious Japanese commander Colonel Maruyama and his troops. Major Jenkins, Captain Beltrans and what was left of their band were outnumbered two to one; so, they had to devise a plan that would overcome the odds. But after they settled the score with their enemy, they had to march hundreds of miles through the jungle back to their base near the Indian border. It was now August, and the war was over, but how would the local civilians living along the only trail out of Burma view the American soldiers?
Their journey back home was fraught with unexpected dangers and facing unplanned enemies through an unforgiving jungle. They had never been taught at West Point how to fight their new enemy.
After the war, Captain Beltrans is convinced that he should return Colonel Maruyama’s samurai sword to his descendants in Japan. However, what he thought would be a routine side trip to a modern country turned into a harrowing adventure in Japanese politics and a thousand-year-old culture. He ended up in an ancient Zen Garden in Kyoto wondering if he had done the right thing by killing enemy soldiers and civilians during the war. Does he get help from his deceased native grandmother?
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Shifting Air: A Royals Quest
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Could he ever have wanted this? Laithrum, the forsaken prince, is thrust from his unloving home and into war. At first, the call felt like insanity, but as he faces harrowing battles, and uncovers the long-buried secrets of his lineage, Laithrum realizes his importance. Back home, his half-sister Freyja is forced into a perilous journey. Violence shatters the palace walls, and Freyja is thrust into a fight for her life. But something stirs within her-a dark and untamed power that she cannot explain. As magic weaves itself deeper, the siblings grapple with the truth they were sheltered from-they had less control than they ever imagined. They are cast into a brutal world teeming with dragons, elves, and mystical creatures they once thought mere legends. Branded as “demons” by those who fear their powers, Laithrum and Freyja must choose: Will they embrace these accusations, or will they rise to challenge the tyrant pulling the strings from the shadows?
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Murder and Mayhem in Cedar Falls
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99John Brennon, a college professor of astronomy, and Denise Cole, a college professor of music, both dabble in helping the police solve crimes of almost any kind. They live in Cedar Falls, a small Midwestern town that has crimes of rape and murder to solve, with a coven of witches to muddy up the water.
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The Grottos of Barigoule: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99In April of 1545, a horrific massacre of more than 3,000 “heretics” in southern France occurred. In one small village, twenty-five women and children hid in a secret grotto in the hills above town. But they were betrayed. Royal and papal troops built a fire in the mouth of the grotto and murdered them all by suffocation. So much is an established historical fact.
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Ticket to Oregon
$13.99Three generations of the Ticket family have stood behind their bar in the fictional small town of Cordell, Oregon, serving the rich and poor, loggers and lumbermen, dreamers and drifters, revelers and mourners. Owen Ticket, the current proprietor, hasn’t spent much time outside of this town created by two entrepreneurs. But he has seen and heard about it all.
When Owen and an out-of-towner engage in a story-telling match, Owen pours forth tale after engaging tale, garnishing most with his own perceptive and insight into human nature and condition. Ticket’s Bar has been through it all – the booms and bubbles and heartaches of the 1900s with Depression, Prohibition, two war wars, the Korea conflict, the Vietnam debacle, and the plight of the American wood industry.
Join Owen as he opens the tap and draws a pitcher full of laughter and tears, offering a century’s worth of entertainment from his person and time inter-connected stories. The reader meets a pokerplaying cheat, the love-anguished Constanze Osterhagen, Paws The Wonder Dog, Stonekicker Bob, the Frenchman, the local grave digger, Owen’s father and grandfather, and Anne Oakley herself.
All of this and more in the shadow of Mt. Hood, the high plains, and the majestic but treacherous Deschutes River. So, pull up a stool, park your heels on the brass foot rail and settle in for the wonderful story-telling skills of Owen Ticket.
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Edgar: Companion to “Want To Go West Lady”
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99A good tale about the spoiled son of a Virginia planter his loss pf innocence as a Confederate soldier and his return home to find the love of his childhood grown to womanhood convinces him that the west holds his future.
Tom Glass- Author of: Stenoshe/The Allegheny West
Edgar, by Ben Steinlage is another gripping story about the one of the characters in his first novel “Want to Go West Lady.” This story is about Ida Duncan’s first husband. As in the first novel it begins prior to the Civil War and into the Reconstruction. In this novel you get a better feeling of what it was like fighting in the war. Then the chaos and the loss of dignity as the southern people try to get their lives together again. In this battle for their lives their salvation was the love shared by the couple, children and friends. Along with the war the reader is taken on their journey to a new life out west.
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Letters from Prison
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Letters from Prison
This book contains the letters of my son wrote to me and my family while he was in prison.
He was out of state on a fishing trip when a friend broke into his house and set up a meth lab. When he returned home and started cooking his friend heard a loud bang on the door with a loud voice shouting. “This is the police, open the door!” He opened the door and they shouted, “Stand back! We need to search your house!”
The door to the back bedroom was locked. They cut the lock and found several fans running. All evidence was gone, but the smell was still there. My son was arrested and taken to jail. I saw his picture and the story on the evening news. I went to his house the next morning and police were everywhere. I ask, “What is going on?” He answered, “We found a meth lab in the bedroom.” I said, “Why was my son arrested. He didn’t do it, he was out of state for weeks, fishing!”
The police wanted my son to narc for them. If he didn’t, they wouldn’t take him to court. He narced for two years. Almost got killed and spent lots of money trying to make a drug bust. He did not make a bust.
We had to hire a lawyer and got on court. When the judge ask how do you plead. My son answered, “Your honor, I’m not going to plead guilty to something that I did not do, nor knew nothing about.” I am guilty of trying to help the guy after his family kicked him out. I let him spend a few night at my house while I was on my trip.
He was sentenced for 10 years for maintaining a drug house. He was sent to prison. He was put on work release. He was a master of electrion so started making good money. He has his own apartment at the prison. He said it wasn’t so bad, just missing family and friends and was the worst punishment. He saved enough money to buy a trucking company while working after he was released. He served 2 and a half years of the 10. When he got out, he said, “Thank you God! If I haven’t went to prison, I would never have saved enough money to buy my own business.
He wrote me every day for those 2 and a half years. I love him so! That’s why I’m sharing this story and his letters.
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Tormentas
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Aunque el boletín de noticias confirmó su decisión de evacuar, Elise no quería escuchar otro minuto de pronósticos, preparativos y predicciones. Brad buscó hasta encontrar un canal de fácil escucha y condujo por la lluvia en carreteras sorprendentemente desiertas. Aparentemente, el resto de la ciudad había prestado atención a las advertencias mucho antes que los Steiners. Mientras el automóvil se aventuraba a través de la tranquila calma antes de la tormenta, los niños dormían mientras sus padres y abuelos permanecían en silencio, mirando hacia las tierras húmedas de Luisiana que bordean la autopista interestatal.
En un momento de su solitario viaje, una caravana de unidades de paramédicos y ambulancias los adelantó por el carril izquierdo. Elise sintió que su piel se erizaba mientras los veía pasar, imaginando cuán asustados debían estar los pacientes, lidiando no solo con el dolor e incertidumbre de una enfermedad, sino también con su única dependencia de completos extraños para encontrar un refugio seguro durante la tormenta. Cada uno de esos pacientes era la madre o el padre de alguien, un abuelo o un hermano, o peor aún, el hijo de alguien. “Gracias, Dios”, susurró de nuevo y se volvió para mirar a cada miembro de su familia, como si tuviera que asegurarse de que todos todavía estuvieran con ella.
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SWORD OF ALLAH Middle East Espionage & Love Story
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99After giving his keynote speech at an Information Technology conference in New York City, Vincent meets CEO Charley, who will forever change his life. He becomes the key player in a deal gone bad in the Middle East, setting into motion a dangerous chain of events with profound worldwide consequences.
As the plot code-named “Sword of Allah” emerges, Vincent is entangled in affairs with two mysterious women. There is Eva, a wild seductress in Monaco, who lures him into a world of extravagant wealth that hides her dark secrets. There is Anne, a reluctant French double agent, who might become his soul mate, if she can survive her dangerous mission. Both women offer a passion and vitality missing in his current sedate suburban life.
As we follow Vincent’s journey, themes of identity, betrayal and redemption emerge, within the drama of espionage and seduction with global stakes. Actual characters interweave with real world events and U.S. Presidents.
The story’s period brings us right up to the present, and a future that is actually happening today. Vincent learns the lessons of life and love as the international plot between Iran, Syria, and Israel and the U. S. comes together to confront him. He discovers that the real battleground is that freedom that we all have: choosing between good and evil.
“… The author has done an extraordinary job of describing events, corruption, and seedy characters. Readers will feel as if they were right there. [Sword of Allah] is scary, informational and very entertaining.” Carol Hoyer, PhD., for Readers Views
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Indigo Child and the Spirit World
$13.99It’s no picnic for an indigo child; you can forget living a normal life. Traveling to galaxies while asleep, constant premonitions, and battles with Satan and evil entities to prevent them from luring every soul to Hell. The population is always nagging you for information, ridiculing you, and calling you offensive names on a daily basis. This book describes the life of an indigo child trying to live a normal life. The book is based on true events, or maybe fictional events. Some choose to believe, while others don’t. You decide. But rest assured, Satan and evil entities are real. It’s a constant battle between good and evil, and good does not always win.
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After I retired from the fire department and first responder, I now write books. I always wanted to write books, but with work and raising a family, writing was on the back burner. This is the second book that I have written. It’s a passion for me, the same passion I had when I was a firefighter. I hope you enjoy reading my books.
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Henry’s Promise
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Every day there are probably millions of people making promises that they cannot keep. A very small percentage do keep their promise, they are far between. Henry was determined to keep his promise to his wife no matter the cost. Henry will pay a hefty price in order to keep his promise to his wife. The love for his wife was too strong for him to break his promise.
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The Brokenhearted Leprechaun Skip Into Trouble
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99A story about Skip, a young leprechaun with a broken heart who ventured out into the mortals’ world to save his missing parents he loved, who at the time were presumably held captive by mortals as slaves in or about Dublin Town. With only a smidgen of his grown-up leprechaunic powers, he manages to get himself drunk and a stowaway aboard a ship bound to America causing grave trouble onboard and almost sinking the ship. Until he gains his full powers as a leprechaun, he has many upon many mishaps. With his Emerald Irish luck, he manages to accomplish the risky task he set out on in saving both parents held by an evil mortal and brings them both back home to Ireland from America. In this adventure, he makes two mortal enemies of leprechauns who befriended him, very rich and happy by going out of their way to help him when he had placed himself in great danger, and who helped to save his loved ones.
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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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Dream No More: Rise of a Lion: Book II
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99“Dream No More: Rise of a Lion – Book 2” continues in this second installment of the epic Sci-Fi, High Fantasy novel. Following the hero’s quest of a young black boy named Lyone, his party presses onward towards the truth of his dislocation and the captivity of his family by an all-powerful sorceress. Along their quest, the party finds themselves caught in the middle of a Nation States’ massive invasion campaign, victimized by a shadow organization, and hunted by the deadly sorceress herself. Dior takes the role of instructor, teaching Lyone and Lisa the skills necessary to journey forth upon the planet of Ni.
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On My Rod
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Francois was a male stripper at a gay bar in downtown Montreal. He planned a hitch hiking trip that would take him from the east coast of North America to the west and as far as Alaska in the north.
He not only explores his sexuality with both gay and straight men, he also encounters dangers that threaten his life and challenge his wit in order to escape. Without a cell phone and in remote areas, no mobile connection, Francois had to be both curious and bold in his quest to explore his sexuality with numerous strangers. Francois delves into his sexuality and discovers that men both gay and straight have desires and fantacies with other men. In this book based on a true story, Francois tells us everything about his erotic sexual experiences.
Perhaps many of you have dreamed of taking a similar journey but for reasons of your own it never happened. Francois invites you to join him for an erotic and sometimes dangerous adventure. There were spectacular panoramas, diverse cultures, hardships and sexual exploits that most of us only dream about. Prepare to see America in a way no other has seen before.