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TRACKS
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99America – land of opportunity – nation of immigrants.
There is a special magic to America. It comes from the diversity of its people.
Like the characters in Tracks they come from all over – places like Guadalajara, Chapala, Chihuahua and Zacatecas, Mexico, Kirkaldy, Scotland, Barnmeen, Ireland, Copenhagen, Denmark, disputed territory in the shadow of Mt. Ararat in the Caucasus Mountain Range, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Padua, Italy.
In 1919, when young Pedro Figueroa and Antonio Flores were refused seats to a travelling Shakespearian and Broadway show on a Saturday night in a saloon in Socorro, New Mexico, the lead actor stopped the show and took them aside. He offered these words of encouragement:
“You boys got to do the same things my folks did. Work hard. Raise a family. Make sure your kids get to school. Your day will come. This is a great country. Look, we got rid of slavery. Things get better all the time. Lives are lived in stages. Look at the caterpillar, crawling about, making little tracks
on the ground, and then it’s into a cocoon, and before long, it’s flying about, a butterfly.”
Tracks is a testament to the spirit of immigrants who come to America and make it a better place.
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The Care and Feeding of Harry
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99It seems Harry Flapper leads a charmed life.
But then again, maybe charmed isn’t quite the right word. Because when Harry is around—and even when he isn’t—very strange things seem to happen. Like a moose goring a dune buggy to death. And the fixation of the local police with the mysterious Flapper Gang. And who could forget Victoria, Harry’s winsome mother who daily faces the many challenges of keeping her husband Bull alive and in one piece and her family one step removed from another calamity. Add a full cast of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and several other hapless and sometimes flirtatious creatures, and you have a recipe for mishaps and hilarity.
And then there’s Harry himself: only son, besotted with his ever-expanding bug and coin collections, naïve to the wiles of certain young ladies of his acquaintance and never far from his own misadventures. The Care and Feeding of Harry is a fun-filled tale of Forrest Gumpian proportions. Prepare to enter Harry’s world, where nothing is sacred and each story is full of wit and irreverence. And find out why he detests chocolate.
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Earth Lost Without Power: The Neutron Bomb
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99When greed for power consumes people’s souls, there is no limit to how far they will go in pursuit of their goals, regardless of the destruction they may wreak on others.
When an enormous missile launches from within the Russian empire, countries around the globe are in shock. It seems Russian scientists have developed power neutron bombs and placed them in orbit around the earth in order to consolidate the empire’s power. But their plans go awry when faulty equipment launches all of the missiles back toward the earth in one shocking blow. The Russian military activates a self-destruct mechanism, but it is too late for billions of people on earth. Those who don’t die in the initial explosions-as their bodies’ nervous systems are fatally disrupted-find themselves living without electricity. Planes plummet from the sky, and modern life comes to a screeching halt. Now only time will tell if humanity will ever recover.
In this science fiction novel, powerful neutron bombs devastate human life on earth, leaving the survivors to pick up the pieces.
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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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Head Smashed In
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99W. Fred Bowen is a retired educator who lives part-time in Canada and Switzerland. Since he was very young, while growing up in Montana, one of his many interests has been the pre-history of the aboriginal peoples of prairies. He has been fascinated by the artifacts left behind by these people and curious about how they were able to exist in a harsh and difficult world. Head Smash In, written predominantly for younger readers, is his first story about that world. Combining his arrowhead collecting hobby with his knowledge based on years of research, Mr. Bowen has created an entertaining and thought-provoking story of North America’s earliest habitants.
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Suspicion
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99When Ivan’s Jewish parents smuggle him out of Germany during World War II, they leave him a letter with two pieces of advice: work hard, and be wary of those offering help. Taking this counsel to heart, Ivan studies diligently and becomes an internationally recognized neuroscientist. He marries and has a son, but his intrinsic distrust of others pushes his family away.
When the US government offers him a top-secret assignment working with German and Russian scientists in Iran to develop a new weaponized drug—along with a significant pay raise—Ivan jumps at the opportunity. Soon, however, his suspicious nature forces him to question the work’s real purpose. He discovers the German-Russian team are creating a weapon of mass destruction, and his suspicions are confirmed: the CIA didn’t plant him as a scientist but as a spy.
Meanwhile, Ivan’s son, Michael, has become a member of a US Special Operations team. Michael hasn’t spoken to his estranged father in years, and he never expects them to meet again. When they do, the circumstances will demand that they rediscover their ability to trust in each other. Their lives may depend on it.
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Veronica’s Challenge
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Veronica was packing for her trip back home to New York. Her mother walked into the room. “Are you going to have breakfast with us before you leave?” her mom asked. “Sure, I will. I don’t have to leave right away,” Veronica said. “I’m going to check to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything,” Veronica told her mother. As Veronica was getting ready to go downstairs, she thought “It’s nice to be here again. This house has good memories…
Veronica’s Challenge, is a story about a woman who works in an aquarium. She has an accident, then she meets Tess and her life has changed.
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Spyder Hole
Price range: $3.99 through $19.95Former American Green Beret Dan Halevi, now an Israeli Mossad officer, had the key to stopping the 9-11 attack in his hands but never realized it. Now he has information that terrorists will detonate nuclear weapons in New York and London. This time he won’t let it happen.
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Deacon’s Promise
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Deacon’s Promise is an action thriller set in South Africa. In the midst of his own crisis of faith, Deacon Adelius receives a letter from a murdered friend, pleading with him to go to South Africa to rescue his children, whose lives are in danger from international drug smugglers led by a villain who is clever, ruthless, and beautiful. What his friend asks from the grave, Deacon must grant. To honor his dying friend’s request, he will have to rely on fellow members of a secret society of Gabrians, of close friends, of a retired colonel of the South African police, and of a unique trio of honorary uncles. Deacon becomes a hunter and hunted, as he weaves his way from Cape Town to Zimbabwe in a trail of violence in which he must call upon all his Chicago street smarts and previous military experience to survive and accomplish his mission.
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Two Souls
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99This is where Two Souls met with the Devil Serpent. This is when he sold his
soul to it. He sold his soul for power.”
Davila delivers a highly charged, exciting adventure in this novel.
His narrative is intelligent and multilayered.
– The U.S Review of Books
Death born of the Devil. . .The human soul is like doorway that can lead us to the realm of hell. Or very easily take us to the door that leads to the light. Two Souls contains the element of horror, fantasy and Fiction. From the first page it takes you into a different world. An engrossing story where the action is quick paced, the edge of your seat kind. The tale is powerful and intense. In contains suspense and love that will keep you turning the pages until the mystery of the golden amulet and Two Souls is resolved.
David Davila was born in Austin, Texas and served 6 and ½ years in the U.S.M. Corps. After getting out of the Marine Corps he went to live in Portland Oregon with his wife Rosalee where he was employed by the postal service and wrote his first novel Two Souls. Returned to Austin, Texas and finished the remainder of fifteen years employed by the U.S. Postal Service.
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Brothers
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Brothers takes detective Pete Rodrequiz and his partner, Paul, to a world of the unknown, where strange occurrence take place in mother nature. Two brothers, Frank and George, take you on a killing spree and tell their story of abuse and how they evolved to survive.
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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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Mystery at Higby Ranch
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Allison’s problems were just beginning. After an argument with her father, she goes looking for Mr. Molly, her cat. Instead of finding him, she finds a dead body in the pump house. She runs to get her father and when they return, the pump house is empty. When Allison and her best friend Trish set out to find the disappearing body, they encounter more strange happenings at the ranch. Mysteriously a light turns on in the barn and when the girls investigate noises inside, they find the barn empty. Determined to solve the puzzle, Allison and Trish enlist the aid of Robert and Brad. Just when the four get close to finding the answer, the boys disappear. Trish goes for help and Allison is left on her. Things couldn’t get spookier, she thinks . . . until she hears something in the cellar.
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Adam
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Dr. Jeffrey Mongroll II created a monster out of his grief for the loss of his father. He vowed that he would create the perfect humanoid that would thrive in this world to take over humans as we know. It escaped into the waters of the Willamette River of Portland, Oregon. This creature if left to live will be the extinction of all mankind.
Detective Pete Rodrequiz, a transplant from the state of Texas, and his new partner, Johnny Rodrequiz, are given the assignment. Death occurred caused by this vicious illusive creature. The invisible killer baffled Pete. Why is there death of the innocent? Pete confronted Dr. Mongroll. There seemed no way to stop this killer until his team is given a break. The creature was seen. Pete requested help from Dr. Robis, a marine biologist, Dr. Mongroll and his colleagues, and the Navy SEAL Team.
The story will take you into an intense ride of fear–a fear of what lurks in the depth of the river.
In the depth of the Willamette, the creature attacks the Navy SEAL Team and the submersible with Dr. Robis and Dr. Mongroll and his colleagues. They stared on as the creature killed many of the SEAL Team.
Back on the deck of the coast guard ship, the battle for life between man and the creature and life as we know it began.
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Murda Mansion
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99In the darkened basement of an old Mansion lies a mystery; an enigma powerful enough to change the world as we know it today. Young Riley McCaden and best friend Bowdie Pager accidentally stumble upon it and come face to face with the most difficult challenges of their lives.
An old map showing the way to an Ancient City thought only to be myth; becomes the focus of a desperate race against time. Torn from their families and armed only with courage, the boys embark upon a journey like none they have ever known.
Filled with danger, risks and daring, they travel into the past and down the road of high adventure; where along the way they meet up with the kind of people who change your life forever! MURDA MANSION… the dream of a life time! -
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I Am Not The Moon Lake Camp Killer
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99THE QUANTICS is about a 17-year old boy, Liam, and his friends who develop powers aft er discovering a meteor at summer camp. When Liam is wrongly arrested for shooting twelve campers, he can’t protect his friends from the real murderer, a shape-shifting alien whose ability is to steal other people’s “quantic” powers. To make matters worse, Liam’s future self has come back in time to kill Liam.
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GROUNDHOG WARS
Price range: $3.99 through $12.00Hi boys and girls, the story you are about to read is about weather. A little bit about voting, it tells us about the changing times we live in now. And how it was, when I was a kid, I have seen, all kind of weather I even travel to Virginia to watch hurricane Bertha, land onshore, ok I lie, I was on vacation, with my family, and got caught in it, and it was not fun. Storms can hurt you, and we have so much changing weather now. We don’t always hear new words but have been around a long time, like microburst, polar vortex, and global warming. Don’t they sound scary to you? Well, maybe not, but they are, thank you for taking the time to read my story’s I hope you enjoy them.
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The Duffel Bag Murders: A Jolene Mystery, Book 3
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Jolene was worried for it had been over a month since Agent Haines had called Jolene, so she was worried they didn’t want her to help them anymore. But Agent Haines and Agent Blay showed up at her door with three different cold cases. They wanted Jolene to chose which one they would work on. She picked the Duffle Bag murders. Skeleton remains buried on empty lots and vacant homes. There was very little to go on for the murders were never investigated by the local police. She was really excited they wanted her to work with them. The FBI made her a temporary Agent with a badge.
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Interesting Sayings & Argumentative Quotes Plus Spiritual Sayings and Quotes of the BIBLE
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The extra ordinary life of an extra ordinary bear
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99Richard Henry was born, raised and educated in New York City. After his service in the United States Marine Corps, which included a tour in Viet Nam, he returned to New York where he worked as a teacher and coordinator of Alternative High Schools.
In 1983, he moved to Oklahoma to serve as the Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution for four counties under the direction of the Oklahoma State Supreme Court. In 1990, he moved to California and set up a training program for formally incarcerated youth. In 1992, he served as the “Economic and Business Development Coordinator” for military base closures.
He published his first book of poetry, “Beyond the Skull” in 1976. His novel, “Of Days Gone By” was first published in 1990, followed
by his second novel, “Short Timer” in 2002. His third book, “The Extraordinary Life of an Extraordinary Bear” was published in 2023.
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Illusive Innocence
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Henry and Barby are neighbors, classmates, and more. Barby’s family is affluent and well-to-do, while Henry’s family leads a simple life on a small income. Feelings of ambivalence pervade young Henry’s adolescence as he becomes involved with both Barby and her sister. Brandy, Barby’s older sister, seduces Henry, and their secret sexual escapades entrap them in a love they try to ignore. As Henry struggles to endure the love of two sisters, college and careers carry them into adulthood. Then tragedy strikes, and the two families unite as they try to hold on to some kind of normalcy. These were the innocent years. The two teenagers sat and talked while warming themselves. “Henry, I hate you.” Henry looked at Barby bewildered.” What did I do now?” Barby reached out and pulled his hair over his head covering his face. “Your hair looks nicer than mine. I refuse to associate with a boy who has hair like that. It’s bad enough that it’s longer but it looks nicer too!” He looked at her rolling his eyes back and forth. “So wash it once in a while.” She slapped him across his shoulder with her open palm. “Ouch,” she said. “Now you are trying to hurt me.” Her face broke into a repressed grin. “Barby, you hit me, 1 didn’t hit you.” She pouted now, sticking out her bottom lip. “Do you think I’m pretty?” Henry put his hands over his face hiding his response. “I think Brandy is pretty,” he said in a low voice-almost a whisper.
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Just A Day dream
Price range: $3.99 through $15.50Two men from different culture once had everything one could ask for, were now broke and down. Murphy Wayne Bower was white and from the United States. From whiskey and women, Murphy knew he was at the bottom while setting in a cheap run down motel room in west Fort Worth that rented by the day, week or month. He was now living off of what he made working day labor, but his booze and cigarettes were costing him more than food and lodging. From a old Soldier of Fortune magazine his life was about to change. Omar Le Blanca was black and lived in Paris. First he lost his son to an American war, that’s when the hard, drinking and dope smoking started. Then if that was not enough he lost his wife and daughter they where in a bad car crash. That tore him apart sending him into a downward spiral. After seeing a young woman over dose and die by his side he realized he had to turn his life around. When they were brought together they found their lives depended on each other for what lay ahead. Murphy and his side kick Omar would get into some of the wildest adventures on and out of this world that required more than been buddy’s
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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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Lizla, The Daughter Of Isis
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Lizla, the Daughter of Isis, is a psychic princess whom we see evolving through her coming of age experiences which are both mystical and human – describing her own awakening in the flesh and in the Spirit.
The novel is set in the ancient history of the Middle East and projects in to it many timeless issues of spiritual awakening, budding romance, political intrigue and coming of age in difficult – if not chaotic circumstances. It is not a coincidence that this geographic area seems to sustain the same conflicts today, even if many of the cultural parameters have changed.
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My Son Phillipe
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Do you know that mothers never stop loving their kids? They did, do, and will put themselves in great danger to protect their children.
In the memoir My Son Phillipe, the author tells of her saga to rescue her little son, Phillipe, who became trapped in Jerusalem during the Palestinian uprising known as Antifada. Phillipe is one of the first Americans to experience terrorism and its strategies in action. He saw suicidal bombers, smelled the gas of the explosions, and was beaten up, dragged by his hair and starved. Due to tremendous humanitarian efforts of the United States and its allies, the special agent on the terrorism, Nadia Phillips, guided by the war veteran John Koss with the support from President Ronald Reagan and Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, rescued Phillipe from the iron grasp of war that devastated the nations involved.
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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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Treasure in the Sand
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Treasure in the Sand centers on Andrea Karr and the alarming series of death that being to happen after her husband James Wood’s fatal hit-and-run accident. Then Andrea receives a mysterious phone call from a stranger telling her to meet him on the beach. There, she discovers another dead body-her husband’s business colleague. Events unfurl rapidly as Andrea finds her shop vandalized and strangers suddenly speaking to her too boldly or throwing pop bottles at her, and her husband’s case detective’s peculiarly rude behavior. But most confusing of all, was when Andrea discovers her husband had been conducting some activities secretly from her, slowly to realize that she did not know him as she thought. Who really was James Woods, and why would anyone kill him? Andrea must find the answers before she becomes the next victim.
Treasures in the Sand packs up a tight coil of suspense that will spring a surprising conclusion for readers.