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A Fleeting Glimpse of Paradise
Price range: $3.99 through $45.99If ever there were an expert in the history, beauty, and overall best places to visit in Hawaii, Craig E. Burgess would be that person. His first visit to the islands was in 1974, the first of forty-one in total!
Providing a glimpse of Hawaiian culture, history, music, art, and daily lifestyles to the reader, A Fleeting Glimpse of Paradise was inspired by Craig’s time spent with special residents of Hawaii who shared a special “Spirit of Aloha” during his forty-one visits to the islands. His hope is that during your visit, you spend time with local residents of the islands and “talk story” with them, rather than simply going there for an “Aloha” shirt, flower lei, or some other souvenir.
This beautiful collection of anecdotes, inspired poems, and special stories you can’t get from travel books encourages readers to find ways to conserve the natural beauty of the islands-and to make the very best of their experience in this magical utopia.
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SEASONS AND SENSES: POETRY & OTHER THOUGHTS
Price range: $3.99 through $31.99SEASONS AND SENSES is a collection of poems written over the course of twenty-five years by Darlene Ewers. Her life experiences and reflections on various aspects of nature can be found in her poetry. Many of her thoughts are based on life experiences growing up on a family-owned Kansas farm with her two younger sisters and about how those events reaffirmed her Christian faith. This is her first work of poetry, although one of her poems was published in the form of a children’s book as THE SEA in 2009. It introduces children to their five senses by way of exploring the various aspects of the sea.
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Truly Pertinent Questions
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Author of three anthologies, In My Heart…On My Mind, The Root of My Affection, and Truly Pertinent Questions, Wayne D. Russell is an educator, researcher, poet, songwriter, and producer. He is known as pragmatist, his brusque yet seductive approach to writing challenges the reader to confront the esoteric.
Russell describes his poetry as political, provocative, and unapologetically blunt, taking the mundane and making it sublime. His writing assuages the readers to see the elegance in simplicity and to encourages them to confront the unknown.
This author invites the reader on a random walk through their constructed realities and further challenges them to explore its nebulous boundaries. He forces them to grapple with their own imagining; it is this quasi-spiritual exploration that gives credence to his body of work.
Wayne D. Russell is a Mathematics lecturer and researcher at Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York. He has written and presented academic papers, nationally and internationally, bringing innovation to Mathematics learning.
Russell is also the Chief Executive Officer of EduSols LLC, a New York based small business research entity. He is the Executive Director and principal songwriter of LyricSurge Records, a small independent recording label operating out of New York and Ft. Lauderdale.
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Guilt Factors: Mind Games & Thought Nots
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99A poetic & artistic adventure into the known and the unknown. This is one of the few poetry books written by Robert R. Blondin and the new edition published by Author Reputation Press.
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Rocks, Roots and Rattlesnakes (Revised Edition): A Geologist’s Journal: 150 Days of Discovery on the Appalachian Trail
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Rocks, Roots and Rattlesnakes is the captivating story of my five-month 2020 journey hiking the Appalachian Trail, as told from a geologist’s perspective. It is written as a series of daily logs originally transcribed from my daily journals, then embellished with additional details resulting from further recollection and research. All of the stories are true, and many contain elements of human interest relating to the many fascinating hikers I met on my adventure. Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of doing such a trek is encountering so many interesting people along the way. My goal in assembling this book was to provide entertainment and information for two main audiences First, for those who have hiked the trail, I included stories relating to places and things all of us have seen, along with frequent observations about those mysterious rocks beneath our feet. For those new to the trail, or who have never hiked long distances, this is a glimpse into the wonders and excitement out there to be discovered, as told by just one of the many thousands of past thru-hikers. The book contains three parts with 26 chapters and reads like a journal log, capturing my challenges and experiences each day on the trail. In addition to the 240 pages of text, there are over 100 beautiful color photos, 6 figures and 6 charts. Hopefully you will find this book both informative and entertaining, as you read and enjoy my tales of 150 days of discovery on the Appalachian Trail!
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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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Global Warming: The Problem
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99In 2007 Wilfred Candler wrote and self-published “Global Warming: The Answer” It advocated a tax of $250 per ton of coal. Unfortunately, it was not widely read. Now (2021), he wants to share his concern that the problems of Climate Change are vastly more multi-dimensional than we had any idea of 14 years ago. It is no longer a simple problem of using fossil fuels. Still, as Christopher Clugston has pointed out, we are rapidly exhausting the world’s supply of a wide range of non-renewable natural resources.
Moreover, fossil fuel companies are actively promoting the continued use of fossil fuels and even supporting environmental groups providing their objection to fossil fuels extends to nuclear. Meanwhile, the world population is almost eight times the level before our use of non-renewable resources, and per capita consumption is a thousand times what it was in 1750.
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Angel Cloud Poetry: Life’s Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99Originally I was born in Dearborn Michigan, but somehow at the age of two, I found myself in Beeville, Texas where I was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. P.O. Carlson who I might add are two of the finest people ever. Th ey gave me love and a wonderful Christian up-bringing. As I look back over the years gone by, I see their guiding ways that allowed me to learn a trade, raise my family and pursue a passion for writing poems and songs, singing and recording songs and forever giving praise to my Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST who truly made my life as it is today possible. My wife Linda and I want to thank all the good folks in Beeville that helped me along the way. My hope is that this story, poem and songs will give a sense of peace and hope to all that reads these words.
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Memories of Yesterday
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99This book is something I love to do which is photography. To visit different countries and be amazed with the beauty it offers. Photography freezes time and captures something that you can always look at and go back to those memories you had. My book is about the places I have been to where I had fun while taking pictures. I hope you enjoy every moment of my book. After all it brings back the memories of yesterday.
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My Heavenly Father’s Heart: Poems
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99This is a collection of poems based mostly on scripture. It talks about creation and of Jesus birth, His life on this earth, His death and resurrection from death. It speaks of God’s love and care for us and that He wants to be close to us and wants us in heaven with him.
The poems speak of nature and how all nature praises God. They tell of what it will be like at the end of time. They also give an idea of what it will be like in heaven and when the new earth is created.
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God Speaks to Me in Silence
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Where does poetry come from? For Janet Safford Cline, her poetry comes from a lifetime of loving words and putting them together to express her faith in Jesus Christ. A lifelong Christian, in her inspiring poetry collection, God Speaks to Me in Silence, she imagines biblical scenes and stories in the poems “Shepherds, “Temptations” and “Why” She gently pokes fun at Sundays-only Christians in “Dear Bishop” Janet lived many years in the Texas Panhandle and recalls it lovingly in her poem “In the Panhandle” and she ponders her life in several poems about her family and friends. For the last forty years, she has lived on the Texas Gulf Coast, complete with hurricanes and uncertain weather, all of which is reflected in God Speaks to Me in Silence. God speaks to me in silence, never bombast or demand. The Lord of Lords is patient, always holding out his hand. I seldom take the time to sit and wait for his soft word, But I know God’s there and waits for me whatever has occurred. It’s only when I quiet down I hear God’s wondrous voice. God’s always there to talk to me, but I have to make the choice. God speaks to me in silence, when my mind is rapt and still, And it’s up to me to listen then to hear his perfect will.
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Love Poems from Me to You
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99This is primarily a gift book meant to express the feelings of caring and loving on person has for another. It is also universal in that it does not narrow the audience to one age or gender. Also, some people will buy this book to read it for themselves. Several people have told me that they liked to read a few favorite verses before going to sleep at night.
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Navigating the Quartz Forest
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Each dreamlike lyric in Biman Roy’s Navigating the Quartz Forest is charmingly paired with a small handwritten note hastily jotted down on blue-lined notebook paper-artifacts from his daughter’s life outside the family home. “All through the evening, we keep talking nonessentials, / tiptoeing around secret tulips,” he says. These notes, like scraps of overheard conversations removed from their natural habitats, become the crystalline seeds of new poems. Side-by-side with each other, the poems act as translator for these somewhat oracular messages from an unknown world of teenage gossip and pop culture references, fitting the pieces together like a shattered mirror and filling in the jagged-edged gaps with the poet’s expansive imagination. In Navigating the Quartz Forest, Roy’s whimsical poems become a sparkling tribute from a father to his beloved daughter.
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The Nightmares of HIMM
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99The Nightmares of HIMM is formerly known as The Psych Ward. It tells stories of the dark and light of reality. The experience of the truth of how a poet live his life in fear most of his childhood life. The poems are the stories the madness and the mayhem within the mind of mine. His only comfort was writing to escape the reality of abuse, and these are the curious cases of the madman or is he. The poems are based on the nightmare of FD Ravenskraft’s sleepless night being afraid of the world. But he understands the true fear of society himself. The constant terror within the insomnia of this broken night after night he compose the horror of his sleepless experience and write them down to try to understand his critical thinking. His style of poetry is aspired and inspired by the writing of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe and writings of Charles Baudelaire, Lord Byron, Keats and Shelley and Mary Shelley. In the beginning, that was creation. And at the end of the journey, is Ravenskraft.
Welcome to the horrors of HIMM!
He is Madness and Mayhem!
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Spunky’s Special Friend
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Spunky’s Special Friend is the adorable story of a friendship between a puppy and a butterfly. It has a wonderful moral message that we need in our world today. It shows how differences can bring us together, not keep us apart.
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XI: A Collection of Poetry on Being Human
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99It is my hope to instill inspiration to my readers when they read this book. Themes in this book include the following: love and relationships, hardship, perseverance, grit, wonder, and humanity. Based on lived experiences, I share my insight in a way that made sense to me, through the written word of poetry and visualization. To commemorate a period of time where I was lost, I present XI: A Collection of Poetry on Being Human.
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A Conceptual Circus
Price range: $3.99 through $12.95TRANSFIGURATION I would expect nothing less. Carry your sword, my prophetess. Obstinate contumacy training. Find the objective that is more draining. More strenuous tasks will make you grow. Pain upon you I bestow. I’ll take it all and nothing less. I claim it back; I repossess. Tip the scale; Turn it over. Mark the unused; What’s leftover. The main part no longer exists; Despite the reduction, it persists. Continued movement; A quest for traction. An opposite and negative reaction. Hex induced metamorphosis; Reoccur once again for us. Physically and internally hanging. The process of rearranging. The alteration was so fitting. Now they’re pausing; They’re intermitting. In reaffirming the causation; Keep kempt, and maintain your original explanation. Wear our serpent prophetess; Prior to you was profitless. The soil was sown with no reaping. Tear our hearts out for your keeping. Beyond the boundaries of what is permitted. Reward me for the sins I’ve committed. My acts were bold; Caress my flesh. I give it all and nothing less. The facsimile will shudder. Express what it is I utter. Amidst psychos and others. Among psychos and others. Live with vigor; Efficiently transfigure. Disfigure; Change his figure. Make it so; Mark the torso. Undergo; Nock the torso. Let it grow; Open the torso. Let him know; Carve the torso. Mark the torso. Undergo; Nock the torso. Let it grow; Open the torso. Let him know;
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Pen in the Spirit One More Time
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Pen in the Spirit – One More Time, is a book of over 100 poems authored by a former corporate and media executive. The third in The Pen in the Spirit series is primarily devoted to spiritual themes like the other two.
Late to the author’s pen, he began writing poetry in his eighties and has written nearly 600 poems. Many of the rhymes are reflective of his own personal journey.
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Ticket To Heaven
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Heart wrenching, pulsating, boldly emphasizing the true words from above. The words crisply flow like wine wetting the pallet of life, giving voice to everyone, giving hope to all. Speaking, instilling to every heart and soul; mesmerize your heart with a Ticket To Heaven!
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Kwanzaa Songs for Everyone
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Kwanzaa Songs for Everyone is a unique collection of music and poetry that celebrates the spirit of Kwanzaa. Set to familiar holiday tunes, these songs have all new lyrics and are expressed with a distinctive cultural flavor. The word “Kwanzaa” comes from the Swahili language and means “the first fruits of harvest” It is celebrated during the seven day period from December 26 to January 1. Kwanzaa is a unique cultural event that pays homage to the past, present, and future of African Americans. It has no religious connotations nor does it attempt to replace or substitute for Christmas, or any religious beliefs or observations. The reason why Kwanzaa came to be is simple: Until the creation of Kwanzaa by Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga in 1966, African Americans did not have a specific occasion to universally celebrate our culture. Kwanzaa incorporates African heritage into the festivities of the winter solstice and holiday season. After over forty years, practice, Kwanzaa is now celebrated by millions of people thorough out America, the African Diaspora, and all over the world. The seven principles of Kwanzaa promote family values, cultural enlightenment, and the growth of a cooperative community spirit, collective economic opportunities, community strength, family cohesiveness and progressive individual expression. The ultimate goal of Kwanzaa is that the Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles, become a living part of the individual and community until they are practiced every day of the year.
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Holy Spirit Led Poetry
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The poems in this book were originally written in 2006 in connection with a sermon series called God’s Character and they were used as an outline for the sermons presented during the series. The poems can not only be used as sermon outlines, but also as an inspiration for the individual reader in their growth with the Lord. The poems are used to help one understand the depth of God’s Character and our response to him so we can grow in our relationship with Him. It is my desire that you will not only be blessed by this book but also that this book will be able to help the reader grow as Holy Spirit Led Poetry leads you into a new dimension of who God is to you so you can know Him today in a new and living way, so the Holy Spirit can invade your life with His presence!
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Love, Faith & Bullets: My Unspoken Sermon
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Love, Faith, & Bullets
This is a beautiful collection of poems written over the span of a decade. It is a timeless tale of love & heartache while Nate was discovering his faith and what it meant to be in the 21st Century America military. He masterfully colors the emotional toils of his heart onto every page.
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My Ancestor’s Path Is My Future Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This book is intended to tell the story, both in words and in pictures, by enabling my audience to envision my journey and ancestor’s path unfolded through my vey own eyes, supported by genealogy, research, interview, and my dream visions. Take a journey with me and them down the path to spiritual freedom. This was rehearsed and written for seventeen years by the little girl Anajat jaguar who was gifted with keen sight like the beautiful but noble and loyal jaguar, my spirit animal. In addition, my book is intended for the restoration of the soul in all the essence of life. People must continue to believe in a higher calling to obtain inner peace with harmonious love for creation and all inhabitants in our society.
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Letters Of Life: Whispers, Secrets, & Lies
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Letters of Life is a collection of perceptive, achingly honest poems that offer a decisive view which makes no apologies. These verses attempt to simplify rather than complicate the common ills which plague humanity. Often providing insight into life’s often messy entanglements.
These poems are divided into three separate sections. In “Whispers” we examine those things that people speak softly about under breath. The poems in “Secrets” reflect a pool of applied wisdom and answers to personal questions. And “Lies” deals with rumors, half-truths, and false impressions. Tying all the poems together is an undercurrent of truth.
“For in truth, there is love, in love, there is understanding. In understanding, there is forgiveness.”
In this stunning collection, whispers will cease; secrets will be revealed; and lies will manifest-but the truth will remain evident throughout.
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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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Rhymes in Me
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99A homo-sapient with ORD – Obsessive Rhyming Disorder, Giridhar was born in a city named Dharwad, Karnataka- India, Giridhar always wondered if it’s something about cities that makes Art stick in the air & gives wings to those seeking beyond the obvious, The city of Dharwad has a history with the literary kind. But then Giridhar found his true love affair with words was through his mother who held a Masters in Arts & must have fed me a handful of her thoughts, even before he made an entry into the world. Giridhar Jaded led a life of adherence until the age of 35 (did someone say mid-life?) before realizing that the voices in his head wanted an outlet ever so badly. When the floodgates opened, Giridhar found it impossible to hold the words that had started a silent revolution inside until then and a book of poetry ensued in a mere 40 days. Giridhar has a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering & also an MBA in Information Technology. He is married to Rachna Sahu and lives in Dallas, Texas. Giridhar has sailed through living the corporate life for 13+ years & currently works as a senior QA manager in an IT company. Giridhar believes that he could live the rest of his life speaking poetically if he tried, that is. There is a camaraderie that Giridhar feels in his mind where the thoughts are constantly in a state of overflow. Besides his passion in writing, Giridhar loves to travel, cannot imagine a day without music & has a newfound vigor to be on the fitness wagon even though he slips up every now and then.
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Intruder: A Horrifying, Poetic Tale
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Experience a fast-paced, rhymed adventure: A modern wizard’s quest for immortality. Intruder, a 5-star, gripping, horrifying, poetic tale of betrayal and revenge is a journey deep into greed and evil.
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Miss Manhattan
$9.99Miss Manhattan truly captures the richness of diversity and the simultaneity of life happening in New York. The text is rich, tumbling, and layered, yet never chaotic as the sensations of people, cars, birds, flowers, and all forms of city life cascading around the speaker’s (and reader’s) attention. This unique collection cleverly displays the inherent resonance of life in the city, in a beautiful, joyful, and sometimes riotous, but always with a sense of life and creative force, not destruction or entropy. These poems live in the individual body, even as they describe an external and collective experience.
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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.
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