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An eloquently written epic sure to please. Some Senses, leads with a beautiful compilation of poetry that transitions into a deeply layered novelette; in which, Lucien raises an army to save his wife from the clutch of his long ago friend, Balenquist. He sacrifices much to take back what is rightfully his. Balenquist, who is still blinded with jealousy and hate, is bound with the chains of hell and must find his way out of the perpetual prison of sin. In order to be released from the restraints affixed his soul, he must face his greatest challenge. He must conquer and write a name upon his fear. Will Balenquist be able to let go of his delusion? Or, will he be consumed by the all-encompassing fire?

This new collection of poems is the next 100 in the Warrior's Peace Trilogy (Warrior's Peace 2). Life continues on this road that allows us to travel both in light and dark. This endeavor has provided the continuing motivational drive that allowed his first book (Warrior's Peace) to be published in 2015 and to finish the final touches on this book (Warrior's Peace 2) in 2016. These two will place over 300 personal poems on the world market in both digital and paperback formats. The third iteration in the trilogy will additionally include short stories written over the past twenty years for your consideration and hopefully enjoyment. Again readers will experience the dark and brooding starts down his rabbit holes of life. In his opinion success is maybe more gauged by an individual's mental ability to confront daily adversity, then by actual participating in just physical interactions. Always remember to follow the bread crumbs always he left along the paths that light the way back to what has been for him a relatively happy daily existence. Poetry is a winding road through many times the diversity experienced and in tis author's case is never a straight line to anywhere. Just enjoy the exploration of the mental curves that appear going about anywhere at any time. That is why the conclusions should never seem to ever be along the same exact course. Welcome back to this peace of a many times turbulent mind.

An End of Speaking offers readers 9 short stories all connected by their biblical origins. The first five stories are drawn from the Hebrew Bible (or the Old Testament as it is sometimes known) and the last four are inspired by the characters and historical flow of the New Testament. Jesus comes on the scene. The first five stories focus on God as Yahweh, the wily rascally trickster God of dust and dirt that we see in the Hebrew Bible. Here we see Yahweh with Moses, his first leader, in the title story "An End of Speaking" - the moment when Yahweh leaves his friend outside to die alone as Yahweh walks with His people into the Promised Land. We also watch as Yahweh plays with his first family and we hear him banish one of his first grandkids, Cain, to meet the Mayor of Nod. The Mayor is his own story, to be sure. We observe through the eyes of Eyman as Yahweh conducts his business affairs on the daily with the other gods of the other worlds. In "Roll a Great Stone to Me Today" a brave enough reader is given a searing allegory of why men love kings, and do not - how unbalanced are the walls of our wants. How true that god did not speak, god speaks, as Emerson once wrote. The author of this book quite clearly believes this is truth. The second half of the book allows Jesus to be as human as he seemed to believe he was. We see Jesus with the woman at the well and he sees her as a woman and she sees him as a man, and everyone is nervous because everyone believes they want to be pure. In "Acts on an Old Saw" the book waves at itself, living forwards and understanding backwards, in the form of a play that takes place in the 3rd heaven, which also might be a clever way to say it takes place in the mind of the Son of the Ancient of Days. An End of Speaking leaves us on the island of Patmos with John of the Apocalypse. John is alone, heat struck, and losing grip with what is and what was and what is to come. Are not we all? And after traveling the paths of th

This is more than just a book of short stories. It's an assemblage of writing styles, including realistic fiction and non-fiction, poems, interviews, letters of complaint, even a play, and more. It's written by an attention-to-detail author who has a varied reading appetite. Currently Mr. Haviland is co-reading Katherine Applegate's book, Crenshaw, about a 10-year old boy named Jackson and his imaginary, super-sized cat friend, Crenshaw, and Peeling the Onion, a much more highbrow, literary memoir by Günter Grass. Talk about two ends of the spectrum! A 4th grader at heart, you will enjoy Mr. Haviland's storytelling abilities. You won't want to put this book down, but when life intervenes and you have to let go of it, you'll want to get back to it ASAP.

LOUEY LEVY'S GREATEST CATCHRevised Editionby Genie AbramsIt's 1959 in the little city of Newburgh, New York, and all 11-year-old Louisa ("Louey") Levy wants to do is listen to rock 'n roll and play baseball with her big brother and their pals. It's an idyllic, small-town life -- until that life starts to crumble around her. In the space of just a few months, Louey's hero Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash; her mother dies; and her father, Newburgh's city manager, suffers a stroke as he prepares for the city's 250th anniversary celebration. When she finds her best friend's teenage sister bleeding in an alley, Louey must quickly -- and painfully -- learn the meaning of loyalty and courage in the midst of loss. In the tradition of "Dirty Dancing" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," this touching novel is filled with endearing, eccentric characters, a great deal of humor, and an exploration of Jewish and American values -- all of which Louey needs to pull her through.If the characters and events depicted in this novel set in the late 1950s and early 1960s seem astonishingly real, it could be because, as Abrams writes in her epigram: "In a sense, this is all true."Judges for The Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards -- in which "Louey Levy's Greatest Catch" won five out of a possible five stars -- said you'll know you're "in for a treat from the first page" and feel as if you know the Levy family because "Louey is as real as the kid next door." The judges raved, "The author's voice is unique" and, "as in E L. Doctorow's books, Louey's life is affected directly by what happens historically. Buddy Holly, Jackie Robinson, laws against abortion, and discrimination against blacks all play a part ,,, What a poignant, heartfelt story!"

A Brother with a tainted past. A Lord seeking a legacy for his daughters. A Queen in exile from her ancestral home. For decades, the Lords and Ladies in the land of Tamaris have known peace among their Houses, unlike the Outlanders who face death every day outside the kingdom's borders. But when the King, consumed by power, turns against the beloved Queen, she is forced into hiding, and plots brew among the Houses. The threads of peace begin to unravel. From a Lord's daughters facing the subordinations of womanhood, to the outcast who flees to the Coven of Sacred Sisters for redemption, to the boy in the mines who prefers darkness and worms to the Lightlands, the lives of the people of Tamaris are unknowingly tied to their Queen's fate. Only the Witch knows to what end their loyalty leads them. They must navigate political ambitions, social expectations, the complexities of relationship, and traitor's plots to survive in the midst of the building war. But many will forget that the worst peril often comes from those closest to home. SEED OF TAMARIS is an epic fantasy brimming with magik, desire, and wickedness.

The book opens with J'nell informing the reader of the flaws of her hometown in Mississippi. From there she leads the read to New Orleans and her freshman year at Tulane University. The next two chapter's deal with her, and her lover, Gavin, discovering their parents are participants in the sexual revolution of the late 60's. At home for the 4th of July, her life is changed by the murder of a family friend. This murder helps her stand up to her father and choose the law as a career, rather than engineering. Another revelation is the discovery of George's gay relationship with the deceased. She learns her mother is pregnant, and there is a question as to which man is the baby's biological father. Her father, James, or Judge Gavin Davenport, II, who is her lover's father. Her parents and the Davenports have been involved in a swapping relationship since 1968, thus either man could be the father. Her own father assures her he is the only father the baby will have. J'nell realizes the whole sordid affair is turning into a nightmare. She is given the task of informing George of the death of his lover, Julius. It is on that fateful day, when she meets George Allen at the French Market Restaurant, she first sees Dolph Johnson, an older mysterious man, who will drift in and out of her life for the next seven years. When she and George Allen travel home for Julius' funeral, the two find themselves in a situation they could never, in a million years, imagine. It would take her mother's intervention to make her realize what an impossible situation it is. Fast forward to 1970 and the birth of her baby brother, James Joseph Montalvo, II, to be known as JoJo. The next stop is graduation from Tulane School of Law for her, Gavin and George Allen. At their graduation party she learns George will be leaving for an extended tour of Europe. The most devastating news is her lover, Gavin, will be moving to Washington, DC to become the clerk for the Chief Justice of the

No More Tears tells the story of a young girl''s aspiration to be a movie star, and what her life becomes in the years after she first leaves her home in New Jersey to travel to Hollywood. Candace Donato lives in many places; Perth Amboy. New York, Century City, Los Angeles. Her "family" is all she lives for.

The Spirit of America is dying a slow death. Programed by destructive philosophies. Bludgeoned by Political Correctness. Brainwashed by lies. Conned by politicians. Betrayed by traitors. Forced to accept a new religion in the public square. Whose god is the state. Whose priests are self-anointed elites. Whose followers are "Progressives." Whose dupes are the "idiot masses." Whose bible is "Rules for Radicals." Whose proselytizers are media reporters. Whose statement of faith is simple. They believe the world is evil and needs to be changed. No system has worked. Therefore all systems need to be torn down, especially America and Western culture and replaced by a utopian dream run by elites who take control for "the common good" to save the world. But it is an illusion on the way to suicide. Find out why in this perceptive book.

Jamie Leeds has been forced to flee the only home he has ever known...Earth. Jamie and his mother have returned to his mother's home, Aurellius-a world where dragons, dwarves, elves, and other so-called mythological creatures actually exist. It is a world created by the leader of the Dragons, Dragonith, and his mate, Gwenith. Even though life on Aurellius is not the ideal that Dragonith and Gwenith had envisioned, it is still far better than Earth, where the nine races have wreaked havoc and exploited Earth's people. But now a movement, led by a group called The Sisterhood, would seize the powerful "Dragon's Heart" in order to gain total control of Aurellius. Jamie is unwittingly being drawn into this struggle, with his very life at stake. In order to survive, he must learn many skills that he can only learn in Stonebriar Academy. However, competition to enter Stonebriar Academy is grueling, and only one hundred students will be granted admission. And gaining admission is Jamie's only hope if he is to survive against the Sisterhood. Jamie desperately wants to be admitted to Stonebriar, not only to give himself a fighting chance against the Sisterhood but also so that he might learn something that a few short months ago he didn't even know existed-how to fly with a Dragon.

When Safe Havens Turn Deadly... Detective Dana Blades is at a joyful turning point in his life. He's about to marry Clare, the love of his life. He welcomes her two young boys into his heart, and is ready to adopt them and create a true family. And that's why he is increasingly sensitive to the dark aspects of his current work, investigating cases of children missing from the Boston area. Someone is inexplicably kidnapping these children...to keep them safe. As Blades delves into the details of the children's lives, he finds that they have been taken from abusive parents and guardians. Blades knows that the system fails children in vulnerable circumstances-that abusive families are often given too many chances, with tragic results. He's frustrated by the pain and suffering inflicted on the most powerless and innocent citizens whom he has sworn to protect. However, he has also sworn to uphold the law, and when he finds the mastermind behind the kidnappings, he must struggle with a terrible decision: should he do the "right thing" as a police officer, or honor his ethics as a father who wants to see all children safe? Compelling, richly characterized, and thought-provoking, this superb sequel to Hurting Girls is a gripping crime thriller that will open your eyes to the realities of the dark underworld of children at the mercy of social service agencies.

This book is a tool to help readers become more aware of the Divine intervention of the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. It will create a tangible evidence of the presence of Jesus and how He impacts life - how He provides; protects; loves and forgives you every day! If this book is used as it is intended, relationships with Jesus will grow closer. People will have personal evidence of His provision. When trials and temptations to doubt, come (and they will), the physical evidence of the power of the Holy Spirit will equip people to be strong in faith and resist the temptations of the evil one. This book could help people take their walk with the Holy Spirit to a higher level. Awareness empowers people to perform with confidence.

Riveting, compelling, and intriguing--just some of the words that have been used to describe this book. Arabella has a powerful, moving story to tell, and she tells it with conviction. It is a story of challenges, trials and incredible sorrows. A story of endurance, perseverance and remarkable triumphs. It is an immigrant's story and one that transcends race and culture and dispels stereotypes. The author offers her readers a lot to consider and provides a wealth of information about events that were strange, frightening, sad, difficult, unexplainable, fishy, and also just plain great. She presents the material in a way that audiences will enjoy reading about and learning from. Arabella reels us into her world and takes us back in time as she retraces her life. We see the aspirations, disappointments and heartache of a young girl growing up in Colombia. We are with her when she arrives in the United States and struggles to overcome barriers and adjust to life in a strange land. She saves a life and impacts another. She experiences hardship and tragedies, yet in her own way she is able to attain joy in her life. Specific, sensory details in the stories Arabella tells, help us to imagine not only the basic facts of each circumstance, but what it felt like to be in each situation: what she saw, what she heard, what she touched, what she smelled, what she tasted, what she thought, what she felt. These details are so heartwarming and easy to picture, they really draw a reader into the story. Throughout the book, the narrative voice is strong, familiar, and easy to follow. This is an excellent piece which flows nicely, and just about anyone can understand and benefit from this story. It should be well received by a wide audience. To gauge interest, the author let avid readers read the manuscript. She also gave excerpts to occasional readers and others who have not read a book in years. Here are some comments: "I stayed up all night with this book knowing that I would be late for work the next day. I simply couldn't put it down.¬¬" Sara L - Tucson, AZ "I was so engrossed in the story I missed my stop and didn't realize it till I was four stations away." - Janelle P. Rockville, MD. "I have never seen members of our book club group so animated. Arabelle took us places and stirred up conversations about stereotypes, other cultures and current affairs. For the first time ever, we are planning to travel together and we are going to Colombia! We want to see the mountains and beaches and taste the fruits and vegetables that Arabelle so proudly described. - Ruth Z. Long Island, NY "Halfway through the book, I deliberately slowed down so I would not get to the end too soon. This book evoked deep emotions in me. I laughed, I cried, I felt her pain and sorrow. Above all she has inspired me to face life head on. Great book!" Joanne H, New Jersey. "I forgot how much fun reading could be, this book is riveting" Gordon D - Silver Spring, MD "The last time I read a book, I was in college and that was 20 years ago. I read a few pages of this book and I am eager to read the rest of the story. Seth A. - Minneapolis, MN "I don't even read, but you just sold a copy, with many more sales to come! Peter F. - Seattle Washington

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