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This started out as a journal for personal healing; with the hope that maybe someday it would help someone else going through a similar crisis. When my husband was first diagnosed, hearing that someone had Pancreatic Cancer was an uncommon diagnosis. Now it seems as though every time you turn around...

Five Notes of the Raga is about Indian music and Indian History. This short story that gives the book its name is an imagined encounter between two great personages of the sixteenth century Indian Bhakti movement: the blind musician Surdas and the great Mughal Emperor Akbar. There follows five musical...

Ive been home for eight years. (What a mistake I made. You have no idea.) I have had a stroke sometime ago. But thanks to Louise, my wife (I got married in 2007), I am coming back to myself, writing this book about my experience, and getting better all the time. I have no inhibitions about writing...

Welcome to GOAL: Gifted.on.All.Levels. This is my third novel. I lay it all out on the table. In this book, you will see my spiritual side, my freaky side, my emotional side, and my funny side. Oh, and I cant forgetmy love side. This is what youll get out of this book: lots of different personalities....

In my last few days of life, I began to understand the Great Keeper of this earth was calling me home. Though sick and not knowing what my real illness was at the time, I began reflecting on my past experiences. As I backed out of the trailer for the last time on this earth, taking two mouthfuls of...

I want to thank my Mother and Father for engraining in me the values I have always tried to live by. Honesty, Truth, and to help others when they need help. My brothers and sister for all of the memories I have of growing up in what I think were the best of times. The many friends I had at that time...

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THE REASON FOR PSYCHO BOULEVARD There had to be something beyond Apocalypse (Maybe). The author Has searched the bowels (?) of his soul trying to find what makes him Actually tick. Apocalypse taps into the anger and the lust. Psycho Boulevard is the dregs of the barrel. These are the things We think,...

To Bear Witness is a series of essays plus other material having to do mainly with persons no longer living who have left an indelible imprint on the life of the writer, though he has known most of themonly through their work. They include among others Martha Graham, Ruth Draper, Isadora Duncan, Louis...

The Pawnee War was a series of skirmishes and confrontations between white settlers, Nebraska Organized Militia, and a detachment of U.S. Army dragoons in the early summer of 1859. The Nebraska Militias march up the Elkhorn River Valley and parlay with the Pawnee on a windswept hill near the present...

A poetry book inspired by Shel Silverstein and dedicated to Shel Silverstein, Trick Question will remind you of the well-known author's quirky writing style. The lighthearted poems and illustrations will amuse and entertain all ages. No matter how far-fetched or off the wall, there is something for...

America would be very different if William Harding Jackson (1901 1971) had not put his indelible stamp on the US government as OSS / War Department chief of secret intelligence in World War II Europe, cofounder of todays Central Intelligence Agency, and his work as Eisenhowers national security adviser....

Pirouettes and Passions Growing up behind the Curtain By Mia Nadasi This memoir is for readers interested in ballet and theatre and life of the privileged artists behind the ex- Iron Curtain. It fills a gap about a period and Hungarys artistic life not much written about in English. My parents were...

This book is written straight from Dale Labangs heart, and the intention is that it would open the eyes of many with regard to the LGBTQ lifestyle. It is a story about his experiences growing up as a gay man and also about how he dealt with challenging circumstances. It is a book about love and healing...