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The story behind the creation of the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade. Corporate politics, resistance, lies, and subterfuge almost closed this event before it opened. In this exposé of a famous place at a turbulent time, we look behind the façade at the making of a uniquely successful parade that has been viewed for four decades by a hundred million people. This is how the magic happened, and it wasn’t always charming, but the distractions only crystallized the spirit and determination of those who came together to build something truly extraordinary.

The Book of Ruth is about two sisters, Ruth Matilda Clarkson and Cora Undine Lasciter, who survive the trials of a challenging childhood and a demanding father in 1940s America and then find themselves swept up in the powerful currents of the men who come into their lives. It’s an uplifting survival story of two very different women connected by the unbreakable bond of sisterly love, unending faith, and the innocent truth and unfiltered love of a child who brings them back together, and represents the possibility of love, forgiveness, and ultimate redemption.

This story points to human nature; its seeming repetitive side relative to the use of violence and bad behavior. Change appears through centuries out of reach despite the presence of good people. In this story, a solid navy father-daughter family crime war is the path taken often.

The Spirit-filled life is a lifelong adventure into the depths of God's Love. Jesus is the Baptizer with the Holy Spirit, desiring to inundate everyone who comes to Him with Living Water from His Well, which never runs dry. He is waiting at the Well for anyone who will come, just as He waited when he met the Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well many years ago here on Earth. He said to her, "Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."

David, who lives outside Philadelphia, receives a call from his best friend's doctor in California. Gordon is suffering major organ failure and is on the brink of death! Gordon, an unmarried quadriplegic, has been in a wheelchair since he was twenty-two. His life is one of isolation, fear, and relative silence, except when David visits with stories of the world.

It’s never too late, right? Did someone say it couldn’t be done? At age seventy-five, with no email, no Wi-Fi or computer, and only pencil and paper as his tools of the trade, from his one-bedroom apartment in Troy, New York, Mīchol started creating poems. Modern Poems seemed to take shape one poem at a time. Mīchol let his creativity flow as he crafted poems about holidays, seasons, and other themes. Putting his heart and mind to work, he discovered a poet living inside him, screaming to come out.

Welcome to Eggers Cove, a small quiet town not unlike many other small towns in America. Summer is ending, making way for the brisk fall. The people of the cove are not prepared for the horrors about to consume their peaceful lives. The tragedies and bodies are adding up. Time is running out. The sheriff must rely on her friends to save not only the town but also themselves.

Being an outlaw for many years, I took fact and fiction and mixed it up...and here you go.

It has been centuries since humans and dragons have mixed, and Prince Trann has heard all the rumors, or so he thought. When war threatens his beloved Emberi, an unexpected offer is extended from the dragons. However, when Trann meets the liaison leader, Ryth, things do not go the way he planned. Ryth's proud and sarcastic approach to the alliance challenges everything Trann knows about the strange beasts. The situation becomes even more complex when the two become permanently bonded. Can these two resolve their differences and find balance, or are they going to drown in this dragon's bond?

The Last Shades of Scarlet: Wolves of Laconia is the tale of a young Spartan, Adronikos, and his mentor, Gylippus, during the Peloponnesian War. In youth, Adronikos is formally educated in the arts of hoplite warfare, survival, and assassination. Informally, he learns love from a childhood companion. Yet she is not Spartan, and his feelings for her are becoming dangerous. While he navigates this forbidden affair, Greece begins its steady descent back into chaos.

This entire book was written as a result of losing my eighteen-year old son in a car accident. He was driving in a caravan of five cars going to a car show. He was driving too fast on a turnpike in Oklahoma in the rain when his car hydroplaned, spun around backward, and slid under the front of a wrecker on the side of the highway. The wrecker and a highway patrol officer were there as a result of another car that had hydroplaned in the same area prior to my son.

Roscoe started playing in a boy band at age 15. He met a fan, and after a one-night stand, Roscoe left with the band. She, however, had to start a nine-month journey of motherhood, but a run-in with cancer ended her life.

When 15-year-old Agatha's mother falls gravely ill, she is shipped off to the coast of Maine to live with her aunt, Edith Philipa Gordan, an eccentric writer who hasn't finished a novel in decades and paints birds obsessively. What begins as a dull summer immediately takes a turn toward adventure with the arrival of Edie's old beau, Horatio Macleay, and his handsome nephew. With WWII looming on the horizon, Agatha and her new group of friends race against time and across continents to complete their mission before it is too late.

This is a book for everyone. As a parent, grandparent, teen, or adult, you will find one, perhaps many, of the characters in New Neighbors to be like yourself in many ways. As the story progresses, the diverse characters display their traits and emotions. While subtle in the book, they become recognizable no matter your state in life—as a teenager, parent, or a best friend—as the story progresses. Discovering yourself in New Neighbors is a part of the enjoyment of listening as well as recalling memories from your past.

In this book you, will find a mixture of short stories. Whether you have only a few minutes or a few hours, there is something here for you. I invite you to join me for stories of adventure to witness a bodyguard who is tired of her profession and seeks a way out, two hikers make a discovery that challenges their friendship.

Rosie's story bleeds into this realistic fiction novel, written from the perspective of a girl growing up in a world that never taught her how to stop and breathe. Drawn from journal entries, lost art, and thoughts shaped by an ego she's learning to face but not yet ready to love. Capturing the shameful and painful moments of adolescence, this book carries the weight of joy, trauma, rebellion, exhaustion, and the slow unfolding of awakening.

When Harrison and One-Arm Nettles set out to investigate a missing woman, they have no idea they’ll stumble upon a conspiracy that could shake Mussolini’s regime. Hidden tunnels and restless ghosts point the way—but can Davenport and Nettles decode the clues before it’s too late?

Coming from a dysfunctional family, and then losing his best friend in combat, TJ had no hope for the future. He neither wanted nor needed any friends- the loss was too painful. His depression continued until he crossed paths with an unlikely canine, facing turmoil of its own. Would an improbable intersection of two lives make a difference for one or both?

Ryan Andrews' life was on the American road to success. A successful marriage to his college sweetheart and the thought of moving the family forward by having a child is on the horizon. When a night of fun and celebration turns into chaos, Ryan's life seems to take a major stall. His actions put a strain on the marriage, and when you include a sporadic haunting, that continues to get worse. His life is seemingly spiraling out of control.

This is the story of a young man from a hardworking family given every benefit and expected in return to serve the country and his family by being an economic success. He questioned the premises on which these expectations were grounded, and he was a seeker of the transcendent. His experience of the impact of war and of the mind-altering experience of psychedelics render sometimes surreal but accurate echoes of the times and in a hauntingly romantic drama.