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This book is a collection of poetry that explores pain, love, and growth through the different phases of the moon: the new, the waxing, the full, and the waning. Each phase takes the listener through the stages of their own life, sparking an inner conversation. Each poem carries within it its own universe and its own whispers to the listener. It is simply planting the seedling of a constellation within all of those willing to taste the moonlight.

Dan Greenberg was a promising medical student who was derailed by Catherine - a bizarre, schizophrenic patient whose delusions about patients in danger at hospitals all around Chicago were startlingly specific. Drawn by both curiosity and compassion, Dan investigates, discovering that they were exactly where Catherine said they would be. Who are these people? Why are they in danger? Are they connected with each other? He will learn just how far powerful people will go to stay in control, and the high price of the truth.

A tale spun around the true-life memories of the author’s moving and cathartic journey as she chronicles her mother Cynthia’s illicit affair with Laurence, her best friend’s husband. In painful, but sometimes humorous recollection, she gives an account of the lovers' 3000-mile desperate run with Laurence’s abducted twin sons, Cynthia’s two children, and their love child.

It’s 1895 and 13-year-old Rory Mac, a poor, fatherless newsboy for Pulitzer’s New York World, needs a break. He gets one when Hamilton “Ton” Fish, member of the storied Fish family and star athlete at Columbia University, asks him to work his corner for an underground boxing match at McSorley’s Alehouse, setting in motion an unexpected but inspiring friendship.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so, too! Listen to Poetry, Paintings and Short Stories and enjoy poems about love and nature by the author who is also an exhibited artist. 

With Hope Johnson as connection to culture of privilege, David Taylor develops into top salesman at Fashion on Fremont family boutique replacing menswear manager she fired unbeknownst to father. After work one night drinking at the bar in Golden Nugget Casino, in conversation with Hope, he admits he writes poetry. She laughs it off teasing him about being a working class guy - aircraft mechanic, writing poetry. When the two of them are having dinner with dad, Rob, and Hopes play mom, Vanessa who lives in Long Beach, she jokingly brings it up.

This collection of short stories, primarily set in Aus. - Australia in a parallel universe - with a focus on mental illness, are based on the author's experiences with mental illness, specifically paranoid schizophrenia.

How can you see a dead person alive after they're dead? That's just what you'll find out in The Real Ghost. Thrills. Suspense. Mystery. Quirky and fun! Dead people will never look the same to you again! 

This unique audiobook is about the recognition, understanding, and pursuit of truth by a critique of its opposites in seven forms of lying, cheating, denial, delusion, deception, pretension, and withholding. The message is framed metaphorically by describing a central Texas town near where I live, "Realville". Our trip here to Realville allows us to see a kaleidoscopic view of how to achieve truthfulness as we move along the four streets surrounding the central courthouse square: Integrity Boulevard, Face It Street, Openness Way, and Aw-shucks Road.

A paralyzing prescription is recipe for creating one man's art. Lucifer is his name, creating masterpieces and autographing the dead is his twisted protocol. Homicide Detective Brian Jeffers is sent to the scene of a triple murder where Lucifer has left a cryptic message for all to see. What Detective Jeffers uncovers tells him Lucifer is not only killing, but he's also using a drug to render his victims' defenseless.

Eighteen-year-old Darren Robertson is spending his senior year at the top of the social hierarchy with best friends Dex and Dimitri. He has a great car, great friends, popularity, and is co-captain of the basketball and soccer teams. Everything a high school senior boy could want. Or is it? Sam Vanwaylen, awkward, shy, quiet, and not in the dating scene, has deemed him invisible it seems. Why is it when she's around, Darren turns from being suave and confident into a nervous wreck?

The Legion would then be deserted on a planet scarcely able to support them and left for the Reptilians to annihilate completely. The new Prime Minister, who had plotted the whole thing, had dangerously underestimated the Legion, and the Legion of the Damned would not die.

Shut off from the world, and dealing with her father s recent ALS diagnosis, Jessica is determined to make every moment with her father count! Struggling with the decision to either let her father know about the diagnosis or carry the weight of it on her own, Jessica decides to focus on making memories. Yet the memories within this new reality overtake the ones from before as she finds herself staring down the barrel of her wedding that she s no longer certain should take place.

 And Eve Said Yes: Seven Stories and a Novella presents the listener with a compelling assortment of characters wrestling with life challenges against the backdrop of various world religions.  

Pinnacle Solutions is a duology (Green X-9467 and Red X-9467) that takes you into the world of Elliot Syzer. He has been a victim of cyberstalking: An obsessed, anonymous stalker has falsifying, deceptive messages to Elliot’s girlfriend to shatter his credibility as a person. Desperate for answers, Elliot decides to take action and recruits help to catch the stalker. But what will it cost him?

De.lu.sion.al is the story of Sara Jane Sullivan, an attractive woman in her late 20s with a lifelong history of mental illness. Diagnosed as delusional, Sara's story is compelling as she survives incarcerations in mental institutions and prison for stalking a very powerful political talk show host, Larry Mitchell. Larry is known in the business for sexual preying on young interns and the disenfranchised. After meeting Larry at a park in Connecticut, and a brief affair, Sara's life begins its out of control spiraling as she is thrown into the world of the evils of celebrity.

For Gloria Hytner, the only good thing about tiring of motherhood is that it stings less to think of herself as a total failure. She has managed to raise a son just intelligent and sensitive enough to become an easy target for the neighborhood bully. David seeks solace from her, but Gloria finds her reserves of empathy running low. Having been bullied her entire life - first by her mother and later by other neighborhood moms who seem to mercilessly flaunt the joy they take in raising their own children - Gloria's acerbic wit is all she has to offer him in the way of a defense.

This audiobook of poetry, by Hans De Cuyper, zooms in and out of extremely raw, needing, and wanting feelings, in an elegant and eloquent style, all his own. In the near distance we hear his voice, which has been shaped, in patches by great masters of writing, that have inspired him - musically too. The dark and light reflections, old and new mystical reverences and song sung always in his voice, with always the delicateness of talking directly as well as with insight and respect to the listener.

Frightened by a nightmare, pampered princess Thalassai awakens to real danger: She has been kidnapped. Fear grows to terror when she realizes her captors will use her as a pawn to gain Poseidons aid for their valley. Aided by an ancient mother goddess, will she find strength to stand up to this fate? When Thalassai's brother Melanion races to rescue her, he meets servants of the mother goddess. Their aid speeds him north, but when he is slowed by bandits he must risk a dangerous tunnel under the mountain range. Will he be in time?

This is the story of a female detective who works for a small agency outside Virginia Beach. Charlotte Cavanaugh survived a difficult upbringing and endured a very unconventional introduction to sex, which taints all of her personal relationships with men. She has a specific need that no man has been able to deliver, and she has all but given up hope of ever having this need met until now. Charlotte, Charlie, is promoted to Sergeant and assigned to Major Crimes when a string of homicides begins to rock the sleepy suburb of Landon.