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1) House Beat
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House Beat. There's no place like home--except if the house doesn't want you there!
A Connecticut family living in a small apartment in Oaks, Pennsylvania, moves into an old semi-colonial house in Royersford, PA., needing a tremendous amount of work located about ten miles from King of Prussia. The Monahan family, Elizabeth, Kyle, and their children, Eleanor and Henry. This is the story of how their lives changed. From the outside, the house is...
2) Crust Heaven
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“Crust Heaven” is a retrospect, looking back from an adult's perspective to a nine-year-old's visions of the world surrounding him. Travel back in your mind to a time before computers, before cell phones, even before most homes had televisions. Back when life was simpler.
My grandson Joey had just turned nine years old. One day he said to me, “You know, Papa... You cook so good you should open up a restaurant!” “I would if I could,” I...
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In February 1968, Andy Warhol coined the phrase "fifteen minutes of fame." His actual statement is slightly different. He said, "In the future, everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes."
This is not about Andy Warhol, nor is it about fame. It is about fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes--Not a very long amount of time by any standard. However, while it is a very brief period to some, it can seem like an eternity to others, depending on the...
4) Hamden Notch
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"Hamden Notch." A sleepy little town with a horrible little secret.
Three friends-hunting buddies for years enter the woodlands together, only one comes out.
Al is charged with a murder he did not commit. No one believes he is innocent. All his friends-even his wife have their doubts. His attorney believes the prosecution has an air-tight case. The two detectives assigned to the case are not so sure. Only one body is found. During their investigation,...
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An expanding sun, a doomed Earth, and a race against time to save a small fragment of the world's people. Their only hope lies in an aging observation platform being hastily retrofitted for deep space travel. This vessel is the only existing ship large enough to accommodate the courageous pioneers on their long passage through space.
The Wanderers takes you on a journey of more than forty years-from the initial discovery of the coming cataclysm to...
6) Quatro
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Why Quatro?
It is pretty simple. Quatro means "four," and this book contains four novellas. These four works are not related to one another in any possible way except for the fact they were all written by the same author. They all have distinct characters with diverse personalities. Where each story takes place is unique. They are all of varying lengths, and not surprisingly, they all have individual titles, so it does not matter in which...
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Life is full of surprises, but most are not on the scale of those experienced by Woodward Shakspear, an aspiring playwright who can't seem to get a break. That is, until he receives a letter that is going to change his life. He will be doing a lot of traveling and meeting many people, so many people, in fact, that it makes his head spin. This unassuming accountant has no idea what is about to confront him. His peaceful life in the United States will...
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Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was a mid-1800s clockmaker in Belfast, Maine. He became fascinated with the practice of hypnotism, then called mesmerism. He dropped his clockmaking profession and traveled around Maine, offering demonstrations of mesmerism.
Over the years, he studied how the body, when mesmerized, could perform astonishing feats. Gradually, Quimby developed what he called science of the mind and used his concepts to heal the sick.
This...