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Sneak Attack 31 short stories, two to four pages long, about growing up in a small rural community. My brother says I could never tell a story right, my cousin said, "That's not the way it was", my niece said, "I didn't say that", and when the wife heard me say it was a peek into our family life she insisted I write "fiction" in the front. Some of my friends say, "I remember that, this book isn't fiction." I didn't know writting a book could be so hazardous. I did have the wisdom to wait until after Mr. B was dead to write his story. Print: $16.00 Download: $8.89

Sagebrush Nicole, a bright and happy co-ed has her life turned upside down by the retirement, illness and death of her father. Extracted from the polite society of Boston and thrust rudely into the life of a working girl in a seedy second rate gambling house in a small Nevada town she meets the Weslys. The younger is handsome, rich, smooth and fun. The older is coarse, rough, eccentric and rebellious. The antics and rivalry of these two afford relief from her mundane life. Swept innocently along Nicole finds herself embroiled in a one man sagebrush rebellion. Old fashioned ideas clash with the new, leaving Nicole in the middle of the road to be run over by traffic going both ways. Print: $24.95 Download: $15.16

Prieta There are seven thousand islands in the Philippines with nine hundred thought to be inhabited but a samll group of people were found that were the most primitive to have lived into the twentieth century. These people produced no clothing or tools but lived by hunting and gathering in the jungle. This is the story of a typical Mormon family who decide to adopt into their family a young Filipino girl from the jungle. Prieta, meaning the dark one, although completely innocent is still quite primitive in her thinking. Though not the main character she is the catalyst that makes the story work. She falls in love with her foster sister's boy friend Bret who more than anything in the world wants to marry the Bishop's daughter Norma although he does not meet the standards she has set for a husband.
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Colored Smart, handsome, rich and young Gabriel thinks that the earth was made just for him. Physical exertions are limited to emptying the waste paper basket and shooting a basketball. An elite private school has educated him in the finer things of life and he expects to go right to the top in everything that he does. He dreams of the N.B.A. or if worse comes to worse he will get a M.B.A. and work for his wealthy Grandfather and settle for being merely rich instead of filthy rich and famous. For no good reason that he can see his mother announces that she has obtained a degree in education and has secured a job teaching in a rural high school on the edge of the earth. He thinks he has died and gone to hell but he learns that there are several levels of hell below what he thought was the lowest of the low. His mother gets him a job working on a ranch where he is reduced to sitting in the weeds and dirt to eat his lunch, after all, how low can a person sink? He shouldn't have asked.
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The Suspect In some ways being the Governor's daughter is like living in a glass house but it has its advantages if one developes a skin thick enough to compensate for the fragility and transparency of the walls. Leona has coped with the rough and tumble of political life by building the thickness of the walls of her heart. Brilliant, healthy and comely but small and on the skinny side she thinks she has suffered it all at the hands of the press but she has always been on the politically correct side. Although she is twenty-six she finds herself in her first romantic relationship. The other half of the romantic encounter is in an entirly different situation.
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Forever Learning This is a novel of two school teachers, man and wife.The story relates in novel form the problems and challenges of modern education especially for those of a Christian or religious background.
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