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Life is going well for Sophie. She’s getting by at school, has some pretty awesome friends and their band have made it through to the semifinals of the Battle of the Bands competition. But when Sophie wakes up completely deaf one morning, the life she once knew seems like a distant memory. With lessons replaced by endless hospital appointments, and conversations now an exercise in lip-reading, Sophie grows quieter and quieter. Until she discovers the vibrations of sound through an old set of drums and wonders whether life onstage is actually still within reach.

Eve is a nobody - just a dirty, mentally challenged homeless woman who stands on a street corner in her rags and "prophesies." But she knows exactly what she possesses - what most of those who pity her don't have. Eve refuses to take advantage of the social programs and for a good reason. Eve has an important lesson to teach Andrew Thurston, Director of the Social Equity and Rehabilitation Department, who is determined to help her. It's a lesson he learns the hard way.

A new bride and party girl who marries merely to escape her former life. A naive, solicitous husband who sees no harm in an ordered life. A honeymoon hike on a mountain trail. And a tragic outcome. Murder, manslaughter, a misunderstanding gone horribly wrong, or sheer accident? Perception is everything, isn't it? In any case, justice has a strange way of working itself out. "Over the Edge" is a short story - a psychological thriller and a tale of horror.

Two Tales of Horror and the Paranormal is a two-story bundle. In it you'll see that things aren't always as they seem - that there's a lot more to some humdrum, everyday lives than the people living them ever dared to imagine. And the implications are, well, sometimes frightening...

An edifying and uplifting compilation of four previously published books. Enjoy: The Mystic Secret Waiting, Winging & Walking Stop, Look & Listen Wrestling & Winning A four-fold blessing!

Life guide Edward F. T. Charfauros offers guidance using powerful and comprehensive communication for people such as yourself to positively affect your life for optimal long-term benefit. Use these self-communicating messages within and guide yourself to be the best ideal "you" that you have been yearning to be! Reprogram your inner dialogue with Edward F. T. Charfauros' proven self-communication scripts that assist him in taking control of his life and his destiny.

We all talk to ourselves, and yet more than half of what we say to ourselves may be negative! Life guide Edward F. T. Charfauros offers guidance using powerful and comprehensive communication for people such as yourself to positively affect your life for optimal long-term benefit. Use these self-communicating messages within and guide yourself to be the best ideal "you" that you have been yearning to be! Reprogram your inner dialogue with Edward F. T. Charfauros' proven self-communication scripts that assist him in taking control of his life and his destiny.

We all talk to ourselves, yet more than half of what we say to ourselves may be negative! Life guide Edward F. T. Charfauros offers guidance using powerful and comprehensive communication for people such as yourself to positively affect your life for optimal long-term benefit. Use these self-communicating messages within and guide yourself to be the best ideal "you" that you have been yearning to be! Reprogram your inner dialogue with Edward F. T. Charfauros' proven self-communication scripts that assist him in taking control of his life and his destiny.

Written for children seven years old and younger, Susie is the tale of one father-and-daughter love for baseball with a bit of self-assurance and self-esteem rolled in to give parents a fun way to start important discussions with their children.

Mae Edwards grew up in Houston, Texas. She was number six of seven children. Her faith sustained her through many hardships that would have caused many others to give up. She never met a stranger or let negativity around her keep her down. Her family was split up at age three.

It was tough enough herding longhorns - an undertaking fraught with danger and hardship - to Abilene or Kansas City or Sioux City. So just think what it would be like trailing dragons instead of cattle hundreds of miles across the uninviting terrain of planet Terul. But Buck Johnson, Skeeter Evans, and Snort Jones are attempting it. And if everything goes right, they'll sell the dragons for a good price and finally be able to get off Terul. But things seldom go as planned.

Have you ever felt like you weren't hearing the voice of God clearly? God does speak to His people if we would listen to Him. He sometimes speaks in a still small voice. "Part 2 of 180 Days of Communing with God Daily Devotional," will take you straight into the throne room of God. You can feel the fire of God as you read these devotionals day after day. Your communion with God will get stronger and more powerful as each day goes by. You will begin to hear the voice of God louder than you hear the voice of the enemy and louder than you hear your own voice. The true intimacy of being in the ...

Danny and Oliver: A Ferret-Rescue Tale is the first short story of, we hope, many more. Twelve-year-old Danny McGuire loves his pet ferret, Oliver - but Danny's parents don't. They also think he should do more of the things "normal boys" do. Still, Danny manages to remain fairly cheerful and keep his grades up. Oliver consoles him, his mountain-bike rides bring him solace, and his best friend Mike offers some hard-won advice. It all works out, for the most part, until…things go terribly wrong.

When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this - digging up a human hand in your potato patch - can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out, especially since that ancient hand has peculiar "qualities." This discovery sets off a chain of inexorable events that lead Leonard Johnson to rash action resulting in a terrible kind of justice. A balance must be restored and a lesson learned.

"It was that most loathsome of all things: an uncanny, routine-disrupting inconvenience and anomaly." That's what, as the result of an unforeseen event, unexpectedly invades and upsets Elmore Wiggins' safely ordered life. For Elmore had never reckoned on the paranormal or the preternatural. But now that he's had his accident, he is "seeing" certain events in the near future - including his own (although he doesn't know it yet).

"It's not every day you find a human hand while digging potatoes. But that's exactly what happened to Leonard Johnson on a Saturday morning not long ago." That's how this quirky little story begins. When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out - especially since that ancient hand has peculiar "qualities."

Just a few years down the road, the new health-care plan is firmly entrenched. A new bill, Ethical Assessment of End-of Life Care, has also been enacted into law. And the authorities are ruthlessly implementing it throughout the land - no more medical resources wasted on the defective and dying, equitable distribution of quality medical care, no more lingering half-lives sustained by expensive machinery. The "thanatos solution" has arrived. But there are, as always, unexpected ramifications, especially for those who wanted it.

They give you just enough to keep you comfortable and quiet...if you're willing to put up all the burdensome regulations and intrusions into your private. And most people do. But is it worth it? At long last, William Oudeis didn't think so. But then it cost him everything. "SlumberJoy, a global matress-manufacturing company, had its largest US plant in Doulosville, Oklahoma, where William Oudeis lived. And William worked there, had for the past 30 years. He was a forklift operator. Out of a hopeless sense of irony, his co-workers called him 'Billy the Kid.'"

The original Ferris wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Roughly 280 million people visit theme parks every year and take approximately 1.7 billion rides. And there are slightly fewer than 10 Ferris wheel-related deaths each year. So the odds are generally in your favor. But Cody Jackson wasn't aware of any of this.

We all think we want 20/20 vision, don't we? But in the metaphysical and psychological realms we often prefer our accustomed blindness. It's far more comfortable. Here are two stories that take a close, 20/20 look at these things.