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E X C E R P T S from "The Shaman in the Disco"

.it often happens for men that sensual deprivation leads to sexual obsession.

.Not knowing how to be with his inner alienation, he brings it to his girlfriend and experiences it, inaccurately, as estrangement between them. This perilous move to seek one's psychological moorings in someone else is to a great extent the fulfillment of our cultural fantasy of "love."

.I see in the image of Dracula, bent over the entranced woman and sucking her blood, the inevitable outcome of a man's desire who has been socialized into a hostile...

September 11th, 2001 changed the face of New York City forever. 7 towers lay in ruins-and 2,900 people were lost. New York's construction workers reacted by rushing to the scene-using their special skills to rescue the living and recover the remains of the dead. The city's real estate developers, contractors and public officials had private profit and restoring business as usual as their first priorities.

There is no better tonic to authenticate an author's work than to have a responsive reader. Here are just a few that have elevated my spirit.

Your poem, "I Watched Them Go" was read at our Veterans Day celebration.

You truly represent all of us; your words compel us to look at our flag.

Your poem "Where Are all the Citizens?" says it all.

I was so impressed with your work that I am giving your book as a Christmas present to all my friends and relatives.

"Badges, Banners and Pins" should be required reading for all Scoutmasters.

I am typing this with tears in my eyes for such...

I don't know what these musings will mean to you, but I do know that they have been a Godsend to me. They have brought the days of my youth back. Days that are hard needed by a seventy eight year old man. Days, which indeed have been felt to have departed from me for all time, never to be seen again. Days which in all their happiness and sorrows have passed under the bridge as like the waters of the creek, never to be enjoyed again, but remembered in all their luster by those of us still not accepting their passing. Suffice it to say I'm satisfied with everything. I couldn't be happier about...

"Memories of Drop City" follows a group of people and their radical movement, in the Southwest and on both coasts, in a decade that shaped the rest of the century.

"John Curl's characters in "Memories of Drop City" aspire to be '100 years' ahead of the rest of us, but Curl shows, through his highly crafted and brilliant novelistic memoir, that they often succumb to the same social flaws as the rest of us. This might be the most balanced memoir or novel yet published about the Sixties."

Ishmael Reed, National Book Award nominee

"With this compelling evocation and portrayal of...

"For a Time We Were Titans" is the memoir of an LRP/Ranger in Vietnam. It follows ten GIs from their arrival at the LRP compound in Ban Me Thuot in October 1968 to the authors return home in September 1969. It shows that those that last can grow from raw recruits, to Titans, leaders that serve as mentors and role models for those that came after them.

This is the war as a LRP saw it. LRPs were the Long Range Patrol units that served as the eyes and ears of the infantry, who were dropped into enemy territory and given the responsibility of finding the hiding places of an elusive foe. It is...

A surprisingly delightful book on planning that final celebration of your life

"The problem addressed in Betty Breuhaus's practical and amusing book is: If you don't plan your own funeral, someone else will...It's hard to write breezily about such a dark topic, but When the Sun Goes Down succeeds, marvelously."

Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist

WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN

Are you ready to define your own dignity and creatively plan the final celebration of your life? "When the Sun Goes Down: A Serendipitous Guide to Planning Your Own Funeral "Author Betty Breuhaus asks you to open your...

1976 is a year many people in the village of Westville will never forget. Their local hometown basketball team, the Tigers, took their fans on a magical ride in a quest for the state championship. The interviews from everyone involved, including the players, coaches, and fans recount the journey of this unforgettable team, from the high expectations of pre-season to their heart wrenching final game of the Class A state tournament. Remember Westville is a story of triumph and heartbreak as seen through the eyes of the 1976 Westville basketball team and the community that loved them. What...

Born on January 2, 2004, Anthony was full of life. As each day went by, his life became full of medical problems. Anthony had a rare mitochondrial disease called Pyruvate Carboxylase Deficiency. In this book I have shared my son's life, dealing with grief, and the power of love and hope. The book is a journey that will help you to be hopeful, appreciative, and compassionate throughout your life.

We never imagined we were sharing a spiritual journey. Yet we were and are on similar spiritual quests, albeit walking different pathways. "

Look beyond what eyes can see.

Faith takes you past eternity.

The torches flame on mountaintops

lighting up the seeker's way.

We walk on different roads

carrying our different loads,

but we all look to heaven when we pray."

JER & CAL

All people, if they will look, will find a spark of the Divine somewhere inside their beings.

If you waddle like a weasel

that you out-witted

out of wood

take caution of the cougar

casing captives twice as good.

If you whale as wanting waxwing

happy whang when wrong

be thrifty:

note weathercock to weevil

citing sing sing in your song.

For endangered pika inching

above threatened clouds

are weary

of burrowing cicadas

waking foes while calling pals. Dale Benjamin Drakeford, "Poetaster,"

The book is meant for any serious seeker of God and for beginners who need guidance in searching for God in their lives.

The author is a highly qualified philosopher and computer scientist. He takes you on a journey on how to find God. Having experienced God, he relates his own experience in a way that is understandable to others. He connects you with the mystic life, experience of God, nature of freedom, good and evil, death and afterlife, God and science, forgiveness, non-violence and astral experiences. Helpful mantras are added, as is an informative glossary for various concepts.

"Riding On The Wind" is a collection of poetry, short stories, and proverbial saying that pricks the very essence of man and reaches deep down into the very secret places that he never wants to reveal or expose. It uncovers his deep fear of failure, his agony with the opposite sex, his loath for death, his passion to succeed, his love of life, and his inability to understand even himself. "Riding On The Wind" is an epic attempt by Dr. Simmons to allow us to peak, if only for a moment, into the sacredly hidden passions and weaknesses of man-"man" is not gender specific; it is the whole of...