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|  | | Acorns of Love and Wisdom, Poems for the Every Day Person
"Acorns of love and Wisdom" is a book of poems for the 'every day' person. It is divided into five chapters, Poems for Lovers, Poems of Nature and Love, Poems of Family and Friends, Poems of Drifting Apart, and Poems of Wisdom and Philosophy. It is an excellent and original work.
MAGIC TIME
Fate's fair wind
Put welcome end
To the distance
Which kept us apart
You found my stare
Locked yours there
Within my heavy
Pounding heart
Afraid to believe
What eyes perceive
I stammered
To speak my mind
Yet my tongue stumbled
Over thoughts jumbled
By knotted emotions
Words could not unwind
But when your touch
Which spoke so much
Caressed my
Nervous hand
From your eyes
Came silent replies
Inviting me
To understand
Then we came
To share the same
| |  | | An Exercise Manual For the Couch Potato
A colorfully illustrated book which pokes fun at the couch potato by depicting hilarious exercise routines for him.
ISBN: 0-9777290-5-2
| |  | | Bottom Time
Synopsis Bottom Time
Robbie Duncan from Ranch Boy grows up, graduates from college, and moves to Jacksonville Beach where he rents a great bachelor pad near the ocean. At the same time, while entertaining the beautiful ladies of the area in his apartment and around the beach, he becomes a scuba diver and eventually a salvage diver, and he has some extraordinary experiences doing that which includes a hair-raising encounter with drug lords. When one dives, the time between leaving the surface and coming back up again is called “bottom time.”
The journeys to the various dive sites in the Atlantic Ocean, however, take from one to three hours and Robbie passes the time lying on the fish box of the Restless, Cap’n Bill Aley’s snapper boat. His mind drifts back to the crazy, Animal House type events of his time at Newberry College and the various capers he was involved in and the beautiful women he had been with. Robbie had been a wild and crazy guy in college. He is loved by the ladies and loves them back and since Robbie’s favorite part of the female anatomy is the bottom, he has “bottom time” then as well. This is a hilarious and exciting story. You won’t want to put it down.
The inside of Pete’s was dimly lit, with most of the light coming from the florescent fixtures over the pool tables and from the myriad of beer and liquor signs that hung on the walls and from the ceiling. These signs were accompanied by an assortment of old guns, which hung on the walls between them. Beginning by the entry door, there was a long bar with wooden stools that ran along the entire length of the wall and wrapped around along the other wall at the end of the building. Bottles of liquor stood in front of a giant mirror, which hung over the long counter behind the aisle where the | |  | | Peter the Pelican, Look Before You Leap
Having been written by Jerry "Pop" Bishop and Dr. Gail Bishop Dugger, Peter the Pelican is Steve Robertson’s first totally illustrated children’s book done for other authors. His excellent colorful pen and ink and colored pencil illustrations grace each facing page. Certainly, everyone will love to have a copy on the coffee table or in the collection. The story is based on a true relationship between a gentleman, "Pop", who lives in Georgia, and a pelican that he has befriended. It contains an excellent moral lesson for youngsters and the drawings are elegant. It is truly a book everyone would enjoy having in their collection.
| |  | | Ranch Boy
It will be a summer and fall filled with changes for fifteen-year-old Robbie Duncan. He and his family are newcomers to rural Sebring, Florida where Robbie has just started his new job at the Flying R Ranch. Though the work is physically grueling, Robbie is excited at the prospect of really learning how to be a cowboy. But the grater (though unspoken) benefit of his hours spent at the ranch is the respite it provides him from the tyrannical control of his sternly abusive disciplinarian father–a man hardened and embittered by his experiences as a fighter pilot during World War II. Under the tutelage of kindly owner, Ron Summers, weather-beaten foreman Doug Marcy, and ranch hand Dwight Hopper, Robbie comes to understand the ways of horses and cattle, how to rope calves, drive a herd–and how to put in the satisfying full day's work of a man. Whether tending to the animals or toiling in the orange groves, Robbie proves himself equal to any job. Meanwhile, his summer isn't all work. Robbie has also embarked on the tender adventure of first love with his beautiful neighbor, Jane Dunlap. But the two young lovers must be circumspect in their joyous exploration of sexual pleasure–as each is closely scrutinized by strict parents. Finally, Jane's mother becomes concerned about her daughter's virtue, and Robbie's father suspects the infatuation might interfere with his upcoming performance on the football field, to the point where both families are compelled to drive a wedge between Robbie and Jane. However, when in a climatic scene Robbie rescues Dwight and Doug from a rampaging bull, he proves to his father and coworkers that he possesses the maturity, courage and resourcefulness to decide the course of his own life. Ranch Boy movingly chronicles Robbie's coming of age in an engaging narrative that resonates with authentic sentiments. As Robbie struggles against his authoritarian father, he learns self-reliance, independence, and the truth of his own heart. Undergoing formative experiences that will define the character of the man that he is destined to be, author H. Steven Robertson writes in an engagingly unadorned style to paint a vivid and sensitive portrait of a boy on the brink of adulthood.
The boy reached the pasture, opened the gate and entered it, and began to record the needed information. He was out of sight of the barn in the farthest pasture which was across the paved road. This pasture had a lot of oak trees in it and the cattle were scattered all over the whole area. So that he wouldn't miss any of them, he developed a system of riding from one side of the pasture to the other. When he reached the fence, he would move up and cross again. Sometimes the cow and calf would be positioned so he could read the numbers easily. But most of the time he would have to circle | |  | | Soccer Made Easy For Americans
Soccer Made Easy For Americans is the perfect book for anyone involved in the sport at any level, especially those just entering the sport. Photographs and drawings illustrate each point.
See at: www.ocean-publishing.com
A complete guide to playing and enjoying the sport of soccer, with techniques, practice drills, rules and emphasis on sportsmanship.
For coaches:
. create your first team
. teach required skills and exercises
. position players on the field
. Focus on sportsmanship
Soccer Made Easy For Americans will help:
. parents to enjoy the sport
. beginning players to learn the sport easily
. experienced players to improve their skills and knowledge of the game
. coaches to build and develop their team
| |  | | The Stream
Good stories are, by nature, meant to entertain; but, what can make a story great is the added bonus a reader gets when the tale teaches a reader something new; The Stream is a great story. What, you may wonder, did I learn from reading this great tale? I must admit that initially, it was with a little trepidation that I approached this novel. Fishing? What do I know about fishing? I thought. It is neither a hobby of mine and really, I could not very well identify with a story about a youth who gets lost at sea when he goes out fishing. But, I was wrong and in for a treat.
I was hooked from the moment I completed reading the Prologue. The main protagonist, Sandy, is in some form of danger and I found that I immediately wanted to know what happened. This desire to know what happened was sustained throughout the tale and is testament to Mr. Robertson’s craftsmanship. The remaining chapters chronicle the events of Sandy’s life and experiences in the two weeks prior to this incident. It is an honest, heart-warming and yet funny account of this teenager’s life in the sea-side town of Mayport, Florida.
In this story, Mr. Robertson has introduced various themes from the preservation of family values, teenage romance, boy-growing up and a rescue mission. To his credit, Mr. Robertson has managed to intertwine all of these themes and the end result is a tale which is seamless and flows beautifully. The language is neither too flowery nor is it too simple – indeed, Mr. Robertson has struck a balance to ensure that the tale is told with great aplomb. There is much humor in this story and it comes across in the many descriptions that Mr. Robertson has given to the characters and places. For instance, ‘Watermelon-on-legs’ and ‘Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum’ immediately create images that makes any further description of these people superfluous. Also, what was intriguing was that Mr. Robertson has succeeded in writing dialogue that is so true and original that it was refreshing.
It is often said of novels that words should be enough to sufficiently convey a tale. When illustrations are included, something does not seem right and more often than not, a reader may become frustrated with the fact that the illustrations do not eventually tally with the description in the book. However, in the case of The Stream, it is the exact opposite for Mr. Robertson’s words already conjure up images that are most vivid and when the strategically placed illustrations presented themselves, I found myself thinking, “that’s exactly how I saw it”- indeed, the illustrations are beautiful and they add to rather than detract from the tale told.
As I started with the idea that readers should learn something new when reading a tale, I think it fitting that I end this piece with what I’ve learned about fishing by quoting what is my favorite passage in the book:
Actually, Sandy already knew that the tide would be low because he kept up with the charts. Good fishermen always considered several natural occurrences when fishing. The tide was one. Sandy liked an incoming tide. The temperature of the water was significant, the phase and location of the moon was another factor. The presence and location of baitfish in an area was also important. The moon would be setting about the time the sun rose, which was perfect. The water was very warm around the inshore reefs and there were lots of baitfish swimming there.
Aneeta Sundararaj
Author
http://www.howtotellagreatstory.com
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