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Book One - World Changers Casey Raymond has developed a gasless car
he wants to market to the world. But he refuses to sell out to the
oil companies. "I want a car in every garage by the end of the
year, " he says. And with a sticker price of only five grand, he
believes he can do it. Big business has other ideas. Casey is
threatened. His production plant is sabotaged. Despite everything,
his cars catch on. Things seem to be going well until an assassin,
a young man from the ghetto, is hired to kill him. "The World
Changers" is the first part of an action-adventure trilogy that
spans twenty years and three presidential administrations, a
panoramic epic examining the costs of empowerment, the price of
intimacy, and the simple affirmation of the value of oneself.
Casey Raymond's gasless cars and space-age houses have left the
economy in turmoil. As assassination attempts mount, he must decide
between the joy of raising his baby girl or the agony of giving her
up to keep her safe. "Fatherless" is the second part of an
action-adventure trilogy that spans twenty years and three
presidential administrations, a panoramic epic examining the costs
of empowerment, the price of intimacy, and the simple affirmation
of the value of oneself.
Casey's success has cost him everything-his wife, his daughter, his
best friend. Even as a relentless assassin dogs him, he strives
through politics and social programs to make the planet a better
place for his estranged daughter, who wants nothing to do with him.
"Don't you get it," a friend finally tells her. "It was your
father's love for you that changed the world." "Her World" is the
final part of an action-adventure trilogy that spans twenty years
and three presidential administrations, a panoramic epic examining
the costs of empowerment, the price of intimacy, and the simple
affirmation of the value of oneself.
A sculptor who gives himself amnesia so he can critique his work
objectively. A World War II private, training for D-Day, who writes
the president with a scheme to bring down the German economy. A
foreman who must transport a two-ton block of stone using only
brute strength and brains. A woman, disguised as a man, who fights
in the American Civil War. A surveillance expert who owes his
success to a flying saucer. From ancient times through the present
and into the future, these fifteen stories of adventure, passion
and discovery explore the distant connections between those who
serve their countries and those who serve themselves.
Often I find people avoiding poetry because they believe it must be
difficult in order to be any good, or worse, that they are not
equipped, in whatever fashion, to "decode" and understand it.
Rubbish. Read these poems easily and quickly. If you come across
one that isn't working for you, big deal. Skip it and try another.
Don't think too much about what these poems are "supposed" to mean.
Let them wash over you and, hopefully, give you a glimpse of
something beyond any neat categories of thought. Have faith in your
personal and unique impressions of them. That, I believe, is
poetry's purpose: an individual expression followed by an
individual interpretation where the sum is greater than the words,
where, every once in a while, you transcend this finite language
and, if only for a moment, say "Ah " - from the author's preface
FLIP AROUND This book doesn't have to be read chronologically. Flip
around, find something that interests you, sample it, see if you
like it. Then try something else. There's thirty years of poetry,
short stories, quotes, journaling, blogs, essays, voice-overs,
newspaper columns, a novella-all never before published in book
form. It's been the adventure of my lifetime to see where my mind
led me over the last three decades. I hope these pages take you
there. - David Alan Hall
Talent. It's easy to confuse the "raw" kind with the "real" kind.
We're all born with some flavor of raw talent. Many people forget
about their creative ability because they were told at a young age
to stop wasting time dabbling with it and get serious about life.
Or, like me, they may wish they had one talent and overlook the
talent staring them in the face. I was born with cerebral palsy,
which makes walking difficult. Yet I believed I would be judged by
my talent, not my disability, so I moved from Texas to Hollywood
when I was 23. Here's my story, an odyssey of finding the faith to
turn my raw talent into real talent.
BREATHING FROM THE HEAD. "I was a lonely writer locked away,
absorbing rejection slips, breathing clumsily from my head. I met
someone who changed my life. She helped me learn to breathe from my
heart. I want to understand how she did that-and what it means. I
want to strengthen our future by writing about our past, to better
appreciate how we fell in love, how we grew together, how we create
meaning in our relationship to keep it alive during hard times. I
hope this true romance speaks to something beyond us. I hope it
testifies that love isn't some mysterious power to be found "out
there," but a vital, breathing force within us that we must
create-and share-with one another." - From the Author's Preface.
Inventor Ned Matheson adores his wife Muriel. But he's killed on
the verge of unveiling his working perpetual motion machine, a
hidden device that promises not only free energy to the world, but
wealth to its patent owner. Muriel begins to suspect her husband
was murdered after mysterious messages appear each morning in Ned's
old journal-clues to his death, written in his own hand, which
baffle a private detective and a handwriting expert. Muriel becomes
determined to find Ned's machine and discover the truth surrounding
his death. But she's torn between making a new life for herself or
believing the devoted ghost of her husband is still by her side.
Part suspense thriller, part romance, Perpetual Motion celebrates a
love powerful enough to reach across the chasm of death, to touch a
living heart, to change a lonely life-and the world-forever. Muriel
begins to suspect her husband was murdered after mysterious
messages appear each morning in Ned's old journal-clues to his
death, written in his own hand, which baffle a private detective
and a handwriting expert. She becomes determined to find Ned's
machine and discover the truth surrounding his death. But she's
torn between making a new life for herself or believing the devoted
ghost of her husband is still by her side. Part romance, part
suspense thriller, Perpetual Motion celebrates a love powerful
enough to reach across the chasm of death, to touch a living heart,
to change a lonely life-and the world-forever.
CREATING WITH LIGHT "Learn to see yourself as the writer and
director in the evolution of your own consciousness," Rebecca's
teacher said. "Your thoughts are powerful energy. Think of them as
light. Whatever you choose to shine that light on, you will
create." Rebecca Spark has three months to live. Her plan: learn to
escape death through a series of controlled,
out-of-body-projections. But she's unprepared for a darkness that
pursues her, forcing her to confront not what is "out there," but
rather what lies within the rich training ground of her soul. The
Great Crossing shines a light on the power we all have to create a
better future for ourselves and others.
SECRET SAUCER BASE EXPEDITIONS Lester Griffin quits his day job to
travel to the Nevada desert with a group of saucer watchers who are
determined to expose the alleged government cover up of
extraterrestrials. But Lester is unprepared for the experience.
Seeing an otherworldly craft forces him to question his
perceptions, his faith, and ultimately his entire belief system.
Filled with primordial dreams, conspiracy paranoia, and offbeat
humor, this quirky coming-of-age adventure celebrates the unique
three-pound universe within each of us.
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