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Under Open Skies books
Super Cowboy Rides Born To Run, Live To Be Free Super Cowboy Rides Again


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Life's Outtakes Books
Life's Outtakes Year 1 Life's Outtakes Year 2 Life's Outtakes Year 3 Life's Outtakes Year 4 Life's Outtakes Year 5 Life's Outtakes Year 6 Life's Outtakes Year 7 Life's Outtakes Year 8


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Romance Books
The Mail-Order Bride The Royal Tutor The Last Gift


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New Books
(2015 Release)
Super Cowboy Rides Again Life's Outtakes Year 8 The Last Gift


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Super Cowboy Rides Born To Run, Live To Be Free Super Cowboy Rides Again The Three Gifts The Mail-Order Bride The Royal Tutor Life's Outtakes Year 1 Life's Outtakes Year 2 Life's Outtakes Year 3 Life's Outtakes Year 4 Life's Outtakes Year 5 Life's Outtakes Year 6 Life's Outtakes Year 7


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Play Scripts
Drama Source The Mail-Order Bride A Christmas Carol Coming Home Musical Coming Home Hypnotic Suggestions April Fools Cultural Differences Lilacs In The Valley Love, Sick, and Montezuma's Gold Snow White And The Seven Little Dudes The Will The Three Gifts (German) The Three Gifts Debt and Deliverance Truth And Consequences
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(Under Open Skies) Super Cowboy Rides
Super Cowboy Rides
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     The little boy, Tommy, reminds me of Calvin from the 'Calvin and Hobbs' comic strip by Bill Watterson because of his mischievousness. It is such a fun book to read! My children look forward to story time to hear the next chapter each day.- Celese Sanders (Syndicated Columnist)
 
     Meet six-year-old Tommy Johnson, Super Cowboy and Super Story-teller. Want to build a box to capture wild cats that roam the farm? How about tips on catching a greased pig at the fair, or teaching a stubborn lamb to avoid being trampled by angry milk cows? From the first paragraph, when Tommy explains why a boy needs a dog for a pet instead of a cat, he wins us over with his down-to-earth and humorous view of the world. Once Tommy begins school, however, things get complicated. He gets picked on by teachers and mocked by classmates. And then tragedy strikes. In the process of dealing with his grief, Tommy learns the meaning of true friendship.

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Book Of The Year Award Finalist
First Horizons Finalist
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(Under Open Skies) Born To Run, Live To Be Free
Born To Run, Live To Be Free
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Humorous, Inspirational Story That All Will Love
     In this new book in the Under Open Skies series, Tom Johnson is in his early 20's and struggling to make it through college and take care of his little family. Due to the stress created by the overload of class work, the challenges of having very little money, and the limited amount of time for his family, he often feels trapped by his circumstances.
     To try to earn some extra money to help out with his family income, he procures a job taking care of horses. When the lady he works for buys a famous old race horse, Tom starts to see the world and his situation somewhat differently. In sensing the old stallion's trust in him, learning from friends and those around him, Tom begins to realize that prisons can be made as much from our attitudes and decisions as they can be from cement and steel, and that challenges can be good. That is when he begins to understand what true freedom really is.

If you love horses and great stories, this book is for you.

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(Under Open Skies) Super Cowboy Rides Again
Super Cowboy Rides Again
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     School is out, and Tommy Johnson is back in trouble again as his antics cause one disaster after another. He is assigned to work with his tough-as-nails grandmother so she can keep an eye on him, but trouble finds him wherever he goes. And Grandma isn't immune from causing a little bit of havoc herself.
     But when Tommy becomes friends with the neighbor Grandma has a grudge against, he learns the importance of not letting little things destroy wonderful friendships.

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The Mail-Order Bride
The Mail-Order Bride
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Prize Winning Story - Clean Romance!

     It was to be the big day for Eli. His fiancee, Molly, was coming in on a ship. Two years earlier, unable to find work in England, he had headed for America. His ship was caught in a storm, and he ended up, not in Pennsylvania as he planned, but in Newfoundland.
     But that was all behind him now. He had written to Molly every day for the two years, and now she was coming so they could be married.
     But Eli was in for a surprise. Unknown to him, Molly had married. She had bought him a mail-order bride, and Eli's life was going to suddenly take an unexpected twist.
     This is a fun story about differences of culture, love, and life. The play based on this book is winner of many awards and has been produced internationally. This is a story you won't want to miss.

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(Essence Of The Heart) The Royal Tutor
The Royal Tutor
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Mystery, Intrigue, And Clean Romance!

     When he is called before the queen, Jacob, the handsome, young Captain of the Royal Guard, is sure it is to discuss the baffling increase in assassination attempts against the royal family. Instead, the queen assigns the shocked young captain to tutor her out-of-control, tomboy daughter, Marie.
     He knows all of the other tutors have failed miserably, and he tries to beg out of it, but the queen will not relent. However, she does give him leave to use any teaching method he likes. Her ultimate command is that she be trained as a lady in preparation for her royal ball.
     Angry and humiliated at what he feels is a degrading and impossible assignment, especially for a military captain, he determines to train the princess like he would one of his guardsmen. He will demand strong discipline, tough academics, and sword combat training. He is sure that his rigorous approach will push the princess to complain to her mother, who will then remove him from the assignment.
     But to his surprise, Marie instead responds positively to the harsh discipline, and becomes a princess like no other.
     And, when they come under attack, her training might be just enough to save both of their lives as they work to unravel who is behind the assassination attempts, and also try to solve the mystery of why the Lord High Chamberlain is such a great sword fighter.

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The Last Gift
The Last Gift
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An inspiring Love story.

     When Rachel married, her life became a nightmare filled with abuse from her husband and a struggle to take care of her children. Now divorced, her exhusband still haunts her life with threats and demands for the little money she has. But when a stranger stands up for her against the abuse, her life begins to change in ways she could only dream of as she finds new courage, strength, and different, deeper challenges at the same time. The Last Gift is a book of clean romance, a journey of understanding and forgiveness, and a story that, at times, might bite painfully into the reader's own memories of missed opportunities and foolish decisions, while at the same time giving hope from the depths of what life is all about.

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The Three Gifts
The Three Gifts
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An inspiring Christmas story.

     Three young men are convicted of mugging little children for their Halloween candy. Instead of sentencing them to jail as is expected the judge sentences them to 100 hours babysitting at the Women's Crisis center. They were prepared for jail but they were not prepared for what lies in store for them as the children become part of their lives.

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When The World Goes Crazy - 52 Humorous and Inspirational Short Stories - From Life's Outtakes Year 1
Life's Outtakes 1
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52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories!

     52 humorous and inspirational short stories, one for each week of the year. These stories are taken from the popular column, Life's Outtakes. From the inspiration of a father's love for his daughter in Tinkertoys In The Cupboard to the humor of a want-to-be athlete in The Nose Warmer, these 52 humorous and inspirational short stories (one for each week of the year) will make you laugh, reminisce, and contemplate the relationships you cherish most. /n

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All's Well Here - 52 Humorous and Inspirational Short Stories - From Life's Outtakes Year 2
Life's Outtakes 2
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52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories!

52 humorous and inspirational short stories, one for each week of the year. These stories are taken from the popular column, Life's Outtakes. From the All's Well, a story of a community pulling together to help a family in need, to the humor of a practical joke gone awry in The April Fool's Joke these stories will keep you laughing or help you think more deeply about what matters most./n

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When Life Is More Than We Dreamed - 52 Humorous and Inspirational Short Stories - From Life's Outtakes Year 3
Life's Outtakes 3
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52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories!

52 stories, one for each week, from third year of the popular story column Life's Outtakes. These stories are a humorous and inspirational view of community and family life. From the inspiration of an athletes understanding of others in Those Who Make Us What We Are to the humor of young man's failed attempt at dating in The Mixed Up World Of Dating these stories will keep you laughing and make you think about what is really important in life./n

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Nothing But A Miracle - 52 Humorous and Inspirational Short Stories - From Life's Outtakes Year 4
Life's Outtakes 4
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52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories!

From the inspiration of a Christmas miracle in Nothing But A Miracle to the humor of A Journal Of A Gardener At Harvest Time, these 52 humorous and inspirational short stories (one for each week of the year), taken from the fourth year of the popular story column Life's Outtakes will make you laugh, reminisce, and contemplate the relationships you cherish most./n

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It's Ninety Percent Mental - 52 Humorous and Inspirational Short Stories - From Life's Outtakes Year 5
Life's Outtakes 5
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52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories!

From the inspiration of a dying soldier's wish of Singing To The End Of Life to the humor of Football Through The Eyes Of A Child, these 52 humorous and inspirational short stories (one for each week of the year), taken from the fourth year of the popular story column Life's Outtakes will make you laugh, reminisce, and contemplate the relationships you cherish most./n

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Singing To The End Of Life - 52 Humorous and Inspirational Short Stories - From Life's Outtakes Year 6
Life's Outtakes 6
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52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories!

52 humorous and inspirational short stories from year six of Life's Outtakes, a nationally syndicated column by Daris Howard. From the humor of a girl's wrath in A Practical Joke Gone Awry to the touching reminder of those who are less fortunate in The Year I Lived Christmas, this is a fun look at family and community life./n

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Angels Among Us - 52 Humorous and Inspirational Short Stories - From Life's Outtakes Year 7
Life's Outtakes 7
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52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories!

52 humorous and inspirational short stories from year seven of Life's Outtakes, a nationally syndicated column by Daris Howard. From the humor of a what students write in Student Communications to the wonderment of a child in need of a friend in Angels Among Us, this is a fun look at family and community life./n

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Crossed Wires - 52 Humorous and Inspirational Short Stories - From Life's Outtakes Year 8
Life's Outtakes 8
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52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories!

52 humorous and inspirational short stories from year seven of Life's Outtakes, a nationally syndicated column by Daris Howard. From the inspiration of a World War II soldier's compassion in Forgiveness to the humor of numerous car problems in Crossed Wires these 52 humorous and inspirational short stories (one for each week of the year) will make you laugh, reminisce, and contemplate the relationships you cherish most./n

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