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Ollie Marshall is a native of Springfield, Arkansas, from the community of Union Chapel, where she grew up with ten brothers and five sisters. She now makes her home in Orange, New Jersey, with her husband. She is a retired teacher from Newark Public School System. She speaks through her poetry.

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This is book two in the Easy 8 series. This book is about the last event of the season. It is a special event and I included a special dance from the Native American bulls that are on tour. I hope the kids that have never experienced a bull riding before will take away from the book a new experience.

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Dennis McLeary, sexually abused at age 6. At 18, he accepts sexual advances of a 14 year-old girl hoping to prove to himself that he is a normal man. Jailed for 17 years for having sex with the under-age girl, he is abused in prison by fellow inmates and the prison chaplain. Free at 35, he determines to better himself and hopes to have a normal marriage. Ensnared in a messy event, he escapes more prison time by becoming a waiter on a passenger-freighter. He gets leave from his ship to swim in Turkish waters, where he meets and falls in love with Myriam al-Montee, a half-Turkish half-Saudi Arabian Muslim woman. Instant adora-tion is reciprocated. Myriam elopes with Dennis, they are married by his ship's captain. Myriam does not tell Dennis that her fanatical father, who hopes to use her to found his dynasty, is known to behead any person showing fondness for her. When three women are beheaded at her father's orders, she warns Dennis, he could be next.

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Enjoy two love stories out of Africa, each in a different country and era. The first concerns a young English widow left penniless in one of Sudan's worst refugee camps. Love grows amid the horror of total poverty with refugees attacked by a warlord juggling to acquire oil under the camp in today's heartless rush for oil. In contrast, is love growing in 1930's Ethiopia during the luxury afforded by Haile Selassie's coronation, when an American teenage orphan is aided by a heroic British officer during the horrific war that follows.

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America is a land of promise, filled with adventure and overflowing with riches, thought young Peter Olaf. So in 1895, at the age of seventeen, he left his family and girlfriend to board a ship for the new world.In the next ten years Peter mutated from a naive, young, Swedish immigrant, swinging an axe in a logging camp, to a man of wealth and prestige. Along the way he encountered and overcame fearsome challenges and tragedies and the deepest personal losses and betrayals. But he also built wonderfully strong friendships and family relationships. He experienced loves that were sometimes intensely passionate, sometimes gentle or bittersweet, but only one would last a lifetime.

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Chuck Champlin has been a writer and journalist, a corporate communications executive at the Walt Disney Company, a bicycle inventor, a rock drummer, and a member of Toastmasters clubs (public speaking) and Optimist clubs (bringing out the best in kids). In his work, Champlin promotes the hopeful idea that every human being has creative contributions to make that will increase peace and understanding in the world. At Disney, he supported the success of the Children's Summit at Disneyland Paris in the 1990's, working with Disney offices worldwide and with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Champlin also authored the non-fiction book, Think Like a Molecule, celebrating the wonderful fact that matter in the universe has seemingly, all on its own, given rise to thinking minds that can now intentionally create new possibilities for a better future.

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HOLLY is a book about a mother and her daughter who was born Down syndrome. It is a story of how love doesn't always come on time and how the unexpected can make a person become more than one ever believed. Holly enters into life with heart disease and is a ticking time bomb. She evolves into a young and wise married woman asking, "How do I be a good wife, Mom?". Dixie begins her life with Holly by race-walking away from home to stop the crying and ends up completing 26 marathons, swimming 10 times from Alcatraz, summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro and becoming an international champion in her age division in amateur bodybuilding, categories: MS PHYSIQUE and MS SPORT MODEL.As Holly ages, Holly faces unexpected challenges in Obesity and Diabetes Type 2.Because of Holly's perseverance and the help of KETO COACH, JD GRIFFIN, Holly makes big changes in her overall health and will be stepping into modeling in a first time Fashion Show hosted by St. Vincent de Paul Society and Kathleen Woodcock, in Marin County, March 2022.

A Universal Story

Two children, Dirk and Dawn, play with their neighbor’s large dog, named BIG DOG. A dog wish is placed deep into their minds and hearts.

Again and again, they plead with their dad and mom for their own dog at their own home, but the answer is always, “No!”

When the neighbor’s dog comes to their house for a two-day stay, Dirk and Dawn are delighted. They are filled with hope that the dog’s visit will turn the “No!” into a “Yes!”

Within minutes of BIG DOG’s arrival, troubles show up, too. His good nature is never in doubt, but his habits and actions do not help the children’s cause.

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The verses of Maya Mitra Das plumb the alchemy of primeval moons and mist-wrapped mountains; delving deep into the realm of personal myth.

Spanning the arc of ecstasy and despair, her poems explore the boundaries of human loneliness as well as the healing power of love.

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If we look closely at the people God used in the Old Testament, we will notice that many of them failed God at some point. They messed up badly, and God still used them. Even in the New Testament, there are people who messed up, and God used them to build His kingdom and church.

God has used and will continue to use "messed-up people," and many such are found in the genealogy of Jesus and also referenced in Hebrews 11, who were broken and really messed up.

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