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Hi, my name is Tom and I’ll be your host and head yarn spinner.I live in a small town in south Texas that is filled with character and characters, so I’ll be mixing together both reality and fiction into entertaining stories for old and young alike and I’ll also be the narrator. Imagine what it would be like if the Twilight Zone showed up in a sleepy little town surrounded by cattle country, and decided to stay.If you love small town charm then you’re gonna love my stories. By the way I’m a former newspaper and magazine columnist with several hundred articles published over the past ...

This is the story of two small town childhood sweethearts from the 1950s, on the verge of graduating high school and becoming man and wife, when suddenly, heartbreaking tragedy tears their world apart. Now, with a broken destiny and an unplanned future that does not include each other, life continues to run in the wrong direction for both Jack Masters and Lillian Maxwell. Incredibly, though, this is also a story of love redeemed and a destiny ultimately fulfilled.

This compilation of short stories is a rambunctious romp through the surreal and an adventure into the supernatural. Inside this book, you will find tales with a twist that involve aliens from another galaxy, demons in disguise, rescuing angels, a famous cutthroat villain from the past, as well as a former Rock and Roll music icon from decades ago. If you enjoy reading stories with cool and unpredictable endings as well as some with historically accurate origins, then this collection is for you.

Something stinks in Clovis, New Mexico and it's not just the dozens of dairies and numerous stockyards in the area. Government and corporate corruption have unique smells all their own. The mysterious deaths of two local community leaders, the sudden influx of outsiders, and local law enforcement becoming overly aggressive in every way, has the local citizenry stricken with confusion, fear and anxiety. Vincent Anthony D'Angelo, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran and a true fish out of water, hailing from the shores of Boggy Bayou in northwest Florida, arrives in Clovis, and none too soon.

Anyone who has ever listened to one of the author's fictional novels or short stories knows first hand, that he is a consummate storyteller. He has now utilized that talent to provide his listeners with a collection of autobiographical true stories that will touch their hearts, thrill their senses, incite encouragement, and provide a great deal of listening entertainment. This volume of nonlinear stories, the first of many, brings to life the ups and downs and well as the "in-betweens" of Tom DiFrancesca's interesting and challenging life, to date.

If you've got a busy lifestyle and have been looking for something different in a daily Christian devotional, your search is over. This is the second volume of a collection of Haiku poetry that is used to create a foundation for a series of short devotions. Each devotion contains one Haiku verse, a bible scripture passage, and a short prayer. This audiobook is part of the Devotions to Go& series which has been quite popular worldwide for several years, now. Each volume contains thirty-one devotions.

The first volume of a series and it contains 31 daily devotions. Each Christian devotion contains one poem written in the Haiku style of poetry, a quoted Bible verse, and a short prayer. This type of devotional was created for those folks who are always on the go.

Hippocrates, the man referred to as the "Father of Medicine" for the past few centuries, was known to be able to heal a wide range of illnesses. Thousands upon thousands of people flocked to him for medical treatment and he had a very high success rate. Of all the natural ingredients that he used to treat the ill, there were two that he used the most. Apple cider vinegar and honey made up the base for most of Hippocrates' remedies.