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All GMTA books are free to download TODAY (Click here for UK downloads).  Why not check them out? Conversations With a Dead Man by Doug Lucas BOOK DESCRIPTION A stroll through an old cemetery will reveal very little about the people buried there. Their headstones will whisper of father, wife or lost child----but they don't sing of the lives those men and women led. Even our national heroes are lucky to have one or two of their life's accomplishments inscribed on their markers for future generations to marvel at. Cemeteries are filled with forgotten people. They were people who had lives rich with or empty of the joys that just being alive creates for us. Once we are dead and gone, our lives quickly fade into small morsels of oral history and are slowly forgotten by family and friends as time and generations pass. What would these forgotten souls tell us if they could talk?  Conversations With a Dead Man answers some of those questions from a dead man's point of view. John Wesley Elder will share his loves, failures, accomplishments and the simple life he led with you.  Spending a few hours with him will allow you to understand not only the man, but glimpse the times he lived in. You'll come to understand that although he's dead, he still has a few quirks in his personality and one or two sorrows------he's much the same as you or I. John Wesley Elder was an ordinary man who lived, loved and built a life for himself. He invites you to join him for a quiet chat or two, if you have the time he'll share events in his life that you can't find on his headstone. He'll share his life and also try to help you understand the times he lived in and introduce you to some of the people who filled his life with joy and sorrow. So set down, lean against the coolness of his head stone and just listen.  The Spirit Archer by Mike Evers BOOK DESCRIPTION Some secrets are meant to be shared; and a boy’s encounter with England’s most legendary archer will change his life forever.  In 1237, a man journeys to a priory in Yorkshire to seek refuge and treatment for battle wounds. He is betrayed and murdered. His final, dying act is to fire an arrow through a window, asking to be buried where it lands.  Nearly eight hundred years later, a schoolboy’s incredible discovery will lead to a friendship that will alter his life forever.  And he’ll hear some tales and secrets of England’s most legendary archer of all. Queen Emily's Enchanted Kingdom by Lee-Ann Graff-Vinson  BOOK DESCRIPTION When Emily goes to sleep at night, her dreams take her into an Enchanted Kingdom. She is transformed into Queen Emily, the ruler of the land. Her most beloved friend and favorite bedtime stuffy, comes alive and together, they solve the mystery of the candy covered Kingdom. In the process, Queen Emily learns an important lesson about what can happen when you eat too many treats! The Man in the Mountain by Doug Lucas  BOOK DESCRIPTION For most of us, we have mental pictures of just what and how our favorite authors live. Their lives must be far richer and more interesting than ours, because they have the ability to engage our minds and thrill our souls with their visions of what life was, is or could be. These word smiths can hold our imaginations in a vise grip with the grace and skill they weave action, love, adventure, and science fiction genres into a whole cloth we can clad ourselves in for an hour or a life time. This magic cloth allows us to escape our own truth and absorb realities that thrill, intrigue or titillate us. At times authors can: relieve boredom, fear or want, and offer the grace of comfort to our mundane day to day existence. Most at one time or another has sought the company of our favorite author's work to do some or all of those things. Poets entice us to spend an hour On Walden's Pond, historians teach us the lessons of The Rise and Fall of The Roman Empire, theologians interpret The Last Days of Christ for us, and humorist show us The Redneck Dictionary is really us as others see us. We think we know these word smiths, those tellers of tales who will join, entertain and instruct us with the turn of a page or the touch of a screen. To one degree or another, we are what we read and what we read depends on the author who engages our mind. But what would happen if a group of people found themselves in a real life web of entanglement and relied to one degree or another on their favorite author?  Would those solutions rendered in print, meet their needs or fail without aiding them as they sought solutions to their own drama?  Another small question might concern some of our favorite authors, would they meet our mental image of who they really are? I invite you to spend some time with me and explore these questions, as you touch the screen or turn the page.