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An inspiring collection of the poetry of Russ Towne including an eclectic mix of heartwarming and humorous creations including reflections on beauty, love, nature, friendship, heartache, and relationships.

In this book you’ll experience many of the simple yet powerful ways Russ has found to enhance his life and the lives of others. Through true heartwarming and humorous stories, observations, and sketches, this book explores many of the things that can make life so rich. With his refreshing combination of honesty, vulnerability, humor, gratitude, and love, there is no doubt that Russ Towne speaks from his heart with every word he writes.

Wilbur and Elaine Mallard of The Duck Who Flew Upside Down fame have their hearts and wings full with their three zany offspring. Although Loopy, Corky, and Mae all face physical limitations and challenges, they find they can accomplish amazing things separately and working together as a family.

This collaboration between best-selling author of westerns Russ Towne and fiction author Holly Bargo - the two “guns” - presents 12 tales of the Old West. Each author has contributed six stories or “bullets” to this anthology. We hope to satisfy audiences of the genre with rousing stories that not only meet expectations, but also add some uncommon insight into the short period of American history known as the Wild West.

In this audiobook you’ll meet one of the craziest characters you’re ever likely to experience anywhere. He is a green giraffe named Clyde, and he’s standing on his head out in the rain while eating a blue banana! You’ll find out why in my book titled Clyde the Green Giraffe in 4 Tales.

Terror, love, chills, hope, magic, thrills, and fantasy await you. Come inside and be Touched! These stories will inspire, haunt, amaze, and delight listeners who love to experience the wide array of speculative and flash fiction genres. Journey from inner hearts to outer space, utopias to dystopias, and many worlds in between. Experience the hope, strength, perseverance, despair, and heroism of ordinary people as they face breathtaking odds with their lives and, sometimes, the fate of whole worlds hanging in the balance. Touched is a celebration of life!

Hear three magical tales of dragons and unicorns.

The evil soul of a witch doctor lives on in the body of Simon, the great jungle beast who leads his human followers - the Panther People - in their orgies of lust and blood. Now the innocent Martin family, George, Peg, and their beautiful daughter, Jenny, on vacation, will stumble upon this gruesome cult, trapped in a desert nightmare of terror and death - waiting. In the quiet wasteland, the sound of their own pulses will be all they can hear.

Wilbur Mallard is a very odd duck. He is bright orange with purple spots and a great big bright purple thing-a-ma-jig on top of his head. Every time Wilbur tries to fly, that thing-a-ma-jig spins him upside down! When he tries to land, he always ends up bouncing, somersaulting, and finally crashing or splashing in a heap. Ducks aren’t built to fly upside down, so Wilbur has to work much harder than the other ducks to fly. Poor Wilbur! But these challenges and differences help Wilbur in many ways.

US Marshal Arliss “Patch” Elkins sets out to bring to justice a rich 14-year-old boy accused of murdering his parents. When someone puts a $100,000 bounty on their heads with a single stipulation - kill them - Patch and his prisoner must fight for their lives. The journey to bring the boy to trial turns into a bloody gauntlet from hell when every murderous thug within 500 miles goes after them for the bounty money and the hunter becomes the hunted.

Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series—and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls—Richard Russo’s Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of...

In this story, Helen sends a letter to Longshot Hanson, asking him for help when Patch arrests the brother of a gang leader for murdering the mayor during a town council meeting. In a desperate bid to secure his brother’s release, Cord Stoddard and his gang kill the school’s teacher and kidnap the students, including Patch and Helen’s daughter and Gus’ twin sisters.

Another seven great chapters that defend God's word.

Empire Falls, eine Kleinstadt in Maine: Seit über zwanzig Jahren arbeitet Miles Roby im örtlichen Diner. Hier versammelt sich die ganze Stadt, vom Fitnessstudiobesitzer bis zum Schuldirektor. Miles selbst hat das College abgebrochen, ist geschieden und lebt in einer winzigen Wohnung über dem Restaurant. Und während er sein Bestes gibt, seiner Tochter dabei zu helfen, die Highschool zu überstehen, seinen trinkfreudigen Vater zu bändigen und dem Job im Diner gerecht zu werden, bleibt nicht viel Raum für das, was er sich vom Leben erhofft hat.

Desperate Journeys by Russ Towne takes listeners on a thrill ride with five gripping stories of suspense where ordinary people face impossibly long odds, conquer fear, and find the strength to survive horrifying circumstances.

Sara is a young heroine who gets caught up in her mother's stories. Questioning what's real and what's her imagination, she is swept away on an adventure of her own to a castle ruled by a dragon and his goblins. In a plot to return home she tricks the goblins, wanders the castle, and meets a trickster - a pooka whom she names Fairy. Sara and her story of learning to read offer some valuable lessons on overcoming struggle. In this introduction to a series, Sara begins an epic adventure in story.

Although he holds a doctorate in depression, author Greg L. Russ chose to create this audiobook from a patient's point of view. Having suffered five clinical bouts, Russ offers a graphic look inside the dark abyss while chronicling the insights he learned when his depression intersected God's mercy. The audiobook extends an invitation to families, friends, churches, and their pastors to become part of the comforting process.

During the Civil War, young Leith Hanson quickly becomes known as the best shot in his unit. He is so accurate that he quickly earns the nickname "Longshot" and is selected for a special sharpshooter unit. After the war, Longshot just wants to put the war behind him and move on with his life, but friends from those bloody days need a man with his special skills to help them overcome terrible odds just to stay alive.

This new collection from Russ Towne pulls together two of his most popular short story collections. In this set you will find all the stories contained within A Bloody Day in Destiny and A Bullet in the Neck. If you love the popular Western short story collections of Scott Harris, Robert Hanlon, and Paul L. Thompson - you will love Bloody Showdown on Three Falls Creek.

Russ Towne’s stories about marriage are often humorous, sometimes hilarious, and always heartwarming. He shares adventures from meeting and dating the woman who would become his wife, their wedding and honeymoon, through their early years to the present nearly four decades later. Along the way, the author shares many insights as to what worked and what didn’t in their relationship.