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Ever been to the Redneck Riviera (Panama City Beach, Florida) or gone on any other vacation trip by car with anxious young-uns in the back seat wondering if you are ever going to get there? How many McDonald’s hamburgers did you eat along the way over the years? Remember the days before cell phones and GPS’s when you actually had to read a road map? Or how about the vacations spent in cramped one or two bed motels which might, or might not, have a tiny kitchenette? What great memories annual vacations with the family bring back. Now you can travel down the highway with the Thames family...

Coelacanths were an ancient fish thought to be extinct from around the time the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago (or so scientists said). This fish was shockingly discovered alive and well in 1938 (Not 65 million years old of course, but the ancestor of one of those long thought gone from planet Earth.) They are bottom-of-the-deep-ocean-dwellers which may account for their having not been found for so long in anything but fossils. The Coelacanth that may reach 6 feet long and weigh 200 pounds is called “The Living Fossil”. What other mysterious, as-of-yet unknown creatures, ...

Treasure. Many seek treasure but few find it. Robert Parker, a young University of Georgia college student, is one who seeks treasure but finds it in the unlikeliest of places, and it is not the treasure he thought it would be. Sere Smith, the plain young woman from Blountstown, Florida that Robert encounters, finds out that not everything in life is black and white. Once again Allan Thames takes you on an incredible adventure seeking love, like he did in his first Destiny story, Destiny-When the Stars Were Young and the World Was New. This time, however, the main obstacle to be overcome in...

Enon Road was that mythical, mystical and seemingly sometimes magical place where a family of grandparents, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and cousins lived during the 1960’s and 1970’s The Boys of Enon Road- in Transition is about those painful changes that they faced, transitions that we all face in life as we age. It is written from the perspective of a stubborn parent who does not want to cooperate with the final move to an elderly care facility. Ultimately this is a story about that one tough transition that must be made either to the nursing home or to ...

Desperate people make desperate decisions that eventually lead them to take even more desperate actions. Elizabeth “Mac” MacIntosh was about to be homeless but a controlling, alcoholic Harley Martin took her in. When the situation quickly turned abusive, the young woman had no where else to go, so she stayed with Harley, until Wallace came along. Dear Wallace, still suffering from the shock of a recent divorce, and fearing loneliness, befriends Elizabeth and desperately invites her home. They are soon thrown together in their efforts to avoid Harley’s vicious attempts to punish ...

Manger scenes. The baby Jesus. Mary. Joseph. Shepherds, Wise men, or Magi as some called them. Cows. A donkey. A dog. Angels. A star. One young shepherd boy who heard the angels and visited the blessed stable carved what he had seen (all except the angels that he had never been able to carve) and presented it to the Christ child. Through the years the crèche as some called it, was lost or misplaced or hidden. Legends grew up around it. Some said the baby Jesus had kissed it, thus passing some of his miraculous power into it. Rumor proclaimed that just by touching it to their lips a person ...

The Liar-He did not see himself as a liar, but as a storyteller, an entertainer, a gifted “yarn spinner” who could convince people that he was someone he was not and take them places he had never seen, and usually to exotic places they had never been. Some stories begin with a kernel of truth, and others are total fabrications, but they are all designed to build up the teller and enthrall the listener. The trouble comes when fiction starts to become truth, when people believe the story so much that they change their lives. The Liar, who is nothing more than an auto parts salesman, ...

The San Antonio Alamos, Major League Baseball’s latest expansion team, are in an exciting chase for their first division title when tragedy strikes. Their plane goes down in a storm and everyone thinks it is the end for the Alamo’s. However, with some “Divine Intervention”, the team is allowed to return in the bodies of their minor league affiliate, the Columbus Gunboats, who will play the rest of their season. There is a catch (there always is in baseball). To get their old lives back, the Alamos must win all the way to the World Series and not lose it. Can they, playing through ...

CHRISTMAS MATTERS CHRISTMAS MATTERS is a collection of Christmas memories from long ago, and from not so long ago. CHRISTMAS MATTERS takes you to the stable where the Christ Child was born, and into the family homes of past Christmas celebrations. CHRISTMAS MATTERS starts in the mind of an eight year child and takes you through the poetic wanderings of that child’s great-grand father. CHRISTMAS MATTERS looks in on church Christmas dramas and lively church Christmas parties where Santa always makes an appearance. CHRISTMAS MATTERS travels from a war torn Korea one Christmas where a lonely ...

Destiny. She was his destiny and he was hers. Before time began, they were created for each other, and knew and loved each other. Who is to say if maybe in another life, in another world, in another dream, in another romance novel, they hadn’t already met and merged their essence into one, so that in lives, worlds, dreams and novels yet to come, they would know each other, seek each other out, feeling incomplete without each other? Should they happen to meet, when their need was the greatest, they would recognize each other, and would know they were meant and created for each other. ...

Encore means “again, once more” in music and is often the call of an audience for a repeat of a performance. Christmas Crèche-endo Encore is the written encore to Allan B. Thames’ book Christmas Crèche-endo in which a whole town experiences a Christmas performance of angelic music. In “Encore", eight year old Angelica Lynn experiences a contact with angels when visiting her grandfather, known to some folks simply as ‘the old man’. The ‘old man’ lives on a hill where for decades he has put out a Christmas display in his yard complete with Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, angels ...

Strange. Different. Weird. All of these are words that could describe this tale about Aubrey Thorne, a very heavy set man who has been rejected by women throughout his life, falls desperately in love with a woman who cannot possibly love him back, and then encounters the one woman he really did love. Or does he? Geoff “Skinny” Taylor is Aubrey’s best friend who loves nothing better than exchanging acidic, humorous barbs with Aubrey about his weight. Can he save Aubrey from the past, the present, and the future loves that have entangled him? Who or what is Sereynity? Where does she ...

Greg Thames was one of those “larger-than-life but down-home, common man” characters that doesn’t come along very often in life. I was blessed and honored in that I got to see him up close and personal because he was my older brother. Greg lived a challenging life, but it was a life where he never quit fighting the odds that many times were stacked against him. When you would ask him how he was doing he would say “Day by Day”. That became his philosophy of life, to live today, enjoy today, and deal with tomorrow when it came. This book is a little different in that Greg wrote the ...

After over 65 years of life, 45 years of marriage and 30 years in the ministry, Celia and Allan Thames have stored up a treasure of wisdom that they want to share here in BITS-O-WISDOM. Their 10-year-old granddaughter, Grace, has some advice of her own to offer such as “If you have money, buy candy.” Good advice unless you are a dentist. Sometimes lighthearted (“Change the oil in your car at regularly scheduled intervals”), sometimes poignant (“Enjoy and appreciate every moment with those precious loved ones”), Celia and Allan have literally spent their lifetime, so far, in ...