The Sound Of Silence
A young engineer thinks he is now ready to live the dream, he graduated from college last year. Married his college sweetheart and she is now eight months pregnant with their first baby. Hired by a large company that makes parts for engines, these engines go into airplanes, buses, large trucks etc. He discovers that many of the engine parts they are shipping out are flawed. When he tried to get a recall done he was told to “keep your mouth shut or we will fire you and your wife won’t have any insurance.” He is caught in a terrible dilemma, people could be killed, but if he says anything … if he does nothing and an airplane engine fails?Tim is a sixteen-year-old boy who only wants to play a horn in the school band. Unfortunately, his father says “my son in going to play football and I am going to make him take flying lessons to make a man out of him.” The boy hates football and he had, no desire to learn to fly little airplanes. You will feel the tension every time he goes up in one of those little Cessna airplanes. Is this one with a good motor or a bad motor?Jim has two loves, first his beautiful wife Allie and then his pretty new Bonanza airplane. Cruising two miles up in a clear blue sky over the forest of Mississippi, the engine explodes.One single event, and three lives shattered. It takes the redundancy of the FBI, and the FAA, spurred on by the tenacity of one determined man to untangle the web.
The Pardners
On the lonely, wind-swept plains of west Texas stand an assortment of adobe cottage. It is the Boy’s Ranch home for 100 orphaned boys.
A cocky confident, full of life young man who is the starting short stop on the baseball team at the Boy’s Ranch, which is the only home he has known since the Indians killed his parents when he was three years old. Today he waits outside the dean’s office, he has no idea why he has been summoned to the office, he hasn’t done anything bad recently.
As he walks into the padre’s office the kind old padre looks sad. Unknown to Grady McCain, each year the sad old padre has an unpleasant task, he is forced to expel each boy after his eighteenth birthday. Grady turned eighteen five days ago.
The padre did something he had never done before, he got up from behind his desk and sat in the chair beside Grady, putting his big hand on Grady’s shoulder he said, “Son, I am so sorry, you have been a great leader for the younger boys.”
Grady was confused, “Are you kicking me off the baseball team?”
Tears appeared in the padre’s eyes, he slowly shook his head, “Grady the state cuts off funding for a boy when he turns eighteen, I am so sorry, but we have to expel you.”
Grady was shocked and confused, then he remembered seeing boys leave every year, but never knew why they were leaving. The padre stood up and walked behind his desk, opened the top drawer, and pulled out twenty silver dollars. Handing them over to Grady he said, “I will keep you in my prayers. I want you to go to the lunchroom and eat lunch before you leave. I wish we had more money to send with you, but we don’t.”
With a trembling hand Grad reached out and took the twenty silver dollars, which was more money than he had ever seen at one time. When Grady walked out of the padre’s office, he was no longer a cocky self-confident young man, he was a scared little boy. When he went to the lunchroom, he didn’t tell anybody what had just happened.
Grady walked out the gate and turned toward the closest town, he didn’t have a horse, a gun or anything except the twenty silver dollars in his jeans. What was he supposed to do? When will he sleep, tonight? Grady walked under the hot blazing Texas sun, six long lonely miles to Abilene.
The young boy/man walks straight into a fight for survival, mot only for himself but also for to lovely young ladies who find themselves suddenly without a home or any family support. Following The Dream
Following The Dream
A Following the Dream is the third book in George Dalton’s hit, Dream series, first A COLLISION OF DREAMS, HOLDING ON TO THE DREAM, and now FOLLOWING THE DREAM.
Billy Joe McClanton turned eighteen and thought he was a man. After all he had been doing a man’s work since he was fifteen.
He felt it was time for him to follow his own dream after all this was now 1900 and time was slipping away.
Then one day he saw a column of wagons heading north. Out of curiosity he rode up to one of the wagons and asked, where everybody was going.
He met Mr. Carpenter and his beautiful daughter Mary Beth, and found out that they were going to have a land give away in Oklahoma next month.
Was it lure of free land or the chance to see Mary Beth again? A naive eighteen-year-old found himself involved in the midst of one of the most bizarre and dangerous schemes any government ever dreamed up when he placed his name on the list of people signed up for the Oklahoma land rush.
The government was giving away fifty-thousand plots of land but one -hundred- thousand people signed up. It was a mad race to be the first to grab a numbered flag that claimed ownership of a piece of land. Horses trampled man when they fell in the rush, gunshots were fired in disputes over who really was first to reach a flag., melees were the realm of the day. A determined eighteen-year-old raced for the piece of land he had chosen to go after. Unfortunately, he lost track of Mary Beth. His first night on his new land, while sitting at his camp fire three bad outlaws decided to rob him and kill him. This started a suspense filled story of revenge, love lost, love found, how a young man grew to maturity quickly in the early 1900s. A fourth generation of McClinton’s is launched.
Defending The Dream
A Charles Ray McClanton was the son of a wealthy rancher/lumberman. He was enjoying a carefree life style until the faithful day he received a letter from them secretary of the army. He found himself in the horrors of Military basic training to become a fighter plane pilot, in the greatest war the world has ever known. Millions of lives will be lost, families torn apart. Loves lost. What or who will decide, who and what will survive, to go on? A compelling story of love and loss, bravery and luck. until the echo of the last cannon rolls through the hills. In the horror of it all a mother’s love never dies.
Collision of Dreams
Sam McClanton was a rough-and-tumble, drifting cowboy, until he met a beautiful blonde on Main Street in Cactus Tree City . . .
Mattie Ann Carville is the stunningly beautiful daughter of the wealthiest land-owner in Texas . . .
Juan, a Mexican drifter whose ruggedness is tempered by his love of music, finds himself in jail until Sam bails him out to help break some horses .
Randolph Taggert is the leader of one of a vicious outlaw family, whose son tried to out-draw Sam McClanton . . .
At the intersection of dreams and destinies . . .
Holding On To The Dream
Life in Texas has hard in the winter of 1883. Many cattle ranchers were wiped out when their cattle died in the winter storms. The mortality rate for babies born in this time period was horrible. Many young mothers also died giving birth to their children with little or no medical care. This book starts with a young father holding his tiny baby boy in his hands thinking “If I can’t keep the cattle alive through the winter, I won’t be able to feed this child nest year. If I lose his mother, I have no idea what will do.”
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