Ken La Salle
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These works by Ken La Salle range from the bizarre to the morbid and even further beyond still. In Death Misses and other tales of death, Ken La Salle treats you to a dozen deadly tales to keep you up at night.
• You'll find out exactly what happens when Death misses and what lengths he'll go to fix that.
• You'll meet a scientist who has overcome death, though it might overcome him.
• You'll encounter a man who can hear souls no matter where...
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Take a trip across our known world and beyond! You'll not only experience the highest point on Mt. Everest (nearly), the depths of a live volcano, and even the surface of the moon, you'll also learn a few secrets along the way. You'll discover why ownership isn't as possible as you've been told, why straight lines never are, and why there aren't as many new masterworks from the Renaissance as there probably should be.
Discover the pitfalls of aesthetic...
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Nine states. Two control freaks. One steering wheel. What could possibly go wrong?
It may be that a marriage ends not with a whimper but with the slam of a car door on a deserted stretch of highway. Most married couples know better than to put themselves in each other's way, but in Ken La Salle's first autobiographical monologue, he tells about how he and his wife of eight years did just that on a road trip that probably should never have happened.
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The works of Ken La Salle range from the bizarre to the whimsical and even further beyond still. In Blue Food and other menu items, Ken La Salle treats you to a dozen tales, hilarious and deeply strange.
• You'll be introduced to Blue Food and find out why it never seemed to catch on in America.
• You'll meet Bigfoot's Older Brother and find out just what it's like to set Bigfoot up on a date.
• You'll be learn about how the dead make the best...
5) Cambria
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Off the California coast, sits a small town split by the Pacific Coast Highway and in this town actually stood a salmon colored Victorian home where a not so young couple first learned how to trust.
This was my second marriage. I was in my forties with a divorce under my belt, a job I hated, and then this woman comes into my life making games of my fears. She came from a world I had never known, one that wasn't so cruel and dangerous.
We married and...
6) To a Dreamer
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This book is sent out into the world, addressed to a dreamer. It was written during a three-year period of my life, one that started at a time when I didn't really believe in dreams and ended with me knowing unshakably the power that dreams have to make our lives better. It is a collection of three shorter books and those books are: The Worth of Dreams The Value of Dreamers, In Our Selves, and Dreaming With Open Eyes.
Some dreamers will find this...
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Are the voices in your head listening to you? Oh yes. Yes, they are listening to you. They know what you're saying. Sometimes, they talk back. Sometimes, they sing along. Sometimes, they write children's book with hidden messages placed in plain sight with a neon bow because, hey, a little style never hurt anyone. (This, of course, ignores the Great Style Massacre of 1973.)
Welcome to 'Fun To Grow On' — the new children's book series for adults....
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Before Climbing Maya, author Ken La Salle had to face A Grand Canyon, a wasteland of depression, doubt, loss, and misery. Now Ken shares his story with honesty, an open soul, and his trademark wit. In September 2002, Ken left his home and drove to the Grand Canyon to kill himself. The only life he'd ever known was little more than a shambles. He'd lost his wife and now he realized that he really couldn't live without her. His choices were to either...
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Jackson is just a Wal-Mart worker from Los Angeles, far too caught up in the apathy of modern life to believe in anything. After spending one night with the daughter of a wood nymph and the man who surrendered his arm for the woman he loved, the lithesome beauty named Mari, Jackson knows he believes. And he knows he'll do anything to find her again.
He follows her up the coast of California and a polar bear drives the taxi. Into the forest and through...
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I recently opened up my chest of childhood memories, faced a decade I had long since forgotten, and wrote these words:
"It was the hippest of times. It was the funkiest of times. It was the 1970s."
And I grew up right there in the middle of it. I won talent shows. I went to camp. I fought the school bully for the honor of the girl I loved. I lost my father...
But having just turned 50, I decided the time had come to take an honest look at those...
11) Climbing Maya
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What is success? What does it mean? How is it that we all look for this thing we call "success," while each having our own idea about what it could be? Is there one definition for success? And why does the dictionary get it wrong? Find out in Climbing Maya.
Each person must find success on their own, of course. It's either that or remain unfulfilled. Nobody tells us what it is or how to find it or even what to look for; we're just told that it's...
12) In Our Selves
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Dreams make us better, happier, healthier people. They help us achieve our greatest potential. They help us become the person we want to be.
With In Our Selves, Ken La Salle brings another collection of essays from the pages of Recovering the Self. Not only does he share his journey but he also provides the reader with tips and clues and signposts to help them along the way.
Dreams are the best parts of all of us. We should never forget they lie...
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When we dream of what our lives can hold, we should always dream with open eyes. We should always be aware of the pitfalls before us but, more importantly, we should open our eyes to the dangers that exist should we lack the courage to pursue our dreams. Once we understand our options, we'll be better suited to do what we need to do to find happiness in our lives.
Dreaming With Open Eyes is Ken La Salle's third collection of essays from the pages...
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Write an essay every month about pursuing your dreams? Heck, it was a struggle every day just for me to keep believing in mine. And yet, that is how this book began.
I began writing an essay every month about pursuing your dreams for the fine folk at Recovering The Self and an amazing thing happened: I felt it help me pursue mine!
I hope the essays in this book, encompassing the first year of essays in Recovering The Self (along with a little bonus...
15) The Rule Book
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If there's one thing most people can agree on, it's that there should be rules for life.
And they're right. We should have a set of rules that we can all agree on, that show us how to experience happier, more authentic lives. A set of rules that cuts through the crap of everyday life to expose what it is we can all agree is true, even if it isn't always what we want to hear.
This is why I assembled The Rule Book, a book about the truths of life...
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"Most people land on their feet. I land on my face."
And, with that, Ken La Salle begins his second, autobiographical monologue. But while That Olympic Peninsula Layby put two people at odds with each other, Ken is The World's Worst Backpacker all by himself.
From the encroaching urbanity of Irvine Park in Southern California, to the remote thoroughfare that is the Pacific Crest Trail, decades of disastrous treks should have given him a clue. They...
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Are the voices in your head listening to you? Oh yes. Yes, they are listening to you. They know what you're saying. Sometimes, they talk back. Sometimes, they sing along. Sometimes, they write children's book with hidden messages placed in plain sight with a neon bow because, hey, a little style never hurt anyone. (This, of course, ignores the Great Style Massacre of 1973.)
Welcome to "Fun To Grow On" — the new children's book series for adults....
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What do you do when your father is losing his life just as you are losing your mind? Run like hell.
At the close of A Grand Canyon, Ken La Salle and his beloved Vicky drive off into the sunset. It's a fairy tale ending, providing your idea of a fairy tale includes suicide attempts, hallucinations, and crippling self-doubt.
Now, in The Day We Said Goodbye, it's time to live the dream. Vicky and Ken get married, travel the world, and embrace the warm...