Paul Clayton
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What do you do when you are an ex-soap star down on your luck and running out of money? For Daniel Maple, a chance meeting in a nightclub presents him with an offer he finds hard to refuse... But crime makes you pay. And someone, somewhere, wants you punished. A real page turner that surprises in its intricate layering of history and present. Blame and guilt are all balanced out brilliantly in this very dark yet funny tale of the repercussions of...
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Calling Crow moves southeast in search of his wife, Juana, taken by the Spanish. He is captured and badly wounded by the Coosa people. Unable to care for himself, he is saved from a slow, painful death and nursed back to health by Green Bird Woman, who he grows to love. Flight of the Crow follows the evolution of Calling Crow in his efforts to stop the invaders to his lands. Employing his dreams and his skills as a warrior, Calling Crow temporarily...
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"Clayton's strong character writing carries the book…" - Publishers Weekly In the future, the love of a young man's life is slowly dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive…except that! - AmythingIn Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood - with deadly consequences…A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland…The...
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Calling Crow faces his most difficult challenge yet as the hostile Timucua, who have allied themselves with the powerful Spanish to get deadly thundersticks, move north in search of more slaves and conquest. Now Calling Crow must decide whether joining forces with another invader to his lands, the Englishmen, can halt the Spanish onslaught without sacrificing the freedom of his people.
5) Calling Crow
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"… Make no mistake about it: This is frontier fiction at its finest and most compelling-characters that yank you into their lives at this most crucial time in the history not only of this hemisphere, but in the making of the New World. To my way of thinking, if Calling Crow is an indication of what is this new writer's raw power, Paul Clayton should be around for a long, long time, spinning his mystifying, heart-wrenching tales that undeniably have...
6) The Hoax
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Meet Frankie Baxter. She's trying to make ends meet and keep the boat afloat for her three kids. She's harassed, sometimes impatient. But, she's a fabulous mum. So, imagine her distress when Henry, her youngest child, goes missing...
Henry returns safety accompanied by a stranger, Cora, a fairy godmother who starts to change the Baxter family's lives in the best of ways. So why do things suddenly start going wrong? Is Cora fulfilling their dreams...
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One of the most haunting mysteries in American history - The Lost Colony of Roanoke - comes roaring back to life in White Seed with a compelling cast of characters, among them: Maggie Hagger, indentured Irish serving girl, a victim of rape and intimidation, Manteo, Croatoan interpreter for the English, inhabitant of two worlds, belonging to neither, John White, ineffective Governor, painter, dreamer, father and grandfather, Captain Stafford, brave...
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Each year, hundreds of newly ordained pastors enter their first congregations, unsure whether seminary training has truly prepared them for the day-to-day work of parish ministry. Clayton uses a unique epistolary format-from an older, experienced pastor to a novice-to address wisely such issues as preparing for weddings, funerals, and baptisms, planning education, evangelism, and stewardship programs, growing spiritually, developing a leadership style,...
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“Called for Life” reflects on our calling to serve God and neighbor in the context of retirement. People facing retirement ask a variety of questions, each framed by a different perspective. "Will I ever be interested in retiring?" some baby boomers ask. "Who am I now?" newly retired clergy ask. "What, if anything, is God calling me to do and be after retirement?" all inquire. This book is built on the assumption that most people don't want to...