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Madge's Mobile Home Park
Volume One of the Peavine Chronicles
Jane F. Hankins
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2012

This hilarious send-up of outlandish Southern characters includes a beautician, a luncheonette waitress, a radio evangelist, the widow of a gas and oil distributror and the residents of a fictional mobile home park in Arkansas as they find uproarious ways to enjoy life, needle each other, and remember the dear-departed. 

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Maestro
Love Sonnets
Roger Armbrust
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2021
Roger Armbrust’s collection of 55 poems represents an extended love song for the world’s great classical composers. Many of the sonnets envision history’s maestros at some phase of their extraordinary lives. A few of the verses are celebrations of life which include a reverent mention of a master. Taken together, they convey the poet’s deep respect for these geniuses and the creative process. In one sonnet, he writes of Mendelssohn:
 
Sense of presence leading to reverence,
not so much awaking as reverie
evolving to understanding, essence
of living within all.
 
Armbrust conveys this mood of reverence, reverie, and understanding throughout this collection.
 
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Mending Torn Pages
Sonnets
Roger Armbrust
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2021
Armbrust writes sonnets on a variety of themes, primarily addressed to his muse and his lovers. Since 1979, when his first book of poetry went to press, he continues to write, as if he opens a vein to pour his own blood onto the page to do it.
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Miss Carrie
A Novel
Judson N. Hout
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2013

“Set in Arkansas during World War II, Hout’s touching story of an orphaned boy's relationship with the inhabitant of a small town's "haunted house” will keep you guessing, right up to the satisfying ending.  Another endearing novel from Judson Hout."

--Cindy Ward, Dallas, Texas

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Mr. Chairman
The Life and Legacy of Wilbur D. Mills
Kay Collett Goss
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2012
No-holds barred bio of national budget czar (during the 1950s and 1960s), Wilbur D. Mills, who was Chairman of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means for nineteen years.  Mills tutuladge of young congressman, such as George H.W. Bush (the future president #41) and detailed knowledge of the United States Tax Code, as well as his behind-the-scenes network of information and the leanings of congressional members earned him high regard in the eyes of presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon.  Mills' career came to an abrupt end when he was found at the Tidal Basin with exotic dancer, Fanny Foxe.  The text describes both Mills the powerful politician and Mills' sometimes troubled personal life with clarity and in detail.
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