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If our dogs could only talk to us That's what makes six year old Darlene Stempler's relationship with her nine year old black Labrador, Cookies, so special. Darlene believes with all her heart that she and Cookies communicate through ESP. Cookies is her best and most trusted friend. So when Cookies limps home one afternoon with a bad leg, she's worried about the outcome. Her father, Ron, has lost his job in the Great Recession, and though he's willing to do all he can to restore Cookie's to health, she's not sure time or the family's dwindling bank account is on her side. The not so great Great Recession. Christmas. An out of work father. And an injured, aging family pet requiring costly ACL surgery. Ron Stempler fully intended to have their nine year old Labrador medically fixed up until everyone suggested an unthinkable alternative. Everyone except his wife and his daughter Darlene who claimed to have an unbreakable ESP connection with her beloved black lab. While trying to decide what to do with the animal they consider a "family member", it is Ron himself - disenfranchised, self doubting, but loving father - whose hard choices allow him to rediscover his valued place as a "family member". FAMILY MEMBER / COMEDY/ DRAMA / FICTION (c)2012 ALBERT GOODMAN has one wife, three sons, and two dogs - but who's counting? "Family Member" is the novelization of his 2003 screenplay of the same name. Albert has written twelve unproduced screenplays. Apparently, he's counting. Albert dedicates "Family Member" to his wife. Buy a copy so she can finally have people over. FAMILY MEMBER / COMEDY/ DRAMA / FICTION (c)2012

The God Particle? The Higgs Boson hunt was on. When Washington decided to build America's Super Conducting Super Collider in a small Texas town, the gold rush and land grab was on, too. News of the Super Conducting SuperCollider brings all sorts of brows - high and low - into the race to get rich quick and discover "the mysterious molecular nature of the universe." (historical fable) Peach trees have no real reason to grow in a hot climate like Parker County, Texas and you could almost say the same for some locals. But life presses on and biology teacher Ledonna Truehart can't understand what all the fuss is about when a band of residents petitions the court to have a pig fetus removed from her junior high biology lab. For her, it's enchanting evidence of "the mysterious molecular nature of the universe". For them, it's a threat to decency. But attention shifts when word leak that the United States intends to break ground on America's first Super Conducting Super Collider (Atom Smasher) in their town to discover "the secret of life". ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY(c)1999 Albert Goodman's original screenplay with revisions. Why a screenplay? Peach Trees was written as a dialogue driven "tone poem"; the screenplay format keeps the dialogue up front and flowing. Those unaccustomed to reading screenplays may have initial trouble with the format and keeping the character's straight. This book is offered only in the SCREENPLAY format. Why Build an Atom Smasher? The first and most important order of business is to prove (or disprove) the existence of a single particle known as the Higgs boson -- a speck so precious that it has come to be called "The God Particle," a reference to the theory that Higgs gives mass to all matter in the cosmos. The significance of the God Particle is as old as time itself: scientists believe that at the moment of the Big Bang, when the universe was born, there existed a moment of incandescent beauty -- of perfect symmetry -- in which all things and all forces were in absolute agreement. The universe's four forces -- the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism and gravity -- had yet to differentiate, and the tiny particles that carried those forces had yet to emerge as separate entities. As the explosion cooled and its contents scattered, complexity engulfed the universe, splitting its symmetry asunder -- a cosmic parallel to Adam and Eve. Harrell, Eben Why the Collider Matters: In Search of the 'God Particle'.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1977062,00.html

The not so great Great Recession. Christmas. An out of work father. And an injured, aging family pet requiring costly ACL surgery. Ron Stempler fully intended to have their nine year old Labrador medically fixed up until everyone suggested an unthinkable alternative. Everyone except his wife and his daughter Darlene who claimed to have an unbreakable ESP connection with her beloved black lab. While trying to decide what to do with the animal they consider a "family member", it is Ron himself - disenfranchised, self doubting, but loving father - whose hard choices allow him to rediscover his valued place as a "family member".