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Sea-Change: And Other Stories
Dave Parmenter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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On the Road to Tierra del Fuego: Hitchhiker Diaries
William Parmenter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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An exuberant story of a college boy who busts out of humdrum routine to see the world. He learns to live by his wits on the road for six months back in the 1960s, getting into every kind of scrape--and makes it home in one piece. Parmenter, the author, is inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). But Parmenter buries Jack, who only got as far south as Mexico City. Parmenter hitchhikes from Southern California to Tierra del Fuego, the farthest tip of South America and back. Later on came the movie, Motorcycle Diaries. based on Che Guevara's South American travels. Again, no contest. Parmenter goes by foot, horsecart, car, truck, bus, boat, hydrofoil and airplane and sees so much more than Che did: Los Angeles, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and back. Parmenter is the brash avant-garde of the backpacker movement, traveling with a heavy suitcase and a map, without any precedents to rely on. It was years later that the backbackers came on the scene with their budget itineraries laid out in cheap and comprehensive travel guides. Among the highlights are snorkeling in Puerto Vallarta, the monuments of Mexico City, the ruins of Antigua, Guatemala, seeing Costa Rica's Irazu Volcano up close belching toxic smoke and viewing the Panama Canal. Parmenter goes skindiving off Cabo Blanco, Peru, visits the Inca's Machu Picchu, tries to climb Mt. Misti near Arequipa, visits the Basilica of the Black Virgin at Lake Titicaca, goes by boat through the Chilean fjords and makes it to Ushuaia, Argentina at the southern tip of South America in Tierra del Fuego. On the road north, Parmenter visits Igua u Falls on his twenty-first birthday, swims at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, attends a Day of the Dead ceremony at a Peruvian village, rides a riverboat in the Amazon, takes the hallucinogenic drug ayahuasca in Iquitos, Peru, visits Kingston, Jamaica's seedy nightlife, and rides the bus from New Orleans back to Los Angeles. Parmenter grows in worldly experience and develops a skepticism of American foreign policy in Latin America, and the role of the Peace Corps, though he is not above spending the night as a guest of its volunteers. He sleeps wherever he can, with the guardia civil, in firestations, military barracks, infirmaries, on benches, with truckers, in gas stations and cheap hotels. The viewpoint reflects that of the working class milieu Parmenter associates with, truck drivers, hotel clerks, market ladies, and the spectrum of people he meets along the road. The 307-page book is a riveting read with 22 chapters with 89 maps and photos from the period, that puts the reader on the scene. Based on a 419-page journal written during the trip and buttressed with contemporary scholarship, this is an exciting historical document. A Whitmanesque Song of the Open Road, the fast-paced narrative sweeps the reader along on Parmenter's adventures. And Parmenter flies like a bird singing his infectious song of liberation and personal freedom.
Tales Too Strange To Be Fiction
Cindy Parmiter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Truth is stranger than fiction has never been more evident than in this collection of true stories of the bizarre and unexplained. Tales of remarkable dream encounters, amazing animals, spirit visitations and objects that seem to take on a life of their own fill these pages. Some stories will make you scratch your head while others will send chills down your spine. Sit back and prepared to be perplexed by these Tales Too Strange To Be Fiction.
Fear of the Night: Real Tales of Sleep Paralysis, Night Terrors & Prophetic Dreams
Cindy Parmiter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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We all dream, but for some people what should be a time for their bodies and minds to rest turns into a nightmare from which they cannot escape. These are their stories. Tales of shadow people, witches and demons who stalk their victims in the dark place that exists between dreams and reality. Uplifting stories that foretold joyful events yet to come. Sleepwalking incidents that are both amusing and disturbing. This book also shares stories of dreams that changed people's lives for the better as well as tales of night terrors so horrifying that sleep became something to fear and dread for those victimized by the night. Prepare yourself for the chilling tales of what some people must endure in an attempt to get some sleep. Welcome to their nightmare.
Theseus is trapped in a labyrinth of passion with Halina, one of the sexiest sirens on the planet. Despite the great sex, Theseus engages in a desperate struggle to find a way out into spiritual freedom, into liberating his soul from his mortal body and into eternal life. Halina, a former Polish Solidarity activist, who recently settled in Southern California, wants Theseus to take her back to her beloved motherland, Poland, in spite of its shattered economy and political tyranny. The two exhaust themselves struggling, and hit an impasse after Halina has to be hospitalized for stress. At this point, Ariadne hands Theseus a thread that could lead him out of the labyrinth, if he will take it. The novel takes a spiritual awakening in India, back to America, where the aspirant struggles with, and attempts to triumph over, his sexual and spiritual issues. A very realistic and credible depiction that will keep readers glued to the text well past their bedtime. Rarely, if ever, has the struggle between the pleasures of the flesh and the soul wrestling to free itself from its mortal body been so graphically and arrestingly portrayed. Variously sexy, iconoclastic and spiritual, the novel fights to the finish, embracing the pain, poignancy and passion of life itself. A must read for twelve-step counselors, clergy and people trapped in self-destructive and compulsive 'love' relationships who want to find a way out and get a better understanding of the relative merits of twelve-step and spiritual methodologies. For a mature audience.
If you love a good scary story, you've come to the right place. Included in this book are real-life accounts of haunted houses, cemeteries where the dead cannot rest, vengeful spirits who are doomed to walk the Earth for eternity, entities that adopt human form even though they are anything but, hotels that cater to an unlikely assortment of spectral guests, a church that may have been more than it seemed and much, much more. Now that you know a bit of what is in store, you need wait no more. Your journey into a world of truly frightening tales is only a page away.
These true accounts relate terrifying brushes with the unspeakable things that stalk our nightmares, reincarnation, haunted dwellings, the dangers of attempting to contact the spirit world, spectral animals, a cursed Hollywood landmark, a portal to the netherworld and much, much more. Explore these pages only if you are brave of heart and prepared to be thoroughly spooked by this collection of bone-chilling tales.
Taking each of the Ten Commandments in turn, John Parmiter shows how we can trust in God in our workplaces. Far from presenting a set of rules, his central themes are love and the generous promises of God. With clarity, warmth and practical applications, he demonstrates how we can be more confident as Christians where we work. What do the ancient stone tablets Moses carried down the mountain have to do with our twenty-first-century high-pressure workplaces? Everything, says John Parmiter. In this honest and inspiring book, he explores how applying the Ten Commandments to our jobs brings us freedom and godly purpose. Focusing as they do on personal integrity and our key relationships (with God and with others), they are disarmingly relevant to the daily pressures we face at work. John's insights have been tested in the fire of a contemporary business environment, and pass muster in any boardroom, brickyard or baby-care situation. They provide, whatever your work, a compelling and fresh take on living wholeheartedly for Jesus.
Poetry. Winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award, chosen by Kathleen Jesme. "WESTON'S UNSENT LETTERS TO MODOTTI inhabits the fluid space between history and imagination," says Kathleen Jesme. "Parmenter's extended persona poem deftly investigates the named but uncommunicated, that which is unfinished, unsent, unlived. Weston exists only as an eye behind the photographic lens, and is unable to fully inhabit the rest of the world, or to send the letters he writes to his sometime model and lover."
Absurd Earthlings Volume 1: Coloring Book
Ryan Parmenter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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ABSURD EARTHLINGS is a series of coloring books featuring hand-drawn ink cartoons by Ryan Parmenter, author of the novel "Hyperbole," indie musician, and lifelong artist.Each volume contains 30 coloring pages for ages 13 and up. Volume 1 was first published in 2017. See www.ryanparmenter.com for more information.
A Chilling Tale Before You Sleep
Cindy Parmiter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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This book contains a selection of true tales of the supernatural and unexplained. Stories include those of people who were terrorized by unknown spirits who found their way into the land of the living. Others are spine-tingling accounts of encounters with sinister entities that dwell in the darkest of woodlands. Some stories detail brushes with beings, both malevolent and peaceful, from the far reaches of the universe who have made their way into our world. Tales of madness, angelic visitors, aliens, ghosts and demons are held within these pages. These stories, among others, await the reader who settles in when darkness begins to creep for A Chilling Tale Before You Sleep.
Absurd Earthlings Volume 2: Coloring Book
Ryan Parmenter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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ABSURD EARTHLINGS is a series of coloring books featuring hand-drawn ink cartoons by Ryan Parmenter, author of the novel "Hyperbole," indie musician, and lifelong artist.Each volume contains 30 coloring pages for ages 13 and up. Volume 1 was first published in 2017. See www.ryanparmenter.com for more information.
Absurd Earthlings Volume 3: Coloring Book
Ryan Parmenter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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ABSURD EARTHLINGS is a series of coloring books featuring hand-drawn ink cartoons by Ryan Parmenter, author of the novel "Hyperbole," indie musician, and lifelong artist.Each volume contains 30 coloring pages for ages 13 and up. Volume 1 was first published in 2017. See www.ryanparmenter.com for more information.
True Tales of the Supernatural & Unexplained
Cindy Parmiter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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This book details true accounts of brushes that everyday people have had with that which cannot be easily explained. Some of the stories relate terrifying experiences with vengeful spirits who will stop at nothing to regain their place among the living. Others involve encounters with creatures whose origins are unknown and, quite possibly, otherworldly. There are also tales of loved ones who have returned to those they left behind leaving little doubt that the ties that bind are not easily broken, even in death. As a bonus, the combined Tales Too Strange To Be Fiction series immediately follow the ten all-new chapters. For those of you unfamiliar with these books, be prepared to scratch your head at the bizarre nature of this collection, that is, when you're not having your spine tingled. So, sit back, dim the lights and prepare yourself for a night of frights as you explore these True Tales of the Supernatural & Unexplained: Volume 1.