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CLOSURE:
The Problem with Money
by Leon McWhorter & Alan C. Elliott

A full length movie now available on DVD.

Featuring the music of Chris Rice.

On an otherwise ordinary day, prominent businessman John A. Money’s life is thrown into chaos when a quirky donut-eating Angel of Death appears in a puff of smoke and announces that he's come to take John to the pearly gates. John spends his “final” hours trying to figure out what life is all about ... and that's the problem with Money.

Awarded 4 doves from the Dove Foundation (dove.org)

From the DOVE FOUNDATION Review: "This is a fine story with humor which illustrates a spiritual truth which is that everyone dies and the all-important question for most is, "Am I ready for the afterlife"?

We are happy to award this DVD our Dove "Family-Approved" Seal.- The Dove Foundation review

"I thoroughly enjoyed it...It is simply a good, family-friendly movie... I particularly enjoyed the off-beat characterization of the Angel of Death" The Movie Snob

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Images of America:
Oak Cliff

by Alan C. Elliott,
Patricia K. Summey
and Gayla Brooks Kokel

The authors of this walk down “Oak Cliff’s memory lane,” Alan C. Elliott, Patricia Summey, and Gayla Brooks Kokel, spent much of their lives in Oak Cliff. To secure information and pictures for this book, the authors sent out a call for historic photographs of Oak Cliff. The results were overwhelming. Cliffites from all over the United States rummaged through their closets and attics and sent their cherished memories and photographs, family stories and anecdotes. Many of these images have never been published.

The authors sifted through an overwhelming 600 donated photographs to select the 200 that tell the story of Oak Cliff from the 1830s to the present.

More information about this pictorial history of Oak Cliff published by Arcadia Press

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ISBN: 0738570680

Put your life into high gear with...

A Daily Dose of the
 American Dream
Published by Rutledge Hill Press

"I read it every day..."

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A Daily Dose of the American Dream; Stories of Triumph, Success and Inspiration is packed with interesting,  inspirational, and motivational stories with tactics you can use today to help you discover and reach your goals. If you are looking for a great book for yourself or for a great gift, you've found it!

Daily Dose contains 366 inspirational and informative five-minute success stories in a daily reading format that are about American inventors and innovators who rose from obscurity to success or from tragedy to triumph. Every daily reading contains a quote, a story and a specific challenge you can use immediately. Put a copy of this book on your reading table, at your office, or in your bathroom -- but watch it carefully because someone is liable to grab it to read for himself!

Buy a book and take a step closer to your goals!

ISBN: 1-55853-5926
Hardcover

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Coming soon...

Texas Ingenuity
by Alan C. Elliott
State House Press

Stories of Texas Inventors and Innovators

Example stories included:

• Dr Pepper – Charles Aldetron’s 1885 Waco concoction and the legendary love story that may have given it its name
• Neiman Marcus – The store that put Texas on the world’s fashion map
• Fritos Corn Chips – Charles Doolin’s San Antonio snack
• The Integrated Circuit, Jack Kilby and Texas Instruments
• The Hamburger – The sometimes-disputed 1904 invention of the hamburger in Athens by Fletcher Davis
• The Chuckwagon - Invented in the 1870s by Colonel Charles Goodnight (and how it inspired today’s Tex-Mex recipes)
• EDS – How $1,000 borrowed from his mother turned Ross Perot into a billionaire
• Liquid Paper – The timesaving invention by Bette Nesmith (and how her son became a Monkee)
• Mary Kay Cosmetics – The company that gave thousands of women a chance to make a pretty penny in the business world
• Buddy Holly – The inventive rock song writer than Paul McCartney claims was the inspiration for 50 Beatles songs.