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A collection of song lyrics, poems, prose, and proverbs "wisdomisms" by Grammy award winning songwriter Ric Marlow. "A Taste of Honey" is one of the most commercially successful songs in the history of the music "business." It has been recorded by more than 150 international artists including The Beatles, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Morgana King, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, selling more than 300 million records and earning a Grammy for Ric Marlow. The song is still current today.

Richard La Plante started riding motorcycles at sixteen, escalating from a Cushman motor scooter to a Norton Electra. An arrest ended his ride at twenty. Eighteen years later, he realized that something was missing from his life.That something was a Harley-Davidson. Middle-aged, but determined, he bought the smallest bike in the Harley fleet, an 883 Sportster-opening the floodgates to new adventures.In Hog Fever, La Plante motors from the King's Road, London, to the badlands of New Mexico, riding with everyone from posers to outlaws. Along the way, he rises to the heights of highway nirvana then plummets to the depths of a crashed bike, a long dark highway, and two hundred miles to ride with a broken foot.In Hog Fever you will experience not only the creation of the custom bike but the creation of the biker himself, from La Plante's first tottering ride to his 'Death Race' across the American Dream.

Deadman's Bust takes readers on a wild ride from the laidback pot-growing counterculture of Humboldt County and into the harsh world of drug traffickers, Colombian cartels, and corrupt DEA agents. When Mike and John's growing operation is violently busted by the Feds, John is hauled away while Mike, hiding under the house, escapes. Later, when he tries to make sense of the bust, he finds that things don't add up. Although looking like DEA agents, the men sounded more like thieves. And where have they taken John? Mike's determination to save his brother leads him through unfamiliar and violent territory on a journey filled with unexpected twists and turns.

Four long-estranged friends from London's turbulent Sixties scene of sex, drugs and rock and roll are thrown together after seventeen years when one of them accidentally discovers the secret identity of their betrayer; a man they knew only as The Acid King, a charismatic figure who orchestrated a weekend of alluring drugs ending with a bust, jail time and death.What the friends don't know is that a New York FBI Agent, another old enemy of the Acid King, has been on a long frustrating manhunt of his own, driven by the same rage for revenge. Until, by coincidence, he discovers the mystery man's hidden Los Angeles location and tracks him to his lair. Resulting in a dangerous confrontation that puts lives, both guilty and innocent, on the line.The Acid King is the thinly veiled story of the famous Redlands drug bust of 1967; an event that put Mick Jagger and Keith Richards behind bars and nearly destroyed the world's most famous rock band. All orchestrated by an unidentified man who set them up and then disappeared.By a strange twist of fate the Author (former film agent for Mick Jagger) met the Acid King in Los Angeles and became involved with him for several years, never knowing who he really was, until her friend Marianne Faithfull (former lover of Jagger) surprisingly identified him.The Acid King tells the fictionalized story of what she imagined could have happened afterwards.

Real Strength Now, The Lost Art of Breathing, written as an easy-to-read memoir, is a holistic guide to better health. Written in La Plante's usual raw, self-deprecating and honest style, the book chronicles his journey from a broken neck and a full body cast to a 3rd degree black belt in karate and a passion for strength training. Real Strength Now digs deep into various systems and methods of physical and mental training to locate and define the essence of all movement and exercise, and the single most neglected aspect of our health, mental and physical... the breath. Real Strength Now explores why we breathe, how we breathe, and how we can improve upon the way we breathe, adding health and longevity to our lives.

"Never Again," Richard La Plante promised after he and his new wife completed building their family home in East Hampton, New York. But he did not keep his promise. Instead, he bought twenty acres of raw land on a mountaintop located three and half thousand miles away, in a small town that he had only visited by internet... And the nightmare began. A house in New York to sell, a massive loan to pay off for the newly purchased land, dishonest builders, some of the most stringent building codes in America, and the economic collapse of 2008. With no general contractor, because they had decided to save money by doing it themselves, La Plante and his wife face an empty bank account, a black widow spider infestation and a large wooden frame with no windows. With two young sons to raise, a stony silence between them and a marriage counselor who says in sagely fashion, "There's only one answer. Finish the house," the La Plantes stumble from disaster to disaster. Never Again is a seven year chronicle of trial and triumph, both a warning and inspiration to anyone trying to build a dream.

A near-fatal mistake during the attempted bust by the cops leaves a bullet lodged in the right temporal lobe of Charlie's brain. Operating to remove it would likely kill Charlie. Living with it will change him forever. Two men linked forever by a tangle of lies and twisted loyalties. Two men who could not be more dissimilar-or more the same. When they meet again, for one it will be the Last Day.

The 10 short stories that make up Jog On Fat Barry symbolize the mishmash of difficulty that face people trying to muddle through an increasingly complex world, and each one of them comes entwined with odd and curious characters crossing seamlessly from one story to the next. Cotter's diction is both brutal and blunt; it will cause offence to some readers, but the text is also vividly rich with a vernacular seldom heard. There is nothing Disneyfied in the narratives. They do not end happily. Still, for readers who are able to stomach veracity without it having to be sugarcoated, each story resides in a place that is candid and sincere. True, murder and deception are commonplace, and liberty is, all too often, sacrificed for little more than simple honour, but redemption abounds in Cotter's scenarios, and his stories offer an emancipation of sorts to characters shackled by man's indifference to his fellow man. The sordid streets of New York, LA, and London are the backdrop for these tales of crime amidst broken lives where the lost and forlorn battle to better their lot. It is a wake-up call to people who have their heads buried in the sand, and a sad reminder that the fish will always rot from the head downwards.

Richard La Plante's engrossing fantasy-fiction saga Tegné Soul Warrior continues with Book Two, Tegné The Killing Blow. In the first volume, Tegné, Warlord of Zendow, has successfully faced the test of the heart and slain the Beast-his lover Neeka. Yet, now, Neeka's spirit has returned to torment Tegné, plaguing him with visions of a post-cataclysmic land of glass and steel and an ominous presence-"The Warrior." Fans of the first volume will definitely want to continue the journey with Book Two; however the sequel also stands completely on its own. Volume Two is set in the not-too-distant future after the polar ice has melted, causing catastrophic changes to Planet Earth. In Tegné The Killing Blow, Richard La Plante skillfully weaves a plot of intrigue that transcends known dimensions and realities.