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BOOKS

WAR TORN


War Torn follows the difficult and challenging years of a young girl as she traveled the country trying to regain admittance with her highly dysfunctional family and help bring all her siblings back together again.
Showcased during the drama and trauma of the Great Depression and WWII years, our heroine struggles with issues of exclusion, shame, and insecurity while attempting to maintain her identity and relationships with her family and contemptible and denying father.
The story is factual and historical as a biographical travelogue discussing multiple issues of the day arising from the depression, wartime, and our heroine's life. With enough tears to go around, there is also a unique variety of curious and humorously engaging experiences as well as inspirational commentary and dialogue.

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THERE AND THEN

A SUMMER TO REMEMBER

A rejected, young-American teen desires to test his mettle by adventuring alone on a full summer's escapade to Europe traveling the entire countryside seeking whatever he may discover. His travels are filled with thrills, chills, wonder, humor, excitement, misadventures, loneliness, character tests, and multiple, decision-making challenges. Throughout the entire experience, our traveler learns a great deal about human conditions, kindnesses and much about his own feelings and attitudes toward humanity. It is a love-story about youth, adventure, traveling, temptations, and all the twists, turns, and challenges facing growing-up. Animal lovers may especially enjoy many of our traveler's escapades. There is much adventure, sight-seeing, history, humor, and misadventures to experience through the eyes and words of our author's summer's tale. It is his story of a wonderful place and time, There and Then: A Summer to Remember.

POETIC JUSTICE

With Poetic Justice, Chapman delivers another masterful collection of his own, unique poetry so righteously justified.

With his keen observational eye and personal, poetic style Dan Chapman offers his own unique reflections on a variety of common subjects and experiences. Forever a romantic and always a poet at heart, Chapman reaches out to his readers with his next volume of poetic assortments dealing with a variety of value-clarification and topical concerns. Of course, always at a forefront with Chapmans insight into human conditions is his typical, humorous touch. We all love to laugh, he says.

Additionally, Poetic Justice is an opportunity for Chapman to highlight and dignify his own, unique and vigilant style of writing. A reader may select nearly any poem within, consider its highly energized reasoning, notice the creative, rhythmic rhyming proffered, and then recognize and appreciate Chapmans unique and masterful metering. It is just my own style, Chapman defends. I simply enjoy working with words to write about something special, utilize unique accents of rhyming language and then apply a distinctive, yet rigid, metering format.

Poetry reflects true thought, Chapman muses. It is honest, forthright, and most importantly, he continues, in a few, brief stanzas, a poem may mesmerize readers, challenge their thoughts and values and force them to reconsider their own points-of-view. What more could a writer want, our author believes. To Dan Chapman, that is the beauty of poetry, and its honesty represents Poetic Justice!

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BE NOT FORGOT

Addiction takes a foothold and collects its next toll when the user begins defending use of the substance. The greater the shame, the more the blame,” Chapman suggests to his readers. With “Illusionary Friend” Dan sends a precautionary message to all naïve, curious and foolishly potential addicts who believe that drugs-of-choice are safe enough to avoid addiction. His poetry makes us think about what we do and our choices.

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MESSAGES FROM VALLARTA

Using Puerto Vallarta and its regional vicinity as a lovely backdrop, Dan Chapman cleverly uses his unique style of poetry and prose to take his readers on a personal adventure. Utilizing creative prose for informative storytelling and unique blends of humor, poignant thought, and poetry, Dan invites his readers to travel with him on his own spiritual journey to a beautiful and mystical vacation place for a dramatic and personal visionary walk. “Enjoy the trip” as Dan Chapman shares his Messages from Vallarta.

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