Bittersweet(2nd Edition) The Story of the Heath Candy Co. by Richard J. Heath, RayElliott Hardcover, 415 Pages, Published 2003 by Tales Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9641423-1-2, ISBN: 0-9641423-1-7
""Bittersweet: The Story of the Heath Candy Company" details one of the sweetest success stories in American business, the Heath family and the complex relationships among family members. The book shows how the Heath family business grew from a small-town ice cream parlor and confectionery to a successful national company. "Bittersweet" spans the early pioneer days to the present and gives some insight into America's national psyche."
Wild Hands Toward the Sky(1st Edition) by RayElliott Hardcover, 431 Pages, Published 2003 by Tales Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9641423-7-4, ISBN: 0-9641423-7-6
"A coming-of-age story of the time during and after World War II, "Wild Hands Toward the Sky" introduces young, fatherless John Walter McElligott as he grows up — lonesome and longing — in a rural Illinois farm community. He and his mother now live with his aunt and uncle, but he is inescapably drawn to the other men of the area who served in the war and returned — especially his older cousin, Sam, who was injured during the D-Day invasi ..."
Iwo Blasted Again(1st Edition) by RayElliott Hardcover, 147 Pages, Published 2006 by Tales Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9641423-8-1, ISBN: 0-9641423-8-4
"Iwo Jima Marine veteran Jack Britton has carried the horror of combat and the loss of his young wife and his buddies with him for the past 60 years. Now, in the last 36 hours of his life in a hospital intensive care unit, he revisits those aspects of his life and grapples with his long-suffering questions about fate and self-doubt through a psychological phenomenon known as sundown syndrome."
With The Silent Knowledge(1st Edition) by RayElliott Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Tales Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9967672-0-0, ISBN: 0-9967672-0-7
"Michael Callahan was serving his third stint in prison, but he wasn't a bad man, really. In fact, he was smart and talented and came from a rather privileged upbringing. But he also happened to be an alcoholic with sociopathic tendencies meaning he didn't particularly care whether he did something wrong if it served his purpose like getting more money to extend his drinking binges. So he forged checks among unsuspecting and unthinking ..."
"From the front flap: "For thirty-seven years (as of 1983 of course), on radio, television, film, and Broadway, and in their4 inspired commercials, Bob and Ray have welcomed us to their world of dizzy bumblers, guileless villains, and gentle lunatics, into their sly, dry vision of life powered by an infinite sense of the ridiculous...Now here at last are fifty-two more choice selections from the very best of Bob and Ray, pieces which as ..."
"Anglican Church Policy, Eighteenth Century Conflict, and the American Episcopate examines how leaders in the Church of England sought to reorganize the colonial church by installing one or two resident bishops at critical moments in the late 1740s, the early 1760s, and the mid 1770s when the British government moved to bring the colonies into closer economic and political alignment with England. Examining Anglican attempts to install bi ..."
"A fresh revision of a classic text, suited for classrooms or private study. Thousands of pastors have enhanced their understanding of the New Testament with this user-friendly book."
"The third in a series, this book shows that, however small the available space, every garden offers an almost unlimited choice of satisfying plant associations - provided the plants are carefully chosen and every part of the garden, including walls, fences, steps and patios, is fully exploited. Container plants, so convenient for quick 'spot' colour, climbers to add height and texture to even the smallest space, and bulbs for trouble-fr ..."
"Bob and Ray's whimsically ridiculous dialogues and subtly satirical glances at the world have regaled audiences for fifty years -- on local and network radio and television, in movies and commercials, on Broadway and at Carnegie Hall, and in three delightful books. In an exclusive performance of skits from their third book, these beloved humorists take you into their world of restrained craziness and of gentle and relentless satire. 2 c ..."
""Bob and Ray's jokes were remarkably literary, being fun to read as well as to hear... They are so twangingly attuned to their era and to each other that they can go on being extremely funny almost indefinitely." -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., from the Foreword After twenty-nine years of making America laugh by way of radio, television and the theater, here, in glorious triumph, are Bob and Ray, "those two extraordinarily creative and hilariously ..."
Hope(1st Edition) A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints by Hal Elliott Wert , Ray Noland Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 2009 by Zenith Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3787-5, ISBN: 0-7603-3787-X