Books by Allan Thames

Destiny: When the Stars Were Young and the World was New.

She was his destiny and he was hers. Before time began, they were created for each other, and knew and loved each other. Who is to say if maybe in another life, in another world, in another dream, in another romance novel, they hadn’t already met and merged their essence into one, so that in lives, worlds, dreams and novels yet to come, they would know each other, seek each other out, feeling incomplete without each other? Should they happen to meet, when their need was the greatest, they would recognize each other, and would know they were meant and created for each other. Should they touch, sparks would fly. In that short lifespan measured in heartbeats, breaths or maybe years if they were fortunate, they and all around them would be changed. For the briefest moment of time they would know the joy they had been created to share with each other.

Destiny, Too: Sere

Destiny: Siren’s Call

Ghost Pennant: Destiny on the Diamond

The San Antonio Alamos, Major League Baseball’s latest expansion team, are in an exciting chase for their first division title when tragedy strikes. Their plane goes down in a storm and everyone thinks it is the end for the Alamo’s. However, with some “Divine Intervention”, the team is allowed to return in the bodies of their minor league affiliate, the Columbus Gunboats, who will play the rest of their season. There is a catch (there always is in baseball). To get their old lives back, the Alamos must win all the way to the World Series and not lose it. Can they, playing through the minor leaguers, win? They are given some extra help when heavenly baseball heroes like Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson and Enos “Country” Slaughter, along with others, are allowed to play with them also. It may not be enough, however, when opposing forces intervene in their quest.

Making appearances are Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, Luke Appling and Josh Gibson, among many others. If you enjoy baseball history and trivia, you will love reading the baseball facts at the start of each chapter. You might also enjoy watching some of the baseball players, known and little known, play ball again. So sit down with Dizzy Dean, relax, and enjoy “ GHOST PENNANT-DESTINY ON THE DIAMOND”, a very clever mix of fact, fiction, legend and baseball action.

Nailed

Your Ever Loving Soldier Boy: Korean War Love Letters

Christmas Creche-endo

Coming Christmas 2022: Christmas Creche-endo: Encore

This is the Livin’: The Thames Family Travelogue

The Boys of Union Road: Fail in Love

The Boys of Union Road-“F” ail in Love is indeed a love story, but it is more than one love story, it is an interwoven series of love stories that spans decades. They are joined together by their common denominator, Union Road.

It is the story of “F”ailures in love at mystical and mythical Westwood High School in the early 1970’s, a story of broken hearts and teenagers searching for that first love but living with perpetually broken hearts. It is the story of high school hi-jinks like “rolling” a teacher’s yard, “streaking”, and dates with that special girl that did not work out as planned. Feel the passion of that first, and only kiss, from that first special girl. Surrounding that senior year at Westwood are the tales of young men who lived, went to school or went to church, along Union Road and their love stories, or lack of love stories. The Boys of Union Road-“F”ail in Love relates the story of George and the mystery surrounding his “F”ailure n love. Did a “F”ailure in love shatter his life and dreams? Did the young soldier who was shipped to the Korean War win, or “F”ail to get, his girl? The Boys of Union Road-“F”ail in Love will carry you back to the 1970s, reminding you of the music, the news, the movies, and what was happening on television. Take a nostalgic trip back in time and let the memories of those days live again.

The Boys of Enon Road: In Transition

Enon Road was that mythical, mystical and seemingly sometimes magical place where a family of grandparents, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and cousins lived during the 1960’s and 1970’s The Boys of Enon Road- in Transition is about those painful changes that they faced, transitions that we all face in life as we age. It is written from the perspective of a stubborn parent who does not want to cooperate with the final move to an elderly care facility. Ultimately this is a story about that one tough transition that must be made either to the nursing home or to the funeral home.

This is not an easy read in places. In fact, some might recommend that you not read it. However, if you are dealing with aging parents where you have tough decisions to make, something you read here may help you. If you have already been through that hard transition with your parents, you will understand this book because you have lived it. If you have not dealt with the emotion of those turbulent days, maybe this book will help you do just that. If you have aging parents and have not had to face any tough times with them you need to read this so you can start to prepare yourself for those days.

All of the major transitions of life are covered here, the transition from childhood to manhood including moving away from home, dating, marriage, having children, becoming empty nesters, being grandparents and, well, beyond that as already mentioned.

The Boys of Enon Road-in Transition is a fiction, but is written from the experience of similar times.