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Bluefish Books specializes in old diaries & letters, history, biographies, memoirs, novels, inspirational books, and other works edited or written by John Cowart.

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Visit John's Rabid Fundamentalist website which specializes in history and religious humor. Note: John pokes fun at no one's faith but his own - so he has plenty of material to work with.

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Notice to Poor Readers

I earn my living selling my books. I have no other source of income, so sales are important to me. No sales, no money.

However, I’ve spent much of my life in poverty. I’ve often lived in want myself. Many’s the time I saw books which I did not have money to buy.

That hurt.

Therefore, if you honestly do not have money to buy one of my books, please e-mail me at bluefishbooks@gmail.com and tell me that you honestly can not afford a book, and I will e-mail a pdf, read only, copy for you to read on your computer. One per customer please.

I know you can’t served God and mammon, but I try.

— John Cowart

 
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The Diary of Samuel Ward: A Translator of the 1611 King James Bible More Detail
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The Diary of Samuel Ward: A Translator of the 1611 King James Bible By John W. Cowart
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Samuel Ward, a moderate Puritan, lived from 1577 to 1643. His life spanned from the reign of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, through that of King James. and into the days of Charles I. Surviving pages of... More > his diary run from May 11, 1595 to July 1, 1632. He served the Second Cambridge Company Translation Committee, comprised of the finest biblical and linguistic scholars of his day, to produce the 1611 King James Bible, the world's most popular book. Ward walked a thin line between Puritan and Established Church factions. While perusing his academic career at Cambridge, he preached solid Puritan sermons yet rose to become the royal chaplain for King James, head of the Established Church. Ward's diary reveals that while he cared deeply about larger academic, political and church polity matters, his main concern was his own walk with Christ. He wrote to remind himself of his daily sins and faults, and also to remind himself of God's many blessings to him.< Less
Worshday & Other Tales More Detail
Worshday & Other Tales By John Cowart
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John Cowart's Worshday & Other Tales collects short stories related to John's odd world view. Titles include: Daddy Breaks The Egg Spell, The Transfiguration Of What's-His-Name, Uncle Herb's... More > Secret Picture, The Kid Reads Chaucer, Praying For The Beer Fish, Worshday, The Last Beast, and other strange tales. Fun reading from a fun guy. John says, "I think this book may be my best".< Less
Stoker: a novel by Kenneth Merrill More Detail
Stoker: a novel by Kenneth Merrill By John Cowart, Editor
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Big men. Big appetites. Big meals. Big cars. Big money. Big hearts. A big, really big, Babe. Big trouble. Big adventure. And big hero Stoker Hoff, just returned home from his World War II Navy... More > service, confronts big problems with his big fists and his big faith in God. Bluefish Books presents Stoker, author Kenneth Merrill’s first novel, in a big 14-point Garamond typeface for big, easy reading pleasure.< Less
A Dirty Old Man Tells All: John Cowart's 2011 Diary More Detail
A Dirty Old Man Tells All: John Cowart's 2011 Diary By John Cowart
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My 2011 Diary tells how readers in India, Germany, Russia, Indonesia, and other parts of the globe have found amusement and inspiration through my writing.The diary starts with a fight over a closet... More > and concludes with a song. In between readers watch me try to more or less walk with Christ in daily life. I asked my wife if she would buy my book. She said, "No". But then she lacks discernment and good taste--look who she married.< Less
My Most Amazing Year: The 1942 Diary of Eleanor Law Scruggs More Detail
My Most Amazing Year: The 1942 Diary of Eleanor Law Scruggs By John W. Cowart, editor
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In 1942, only 24 days after Pearl Harbor, school girl Eleanor Law, of Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, began her diary. Through that first year of World War II, she observes civilian life... More > and finds love. Her diary tells of meeting the man she would eventually marry and live with for 51 years. Breathless, excited, happy, anxious--her words reveal the real concerns of the time. As German subs sink ships in sight of Jacksonville and the FBI captures Nazi spies right in the city, Eleanor also worries about the USO dance and her school grades in real time.< Less
Gravedigger's Christmas & Other Tales More Detail
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Gravedigger's Christmas & Other Tales By John W. Cowart
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John Cowart's collection, Gravedigger's Christmas & Other Tales: Fact, Fiction, And The Normal Daily Grind, provides entertaining and amusing, yet enlightening, short stories, articles and essays... More > related to daily life as well as to various holidays. Readings in the 230 page book range from "John Burns His Own Stupid Foot" for April Fool's Day, to serious meditations such as "The Ugliest Picture In The World" for Easter. In these pages love stories abound, such as "The Girl In My Shower" and "The Fig Factor". And the book also addresses deep philosophical and theological issues such as "Are There Reindeer In Heaven " and "Was Jesus A Ghost ". All these chapters combine to make for light happy reading no matter what the occasion - even if it's just making it through your normal daily grind.< Less
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Strangers On The Earth By John Cowart
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John Cowart’s collective biography, Strangers On The Earth, offers miniature portraits of about 20 people who were radically different from the rest of us, people I find to be among the most... More > fascinating characters who ever lived. Some told about in these pages are well known. Others you may have never heard of before. Each one exhibits certain other-worldly characteristics and values which you may find attractive, funny or odd — even repelling. Each of them acted out of place in this world, as though they were strangers here…. Among those profiled here are Astronomer Johannes Kepler, Aristocrat Jeanne Guyon, Farmer Seth Hubbel, Physician Eleanor Chesnut, Explorer Christopher Columbus, Housewife Mary Rowlandson, Saint Patrick of Ireland, Missionary William Carey, and a host of others who lived indeed as strangers on this earth.< Less
A Dirty Old Man Gets Worse: John Cowart's 2006 Diary More Detail
A Dirty Old Man Gets Worse: John Cowart's 2006 Diary By John W. Cowart
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Have great reading fun as you track joys and frustrations in this light-hearted writer’s diary. Laugh as this happy man wrestles with temptations and ponders the existence and nature of God.... More > Smile at his antics over editing a Civil War diary and the autobiography of a 100-year-old man while at the same time caring for a duck attacked by a raccoon. Enjoy a year’s worth of fun with his wild and rambunctious family. Be amused at the false and mistaken report of his death; and relish his abiding joy in life. Follow John’s exploits as he plans to write THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOK ON HUMILITY! as a future project.< Less
A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad More Detail
A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad By John Cowart
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A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad, by John Cowart, records the humor and happiness of a frustrated writer. John’s daily blog, Rabid Fun, bears the caption, “A befuddled ordinary Christian looks... More > for spiritual realities in day to day living.” Sounds like a downer. Yet, over 104,000 readers from 102 countries visited his website in 2005. A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad reveals John’s happy joys as well as his struggles with temptation over bitterness, resentment, pornography, Microsoft, depression, laziness, Google, Blogger, pettiness, sloth, Krispy Kreme Donuts, and anger. All in all, this is a real-time love story told day by day by a man who loves reality.< Less
Adventist: 2nd Edition: The Autobiography Of Joseph Pyram King-of Wilmington, North Carolina & Jacksonville, Florida- With his Heresy or No Hersey?-Being his 1880 Defense Against Heresy Charges More Detail
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Adventist: 2nd Edition: The Autobiography Of Joseph Pyram King-of Wilmington, North Carolina & Jacksonville, Florida- With his Heresy or No Hersey?-Being his 1880 Defense Against Heresy Charges By Wesley E. Bassett
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Edited by Wes Bassett, Joseph P. King's autobiography spotlights American life between 1846 and 1946. King tells of his boyhood in Wilmington, N.C., during the Civil War, his bout with Yellow Fever,... More > and his love affair with his wife of 60 years. He also tells of his long service as a minister. Included is his defense when he was put on trial for heresy in 1880. This 2nd edition contains corrections, additions, and a section of newly uncovered and collected photographs.< Less