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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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A Dirty Old Man Tells All: John Cowart's 2011 Diary
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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... More > inspiration through my writing.The diary starts with a fight over a closet and concludes with a song. In between readers watch me try to more or less walk with Christ in daily life.
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My Most Amazing Year: The 1942 Diary of Eleanor Law Scruggs
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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... More > diary. Through that first year of World War II, she observes civilian life 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
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Gravedigger's Christmas & Other Tales
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John Cowart's collection, Gravedigger's Christmas & Other Tales: Fact, Fiction, And The Normal Daily Grind, provides... More > entertaining and amusing, yet enlightening, short stories, articles and essays 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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A Dirty Old Man Gets Worse: John Cowart's 2006 Diary
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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... More > wrestles with temptations and ponders the existence and nature of God. 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
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A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad
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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... More > Fun, bears the caption, “A befuddled ordinary Christian looks 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
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Strangers On The Earth
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John Cowart’s collective biography, Strangers On The Earth, offers miniature portraits of about 20 people who were... More > radically different from the rest of us, people I find to be among the most 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
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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
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Edited by Wes Bassett, Joseph P. King's autobiography spotlights American life between 1846 and 1946. King tells of his... More > boyhood in Wilmington, N.C., during the Civil War, his bout with Yellow Fever, 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
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LENT: A Lenten Diary
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A week before she died, award-winning newspaper columnist Barbara White finished the last of these Lenten meditations. A... More > clown gave her a nail, a visit to jail, a reflection on extremes--all these elements contribute to her thoughts on the 40 days before Easter. Profoundly thoughtful, deeply moving, gently loving, starkly real, the first issue of this book sold out in days, but it is now available again edited by John Cowart. Noted artist Lyn Lazarus provided nine illustrations for the text. < Less
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William F. Short's 1854 Diary
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In 1854 William Short said more between the lines of his diary than he did in its pages. He'd proposed marriage to Sarah.... More > But when he traveled to Jackson, Missouri, he was smitten by Amanda. Then at a Methodist camp meeting he met Martha, "My Temptation". Suspense builds as the young minister decides which girl to marry while at the same time he feels a deep heart hunger for God. His mix of confusion about love and dedication to Christ still appeals to readers after 155 years. < Less
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Rebel Yell: The Civil War Diary Of John Thomas Whatley CSA
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John Cowart edited this hitherto unpublished diary of a Confederate soldier. John Thomas Whatley’s diary has been hidden... More > away for almost 150 years and is here presented for the first time. Whatley, of Coweta County, Georgia, wrote in a bound farmer’s ledger from March 2, 1862, till November 27, 1864. In neat Spencerian script Whatley’s diary opens with his accounts while preparing for the defense of Savannah, Georgia; most of the diary’s pages record events there. The diary portion of the text ends with his serving near Petersburg, Virginia. Apparently, much of this time he served with General William J. Hardee’s cavalry. The yankees killed Whatley at Bentonville, North Carolina, on April 14, 1865 — the same day President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. < Less
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