Non-Fiction Books

The pages of To Dance With Angels hold a key to the meaning of life on planet Earth and all that lies beyond, revealed to the authors of this book, Don and Linda Pendleton, in clear and simple language, often with humor, and always with love, by one who has experienced it all. To Dance With Angels is structured around a series of in-depth interviews with spirit guide, Dr. James Martin Peebles through the trance-mediumship of Thomas Jacobson. Born in Vermont, Dr. Peebles lived from 1822-1922 and was a clergyman, physician, prolific author, leading Spiritualist and humanitarian of the 19th century. These conversations with Dr. Peebles from his home on the Other Side, are frequently startling, always entertaining and enlightening. They touch upon every facet of human and nonhuman experience: life and death, past and future lives, ghosts and guardian angels, world politics and cosmic realities, love and sexuality...and that is only the beginning. A must read for those interested in life after death and spirit communication. In 1990, Don and Linda Pendleton published the inspirational non-fiction book To Dance With Angels, now considered a classic in spiritual literature, and in this new edition nearly twenty five years after the book was originally written, Linda Pendleton has added a new Preface: "Twenty-four Years Later." Linda Pendleton is the author of fiction and nonfiction books. Don Pendleton is the creator of The Executioner: Mack Bolan Series; Joe Copp, Private Eye Thrillers; Ashton Ford Psychic Detective Series, and other books. Together, Don and Linda Pendleton also wrote Whispers From the Soul, the Divine Dance of Consciousness.

This award winning nonfiction book, A Search for Meaning from the Surface of a Small Planet, is both sober and lighthearted, sometimes awed and sometimes irreverent (toward both science and religion)-but always intensely personal, rational, stretching and pressing toward a wedding of scientific understanding and mystical thought. Although Don Pendleton (1927-1995) did not come draped with academic honors or letters, his extensive background in science and communications-as a telegrapher, an aerospace engineer, a metaphysical scholar, and author, gave him the ability to take a reader very far beyond themselves, whether it be in fiction or in nonfiction. In this book, Pendleton dramatically investigates the sciences, religions and philosophies with a view toward dignifying the human experience and provides a frame work in which the individual reader may validate his/her own life and dreams relating to the whole. Don's slant into the material is unique; often humorous; the findings evocative; conclusions satisfying for the rationalist; inspiring; and, perhaps, even transformational for the true seeker. For those who wish to be challenged by innovative thinking and daring ideas-reaching with their minds to coax out an understanding of the world as well as the meaning of their own lives-will find this book takes them on a spiritual search as well as an intellectual one "Don Pendleton was not only a writer with a strong sense of how to use language, but he was also an interdisciplinarian whose interests are far-ranging. A SEARCH FOR MEANING is nothing less than an attempt to synthesize metaphysics and physics. Yet, the tenor of the book invites a broad audience to read, to think about, to puzzle over the many questions he asks in his quest to understand the meaning of ‘meaning.' Integrating many domains of knowledge, Pendleton touches on questions of religion, God, relativity, and brain research, among other fields...all in all, this book is a must-read for a general audience." -Gabriele Rico, Ph.D., author of the best-selling, Writing the Natural Way, Professor of English and Creative Arts at San Jose State University, and Independent E-book Awards Judge, 2002. A Search for Meaning From the Surface of a Small Planet won the Independent E-book 2002 Best of Nonfiction Award and the Digital Literature Best of Nonfiction, 2002. Available in Tradepaper and Kindle.

Renowned author, Don Pendleton, gives the reader inspirational and unique insights into the moving forces that power creativity. A must read for aspiring writers and for those who love books and desire to know more about the creative processes that move the modern novel–and what creative forces move the novelist, himself. Because novelists are re-creators of the human situation, Don encourages one to get in touch with their own creativity and unleash that creative power by building a credible and coherent fictional world. Known as the "father of the Action/Adventure genre, " Don is the creator of the best-selling The Executioner: Mack Bolan series, which became a publishing phenomenon following the publication of his first book in the series, War Against the Mafia, in 1969. Don also wrote science fiction, futuristic, mystery novels, short stories, and nonfiction. His Joe Copp, Private Eye series and his Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective series, also enjoyed international success. Who better to turn to for an understanding of the creative rationale of a novel than a successful novelist who published more than one hundred books in his long career! This is not a book filled with writing techniques, but is a book overflowing with deeper insights into the process of creativity and how to unleash creative power and allow it to flow unencumbered from the mind onto the pages of a successful book. Many of the insights can also be of benefit to the nonfiction writer, and Don and Linda Pendleton use these insights in their nonfiction writing. For writers, The Metaphysics of the Novel will empower the creative mind and unleash the creative drive. And those who love to read will discover new understanding of the creative process of writing a book that entertains. "A profound study of the spiritual aspects of the novelist's art. If you're looking for a quick-fix list of agents and the like, look elsewhere, Pendleton has deeper truths to share in a work that entertains as it enlightens, examining the creative rationale that is the source of good writing." -Stephen Mertz, author "I can guarantee first hand that The Metaphysics of the Novel is invaluable for anyone with the genuine desire to write and publish their book." -Jon Guenther, author

Whispers From the Soul: The Divine Dance of Consciousness Don and Linda Pendleton, authors of the popular book, 'To Dance With Angels,' probe the wisdom of the sages, miracles and angelic influences, aliens and UFOs, death and near-death experiences, spirit communication and spiritual encounters, in this definitive examination of mankind's search for the wellsprings and moving forces of the human experience. 'Whispers From the Soul' synthesizes the most meaningful elements of human understanding and spirituality from the most ancient days to the present in an exploration of the profound wisdom of the ages through the arts and sciences, philosophies, religious and spiritual expressions, which have fashioned human consciousness and covers a wide range of what is considered by some to be the paranormal, while many others consider these experiences to be extraordinary and awe-inspiring but within the norm of the human experience. A thoughtful and illuminating study of "Who are we?" "Why are we here?" "What is life all about?"