Great Stories Reside Here
The place to buy books or plays by Ben Sherman
Great Stories Reside Here
The place to buy books or plays by Ben Sherman
JP & Liv
Jonah Paul Wilson and Livinia Conner became best friends at fifteen, business partners at eighteen, and entrepreneurs at twenty. They are now twenty-four and co-managing an information technology company.
JP was deaf at birth and learned to read lips proficiently. He signs using ASL and has relied heavily on technology for communications since he first used a computer at age five.
Liv’s mom died while giving birth to her, and she was raised by her grandmother who ran a brothel. When Gramma died, Liv hitch-hiked from Memphis to Tacoma in search of her biological grandfather and the possibility of family.
JP & Liv spend most of their waking hours together, live in the same apartment with separate rooms, have few other friends, and devote their time to a successful business. Their two families, who live next door to each other, are all betting they will one day become romantic.
“Just friends,” is Liv’s routine response.
“No time for that,” says JP.
Everything is going fine until the FBI knocks on their door.
2025, 300 pages
JP & Liv is a sequel to Tacoma Blues, by Ben Sherman, 2012.
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Lodi
A novel. This is the seventh book and the prequel to the 2012 novel, Tacoma Blues. From the inception, Lodi has been a cooperative artistic endeavor with his daughter Jennifer who said she wanted to know more about her favorite character in Tacoma Blues, the indomitable Susan Conner. Starting with that inspiration, Jen has been a collaborative partner on the journey through Susan's roots, providing her feminine perspective to how a woman might speak, think, feel, falter, react, and behave on an incredible journey from foster kid at twelve to professional educator, wife, and mother at thirty-six. 2021. 396 pages. Available on Kindle.
Tacoma Blues
A novel. Two households have two professional baseball coaches, two moms, six teenagers, one gospel church, three vehicles, softball, ballet, swimming, piano, baseball and something called Twist & Twirlers. Life is perfectly scheduled down to the hour on a plastic calendar in the kitchen. And then the wheels fall off. 2012. 317 pages. Available on Kindle.
Lights
Historical fiction. The author directed the first Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, and he has penned here a story based on real events that occurred on the dates and in the places specified. The names are changed, and some characters are combined, altered, or masked. In this exposé of a famous place at a turbulent time, we look behind the façade of a uniquely successful parade that has been viewed for decades by over a hundred million people. This is how the magic happened. It wasn’t always charming, but the distractions only crystallized the spirit and determination of those who came together to build something truly extraordinary. 2010. 316 pages. Available on Kindle.
Rascal
Short story memoirs. From silliness to poignancy, from barely believable to wholly peculiar, Rascal romps through the anecdotes of a boy who lived and witnessed the absurd, outlandish, and impossible. He fondly shares stories from the bullet-proof innocence of youth. Sequel to Sweardagod.
2009. 238 pages. Available on Kindle.
Sweardagod
Short story memoirs. Ben and his next-door-neighbor relied on a solemn oath, sweardagod, to differentiate between truth and fiction. Dave assured that swearing to a lie would earn "an eternity in Hell standing on your head in vomit and poop!" Honoring that boyhood vow, all of these tales are true. The reader should consider that whole poop thing and suspend disbelief long enough to enjoy these real stories from a misspent youth.
2007. 255 pages. Available on Kindle.
Medic! (Hard Cover)
War memoir. This is the true story, from the author's first failed attempts with his draft board through a brief stint as an unarmed field medic in the Vietnam War. This self-published book was picked up by Random House and has sold over fifty thousand paperback copies which can be ordered at any bookstore and is available on Kindle. This hardbound copy was originally published by the Military Book-of-the-Month Club and made available to the author at a discount. The mass media paperback published by Random House is available at bookstores, online from Random House or on Amazon, $7.99 2002. 288 pages.
Restore Breathing
Short Stories. Sherman's first book for use in his training and consulting practice, these stories helped individuals and teams unlock participation and expression. Each tale has a message delivered in a light humorous style.
1994. 148 pages.