Title: The Adventure of Pinkus MaGee
Author: Denise Steele
Pinkus is excited to visit her aunt for a few days. Thinking of what they might do during her stay, a butterfly passes by her. Pinkus is so amazed at the gracefulness of the butterfly, she begins to daydream about being a butterfly. One thing leads to another and the next thing you know is Pinkus is riding atop the butterfly. She had no idea this was to be the beginning of an adventure she would never forget.
Along the way Pinkus meets up with a squirrel, who shares a peanut with her, a dolphin, a kangaroo, a giraffe, birds, and all kinds of animals. Her travels take her to different places and she experiences different things she never imagined before.
On her way home, she is excited to see her family again, wondering if they missed her as much as she missed them. There are a lot of stories she cannot wait to tell them. But before she does she falls fast asleep.
When she wakes up, she finds herself in her backyard. There is a question in her mind, and one the readers must answer for themselves: was it all a dream or did it really happen?
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Book Title; Deployment
Author: Wilfred Zinavage
Raised on a farm in Baltic, Connecticut, (near New London, "the submarine capital of the world"), Wilfred Zinavage joined the U.S. Navy at eighteen. Trained as an Aviation Electronics Technician, he became an air crew member and flew on the Navy's first nuclear bomber (the P2V-7 Neptune bomber). Hand-picked along with seventeen other specialists, he later became one of the Navy's first in-flight technicians on the world record-holding P3C aircraft. At the peak of his career, he was involved in several secret projects. He still suffers nightmares from his military experiences.
After his twenty-year military career, Zinavage retired back to his home with his young family. As a civilian and until he retired once again, he held many titles. He was a first aid instructor, actor, songwriter, biomedical technician, and armed nuclear security officer, Town Selectman and even a write-in candidate for Lieutenant Governor. He earned a college degree from Eastern Connecticut State University in general studies and lacked nine credits from becoming an electronic engineer. In his spare time, he became a TV show co-host on public cable access television and stays active with the Vietnam Veterans of America and the American Legion. He has authored books entitled, The Zinavage Legacy and Challenges.
Amazon link: www.amazon.com/Deployment-Wilfred-Zinavage-ebook/dp/B0B75QQ16S
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Book Title: Confidance: A Collection of Poems
Author: Dr. Stella Nowicki
Confidance is a provocative and original book of poetry where facts and feelings are imaginarily integrated in to the romance of reality and the drama of surrealism.
Amazon link: www.amazon.com/Confidance-Collection-Dr-Stella-Nowicki-ebook/dp/B07957VXL8
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Book Title: Clare's Tomato
Author: Ed Keller
How much do you know about the food you eat? Do you really know where it come from before it gets to your plate?
Young Clare is full of questions, including about the foods she eats. In this book, Clare's Tomato, the author shares her adventures as she sets out to learn about how vegetables grow. She's trilled about growing her first tomato, but she is concerned about what will happen to it when it is nice and ripe.
Clare's Tomato is an entertaining children's story. It's also a chance for them to learn where food comes from and how they can play a part in providing food for their families.
Amazon link: www.amazon.com/Clares-Tomato-Ed-Keller-ebook/dp/B0B625CSTD
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Book Title: Challenges
Author: Wilfred Zinavage
It is intended to challenge you, the reader, to come and see for yourself the results of an institution shutdown over twenty years ago by the federal government. It also points out areas of interest to tourists to see for themselves the destruction of the city center and how it is trying to recover. It is meant for the policy decision-makers and politicians and those who make the laws to see the results of what happened afterward.
It also represents how we, once again, have to learn from the Indians.
Amazon link: www.amazon.com/Challenges-Norwich-Hospital-Closure-Unpublished-ebook/dp/B0BSKMBDL7
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Book Title: Be That as It May!: Ten Stupid Things Governments Do to Mess up Edyucaishun
Author: Roberta Maclise McDonald
This book is recommended for parents who are frustrated and confused by how the public school system excludes them from contributing meaningfully to their children's education. The author recounts many of her experiences in the Public Education System from the inside where she taught in a wide variety of places and grades throughout Western Canada, over a period of 46 years. She recounts the many changes that have taken place in that time frame. Roberta (as she prefers to be called) prides herself on the courage to face difficulties head-on and challenge authority when it appears to be self-serving rather than dedicated to its founding principles.
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About the Author:
Beverly Scellato was born and reared in southern West Virginia. She is married to Robert Scellat and resides in Bargersville, IN. She is the mother of two sons, Zachary and Anthony (Tony) and grandmother of six GRAND children. She has been involved in Bible Studies for the the past 30 years as a leader, writer and teacher. She has served on the boards of Christian ministries. She has previously published a Christian novel, Gum Tree Lane, in 2020. Hopefully, the third novel will be completed in 2022 as God continues to inspire me to write.
About the Author
Kiel Barnekov, was born in 1951 in Washington D.C. His father was a federal government intelligence executive and captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. His mother was a federal government employee at several agencies. His paternal ancestors were Swedish nobility who immigrated to the United States in 1840. His maternal ancestors immigrated from Ireland. Mr. Barnekov grew up in Northern Virginia and graduated from George Mason University. He is now living in Ormond Beach, Florida, having realized his long-time dream of living near the ocean.
On his website, www.kcb-productions.com, he shares that even as a young child he was always conjuring up stories and filling them with colorful characters, sharing them with anyone and everyone who would listen. Although his career was in airline and airport technology, with his family's support, he has returned to his creative roots. As a professional storyteller, he is adept at using imaginative thinking and creative flair to bring his stories to life in engaging and entertaining ways.
Mr. Barnekov's first book, Shepherds of Destiny, is available on Amazon in both Kindle and Paperback.
About the Author:
John Oxley graduated with top honors from Temple University, where he studied religion, philosophy, and Zen. After teaching world religions for fifteen years, John began a quest to discern the meaning of faith for moderns. He is a featured author in Drama as a Meaning Maker and holds a Master's Degree in the Psychology of Learning. John's Doctoral work is in Creativity Studies.
About the Author:
I am a Nebraska farm boy who joined the Peace Corps. I worked with Indian farmers in El Salvador where I learned to speak Spanish fluently. I recall my Spanish teacher telling me three weeks into my first college semester that, perhaps, I should drop the course because not everyone has the ability to learn languages. Later, I spent almost a year in Nicaragua working with farmers and then 10 years in Brazil ranging from the Northest to Central to Southern. This included an arid area, a mining area and the tropical area around Cuiaba, Matto Grosso where cities grew from jungle to 25,000 people in five years.
I managed farms in Nebraska and Kansas for eight years and then moved to Illinois where, after a couple years, I started teaching at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
This book was started when my son, a U.S. Marine, was in his second tour in Iraq during the seige of Fallujah. I died a little each day as news updated the number of wounded and killed. To escape, I created this story. I had heard of several interesting bird incidents that were funny and unlikely. I strung them together and added some details. Many of these little stories I had shared with my SIUE students in our Business Statistics course. When I felt their frustration reaching a peak as I lectured, I stopped and told them a goose story. When they laughed; they relaxed and I continued the lesson.
About the Author:
Retired as Assistant Director of Investigations, after 37 years of service to the State of New Jersey.
Education: BA degree in History and Education, MA degree in Chinese Area Studies, and a Juris Doctorate degree in Law.
About the Author:
Nina M. Kelly is an Amazon best seller as one of the co-authors with Jack Canfield in Success Mastery. She is a mythologist with an emphasis in depth psychology, storytelling, author, humanitarian, and cultural and arts activist. She also is an Archetypal Pattern Analyst and Dream Pattern Analyst. Nina’s sense of adventure has always been sparked through learning more about people and their cultures. Believing that if you understand a person’s culture, stories, myths, and rituals, then you more readily open your world to greater compassion. Her passion for the art of healing through stories brought her to the place of writing Grace Has A Silent Voice, where she honors the silent heroes and the resilience of the human spirit. Working with death and dying patients, she acquired a tremendous respect for the proper honoring of story. In her book, she acknowledged the silent heroes that walk into our lives for a moment then quickly disappear. This inevitably leaves an imprint that continues to remind us that there is beauty in humanity.
Nina’s doctorate is from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies and Emphasis on Depth Psychology, and her dissertation research was completed through Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her dissertation was entitled: Myth Making and Modern Medicine, A Case of Kidney Transplantation. Her research work included reducing the rejection episodes post-transplant, implementing the power of stories and images. She published The Lost Heritage in Psychology at the Threshold. Nina is also an Archetypal Pattern Analyst and Dream Pattern Analyst where she completed her studies from Assisi International Institute and published, Weaving Story Into The Web.
As an executive film producer for the short film, Dandelion, the film won the judges award and has been shown at several film festivals. She has also served as president of the New Orleans Opera Association, president of Souther
About the Author:
I am one of seven children, was raised on a small farm in MS. My education includes a B. A. From Millsaps College plus a B. D. and MDiv. from Vanderbilt Divinity School. I am an ordained United Methodist minister with forty-two years of active ministry: fourteen as a church pastor, twenty-three as an Air Force chaplain and five as a V. A. Chaplain. For my expressed opposition to segregation in the 1960s, I was forced to leave MS and later selected for Who's Who in Methodism. I am a certified counselor for Alcoholism in TX.I retired from the Air Force as a Lt. Colonel and have written four books: Joseph's Journey. A Pain In the Gut, Could it be? Biblical Gems from the Garbage Dump, Bound By Beliefs (Reprinted of Getting Right With God). My wife of sixty-five and I have two children and now live in TX, where we have lived for the last twenty-five years.
About the book:
The revelation of Jesus Christ is not at all a liberty to sin; it is freedom from sin. We are mistaken to think otherwise. Yet we carry this message in earthen vessels, in human frailty susceptible to temptation. To be saved, we must confess sin, claiming to be absolutely no good, and repent in the face of God Almighty. Faith must work. Christians are set free from death. The tough issue we face from then on is our continuing infidelity. None of us is fully consistent. Thank the Lord that our salvation is not conditional. Our position in Jesus Christ is our condition. When will we get it through our thick heads that since we live by His Spirit we can walk not in our flesh but in God's love? We have an awe-inspiring mission and everywhere people need Jesus. How are we supposed to convince the world of God's abiding truth when we are imperfect? Just give a cup of water in the name of Jesus and He loves through you. Not by faith alone-faith works by love.
About the Author:
Ed Keller received his bachelor’s degree in 1976 in secondary education and his master’s in curriculum and instruction from West Virginia University in 1985. He taught in Monongalia County, West Virginia, 26 years at the elementary, secondary and graduate level. During this time, he developed three science activity kits available nationwide for teachers. He also presented over forty workshops at the local, state and national levels and published seventeen papers.
Keller spent sixteen summers working on National Science Foundation Grants. The first dealing with developing materials and instructional strategies and teaching Marine Biology to Disabled High School Students at Wallops Island, Virginia. The second one involved designing activities and teaching Geology To West Virginia public school teachers at what was fondly referred to by the teachers as “ROCK CAMP”.
Keller’s efforts have been recognized at the local, state and national level. In 1986, he received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching, and in 1990 he took home the First Milken Family Foundation Distinguished Educator Award in West Virginia. In 1991, he was honored With the West Virginia Distinguished Educators Fund’s Elementary Educator Merit Award and the West Virginia University College of Human Resources and Education Alumni Associations Award for Distinguished Achievement in Classroom Teaching.
Keller retired in 2001 but had one more honor coming. In 2004 he was selected as a member of the first class of The West Virginia Universities College of Human Resources and Education Hall of Fame.
Today you will find him at home either making jewelry or writing.
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About the author: Kiel Barnekov
Kiel Barnekov is an information technology executive who has led innovative airline and airport technology projects and innovations for over 30 years. As a young child Mr. Barnekov was always conjuring up stories and filling them with colorful characters, sharing them with anyone and everyone who would listen. As a professional storyteller, Mr. Barnekov is adept at using imaginative thinking and creative flair to bring stories to life in engaging and entertaining ways. Mr. Barnekov believes his love for writing comes from his grandmother, author Fleur Conkling. His preferred genres are science fiction, historical fiction, and the supernatural. Shepherds of Destiny is Mr. Barnekov's first novel.
Grab your copy and learn about his science fiction world at his website, www.kcb-productions.com.
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About the Author: Wilfred Zinavage
The Navy would not allow this book to be printed unless certain changes were made and I had to call it a work of fiction. The time is 1960; the setting; the Mediterranean Sea, a hotbed of the so called Cold War. that was getting even worst in its intensity. It follows the adventures of a crew that flew on board the Navy's first nuclear bomber the P2V-7 Neptune Patrol Bomber. It gives you, the reader, a behind the scenes look at the anti-submarine intelligence gathering, surveillance, and exercises from the perspective of one crew. To this day some of the events never happened and some of the systems used were later banned by the United Nations. There was a 70 million candlepower searchlight as well as the Julie system which was mentioned. With its earthy humor, Deployment gives an idea of their cool bravery as well as revealing some of the events that did occur were mentioned. Times, dates and locations were purposely kept out.
Get your copy at www.amazon.com/Deployment-Wilfred-Zinavage-ebook/dp/B0BYLRBZY3.
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About the author: Franz Rothe
He received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the university of Tuebingen, Germany. He got his Habilitation and venia legendi from the university at Tuebingen (1984) and the Ludwig Maximilian university of Munich (1988). He has published about 40 articles and in 1984 the monograph Global Solutions of Reaction-Diffusion Systems (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1072). At the university of Charlotte, he has been teaching for 28 years undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics, including the courses about calculus, differential equations, geometry, graph theory, number theory, modern algebra and more. Because of health reasons, Dr. Rothe is retired since two years, and is now emeritus professor. In 2019 he has published the book Number Theory and Modern Algebra Notes.
Get to know more about his works through his website www.rothegeometry.com.
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About the author: Ed Keller
He is an award winning public school teacher who has taught primary through graduate school students. He is a noted lecturer, author of several articles on science education, a textbook reviewer, and an advisor to the National Science Foundation. Now retired, he spends his time making jewelry and writing.
Get to know more about Ed and Clare through his website www.clarestomatobook.com.
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