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The Wonderful World of Om takes the young reader to an imaginary parallel world where the difficulties of our own world just do not exist, because no one ever created them by making bad choices. However, things are not perfect in Om, and the young hero of the story, Sam Warner (aged eleven) is called upon to use his skills as a champion bowler to save the land from serious danger. Sam has suffered the disillusionment of seeing his bowling alley in Vancouver demolished without any serious effort by those in authority to save it. It is never quite clear whether his journey to Om is no more than a dream or whether it arises from a mysterious combination of cosmic forces that have been set in motion to right the wrong that he has experienced. Guaranteed to touch the heart strings and bring smiles and many moments of laugh-out-loud enjoyment to readers of every age, but especially to those willing to travel in imagination to places of wonder where everyone is encouraged to be the best that they can be.

The Wilkie Reader A to Z is an easy-to-read, teaching guide to help anyone learn to read English by following "Tips For Success" on 26 lessons, one for each letter of the English alphabet. It can assist parents and teachers teaching kids to read. The book is a teacher's aide. It is a study guide for a trip through the 26 letters of the English alphabet. It is a tool for parents and teachers, who are helping kids on their journey to reading. The book is also for adults, who are learning to read English, maybe as a second language. You know the joy of reading and you want to inspire it in others. Let's help our eager learners to break the alphabet code so they can read to you for a change, and also to themselves. And it's fun! Here are a few suggestions for using The Wilkie Reader.- Limit your lesson to One Letter a Day.- The book should be a Reward. Don't go through the pages when you or your student is feeling distracted or grumpy.- Forget the word "No." The reading game is a Praise Fest and there's no such thing as failure--just different rates of success.- Don't worry about capital letters. They're easy for to pick up later.- Always stop early before enthusiasm drops. Then your child will look forward to next time.- The English language breaks the rules often. Don't worry about it. When your child notices that "a" doesn't always go "aaa", that's great progress! Just tell him or her that some words don't follow the rules and let it go at that.By using the methods in this book, my youngsters were reading at ages three and four, and do you know what? They still are!

A warm glow basks Inuit children gathered around their grandmother in an igloo as they listen to her tell one of her magnificent stories.The adventure begins when an Inuit family with two children, Tiak and Unu, leave their people to find better hunting grounds. They travel for many days across Ice Cap Mountain, often suffering from hunger and exhaustion.Tiak and Unu's mother dies during the trip, and when they reach their new home, they often fend for themselves as their father hunts for food. One day, he doesn't come back, and Unu tells her brother of a dream in which their father told them to go back to their people beyond Ice Cap Mountain.Knowing that such a dream would not lead them astray, they pack their knives and fishing gear and set out to find their people. On the way, they meet a seal-the guardian of the sea-who tells them to visit Brother Walrus, who knows the way to Ice Cap Mountain.To survive, they'll need to traverse difficult terrain, battle a grizzly bear, and get help from an unlikely friend-Snowbear.

Dan McCrory's book, Capitalism Killed the Middle Class: 25 Ways the System is Rigged Against You, is part memoir, part history lesson, part cautionary tale. Dan published his novel You Will Forever Be My Always, to raise awareness about Parkinson's Disease. The book was a winner in the 2022 Los Angeles Book Festival in the wild card category because the judges apparently agreed that the book defies genre and that "literary fiction" seems at least partially descriptive. It has achieved a reputation as a very funny book and, possibly soon, a very funny series. Dan was published in the 2020 anthology of California's Best Emerging Poets and really took it heart. He now has written a poem about everything. He had two scripts reach quarter-finalist status in the NYC International Screenplay Awards. He has written for the glamorous telecom industry, has been a Hollywood publicist, has written political propaganda and advertising copy (yes, there is a difference), and has edited four books. He lives in Southern California. Dan is active in the National Writers Union, formerly as an officer and now as co-chair of the book division. He also volunteers with public radio station KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles as a field producer for the labor program, Working Voices. Monthly newsletter: www.writingbiz.com subject line: Newsletter opt-in.

Carra Copelin is an award winning and Amazon Best Selling Author in contemporary and historical romances but, unlike so many other authors, she didn't write from childhood or read long into the night beneath the covers with a flashlight. She found writing and romance novels as an adult. After reading numerous Harlequin and Silhouette stories, she discovered tons of people residing in her head, all looking for a way to get their stories onto the printed page. She is a member of The Daughters of the American Revolution and The Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Carra and her hero live in North Central Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex where they enjoy family and their three beautiful grandchildren. In addition to writing and researching with her fabulous critique partners, she enjoys playing Bridge, working on crochet projects, and tracking down relatives through genealogy.

Fred is a superhero that protects children from their imaginary monsters that live under their beds. He comes on duty once the lights go out, and he has his own little apartment under each and every child's bed. He stays alert, and the sun rises. And then it is time for Fred to retreat back to his apartment, and he rests until the sun sets on another day.¿

Frank Young is a man who keeps to himself, but after he loses family in two separate accidents and with the police not being able to find the people that caused the accidents, Frank takes matters into his own hands. After entering the military, Frank meets a weapons dealer, buys some untraceable revolvers and a silencer, and becomes a vigilante. He knows he's violating the law, but even after becoming a policeman, he still continues the shootings. Along the way, he meets some people that need more help than he does and assists them in getting their lives back together. To his surprise, Frank finds out that a lot of people support what he's doing and the path he has taken.

The Women and Men who Love Them is a compilation of different short fictional stories.

The Seed journeys into the deepest heart and soul of one artist facing the massive paranoia of injustice, economic free-fall, unimaginable chaos, and unsurvivable global war. New towers of Babel eclipse the culture and spirituality of the everyday everyman into depravity and dysfunction. But like his colossal Shakespearean portraits poised on the precipice of cataclysmic conquest, the towers crumble in Johnston's modest belief that truth and justice will prevail. By giving his subjects the dignity of art, Johnston advocates for the clarity and wonder of hand-tooled sculpture, the timeless industry of a master artist working in his studio by hand, on a human scale. He sows within himself and his spectators a yearning for the universal human value of labor, the work of art, the dignity of labor, and labor as art.

Paul was born in southern Italy where the weather is warm and fruits and vegetables taste great. Since 1987, Paul has learned all he could about nutrition. He's mastered foods inside and out and he's also learned what it takes to have a vibrant body.Too many people are left in the dart when it comes to organic foods. They want to keep their family healthy but are overwhelmed with nutritional information and don't know where to begin. This book offers a solution for people who are seeking practical ways to help their family get healthy without getting lost in a sea of conflicting information.This book contains over thirty years of hard-earned nutritional knowledge. In 1986, two of Paul's children fell ill, and since then he has dedicated most of his time to learning how to get healthy through nutrition and back yard and gardening.Paul has banked thousands of hours of nutritional courses and working one on one with clients and in workshop settings.

The Sail Needs the Wind has to do with what has occupied my thoughts for my entire adult life...and that is quite simply, life itself. How we move through its maze; how its essence enters us and how we deal with its moment to moment ¿ood and simply survive...and in no cursory way, thoughts about the Creator. I also have to ask, who are we...why are we, and where exactly are heaven and hell?Humanity is not easy and it appears we have little faith in ourselves... which I ¿nd unbelievably sad. We have been lulled into this state by the patronizing and the greedy and to some degree by those who would readily seek compromise to avoid meaningful collaboration.We have been in a state of war since our consciousness ¿owered, nothing has been gained, and we continue to believe, sans proof, that prayer will do more than just comfort the disparately praying soul.My notes are reactions to people and situations, both on the job and in personal relationships. I am not naive enough to believe that living is not complicated...and that everyone lighting just one little candle would create a brighter and more welcoming world. But I am also smart enough to know that retaliation never works; that at some point someone much brighter than anyone who exists today must say "no" no more and that offering the light and warmth of that one little candle may just start a revolution for the one thing that we so disparately want, but for the life of us cannot ¿nd...peace.

As author JJ Janice reflects on her surprise connection with a mother-daughter duo, she finds herself, an outsider, overwhelmed by mysteries regarding the short time it took for her to become a new member in this tight-knit family with a complicated past. How did she get here? What forces are at work? Why was she chosen to be a witness?Using her diary as guide, she sifts through layers of her imagination and shares her story in Entwined Hearts. It chronicles the ascent of forgiveness by and for three women who perhaps least expect it--all in two short years. Through the stories of Anita, who suffers from Alzheimer's; Lynn, Anita's daughter who struggles with bipolar disorder; and Janice, a friend to both, it investigates how relationships change and endure through challenges.Though this memoir touches on the difficult topics of Alzheimer's, bipolar disorder, stress, drugs, incarceration, and alcoholism, it also looks at the world with kind generosity and love--a love that connected three unlikely women.

Sally and Sammy squirrel are the main characters in these rhyming books that teach children God's ways on topics that every young child faces in daily life. Sally and Sammy are friends who live in tree houses in the forest. They go to church together, are close play pals, and give a great glimpse into what God intends family life to look like. There comes a point in each story where the mom, dad, grandma, teacher, and others teach them what God says in His Word. It always goes right along with what Sally or Sammy happen to be facing. Sally and Sammy teach kids how to learn, follow, and grow in God's Word. Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train a child in the way they should go and when they're old they won't depart from it."

The Great American Rabbit Chase is the first part of several books revealing the attractions a little boy had for little girls and their body parts. His deep driving desire is to explore one body part in particular added fuel to his fire. The magnetic powers of this body part caused his desire to explore to grow with such intensity it almost became a necessity in his daily activities. This very special body part had once been referred to as a rabbit. His love and attraction for the rabbit soon became an addiction that controlled his mind for the better part of his childhood, youth, and young adulthood. Learning more about this body part began to open doors and he became enlightened and educated on certain other body parts. Living through the pleasures of these body parts filled his heart and mind with the desire to become more educated in the direction his addiction was leading him. As a young man, he found himself purposely becoming involved with older women. Sometimes he would solicit them to provide a training program for him in the art of making love. As he became more proficient at his craft his sexual escapades or rendezvouses mounted to some unknown number. They became written or tape-recorded memoirs for future reference. His addiction consumed him to the point it had become somewhat of an aura that was projected with almost every sound and move he made. This provided him with mental and physical satisfaction, but sometimes heartfelt pain. When his marriage failed, he decided to make it a lifelong dream to try to please every woman that he possibly could, to make up for the one he could not. Having achieved a large part of that lifelong dream, he felt the obligation to convey many stories of the happiness and pleasure he received along the way. The Great American Rabbit Chase and the books that follow have achieved just that. They portray actual accountings of the sexual nature for a period of between 45 to 50 years of the author's life. Sometimes the sexual encounters are explained in a very explicit, blow-by-blow, color and flavor added manner. This process does not and should not detract or diminish the parties involved in the lovemaking sessions these stories reveal in any way. They were all very special and wonderfully beautiful ladies. Some of them I can happily say became lifelong friends.

WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE IN LIFE? The purpose of a painting is to convey the beauty, or meaning in the artist's mind. The purpose of a cabinet is to serve the useful function it's maker intended. The purpose of a space exploration is to complete the mission it's scientists sought for. In every case the Purpose is determined by the original designer. The same is true for every human being. We are the most complex of all systems. Our purpose is determined by Almighty God our creator. Every person takes a different path in life, but their purpose is guided by the loving, redeeming hand of our Creator. He has revealed Himself to us in Jesus Christ. He works in many and various situations throughout our years to mature us in the self-giving love of Jesus. Even to fulfilling His words to love an enemy and go a second mile with one who has compelled us to go the first mile. It is this kind of sacrificial love that changes hearts bringing an enduring peace and joy for this life and into all eternity.

The Apostle John was the most venerated Christian leader throughout Asia Minor, particularly around Ephesus, where he had been the pastor for much of the last half of the first century. He outlived all the other apostles, in fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy in John 21 v.20-24. The gospel that bore his name (written about 85 AD) was an instant success among late first-century Christians so that a book by him about ten years later, given almost totally to prophecy and graphically different, was nonetheless accepted and used in the churches for over 300 years.

Gabby Lee aka Glenda Jensen is a retired English teacher who attributes her imaginative and creative writing to the many family stories that her grandparents told her while she was growing up. Not only family has inspired her to write but also her former students. She also gives some credibility to her own imagination while growing up whether it is playing cowboys and Indians with her neighbors using bicycles as horses or pretending to swing through the jungles on a swing set. Glenda is currently a freelance writer who also has had two poems and one novel published. Glenda currently resides in Mesquite, Texas along with her dog, Ricky., her husband, John, and his two dogs, Maddie and Abby. She is the mother of three grown children and six grandchildren who also have been an inspiration for her writing.

Debbie Lytle Meads had gone through a traumatic sexual abuse by two drug dealer brothers and put into prostitution during her teenage years. She tells her brother, Leon. He takes her to get an abortion. He is sentenced to life in prison when he kills the brothers. When she turns eighteen, their friend, Allan Meads marries her and they move to New Jersey.Brian, the drug dealers younger brother fi nd them and forces Allan go to New York every weekend to sell his drugs threatening to take Debbie back to New York. Allan gets sick with cancer and Debbie won't leave his side and refuses to go to New York and Brian starts beating her. Allan dies and Debbie takes a photo to his sister, Josephine who was married to Samuel Palts and who knew nothing about his existence. Sam fi nds out Josephine had gotten an abortion at eighteen, had her tubes tied and he gets an annulment and he and Debbie then fall in love.Vanetta, Samuel's older sister has a best friend named Tanya Tamms, and Tanya with her mother, Sharon who want her dead because Tanya wants Samuel.Debbie takes things into her own hands to try and stop Tanya and Sharon so that she can finally relieve herself and Sam of the two burdens in their lives.

The pink blob is the venom from the devil's scorpion-like tail, and it comes out of her claws, mouth, and porcupine hair, releasing a venom that looks like a Portuguese Man of War jellyfish. There's a hot spot inside this jelly venom called the orange sand, and it's a deadly slime when released. It forms a liquid jelly substance that traps animals, and the venom becomes live and stings, burns, and electrifies. When people or animals come in contact with this pink blob slime jelly orange sand, it deforms them into demons. In book one, the devil was a female and delivered 14 demons. In book two, some of the demons had siblings, and all these demons carried this venom. In book three, there's a story of the pink blob slime jelly orange sand. This substance comes alive and goes dormant. When the venom comes alive, it moves along the ground or in water like a jellyfish. It can also get in the air and live underground, just like the devil in book one. The devil was a fire-spraying dragon in book one, but her demons and siblings didn't spray fire because they were born on earth. The devil came here from Venus in book one. The venom hides and disappears when it's dormant, then it reactivates and becomes electric, triggering fiery lightning bolts when it becomes live.

Zinnia Frisch - born (1947) and bred in Manhattan, the middle daughter of two physicians - is a 22-year-old Music & Art/CCNY honors graduate in French and English Literature. She's also a free spirit. At a career/identity crossroads, she decides to roam Europe and discovers Ibiza, Spain. There, she rents a native-style farm house or finca, which she shares with about 30 sheep who inhabit the adjoining corral. Like most of the country homes on the island, it is without electricity, plumbing or phone. But to her, it is luxury in a special sense of the word: freedom.The magnificent, exotic environment and crazy, sexy cast of international, eccentric characters make Zinnia happy. She becomes a French and needlework teacher, and is writing and illustrating a children's book on astrology. But she is enchanted by a drug-dealing, jet set lot and falls in with them. Part of the initiation involves smuggling hashish across the Moroccan border and she is busted and spends a month in prison. Eventually, Zinnia marries her Prince Charming, a hashish kingpin, the charismatic yet jaded Dutchman Berend van Bos. Together, they travel back and forth between Tangier, Nassau, Amsterdam, Ibiza and New York City, coordinating a several-ton hashish deal.Baby Boomer Blues opens and closes with that deal and the way it finally goes down. In the end, everyone does what they have to do, including Zinnia Frisch.A novel based on fact, the names and dates in Baby Boomer Blues have been changed to protect both the innocent and the guilty.

My book revolves around two young children who join the Barnum and Bailey elephant act. The children, Jacob and Rachel, are friends, classmates, and neighbors. Do you have adventures in your life? This story proves that you can accomplish anything in your life, with some planning, encouragement, education and support. Happy reading!

Exploring the world of the publishing industry came true after many years. Working as Paralegal, Administrative Assistant, life experience and education strengthened her character and developed the courage to do what she was afraid to do during her youth. Her book "I fell in Love with East Harlem" is about the history of a neighborhood settled by Europeans, Puerto Ricans, and Afro-Americans. In living here, she has learned and studied the culture, history, and development of East Harlem.