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San Francisco has always been a magnet. From Gold Seekers to Flower Children to Tech Wizards, The City has attracted dreamers and doers. Less well known in The City's colorful history: How San Francisco began as a colony of religious pilgrims. How the first newspaper transformed sleepy Yerba Buena into San Francisco and then launched the Gold Rush. How the publisher of that newspaper became the dominant historical figure of his time, only to be downplayed or purposely ignored later by many historians. Like a Greek tragedy set in Gold Rush California, THE STAR, THE SAINT AND THE CITY is the true story of publisher Samuel Brannan, who amassed California's first great fortune. He became early San Francisco's most influential and flamboyant figure after trading his Mormon faith for his belief in the future of California, only to lose his fortune and die in obscurity.Author William Briggs is an Emeritus California State University Dean of Communications and author of two previous volumes of California history, BADASS LAWMAN and THAT PIRATE, BOUCHARD. He lives in Morgan Hill, CA.

Frank Barry is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Boston Harbor Campus. He has held teaching credentials in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and California. He credits his seminary education for being chosen as a linguist in the United States Air Force (Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Hebrew Languages). He has retired from teaching high school English and English as a Second Language and Workplace English instructor in companies throughout Southern California. He volunteers his time with the Kiwanis Clubs of Greater Anaheim and Greater Westminster and advises Key Clubs - the high school service organization of Kiwanis. He is current secretary of VVA Chapter 1024 in Orange, CA and part of the Huey helicopter crew that travels with the helicopter throughout Southern California raising funds for all veterans. He is secretary of the Westminster Community Foundation. He is advisor to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum. His previous four books (The Seeds Quartet) are all related the lessons he learned during four major acts of his life: The Seminary Seeds, The Military Seeds, The Education Seeds, and The Service Seeds.

This small volume, written by David B. Bowman, her companion of 62 years, is presented as a tribute to Maria Dianne Bowman. Surely, too, it is an expression of the love shared and a cry in the night that she is no longer alongside. Through the years family and friends came to know her through one or another window. These pages open various apertures on her life and activity, and will offer new vistas for nearly every reader. May these brief chapters and a dozen photographs enable family, friends and others to further recognize Dianne's continuing presence and deepen appreciation for the faith in God and love toward others she embodied and expressed throughout her life. David Bowman is the author of two autobiographical books: Saints Along the Way: Women and Men Who Have Influenced Me (Bookstand Publishing, 2015), and Parish, the Thought: A Memoir in Ministry (Wipf and Stock, 2018). He also wrote a study in theology and literature: Faith Rising - Between the Lines: Intimations of Faith Embedded in Modern Fiction (Wipf and Stock, 2021). He holds a Ph.D. from Glasgow University, Scotland. With Dianne at his side, he devoted his adult life to parish ministry.

Brandy's First Christmas is the story of Anne and how she first meets her Golden Retriever. Anne wants a puppy more than anything else. She works extra hard in school and at home, and on Christmas Day, Anne get's a very special surprise present from her parents!

CRABBELLA, THE RESCUE: Crabbella is on her way to land to visit her friends. However, unknown to Crabbella, her twin brothers Todd and Teddy were following her. The path to land was plagued with danger as presented by the debris from the old sunken Pirate Ship and the presence of Mr. Octopus, the crab's natural predator. Todd and Teddy had never been to land, so they knew nothing of what awaited them. Crabbella, who knew the dangers, did not know her brothers would soon need her help.

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY is the enchanting tale of four bright dancing friends who find that, while life is great, it can present challenges that require the help of others. This alliance teaches a valuable lesson of joy in a time of sadness, and encouragement in a time of disappointment, through a simple act of kindness. A precious gift will persuade one to accept change and others to fulfill a purpose through restored gladness and the power of friendship.

THE RAISIN BREAD KID is the captivating story of the heartache of abandonment and loneliness of Jimmy, a little boy. While Jimmy battles to survive and overcome a broken heart, he is seen keeping his good moral upbringing while he holds onto hope and prayer. Finally, Jimmy is blessed with love, happiness and security.

Several years ago, without realizing the scope of such an effort, I decided to email a group of my verse prayers to some randomly selected church leaders in the United States and a few other countries. Subsequently the favorable unsolicited feedback received motivated me to begin what became a horrendous undertaking. After two years of on and off daily mailings I surprisingly learned I had sent more than ten thousand copies, one by one, to American and foreign locations - some forty percent of which had been returned as undeliverable because of outdated email addresses.Surprisingly however, I had also received more than two hundred complimentary returns from pastors, priests, evangelists, deacons, ministers - even an army chaplain. They arrived not only from across the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska), but also from England, Australia,, Scotland, Romania, Mexico, Africa, India and the PhilippinesI was told that verse prayers had been used in sermons, Sunday schools, church bulletins and publications [even during a communion] as well as having been posted on several computer sites. The revelation made me feel that I was in a sense part of hundreds of services here and abroad. I felt greatly blessed, even experienced a bit of pride for which I felt some guilt and hope to be forgiven.Several contained requests that I publish these and future verses in a book. Eventually I decided to have a small quantity of professionally printed. paperbacks done. I'm of the opinion that if they are acceptable to the Lord and He cares to have additional copies printed and distributed that will somehow be done I trust that you enjoy them and find a few that speak to your heart in as much as they are praise and prayer statements that emanated from mine.

How well do you see what you are looking at? Practice and improve your observation habits with this little book, and learn how to enrich your life by seeing how interesting the world around you can be! Look at photographs from nature and find out how much you can see when you observe life like an expert does! For readers and nature lovers 9 to 12 years.

Summer Farm Hand is about Grandpa's summer on a farm as a young boy as told to his granddaughter Katy. It is a funny preteen story of a young boy and a young girl, who along with Jellybelly, Snothead and a cast of others, experience life's joys and sorrows together and quickly find that farming is only one of many valuable lessons to be learned during this one-of-a-kind summer.

"if you see for your heart your heart will see for you""Fadi Y Sitto, known simply as Fadi, is a poet of exquisite sensibility. Some have compared Fadi's poetry to the poetry of Rumi. Yes, if Rumi had merged with Pablo Neruda. Mix the love images of Neruda, and the insights of Rumi into concoctions mysterious, moving, and sublime-there is Fadi's poetry."-- Jack Crittenden, Political Theorist/ProfessorYou are not just reading Fadi's words, you are reading his soul. Poetry so honest with nowhere to hide. Amazing passion captured. Masterpiece."'Our' poet has a deep understanding of the truthful and the beautiful, which is demonstrated in the verses as a prayer for these things. The degree of recognition and sympathy that each does stir is so powerful...and the collective weight of the emotions evoked by these is so immense, that the pages seem to feel heavy in my hands. This work is such a treasure... reading it feels like waking up." -- T.M. BrownFadi is the "Heart's poet," an astonishing poet. bending serendipity confirms his gift. -