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Following Breadbasket’s, Leon’s, and the Waiter’s return in the books Yetser Days and Letters of Tabula/Saint Patrick, they are back again in a series of short stories written by Othniel Poole over the ANZAC Day weekend of 2020.Here we find a simple lad named Breadbasket joining the Earth Army, which wants to gain a hold across the universe. His friends Leon and the Waiter are with him, and so are his sister Saraph, his spiritual advisor W.A.H., and his parents, Soren and Giggle. There are also new characters from the other side of the galaxy who all become friends, even in the face of danger.This book is dedicated to those who remember the 1990s, when worlds were there to see and explore.Being light speed, this is very quick to read!About the Author: Othniel Poole grew up near Melbourne, Australia. and now resides in its suburbs. “Victoria is a very green state in Australia and even has snow in the mountains in winter. It’s great to go walking through the wilderness here, and that’s what originally inspired me and my friends to come up with the world of Breadbasket, like it was a whole other planet.” This is his 14th book.

Ellen Groovy is an actress, and she improvises her life, which reads like a B-movie.She is a mother who adds products into shops without telling anybody. She is haunted by a mysterious purple woman. She has been to the future, which is west of Bacchus Marsh, and to the past, to the origins of fast food.She makes many friends, and even her enemies really like her. She would love to meet you!About the Author: Othniel Poole lives near the sea, southeast of Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys bushwalking, writing, music, and history. This is his eleventh book. "Bacchus Marsh is a suburb of Melbourne, and features in Ellen Groovy, the future being west of there, according to the text. I started writing this story in 2006 and was inspired by B-movies from the 1950s, like Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space," and from my Dad's sense of humour. I would make jokes going to movies, and a lot of the jokes are in this book. I also used to look up the history of businesses, and history of man. It all paid off."

Loaves and Kisses consists of devotional poetry, in addition to speculative short stories with a tinge of gospel. There are psalms, word pictures, and retellings of characters in the Bible in the first thirty poems.The last three stories in the book are:“The Meteor Book” describes two people on another planet who discover a mysterious book inside a meteorite and have quite a time deciphering what it means.“Every Tree Is A Library” tells of a world where pain is a currency that’s exchanged in blows and is banked in pain banks.“Gelp The Whelp” offers the remarkable adventures of a man in the future who works in a frozen food factory.The author wrote this book to express the message of the gospel in imaginative ways that everyone can understand and appreciate.About the Author: Othniel Poole lives southeast of Melbourne, Australia, and enjoys bushwalking, writing, music, and history. This is his eighth book. 

Kiriathsepheris a village of imagination.Kiriathsepher is a collection of poems that express the occupation of imagination for the good. The epic title poem features four children - Marcus, Matthew, Lucas, and Jeanne - who live in a future war zone, comforted only by virtual reality as an escape.While inside their virtual world, they discover someone very real, who tells them about Kiriathsepher, the City of Stories. They enter this world and it comes flooding into the war zone, changing everything.There is also an epic poem about a stubborn teacher from China who encounters a challenge, as well as poems set in science labs, mazes, and at weddings. Some works feature characters from the author''s previous stories, letting fans in for a treat.About the Author: Othniel Poole lives near the sea, southeast of Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys bushwalking, writing, music, and history. This is his tenth book. "I chose the pen name Othniel, for Othniel was the first Jewish judge to occupy Kiriathsepher, which in the Greek Old Testament known as the Septuagint is known as the City of Letters or the City of Stories." 

The author’s second book of poetry as Othniel Poole, Chapel of Green Stone: Verse for Walking and Talking, was written between 2015 and 2018.  Like his previous poetry collection Ezekiel & Meytu: Fanciful Songs and Songs of the Book, there are poems about animals. “Unicycle University” is a poem about a college for unicorns. “The Checkered Ant” describes a colony of ants on an airplane.There are also poems about historical figures such as poets William Blake and Hermas. But the majority of this book is verse about walking and talking, exploring the modern landscape in a variety of styles. These are poems for the wanderer, the dreamer, the watchman, and the sentry.About the Author: Othniel Poole lives near Melbourne, Australia. He loves visiting Australia’s national parks, writing, music, and bushwalking. This is his seventh book. “Local places in Australia inspired me for some poems, my brothers inspired me, and the book is dedicated to them. My faith in God inspired me. Poetical heroes like William Blake and Hermas inspired me.” 

A collection of poems, roughly half about the Bible and half featuring fanciful animal tales and adventures are featured in Ezekiel & Meytu.There are tributes to the prophet Ezekiel and to prophet Isaiah’s son Shear-Jashub. A poetic retelling of Herodias and John the Baptist are also highlighted, as well as an ode to St. Paul and Festus.When it comes to the fanciful, a grand speech made by a golf ball to other golf balls on the green looks ahead to better times. Other whimsical offerings include guinea pigs that get lost, an Australian Bushranger who goes on an adventure around the world, a gnat that gets too big for its boots, and an opera-singing baby.Stories from the Songs of the Book are from Biblical times and are set in the Holy Land or the Roman Empire. The Fanciful Songs main characters are often animals or inanimate objects that come to life in a variety of imaginative landscapes and times. These wonderful poems bring out the humour in the Bible.About the Author: Othniel Poole lives in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, where there used to be a lot of koalas. “There are still a few, and when they sound their cry, they sound like coffee percolators.”Publisher’s website: http://sbprabooks.com/OthnielPoole