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Catch The Wind is the extraordinary adventure of two young boys who venture into the heartland of gator country in the Mississippi swamplands. Their exciting and perilous journey by raft down the mighty Mississippi River leaves you with only one thought: What will they do next?

My book is about daughter/mother relationships, some happy ones, some sad ones. All empowering! Some daughters kept their traditions alive, while others made new ones! You may read some stories that you may relate to. All are meant to empower and inspire you in some way! Friends commented on my relationship with my mother and asked if we had always had a close relationship. Actually, it was not until after I married that Mom and I became closer. Mom made sure I knew she was not my friend, nor did she want to be! Mom was my mother and I was her daughter. After having shared this bit of information with my friends, they, in turn, shared their stories with me! My friends and women who contributed their stories and my mom, my muse, inspired my story, and book.

Dancing on a Cloud is a memoir about growing up in San Francisco, California, in the 40s and 50s. It includes interesting family history as well as amusing stories of friendship. Love of dance has been author Jane McNally's life's passion.

The dynamic and diverse students of Frank D. Paulo Intermediate School 75 have banded together once again, in 2019, to present a showcase of artistic and written expression. This illuminating anthology contains marvelous artwork, powerful poetry, scintillating short stories, and insightful essays that will capture your imagination. Each artist and writer has a unique and important message to send to the world. May this humble text ignite an eternal spark within all of our students -- a spark for learning, a spark for generosity, and a spark for serving mankind in the very best of ways.

Parody Paradise, Part II is a compilation of thirty-one rewritten satirical short stories and plays from famous authors, featuring adult language and situations. Author Jay Dubya equally sideswipes (parity/parody) popular and classic stories authored by Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, O. Henry, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Other author's works that are lambasted and thoroughly corrupted are James Thurber, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, H.G Wells, and also several William Shakespeare plays are also brutalized and lampooned. Parody Paradise, Part II is Jay Dubya's 65th published hardcover/paperback book. Besides Adult Satire, the author writes in seven other separate genres: Action/Adventure Novels, Non-Fiction Books, Mythology, Science-Fiction, Detective Stories, Paranormal Short Stories, and Young Adult Fantasy Novels.

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHORThis novel brings out very clearly and skillfully two problems or issues experienced by many children and by the young and naïve. These two subjects are: 1. Motherless Daughters and 2. The Bi-Ethnic ChildThe author has studied several areas of mysticism, beginning with Yoga classes with Marcia Moore in Lexington in 1969. Later she practiced Psycho-Motor Therapy with Al Pesso. She also took an inspiring 4-day course in Silva Mind Concepts [formerly Silva Mind Control] with Jerry Seavey. Her search included studies in Rosicrucianism -- above the 12th Degree, and has a group study in her home on Edgar Cayce, a prophet, and has been a member of A.R.E., the Association for Research & Enlightenment, recording Cayce's readings.Bradford has chanted at Yogi Muktananda's group in Brookline. She is familiar also with the writings of the Indian yogi, Yogananda, in California, whose body, similar to that of Saint Teresa of Avila, has been preserved fresh as ever. Bradford has been initiated into studies in Reiki: Shigun, about healing self and others.She has a group studying "The Seven Sacred Flames" through publications from Mt. Shasta, California, and receives email newsletters from John Perkins, an author who has studied mystical aspects of indigenous cultures in many countries. She full believes in Karma and Reincarnation and has had some Past Life Regressions.This author, as a protest writer over many decades, has written and has had published many Letters to the Editors, newspaper articles, also magazine articles about her strong defense of the Arabs in Many Middle East countries, especially focusing on the Gaza Strip. She decries the prominent and negative publicity given these ethnic groups in the press, on television, the Internet and in books, and could change this reality if she could.In this novel, she portrays fully the cruelty of one family who mirrored old-fashioned rigidity, exhibiting similar traits and passions seen and practiced during and well after the days of the Ottoman Empire: the harshness, extreme dislike and insensitivity, at which time the Family was born and lived in Syria, then called Turkey, while Syria was ruled and schooled by the Turks. The author utilizes these writings to reveal the grief and anguish of one Kathleen Saliba.

The Balondo Language Vocabulary Book was produced by Aja Oro to enable the Balondo-bakonja learn how to speak, read and write their own language because he realized that learning it would greatly keep intact by strengthening the psychological structures that literally unite them as members of the same community, especially as European colonial languages are constantly being used as the only official means of communication in most previously colonized African countries. Arguably, its perpetual enforcement does pose a formidable threat to traditional African languages, which if ignored might render them extinct. Based on that fact, the need to decrease the potency and continuity of this perceived danger to the Balondo Language and other African languages at risk of extinction is sustained throughout the book through the introduction of a sufficient set of vocabulary in the Balondo language for mastery by its beginners, who will be educated enough via this strong transmitter of culture that is their language to become more well versed in understanding their universe as a whole, while simultaneously taking charge of their discourse, which is at the core of their consciousness or self-definition that has continued to be at risk of being distorted by nefarious stereotypes perpetuated by less informed individuals.

The story of NORIKO is indeed a strange and otherworldly one, the tragedy of her horrifying and untimely death enshrouded in a cloud of mystery as deep as on that happy day some forty-four years earlier when her dearest dream had finally come true. That someday, somewhere, she would meet that one-and-only man she could ever truly love with all her heart. That man was lucky-me; and it was love upon first sight. For both of us! But it is, above all else, for practicing her lifelong and unfaltering belief that the best in life is only bought at the cost of great pain, we must admire her the most as our story's great if unsung heroine; the beauty of her radiant and cheerful character equal only to her bravery, even in the face of certain death.It was only when her charming older sister, Kyoko, from Japan had come to live with us and an unforeseen infatuation between 'the other woman' and myself sprang up that she had also seen the long and ghostly shadows of events, both near and far, of trials and of tragedies far worse (and yet to come!) which their gloomy harbingers were casting way ahead.Would Kyoko and the man she loved be strong enough to fight the devil and expect to win? Each and every time? Equal to the challenge and the tests that God and nature would impose?Only she, whose faith in my commitment to fidelity and love for her was absolute, was never plagued by any doubt. Only she who would endure the daunting challenge of her next precarious predicament, when she was diagnosed with an incurable and crippling disease, could readily appreciate the pain and suffering of others, near and dear to her. Pain of the body, pain of the soul, such as only she could understand who would accept her own, courageously and uncomplainingly. Even cheerfully, in typical Noriko style, secure in her belief that the best in our ever growing love was yet to be.Her indomitable will to live, if only for the sake of those she would not want to leave behind, had put the lie to grim prognostications and statistics more than once, and against sheer wondrous and unheard-of odds. From infections and the ravages of Parkinson's, to major surgery and amputations, from the brink of seizures to the respirator and artificial life support.But no such blessed outcome on Black Tuesday December 6, 2011. For by the time I had come to The Hospital to take my feeble and defenseless eighty-seven year old patient safely home, it was too late to save her life. Too late to prevent a vile and monstrous murderess - impervious to her innocent victim's piteous and terror-stricken cries for mercy before God - bend over her emaciated frame to choke what breath was left in one of heaven's best loved little Angels, full of grace.It was not too late, however, for her departing spirit to reveal to me (and to me alone!) in just one single, short and damning word the true and actual identity of her who had committed the cowardly and ghastly crime. Given in her dying breath and with the last iota of her energy she had been able to save up. It was her ultimate gift of selfless love and sacrifice, paid in full and at the highest possible price.It is hoped that all who only now will come to know the story of NORIKO through this book will hold her timeless message of undying love as dear as all who have been privileged to know her in the flesh, have known firsthand her bravery, her goodness and her heart of gold. Its presence with us still - even after it has stopped to beat, if only temporarily!

The story begins on the day of Buddha-Poornima, a sacred day for Buddhists, in the fifth century CE. The protagonist Nandhini Devi, a charming girl in her 20s, encounters a soothsayer in her village and is perplexed by his predictions. Unforeseen circumstances put her in a Buddhist monastery where she gets special treatment from its head-monk, Buddhabhadra. The drama intensifies as she is sent to a royal palace to interact with the mighty Vakatakas. The plot unfolds through the interactions of the head-monk with the royal family, ministers, feudal kings and the girl. Unraveling her mysteries and fulfilling the mission of the Buddhist monk (bikshu) become the crux of the plot. Buddhist monastic life and the creation of the Buddhist cave-art at Ajanta, a World Heritage Monument of UNESCO, form the backdrop for the drama. This art historical novel places its fictional narrator in an accurate historic setting. Fifth century CE Jambudvipa, now India, marks the waning of the great Guptas and the apogee of the Vakatakas. Embedded in the socio-political climate are the cultural phenomena of India's religions and arts. Nandhini Devi is caught in the politics of three kingdoms: the Vakatakas, the Guptas, and the Asmakas. The turbulent political situation propels a major war with the innocent girl at its center. Does she emerge unscathed or ruined by the political forces? Is she falling for the pleasures of royal life or leaning towards the rustic sobriety of a Buddhist monastery? Finally, who is she? Only the bikshu knows!

In his Russian-language novel Island of Hopes, author Leonid Khaychenko relates the dreams and different destinies of those who escaped from the burning lands of civil war after the Russian Revolution. The new pages of an unknown life open for Vsevolod Olsky, his sister Klavdia, and their friends, sending them on long roads fraught with dangers and losses, until they eventually reach Paris. But there, other risks meet them and those others who stand up to fight against the enemy that had forced them to leave Russia. Also told is the story of one life -- telling how difficult it is to be oneself and follow one's own believes in humanity. A story that eventually leads to tragedy. While fishing on the bank of the River Seine, two elderly Frenchmen and one Russian friend swear to save the world, which conducts them through the dramatic and harrowing days of World War II. Love, passion, and humor -- you will meet them all in Island of Hopes.

Many have survived serious and incurable diseases. Noreen Martin had numerous life-threatening diseases, including cancer and full-blown AIDS. She restored her health and for 6 years she has not taken the AIDS medicines. She believes that health is the individual's responsibility; that health may only be maintained by following the natural rules of health; one cannot be vaccinated or medicated into health; and "where there's life there's hope." Discover how to rebuild health with supplements; the wonder drug Low Dose Naltrexone; natural and alternative means for attacking cancer; thermography for breast cancer screening; benefits of bio-identical hormones; how nutritional immunity can help prevent disease; how the power of thought is paramount to maintaining one's health.

Introduction to Balondo Studies is authored by Aja Oro, a Balondo-bakonja scholar, to serve as an examination study guide for the Balondo Cultural Exam (BCE). It covers several topics on Balondo in a way that makes it easier for the prospective candidates to be able to read and form a basic understanding of the material studied so that they can adequately prepare to write and pass the exam after meeting the basic requirements of the course, its purpose, and scope. Aja Oro hopes that eventually this book's methodology of using theory and praxis in Balondo studies will realistically become the proper evaluative educational tool for measuring the overall success rate of the Balondo Cultural Heritage mission of promoting cultural literacy.