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Drunken pilot Dan Owen can't understand why his life is falling apart. His wife Diane blames John Running Bear Cardinal, whose death Dan carries heavily on his own head. When blown off course during a storm, Dan comes across an abandoned World War II airport. Fascinated by its remote northern location, he checks it out and quietly builds camp. Back home, disaster strikes when Dan is diagnosed with ALS and is forced to enter a local hospice for treatment. Determined not to die in a hospital bed, Dan plans to make an escape and fly to his mountain hideout to live what's left of his life in the wild. However, when he leaves medical care, he finds two other terminal terminally ill patients on his tail. Dan agrees to let them come along, as they also plan to end their days on the mountain, but upon their arrival, Dan begins to feel guilt at leaving his wife behind. Diane, meanwhile, is being unwillingly courted by bully Cub Peterson and is at her wits end. Dan's experience on the mountain becomes the key to unlocking his thoughts, which gives him a new perspective on life and he re-evaluates his options.

I am a retired molecular genetics scientist who has authored and co-authored well over 50 patents and academic publications. Sally's Magic River is my only work of fiction. I wrote the story over twenty years ago and first published it as Sally and the magic River in 2014. I am republishing the story in this new format with its new cover and title, Sally's Magic River. Why? Because I think Sally's story may turn out to be the most important thing I've written. When I was 10, life as I knew it came to an abrupt end. One November evening in 1948, as I was trying to finish eating dinner, my father, Herbert Valentine Gaertner, a man who everybody loved dearly, including me, rose from his easy chair to speak to my mother. She was in the kitchen cleaning up. I had been left to finish eating string beans which I hated because I always gagged on them. Apparently, my mother didn't know how to remove the strings. All three of us were listening to one of our family's favorite radio shows, Mr. and Mrs. North, a fun detective series. My father rose from his chair, walked in front of the table where I was seated, came face to face with my mother and was about to speak to her when he suddenly started making a horrible noise. He abruptly collapsed to fall with a crash flat on his back. The ambulance came and we all road to the hospital together. They said my father had passed away at the hospital having had a massive heart attack. I know better. I'm sure he was all but dead by the time he hit the floor. My life turned upside down. This was and still is the worst day of my life. But in retrospect it defined me, to become, in some strange way, the best day of my life. Sally's story is a little like mine. Her life is turned upside down at the age of 10. And I know that it is a story that many people share. Many people have had great tragedies happen at an early age. Their lives, too, have been turned upside down. But, depending on what one does after such an incident, I think many people experience that magic happens over time, and have found as I have that the worst day becomes in some strange way the best day of one's life. For example, Sally and I learned the secret of the vision quest. Our visions become so real that they play like videos in our minds. In doing this we live our futures before they happen. Why wait when one can enjoy that inspiring future right now? Tragedy left me, as it does Sally, with an obsessive compulsive personality which when put to good use can lead one to persistence, focus and a knowing that one can turn vision quests into reality. This is one thing Sally's Magic River has to offer, but it is not the only thing nor even the best thing in my opinion. The best thing, as I describe it, is to be found in the audible version of Sally and the Magic River.

The Bible has been called a bloody book. There are many references to blood. When we study blood and its properties, we can better understand why God refers so often to that precious liquid. It is truly "the life of the flesh" (Lev 17:11). It is vital; we cannot live without it. It is also the perfect spiritual analogy to what Christ has done, will do, and is doing for us continually. This book explores and expounds on that beautiful analogy.

Heaven or Hell. The Bible tells us that:The Lord ...... is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. (II Pet 3:9 NKJV)At the same time, though, it says that:.. wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life and there are few who find it. (Matt 7:13-14 NKJV)If I read the Bible correctly, it appears that most of the world's population is going to the bad place and only a few to Heaven. Why is that? This book explores possible reasons and what both Heaven and Hell might be like

A group of Philippine people became concerned with the welfare of the huge numbers of Filipina engaged in overseas work. Whilst most were well cared for and renumerated, there were many reports of ill-treatment and abuse especially of domestic workers. They approached the Philippine government about this, and it very quickly set up a special secret department to look into this serious matter. A specially trained security officer was appointed and cleverly paired up with a retired Canadian photojournalist in an arrangement, of which he was at first, oblivious. These two, were subsequently sent to a number of counties where they contacted domestic workers and recorded their stories. The government had plenty of statistics of OFWs but required human-interest stories of their people. All OFWs, ex-OFWs and their families will find this an interesting and exciting story, although a novel, it contains many true-to-life experiences.

The Second World War was reaching a deciding point in late 1944 when the United States formed teams of scientists and specialized military units in the hope of stopping Germany from developing a "super weapon." These teams were responsible for capturing supplies of uranium and thorium raw materials and laboratory equipment used to produce the "super bomb." Many of the assets that the Germans possessed were vital to help the United States and the Manhattan Project build the first atomic bomb. The teams of scientists and specialized military personnel were called into service as the "Alsos missions" sent to find and confine many of the prominent physicists and their research work. It was believed that the Germans were close to developing the bomb and would ensure Nazi world dominance. Several of the captured physicists were to become part of the Manhattan Project while others were returned to Germany after the war to rebuild the sciences.