Ann is an author, happily marries and living a simple life in Canada’s capital city Ottawa. She receives a letter that is somewhat confusing and because of it she finds and meets her biological father. The story weaves daily occurrences into a story that follows Ann and her friends and family . Ann is diagnosed with leukemia which brings tension to the story as her fate is a concern. Life is not longer simple and at the same time the world is facing a pandemic that complicates everything.
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Wit and Wisdom
Many entries in this book are my creations; others are gleanings and adaptations from several languages and cultures. All resonate to my experience.
Aphorisms, witticisms, moral tales, and similar insights are akin to philosophy but with two main differences: first, whereas philosophy reaches a point after lengthy preliminaries, aphorisms and their relatives begin with the point and its immediate human application. Second, whereas philosophy narrate in a major key, these entries play on several registers: humor, irony, paradox, and moral insights that modulate the melody of human life.
According to one of the aphorisms in this book, some of our ideas fare better in other minds. These have served me well as instruction and consolation. Now I release them in the hope that other minds will make even better use of them.
No Time Talking
No Time Talking follows this unlikely pair as they discover that good friends, though hard to come by, are for forever, first appearances can be deceiving and the designs of fate are hard to circumvent.
George Tsukayama hates his job as an IRS Agent. So, while he is auditing stuffy, prejudiced, old haoles, he dreams of becoming the next great American novelist. He finds inspiration in his friends; a fellow gruff World War II Nisei (Japanese-American) vet who runs a laundromat, and the Mexican college student who sells discarded flowers and parks cars to pay for classes. When he is assigned to audit a beautiful haole woman, who speaks his ancestral language better than he, he is warily captivated by her warmth and love of all things Japanese.
Christine Barrington misses Kobe, Japan. That’s why her garden is the style of the Japanese gardens she grew up with, and maintains her Japanese language by cajoling her best friend Carole, a Japanese American, to practice with her. She paints to ease the pain of the death of her parents and the loss of her childhood friend in Kobe. She longs to paint a portrait of the striking young man who parks her car and sells flowers to her. Above all, she wants desperately to befriend the IRS agent sent to audit her, a handsome nihonjin from Hawaii who reminds her of her first love, Shoichi.
Snow Business
No matter how different you are, you can always be friends even when it snows.
Tallow
A Roman soldier observes Tallow defending a helpless dog against the bullying boys of the village. His fighting skills intrigue the soldier. The soldier reports on the boy to his superiors and they decide to take the boy to be a soldier in the summer after his 11th year. Tallow earns the respect of his comrades and his superiors as he grows up in the Roman army. After his first battle, Tallow enters into a “quest”, spawned by a dying soldier’s questions. Those questions lead Tallow in pursuit of a man who can answer them. The answers to these questions are more than Tallow wants to face. His quest ends when his pride surrenders to the man.
The Cat in the Cap and the Better World
Shoshannah Brombacher’s books about an adorable smart cat with a cap and a little grocery store contain unique heartwarming stories about a family of cats and their friends who visited the home of the artist from the wild and some stayed with her. In the stories, the cats learn the true meaning of courage, being inventive, and the importance of friendship and working together.
Each one of these humorous tales has its own individual adventure and life lesson. They are packed with trials, mayhem, suspense, mystery, action, and adventure. With everyday situations that kids and adults must face in the real world, like waking up timely in the morning, but also how to deal with a pandemic. That will interest readers of all ages.
Now throw in a little fantasy and you have charming tales that will enthrall juvenile audiences. The perfect Story-time book series for both boys and girls ages 4 – 8 Grades: K – 3. But there are many puns and word-plays, winks and hints to literature, history, art, and politics that most kids might miss but will bring a smile on the faces of adults.
Parents, teachers, librarians, and kids will appreciate the familiar situations, the worldwide geography, and appropriate language for Ages 4 – 8 Grades: K – 3.
These illustrated story books are sure to please the read-aloud crowd.
The Cat in the Cap™ Series of children books are unique in the adventure genre.
The Lawrence County Moonshine War
This is a tale of a changeling shortly after these powers were bestowed upon him. Jack, who began life as a rabbit, fell asleep in arid West Texas shortly after wishing he had a home someplace else in a more temperate climate. When he awoke, he was a young man in a forest glen in such a place. He got exactly what he wished for! The problem was, he was wearing an Army uniform and he did not know his location. He didn’t even know which century it was! Jack was suffering from a serious case of amnesia.
He soon learned that the year was 1920 and that he had been slumbering on his own property in Eastern Kentucky. He was re-introduced to his cousin, Gerard, whom he did not recognize, yet with whom he had maintained a best-friend relationship since childhood. Gerard also introduced Jack into his moonshine business during these, the early days of Prohibition. Before long, Jack found himself situated between big city gangsters and state investigators.
Lead was flying in the hills of Eastern Kentucky and Jack was in the thick of it.
Author Earl Snort is the nom de plume of a retired law enforcement officer with more than forty years experience toting a badge and a gun.
A Complex Journey – The Next Day Book 2
Through analytics performed with BrainMaze, the trio discover that “Aliens” have been affecting the council’s activities. The Aliens are multiscale cybernetic agents organized similarly to brain cells, but are able to work on a global scale. The trio join the Special Operations team to understand the Alien’s intentions and find a way to avert their influences.
During a trip Malaysia, the team encounters one Alien. After a brief fight with Logan, the team captures one of the Aliens. The team is able to extract a few rules that govern how the Aliens system operates. This information is used to drive simulations that predict the most likely scenarios given the current behaviors of the Aliens. The trio Katya, conducts several simulations of the Alien-AI interactions with BrainMaze and discover that the Alien’s activities are biasing a major shift in the Earth’s climate, which could lead to an event that will cause a major catastrophe on the Pacific coasts.
A Complex Journey – Brain Maze Book 1
Three scientists (Katya, Logan and Terry – aka the trio) have developed a brain simulation platform based on principles of Complex Adaptive Systems, called “BrainMaze”. The trio have made great advances in medicine by developing the platform that can use a person’s own brain to create an avatar lives within the BrainMaze platform. Simulations done in BrainMaze test potential treatments first in the avatar before going to the patient. The success in the medicine leads to an even greater success for BrainMaze as a tool for people to interact through a Brain-Computer Interface.
This occurs at a time when the world is on the brink of a crisis. Political upheaval from a decline in the influence of the USA and UK results in the establishment of a more distributed governing structure, similar to the European Union, called the Global Council. The Council installs a worldwide AI system that enables sharing of resources globally to remedy food shortages and economic imbalance.
Bo The Far-too Polite Pirate
is a story about a young boy who was born into a family of pirates. He enjoys tall tale pirate adventure stories and songs they share but when he goes out on an actual pirate attack. He soon discovers “The Pirate Life” is not for him. He fails miserably at being a pirate, so his dad insists he attend Pirate Training School. After several misadventures and failures at the school, he decides if he is to be a pirate, he will be a nice pirate. He shares the treasures he finds, rescues other pirates in peril and generally does kind things. This eventually wins his crew over but further angers his father and his teachers.
I believe this will speak to anyone who have been bullied or forced to conform or to parents that need to let their little ones grow and learn and be themselves. This story also allows for so many further adventures as Bo teaches others about being kind and considerate.
Each of the Mouse Gate children’s stories has their own individual adventure and life lesson. They are packed with trials, mayhem, suspense, mystery, action, and adventure. With everyday situations that kids must face in the real world. Now throw in a little magic and fantasy. Now you have charming tales that will enthrall young audiences.
The perfect Storytime book series for both boys and girls ages 3-7 / Grades: K-2.
Parents, teachers, librarians, and kids will appreciate the familiar situations and appropriate language for Ages 3-7 / Grades: K-2.
These illustrated story books are sure to please the read-aloud crowd.