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The Girl with the Golden WIngs

A collection of short stories. The author's lucid often humorous tale portray the ebb and flow of love as a young man recalls his father's life and retraces his own journey from son to soldier to husband and father through the character of Ross Seymour, the author offers clarity of vision economy of language and telling details of time, place, and emotions that will be familiar to Americans who came of age in the 1940's - and universal to everyone else.

Something weird is going on in the community of Shrub Oak. So weird that the locals are wondering if supernatural forces are at play. Or maybe it’s aliens who are responsible for the sudden disappearance of a section of the New York Taconic State Parkway. To solve the mystery a dogged investigator and a brainy waitress will have to combine forces and take a “detour” around an enigma that is chock full of wild and crazy twists and turns.

Six short delightful stories for children, with color illustrations.

Ingrid Centurion is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel who overcame many obstacles in life and throughout her career. Centurion's Commitment teaches the skills needed to accomplish goals and overcome obstacles

It Was All OBAMA exposes exactly that. Starting with his youth, it explores what makes the first African American president tick. It profiles the people who influenced him early on and the inherent attributes that shaped his character and personality. It shows how he climbed in Chicago social circles and who boosted him along the way.

Reebo Thwak lives on Carowak. He is eight years old and lives with his family. They say they love him, but he is not so sure. After searching by radio broadcast to Earth for Earth-children who might feel the same way he does, Reebo makes a big decision. Through this adventure he learns how much his family loves him

He had problems at home. She was his mentor, a teaching nun who went out of his life when she was given an administrative post in a school in South America. Their beautiful correspondence spans eleven years, one year beyond her leaving the religious order. Their letters, with increasing tenderness, illustrate the depth of their love, and her growth from innocence to womanhood and his from adolescence to manhood. This powerful love brings them together, she at age forty, he a well-educated teacher of twenty-nine, in a marriage that is close to the perfect love story.

A young and wealthy, but underdeveloped man, Tyler Holmes is appointed as a professor at a women’s college outside of Boston. His lack of development can be traced back to his unsettled and disoriented childhood and teenage years when his parents constantly undermined his judgment and behavior. Through his new teaching position he earns a reputation at the college maverick as a “trouble making” and dedicated teacher who often helps below-average students to attain new skills and superior ranking through extra attention. Tyler’s main goal is to expose students to the many dimensions, or shades, of learning, and to enable them to better understand the shades of gray in human behavior, accomplishments, and motivations.