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There once was a cranky watermelon with a big imagination who lived on a magic mountain. Ajay wrote this book when he was in the third grade. He was inspired to write this book as he always heard his grandmother talking about wanting to write a book.

The poor family of mice was exhausted following a long summer of storing rice for the winter months. Together, they learned ways to create fun and simple ways to use things they had and things they found so the whole neighborhood could enjoy a huge celebration on ice.

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American Civil War Era 1861-1865, African American Diaspora 1619-1865. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1861 so the slaves could fight in the Civil War. One hundred eighty thousand black soldiers joined the Union Army, forty thousand were killed. General Grant was very pleased with the black soldier. He said, "In battle, the dead black...

President of the United States Nicholas Simmons viewed the adoring crowd from the televised monitor overlooking the standing room only crowd at the New York Armory, sitting in the midst of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a ten-minute walk from the George Washington Bridge. It was a payback campaign stop for local congresswoman Juanita Sanchez, who helped pass the President's tax-cut legislation ...

During the lockdown of 2020, when it was decided that children would be out of school for an extended period of time and would be engaged in technology for months or years, I started wondering what contribution I could make to assist children to get a break from the computer. When I was raising the children (nieces, nephews, and my child), we had a dog named Max. He and the boys were inseparable. He was a loving, beautiful dog. I, therefore, ...

Maggie Isabella Langley lived in a world of wealth, privilege, and class. As a Langley, she was expected to accept certain social conventions like an arranged marriage and marry the old-money doctor, Charles P. White. Unlike other ladies in her position, she refused to accept this arrangement. It was then that she planned her great escape to New York City with her best friend Beatrice. The great escape led her into the arms of Salvatore Aaron ...

The year is 1960. Bill Pengallen, a young college student, has taken on a summer job working on a fire suppression crew for the U.S. Forest Service in the California mountain town of Truckee, where he meets and becomes friends with Mike Cameron, a pre-Med student. It is the third dries summer in the area's history, the forest is a tinderbox. An Interstate highway is being thrust through the area, fire danger threatens the livelihood of rancher...

This book, Kymberleigh Ryan, talks about how deeply she loved her late son, Spc. Ryan N. Kettell, and how she did her best to convey this message to him and often wonders if he knew of her need for his unconditional love also. Through all of this, she draws comparisons to the way she was raised and how she tried to use her experiences growing up in a dysfunctional family to be a better parent to her children.

Sparkle Coral Reef is home to the first Seahorse Unicorn, Seabrina. Seabrina discovers her own unique, special powers, as she helps children to learn how to handle challenges encountered in everyday life. Each new story revolves around social issues such as bullying, pandemics, same sex partners, and cell phone misuse. Parents and children can use Seabrina's adventures as a way to open discussions on these important issues.

The West Highland Way in Scotland is a hiking dream for Jamie McDonald and his daughter, Niamh. His upcoming divorce has made it impossible for him to make ends meet on his inadequate pay as an armored truck driver. When his daughter dies in a car accident, his world is then torn apart. Disgusted, he wants to put an end to his suffering so he can feel more like a father and less like a failure. What would you do to fulfill your dead daughter's...

Does Money Answer All Things? Dal Mize is an up-and-coming writer and the son of an old-time circuit preacher. As a lad, Dal was taught that when life got hard, he learned that time and God would help him work it out and that he could find the answer in the Bible. Then one day he read a scripture that completely set him back. This scripture told him that money answers all things. This didn't seem to match up with what he had been taught as ...

This book is a compilation of recipes I learned from my grandmother (Phyllis), my mother (Joanne), and others I developed on my own through numerous iterations over many years. It is not a cookbook for specific diets, but it is more like a road map that leads you to your own recipe that becomes one of your family favorites. I am delighted to share these recipes, and I suggest you make additions or subtractions to the recommended spices as you ...

The Grasshopper and Mr. Frog is the story about a frog's and a grasshopper's--who are usually not thought of as friends--adventure in the forest long ago. Mr. Frog lives in a beautiful pond that Mr. Grasshopper becomes trapped into. Mr. Frog, who is busy sunning himself on a lily pad, hears the grasshopper and reluctantly decides to help the grasshopper out of the pond. The grasshopper is very grateful and thanks Mr. Frog, but Mr. Frog is alre...

In the tail end of the twentieth century, with the looming threat of Y2K fast approaching, three hard-partying members of an anarcho-punk band attempt to revitalize their inspiration for music by declaring a war against reality in the hopes of garnering attention from the fabled Muse. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and madness are cranked up to 11 as these three friends journey through a psychedelic odyssey filled with perversion, misadventure, a...

Surgeon Samantha Carothers thought she had finally found the perfect man, but when he dies, she becomes caught up in a love triangle. "Release the illusion, " she was told by a holy man whose life she had just saved, and in trying to uncover its meaning, Dr. Sam found that the world around her was telling her just the opposite, and those worldly facts were slowly driving her insane. The only way to keep her sanity was to find out what was and ...

A life of spiritual experiences that would shake one to the core, abuse and trauma that would destroy most people--and yet she battled on. She spent a lifetime hiding her pain and the trauma inflicted upon her. She lied and omitted information to keep a marriage together, to retain a job, and to hold on to a shred of dignity, over and over again. The lies she told herself were the most damaging. Lies like "If they know what happened to me, the...

Jan is remembered by her first words she wrote: May 12, 1941 My Diary, I will call you my Diary. You will be my Friend. You can talk to me. I can talk to you. We can be best friends. Diary, Mother hit me one day. She hit me badly. I cried all night. Mother hit me hard. Father hit my mother today. He hits her every day. If mother keeps being bad, she will get hit. Mother cries every day. See you tomorrow diary. The twelve men and women who fil...

In this what is called life, there will be good and bad. For some, life's lows seem to outnumber the highs. My story is a great example of that premise. Physical and sexual, as well as rejection, in my childhood left me with the perspective that life's lows were what life was. With very little instruction on life and what to do with it, I lived for the day, not really caring to see the next, not caring for my own life. I felt nothing for the ...

This charming little story breaks the autobiography mold. Technically it's the childhood account of a third-culture American kid and his adventures and exploits growing up all over the world in the 1950s and '60s. The book will transport you from Australia to Africa, from Brazil to Israel, from Europe to the Far East. But it's not just a travelogue or a dry where-I-was-born sleeper. It's part adventure--it's about surfing in Africa and sailing...