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My Chinese students knew I was a grandmother but not like any grandmother they knew. "Many old people stay at home after retired," one student wrote. "But Professor Pat, who may be my granny according to her age in Our China, came to China alone. It is very marvelous" The students decided I had a young heart in an old body. I found I had become a model for old age.

Ms. Nelson-Ewing first began this story of The Girl With The Giggling Hair, when her oldest daughter, Aubrey, was an only child 30 years ago. We''ve since added, Jordan and Larken to the story. It has had many iterations since its inception that has led to this delightful rhyming romp. It is about us all having innate unique gifts while simultaneously being connected and celebrating our specialness together. This is part of a series of stories that show "Aubrey" and all the special friends in her neighborhood who live, play and work together in love and appreciation of each other.

When U.S. President J. Washington Rock decides that his legacy will be resolving the Middle East conflict by destroying Israel without needing to fire a shot, he embarks on a program of leaking sensitive Israeli information, cutting funding to Israel, and proposing a Palestinian-Israeli peace plan that would destroy Israel. Aided by the United Nations and Iran, Rock''s efforts back Israel into a corner. As Israel prepares for possible war, the efforts of two individuals who are unaware of each other may turn the tide--if they are in time. Set against a confrontation between Russia and Israel, dual terrorism threats against the United States, and a surprise offer from some of Israel''s enemies, the story sweeps the reader through a frightening array of twists and turns that could someday really happen.

After the trial and conviction of Helen Strathmore, the question "where''s Helen?" preoccupies only a few people like the complainant, Robin Sympass and not for long. She is too taken up with the toll that her husband Jim''s psychiatric hospitalization has taken on her son and household. A small support group of Sympass friends forms and meets for lunch/brunch/dinner. On one of these occasions a new member is introduced, Dalene Kimball a deaconess at Mrs. Pettigrew''s church. She is expected to ''help'' with the Sympass family situation and it is her good doings that gives the lives of all connected an unusual and even supernatural turn. Greg Ryan, Helen Strathmore''s former detective is the only one intent on finding her and he investigates under cover as Darlene''s assistant. But that strategy finds him struggling in the web of legal, personal and family conflicts that Miss Kimball has spun. The unraveling violently takes a few select lives on its path to final revelation.

When Real Estate Developer, Denise McNeely, wants to purchase a property, it always happens. Until the one property that she desires more than any other is not for sale. This is something that does not happen in her world, and it's not about to start now.With the help of an associate with ties to the unsavory, a plan is set in motion to persuade the owners of the Hillard House to sell. But the Hillard's aren't interested in selling, especially not to a developer.But when terrible things start happening to their good friends, their guilt and despair push them to the verge of selling.Will Denise McNeely be successful in building her luxury condominium complex on the Hillard property, or will other sinister acts play a more crucial part that she never sees coming.

I was a Flight Attendant for over 35 years however my traveling experiences go back even farther. After college, I backpacked through Europe for three months. That was traveling light and cheap. I cannot help you with the cheap part today but I have a significant amount of traveling light advice! I have observed, or made just about every travel mistake possible. This book is intended to save your sanity when traveling. If I can do Europe, six countries in seven days, spend a week in Ireland with only a small carry-on, travel standby with two children to just about anywhere, I am more than qualified to pass on knowledge learned from my mistakes and successes. I have experienced or witnessed just about every travel headache imaginable. So, get with it, use my ideas, stress free tips and learn to travel the easy way, and the light way.

Chompy, The Lonely Alligator was so lonely. He watched other animals on the bayou play together, but couldn''t figure why no one would play with him. Then one day changed him. Find out what happened to change Chompy and could this happen to you?

Taryn had been separated from her first husband since 2003 after too many years of infidelity. Taryn then fought for three more years just to get a divorce and remove her and her children from an unhealthy marriage and living just to exist within it. After all that she’d finally found her peace of mind and felt it was time to start seeking new beginnings. She felt she was ready to enjoy her newly found single life and open to finding new love. All she knew after being in the military since joining on her nineteenth birthday along with a very disappointing marriage was taking care of her family, who now only involved taking care of and solely providing for her children. Taryn spent every day raising her children, going to school online and during the weekend to get where she needed to be in her military career and for after it would end. Though Taryn had no love life due to her work schedule, focusing on raising her children, and school a friend came by her house one evening and ended up sharing with her how she’d met her current boyfriend on an online dating site. She recommended Taryn try it as well, even if it was just for conversations outside of her military life. Taryn hesitated for months but when she finally put down her books for the semester, she decided to try it.  After a few weeks she began to meet some very interesting men, some to remember, some that are still her friends today, and others she’d never knew existed in this world and wished she had never even read their bios. Instead what she found wasn’t what she’d ever expected in one man; a Fake online profile, Fake triplet brothers, Fake career, Fake Military background, Fake Navy SEAL, Fake single life, Fake stories for everything including his bloodline, nothing about this man was real or even when he made it sound like it was! Yet, what was very real was about to be seen and for others it wasn’t seen until it was too late for multiple innocent women! Taryn really thought she’d met a new kind of man that would reopen her heart and bring true love into her life; instead Taryn she found the exact opposite, Taryn had met a very Real, “Online Predator: In Our Ranks!”

Long Shot is a science fiction/horror novel set in the near future where a space-borne virus has killed most of the human population. Those still alive after being infected have now turned into flesh hungry mutants. Those normal humans left have organized into an army to annihilate them. Our hero, a once recreational marijuana dealer now turned reluctant leader and hero, must now face overwhelming odds to beat them.

In news coverage, I often hear "Wall Street" and "Main Street" mentioned.  But what about rural roads, side streets and back streets?  When America's economy is good, is it good for every American?  What does Globalization, which increases profits tremendously for America's privileged special interests, do for the loyal, dedicated American workers who were displaced by Globalization?  Did displaced American workers send the jobs they worked at so hard for meager wages to Third-World-Country sweat-shops, or their employers, who wanted even cheaper labor?  Are displaced American workers lazy "entitlement seekers," or forced into receiving public assistance for survival?  Will at least some American employers hire displaced American workers, when illegal foreign workers are available for pennies-on-the-dollar under-the-table wages?  When the American economy is good, is it as good for displaced workers as it is for special interests exploiting cheap foreign labor and American markets simultaneously?  Is it as good for the victims of now legal "loan-sharking" as it is for predatory lenders?  Is it as good for the addicted victims of the now legal "numbers racket" as it is for the lottery operators?Above all, why are American workers yet to be displaced by Globalization and/or technological innovation, so easily led to resent and criticize American workers already displaced?  "Take our nation back?"  "Make America great again?"  Back to what?  What was great about the redefined "Jim Crow" slavery that lasted more than a century after legal slavery was abolished?  What was so great about the blatant racial discrimination pathetically ignorant Caucasians so enjoyed seeing used against minorities, that they could not see the sociopolitical discrimination they faced themselves?Those old enough may remember that Dragnet's Sargent Friday changed the names to protect the innocent.  In Educated Hands, I have changed the names to keep from embarrassing the descendants of the guilty.  I lived my childhood and young adult years in a not-so-great America that I do not care to go back to.  I watched TV news as flag-draped coffins were unloaded daily, as members of the military industrial complex, who did not serve in our military counted their profits. I saw workers devote their lives to American corporations that abandoned them and our nation for the cheap labor, lax safety and environmental regulations and tax loopholes of Third-World-Countries.Save one instance in which I incorporated literary license, Educated Hands is a collection of variations of actual happenings that reveal the progress most American citizens have made, yet identify the negativity some people want to "take us back" to.  Am I un-American or non-patriotic because I dare speak truth to power?  I truly appreciate the American ideal, and I will fully appreciate the American reality, when all victims of special interest exploitation can fully enjoy the American Dream.

Hello Readers,Let’s take a journey together into Cathy Hill’s sinful life that is filled with three curses and her obsession with Judge Chase Kristopher Gordon Sr...Cathy is a woman that would destroy and kill for the color green. A church woman she was not, but could quote the bible inside and out. Her biggest problem was keeping her mouth closed, yet she has a reputation of spicing up any man or woman’s fancy.Cathy was no match for Kizzy Johnson, both women had little regard for other people’s lives and both women had blood on their hands and I’m not talking about the Blood of the Lamb.

A drive home turns deadly for William and Diana when they accidentally hit a man with their car. Hoping to avoid the consequences, the two decide to bury the body in the woods. As days go by, William grapples with the reality of what he''s done, debating whether he should tell the police. Written in two parts, this suspenseful novel asks the reader, "How far are we willing to go to keep a secret buried?"

"My head is spinning. I think I''m going to be sick. I think I need to go to the hospital, but I''m so dizzy I don''t think I can walk." The last words my wife spoke to me before she slipped into a coma, never to wake up. It began as a wonderful vacation with friends but turned into a nightmare. A nightmare that changed my life in a way no one could have foreseen. Death has a way doing that. The experts try to help you in the aftermath but each of us go through the grieving process in our own way. My path to recovery is unique to me. Your path will be unique to you. No one can prepare you for this kind of journey, you must make your own path. I have read what some of the experts have to say and some of their advice was helpful. Some of their advice just didn''t help at all. "Last Lunch" is my story of what it is like to lose your best friend, your wife, your lover, the mother of your children, and then pick up the pieces and go on living. It is a story of my faith in God and the love of family and friends. It''s a story that has no ending. One day I just stopped writing.

It''s Cool is a great book for any child. In today''s time with social media and the rest of the internet trends are set all the time. Children soak up everything they hear and see. I want the subjects in this book to be the first trend. I want a child to feel responsibility, eating right, good health, education, respect, manners and family are all cool. So, while children are having fun and learning children will gain fundamentals to use in everyday life. This book will start them on the right path.

This book is equal parts self-help and hilarious reality written by a funny lunatic the last Guru you will ever need folks right in this book. Adrian yup that's me writing in the third person like well… a crazy person, (calm down its ok for you to laugh at my crazy) he has written an inspiring tale of survival and not becoming just another victim or statistic, this book details serious childhood and adulthood trauma from physical, verbal and sexual abuse to bullying in school and growing up poor with a tyrant of a father in the hot streets of Miami, Florida and into adulthood in Denver, Colorado.You will read what it was like to survive these events as well as Adrian's challenging adulthood having to live with and overcome mental illness PTSD, Bipolar1 as well as physical ailments, homelessness and even addiction as well as the loss of his mother, this book details not only the horrors he has survived but it is also a swan song to a loving mother who suffered along-side him and only ever wanted for her son to be happy. His quick wit and very sick sense of humor keeps the book funny and upbeat with plenty of jokes inspiring both strength and hope to not give up and truly shine as a human being.If you want to know the back story to the cover picture you will have to dive in to a book that is written with brutal humorous honesty or you can go to the back of the book store like a cheapskate read that chapter and put the book back on the shelf but you won't do that look at how adorable I was and still am, of course I wrote my own summary now buy me yes this is blatant pandering I've got nothing left to lose so jump in and enjoy the ride that I had to live so that you could read it and tell your friends to buy a copy too it makes a great crooked table leveler.~Adrian Carlisle

From selling Christmas trees on street corners in Washington to becoming a multi-millionaire philanthropist, this is a success story of the son of immigrants who combined vision, risk-taking and a desire for perfection and became a leading restauranteur, businessman and world-class angler.    It is an example of how thousands, if not tens of thousands, of immigrant families have made major contributions to the culture and economy of the United States.This is the true life legend of Peter Paul Boinis.  

Catholic Manifesto is the first trilogy written by the Catholic priest, Rev. Khoat Van Tran.  The first part of this trilogy, also entitled Catholic Manifesto, reveals how the "Our Father" prayer is even more than the requested prayer of Jesus Christ for all God's children.  This prayer is also a statement that is referred to by Rev. Tran as the Catholic Manifesto.  Rev. Tran takes us line by line through this statement or declaration to show its impact on all of us for the True New Time coming.  The second part of this trilogy, called Catholic Kingdom, treats of God's upcoming, heavenly kingdom on Earth and its feasible realization in the True New Time.  The third part of this trilogy is Catholic Dream, which is the true dialog that occurs in a three day dream that the author experienced while at the point of death, and which keeps him thinking until this day. This book, Catholic Manifesto, is a real journey toward the True New Time on Earth!  It contains new, truthful ideas never printed before, and it can be understood by all God's people on Earth.

China''s first emperor, Shi Huang Di, was a powerful ruler. In the 3rd century BC he unified China by defeating the six surrounding kingdoms. He also unified the writing, laws, currency, weights and measures, and much else. He tried to destroy the the influence of Confucius and built a major section of the Great Wall. He was very cruel. When he became emperor at the age of thirteen he immediately ordered construction of a great tomb palace on which 700,000 workers labored for thirty six years. It was filled with tens of thousands of treasures for his enjoyment in the afterlife. His high tomb mound was protected by 7000 terracotta soldiers. When the heavy tomb door was closed after the emperor''s death the artisans who were setting up defensive devices to thwart tomb robbers were imprisoned with the dead emperor. One of the workers was Kong Hao, Master Artisan. He eventually died in the tomb and had been a ghost for over 2400 years. A young American, Ben Coggins, while climbing the hill above the tomb, trips over a hidden mechanism that opens the tomb for a very short time, falls into it, and meets the ghost of Kong Hao. The ghost''s goal is to get his bones honorably buried so he can move on. Somehow the two escape and start a rambunctious 600 mile trip across China to get to Qufu, the home of Confucius and the ancestral home of Kong. When finally there they also help five other ghosts whose bodies had never been found so they were never honorably buried. In Qufu they meet a young teacher named Ailien, who believes their story and helps them. Together they get the ghosts on their way, all except Kong who decides he wants to stay around awhile. Everyone ends up where they want to be and Ben wins the hand of the beautiful Ailien.

Elijah Conner Pennington is a private investigator specializing in cold cases.  His published cases are based on actual events and are chronicled in his first cold case in a book titled COLT ACE, while his second adventure is presented in the author's book titled MOTOR dynasty.  Conner's cases are fast paced, with exotic vehicles rushing through the pages, along with romance, mystery, and fireworks that the author is familiar with during his years in Public Safety and the Marine Corps.If FLIGHT TO DESTINY, Conner gathers a team of heretofore unknown mercenaries, with the end goal of finding a missing SEAL operative that fought the Russians during the cold war, alongside other American operatives that were assigned the task of discrediting the Russian Spetsnaz operatives trying to influence the political and economic outcome of the Nicaraguan government.  Danger confronts Conner and his team at every attempt to locate the missing warrior.As a combat Marine officer, the author often investigated violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.  Upon leaving the Marine Corps he served twenty-three years in the Missouri Department of Public Safety, retiring as a deputy director.  He holds degrees in Art, Psychology, Criminal Justice Administration, and a master degree in Public Administration from the University of Missouri.Following his state career, Echols became a private investigator, specializing in cold cases.  His first Conner Pennington novel, “Colt Ace”, has won wide acclaim among readers of mystery novels.  His second cold case novel, “Motor Dynasty” has met with equal enthusiasm among his readers.Echols lives in Fort Worth, Texas with his partner and fellow investigator, Ann.

Written for Wine Lovers who are invited to judge wines in national or international competitions, students enrolled in certification programs for wine judging, writers who critique wines in printed or social media and practicing Competition Wine Judges who wish to continue their experiences and negotiate the different opinions they encounter when scoring wines with other judges.

America has over four million miles of roads: concrete, asphalt, gravel, dirt. Jake Rivers (fictional source) has collected many interesting short stories as he’s driven a truck along these trails. Some he’s witnessed like “The Good Nude,” featuring Dee Kurzinski, a beautiful young woman who’s bored being on the road. Some tales Jake has heard about as a recent event such as “In the Pines”, which takes place on an icy highway in northern Wisconsin. “Beacon in the Wheatfield” goes back to the bootlegging days of the 1930’s. Enjoy these stories and nine others which are set across a broad spectrum of time and distance. Get in the cab with Jake and read about what he has discovered.Jim Lazarus has been described as an interesting author who writes well and whose “vivid descriptions make the book come to life.” This book will entertain you and leave you wondering, “What else is on the road?”

The story of a successful author who suffers from an intense printer’s ink allergy appears on the surface to be a bit of an oxymoron. It isn’t. In addition to every debilitating allergy symptom imaginable, the author suffered for years with mysterious conditions such as brain fog, fatigue, back pain, asthma, restless legs and obesity, along with sudden episodes of unexplained sadness, anger, and depression. Her constant complaints ballooned into severe allergic disease, which mimicked a myriad of symptoms associated with almost every illness not yet clearly defined by the medical community. She was determined to solve her own mysteries and dispel the myth that illusive symptoms are “all in your head.”Having grown up in the birthplace of the atomic bomb, she even questioned the possibility of some unknown nuclear exposure. Gripping tales of anaphylactic episodes, cat dissections, wimpy kids, angrily discarded Christmas cards, black onion tears, nicknamed coughs, and emergeaphobia highlight her captivating allergified conditions. The author’s life changed dramatically when she met the compassionate, brilliant, whole-body allergist who listened, understood, and, over time, cured her. The constant thread which weaves itself among the pages, through the twists and turns, the tears and treatments, is the story of abiding love. The author’s husband Michael, whom she identifies as her Gentle Giant, watched the love of his life change from a 106-lb. bride to the 246-lb. mother of his children without ever saying a negative word. He was her rock, and he understood that strange forces were working beyond her control. Love and faith have kept them together for over fifty years. The concept of allergy is complicated, whether it presents itself as constant sneezes or hardly any sneezes at all. It morphs, meddles, and mesmerizes. The good news is that allergy can be cured. The author’s journey into a happy, healthy, symptom-free life is an inspiration and a must-read for anyone who has ever sneezed.

Chronicling a journey of self discovery and direction. We follow the narrative of a midwest teenager. As he escapes to Denver. During the early stages of the 1980''s. In hopes of explaining, with a poetic flair. This new world that he encounters with naive optimism. As he struggles to support himself. While embroiled in both an emotional, as well as, a physical battle of redemption. Encountering a various array of misfits and opportunists. Amidst the coming of a cloud. That begins to darken the very dream he once thought he would find. Forcing the examination of every truth he had held dear. Determining the outcome to be found, on the other side of his excursion into adulthood.

Job is a singularly good man who lived perhaps 4000 years ago, and who experienced unparalleled loss and pain. Three friends come to visit Job in his suffering and to offer sympathy and counsel. Job wants to know why God treats him this way, and they suggest he must have sinned heinously to have brought such great suffering upon him. An analysis of the facts in Job (including a rhetorical analysis of the debate) suggests some answers to Job''s questions and to ours. God has purpose in Job''s suffering. In the process, the counsel and motives of Job''s friends are seen to be defective and self serving, including the idea that all our deeds are rewarded or punished in this life. Job comes to a renewed faith in God and a preliminary grasp of the fact of life after death, a fact more implied than taught in the Old Testament. And we gain assurance of God''s unwavering presence with us in our own pain.

Here's what happens when you try and digest two enzymes in one day:The naturally colored Enzymes (one produced by nature, not in a laboratory) get confused, addled, and if you are a crossword nut, then you could say they are "at sea." You could also say: "bolloxed" if it were a real word. These enzymes are like Moses in the desert, like Ronald Reagan in his last two years of his second term, or like my Uncle Mac who didn't forget how to pee, but forgot what a toilet looked like.If there are two enzymes in the stomach at the same time, the digestive juices don't know which color (enzyme) to attack, so they give up and go back to their digestive nests, or "enzidiums" and the food in your stomach is left undigested. Undigested food has nowhere to go. After sitting there for a while, they turn into fat cells through the process of "Endomytosizing."There is an equation known by most enzymologists: FAT = UNDIGESTED FOOD, AND CONVERSELY, UNDIGESTED FOOD = FAT.

Being the best that you can be, in terms of health and fitness, is more attainable than you might think. When I was 15 years old, I got tired of feeling out-of-shape and have been learning, both by study and by experience, ever since. Today, at nearly 60, I have lived my life in nearly perfect health and am doing daily workouts that I would have been very pleased with as a teenager. I write about science and this is how I got my scientific way of thinking, by always seeking continuous improvement in diet and fitness.Men can do a lot to prevent hair loss, and gain back much of what might have already been lost. There is a way to keep gray hair at bay. You also do not really have to get wrinkles or a "double chin". Most importantly, you can be in your best health and feel like a dynamo at any age.There is a relatively simple diet strategy that any "older" person should definitely be aware of.Health and fitness resolutions have a very high casualty rate. But there are crucial differences between those who succeed and those that don't. This is about how to make continuous progress in health and fitness a part of your life. There are numerous diet and fitness routines, but everyone's body and mind is different and this is how to get to the one that is absolutely the best for you.This book is for the internet age. What I mean by that is that it doesn't tell you a bunch of stuff that either you already know or could easily look up online. This is for people who want to be at their best but are always in a hurry, without a lot of time. This goal is within reach of anyone and requires no more money than you already spend. You do not necessarily need to join a gym and it certainly requires no supplements, exotic foods or, medical procedures. This is for anyone and everyone, young or old, male or female.

Tom Cooper, a sociology teacher from Colorado, suffers a midlife crisis. To repair himself, he takes a ride through Nevada to visit his sister in California during his summer vacation. On the way, he gets stranded in the tiny community of Chaufant. He is befriended by Andy Caldwell and other residents who seem especially kind to him but he learns that some of the people are practicing cannibalism. Although Tom is shocked by this revelation, his curiosity gets the best of him and he stays in Chaufant to learn more about these people. On the surface they seem normal and friendly, but underneath they are complex and addicted to occasionally eating dead people. His sabbatical takes him on an emotional journey of discovery. A treasure is found and a romance germinates. Through tragedy and a philosophic odyssey Tom, his new friend Andy, and the community of Chaufant, find peace before the summer ends.

To walk through the forty day time span in the Scriptures which covers most of "The Post-Resurrection Appearances of Christ" is to walk with one foot in this world and the other foot in the world to come. The body that Jesus is now in is the resurrected body in the flesh that every believer is encouraged to see as the image of their own bodily resurrection.(1John 3:2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.As you walk through these forty days after His resurrection, you should view them from the standpoint of Jesus opening the understanding of the individual believer in Christ to insights of things that belong to them, with the expectation that we can presently see a portion of our inheritance.

A powerful romantic adventure about a Las Vegas gambler who after twenty-five years, suddenly has doubts about his life in the fast lane, and decides to return to his hometown in Pennsylvania to see if he can make a new life for himself.But his plans go awry when the last thing he ever expected after three failed marriages was to finally find true love.Heather is beautiful, exhilarating and smart, and-she’s been dating his younger rich cousin who hates Tony for stealing her from him. Joey enlists help from Heather’s mother to stop Tony at all cost. Nostalgic and richly characterized.Too Late the Homecoming is a complex portrait of opportunity, regret, and the long reach of the past with an unpredictable ending.

Dive into a unique collection of poems and vignettes with The Cloistered Oyster and Other Poems. Some poems are controversial, unorthodox-even taboo-while others are tender love poems, both breakups and makeups, or quirky observations of the otherwise mundane. Laced with wit, humor, and good intentions, this delectable collection makes a perfect gift for someone special-or simply indulge for your own pleasure!