Stephanie, Stephanie, Let Down Your Hair


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Can anyone really write a book, about self, that has a true beginning and a true end? I believe one can only write about a time span between the two. To encompass more than that must be left to someone else after one is gone. So one could call this book a series of essays, increments of time within the cycle of life. One could call it a series of experiments, of lessons, as well as of choices made. One could also call it a series of philosophical thoughts underscored by life. Living a life, living the life, one human individual no different than any other. Acting out life, re-acting to life, we all do it. Is one anymore or anyless than another's? It depends on the choices made. As the reader peruses a chapter here, a chapter there, the response could very well be, "Oh, I remember that!" "Oh, I've been there!" Etc., etc. There is a synchronicity in life it seems, and universal mind is part of it. Are we different? Yes, but ... Are we the same? Yes, but ... Reading the book and reliving memories is nostalgia in action. How far back can one go when one seeks to remember? Amazingly quite a way back. Can one remember every word spoken? No. The writers, who say they can remember such detailed conversations, have taken literary license with their work. Unless they were fortunate to have been able to record everything or to have been able to keep a daily journal in extreme detail. Reading about a conversation of some fifty, sixty years in such exact detail is suspect. It begins to border on fiction . So to create and recreate a life in progress it must be understood memories can be fickle. Never-the-less, however one manages to gather them together, they still make interesting reading. Yes a door was opened and what spilled forth revealed the life of one human being. The memories in the book do not quite cover a century, but they come pretty close. It was a period that seemed to take quantum leaps. We humans lived it, we ooed and aahed through all the events that took place on our watch. We were sad and we rejoiced. We even had that fleeting thought, "Will there be a tomorrow?" as we seemed to be living on the razors edge. There was, there is, there will be ... If we humans actually begin acting civilized, instead of pretending to be.




Opening The Door


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Like the bubbles that begin to rise from the bottom of the kettle getting ready to boil, so do the thoughts rise from the inner to evolve into a philosophic work. Each bubble filled with a thought from the well of spirit.




Into Self...out of Self


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The Daughter of Tommy the Killer


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The book is called The Daughter of Tommy the Killer. It is about Tommy the Killer’s daughter telling her version of how he became the legendary serial killer and how she is different from him.




Play the Game


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When Mya LeVeaux discovers that her ex-boyfriend is engaged, there's only one thing to relieve her pain - shopping! After a brief tug of war over a pair of burgundy boots, she finds new friends in the shape of Stephanie Hall and Tangie Jackson - and the three discover they have more in common than their taste in footwear. With two marriages behind her, Tangie is just looking for a good time; Stephanie is trying to keep it together for her 2 year old son, putting up with her man's wayward ways. Each woman deals with the game of love in her own special way, for better or worse.




Stalking Los Angeles


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Stalking Los Angeles is a gripping, coming of age tale of a contemporary Native American boy who is seeking to reconnect with his ancient tribal roots a Reggie goes on a vision quest to discover his ‘power animal’ that could help him deal with his domineering dad, the school bully and losing his girlfriend. When his father leaves to fight in Iraq, the family is forced to move into the big city. At the same time, a young mountain lion, known to conservationists, miraculously jumps over two freeways and enters the megalopolis. “Here’s where fiction and fact collide,” says Tom Berquist, the author. “The parallel challenges that the real lion faces are harrowing, but true and written from inside the animal’s skin.” Both young and adult readers will be captivated by the suspense; wondering and worrying how their two lives will intersect. If you like exciting stories about animals with a paranormal, mystery twist and, an educational foundation, you’ll love this book. Go to www.MountainLionLA.com or to Tom Berquist, Author – Novels about nature and wildlife (tomberquist-author.com) to learn more. If you purchase the book, you will be helping to protect our lions. The author is donating 25% of all profits to wildlife conservation and to building a wildlife corridor into the Santa Monica Mountains: http://www.samofund.org/santa-monica-mountains-wildlife-preservation/park-connectivity-wildlife-corridor/




Love Child


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Tommy Hulette never asked to be born. Everyone wants to make him regret it even so. Tommy Hulette hates his ghetto Brooklyn neighborhood. He's content living with his beautiful mother, his loyal caring father, his little sister Greta. He enjoys playing stickball with neighborhood friends then really perks up when he meets beautiful and interesting Stephanie from Starrett City. But Tommy's world is shattered forever. His mother becomes terribly unhappy and commits suicide. Things go downhill completely when his father decides he needs time to cope with the tragedy, sending Tommy and his sister to live with a brother Tommy never heard about. He promises that it will be for a short spell until he can come back for them. He doesn't and it doesn't take long for Tommy to discover how this brother hates him and has since birth. He wants to punish Tommy for events occurred long before Tommy's birth...Then it gets worse as he wants Tommy to end his life just like his mother...and to this Tommy is pushed and pushed and pushed... Pushed to the limit, and with no one to turn to, Tommy takes solace in his sister's company and letters he receives from Stephanie. Will he be able to cling to life, and not succumb like his mother?




Literacy Play Centers, Grades PK - K


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Play is how young children learn. Use Literacy Play Centers for students in grades PK–K to build understanding of literacy, mathematics, and community. The book includes 15 centers, including Grocery Store, Doctor’s Office, Barbershop/Hair Salon, Post Office, Florist Shop, and Bank. The fun role-playing activities help students develop cooperation, negotiation, and sharing while incorporating phonemic awareness, letters of the alphabet and their sounds, rhyming words, syllables, concepts of print, number and shape recognition, graphing, and estimation. This 160-page book includes detailed procedures, goals, objectives, a list of theme-related children’s literature, skills indexes for math and language arts, and information on embedding assessment throughout the year.




Erecting Mammon


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When a New York whistleblower is bribed and then threatened, she decides to take the money and run...south. Hoping to start a new life as Meredith Philips, heiress to a modest fortune, she settles in a once-famous winter resort for the very wealthy where Whiskey Road meets Easy Street. But as one ethical compromise leads to another, she begins to wonder if the cost of doing business with the bad guys isn't just too high. In this topsy-turvy town where the best addresses are on unpaved roads and sixty-room mansions are referred to as cottages, Meredith redefines her values with the help of an impeccably affluent grand dame, Miss Caroline, a pyromaniac housekeeper, Jewel, and a gardener named Mudd.




When We Were Us


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She no longer knows who she is or what she wants. He blames himself for her pain. Is their love strong enough to survive their greatest hurt? Christy has built her entire life around the dream of being a mother and raising a family with the love of her life. After years of infertility, doctors, treatments and heartbreaking disappointments, that dream seems further away than ever. Without her dream of motherhood, Christy no longer knows know who she is or what she wants. Mark loves his wife unconditionally but can’t bear knowing that he failed to give her the family she so desperately wants. At the very time when they should be coming together, their pain is pulling them apart. Is this challenge more than their marriage can withstand? Or will they be able to see past their individual hurts and come together again to have their own second chance at love—together?