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When a 9-year-old poet and a 7-year-old painter struggle with their homework, an odd-looking, mysterious stranger appears to offer unusual help: a journey in time via rainbow that promises to unblock their minds. Their incredible, sometimes harrowing adventures have the kids rubbing elbows with the likes of Socrates, Cleopatra and other famous figures, all while they strive to fulfill the tasks that will return them home.The Poet and the Painter launches children on an adventure ¿ an adventure that relieves the stress of brain block so children can tackle unfamiliar learning projects, homework assignments and other unfamiliar tasks. The book teaches youngsters how to think outside the proverbial box, stretch the limits of their imaginations and creativity, and accomplish learning goals.Fun and educational, The Poet and the Painter is a treasure for kids, parents, teachers and anyone who adores adventure, art and poetry.

Harold & Tyler - "Bravery" begins Harold's journey to find acceptance among his peers. He is a loner, not of his own choosing, but, because he has been shunned by others that don't understand his disability. One day he sees a group of his peers playing in the park. They let him join in their game. Two good things happened to Harold on that day. The others learned that Harold likes to do and is able to do what they do. Also, Harold met Tyler, who became his best friend. Suddenly, the world didn't seem so lonely to Harold anymore.

The month was November, the year was 1999. Michelle had celebrated her 30th birthday in July. The world was filled with apprehension about Y2K. Amid looming possibilities of computer software not being able to turn the century, the fear of data loss and the disruption of business, our family was dealing with a much larger fear. Our daughter, our very healthy only child, had just been diagnosed with a very rare cancer - malignant thymoma - Stage IV. In the months and years that followed her courage sustained us. Michelle's surgery to remove 2 large tumors - one from the pleura lining of her left lung and the other from the pericardium occurred in February 2000. This was our own, personal Y2K. It involved splitting her sternum as in open heart surgery. Her 6 hour procedure at the Massachusetts General Hospital seemed interminable. The staff in the waiting room notified us each time a call came in from the operating room to update us of their/her progress. Volunteers stopped by to offer refreshments and comforting words. Good friends came to support and distract us as the minutes ticked by. The time finally came when we could see Michelle in the recovery room. The daunting view of multiple tubes, wires and bandages weakened our knees, but watching the rhythm of her chest rising and falling gave us a sense of hope and relief. After a week or so it was time to bring her home with us to recover. The months that followed were not easy for her, but she managed to keep that wonderful smile and sense of humor that surgery could never remove! It was a year before she became strong enough to return to teaching. Her students loved and respected her, and she was able to resume coaching Cross Country running along with Winter and Spring track. As an English teacher she enjoyed writing, and often would e-mail copies of her writing to me. Many of those are found in my book. Michelle's Christmas letters included what she called "What I learned from my students." Many of these quotations are found among the stories in the Chapter called "Friends & Family". Everyone gleefully anticipated the arrival of her letter each year! The importance of language and the fun that it could generate played a large part in Michelle's life, and she shared it frequently. She enjoyed public speaking and wrote and presented several speeches beginning with her college commencement address. These tended to be inspirational, instructional and very moving. A chapter in my book includes several of her speeches. Our daughter made the best of every hour in every day in every year. She reached out to others bringing love, laughter, caring and compassion. In 2005 new tumors were found, necessitating two separate surgeries. Another surgery was necessary in 2012. Throughout her life our daughter had cultivated quite a cadre of friends. When she passed away a message went out from her hematologist to Michelle's friends and family members asking them to write stories to be included in a book. Those stories were the inspiration for this book.

Our adorable little green balloon is back to the rescue! While continuing his educational adventures, Poppy the Wandering Balloon meets a homeless and depressed fat puppy in the park. Distraught by the puppy''s sadness, Poppy helps his new friend in need. Together, they embark on a journey of getting healthy, fit, and having some good old-fashioned fun! Poppy would love to adopt the puppy as his own. But only Dr. Helpman, the local vet, has a real solution to help aid Poppy in his dilemma to save the fat puppy from a sad and lonely existence....Find out how Poppy saves this remarkable puppy, and how you can help save a stranded puppy of your own....

J. Anthony Bove had the same questions about life and religion that many people do. Is it possible for the average person to understand the Bible? Where are we now on the biblical timeline? Are we still awaiting the fulfillment of the last week of Daniel 9:27, the week of great tribulations? Is there another anti-Christ and beast coming to persecute the church? Is there a coming kingdom of Christ that will last on earth for one thousand years? The New Testament warns of many false prophets in our latter times. Where are they? These, and other perplexing subjects, are examined and explored with viewpoints that are fresh, unusual, and sometimes unexpected. Bove believes that the truth of life and religion is exclusively of God, and found solely in the Bible. And it bears the authority of His word over and above the precepts of men, especially in the religious sense. The Bible is un-denominational and so the treatment of its content is handled as such, without regard or leaning towards any particular sect or denomination. Bove holds the purity of God's word to the highest standards while maintaining guard against mistranslation, misconception, perversion, and discombobulation. He employs human history in relation to biblical prophecy to show how the Bible is indispensable as a guide to the real truth of life, and is the living word of God. One editorial is as follows, "I am astounded and impressed beyond words by Bove's vast knowledge and deep understanding of the Scriptures, and how they relate to world history. He is thorough in his research and explanations of how his findings are supported by Scripture. I am humbled by his seemingly inspired understanding of the Bible. I am in awe! I never expected the curveball that he threw me with this piece! Never in a million years would I have expected my beliefs to be challenged in this way." "After reading this work I am compelled to more carefully research the Scriptures, so that I can read with my own eyes, the

Remmeber Do you remember the first day you started kindergarten or the first time you lost a tooth? What about the first time you visited the dentist or had an adventurous time with a babysitter? I Remember is a book about a little girl who thinks back to her childhood from stories that were told to her by her mother, grandmother, and pictures that she's kept over the years. One thing she does remember is putting gum in her brother's hair while he was sleeping. Will he wake up and catch her in the act, or will she never get caught? Well, see for yourself!

This is a story that charts the journey of growing up the son of a teenage mother, overcoming society's low expectations through the love of a close knit family, a village of teachers, coaches, mentors and extended family friends. This is a story of determination and perseverance through the transformative power of education and athletics. Based upon personal accounts, I hope my story and the stories of those captured in the book can be used as a teaching tool that puts a human face on successfully overcoming and navigating the world of single parenthood, teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol addiction and domestic violence. In the words of Wes Moore, "I don't want the readers to ever forget the high stakes of these stories- and all of our stories: that life and death, freedom and bondage, hang in the balance of every action that we take."

As a young girl growing up in Merida, Maria faced tragedy and hardship. As a young woman she endured abuse by her ex-husband. Maria found the courage to break free from her abuser and build a good life as a single parent with two small children. Maria's life changed when she met a young American medical ex-change student from Iowa while she worked as a secretary for the medical residency program at a Hospital in Merida. Maria and her two small children came to America with a fiancé visa in order to marry Dr. Rundquist. Maria and her two children are naturalized citizens and they hold dual citizenship. She is proud to be an American yet part of her heart belongs to her native country, as well. Maria has actively assimilated into the communities where she raised her four children. She advocates for women, children and the environment. Maria wants to inspire women to face challenges in their own lives by getting involved in their children's activities as well as volunteering in their communities.

"Money he couldn't live without." "Prestige, he used to his advantage." Manipulation through kindness, and sex from gullible women is what Robert Clark used to escape the street life of drugs, in the slums of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York.

Rags to riches would also have been an appropriate title for this book. Duke was born in a log cabin during the Great Depression but rose to the pinnacle of his profession. He saw poverty first hand as his family lost their farm and had to move to town to become the first Drapers to leave farm life. Duke's father was drafted and spent more than four years fighting in Europe during WWII. His mother provided for the family by scaling bark from heated logs in a local log mill. His sister lived with his grandparents. School, church and dating activities of the period are described. Because of numerous life threatening experiences, local townspeople doubted that Duke would live to adulthood. University life is described along with the experiences of a young paratrooper sent to Germany to become an occupation soldier in Nazi Germany. Army life is detailed in humorous and not so humorous details. Travel to many European countries with the funny incidents broadened his cultural outlook on life. Later he was to travel to 55 countries. Talks with a survivor of the Dachau Concentration Camp and a leader of the French Resistance who was tortured by the Nazis showed him the stark reality of life. Readers of this book will be able to discover: 1. Where babies are used to commit crimes.2. How gypsies rob tourists. 3. Which countries allow men to touch women on buses and trains. 4. Which country allows men to spit on females who enter their bars. 5. Where spotted dick is a food item. 6. Where chicken tenders are fried chicken feet. The book concludes with travel incidents, university graduation, marriage and family life. Above all, the Christian way of life and its values are placed in proper perspective. Duke knew his Guardian Angel had saved him many times.

Intelligent, ambitious and exotically pretty, Farideh Darvish is an investigative journalist for a leading financial news magazine. She transfers to the Washington bureau in search of her first major story and soon crosses paths with Catherine Johnson. Trading leads and information, the two women become friends as they work together to unravel the tangled web of money, influence and power controlled by Nelson Faraday, but as they accumulate more evidence, people close to each of them are killed. In a race against time, they come to understand that the pursuit of truth is dangerous-and often quite lonely.

You'll find interesting characters as well as plenty of action and adventure within. Six individual and distinct chapters, each envisioned as a plot for a Hollywood Action Movie and each written in a very unique style. These stories take you from ancient Greece right up to the here and now, they bring you from Spain to Brooklyn...cowboys to cops and robbers.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad! As we struggle to survive the chaos and confusion of the 21st century, we must each reach our own truth and perspective on life. We must gain knowledge and the wisdom to put it to good use. We want to be accepted, to be loved, to feel free to be what we are, and in so doing we strive to be "normal," even if it doesn't fit our personal agenda. But by being kind, respectful, and tolerant, one by one, we can all make a difference. It Is Normal to Be Normal is an unpretentious yet powerful philosophy that strives to make sense out of this tumultuous world!

The Ravennites: children of the lost Seluitah tribe and the white refugees from the Old World. For generations their civilization had remained hidden and kept secret from the constant, prying eyes of the Outside. Life as the Ravennites once knew it, however, would soon fall to bitter change when enemies from the Outside world seek to take away from them everything they had always known and loved. Lost and helpless, the Ravennite civilization has all but fallen into ruin. That is, until a young outsider named Alex Lee discovers the hidden culture and the dire situation that has overshadowed them. Suddenly thrown into the middle of the conflict, Alex feels as though he has no choice but to make a stand and help his brave new friends in the fight to take back what is being stolen from them; while along the way gaining an incredible new insight on the life which he had left behind, and developing a powerful bond with a young Ravennite girl. The choice is his to make: to join with the Ravennites in their fight against their greatest enemies, or to fall into darkness along with all that is left of their hidden civilization, running away is no option. Whatever the path he chooses to take, however, what Alex does not yet realize is the exact nature of the mysterious forces which he constantly senses continue to surround him, and that they have had their sights set on his bloodline for a long time.

This book is design for top students, who have the desire to go above and beyond. I call them the seeds of greatness. The students I grew up who have used this approach are now doctors, scientists, and writers. These particular students became an engineer and doctor. Once you start using this book, your intellect will never be the same. This approach will help you attain your highest potential. Students all over the world use this book as a key to their success.