Eye of the Sleeping Dragon by Michael Schaible

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About the Book:

Bay Wang kept turning down unwanted suitors that bargained for her marriage. But one day, a poor gentleman broke into her father's farm to borrow a rooster, but her father accused him of stealing. Hong agreed to enter a bargain with the rich farmer to save his hand. With Bay and a servant named Chi, Hong took the search for a magical stone called The Eye of the Sleeping Dragon. But the stone was only a part of a fable Bay's grandfather used to tell the rich farmer. Now, Hong had to either bring home The Eye or prove that the stone was unreal. An unwanted task in the beginning turned out to be a good adventure with fantastic creatures and the wonders of the mountain. Eye of the Sleeping Dragon, by Michael Charles Schaible, is an adventure that leads to a happy, fruitful ending.

About the Author:

Michael Charles Schaible is a Nebraska-born poet, writer, and former welder. He has been married to his wife, Valerie, for twenty-two years; they have one son together. Other than writing, he is also interested in arts and in science.

Those Were the Days My Friend...I Thought They'd Never End! by Sara Beatrice Sober

About the book

This is the story of a little girl born on the Lower East Side, in New York City, of immigrant parents from Austria and Germany. An artistically talented woman who overcame her losses at an early age and developed her talents with her tenacity and determination. How and why she became known as "Sally". The celebrities and political figures she met and interacted with during the course of her career; her travels abroad with the dazzling experiences and humorous incidents no one else could have experienced. A fascinating career in the fashion world of 7th Avenue in New York City at the height of it’s fame. The partnership which developed into a lasting friendship; creating the very successful manufacturing company of women' s one of a kind gowns "Amoureuse Couture"; started on her living room floor with just $2000, and its eventual demise as a result of the garment worker's union. Experience it all with the exciting, picturesque and emotional overtones that can only be told by Sara Beatrice Sober.

About the author

I love being an educator; I love administrators, teachers, and the children. The children, that’s what it is all about. I found out early, as all teachers do, if you don’t have the attention of the children in the class, they don’t learn. How do you get it? That’s what it is all about. I want to share my knowledge and experiences as a student, teacher, counselor, and educational administrator. I was a graduate student in England, Hawaii, Alabama, and Texas. I was fortunate in receiving a Fulbright Scholarship, which enabled me to study and travel for a summer in Israel. As a student living in these various places, I concurrently was employed in the various states. My husband was an offi cer with the U.S. Air Force and we traveled extensively in Europe and Japan, which explains my varied employment and schooling sites. I have trained children, teachers, counselors and administrators in numerous content areas during years my years of employment in public school settings. My biggest success was in training teachers to change the behavior of children in their class, by training the teachers to change their own behavior. A teacher responding to her use of one of my techniques stated: “Last year I had a terrible class, this year, all the students are so well behaved”. Enough said!! Roberta Silfen, Ed. D.

The Impossible Texan by Muriel DeBuque

About the Book

On the estate, Sarah Sommers lay in wait for her to come home after invading her dreams night after night. When Sara did go home, the ghost showed Sara where some of the treasure and a journal could be found. Trouble hit Sara right after moving to Austin. Finding herself pregnant, she didn’t know what to do. Jackie’s parents came to Sara’s rescue then and all though her life in Austin. There was mystery and murder in Sara’s life. Would she ever find out about the attempts on her life? After her quadruplets were born, she found herself bringing them up by herself only to have them turn against her. Did Sara ever find out that Steven was keeping up two households. She thought he gone so much because of all of those overseas flights. Little by little, her daughter Crystal was turning against her. The kids’ grandmother was behind all the misery Sara had, and finally her other children left to go to England, where Marcie and her children were. Whatever happened to her husband and children? Sara finds herself back on the estate without them.

About the Author

The golden age can be a great second start for a writer’s life, Muriel DeBuque thought as she sat at her computer one quiet afternoon. Her first book, The Estate in the Woods, has a five-star rating on Amazon.com and has been distributed worldwide. She closed her manuscript The Impossible Texan in hopes that it will be on the market shortly. Muriel has been married to her husband, Loren, for the past fifty-seven years. They have lived in the same house in the same town all this time, and they have four children, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. As their children grew, their home filled with children from the town. They always knew there would be a pot of soup on the stove, a large pan of popcorn, and six-packs of Pepsi if they stopped in during the day or evening. And as her children grew up and left, so did all the children who had stopped in. Now her home is quiet but for the barking of their rat terrier, named Killer. She has written three novels and many short stories and poems. She put them into a box in the back of her closet. One quiet day, she pulled them out and read them. She thought about publishing them, and she sent the first one in. Muriel knew that of all that she has done over the years, it is her love of reading and writing poems, a family history book, short stories, and writing novels that she likes the most.

Cowboy on the Wrong Train by Jeanne Ann Off

About the Book

Protagonist Ty Grenshaw has lived on the Cal Grayson cattle ranch all of his 18 years. He works there as a ranch cowboy. His girlfriend, Patti Dileo, works for the Gully Real Estate Co. She hopes to sell a ranch to antagonist Skeet whom she met when returning to the small town of Gully after visiting her parents. The story takes them to a restaurant when Sonny Calhoun is murdered there. As the story progresses, Ty suspects cattle rustlers, finds a late calf, chases the trailer that might contain the bull that sired the calf, out of curiosity gets on the “wrong train” and from there becomes a kidnapped hostage. The story continues with escape, anger from his boss, the cattle auction where the antagonist buys cattle, a young girl living in the forest who is discovered by Ty and Patti, a court case where Ty is a witness and a tragedy.

About the Author

Jeanne Ann Off has a Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University and a Bible College degree from Faith Bible Institute. She also took a writing course from Institute of Children’s Literature. She’s married to her wonderful husband Don Off, and they celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary in 2014. Both of them grew up on Western Colorado cattle ranches.

Bold Venture by James Exparza

About the Book:

Mark Williams must go through an agonizing and totally unexpected divorce. Quitting his job and moving back to his birth home in Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, he must resolve his divorce, and his infatuation with Alice, a beautiful Vice-principal of the local school. Alice’s background, which is part Native American Sioux, adds consternation to the story. Mary, his first wife, is portrayed as a selfish, carousing individual who loses all. The relationship between Mark and Alice adds romance, conflict, and comedy. Dennis, the youngest son, continually adds embarrassment to Mark, Alice, and himself. Mark eventually finds himself in an enviable position, which will enable him to develop his hybrid Bison-blend cattle.

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Tarnished Brass Curtain

Tarnished Brass Curtain explores the sibling themes of conscience and responsibility. The thoughts of two men –one, young, innocent and practical; the other, older, experienced, and unrealistally idealistic—are examined. In the frame of the present, the main story deals with US Nay Senior Chief DAN LEVIN, His relationship with the Navy, his doubts about his leadership abilities and the feelings of a Jew in an alien world, along with his concern about the way the command’s top brass is handling the apparent desertion of the admiral’s son, a combat helicopter pilot and Dan’s friend, LT(JG) ALFRED THAYER HETHERINGTON JR.

 Discover the truth about the constant battle between conscience and duty for any military person as author Dick Rose accounts the story of U.S. Navy Senior Chief Dan Levin and the admiral’s son going underground rather than returning to his unit in 1968 in Tarnished Brass Curtain: A Novel of Vietnam. Tarnished Brass Curtain is a story that deals with Levin’s relationship with the Navy, his doubts about his leadership abilities, and the feelings of a Jew in an alien world, along with his concern on the way the command’s top brass is handling the apparent desertion of Alfred Thaver Hetherington Jr., an admiral’s son, a combat helicopter pilot and his friend. The story moves from the Naval headquarters to the skies over Vietnam to the anti-war group’s coffeehouse.An Excerpt: “The world may be round, but it has its flat spots, those little oases in the desert of time where all action suddenly stops its smooth flow, eddies, builds up and focuses itself into one minute point, incident or person…” The book explores the sibling themes of conscience and responsibility. It examines the thoughts of two men—one, young, innocent and practical; the other, older, experienced, and unrealistically idealistic. Learn all the possibilities that conscience, friendship, and responsibility can bring in any kind of relationship.

 Know more about Author Dick Rose and his books here: www.dickrosebooks.com