The author invites you to join him on his continuing journey of simple daily haikus inspired by nature. The author’s own garden inspires daily observations of the simplistic beauty of plants, insects, and birds.
This wonderful new collection of haiku picks up where the first book left off.
Blind Squirrel
A moving story of family, loss, love, and hope.
Noah Nicholson has a gift. He is blessed with extraordinary hand-eye coordination. This gift has helped him build a successful career as a minor-league hockey player. But Noah is damaged; his parents died in a car accident when he was twelve, and he has dealt with mental health issues ever since. It’s only after Noah loses his gift in a career-ending injury that he is able to begin the healing process.
Readers will meet indelible characters: Noah’s mother, cerebral and mentally tough; his good-natured, even-keeled father; his crusty grandmother, who has a soft spot for Boston’s sports teams; his effervescent, talented, Russian-born teammate, who becomes Noah’s mentee; an orange cat whose meow doesn’t have an ‘m’; an eleven-year-old girl who looks like Pippi Longstocking; and the pediatric dentist with a sense of humor and a crooked smile who makes her way past Noah’s defenses and captures his heart. Then, of course, there is Noah himself. Smart, selfless, and silently struggling. We cheer for Noah, but unlike the fans who come to watch him play, it is not in appreciation of his singular, one-of-a-kind gift. Instead, we cheer for Noah because he is plainly, ordinarily human.
Open Mic For Animals:
Evidential Fairy Tails
Open Mic For Animals: Evidential Fairy Tails details the bewitching escapades of Shannon Spring, a professional Animal Communicator and Psychic Medium. Fearless, funny, and feral, Shannon hands an ethereal microphone to animals worldwide and invites them to share their wisdom, wit, and what they need people to know. After hitting rock bottom, Shannon cleaned up her life’s litter box and became unstoppable in her mission to help “Any Species, Any Challenge, Anywhere!”
Like Sleeping Beauty, Shannon awakened with a kiss – but from the animal kingdom, not a prince. A peppy shelter dog, a sociopathic tiger, a flirty fish, and a host of party animals gave Shannon back her voice, and she’s returning the favor. Shannon’s spiritual safari is told through magical tales so unbelievable … readers only need to ask if they believe in the magic of animals. Interspecies healing and laughter reign in this paw-paved path to freedom and fun. OPEN MIC offers something for everyone to love, for skeptics to heckle, and for animals to chew on. Magic awaits …
Midnight Climax: A Kats Takemoto Novel
Kats Takemoto, the nisei private detective from Hunters Point, returns to investigate the murder of a young Chinese girl, killed in a covert CIA brothel in the heart of San Francisco. Her family, members of a Tong, a powerful Chinatown gang, demand vengeance that threatens to start an all-out war in Chinatown unless Kats can discover the truth behind the slaying. Along the way he will discover a personal connection to the suspected killer, a fellow veteran who was tortured and experimented on, turning him into a lethal weapon and a ticking bomb. Kats and his friends race to find this soldier before the government and the rival Tong gangs spiral into more bloodshed.
Celebrating Vintage St. Pete Volume 3
Bill DeYoung continues his guided tour of the past!
This third volume takes another long, loving, deeply nostalgic look
at life in Florida’s fastest-growing city before the dawn of the twenty-first century.