Gone but Not Forgotten

Gone but Not Forgotten is the first of a historical fiction trilogy set in America and Europe from 1914 to 1918. It chronicles the tale of the Gilded Age of pageantry through the end of the Great War. It is the story of the Champions, the Wagners and the Sterns, an epical saga of their lives, trials, and tribulations. The story opens at an outdoor wedding in fashionable Newport, Rhode Island. The heroines are beautiful twin sisters, Veda and Rose Champion. Veda is the spoiled American debutante with an iron will. Rose is the gentler beauty and is passively strong.

Hans Wagner, the male protagonist, is a German immigrant who comes to America with the quest to live his dream. His best Jewish friend, Rudolph Stern, also arrives from Germany to study medicine. The toils of the Great War halt the hopes of both while ushering in a series of tragedies for the Champion family, including the sinking of the Lusitania, the death of the twins’ brother, Marius Champion, on the battlefields of France, and the vicious murder of their grandparents in Verdon.

The novel will be followed by two others, spanning 1918–2000. The trilogy is a portrait of the most significant events in the twentieth century.

Gone but Not Forsaken

Gone but Not Forsaken is the second of a historical fiction trilogy set in America and Europe from 1918-1945. It chronicles post World War I through the end of World War II. In America, it portrays initial abundance, including modern industrialism, where Gilded Age mansions were replaced by soaring skyscrapers through the roaring twenties into the stock market crash and Great Depression. It parallels the birth of Hollywood glitz amidst the storm of the country's depravation, carried through the bombing of Pearl Harbor and World War II. In Europe, it chronicles the birth of Nazism, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. American victory is heralded in the end once again. The novel continues to chronicle the stories of the Champions, the Wagners and the Sterns, along with the intertwining of their lives. It will be followed by book three of the trilogy, spanning 1945-2000.

Gone by the C

When moving up the corporate ladder depends on the success to the second language proficiency test, an employee’s anxiety could reach a dramatic height.

“The funny part about Perdida’s cry was the tears. Normally, except for Black Africans, people’s tears run through their noses. Don’t ask me why. That really baffles me. On the other hand, African people’s tears come directly out of their eyes and quietly run through their cheeks before vanishing somewhere in the beard, for those who have one. Perdida’s tears were following the latter pattern. Was she some kind of a repressed Black African? Hard to say. But for sure, she didn’t look Black at all. With her blond hair, her blue eyes, and her shining light complexion, she must have been of Swedish descent. I ventured toward her classroom, wondering what was actually going on.”

Good Rain

Growing up in Kansas in the summer, the air would be so thick with humidity sometimes it would be difficult to breathe. Sometimes the air would be so heavy you would hope for a good rain. After it would pour you would walk outside and everything would feel lighter, brighter, greener, and cleaner. A fresh scent, like everything, was new. Sometimes life gets heavy like the humidity and your soul is the one that needs the good rain. This was mine.

Goodwood

Some towns feel impossible to escape. They have a way of wearing folks down, sucking dry their ambition. It’s like they’re cursed.

Goodwood is such a place. But Toby and the guys are different. Ever since that night in the woods when they were fourteen. The night they visited the old Blood Tree, their futures brightened.

Now, over a decade later, Toby spends his bachelor party back in his hometown. From greener pastures, he and his friends return. But a deeply rooted curse has long awaited their arrival. These boys, who somehow managed to escape all those years ago.

Dead-end towns like Goodwood aren’t meant to be escaped. And curses are rarely eluded.

Government Girls

It’s 1942, and best friends Mary and Marge leave their teaching jobs behind in Iowa to move to Washington D.C. to work for the FBI. Excited yet apprehensive, neither of them could anticipate the rapid changes the war will bring into their lives.

Arriving at Union Station, they meet Dotty, a quick-witted woman who left her all-girl band in New York City in search of new opportunities. Despite rampant racism, Dotty manages to find a clerical job with the government, thanks to her prized possession - a typewriter.

The three women band together, renting rooms in a run-down mansion that operates as a restaurant and boarding house. Under the same roof lives Natalie, an eccentric artist trying desperately to sell her screenplays and achieve her Hollywood dreams.

As Mary and Marge begin their demanding fingerprint filing jobs at the FBI, they find themselves growing increasingly vulnerable, but also courageous, in the face of a world ruptured by war. The four women couldn’t be more different, yet they forge an unbreakable bond confronting rapidly shifting social conventions and opportunities for women.

Grace in Place of Grace

This volume of simple, unpretentious poetry will hopefully direct the reader to an understanding of the marvellous and abundant grace that Jesus Christ has to offer every human being. By combining Biblical verses with the author’s thoughts, the poems shall perhaps navigate men’s hearts to an awareness of the rich mercy that Jesus wants to share with all people.

When humans have thoughts surmising Christ, what may they ask themselves? How do I get to know the Saviour of mankind? What does a life lived for Christ entail? Are there aspects of my life that I need to change? How can I have a heartfelt relationship with God’s Son?

The poems in this book shall assist you in finding what Christ wants to do in your life and what He has already done. The titles may cause readers to think questions of great importance: “I Have Chosen You,” “No Longer Earthbound,” “Leap Like a Deer,” “No One Can Tell God What to Do,” “The Effectual Fervent Prayer,” “Washed with Butter,” “Inward Parts,” “The Pathways of God’s Pleasure,” etc….

“For by grace are ye saved through faith.” Ephesians 2:8a

Grandad's Suitcase

Have you ever wondered why people keep things that are old? Things that are dusty and even broken? Things that don’t even work anymore?

Take a trip with me as I visit my Grandma’s house and discover things in her attic. Together we learn that we keep things because they are close to our heart. What things do you have that are close to your heart? Share these memories with your friends and family.

Grimm's Good

Whether it be in present-day society or in a magical world teeming with characters from all of your favourite characters growing up, everyone struggles with the idea of confirming to a certain norm. It doesn’t mean that something is tradition that it deserves to be a tradition for any longer, and this is something Winter comes to find as she struggles to learn what it means to be the future queen of a patriarchal kingdom.

Or for Prince Charmant, who comes to learn that love is love, and that a heart is never wrong, regardless of tradition and norms. Though these characters from our childhoods share the same appearances and stories, they now finally reflect the real struggles of everyday people, and portray a more diverse, and more complicated world, in which we all live and must learn to live in together.

Grinnin' Like a Jenny Eatin' Saw Briars

We use social media to facilitate the process of communication. But how well do we concisely communicate our messages and feelings? There are certain drawbacks to new-age technologies, especially due to the need for conciseness. The written word has always carried the meaning and essence of thoughts and feelings that we strive to convey. Similes, metaphors, and sayings from regional areas and time periods specifically carry more meanings than the mere word itself.

The 2,300 idioms or sayings in this book convey a meaning that connects generation to generation in the south of our country. Meet the family members that communicated daily and shared their stories using this unique language that is colorful and historical.

My aunt, Arlie Wilder, used to say that she hated to see a woman grinning and laughing out loud with her mouth open like “Jenny eatin’ saw briars.” I hope you find yourself laughing like that as you read.

Gris Wee Bear's Golden Pears

Our journey begins in a beautiful green forest with a cuddly brown bear and his most delicious golden pears. Through this book, readers can help a child’s imagination run wild as they take him or her on a wonderful journey with Gris Wee Bear and friends. This delightful children’s book is the first of a series of several creative adventures featuring Gris Wee Bear and his friends. Your child will enjoy countless readings from this tale, full of alliteration, assonance, consonants, and rhyme, making it a joy to read and guaranteed entertainment for you and your child!

Gris Wee Bear’s Golden Pears is designed for parents, teachers, and mentors alike to aid in early phonemic awareness, fluency development, memory, and sequencing skills to help young listeners remember and understand longer strings of word, while enjoying the process of cognitive development. Listeners’ imagination is sure to flourish in this playful children’s book of literacy fun!

Groggy Froggy

Groggy Froggy hops his way into the reader’s heart through experiencing his own journey of loss and grief in a special way that embarks upon loving someone even when they are gone; relatable and understandable at any age and stage of life. The little frog has big dreams that he discovers never leaped away; even though, for a time, it felt like they did. Leap along with Groggy Froggy as he unwraps the true treasure and real meaning to life.