Summers at Elkhart Lake

Summer is the best time of year, especially when it means heading to Grandma and Grandpa’s house at Elkhart Lake. From the long car ride filled with snacks and laughter, to the fresh air and sparkling blue waters, every moment is an adventure.

Whether it’s playing with the golden retriever Abbey, racing through the water, or cheering on race cars at Road America, each day brings something new and exciting. With the love of family, the joy of new friends, and the thrill of racing, this story captures the heartwarming essence of summer, where every moment is filled with fun, laughter, and unforgettable memories.

Perfect for readers of all ages who cherish the simple joys of summer and family traditions.

The Insanity of Golf

The moment he was hit, Martin could never have imagined what the future would bring. No ordinary person could predict what happens next. How could this be real? He had everything anyone could possibly want.

Now, his life has changed in an instant. His girlfriend, the love of his life, has no idea what’s happening. He questions what this means for their relationship. What does he do now? Whatever happens next is anyone’s guess.

After his first golf match takes an unexpected turn, Martin faces a reality unlike anything he has ever known. How will he handle life after such a traumatic experience? Buckle up: the ride of his life is about to begin.

Read with caution. You are about to step into Martin’s world, where nothing is as it seems. Hopefully, everyone makes it out alive. And before you stroke out, just remember: this is a story about a golfer and his adventures on the links.

You’re going to have an experience of a lifetime, and ‘insanity’ will prevail. Trust me.

Iris Lynne

If you like historically accurate depictions of various topics that might take you all over the world and through different periods of time, this book is for you. There is no intended relation between the subjects chosen other than that the author herself wondered about another explanation for what had actually occurred: a supernatural one. This is historical fiction with a supernatural twist, with the exception of the first story. The first story is dedicated to one of my older sisters, Iris Lynne, who always wanted me to write scary stories that would hold one’s attention when learning factual history, especially if one’s mind tended to wander off into the fictional areas of the supernatural. She loved my purely non-historical fictional story. The other stories, which move around the globe and through time to discuss such things as Cleopatra’s little sister, Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad, Balboa, Percy Shelley, President William Henry Harrison, and the Pendle Witches of England, should be fascinating!

Beothuk Treasures

Imagine your family living so closely to a body of water (like a lake) that you all can actually cruise its waters by canoe. Thus, you can travel it daily with all of its most beautiful and amazing twists, turns, and superounds in the heart of nature!

Then, to top your adventures off, you find unexpected surprises along your way (journeys) with the help of a newfound friend.

Now, how cool would that be? So, get ready to read and enjoy as your reading experience changes (that is), and you end with a very special touch of help and direction!

No Name

The poetry collection No Name depicts the path of the heart, and the path of the mind, through the images of the Deer, and the Wolf. These two paths, along with the symbol animals that illustrate them, are very different at first sight. The mind divides, and the heart unites.

Through the eyes of the author, however, the Deer and the Wolf are both magical creatures, and equally dear to her. All symbols that are presented in the book live together and represent wholeness.

And although the author reveals the message that each of the two creatures wants the other dead, there is one subtle voice intertwined in the story that insists that both the Dear, and the Wolf should remain alive. You can hear this voice while embracing the journey yourself.

Bubba the Pup Learns to Share

Cuddles is Bubba’s most prized possession. Bubba is never without his toy bear. One day at doggy daycare, while Bubba and his friends were playing, he noticed Harper, the dachshund, just sitting in the corner. Bubba learns that Harper’s parents are out of town and Harper is sad. Bubba offers Cuddles to Harper during nap time. He learns that sharing Cuddles to help his pup friend feel better was fun.

Follow Bubba on his other adventures, such as finding his shadow or visiting the bay.

The Princess and Ra

This story takes place around the years 4,000 B.C. in Africa’s Nile River Valley.

• Princess Akilah rescues a lion cub she named Ra from the Nile River.
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• Ra was floating down the river tangled in a branch.
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• He lives with Princess Akilah until he matures. Ra is loving and compassionate.
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• Everyone loves Ra; he becomes the village protector.

God’s Love

Growth, Modernity and the Nations of Wealth

Eric Humphrey and Dwight Semler present a new theory explaining the mysterious historical emergence of modern economic growth and its even more baffling offspring, modernity. Noticeable changes in material life began less than three centuries ago, but previous theoretical accounts have failed to explain their arrival. Thinkers assumed modern wealth and morality were the universal standard driving human history. They assumed modern rights and riches were natural and normal. In this way they thought of such things as ends rooted in human nature, rather than deriving them as consequences from a historical, nonmodern baseline. Misdirected, they set out to liberate the imprisoned modern homunculus who “caused modernity” through moral education and economic institutions. Modernity became an “awareness problem.” Yet this high-maintenance modern self and its ever-growing needs are a consequence of modern processes rather than their cause. Consequently, theorists of the modern world produced comically omnipotent notions of human agency. Marxists and developmental economists saw modernity as a moral or material self-realization project, requiring only a liberator or engineer. But when their God-of-Genesis model failed the facts, they overreacted and defaulted to its alter ego—humans were passive leaves in the wind of history. Modernity thus oscillates between a chosen destiny and a given fate. With modernity represented as a historical fate, all pretense of a grand theoretical view vanishes in thick description of one damn thing after another, and the historian’s rote chronology replaces any theoretical causality, as a specific description of a particular falling rock replaces a general theory of gravity.

Understanding the modern world and how it came to be, argue the authors, is less a matter of facts than of the foundational assumptions used to link facts together into robust and coherent theories. We must un-assume our modern selves and give poverty and illiberality their just historical due. With better and more scientifically consistent assumptions, they argue, the old facts of history can be seen in a new way. Then the solution to understanding the most puzzling and abnormal of human events, the modern world itself, turns out to be hiding in plain sight.

Sake: For You and Me

These inspiring haikus will capture your heart, offering profound wisdom wrapped in a simple poem of 17 syllables in three lines. The author dives deep into feelings of love, loss, flirtation, passion, self-awareness, and the experience of living life fully and inexcusably.

Sake: For You and Me is a collection of versatility, confronting honesty, and intense expression, alongside hope, light, and distinctive spirit. The author’s evocative language reveals a whole panorama of thought in three lines. This collection of enchanting haikus tackles topics that strike most deeply at the core of what it means to be human.

A Small and Distant Galaxy: The First Quadrant

Brifi port is the lifeblood of First Quadrant trade. Sunny is the first human to ever live there, running the family business. He finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the ways of the masked Brifins, from the charismatic pilot from Diato who wants to try a human lover to an emergency rescue on a tiny ice planet. Then he gets involved in searching for answers on the oldest planet of all, where Sunny realizes he’s uncovered an ancient mystery that could overturn a thousand years of history.

Love Obsession

In a world where butterflies can make one full even without food, a world where flowers can say a lot even without a mouth, a world where only two people fit, is what I call a love paradise. A world where parallel effort is the strength needed to make a strong bond of love to remain constant.

When you step into this world, it’s as if you’re pulled from a tarnished, dull existence into a vivid, electrifying place—all by a love that once seemed impossible. You adore your other half unconditionally, overwhelmed by relentless emotions that greet you at sunrise and linger long past sunset.

Love Obsession is a poignant collection of romantic short messages and poems that explore love’s deepest emotions. Through heartfelt, introspective words, the author lays bare his love and appreciation for his partner. Its lyrical style will leave no reader untouched.

The Crumbling Tower of My Life

The Crumbling Tower of My Life is a resounding and moving collection of deeply felt poems. Found within this outpouring of soul are echoes of both hope and hopelessness. Fears are personified, given an identity, and addressed out in the open. This book is a journey through healing, written in tandem with the emotions experienced along the way. It takes you on a ride from a life-shattering ending towards a journey of rebirth.

This poignant collection of poems will have you riding waves of melancholy, relieved by uplifting touches of whimsy and possibility. It beautifully captures the facets of the life we lead through a lens of love and loss.

The lovely, the deluded, the unhinged, the magical, and even the mundane: nothing is off limits with alchemy such as this. Its simple goal is to transform suffering into connection by speaking the darkness into existence. Vulnerability is capable of holding immense beauty and space for a collective to form, even within its breakdown.

This book is an attempt to make tangible the anguish of coping poorly with lost love. It explores all stages of hurt, as well as the overwhelming nature of all the possibilities ahead that remain unknown. It serves as a reminder of the massive mess of love you can gain if you learn to open your heart to it. It is a genuine telling of horrid beauty and a raw expression of the human experience. The journey starts within, and the fight for rebuilding is a worthy one.