It’s show time at The Enchanted Opera. Maude is an opera singer whose voice has the talent to heal. On the night of an opera performance, she discovers that her human form has been transformed into a fairy, so she can no longer perform. Her rival, opera singer Angelique, is a dark sprite who cast a fairy spell on Maude so she can’t heal people anymore with her melodious voice. Angelique wants to receive all the attention at the theater herself, so she uses an ancient fairy spell to rid herself of Maude. For many years Maude tries to regain …

On Screenwriting and Love and Politics is a book by screenwriter Aviva Butt that invites the reader to take an up-close view at writing a film script. Written in an engaging and literary style, the book attempts to illuminate the emotions, theories and process that go into creating a screenplay. As a special appendix, the book includes the author’s latest full-length screenplay "Blue Mist." About this screenplay, she comments: "I write about love and politics. My screenplays are theatrical feature films on Middle Eastern subjects. This time with my screenplay 'Blue Mist,' the world situation and the Middle East come …

Who is really responsible for the 9/11 attacks? In his eye-opening book, Dr. Theodore G. Pavlopoulos states that the flawed and oppressive personnel system of the federal government opened us up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and continues to threaten American security today. Based on detailed records kept throughout his 37 years as a physicist for the U.S. Navy, Dr. Pavlopoulos shares his experiences that mirror the frustrations and concerns of many government employees. He asserts that the government bureaucracy’s crisis level personnel problems will continue to have dramatic consequences for America until we consider such solutions as …

Bella’s Marigold Cake is a story that you will treasure and read to your children over and over again. Are there lessons you’d like your children to learn about love, compassion and the ability to forgive? Author Christine Wheeler has woven a special story about a little girl who creates something beautiful and learns her first lesson about forgiveness and compassion. Bella is a beautiful child who spends hours in her sandbox creating all kinds of wonders. One fine morning Bella creates her best ever: a sand cake decorated with her mother’s favorite flowers, bright marigolds. Along comes Eleanora, a …

Medical care is a necessity of life. However, some smart people have overblown its importance and its role in society for their own benefit, and are extracting a heavy price from society.For their own interest, the medical establishment has erected great "holy temples" for people to worship at and pay visits in the form of periodic physical exams, which then lead to further visits to not only the primary "priest," but to other higher priests so they can exorcise the real or the perceived ghost from the worshiper.Everyone seems to forget our past, a time when people lived long and …

A woman has brain surgery that lasts 14 hours, far longer than her surgeon expects. She survives the operation, but the first sentence she speaks after she gains consciousness is spoken in a dialect that nobody in the family understands. Like everyone in Hong Kong, the woman’s family speaks Cantonese. Some older members also use Hakka, a dialect of the Guangdong Province. So when the woman starts talking in Chiu Chow, her family is worried. Is it possible for someone to lose the ability to speak a language she’s been using for 50 years after undergoing brain surgery? The woman’s …

Tragedy strikes Rosie Taylor when her ill mother dies aboard the clipper ship transporting her and her family from England to Australia. Not long after, her father becomes engaged to a passenger on board, a woman to whom Rosie takes a dislike. But growing up in Victoria, amongst some of the passengers who came over on the boat, isn’t so bad, especially after she meets a young boy named Rory. Years later, when her father leaves town, Rosie takes different jobs to make ends meet. Things start looking up when a local river skipper asks for her hand in marriage, …

My writings have no boundary because I feel people’s joy and pain. In this book, I pour my heart out about the nature of mankind and question man’s love for his fellow human beings and God. This collection of poetry says a lot about the reality of life and the hope for humanity. Some of the poems point out wrongs and some show the path to the solution. Themes like love, betrayal, politics, religion, poverty, wealth, and family are all highlighted. With simple language and easy poetic expressions, the writing will inspire and lift your spirit to a courageous level, …

Hurdles presents true episodes in the lives of my wife, a pediatrician; myself—the author—a chemical engineer; and of our four young children. Having survived World War II, we arrive in this country and achieve professional prominence and an enviable lifestyle. When my wife’s breast cyst turns malignant, I stumble, losing my business as well as my sanity. I soon recover and muster my strength to help my children overcome the hurdles posed by their mother’s illness and death. My intensely personal story addresses the scourge of women’s breast cancer from a husband and father’s viewpoint. The book offers a heart-rending …

Cristo travels through three lifetimes as Lord, an admiral, and an actor. From the first mention of the name Cristo 2,000 years ago, through the New World, and into the future, this name appears in historical fiction to lead the way into the Next World. From sainthood to evil and on to Buddhahood, our subject demonstrates life and death made easy for the common man to grasp the mystery of the ages. Cristo is the same actor who plays Christ, an admiral of the ocean seas, and a Shakespearean actor ignored in the end. His is a soul that suffers …

Ancient mysteries are used to foreshadow current day events in the thrilling novel Repairing the World. Two ancient organizations compete for age-old scrolls and treasures, including an amulet that offers a tantalizing glimpse at future scientific data. The richly drawn characters within the interwoven plots include a sadistic duo running an ancient brotherhood, two married college professors who make Indiana Jones look slow, a cadre of robber barons, three college students, a quantum physics whiz, a liberal priest, a pair of retired Israeli commandos, sociopaths, and an ultra-strong woman president. All are caught up in a competition spawning violence, international …