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Season's Melodies: A Delightfully adorable rhyming picture book for young readers. A perfect book to introduce your little one to new words and tune into Nature's sounds of seasonal transformation. Like a kaleidoscope, this unique story will hold your child's imagination with its crisp and aerie rhyme, whimsical illustrations, and bursting colors. In this new book Maria Rose intricately intertwined poetry, music, dancing, Victorian fashion, and seasons into a captivating story. Season's Melodies invites young readers to explore the unseen link between Music and Nature. This book will ultimately help its readers to escape from the present and be suspended in the enthrallment of Nature's serenade.

What if you had the opportunity to talk to your younger self? What would you say? Would you reveal who you are? 78 year old Mora was riding the subway to get home as she did every day; passing each building with flashbacks of regret. She walked out of the subway and walked up to a machine that took paper money. Wondering if she was losing it Mora asked someone the date. It was sixty years earlier, August 12th, 2012. She went back to the very day she ended her pregnancy. Mora immediately searched to see if she existed dually. After retracing her steps her heart dropped as she stared at herself sitting down reading a magazine. Mora told her younger self gripping stories and advice. Eleven hours later they went their separate ways. Her younger self decided to keep the baby. Does she go on to listen to the older woman's advice? Would her life turn out the way she thought it would having not made that one mistake? Read "Fourth and Lexington" and find out if regret and fate are one in the same.

Tough EnoughBy: Maria RoseBorn in a Vietnamese prison, the son of a prostitute and an American soldier, Asa Greyeyes suffers through the most difficult of beginnings. From the start, he must fight to better his life, to survive.Tough Enough follows Asa's single-minded efforts to protect his "mother" Emma and earn their freedom and a peaceful, comfortable life. On their journey from Vietnam to America to New Mexico to that life, they tangle with fight promoters, crime lords, soldiers, gun runners, and drug smugglers, but even a few of those have compassion and offer help. Asa is repeatedly faced with choices between right and wrong, but having studied the Bible with Emma while in prison, he has a firm understanding of what is it to be a good man, to be fair. Asa Greyeyes is clever, loyal, caring, and determined, but is he tough enough to earn the life he wants for him and Emma after so many years of not really knowing where he belongs?Any incidents in this book related to recent current events is purely coincidental. About the AuthorMaria Rose works from home, but enjoys hiking with her dog, Shrade. She's a bit of a "rock hound" (only other Rock hounds will know what this is). She enjoys collecting pictures of the "Tag Art" on the American trains, and hearing stories from the elderly. No joke... she is always looking for wisdom and answers from the Holy Spirit (I feel like God will show you the way, always). Mother, brother, and son are all in good health. (Thank you, God.) Family is anyone in her heart, whether it be best friends or coworkers. If she loves you, you are her family. Rose is half-First Native American of the Navajo Tribe and one half Mexican American (and a bit of Hispanic). She grew up with both of her families.