Kirjahaku

The year is 2041 in America. The nation is split with political, ethnic/racial, and social dissension. Disparate groups work against each other and national unity. Courageous leaders emerge to reason with others who want to dissolve the United States of America. Against impossible odds they work to formulate strategies that will unify the nation.Courageous Americans strive to unify the nation and prevent national division.Then astronomical intruders intervene. Scientists, religious leaders, and secessionist leaders use these events to further their selfish goals. Supernatural occurrences complicate the national situation.Soon, America's rush toward division involves the world.A sobering fictional examination of America and humankind's fate in the next decades.A REVIEWERS COMMENTS ABOUT EMERGIAI finished reading your novel, Emergia. I found it to be absolutely fascinating. Like the fictional settings of Bradbury, Asimov, and Jules Verne - whose far-reaching intellects gave them the impetus to create visions of the future - the world you describe is both believable (based on historical and political realities) and incredible. You have held it all together with a strongly developed plot that made it hard to put the story aside. All the while, you propelled the reader headlong toward a destination that was both expected and feared. Emergia's conclusion leaves a powerful message: we had better get busy finding better ways to resolve our differences, not only in our relationships with other nations, but with other Americans. Failing that, our progeny could face the annihilation that your theme predicts.Thanks for sharing your amazing creation. I enjoyed reading it and was quite impressed with your insights.

Four babies are born within hours of each other in an Omaha, Nebraska hospital. They could not be from more different backgrounds. Leon is from a wealthy family, Ashley is the daughter of middle-class parents, Alejandro's father is an intelligence specialist with the US Air Force, Tamisha's mother is a domestic worker and her father is in state prison. Subtle hatred surrounds the children before they leave the hospital. Yet, through a mutual love of chess, the children meet and form a bonding, lifetime relationship. Leon inherits a fortune when he is a young adult and uses it to establish an institute devoted to teaching knowledge, empathy, and love. His three friends join him, and they appeal to American society and the world to help eliminate hatred.A lifetime later, their work is honored worldwide and the symbol of knowledge, empathy, and love spreads into the cosmos.

Mariamne: Reimagining the First Christian tells the story of Mary Magdalene. She is a young girl when she is first taken to the Galilee in ancient Israel. There, her life and Jesus' life intertwine. She acquires the highest status among Jesus' disciples and devotes her life to teaching his message. Many biblical scholars call her the first disciple of Jesus. Some call her the first Christian. This fictional novel probes aspects of early Christianity that is little known.

Pherick Morton: A Life and Beyond is a fictional novel about a brilliant and conflicted man. He is born with innate abilities in science and robotics. His life is replete with challenges, catastrophic events, and unanticipated betrayals. Transhumanism intrigues him for a time and he considers joining the movement. Events after his death take him to a wondrous, spiritual realm and an afterlife.

Philip and Olympias: A Novel of Ancient Macedon was researched meticulously and written over ten years. It is the product of scholarly and recreational reading about the ancient world. Over one hundred books, articles and related sources were reviewed in the preparation of Philip and Olympias. The author visited historical locations, ancient history museums and archaeological sites in Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Macedonia described in Philip and Olympias. These sites included: Athens, Thessaloniki, Pella, and Vergina (Aegae) in Greece and Ephesus (Turkey), and Cairo (Egypt). The historical fiction novel tells the story of the parents of Alexander the Great, King Philip II and Queen Olympias (Myrtle) of Macedon. Here too, are some of history's greatest figures. Alexander is born and comes of age. Philip's antagonist, Demosthenes, devotes his life to halting the demise of Athenian democracy. The not-yet-great philosopher, Aristotle, becomes Alexander's teacher and attempts to bring civilization to the Macedonian royal family.

After Alexander's father, King Philip of Macedon, is assassinated, Alexander become king of Macedon and a troubled empire. He must first solidify his Greek base and get control of his impetuous mother, Queen Olympias. He then begins one of the greatest epic journeys of military conquest in the history of western civilization. He campaign takes him to the mighty Persian Empire, where he encounters Great King Darius. However, Alexander's greatest enemy is himself. He is haunted by his father's death and his spiritual lineage. Uncut red wine, consumed in monumental drinking bouts, eventually alters his youthful appearance and erodes his character.