About The Voyage:

On May 13th 1939, five strangers boarded the MS St. Louis, a ship that was leaving Germany on it’s way to Cuba. Hitler had given the Jewish passengers who boarded the ship the promise of safety. The price for passage was steep, however, they were willing to surrender everything they owned to be far away from Nazi Germany and Hitler’s murderous Third Reich. Unbeknownst to them they were about to embark upon a voyage built on secrets, lies, and treachery. They would be challenged to make unfathomable sacrifices that put their fate, the fate of those they loved and their very lives on the line. But the voyage on the MS St. Louis was only the beginning of the journey these five souls would embark upon. What they would experience on that ship in the spring of 1939, would link them together for the rest of their lives.

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I am an American author. My father was Romany and my mother was Jewish, When I was very young I learned about the Holocaust. I couldn’t understand how something like this could happen. So, I began to research and learn more. I met with survivors. I even met with children and grandchildren of SS officers. But I still had no answers. I cannot say that I have all of the answers to all of my questions even now. But what I do know is that soon all of the survivors will be gone. Their message must be remembered, the sacrifices that they made must not be forgotten. And so I humbly and with the utmost humility try to tell their stories. It is painful, but I must convey the darkness and horror of the time, but I also want the world the know and celebrate the unsung heroes. Because there were many ordinary people who acted in heroic ways. I realize that writing these books is a great responsibility. I pray every day that I am able to do this correctly. I am trying to reach out and touch many people, not with the message of the horrors but with the promise of hope. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for considering my work. It is an honor that I never take lightly.

I send you many blessings, Roberta

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About Kenny and the “Confusion Witch”:

The third book in the series that became a hit among children and parents.
Talia Hieman, a mother, writer, holder of an M.A., and a coach affiliated with ICF, has revolutionized the writing of children’s book and is certain that you will read quality, intelligent books to your children – the same characteristics of the children themselves!
Is your child grappling with a social, learning, or other kind of problem?
Everyone manages to do something and only your child can’t?
Do you know how to help him or her and how to have them focus on solving the problem?
Help your children overcome the “Confusion Witch,” whom we all encounter, by applying practical tools from the field of coaching and having the children equip themselves with a better, more successful self-image and making them understand that they can solve their problems easily, simply, and right now using their own resources, along with a bit of determination and creativity.

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After traveling the world, obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Literature and her Master’s degree in Journalism and Communications, she found herself in inadequate jobs and very often complaining.
At some point she decided to quit looking, and start finding.
She left her job and focused:
– On coaching (she really is one since the day she was born)
– On writing children’s literature (she’s been writing children’s stories since she was in 3rd grade)
– On being a mom (she’s been one for the past 6 years)
And then, things started falling into place: success came knocking on her door and it all started thriving like a field of sunflowers in spring. It drove her to perfect, fine-tune and write down her methods and then publish them for you and for your children, bringing into your lives the aroma of spring.

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About Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island:

Paul Russo’s wife just died. While trying to get his family’s life back in order, Paul is being tormented by a demon who is holding his wife’s spirit hostage on the other side. His fate is intertwined with an old haunted mansion on the north shore of Long Island called Stillwell Manor. Paul must find clues dating back hundreds of years to set his wife’s soul free.

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Michael Phillip Cash is an award-winning screenwriter and novelist. He’s written ten books including the best-selling Brood X, Stillwell, The Flip, The After House, The Hanging Tree, Witches Protection Program, Pokergeist and Battle for Darracia series.

Michael resides on the North Shore of Long Island. He writes full-time with his screaming kids in the background.

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Email: michaelphillipcash@gmail.com

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About The Wild Horses of Hiroshima by Paul Xylinides:

Mura, a young Japanese performance artist, introduces with the help of Yoko, her “lover with a gun,” wild horses into the city of Hiroshima, the first of the two cities to have been destroyed by atomic bombs. Why and how do they do it?

An American medic, Jonathan Springborne, wounded in the Pacific theatre and recuperating in Japan after the Second World War, sets out to find if Myeko, his former pen pal, has survived the bombing of Hiroshima. She has, but not her family. Jonathan brings Myeko back with him to America where they raise their child in a climate of thinly coated racial tolerance. Upon her husband’s death, Myeko returns to Japan with their son Yukio. Despite becoming a champion sumo wrestler, he only achieves full acceptance into Japanese society after writing a memoir telling the story of his family’s origins that transforms him into a symbol of the country’s tragic history. In his retirement he continues to write and, part way through one of his narratives, Yukio finds himself caught up in the entanglement of his geisha lady, Satoko, and her underworld client Boss Hirohito, whose jealousy sets in train a series of events that ultimately cause Yukio’s path and that of the performance artist Mura and her boyfriend Yoko to cross. Here, life and art merge with Yukio drawing inspiration from the real life events surrounding the two lovers and, finally, giving moral license to an act on the part of Yoko that his former Yakuza Boss requires before he will exercise his power to bring the wild horses into the city.
Mura, whom the Hiroshima Nuclear Disarmament Committee has contracted to do performance pieces for the greater enlightenment of visitors to the city, wishes to make a much larger statement to the world as a whole. Her understanding of the nuclear question is that human society is basically self-centered and in order for its cities not to be indiscriminately targeted despite their cultural achievements, as with Dresden in the Second World War, they need to show themselves valuing the totality of life and not simply their own human interests. A city that is able to accommodate the natural world, she argues, will no longer be a target for destruction and will help to diffuse the nuclear confrontations. Mura’s idea is to fill Hiroshima with wild horses and leave the question to the world, “Would you bomb us again? Would you bomb a city that treasures all of life?”
Mura and Yoko, her “lover with a gun,” had met in the course of one of her pieces of street art. Under her influence he found himself identifying again with his own more idyllic experiences of childhood independence when growing up by the sea before he rebelled against the uncle who had taken his father’s place and ran away to Tokyo, where he eventually became a member of a Yakuza clan.
Japan’s history of apocalyptic visitations – both natural and man-made – and its Yakuza underworld tracing its origins to the legendary samurai provide a cultural basis for the presentation of wild horses filling the streets of Hiroshima. The moral ambiguities that society faces post 9/11 inform the thinking of Mura and Yoko in their decision to do what is necessary in order to enact what they hope to be a transformative world event. Is it a crime or a simple act of justice that enables the realization of Mura’s bold and imaginative work of performance art?

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This profile has to reach as far back as it can since, in this case, meaning begins there. No one knows my grandfather’s original name. At an undetermined age, he fled Russia’s civil wars in the early 20th century and arrived in Greece where he fashioned a name for himself that was unique and yet of its place. Xylinides, translating as one occupied in some fashion or other with wood (ξύλο), now supplies the nom de plume for whatever I write. I owe the sentiment of this borrowed name to a man whose choices in the face of historical upheaval and existential threat ultimately provided for the existence of myself and others. He died leaving no other record than his forged identity soon after the birth of his daughter.

This remarkable girl became my mother who married the British soldier who fought his way in Montgomery’s tank corps across North Africa and found himself stationed in the Greek city of Thessalonika at war’s end.

After the drama of the world’s stage, the small English village of my birth could not satisfy my parents’ appetite for a setting with large scope and they crossed the ocean with their three young children, Montreal their destination, the “Wild West” my notion of it, snow and grime the immediate reality for a family with modest means.

A youthful reading of Crime and Punishment decided me on my life’s path inspired by something other than its allotment of snow and grime and its Russian characters. Painfully enough, I knew I had aimed high seeking ultimately to produce a work that looked to engage readers as Dostoevsky had me and countless others. An American Pope does contain a crime and a punishment on an individual level but there the similarity to the great Russian novelist’s work ends. It concerns itself more with a broader crime and more general shadow that has fallen over so many lives for centuries past and to this day; and yet, on second thought, Dostoevsky’s hero did commit his murder while under the sway of a thinker whose ideas affected much of his age and, long after his death, provided inspiration for a World War.

Wherever we find ourselves vast historical winds have deposited us and we remain either subject to their reach or within their unrelenting grip.

The Wild Horses of Hiroshima by Paul Xylinides is a post from Awesome Gang