THE EYES OF DEATH by Donald L. Vasicek

The Eyes of Death concerns psychic powers, which, probably, most people in the world believe to be real, although most people in the West think of as imaginary. Therefore, it could be classed as either Non-Fiction-Body Mind and spirit or Fiction-Fantasy. However, The Eyes of Death is a novella written in the third-person singular, the main character of which is Hannah Powers, who lives in the ‘preppy-type’ city of Evanston north of Chicago.

The general atmosphere of the novel is tense, as if something is always just about to happen. And it does too, an early example of which is an armed robbery on a small shop and the tragic consequences of it. Hannah also becomes aware of her psychic powers but is to some extent confused and disappointed by them, because she cannot help the people who are the subject of her Second Sight.
In fact, she begins to think that she must be mentally ill, or at least, mentally damaged, but there is no medical evidence for this. Hannah seems to find her new life with psychic powers both frightening, lonely and very sad, because she can do nothing to help the people, whose future she has foreseen.
In the end, it’s either her sanity or acceptance of her psychic power and live with the fact she can do nothing about saving people’s lives. She has to choose.

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Don is the founder and owner of Olympus Films+, LLC, a global writing, filmmaking and consulting company, in business since 1993.

Don studied producing, directing and line producing at the Hollywood Film Institute and at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. He studied screenwriting at The Complete Screenplay, Inc., with Sally Merlin (”White Squall”, “Short Circuit”), as his mentor.

Don has acted in 20th Century Fox’s “Die Hard with a Vengeance”, NBC’s Mystery of “Flight 1501″, ABC’s “Father Dowling”, and Angel Street Films LLC’s “Running Horses.”
These activities have resulted in Don’s involvement in over 100 movies during the past 25 years, from major studios to independent films.

His documentary film, “The Sand Creek Massacre” won best film at three film festivals. It was recently catalogued into Smithsonian Institute Libraries. Films Media Group, the largest educational video distributor in the world, is distributing the film.

Don has also written, directed and produced “Faces”, “Oh, The Places You Can Do….”, acted as a writer consultant for MGM’s “Warriors of Virtue”, American Pictures ”The Lost Heart” and “Born to Kill”, story credit for Incline Productions Inc.’s “Born to Win”, Executive Producer for Pamela Cuming’s film, “The Road Home,” Associate Producer for Angel Street Films LLC’s award-winning short film, “The Rose Garden,” and actor in Angel Street Films LLC’s “Running Horses.”

Don also has written, ghostwritten and published over 500 books, short stories and articles, including his first novel, “The Real Ghost”, which won the Waldorf Best Book Publishing Award and has been published by Waldorf Publishing. His novel, “The Eyes of Death”, has been published on Amazon.

WagerEasy by Tom Farrell

“A smart and fast-paced crime drama that will leave readers wanting more from this author.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In November, 2018, with legalization of sports betting on the horizon, WagerEasy, a Euro sports betting conglomerate, has set up shop in the Chicago market looking for shortcuts. Eddie’s old friend, an employee of WagerEasy, has been murdered. The sports gambling market is on a knife’s edge: the illegal black market bookies backed by the mob against the well-funded foreign invader. Eddie and his uncle, retired police detective Mike O’Connell with the right contacts, sets up a meeting with a Chicago gambling boss suspected of ordering the murder. The Chicago gambling boss claims he’s being framed by WagerEasy, the new threat in town.

Eddie decides to go undercover and secures a job at WagerEasy. With the assistance of industry insider Tara Reilly, Eddie discovers that ruthless factions within the mob are fighting to overthrow the old guard and upend WagerEasy’s move into Chicago. Eddie finds enemies coming at him from all angles and must risk everything to get justice.

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Tom Farrell has worked as a golf course starter, a chemist and clerked at City Hall in Chicago while attending law school. He has served as Vice President of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, a nonprofit corporation, and was a past finalist in the Pikes Peak Writer’s Contest in the Mystery, Suspense and Thriller category. Now retired from practicing law, when he’s not writing he can be found on the golf course or at a local jazz club.

About Into the Mystic

Wizardry of 1436 England lands Chum and his pixie Zyra in modern day Chicago with no way of them returning to their home. Taken in by a family, being hunted by other sorcerers, attending a high school prom, and falling in love plus epic and intense magical battle scenes add to the page-turning excitement. The story flashes between the past and present, wizards and warlocks, and pixies and humans while battling dark sorcery and succumbing to a romance of timeless love. All of this and more is awaiting once you take your first steps Into the Mystic.

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Have you heard the one about…? That is the usual beginning to any conversation with Thom.
Thom Whitby looks at life as a ride; ups, down, plateaus, repeat. He just wants to have fun and is always ready with a joke to tell. His life goal is to make people smile. Put Thom on stage with a microphone and he shines. Working in all aspects of the media from journalism and photography to editor and publisher, in addition to years spent as an event planner, his charismatic, high energy personality keep him stoked.
From Great Britain to Hong Kong, Japan to Panama, and various Caribbean adventures, Thom boasts a love of travel. Mr. Whitby is also a fine art painter, a dabbler in stained glass creations, and a music lover warranting 24/7 background music of all genres, even though he’s the first to admit his inability to carry a tune.
As a published writer for more than forty years as a journalist and feature writer, Into the Mystic is his first novella.
Thom resides in Peterborough, Canada.

About Summary & Analysis of Effortless

In Effortless, Greg McKeown explores why our most important work tends to be both difficult and draining and offers practical suggestions for doing it with ease.

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Twelve by Franco Cavalleri

Twelve songs picked among the many I love. Twelve stories to tell about this love. Short, because life runs fast. Because songs play short. In four minutes, the average length in time of a song, singers must concentrate their stories, their feelings. Their vision of life and love.

Some of the songs I picked last longer, allow for longer storytelling. The songs I picked mostly come from the 1980s and 1990s: The Queen, the Rolling Stones, the Pink Floyd. Also, the Dire Straits, the Foreigner. Jimmy Buffet, of course, as I mentioned before. It’s classical rock. Old as they are in age, for sure they are up to date in feelings and situations, in their storytelling. Love, of course, but also Life, its harshness, its problems: work, money, equal rights, respect, sustainability, in terms of both nature and fellow humans, the future. Songs without age. Songs good for all ages.

I tried to respect the rhythms, the feelings, the atmospheres in the original songs and their lyrics. After all, it is these rhythms and feelings, these atmospheres that hit my soul and inspired my writing. Did I succeed? I hope I did! I leave the readers free to judge and tell.

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I was born and raised in one of the world’s most beautiful lands, Italy, and in one of the world’s most known areas, Lake Como, famous for its beauty ever since the 1600s and maybe earlier. The country of beauty, a place of beauty. The sense of beauty, the beauty of life, of landscape and nature, of arts and architecture, is rooted deep into my heart and mind. I look and search for beauty every single day. Beauty without sharing is nothing. Sharing calls for interaction. I look for interactions with people, too: I interact and communicate by eyes and face, words, paper. Objects, as well, or arts and architecture. Images: I am also a photographer and a video maker, though not at a professional level, for sure. All means are valid when looking for interactions.

A collection of short stories inspired by songs, Twelve was born out of the feelings and the images that those songs draw in my mind and my soul, in my heart. Music is excellent, in meeting people and making new friends. As Mick Hucknall, the frontman of The Simply Red, once told me, when I met him at an event in Piedmont, Italy, music is everywhere. Music is natural. It is in animals, flowers, and plants. Music is in the air. Music speaks to everyone, no matter where there are from, the language they speak. Music will even survive humans. I love music, am fond of music. In Twelve, I tried to translate my love for music into words. I mean, part of my love for music, for in these short stories I concentrated on rock, and country-rock, but as a matter of fact, I love all of music, no matter the styles, the origin, the instruments, the sounds.

The US, Oregon, Salem, that is where I met rock, too. An encounter that has changed my tastes in music, and possibly my life, as well. That does not mean I put aside Italian traditional music, not at all. As I said before, music is a means for communicating, just as words, images, photographs, icons, faces, whatever. I am fond of all styles of music, ancient to modern, rock, soul, jazz, classical, opera, Celtic, you name it, I love it. And I love words, so I wanted to turn into words the feelings, the images, that some of the songs I love the most inspired in my mind and my heart.

Some of the stories in my book, indeed, are rooted in those months in Oregon: it is then I went to my first concert. I was raised in a small town in Northern Italy, far from anything grand. Once in Salem, I went to a Jimmy Buffet’s concert at the sports arena in Portland, where the Trailblazers play. I had never been to such an event before. I had never seen so many people altogether. You could fit my home town four of five times, in there. I fell in love with Jimmy’s music at once!

About Eco Worrier

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Marty is desperate for friends, having left his behind when he moved into 10 Downing Street with his mum.

Bored and lonely, his life suddenly becomes a lot more exciting when he sneaks out of a secret passage and meets Jumi, a young eco protester. He agrees to help her in her fight to stop a new airport from destroying an ancient woodland.

But being an eco warrior isn’t as easy as he thinks.

Featuring a mum who just happens to be the Prime Minister, a very nosy sister, a gorilla-wrestling security guard and the creepiest politician in the world, Eco Worrier sees a bored and lonely boy take on a sinister plot and his own fears in this hilarious book from debut novelist Ian Slatter.

Eco Worrier is the perfect read for children who love an adventure story with twists and turns and plenty of laughs along the way.
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This book is not only funny and awesome but it also teaches you a ton of interesting things about the planet. Five stars for a book that deserves it! Ira – Goodreads review ★★★★★
What an excellent story, I urge you to read this. Robert – Amazon review ★★★★★
A great book which highlights to children how important it is to try and stand up for the planet and to try and save it. Black Books Blog ★★★★★
Nicely-paced, imaginative and breezy tale which young teenagers (of all ages…) will enjoy. Sybil Mory – Goodreads review ★★★★★
I loved this book – it’s a great fun read for adults as well as its 9-13-year-old intended readership, which it is perfect for. The environmental message that underpins the plot is critical, and the storyline is engaging and has a great ending. Margaret L – Amazon review ★★★★★
Great storyline, over the top wild adventures, some mischief and pictures to help bring this story alive to keep you turning the pages till the end. Manda – Goodreads review ★★★★★
A fun over the top wild adventure for young readers to enjoy. Great storyline, over the top wild adventures, some mischief and pictures to help bring this story alive to keep you turning the pages till the end. Manda – Goodreads review ★★★★★
This was adorable! And super fun!. Sally – Goodreads review ★★★★★
I read this book in one day. It has a great plot that will teach kids about the environment and politics – but it wasn’t preachy in any way. Xenon – Amazon review ★★★★★
The story has everything from blackmail, protests, espionage, secret passages to annoying sisters. Also, I loved how the author included political and environmental themes into the plot. Rajivs Reviews ★★★★★
While Eco Worrier by Ian Slatter was written primarily for nine to thirteen-year olds, it’s a story that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Chris Clifford – Amazon review ★★★★★

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Ian published his debut novel, Eco Worrier, in 2020 – a middle grade adventure story with plenty of twists and turns and lots of laughs. He followed it up with Danny Mann Super Fan in 2021 – a fun tale that’s perfect for young football/soccer fans.

He has also written two non-fiction books for adults – Premier League Legends – the top 10 greatest Premier League players of all time and Incredible Moments in Sport.

Ian wrote for satirical website for ten years, as well as writing for comedy sketch shows on ITV and BBC Radio.

About Stalking Gideon Cain by Kerry Alan Denney

Bestselling author Gideon Cain is losing his mind. Everywhere he turns lately, the femme fatales from his psychological thrillers show up—live and in person. Are they actresses playing a cruel joke on him, figments of his increasingly terrifying delusions, or fantastical vigilantes sprung to life from the pages of his books? All he knows for certain is if he doesn’t find answers soon, he’s bound for the psych ward.

When one of his fictional antagonists poisons him on a flight home from a book-signing tour, he realizes that someone isn’t just messing with his mind—they’re trying to kill him.

Now he’s running for his life from an enemy with a weapon so deadly it can kill with the touch of a button. Only an enigmatic woman from his tragic past can help him discover the truth behind his adversary’s vendetta. And time is running out to stop the madman who is stalking Gideon Cain.

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Kerry Alan Denney aka “The Reality Bender” is the multiple award-winning author of seven published novels and numerous short stories. Denney blends elements of suspense, thriller, horror, scifi, fantasy, supernatural, paranormal, and various ways the world ends in his work: speculative fiction at its wildest and craziest. With glee and a touch of madness, he writes reality-bending thrillers even when the voices don’t make him do it. His protagonists are his children, and he loves them as dearly as he despises his antagonists … even when he has to kill them.

Denney lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia with Gypsy Dancer, his remarkably exuberant and eternally high-energy fur-ever companion. He is currently training Gypsy to be a therapy dog and writing his next thriller … and deciding who to kill in it.