Clouds Books

I must say its been a long time since my children enjoyed a book as much as they did Ken's cloud. They react at the things that happen to Ken in this book as if it were real, the fantasy of it all is so subtle that they get in his world, in his room right away. The expresions in his face are great, we had to laugh very hard, and turning the pages takes a long time because each time they want to look at the details in each page and comment on them. They are also very curious if the sun will come into Ken's room, will he? We certainly hope so. Great book, funny, beautiful illustrations, eciting, entertaining, everything a children's book should be.

Perky Debbie McWard, New Zealand adventure travel guide, dodges two former lovers, flirts with a hesitant widower, Gil Rocklin, and copes with raucous investigative journalist and ad hoc bounty hunter, Frank Ferret, among her travelers.

Romances give way to fear, as a tourist is murdered, and another is falsely blamed. Debbie discovers that an indicted Yugoslavian war criminal, Ratac "the Butcher" Bymarovitch, is disguised and hiding among her trampers. But among six possible suspects, who?

Debbie and her friends engage in a war of wits with the unknown criminal mastermind. Only they can thwart the Butcher's killing and his rekindling of the Balkan wars.

The most terrifying question is why, of all the tours in the world, one of the world's most hunted criminals specifically sought out Debbie's tour group in which to hide, plot, and murder.

Surprises sizzle in Croatia, Slovenia, and New Zealand.

With engaging characters, places, and plots, Kiwi on a Cloud takes you on an action-filled adventure. The novel is meant to appeal to all a reader's highlights --mystery, romance, humor, exotic locales, recent history, and thrills --Kiwi on a Cloud is intended to entertain.

~Norm Aspen

The exquisite details in Rosemary O*Hara*s quiet poems build in the reader*s mind like snowflakes on a mountainside*at once beautiful, deep, and uniquely shaped. Using Seattle as her lens, O*Hara*s close observations of the world, matched with her close attention to language, has produced a vivid collection of surpassing beauty.*

*Sharon Cumberland


With an eye for detail and an ear for music, Rosemary O*Hara*s poems remind us of the beauty in everyday acts: cutting fruit, eating squash soup, packing up holiday decorations. Whether in their rich, sensory portrait of daily life in Seattle as the seasons swirl past, or in evocative meditations on moss, Sumi paintings, Gnossiennes and marriage, again and again, these poems help us to see *the lotus landscape* within the *clatter of an ordinary world.**

*Holly J. Hughes


Rosemary O*Hara*s Zen-like poems, bathed in *oyster light,* delight the senses and celebrate the seasons and the turning of the years in a woman*s life. Precisely crafted, musically informed, and highly visual, the poems in O*Hara*s collection, Knots of Clouds, are vivid, yet at the heart, radiate a calm, still center.

*Judith Roche

An extra aid to ease the transition for parents and children of divorce as they move from married to single life, and it's bilingual in Spanish and English.
Las tres estrellas y las dos nubes * The Three Stars and the Two Clouds is a tender, heart-warming explanation of divorce.

Some African countries have only 15% of their road system of the 1950s still usable. Improved infant mortality statistics led to a more than 700% population increase in the last century with increased crime and social chaos the payoff. This little-known gem of a book convincingly shows the coming and present chaos of modern Africa. Investor Jim Rogers self-named website tells of how massive fraud has led to South Africans easily obtaining fake airline pilot licenses and public school teaching certificates.
Anyone currently below the age of 30 will have the chance to live perhaps the ultimate adventure, rebuilding Africa as its suicidal combiation of AIDS,civil war (Rwanda), and unbelievable crime finishes its impact over the next 15-20 years.

This might be Steve Thayer's best historical suspense novel. Readers watch as protagonist John Severson evolves from military officer to schoolteacher to leper. The startling diagnosis and label ruin his promising life in Minnesota, and he lives the next sixty years in secluded colonies in Louisiana and Hawaii. This is the most epic and original of Thayer's work. Much about leprosy is misunderstood and this book attempts to educate as well as entertain. Fans of the author will delight in cameos by characters in his previous bestselling novels.

I haven't seen this particular edition, but I would very highly recommend reading the Life of this saint. St. Nina is called equal-to-the-apostles and her life is a charming study in missiology as well. Georgian literature is very rich and offers many valuable insights to those who have the will to explore it.

An outstanding biblical exegesis. The logic employed, the scripture examined, the insight provided are almost too much to absorb in a single reading and most of us will need to read it more than once to grasp all the biblical wisdom Don has imparted here.
I thought the cover was a little amateurish, but don't be put off by that--this book will deepen your understanding of the bible if you approach if from a preterist perspective or if you are new to preterism challenge whatever view of eschatology (study of end times) you favor.
If you are new to the notion of preterism it holds that the end times spoken of in the bible are not referring to the end of human history, but the end of the Old Covenant. The writers of the bible were Jewish and most of their contemporary audience was Jewish and they are addressing the end of their covenant relationship with God--last days or end times of their Levitical or Mosiac law and its way of worship, blood sacrifices by high priest, Temple with Holy of Holies, etc. They were the last days of the Old Covenant before Christ ushered in the New Covenant and a personal relationship with God.
When you view the bible and eschatology this way it makes it so much more understandable and eliminates the need to change the traditional meaning of words such as when Christ says he will return quickly in Revelation you don't have to convince yourself there is a special way to interpret quickly. Quickly means quickly--not that when events do start to happen (even though that be thousands of years in the future) then they will happen quickly.
Preston lays out the Preterist case in the first part of the book and in the later section refutes the Dispensational Premillennialism of John MacArthur with reasoned, responsible hard hitting logic. There are chapters on metaphoric language, the nature of the Kingdom, the paradox of Israel's salvation through judgment, covenant transformation, and the Transfiguration among others. Understanding these elements individually is a good starting point, but you will want to study the book till you see how these elements meld together and grasp how the unified picture makes a forceful, elegant, and convincing argument that Preterism is the best suited model of how to view eschatology.

I found this book to be very cute and inspirational. It gives children hope for their purpose in life in a whole new way. The illustrations are wonderful.

In this book you are transported to the tribal summer camp on the lakeshore of a group of Native Americans. You find yourself sitting around the campfire invited to experience life of an earlier age where evenings were pleasently spent telling and retelling the old legends. On this night, the silent passing of a loon sets the topic, the many and magical legends of loons. This book is so well written that it takes little imagination to see and smell the campfire and join in with the excitement of the others around you, the boy anxious for his first try at telling a favorite story to the group, the young mother trying to hush her infant, the shaman who beat the drum, in accompainment to the stories. And, most importantly, from out over the lake, clearly came the loons' haunting calls, cries that sounded far off and very near at the same time. The legends told this night are older than the country itself, legends of this tribe and others borrowed and rewoven from neighboring tribes. My personal favorites are about how the loon got his necklace and the creation story about the part the loon played in creation. Young or old, male or female, rural or urban everyone can find something to love in this book, in my opinion. Every summer, and sometimes in the cold, long, dead of winter, I bring out this book and find myself once again at that campfire of yesteryear and enjoy the tales of the most majestic bird ever to be heard in this the north country. The bird that brings out the love of the wild in us all.