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Soul of Harmony: Book Two: Runnin’ Away with the Rhythm

Elisabeth Garbeil — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:46:43 +0000

Written and Illustrated by Craig Rex Perry

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After narrowly escaping with their lives with the magical mouthpiece from Demonica Shadows and her Minions of Darkness, Harmony, Eazy and Juan Carlos find refuge in the attic of small bakery owned by a sweet, elderly widower named Miss Sweetbread. She seems to understand their plight and offers to help in any way she can. But there is another reason why she wants to help. She is an angel secretly working to get the mouthpiece back to the Horn of Gabriel.

With Demonica in hot pursuit, The Walkers and Juan Carlos need all the help they can get. Eazy even finds work in a jazz and blues club called The Carnation Club, owned by an unscrupulous Frenchman, Jean-Pierre, who will do anything to get the horn for himself.

Harmony must find a way to get rid of Demonica and help her dad become young again. But, most of all, she must return the sacred and magical mouthpiece to the Horn of Gabriel and reunite her family.

It’s all up to Harmony!

About the Author

Craig Rex Perry - Craig Rex Perry is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He attended the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago, American Academy of Art (Chicago), Parsons School of Design (L.A) and Altos de Chavon (Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic) where he studied under famed fashion illustrator, Antonio Lopez. With a signature flair uniquely his own, Rex is one of America’s premier fashion artists. Intentionally known for his beautiful renditions of stylish men, women and children, Rex remains at the top of his game by designing and illustrations for global corporations. Whether a fashion sketch, an apparel design for an animated cartoon, or a book illustration…the Rex style is recognized the world over. His book credits include: It’s Beginning to look a lot like Kwanzaa for Random House Disney; Over the River and Through the Woods for Jump at the Sun; All Things Bright and Beautiful for Hyperion Books for Children and the Empak Heritage Kids: Kumi & Chanti Tell the Story of Matthew Henson – An Empak “Black History” Publication Series: Black History at an Early Age. Rex currently resides in Altadena, California with his lovely wife Deanna and their two beautiful children, Isabella and Maxfield. You can see more about Rex at www.rexstudios.net

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The Evolution of Glory Loomis

Elisabeth Garbeil — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:26:21 +0000

By Michael Bassen

Coming in 2024

Thirteen-year-old Glory Eleanor Loomis of Sackatucket, Long Island makes a shocking discovery in a secondhand bookstore when she picks up a book that reads like a horror storOn a Friday afternoon in early spring, Glory Eleanor Loomis, 13, of Sackatucket, Long Island makes a shocking discovery in a second-hand bookstore. She finds a novel called Invasion Earth! set in Roswell, New Mexico (her parents’ birthplace) containing a picture of her brother Michael, captioned “George Edward Livermore,” and another of her space-suited mother and father, identified as George’s parents. Glory is further shaken when the main character’s life reads like a horror story version of her own and her mother re-enacts a nerve- wracking scene from the book that Glory has just read.
But things take an even weirder and more worrisome turn when she’s suddenly beset by a flurry of eerie flu-like symptoms, collapses onto her bedroom floor, and awakens twelve hours later, bewildered and terrified, in a hospital bathroom. Unaware that she is caught in the grip of biological forces that no one sees or understands, she begins to change in secret, subtle and stupefying ways, till her transformation is complete—and her unprecedented journey has begun.
Be careful what you wish for, someone once said. But in the end, Glory could not have wished for more.
y version of her own life.

Things take an even weirder and more worrisome turn when she’s suddenly beset by a flurry of eerie flu-like symptoms, collapses onto her bedroom floor, and awakens twelve hours later, bewildered and terrified, in a hospital bathroom.

Unaware that she is caught in the grip of biological forces that no one sees or understands, she begins to change in secret, subtle, and stupefying ways until her transformation is complete. Be careful what you wish for, someone once said. But in the end, Glory could not have wished for more.

“A terrifically entertaining and original story from beginning to end, The Evolution of Glory Loomis by Michael Bassen is very highly recommended for both high school and community library YA Fiction collections. For teen age and young adult science fiction enthusiasts, it should be noted for personal reading lists that The Evolution of Glory Loomis will also be available in a Kindle edition.”
– Midwest Book Review

“Michael Bassen’s Y/A novel The Evolution of Glory Loomis mixes science fiction and fantasy and is set in Long Island, Manhattan, and Connecticut. The near-future narrative features a half-dozen mysteries, two complementary adventures, and what may wellbe a first-of-its kind love story as Steven Spielberg meets Judy Blume! The novel is also a familiar coming- of-age story, one that is skewed by the protagonist’s extraordinary intellect andextra-human emotions. These include feelings that Glory describes in Speaksong, a language she created.”
— Christopher Douglass, Norwalk Community College Adjunct Instructor

About the Author

Michael Bassen

Michael Bassen was born and raised in New York City, received his bachelor’s degree from Trinity College (Conn) and his master’s degree from Harvard. He spent the next thirty-two years as a public high school English teacher and union official on Long Island.

In his time away from school, he’s written several stories and full-length plays (one of them a finalist in the Eugene O’Neill playwriting competition), created a number of educational games (the last being “Shakespeare’s Mind” based on Shakespeare’s sonnets), and composed a great many songs (with and without lyrics).

His first novel, The Evolution of Glory Loomis, was largely inspired by his wife (a teacher and writer) and two (now grown-up) daughters (a teacher and a child psychiatrist).

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Scout’s Oaf

Elisabeth Garbeil — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:02:06 +0000

By Timothy Martin

Coming in 2024

Nobody wants Troop 44. They are the Junior Scout’s biggest misfits and President Bingham can’t find anyone that will take them to Jamorama. No one except bumbling scout leader Wally Dokes, who accidentally burned down the Fire Safety Tent the previous year. When Wally arrives at camp he’s in for a big shock. His bottom of the barrel scouts don’t look capable of winning a single merit badge, let alone the coveted Best Troop Award. The boys include Luis, a cocky, street smart Latino kid; Lamont, a nerdy African-American; Shawn, bean-pole thin and always on the verge of tears; Kyle, who refuses to go anywhere without his stuffed bear; and Kenny, a talented young athlete with a sullen disposition.

Under Wally’s questionable guidance, and with the help of a ditzy camp nurse named Helen, Troop 44 actually wins a few events. Much to the surprise of all they find themselves in the running for Best Troop Award. Things are looking up for Wally’s scouts.

But President Bingham has other plans.

About the Author

TIM MARTIN

Tim Martin is the author of Rez Rock, There’s Nothing Funny About Running, Summer With Dad, Third Rate Romance, Culvert at Little Bitch Creek, Why Run If No One Is Chasing You? and Wimps Like Me. He has one Young Adult novel – Fast Pitch – and two children’s books: Don The Dull-Shelled Turtle (Cedar Grove Books), and Somewhere Down The Line(Neverland Publishing).

Tim has completed nine screenplays and is a contributing author to over a dozen Chicken Soup for the Soul books and numerous literary journals. He has done commentary on National Public Radio and is presently working on a Humboldt County documentary The History of Eel River Estuary.

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Olivia’s Potty Adventures!

Elisabeth Garbeil — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 23:50:30 +0000

By Terreece M Clarke
Illustrated by Seitu Hayden

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Join Olivia, through brilliant color illustrations and light-hearted and fun rhyming text, as she hosts tea parties, swashbuckles with pirates, goes into outer space, wrestles and dances all while trying to remember what to do when she has that feeling down below telling her she’s got to go.

Olivia’s Potty Adventures helps bring fun and adventure to potty training
Discusses what it feels like when it’s time to use the bathroom
Shows it’s okay to make mistakes when potty training
One of the few potty training books available featuring a character that is a child of color

Olivia’s Potty Adventures is an excellent potty training storybook to introduce the concept of toilet training to toddlers.

“Olivia’s Potty Adventures is a fabulous addition to every child’s potty book library or bathroom book basket.”
– Karen Deerwester, Owner of Family Time, Inc.
and author of The Potty Training Answer Book

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The Soul of Harmony: Book One: The Promise

Elisabeth Garbeil — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:02:40 +0000

By Craig Rex Perry

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The Soul of Harmony is a music driven, action adventure that follows the near capture of young Harmony Walker and her famous dad, blues and jazz musician John “Eazy” Walker.

Seduced by promises of fame and fortune, Harmony enters into a pact with a mysterious woman and accepts possession of a Magical Mouthpiece, with the promise to return it in one year. Unbeknownst to the Walkers, the Mouthpiece was stolen from the Horn of Gabriel by the woman who is actually an evil demon in disguised name Demonica Shadows.

After one year of fame, fortune and travels, Harmony refuses to return the ancient artifact thinking the woman has forgotten about it, but the evil woman finds them and uses her demonic powers to change Eazy into an old man and sets about claiming Harmony’s soul!

Narrowly escaping with their lives and finally understanding the power of the Mouthpiece, the Walkers run from the forces of evil who are waiting and watching for their chance to regain possession of the magical artifact!

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