Tunnels In The Briar Patch (The Adventures of Roland McCray Book 1) [Kindle Edition]

These short stories, set in the 1960’s, are about a boy named Roland McCray. Roland’s adventures recall a simpler time when kids played for hours outdoors, instead of hours on video games. His mother took him to a Baptist church every Sunday, but it was his grandfather who taught him that real faith is not just for show; it is a quiet and unwavering belief that all things work for the good of those who seek good. Roland sees the moral lesson in everything he does and shares it with his friends. Roland’s childhood innocence and perceptive views are seen in vividly descriptive nostalgic parables that have a timeless and spiritual quality about them that allows the reader to experience the world he sees. Roland’s naivety and determination will strike a chord with adults and impart good morals in every child!

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The Miracle Worker and the Transcendentalist

Anne Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the Education of Helen Keller

 Helen Keller and her famous teacher, Annie Sullivan, up to the present have consistently appeared near the top of lists of best-known American women. But few Americans know much about the history of how Anne Sullivan, once a pauper in a large Massachusetts poorhouse, came to her role as the “miracle worker” who taught the deaf and blind Helen Keller. Nor do most contemporaries know how controversial the education of Helen Keller by Annie Sullivan was in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Leading philanthropists, for example, attacked both Sullivan and Keller for more than twenty years. Portraying the contrasting lives of Sullivan and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, the era’s prominent transcendentalist, abolitionist, and founder of many national organizations, this book sheds new light on the ethnic and religious tensions that haunted the notoriety of Sullivan and the gender and disability expectations that affected the public reception of both Sullivan and Keller. The book places into historical context the Anglo-Saxon reformers exemplified by Sanborn who, on the one hand, saved Sullivan from the poorhouse, but who ultimately could not accept Sullivan’s hero status. While highlighting the story of Sullivan, Keller, and Sanborn, Wagner also seeks to shed light on the Gilded Age and Progressive–Era America in which battles over class, ethnicity, gender, and disability were fought by both genteel—and by more belligerent—means.

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Teddy and the Talking Whale

Author Karl Waterbury is a very talented 43 year old aspiring author who grew up in Washington State which is part of the beautiful Pacific, Northwest. Despite several career changes and personal challenges within his life, he has always had a strong passion for writing. This is the second of many in a series of children's short storybooks. Hope you and your children enjoy reading this as well as the many that will follow.

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Short Story Smash

What started as a fleeting thought turned into an idea, which turned into a New Year’s Resolution, which turned into a challenge, which turned into a collection of short stories. The only rule: to write one short story for each week in 2010. 

Short Story Smash is more than a collection of short stories. It’s a fifty-two-week challenge into the creative expanses of one’s mind.

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