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EMPEROR PENGUINS:
The Other Global Warming 'Canary in the Coal Mine'
SUMMARY: Think of this adventurous novel in the guise of a 2-for-1 tale that features the largest, and, arguably, the most handsome penguin species—the stalwart EMPEROR PENGUINS. The escapade herein is particularly about a very special penguin family seeking to discover what causes unnerving and intermittent sounds and tremors below the colony’s rookery. The storyline is also based on how climate change is ruinous to their homeland, as well as affecting all life forms on the planet. Ergo, the meaning of the subtitle’s worrisome metaphor.
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RES DOG TALES ABOUT PAWS AND TAILS:
Homeless Strays on the Navajo Reservation
SUMMARY: WOOF, WOOF! This book's descriptive narrative not only introduces readers to the most beguiling, yet struggling stray dogs on the Navajo Reservation but also elevates one’s humanity and spirit by way of “dogmanity.” Ergo, compassion for their desperate lot. Because this novel’s paws and tails community adventure occurs inside Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Chinle, AZ), the adjective, “beguiling,” is noteworthy and fitting.
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HOUSE ON DARQUE HILL:
A Psychological, Existential & Gothic Thriller
SUMMARY: Be forewarned—this 392-page novel should not be read at night, especially if the reader is alone! And, yes, the tense narrative is that creepy and intense. Moreover, the mysterious storyline makes the reader imagine s/he observes the cursed and confused protagonist transported in a seeming hearse who thinks he was kidnapped. Consequently, he faces mortal danger when he gets to the enigmatic destination—Darque Hill—which is all the ghoulish driver mentioned.
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DIETARY DECISIONS THAT ABET OR MAR THE ENVIRONMENT
SUMMARY: How many people eat merely for a dietary food preference while others place a higher value on nutrition, as well as are concerned about how the meat and dairy industries seriously affect the environment at all levels? This critical thesis is amiably discussed among nine friends enjoying a fine meal at a posh restaurant, all of whom represent sundry and impartial dietary preferences. Meanwhile, restoring a sustainable environment with an emphasis on healthier food products defines the crux of this text’s running narrative. Bon appetite!
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GRAND CANYON'S GEOLOGIC TIME MACHINE:
A Literary Trek Through Primordial History
SUMMARY: A captivating 261-page guidebook applying an imaginative metaphor of a geologic time machine whose clock begins around 251 million years on the rim & ends nearly 2 billion years at the bottom. Surprisingly, this mile-deep and nearly 300-mile-long canyon ranging from 4 to 18 miles wide was created in a mere 5 to 6 million years! Incidentally, for each step on the trail, time travel averages 20,000 years!
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GLEN CANYON -- LAKE POWELL:
The Wrong Damn Place to Build a Dam
SUMMARY: The subtitle of this 258-page 3-part volume was a statement of protest before the dam was built in the mid-1960s. Objectively, the text’s chronicle explains the before, during, and after phases. Thus, Lake Powell’s artificial basin since 1982. Due to persistent drought since the mid-1990s, this aquatic and water storage playground’s ongoing diminished water level is predictably doomed.
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ANASAZI TO ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS:
First Native People Who Settled in the Four Corners Region
SUMMARY: The ANASAZI were the original stewards of the future-named Four Corners region of the Southwest. Earning their singular designation, “dryland farmers,” they are accredited with establishing impressive community settlements such as Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Aztec, and Salmon (archeological ruins). This publication’s 274-page/15-volume anthology narrates the Anasazi prehistoric and historic chronicle, including their contemporary legacy, the “Ancestral Puebloans” (most of whom live in present-day New Mexico).
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GRAND CANYON’s GEOLOGIC SHRINE OF THE AGES: Facts, Myths, and Hyperbole Explained.
A detailed 214-page volume describing a vast featureless landscape some 2 billion years ago before a mix of varying environments were sequentially laid down, then later breached by a catalyst—the Colorado River. Consequently, a 5 to 6-million-year erosional transformation, unlike all other Natural Wonders. This encyclopedic text includes numerous colored photos, as well as informative illustrations.
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MAJESTIC MONOLITHS AND MEMORIALS:
Monument Valley's Iconic Visual Fantasy
SUMMARY: Monument Valley’s peerless panorama adorned with colossal sculptured landmarks mimics a sweeping open-air reminiscent of celebrated “Out West” movie directors, especially, John Ford. With the famed big valley's high desert’s picturesque topography, this anthology describes facets of the Navajo Reservation’s most popular Tribal Park, among other engaging topics in the pretense of a self-guided tour that explains the geology, human and natural history, and two of the author’s overnight backpacking excursions.
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GLEN CANYON'S SHRINE OF THE AGES:
The “Cathedral in the Desert”
SUMMARY: Before Glen Canyon’s literal drowning in the early 1980s, its remote habitat was considered the most pastoral canyon in the Southwest. Therefore, visited by a relative few people, the focus of this publication’s 142-page thesis narrates one of the most revered backcountry side-canyon haunts that briefly appeared in 2004 due to extremely low water in upper Lake Powell.
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SELF-GUIDED ROAD TOURS OF THE SOUTHWEST:
National Parks, Monuments & Archeological Ruin
Volume I
SUMMARY: This publication’s concept is different from similar other road tour books the author wrote and published. For example, how starting from any designated tourist hub in the Southwest, typically, tourists drive from one select locale to the other in a recommended sequence (i.e., connecting the dots as it were). In this text’s two-volume series, however. tour destinations follow a similar sightseeing motif, except their respective scenic icons are listed alphabetically. Altogether, there are seventeen tourist hubs to choose from in this 2-volume publication. Consider the following example that begins and ends in Flagstaff, Arizona. If readers choose to follow the entire route from start to finish, their destinations would be presented in this order:
Sunset Crater Volcano NM /// Walnut Canyon NM /// Grand Falls of the Little Colorado /// Wupatki NM /// Painted Desert (northern environs) /// Old Oraibi –– Keams Canyon/Hopi Mesas) /// Homol’ovi SP /// Meteor Crater /// Cameron Trading Post & the Little Colorado River Gorge Overlook /// Grand Canyon South Rim via Desert View ///
For most tourists, when traveling and knowing a little or a lot about the plethora of national parks, monuments, and archeological ruins enrich the mind, this publication’s essentials equate with the maxim, “Knowledge is power!”
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ROMANCE AND REDEMPTION IN THE ROCKIES:
A Convoluted But Coquettish Novel!
SUMMARY: Featuring a charming Victorian-Era hamlet stretched out below the base of Colorado’s Guanella Pass, this romantic novel (read, “somewhat racy”) sets its focus on the author’s return from Paris to Denver and soon relocates to Georgetown. Ostensibly, the invite from a dear friend to live in her family’s vacation home is to heal his emotional wounds from a recent failed relationship. It’s complicated! Meanwhile, the opportunity to live in what turns out to be a haunted Victorian mansion soon introduces him to an unexpected new relationship with the owner, now his flirtatious proprietress. (The trouble is she’s married.) Soon convincing her broken-heated friend that he is the perfect suitor, and their love affair “townies” is also in love with the new resident. That’s also complicated. Fortunately, a fetching stray feline enters the author’s life, who more or less saves the day (for both of them). Let it also be known this novel is based on a true story where all of the principles’ names are changed to protect the seemingly blameless. These mentioned facets of the narrative aside (actually, interconnected subplots), the author freely admits his involvement with two coincident and simultaneous love affairs were, in fact, seductive and secret desires unleashed that were simply beyond his ability to control (or so he claims). Making matters even more intriguing, the author’s failed romance with his former fiancee adds to the drama when she makes an appearance in Georgetown. Talk about a three-way romantic conundrum! PS and spoiler alert: In the end, the fetching plump cat the author named “GT” ends up the heroine of this somewhat tortuous storyline.
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National Parks, Monuments & Archeological Ruins
SUMMARY: For some tourists, seeing spectacular scenery is one thing while knowing and learning the essentials behind such splendors is another. Volume 1’s 477-page guidebook provides readers with the literary road tour key featuring nearly ninety prized destinations. The reader also chooses how much information to learn about the places they desire in the lengthy list of destinations.
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A TRAVELER’s GUIDE TO NATIONAL PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND ARCHEOLOGICAL RUINS IN THE SOUTHWEST
SUMMARY: This book suffices as a companion volume to EXPLORING PEERLESS PLACES. Among other germane topics and notable scenic icons, in this equally informative publication, the diverse index includes Desert Ecology, a Geologic Lexicon, Chaco Canyon Archaeoastronomy, Ethnobotany, and the best of the Southwest’s hiking icons: Zion Narrows, Peek-a-boo-Spooky and Brimstone, Antelope Canyon, Water Holes, Blue Pool Wash, The Cockscomb, as well as a catalog of all the popular SLOT CANYONS in the Southwest.
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GRAND CANYON SELF-GUIDED TOUR:
Leaving No Stone Unturned!
SUMMARY: A scholarly 566-page anthology of geology, human & natural history, whitewater rafting through the interior of the “Great Unknown” (which John Wesley Powell later renamed, the more fitting “Grand Canyon.” This replete volume also includes Powell’s inaugural 1869 exploration of the Green & Colorado river canyon country. Procuring this well-documented text will most assuredly turn readers into know-it-all Canyon Buddhas. Thus, enlightened!
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MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL:
A Faux Stage Play About the 1869 Green and Colorado Rivers Surveys
SUMMARY: An impartial account of Major Powell’s 1869 Green River and Colorado River exploration of the canyon country presented in the semblance of a faux theatrical performance. Ergo, a candid disclosure of journal entries recited by the three so-named “diarists” on the premier survey. Presented to an imaginary audience, a fourth recitalist—the legendary Grand Canyon prospector, Bill Bass—provides additional commentary in the guise of a Greek Chorus. This publication thesis includes essentials of Powell’s reprised and longer 1871-72 survey.
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SUMMARY: An autumnal sojourn engendering a transpersonal state of mind, body, and soul. Given this publication’s presentation, the two mutual and descriptive narratives (viz., one in poetry, the other in prose) are based on the author’s escapades that transformed his awareness of the so-named Higher Self-awareness beyond reality’s sobering objectivity. Ergo, how eternity is expressed in the NOW—PRESENT. In other words, a transcendent moment turned timeless. The satiated imagery of the narrative’s descriptive vocabulary is indeed that symbolic and personalized! This manuscript includes black-and-white drawings and illustrations.
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LIFE-CHANGING FLIGHT PLANS:
A Fateful Quest And Fall From Wings
Volume 1
SUMMARY: Based on a true story where all the principals’ names are changed to protect the not-so-innocent, this 2-volume tortuous novel entails a momentous crash in a WW-II vintage aircraft. As a result, one of the two friends & pilots onboard experiences a transcendental release from his physical body just before that fateful incident, only to return to the cockpit seconds before it nose-dives into mountainous terrain. After their last-minute rescue many hours later, the critically injured pilot arrives DOA at the hospital but is revived. From there, the dramatic storyline centers on his physical & psychological challenges of recovery, as well as a haunting metaphysical & transcendent search for answers. Specifically, why an alluring white light appeared & encompassed his essence beyond the doomed aircraft. Seemingly extinguished in a nanosecond, he felt the weight of his body again but desperately wanted to return to the beguiling radiance that abruptly extinguished. Disoriented, his punishing fall from wings was akin to an ongoing hellish nightmare. Some six weeks later, he returned to Denver for more operations and was not the same easygoing person he used to be. Consequently, sensing no interest in his marriage & alienated from the pilot & best friend who saved his life while waiting for rescue. Moreover, the former successful teaching & flying career he aspired to & loved was replaced by a new quest: Why did he choose to return to the rigors of a traumatic temporality instead of continuing with the rapture of an engulfing white light while sensing he was about to meld with eternity?
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SO FAR, ALL THE RIGHT TURNS
An Eclectic Memoire
SUMMARY: A memoir publication of life-chapter excerpts from most of the author’s published manuscripts that define a diverse lifestyle without forethought. More akin to changing occupations, coincidences, and life experience, this book’s apposite title qualifies the manuscript’s endorsement and assertion. Hence, a changing life process of varying and different events and circumstances that enriched his essence and livelihood given every respect, which, of course, includes the good, the bad, and sometimes the ugly, but mostly the good.
Postscript: the ‘’ phrase amounts to the author’s acknowledgment of how his choices and decisions in the life process were for the best, despite some of the challenges and misfortunes along the way.
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S.T.E.M. education need not entail the usual projects geared to a few hours or a few days. Instead, we offer High School students a one-year-long S.T.E.M. Laboratory class at no additional cost to the school, much less the student. This is especially the case given our patent endorsement that includes all S.E.S. levels. The only requirement needed is an Internet connection, which most schools already have. With a computer lab set-up in place, the S.T.E.M. class runs either as an elective or preferably as a typical High School technology class. In this light, students learn and use website development, word processing, spreadsheet, slideshow, drawing, and social media tools.
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In this tale of redemption, a contemporary superhero has the huevos to try and take down a mass–murdering techno–terrorist. This action–packed adventure follows the proud young ancestor of the original de la Vega family who now lives in the 21st century.
Viva El Zorro!
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