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Tiny Tot Tiger Says Happy Birthday, America! teaches children to celebrate our freedom in the greatest nation in the world, promotes unity, and informs children about our men and women in uniform who help preserve our God-given freedom. Picture book 2 from Dirt Dog and Friends, ages 4-8. Literacy workbooks and audiobooks will soon be available. 

When Gabby Gopher finds Buster the Bear in a meadow with his head stuck in a log, she knows she needs to get her friend help—and get help fast! When initial attempts by several animals to free Buster are unsuccessful, Gabby seeks the sage advice of Oliver Wendell Owl, III. Oliver quickly makes a plan, but it’s clear they will only get Buster’s head unstuck if all the animals on Bridger Mountain work together as a team. Will the wise old owl’s plan work? You’ll have to join the adventure in order to see if the animals can set Buster free!     

The year was 1969 when twelve-year-old Maggie Stone’s world suddenly begins to spin out of control. Her mother, Lillian Stone, who suffers from a mysterious mental or neurological condition that frequently sends her to bed in an unresponsive state for hours at a time, has forced Maggie to be the responsible adult at far too young of age. When her mother goes into a debilitating spell that she cannot be revived from, Lillian ends up in a San Francisco hospital and Maggie is dispatched to an orphanage. As Maggie deals with her conflicting emotions, she finds herself both fiercely protective and scornful of her mother’s abandonment.

And just as she’s beginning to adjust to a tough new life at the orphanage, a grandfather she’s never met suddenly appears to turn her life even further upside down. Ira Stone, who has been estranged from his daughter Lillian since she ran from home pregnant at fifteen, shows up on the orphanage doorstep and whisks Maggie away to his ranch in remote eastern Montana. Ira is a hard man of few words who has etched out his successful ranch through backbreaking work in the unforgiving plains of Montana. A widower and a WWl veteran with battle scars, Ira struggles to relate to a young preteen he has never met. Having to adapt to volatile circumstances with her mother over the years, a tough-skinned Maggie swallows her emotions and makes the best of a completely foreign situation.

As a young girl on the cusp of womanhood but still a child who has spent her life taking care of her mother, Maggie is thrust into a completely foreign situation with no cultural or geographical familiarity to her life in San Francisco. Without her mother and close friends she can relate to, Maggie feels abandoned, unloved and resentful. She is fearful for her mother and her future, and is insecure about meeting the expectations of a stern and demanding grandfather in learning her new roles and responsibilities on the ranch and caring for animals she has never seen.

As one reviewer states: “…it is all so intricately described through vivid descriptions and authentically poignant emotions. The organic transformation of Maggie and Ira’s relationship, and her assimilation into the small rural community is so beautifully drawn. I laughed. I cried. I cheered. I fell in love with this story and highly recommend it to young adults and adults alike.”

Have you ever wondered about the mystical world of the Rider-Waite Tarot? 

Dive into the symbolism and secrets behind the beloved deck with my book 'Decoding the Wisdom of Rider-Waite Tarot'. Uncover the hidden meanings and stories behind each card, and learn how to tap into the wisdom of this iconic deck. Get ready to unlock the mysteries of the universe, one card at a time. 

I discuss all 78 cards of the Rider-Waite Tarot in detail in my book. Further articles provide valuable tips on how to use the Tarot and alternative perspectives on the metaphysical. 

The original German edition is already considered 'one of the most modern Tarot books around'. Readers are particularly fascinated by the sensitive presentation of the dual nature of each card, which demonstrates that they can have both negative and positive connotations, in line with the idea that everything has two sides. Eleonore Radtberger offers a positive and encouraging perspective. Her interpretations are characterised by great intuitive clarity. 

Colonial Virginia: early 1800’s. Young Sylvia, an enslaved child born into bondage, has learned to silence her heart through every tragic moment. But everything changes when the family moves to a plantation in Georgia where she meets John Paul, the enigmatic son of wealthy white socialites, who sees beyond the chains that bind her.

John Paul was raised in privilege, yet he feels suffocated by the cruel legacy that his family upholds. When he and Sylvia form a forbidden connection, their defiance to social standards threatens to destroy everything. As their love deepens, so does the danger - from overseers, society, and even the ones they love.

Tom ist verzweifelt. Was wird der maskierte Mann, der ihn zu Hause überfallen hat, von ihm? Warum liegt er ihm aus einem uralten, ledergebundenen Buch vor? Ein Buch über einen Jungen namens Ki, dessen Dorf überfallen und der mit seinen Freunden zur Flucht gezwungen wird. Ein Buch über eine uralte Prophezeiung, nach der die Menschheit von einer außerirdischen Macht bedroht wird und deren Schergen bereits menschliche Gesellschaften infiltrieren. Ki und seine Gefährten stellen sich schließlich dem Kampf.  

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Orion's Seed is a gripping science fiction thriller that blends ancient alien mystery, high-stakes exploration, and a touch of cosmic horror. The story opens with a dramatic prologue in which the dying Erythian race seeds prehistoric Earth with a mysterious artifact—the Luminaris—hoping to preserve their legacy. Millennia later, archaeologist Blake Edwards is drawn to a remote Antarctic outpost by strange satellite anomalies and buried structures with unnatural geometry. What begins as a scientific investigation quickly spirals into a desperate race for survival as Blake uncovers evidence of a long-lost extraterrestrial presence and a deadly conspiracy determined to keep it buried. From ancient tombs in Sudan to the frozen wastelands of Antarctica and the streets of Buenos Aires, Blake is hunted by mercenaries and haunted by visions, piecing together clues that point to the Luminaris being more than a relic—it's a living key to something vast and powerful. With sharp pacing, rich atmospheric detail, and mounting tension, Orion's Seed explores themes of legacy, obsession, and the primal fear of what might be watching us from beneath the ice—or beyond the stars.

“Yes, the inquisitive hermit out in the delta seems to have unlocked the greatest secret of them all.”

All Mankind once shared the same instinctual connections to the planet as all the other species that thrive, here, on earth. Threading ourselves into the wind, the light, the electromagnetic field and the rhythm of the ocean tides, we were a delicately woven pattern in a wonderous tapestry. In “River Talk (fables of connections‒lost)” the reader is introduced to Marchon Baptiste, a hermit living in the delta who still possesses these instinctual connections and more. He possesses the ultimate gift and connection to the planet: the language of water. “River Talk (fables of connections‒lost)” is a journey of profound rediscovery. An epic tale wherein the reader encounters a host of enchanting, humorous and illuminating characters who are attempting to restore a personal and spiritual connection to their wellspring‒Earth.

“Yes, you remember him well, now. So, you see it. Through him, water speaks, informs in ways that are new, even, to us. My elders spoke of the final dissolution. Like a bird in flight who no longer feels the air lifting it. Suspended it realizes that body and spirit, earth and elements are no longer separated, and so begins the chanting; the four elements reversing their movement. The expansion slowing, all matter of energy, matter, and life gather. It will be a long hot fire. Yes, only life in and of the water will survive the purge, here.

“In the song of the whales is the root of these chants. What sounds mournful is life in transition, energy and movement spreading out. Light separating to reconfigure into another form. Water does this before our very eyes. Now we have one among us who hears its chant. So, his wondrous connection has us rubbing up against the outermost cycle of this expansion.

“We have been given an echo of the uninterrupted whisper of the universe pitching and yawing as it expands to the point of a new collapse. This one, this Marchon Baptiste, is our portal, offering a whisper of what my elder called the closing lullaby of the expansion. When all light and energy and life move to transform, and dissolve to fashion a new expression of all of us. That is why we are with you now.

“Seems the water has taken pity on this one, and in doing so has led us all together for a purpose. There in that sterile, harsh place, where the raven and the water led you, is a woman named Adele, a nurse. She is the last to have spoken to the trapper. Find her and leave.

“With her help, find the trapper and then go to the island of the elders−Rapa Nui. There one of the elders will speak to you. It will sound like a whisper from a familiar dream that will draw you to your specific place. The great stone faces of the elders are in fact just as the lonely trapper has been labeled and so foretells: tuning forks to channel you out and into the light and on and into the expansion. Be safe, my son.”

Lyrical nature writing blends seamlessly with a compelling memoir to tell the story of early trauma, rupture from the author’s childhood community, and an inspiring pathway to healing. My book has been characterized as falling within the new genre of “autocomology” by advance readers.