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Monkey Trap (Nova Sapiens, Book 1) Overview
Lara and John are given the incredible powers of the next stage of human evolution by two alien visitors. One wants to help the human race fulfill its potential, to transition into the Nova sapiens state. The other wants to use those powers to return the race to a more primitive state of mindlessness and darkness, to assert its power. But which is which? The human protagonists’ identities are concealed from each other, and they are set on a collision course to death and destruction.
Thus begins an intricate psychodrama and a furious battling chase in which John and Lara have to penetrate induced alien falsehoods, rely on their inner strengths, and relinquish power in favor of love. If they are to survive. If the human race is to survive.
This story takes place today, in familiar places. It launches from the current cutting edges of knowledge about human development and consciousness. Slight twists from this state suspend disbelief, and embedded mysticism creates a powerful undercurrent.
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At the Goddard Space Flight Center, the staff observes a fight between aircrafts in outer space, which end with both objects plunging toward earth. One crashes in Columbia and the other in Washington DC. Officially the government claims space debris.
In Columbia, Black Ops drug lord assassin Captain John Jacob Connard takes a bullet during a jungle fight and lies near death in a cave until an entity somehow enters his body. John quickly learns to heal himself and to use other telepathic powers. For saving his life, his symbiotic partner demands John kill the enemy who will destroy all living beings on earth unless stopped.
FBI Agent Lara Ellen Picard rides her bike when a bee flies into her mouth stinging her several times. Struggling for air she stumbles off the path and is near death below the biking path until an entity somehow enters her body. Lara quickly learns to heal herself and to use other telepathic powers. For saving her life, her symbiotic partner demands Lara kill the enemy who will destroy all living beings on earth unless stopped.
MONKEY TRAP is a terrific science fiction starring two humans who become the battle armor for aliens at war. Readers will wonder who the evil species is as the evidence is cleverly designed so that the audience keeps switching perspective to include one or the other, both and even neither. The father-daughter team Dennng opens the Nova Sapiens trilogy with an exciting, fast-paced thriller that keeps fans on the edge of their seats wondering who contains the potentially pandemic killer.
Harriet Klausner
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July - 26 - 2010
The Powder Monkey (Young American Series) Overview
In the second year of the Civil War, Tad Lynch becomes trapped below deck on a Confederate warship and is pressed into service during a two day battle between the Merrimack and three Union ships.
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The Powder Monkey is a fascinating book for young readers. The author has combined history with fiction in such a way as to create a magical window for today’s youngsters into that era and place that still leaves its mark upon our nation today. A significant portion of The Powder Monkey is the true account of the two-day battle between the Confederate ironclad Virginia and several Union warships, including the famed USS Monitor. Ms. Campbell has skillfully woven into this history the tale of a young boy, Tad Lynch, who, having been inaddvertly left on board, becomes a powder boy and a helper with many of the chores on the Southern ship. Scorned at first by some of the crew, Tad wins their affection and admiration by the way he performs his duties and attends to them when they are injured. Every young boy should read this book. Not only is it interesting and fun, but the underlying example of courage and devotion to what is right is something badly needed among many of our young people of today. I highly recommend The Powder Monkey.
July - 25 - 2010
Monkeys and Apes (Read about) Overview
An introduction to various species of monkeys and apes and their behavior in the wild.
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July - 24 - 2010
Monkey Bridge Overview
Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like navigating a monkey bridge–a bridge, built of spindly bamboo, used by peasants for centuries–the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present, East and West, in telling two interlocking stories: one, the Vietnamese version of the classic immigrant experience in America, told by a young girl; and the second, a dark tale of betrayal, political intrigue, family secrets, and revenge–her mother’s tale. The haunting and beautiful terrain of Monkey Bridge is the “luminous motion,” as it is called in Vietnamese myth and legend, between generations, encompassing Vietnamese lore, history, and dreams of the past as well as of the future. “With incredible lightness, balance and elegance,” writes Isabel Allende, “[Lan Cao crosses] over an abyss of pain, loss, separation and exile, connecting on one level the opposite realities of Vietnam and North America, and on a deeper level the realities of the material world and the world of the spirits.”
Quality Paperback Book Club Selection and New Voices Award nominee
A Philadelphia Inquirer Best of the Rest of Summer 1997 pick
A Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award Book Prize nominee
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It’s a shame some reviewers here failed to understand the essence of this book -the beauty of the author’s writing is lost on them. Yes, the book is written in English, but it invokes a style, expressions, and perceptions that are, at times, clearly Vietnamese; instead of appreciating that, I see reviewers complaining that they don’t like or understand the author’s writing. If you are open to exploring different writing genres, styles, and cross-cultural pieces, you will probably enjoy this book; if you don’t like these things and have a narrow scope as to what constitutes good writing, don’t get the book. I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK HIGHLY for those who can appreciate it.
This is a fictional tale about a generational and cultural gap between a mother and daughter. A repeated theme in the book is the lack of shared experience -as if living in two different worlds. The mother lives in a nightmare, where she is haunted by the ghosts of her past in Vietnam and -feeling tainted with bad karma -unable to move forward with a new life in America. The daughter is young enough to assimilate into her new culture and remembers her home through rose tinted glasses -a recollection that is accurate in part and imagined in part… a protective fiction her mother helped create. In contrast, the mother is plagued by the world of past experience where she became a refugee long before arriving in America, plagued by two wars. The first was the mother’s private anguish entrenched in familial betrayal…
“… the war inside, the war that still eats, like savage locusts, shred by shred, the very tissue and flesh of my heart.” [Cao 1997:237]
The second,
“… the war of the flea and the war of the elephant… a war that essentially sliced the soul of our village in two, it was a war that disrupted the luminous motion of the earth itself. How did this terrible war start? It started with the weight of goodness, when the Vietcong and the Americans both decided they wanted to own the soul of the villages and the villagers of Ba Xuyen.” [Cao 1997:237]
I find Cao’s writing exquisite.
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July - 22 - 2010
The Monkey Tree Overview
The information available about management or the workplace leans heavily in the favor of management. This may not seem fair, but it is understandable. Those that control or wish to control the money and people in industry will pay for that kind of book. There are some very good books written to show managers and trainees how to treat their employees well without violating the company objectives. However, the vast majority of them are written from a management point of view.
How many times have you heard or read: be an effective manager or leader and get the most out of your employees? Most likely, you have heard that idea more than once. Now answer the following question. Have you ever heard of a manager trying to make employees happy without expecting the benefits to the company to far outweigh the benefits to the employees?
The Monkey Tree attempts to provide balance by giving a working person’s version of the truth about management and the things experienced in the workplace. This balance will never be achieved if the reality of the workplace is not revealed to students in high school and college. Even our education systems seem to be designed to separate workers and management. Those taking management courses are taught how to handle employees. The students that become those employees are not taught how to handle managers.
The Monkey Tree can be used as a qualitative measuring device to determine if a manager would be considered good or bad by most of their employees. The instructions for using this device are simple. Have a manager read the book. If they can read the entire book without becoming angry or finding fault with it, they would probably be considered a good manager. If the manager becomes angry or contentious with the content of the book, they may not be a favorite of the employees.
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It is refreshing to read a book about management and the workplace which actually relates to the employees. I am so tired of the endless stream of books about how to be a good manager or how to rise to the top or how to get the most out of everyone else. Even though they sell millions of those kind of books, none of them seem to get to the parts that matter to the average employee, the one that does most of the work.
The Monkey Tree was not the most polished book that I have read(I would have given it 5 stars if it had been). However, it drove to the heart about many of the things which affect the working person. It exposed many of the methods used by management for what they really are, hype and smoke-and-mirrors used to manipulate those attempting to work for them.
I recommend this book to all the real workers and to any manager who wishes to be a good one.
July - 21 - 2010
July - 19 - 2010
There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog Overview
A jungly rendition set in the rainforest of the popular “Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” rhyme
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My son loves all of the “Old Lady” books or any story where an “old” something swallows something else. He likes “There was a coyote who swallowed a flea” and thinks this is a cool variation. He especially likes the sloth. He has carried this in his backpack for the entire week to make sure that all of his friends at school see it.
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July - 18 - 2010
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Banish the Stinkies (Five Kids & a Monkey, Series One, Book 3) Overview
Book three in a three book series of health adventures for readers 7-11. Grub is the messiest kid on the block. His hair is one big tangle, his clothes are covered with blotches and stains and his room looks like something exploded in it! It’s going to take some drastic action – like an exploration through Mr. Picadilly’s mouth or an encounter with giant body bugs – to get him to clean up his act. And Grub will need your help cracking codes, deciphering devious word scrambles and hunting down the stinkies hidden throughout this book!
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This book (as with the other two in the Series) grabs my kids attention everytime. The health and hygiene issues are presented in such an enjoyable fashion, that even my youngest remembers the salient points. I recommend the entire series, as well as the optional Study Guides (especially for those other HomeSchoolers out there). Great Fun…hope you all enjoy them as much as we have!