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A Pocketful of Light
Take a whirlwind tour of Italy without leaving home as you read this recounting of a mother-daughter trip.

Virtually transport yourself to Venice, Florence and Rome as well as Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast.  This jaunty little book features funky Italian phrases, the Fibonacci Sequence and pain-free history lessons.

Reader beware: reading this book may cause an irresistible urge to travel to Italy.

Available on Amazon.com and in many local stores in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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The Word That You Heard

Enid Forrester hates her name and her hair. On the first day of summer in 1980 she can almost see the wonderfully empty expanse of time stretching before her: 97 days from Memorial Day to Labor Day to read, write and hang out with her best friend Cheryl Bricker. Cheryl's house has more siblings, but fewer rules, than Enid's.

Enid comes of age in Michigan Upper Peninsula, where there isn't much to do in the summer or any other time of year for a twelve-year-old girl. Her summer education includes listening to the "drunken pontificators" lecture in the coffee shop about what not to do as she joins her dad at the local table for their morning refueling. Enid's little sister Chloe dances her way through the days, annoying Enid and Cheryl with her endless, tuneless singing.

Summer passes in two blinks, full of incidents and accidents. When school starts and Enid receives her first English Composition assignment, she becomes obsessed with writing her manifesto. Enid learns friendship doesn't last forever and sometimes the simplest philosophy is truest.

The Word That You Heard is in print format available onAmazon
or in various e-formats on Smashwords!

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