The Middle East is spinning out of control, but what does that mean to a simple fast-order cook in Central California?  Everything—his family, his love life, his future, his purpose.  And it may be that he means a great deal to the Middle East.  Some are willing to kill him and others are willing to risk their lives to protect him.    This adventure takes the reader to Turkey, Iran, and Arabia.  Themes of historical religions of the Middle East, modern interpretations, truth, understanding, and what the future holds for this volatile region are interwoven throughout the book.  Romance and its seeming impossibility provide a metaphor for all that is wonderful about this region, and all that may be suffocating hope.  The unspoken question through most of the book asks is something more happening as this adventure unfolds?

Kitab Kabbani

Literature & Fiction

MITCHELL, MIKE

Bingham, Kent

Literary

Byblos Press

Spinning plates in a Chinese Circus. A tangled bricolage of the human condition; points of meaning only found in the spinning and delicate balance. As bricoleur, I spin for the reader six novellas of mystery, alternative history, fantasy, science fiction, and actual facts on which each story rotates. Six plates under one speculative tent. Lives in the balance, the balance under attack, the attack wobbling toward its own destruction, or salvation. The plates are already spinning. To keep them from slowing and eventually falling, I invite you to step on stage and jump from one to the other and back again, adding to their centripetal energy your own, in order to uncover what meaning they have to offer. Let the circus begin! A sneak preview of each spinning plate: The Citizens Bureau: The United States in 2050 and bureaucracy has evolved to its best or worst. What goes around comes around. 29 Virtues: An Island Kingdom off the coast of present-day France; Kingdom leadership wobbling on a precipice amidst romance and mystery. The Netsuke Project: A Japanese bio-tech firm holds the future of humanity in the balance. One reticent research professor must decide whether to add her pivotal insight. Medallions: United Nations Special Ops team grapples with their new cascading powers while tangling with a deadly foe at every turn. Shawnash 7: Top Secret Native American Guardian Force faces a challenge that began thousands of years ago and could cause recent indigenous peoples’ rights successes to spiral out of control. Casting Bread: Nano-tech wunderkind achieves catastrophic heights and disappears to a new life. Can he escape the boom and bust whirl of the world’s revolving door this time?

Chinese Circus: A Spinning Sextet of Speculative Fiction

Lives are in danger. Would you jump into a dark pit to save them? What if your enemy becomes your only hope to get out of the pit, would you trust them? Adelita just turned twelve and her world is turning upside down. From discovering what her family really does, an attack on her home in Los Angeles, to facing rebels in the jungle, her courage and trust are tested. She might make a difference, if she survives. Doors, decisions, and destiny await.

Chocolate4Peace

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

In the business of helping people make better decisions, their comfortable life explodes at home and in a jungle in Southern Mexico. It's like she doesn't know her name. Mamá to her children, Hija to her mother, Querida to her husband. Trying to overcome her fears and find herself?As the mother of two children and wife of an adventuresome and seemingly fearless husband she knows her world but struggles with her part in it. She believes in the family mission. Those close to her see what she cannot. She is brave beyond her fears, wise beyond her insecurities, and decisive beyond her doubts. How can she save her daughter who alone is facing odds in which a special forces squad would be tempted to call in back up support?Confronting her personal demons and the weight of her family's 600-year-old secret business, she must decide whether to share the family secrets with her children. "How can they be ready for this when I can hardly carry my part as a mature adult? Can't they just enjoy being children for a little while longer, maybe a lot longer?"In the end, family, purpose, identity, and chocolate bring calm to the turmoil that she has managed to keep buried all her life.

Peace of Chocolate

Genre Fiction

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Kitab Kabbani

Chinese Circus: A Spinning Sextet of Speculative Fiction

Chocolate4Peace

Peace of Chocolate