I have traveled around the Sun 88 times. That’s quite a distance. In fact, if you do the math—and I have—it adds up to approximately 51.4 billion miles. To put that in perspective, it’s roughly 14 times the average distance from Earth to Pluto, or enough distance to travel to our Moon...

Meet Bing Bing and Tai Shan. They are giant pandas born in the rainy bamboo forests high in the mountains of southern China. They spend a lot of time nibbling on bamboo. And they eat fast. The fact is, they spend about 12 hours a day doing it.

People ask: "Why do you use photographic prompts when you write short stories and flash fiction?" Larry Sultan, an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California, provides one answer: "Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and...

"It is the juxtaposition of factual and imaginary detail, real and fictitious characters, each underscored by footnotes or website research, that gives Theodore Cohen's work a signature style [that is] quite unique, enjoyable and thoroughly ingenious." (Gary Sorkin for Pacific Book Review) End...

This is the Italian version of the award-winning children's storybook on bullying, Pepe Builds a Nest. Una meravigliosa storia su come fare le scelte giuste e affrontare un bulli! Pepe, il pinguino, deve costruire un nido per signorina Ambra e se stesso. Ma Otto, il bullo, ruba le sue pietre...

Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer is Book II of The Antarctic Murders Trilogy. It continues the story of Captain Roberto Muoz of the Lientur and the hunt for the millions of dollars in US and British cash, negotiable securities, gold coins, and jewelry that were stolen from the...

Even as a child, Katlyn Lundquist was drop-dead gorgeous. She also was willful. In her teens, perhaps out of spite, she created her own name and persona. As she grew up, she readily accepted money and gifts from her parents but thumbed her nose at society, in general, and her parent's way of...

The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960 leads to Base Bernardo OHiggins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula. When Chilean Army 1SGT Leonardo Rodrguez fails to return...

Solly’s dream is for his son Teddy to one day become a concert violinist. Eventually he comes to understand and to endure the heartbreak of knowing that the dream never will be realized....

When the mayor of New York City’s grandson and the grandson’s wife are murdered execution style in their Tribeca apartment, NYPD Detective Louis Martelli and his partner, Detective Sean O’Keeffe, are left completely in the dark. Months go by without any actionable leads....

An exciting story about a precocious bear cub who doesn’t listen to his mother and almost ends up in the hands of the Big Bad Wolf! Fuzzy Wuzzy, his brothers, Bob and Hal, and sister, Sal, were told to stay in their lair while Mama Bear went fishing. But Fuzzy, bored, decides to explore the...

A wonderful story about feelings, compassion, and caring for others, be they humans or animals! Rufus, a golden retriever, lives with Charlie, a man of many years. But now, Charlie must leave to live with his daughter. The old man doesn't know what to do about Rufus, but when he meets Jimmy and...

A wonderful story about making the right choices and dealing with bullies! Pepe the penguin needs to build a nest for Miss Amber and himself. But Otto, the bully, keeps stealing his stones. See how Pepe and others solve the problem, finally bringing Pepe and Otto together as friends. Ages six...

2015 PacificBook Review Annual Competition Winner: Best Thriller 2014 Readers' Favorite BookAward Winner, Fiction/Mystery/General: Bronze When a wealthy Wall Street commodity futures trader is found dead in his townhouse of an apparent drug overdose, Deputy Coroner Michael Antonetti, NYPD, is...

¡Una maravillosa historia sobre cómo tomar las decisiones correctas y lidiar con los matones! Pepe, el pingüino, necesita construir un nido para la señorita Amber y para él. Pero Otto, el matón, sigue robando sus piedras. Vea cómo Pepe y otros resuelven el problema, finalmente reuniendo a...

Bronze, Favorite des Lecteurs, 2107 Concours International du Livre: Children-Animals Winner, Pacific Book Review, 4e Prix Annuel Pacific Book, 2017: Best Children's Illustrated Une merveilleuse histoire sur l'importance de faire de bons choix et dese défendre face aux tyrans ! Pepe, le...

When a man dressed in a long priest’s robe and wearing a black, low-crowned, wide-brimmed ecclesiastical hat walked into a Catholic church just prior to the start of a funeral service, stuffed garlic into the deceased’s mouth, and pumped a bullet into the corpse, NYPD Homicide Detective...

Who killed Matthew B. Richardson III? Banksters or Islamic terrorists? The head of one of the largest investment banking and securities firms in the United States has been assassinated in Times Square in the middle of New York City’s annual celebration of Halloween, the Festival of the Dead...

Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, a murder mystery, is based on real events. It is the story of how the oligarchs of Wall Street, doctors and others in the pharmaceutical research profession having significant conflicts of interest, and employees of two 'captured' US government...

From December 1961 through early March 1962, I participated in the 16th Chilean Expedition to the Antarctic.