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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. So, you might ask: What do they do during the other 12 hours, given they might take a nap now and then? Well, this may come as a surprise, but they ask each other riddles. How many of them do you think you can solve?

Larry, the laughing hyena, refuses to go to sleep. Instead, he insists on asking his mother riddles about animals found on the African plain, the answers to which are puns. Children and adults alike delight in the game.

Terry, 7, spends a lot of time hunting dinosaurs in his bedroom. This results in his room being turned into a battleground, not to mention his clothes getting thrown to the floor and his homework ignored. Needless to say, Emily, his mother, is at her wit's end, and it isn't until she threatens to ground Terry that the situation changes. Or does 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 take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, ‘Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.

End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences is book III of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy. In many ways, it brings to an end three things: the sagas of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Lientur; the hunt for the millions of dollars in US and British cash, negotiable securities, gold coins, and jewelry stolen from the Banco Central de Chile following the Chilean Earthquake of May, 1960; and the murders that followed the robbery.

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. Guarda come Pepe e altri risolvono il problema, finalmente portando Pepe e Otto insieme come amici.

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 Banco Central de Chile following the Chilean Earthquake of May, 1960. 

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 and her parent's way of life. A seeming infatuation with Tommie Lupinacci, head of a major crime-infested cartage association based in Brooklyn, led her to move east with the mobster. But when she showed up dead with a bullet in the back of her head, NYPD Detectives Louis Martelli and Sean O'Keeffe were stumped.  

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 from a seal hunt in the waters around the base, two Chilean Navy non-commissioned officers, CWO Raul Lucero and CPO Eduardo Bellolio, become LCDR Cristian Barbudos' prime theft and murder suspects. 

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. As Solly watches, life takes Teddy from gifted violin student to adult engineer and scientist, leaving no time for the career in music Solly so dearly wants his son to pursue. In the end, there emerges the essence of redemption as Teddy returns to the violin late in life and fulfills his and his father’s vision. The story, which is a work of fiction based on real events, will fascinate listeners from ages 10 to 100 who are interested in radio, communications, and music.

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 until a meeting with the wife’s doctor and the bizarre torching of Stephanie Martelli’s car turn the investigation upside down and land Martelli and O’Keeffe in the hot seat.

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 world. Ivan the Wolf could not have been happier to see him, given how hungry he is. Can Fuzzy escape Ivan’s clutches? 

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 his sister, Heather, the problem of finding Rufus a new home is solved. 

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.

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 suspicious. Antonetti tells Detective Louis Martelli he suspects what appears to be a suicide may in fact be murder. After a similar case is discovered involving a former friend of the Wall Street trader who played on the same high school football team almost twenty years earlier, Martelli is convinced he is dealing with someone bent on revenge.

 ¡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 Pepe y Otto como amigos. 

Une merveilleuse histoire sur l'importance de faire de bons choix et dese défendre face aux tyrans ! Pepe, le pingouin, a besoin de construire un nid pourMlle Ambre et lui-même. Mais Otto, le tyran, lui vole constamment ses cailloux.Voyez comment Pepe et les autres règlent le problème et aident Pepe et Otto à deveniramis.

When a man dressed in a long priest’s robe and wearing a black ecclesiastical hat walked into a Catholic church just prior to a funeral service, stuffed garlic into the deceased’s mouth, and pumped a bullet into the corpse, NYPD Homicide Detective Louis Martelli was as puzzled as he’s ever been on a case. No stranger to the macabre, Martelli is even more mystified by Deputy Coroner Michael Antonetti’s findings, which confirm that the deceased, far from having died of respiratory failure and a possible heart attack, was murdered by someone who injected him with a lethal dose of Philippine cobra venom.  

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. Louis Martelli, NYPD, is one of the first detectives on the scene.