It’s show time at The Enchanted Opera. Maude is an opera singer whose voice has the talent to heal. On the night of an opera performance, she discovers that her human form has been transformed into a fairy, so she can no longer perform. Her rival, opera singer Angelique, is a dark sprite who cast a fairy spell on Maude so she can’t heal people anymore with her melodious voice. Angelique wants to receive all the attention at the theater herself, so she uses an ancient fairy spell to rid herself of Maude. For many years Maude tries to regain …

On Screenwriting and Love and Politics is a book by screenwriter Aviva Butt that invites the reader to take an up-close view at writing a film script. Written in an engaging and literary style, the book attempts to illuminate the emotions, theories and process that go into creating a screenplay. As a special appendix, the book includes the author’s latest full-length screenplay "Blue Mist." About this screenplay, she comments: "I write about love and politics. My screenplays are theatrical feature films on Middle Eastern subjects. This time with my screenplay 'Blue Mist,' the world situation and the Middle East come …

Who is really responsible for the 9/11 attacks? In his eye-opening book, Dr. Theodore G. Pavlopoulos states that the flawed and oppressive personnel system of the federal government opened us up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and continues to threaten American security today. Based on detailed records kept throughout his 37 years as a physicist for the U.S. Navy, Dr. Pavlopoulos shares his experiences that mirror the frustrations and concerns of many government employees. He asserts that the government bureaucracy’s crisis level personnel problems will continue to have dramatic consequences for America until we consider such solutions as …

Bella’s Marigold Cake is a story that you will treasure and read to your children over and over again. Are there lessons you’d like your children to learn about love, compassion and the ability to forgive? Author Christine Wheeler has woven a special story about a little girl who creates something beautiful and learns her first lesson about forgiveness and compassion. Bella is a beautiful child who spends hours in her sandbox creating all kinds of wonders. One fine morning Bella creates her best ever: a sand cake decorated with her mother’s favorite flowers, bright marigolds. Along comes Eleanora, a …

Medical care is a necessity of life. However, some smart people have overblown its importance and its role in society for their own benefit, and are extracting a heavy price from society.For their own interest, the medical establishment has erected great "holy temples" for people to worship at and pay visits in the form of periodic physical exams, which then lead to further visits to not only the primary "priest," but to other higher priests so they can exorcise the real or the perceived ghost from the worshiper.Everyone seems to forget our past, a time when people lived long and …

A woman has brain surgery that lasts 14 hours, far longer than her surgeon expects. She survives the operation, but the first sentence she speaks after she gains consciousness is spoken in a dialect that nobody in the family understands. Like everyone in Hong Kong, the woman’s family speaks Cantonese. Some older members also use Hakka, a dialect of the Guangdong Province. So when the woman starts talking in Chiu Chow, her family is worried. Is it possible for someone to lose the ability to speak a language she’s been using for 50 years after undergoing brain surgery? The woman’s …

A group of environmental activists, out to shock a complacent public into a greater awareness of global warming and its devastating effects, orchestrates a number of subversive operations, including toppling a smokestack and dumping garbage on the house of a polluter. One night during a raid on a construction site, one of the members of the group is accidentally killed. When the activists travel to Montana to confront a cattle rancher bent on eradicating wolves, events take a dramatic and startling turn. Follow the riveting, page-turning action in The Distant Echo of a Bright Sunny Day, an exhilarating reading experience.