FAW Bookshelf

Ken’s testimony. His childhood in the Mennonite community and alienation from ‘the true faith’ and a three-year stint as a Vietnam Era conscientious objector in Japan. He has a come-to-Jesus experience and abruptly his life turns around. His new novel roils the community but the fallout includes rejection of his second novel, a move to San Francisco, and his abandonment of the Mennonites.

Lily Lu to the Rescue – a series of books for children by Cherilyn Chin

Disarming PTSD with Art, poetry and intuition is a self help book that shows what childhood PTSD looks and feels like and helps HSP and PTSD people move through their childhood traumas and find inner peace.

I Hear the Flowers Singing: Maryalise, hidden in the mortal world for ten years with no memory of her previous life, learns who she is, how to use her magic and what she must do to rescue her father who has been imprisoned by the evil fairy Villiana.

46 examples of military innovations applied to civilian life, from computers and radar to canned food and WD-40 to Cheetos and Kotex.

Jeremy Meyers is an ordinary bratty twelve-year-old when he has his first prophetic dream. He is too shy to tell anyone at first, but he can see things happening in the world around him that connect to the dreams. Clouds that are narrow strips in the sky, seem to affect trees and animals. But why is he seeing flying saucers?

Love in Any Language immerses the reader in the challenges of merging two cultures in a new marriage.

An adventurous and romantically inclined twenty-one-year-old seeks fulfillment volunteering in Mexico and Peru. She joins the Peace Corps and works in the Andes, where she falls inlove with her village, her indigenous pupils—and a university student. After violating the sexual prohibitions of her Catholic upbringing, she finds herself pregnant and much choose whether to marry the father of her unborn child.

Radio emcee Pastor Vladdy leads a tour bus of Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. As they visit the Bible Land sites, Eli, their Jewish guide and top Israeli counter-terrorist, suggests they tell stories as they travel along.. Vladdy offers a prize of the whole trip free to the best story. The wonderful scheme falls apart when Vladdy offends Eli with his question: ‘What about the Palestinians?’ As the pilgrims celebrate their farewell dinner and choose the best story, the bigger question is what has become of Eli? The news from Gaza is alarming.

Trade routes like the Silk Road and the Incense Route. Middle school

A look at various forms of prejudice and how to reduce stereotyping. Middle school

Covers geography, history, government, the economy of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Middle school

Diabetes, its causes, symptoms, and methods of control. Adult

A look at both sides of the vaccine debate. Library Journal’s bestselling microbiology title for 2019.

2017

An anthology of essays from my first four years of writing for www.PositivelyFilipino and other random thoughts.

Available on Amazon

MacNamara works as a Korean War atom bomb strategist at the Pentagon. His troubled conscience over his work forces him out and he joins the Lancaster Mennonites, marries the bishop’s daughter and begins to preach fiery sermons about a coming nuclear war between Russia and the West. He wins a following but his movement alienates his new family and splits the community. Then his son dies in a mysterious accident.

After his father is murdered, Klaus joins the heretic Mennonites in south Germany and with a band of other refugees, he finds refuge in William Penn’s colonial Pennsylvania, where he establishes a successful grist mill business. But conflict between the settlers and the French-allied Delaware Indians engulfs the community. He is torn between his sons—one who is studious and intellectual and one who becomes a militia commander.

Mennonites have been pacifists for 500 years. When war fever hits the Pennsylvania community in 1917, Mastie Stoltzfus enlists– the ultimate bad-boy act among Mennonites. His brother Ira does the good-boy act. As a conscientious objector, he is drummed into a military camp and ends up in prison for not obeying military rules. Mastie returns from France repentant and welcomed by his father. Ira broods in prison over his fate.

Explores the mechanisms by which hormones regulate basic body functions and behaviors. High school to adult

For the first time, uncover the secrets and behind-the-scenes stories of

how they put together the most spectacular shows of our day. 

Discover more trivia and backstage buzz!

Available on Amazon