Thursday, September 18, 2025

Murder on the Hawaiian Coast

  Beautiful image of the Hawaiian Coast


Murder on the Hawaiian Coast
When the body of Dorian Veynar—the ruthless tycoon who built a tourism empire across the Hawaiian Islands—is discovered on his Waikīkī estate, paradise is shattered. What begins as a serene morning overlooking Diamond Head turns into the scene of a shocking murder that sends tremors through Honolulu’s elite. Detective Keoki Tanaka, a man whose roots run deep into the volcanic soil of Hawai‘i, is called to unravel the truth behind Veynar’s violent death. The investigation draws him into a labyrinth of suspects: a fiery former lover humiliated in public, a calculating business partner with everything to gain, employees betrayed and discarded, and islanders whose sacred lands were desecrated by Veynar’s greed. From the glittering resorts of Honolulu to the quiet coastlines of Maui, Tanaka navigates webs of power, betrayal, and ancestral claims. As the body count rises and old grudges resurface, he must untangle lies buried beneath paradise’s postcard-perfect facade. Each clue points to hidden motives, each alibi crumbles under scrutiny, and every revelation pulls him closer to a killer driven by ambition, vengeance, or both. Rich with Hawaiian atmosphere and steeped in suspense, Murder on the Hawaiian Coast is a gripping whodunnit where paradise itself becomes the stage for a deadly reckoning. In a world where beauty masks danger, Detective Tanaka must uncover the truth before the islands’ darkest secrets claim another life.




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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Navigating Senior Care: A Comprehensive Guide to Healthcare Options and Transitions for Aging Adults

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Navigating Senior Care:

A Comprehensive Guide to Healthcare Options and Transitions for Aging Adults


The ultimate guide for families, caregivers, and aging adults making critical decisions about senior healthcare, long-term living, and support services.

Are you overwhelmed by the maze of senior care options?

Whether you're navigating Medicare and Medicaid, evaluating skilled nursing facilities, considering assisted living or home care, or simply seeking peace of mind, Navigating Senior Care is your trusted companion. Written by seasoned healthcare administrator Brenda Mahan, this guide equips you with clear, compassionate, and actionable advice—all grounded in real-world experience and up-to-date policy knowledge.

What You'll Learn:
  • Step-by-step insights into healthcare transitions after hospitalization
  • How to choose between rehab centers, home health, or hospice care
  • Understanding your loved one's legal rights, advance directives, and financial planning
  • A breakdown of Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage, what’s really covered, and how to avoid costly mistakes
  • Smart strategies for Medicaid eligibility, VA benefits, and insurance navigation
  • How to compare and tour assisted living, memory care, and private care options
  • Critical checklists, planning worksheets, and real questions to ask providers

This book isn't just information, it's a roadmap for honoring your loved one’s dignity while making confident care decisions. You’ll also gain access to emergency preparedness templates, family caregiving support, self-care tips, and vital community resources.

Who This Book Is For:
  • Adult children helping parents make care decisions
  • Spouses or caregivers dealing with long-term conditions
  • Seniors planning proactively for their own future care
  • Nurses, case managers, and healthcare workers seeking a patient-friendly resource for families

Why This Book Is Different:

Unlike generic elder care manuals, Navigating Senior Care speaks directly from 25+ years of frontline experience, combining real-life examples with faith-driven encouragement, practical checklists, and non-technical explanations that make complex systems easy to understand.

Brenda Mahan brings the heart of a caregiver and the expertise of a licensed administrator to every chapter, covering what other guides overlook, like emotional strain, facility red flags, and how to advocate for better care when you feel unheard.

“Brenda Mahan speaks from deep experience, and every page feels like guidance from someone who’s walked this journey. This book gave us clarity when our family felt lost.”

Format & Features:
  • 15 structured chapters across 5 parts
  • Caregiver tools and facility interview worksheets
  • Bible verses and encouraging quotes throughout
  • Resource directory with trusted government links
  • Emergency contact and medical info templates
  • Glossary of healthcare terms made simple

If you’re making decisions about elder care, this is the first book you should read.

Take control of your journey with confidence, faith, and a plan.



Click here to get Navigating Senior Care

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited 


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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Robotics and Coding for Kids Ages 6–10

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Discover the Book That Will Transform Your Child's Curiosity into Knowledge! 🚀

Have you ever imagined your child learning Robotics, Programming, and Artificial Intelligence in a fun, light, and completely practical way?
This book was created especially for children aged 6 to 10 and is the perfect gateway to the future of technology.

✅ Learning that feels like play – with interactive games, clever puzzles, and challenges that stimulate reasoning.
✅ Simple and engaging step-by-step – even with no experience, children learn modern programming and AI concepts.
✅ Increased creativity and confidence – each activity sparks imagination, autonomy, and motivation to learn more and more.
✅ Preparation for the future – while having fun, your child develops STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) skills, essential for the new generation.

✨ Why is it worth it?
Because besides being entertaining, this book opens real paths for children's academic and professional futures. It combines fun, knowledge, and practical results – transforming reading time into valuable learning.

👉 If your child is curious, enjoys challenges, or simply loves to play and learn new things, this book will be the perfect gift.
Give them the opportunity to learn through play and fall in love with technology from an early age! 🌟





Bringing Sunshine back to my Mind: A Story about overcoming Trauma & Finding Wholeness

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Bringing Sunshine back to my Mind:

A Story about overcoming Trauma & Finding Wholeness


GOLD MEDAL WINNER - Readers' Favorite Book Award

Sachi Kubo-Sanchez is a woman on a quest. A forty-something mother of two, she leaves her lackluster marriage and her conservative hometown, neither of which she ever felt like she belonged in, and moves to New York City.  After a repressed childhood trauma resurfaces, Sachi seeks the help of a therapist, whereupon she meets numerous dissociated aspects of her consciousness that have gone missing, including her inner child she calls Sunshine She sets herself on a mission to find her missing aspects, heal her trauma, reintegrate her psyche, and strive for wholeness and understanding


Along her journey, Sachi struggles to balance her role as a mother with her newfound sexuality, including all the complexities, dangers, and confusing acronyms that come with online dating, all while managing a job she wasn't prepared for, and facing her own familial demons that are unearthed.  Armed with her sense of humor and the support of her friends, she learns how to accept the parts of herself that carry shame and guilt. Despite the unpredictable turns that her life takes, Sachi finds the courage and strength within to face her greatest fears and move forward in life's great adventure.






Sunday, September 14, 2025

Teaching Academic Seminar with Purpose: A Practical Guide for Special Education Resource Rooms and Inclusive Classrooms

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A Practical Guide for Special Education Resource Rooms and Inclusive Classrooms
Academic Seminar should never be “just a study hall.” At its best, it is a structured, intentional space where students with disabilities build executive functioning skills, grow in confidence, and achieve independence. Too often, however, it is left undefined—an open period without clear goals or consistent systems. As a special education teacher who turned a chaotic Resource Room into a launchpad for student success, Dr. Ryan Wydra reimagines what Academic Seminar can be. In Teaching Academic Seminar with Purpose, he provides educators with a clear framework for transforming Resource Rooms and inclusive classrooms into powerful spaces for growth. Drawing on years of classroom experience, research, and collaboration, Dr. Wydra offers more than theory. Inside, you’ll find: • Step-by-step routines and schedules to bring structure and clarity. • Practical strategies for teaching organization, time management, and study skills. • Tools for aligning instruction with IEP goals and monitoring progress. • Approaches to assessment preparation, remediation, and re-teaching. • Guidance for partnering with families and collaborating with colleagues. More than an instructional guide, this book is a call to action: to see Academic Seminar as a place where students are not just supported, but equipped to thrive—in school and beyond. Whether you’re a special education teacher, administrator, or general education partner, Teaching Academic Seminar with Purpose will give you the tools, confidence, and inspiration to turn potential into achievement.


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Lee Harvey Oswald: Patriot, Provocateur or Patsy?

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Lee Harvey Oswald:

Patriot, Provocateur or Patsy?


This explosive expose shatters the Warren Commission lone-gunman myth revealing Lee Harvey Oswald as a likely ONI/USMC/CIA trained operative framed as the patsy in President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Drawing on groundbreaking 2025 classified files, and Dr. Don Curtis’ sworn Luna Committee testimony – asserting frontal shots from the railroad trestle and the grassy knoll – Jim Purtell uncovers a chilling national security state conspiracy with the mafia assisting in the killing of Oswald.

New evidence exposes Oswald’s 45-day incarceration in the Atsugi brig as a ruse, with witnesses denying that “hard time” existed at that location along with no trustworthy detention records, masking covert spy training at a CIA hub. His 1959 application to Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland, claiming a year of Russian education confirms clandestine language preparation for his Soviet defection. From possible LSD dosing under MKULTRA during several suspicious hospitalizations to microdot espionage in Minsk, Oswald’s intelligence role unfolds likely orchestrated by the CIA and Office of Naval Intelligence.

This book details how Oswald’s rapid hardship discharge, manipulated rifle evidence and the Texas School Book Depository setup framed him while shooters from other locations executed JFK. Gerald Ford’s Warren Commission cover up – shifting Kennedy’s back wound to fit the single bullet theory and Jack Ruby’s mafia ordered silencing of Oswald, sealed the truth. Author Jim Purtell’s military experience in Vietnam as a combat medic was instrumental in discovering the several oddities in Lee Oswald’s military tour in Atsugi, Japan and Santa Ana, California, and his connecting the dots led to many of his discoveries. Read Lee Harvey Oswald – Patriot, Provocateur or Patsy and you’ll learn a lot about the deception involved in the case of the century.




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Saturday, September 13, 2025

Japanese Philosophy: (5 Books in 1) Find Peace, Joy & Purpose with Ikigai, Kaizen, Wabi Sabi & More Timeless Japanese Wisdom

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Japanese Philosophy:

(5 Books in 1) Find Peace, Joy & Purpose with Ikigai, Kaizen, Wabi Sabi & More Timeless Japanese Wisdom


Discover the Art of Living Fully – with Purpose, Simplicity, and Inner Strength

In a world that races forward, Japanese Philosophy invites you to slow down, reflect, and reclaim your life – one intentional moment at a time.

This immersive 5-in-1 guide synthesizes centuries of Japanese wisdom into practical, life-changing insights you can apply right now.

Explore five timeless principles, each with its own dedicated section:

  1. Ikigai – Find your reason for rising each morning
  2. Kaizen – Embrace daily progress, one small and steady step at a time
  3. Kintsugi – Honor your scars and transform pain into beauty
  4. Shinrin-Yoku – Reconnect with nature’s quiet healing power
  5. Wabi-Sabi – Accept yourself fully, not in spite of imperfection, but because of it

This is not a book about escaping life’s chaos; It is a guide to meeting it with grace.

Through poetic language, grounded philosophy, and practical exercises, you’ll learn how to:

• Take control instead of feeling powerless
• Reframe suffering into strength
• Reshape your inner dialogue toward clarity and compassion
• Make peace with the present – without postponing joy

Whether you're overwhelmed by modern life, craving deeper purpose, or simply curious about timeless Eastern wisdom, Japanese Philosophy offers a quiet revolution for the mind, heart, and spirit.

Start small. Stay present. Become your own Ikigai.

Your journey begins here.



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