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Lyrical Poems and Art from the Garden of Nature and Love Volume 1
Nanassy Estera
About the Book
When I first decided to try publishing my poems and art, I knew nothing about the literary publishing industry. I take great pleasure in presenting my favorite poems and the art designed specifically for this book, which is published under GotoPublish. I thought of writing quality poems, which is why all the texts and illustrations in this assemblage are all original works of mine intended to reach a wide audience.
This book is a collection of fifty impressionistic pictures, one hundred fifty lyrical poems from the Garden of Nature and Love in English, and one hundred fifty similar lyrical poems in Romanian. Author and artist: Estera Nanassy.
About the Author
Estera Nanassy was born in Bucharest, Romania. On March 5, 1981, she permanently settled in Portland, Oregon together with her husband Zoltan and their son Oliver Zoltan Nanassy. They worked hard to rebuild their life in their new country USA. Raising and later on, helping their son to graduate from Reed College in Portland Oregon, University of Washington Graduate School and Post Doctoral Fellowship in Harvard University.
E-book $3.99 Hardback $79.62
Riding The Waves During A Pandemic
Will Your Family Survive Shelter in Place Again?
Meril R. Smith
About the Book
Do you believe in magic? In the best of all worlds, the Covid-19 virus will disappear just as suddenly as it appeared. If the Covid-19 Pandemic disappears, there is no reason to read this book. However, if this is not the best of all worlds and the Covid-19 Pandemic continues, Riding The Waves During A Pandemic is a book you need to own and to read. This book will help you and your family plan ahead and survive the daily social and emotional challenges of living through the next waves of the Covid-19 pandemic and survive it well.
About the Author
Meril Smith grew up at the end of World War II with children of migrant farm workers, children born in the Japanese internment camps, and children of day laborers and blue-collar workers. Poverty, recessions, and helping each other were all basic parts of surviving. Living through the times of the Berlin Wall, the Salk polio vaccine, economic recessions, the space race, the development of Silicon Valley, and the Vietnam War fueled Meril’s passion for understanding people and events. His training, life experience, and career provides an excellent backdrop for writing Riding the Waves During A Pandemic.
Hardback $24.95 E-book $4.99 Paperback $8.95
Lessons from Life
Phoolmatee Dubay
About the Book
The book is about the adversities the author experienced resulted from using and abusing drugs and alcohol which led to a diagnosis of a mental illness. The author explored her darkness from using drugs to experiencing her nervous breakdowns. If overcoming meant not using, she didn’t know or realize this until years later. She would go on to discover the support of friends and family members through their love, care, concern, and compassion for her. As the author accepted help, she learnt to give help to others as well. The author experienced changes, and it is her aim to share in these experiences as learning experiences. She found out that the effects of using and abusing drugs and alcohol caused addictions, nervous breakdowns, and led to a diagnosis of a mental illness called schizoaffective disorder. After her diagnosis, it took years for her to realize that using wasn’t right for her because it destroyed her mental health, but she did change by quitting the abuse of drugs and alcohol so to improve her mental health and well-being. The author didn’t do it by herself because she had the support of friends and family members that held her up even when she was down and picked her up when she needed their help. And this will be shown in the poems she has written for her potential readers.
About the Author
Phoolmatee Dubay, born February 14th 1968, migrated to the US during 1992. She attended the Borough of Manhattan Community College and York College where she pursued her career educational goals in Human Services and Social Work respectively. The author’s poetry became a way of coping with her mental illness and coming to grips with reality after learning about the harm and dangers from using and abusing drugs and alcohol. As the author wrote in her poem “A Dark Place In My Head”, “As dark as an abyss in the mind where no light shines, even in the presence of light.” explored the dark side of using drugs and/or alcohol. While she discovered how to deal with life as she wrote in her poem, “I Deal With Life”. You may wonder how and why because as she wrote, “I couldn’t see life for what it was; therefore how could I accept it for what it is?” She would go one to state, “When I didn’t know I had doubts but now I have answers. This doesn’t mean that doubts are gone because I still need answers. Even while looking at life differently.”
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Freedom’s Wall
Bruce Robertson
About the Book
This book is dedicated to all veterans who have served in the military. This book is a book of poems that shows my love for the veterans!
My Wife and I visited the wall that houses all Vietnam Vetrans have been killed in Vietnam. My first thought was “my God, how many names are on the wall”. Later I found out roughly 60,000. God told me to honor them, so I wrote “Freedom’s Wall”. I hope you enjoy these poems! Bruce Robertson
About the Author
I was born in White Memorial Hospital Nov 2, 1941 to Paul and Mary Robertson. I’m the oldest of four boys, Doug, Donnie, and Itigth my three other brothers.
I started writing songs at the age of eleven. I’ve always had an interest in writing. My mother was a poet, and I kind of took after her.
I married my first wife when I was twenty five and had two wonderful boys off of her. Donald Paul Robertson and Blake Dennison Robertson. I am a father and a grandfather and soon to be a great grandfather in September.
I married my wife Karen in 1996 on Sept. 6, was married to Karen 24 years before she passed away May 4th 2019 I really miss her and love her more every day. I will see her in heaven when God chooses to take me.
I have written two books, Freedoms Wall and Santas Christmas poems, they’re both on line on Amazon.
E-book $2.99 Paperback $7.39
Poems of Me
Stephen Perez
About the Book
These poems I wrote are just poems of happenings in my life. Some are more personal than others, but they are all special to me.
About the Author
I am a 63 year old professional truck driver. I started writing poems after I met a very special lady, about 4 or 5 years ago. We are no longer together but I kept up with my writing.
E-book $2.99 Paperback $4.85
Lyrical Poems and Art from the Garden of Nature and Love
Volume 4
Estera Nanassy
About the Book
The poems from volume #4 were widely praised by me with great pleasure, presenting my favorite poems and art specifically for volume #4 which is published under GotoPublish.
“”Lyrical Poems and Art from the Garden of Nature and Love”” Volume #4 includes the collection of twenty nine impressionistic pictures, one hundred fifty Lyrical poems in English and One hundred fifty similar Lyrical Poems in Romanian.
Author and artist ESTERA NANASSY.
About the Author
Estera Nanassy was born in Bucharest, Romania. On March 5, 1981, she permanently settled in Portland, Oregon together with her husband Zoltan and their son Oliver Zoltan Nanassy. They worked hard to rebuild their life in their new country USA. Raising and later on, helping their son to graduate from Reed College in Portland Oregon, University of Washington Graduate School and Post Doctoral Fellowship in Harvard University.
Hardback $66.64 E-book $3.99
The Seasons
Poetry of the Heart
Keri McLeroy
About the Book
I chose “The Season: Poetry of the Heart” because of the different types of poems there are. There are poems that talk of love, friendship, pain and self-doubt. Poems that just talk about life, or the natural beauty that there is in life. Poems that even talk about Christ.
The poems themselves can help with many cases because though they are my writings the thought behind poetry can always be the case for anyone and everyone. I know because I’ve gotten feedback on quite a few of these poems that they can hold different meanings. All hold a special place in my heart, though I would have to say “Strength to Surpass” is probably one that holds the most due to it being for me, my battle with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome but can stand for all sorts of health issues.
About the Author
My name is Keri M. McLeroy. I’m the oldest of 3 girls and I’m a Georgia native, born and raised. I’ve been told for many years now that I should publish my poems. I’ve been writing for at least 18 years and though it’s taking me this long to actually do anything with what I’ve written, I’m now giving it a shot.
Paperback $14.07
Random Thoughts of a Creative Mind
A Life's Journey of the Creative Process
Sue Hassel
About the Book
RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A CREATIVE MIND is a collection of all of Hassel’s writings that have been submitted literally since grade school to present time, including one short story delivered in a big writing class that scandalized some, left others howling with laughter, and the remainder thinking quietly as they left for home. Her take on life is unique having grown up on a farm doing heavy labor with her father on and around heavy equipment. She is quite a horsewoman, and above all, she would say, “What you see is what you get.” Hassel is also a fine painter (see cover art), and a gifted amateur dancer enpointe and modern.
Sue Hassel grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, attended the UW, Madison, and then went to Europe. Her mother Elenora was a homemaker (who designed and sewed clothes for friends and family). Her father, Carl was an oil trucker for 41 years, a natural horseman and very gifted and humane in handling horses and all animals. Both parents had 8th grade educations. Both of their lives exceeded their educational levels. Sue has an older sister, Beverly, former Professor of piano at UW, Oshkosh, who is the real pianist in the family. Sue considers herself the hotdog pianist. She has to have fun playing piano, i.e. the virtuoso repertoire. www.suehassel.com
About the Author
Sue Hassel grew up on a farm in the Midwest, sang in Europe professionally, later moved to New York City where she continued her operatic career. Her first reviews after making her debut in Ballo in Maschera in the role of Amelia (singing that role four times in five nights) was raved in all local media, and later raved again in Opera News. After her stint in Europe, in New York City she continued that operatic career singing the leading roles in Tosca, Bellini’s Norma, the Trovatore Leonora, Aida, Queen of the Night, Papagena and Philine. She is also an oratorio soloist. You can see by the repertoire, her voice began to shift upward over a three year period, and she is now a soubrette coloratura soprano having great fun singing in recital as Sue Hassel, Soprano & Piano as well as solo piano recitals featuring the music of Busoni, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Brahms (her hands are big!). It appears that her career is backward, but she is the most pleased with her voice now. She always just knew she was a coloratura soprano and it just took time.
She enjoys a level of local NYC notoriety having been featured both in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal weekend editions as the ‘Soprano on the 59th Street Bridge’, and last October she was followed around by a videographer who heard about her. In time that segment will air online. There appears to be a bootleg video of her playing and singing, as well as dancing enpointe in a tutu online somewhere. Hassel has not seen it. She has a vague memory of having filmed that in the past. Hassel has been known to say, “New York City is the best place to find your dreams and become.
Paperback $12.99
Love Poems for Mary
Stephen Perez
About the Book
I wrote the poems to let Mary knows how I felt about her and also to publish this book to show how much she meant to me.
About the Author
I am a truck driver, I work for a contractor for the Post Office I take the mail to Corpus Christi, TX to get processed. I go to the Corpus Christi Truck Stop that is where I met Mary.
Paperback $14.95
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters
Standing on Their Shoulders
Edwina Gateley and Sandra Mattucci
About the Book
Portraits of 22 extraordinary women whose lives have made, and continue to make, a lasting impact on our world. They are saints, mystics, martyrs, reformers, poets, missionaries, environmentalists, and mothers from diverse cultures and countries. Here are women upon whose shoulders all women stand. Here are their amazing stories, with haunting reflections by the poet Edwina Gateley and revealing biographies and drawings by Sandra Mattucci.
About the Author
Edwina Gateley is a bestselling author and poet, a pioneering missioner and lay minister, well known to large numbers of Catholics and mainline Christians in the USA, Canada, Britain and Ireland. She has been featured on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and on “48 Hours,” and is in high demand as a speaker and retreat giver. Her bestselling books include Soul Sisters, Christ in the Margins, I Hear a Seed Growing, and In God’s Womb. She lives in Erie, PA. See edwinagateley.com Sandra Mattucci, a chaplain and spiritual director, is the author and artist of children’s books, including The Long Journey Home. She lives in Newington, CT.
Paperback $15