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Today we are taking a look at Andrea Beaty..... Children's Author Extraordinaire. A best selling New York Time Author that is sure to please those that are five and above and can read. Also, her books come to life when they are audio books and sure to help young ones learn to read as they follow along in their Kindle. Be sure and sample the audio when researching her books! She lives in Chicago and visits lots of  schools each year. She loves to share her love of reading, and her writing journey with the kids and educators. How do you say "Beaty?" It rhymes with "Lady!"

28 October 1882 – 1 December 1911 Richard Barham Middleton's..... "The Ghost Ship" is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature.  He was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide.  While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, no volumes of his work were published in his lifetime.  As soon as he was dead, he was..... "discovered."  Four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades.  His poetry was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life.  He is remembered today for a handful of superbly crafted, eerie fantasies, such as..... "The Coffin Merchant," ....... "On the Brighton Road,"...

Yuval Noah Harari is the author of  international bestsellers.  He is an Israeli historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Guardian quotes Yuval as saying..."Homo Sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so." Yuval also gives a free online course in English titled..."  A Brief History of Humankind ."  Over the years, more than 100,000 people throughout the world....  have already taken his course.

 A visionary explorer Nansen and his partner Hjalmar Johansen went further north than man had ever been. An explorer in his youth and a humanitarian in his later years, he truly lead a remarkable life. Watch the short video and you will understand.He was polar explorer,a humanitarian, and diplomat and led a blessed life..  His books are treasures to be placed where they are readily available for one and all. Truly.... he is the author of many master pieces!  Once read they must be shared!   There is a Nansen Refugee Award  that was established in his honor in 1953.... because of his life's work of repatriation and integration of refugees. A truly remarkable man... his legacy endures.

Born: Robert Lee Frost, Mar 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, US Died: Jan 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, USOccupation: Poet, playwright

Winslow Eliot's novels have been translated into eleven languages and published in twenty countries. Through practices, meditations, and fun improvisations, the author takes you on a journey that activates the search and discovery of your soul’s purpose. She shows you  a way to breathe authenticity into every part of your daily existence by....  offering a map toward self-actualization. This is done through 22 stages of the traditional Fool’s journey, and using a wide variety of wisdom sources and practical exercises, including Sufism, Buddhism, Taoist philosophies, anthroposophy, mystical Christianity, Jungian psychology, mythology.......  and her own life experience.

" I wanted to create books with a wide-range of unforgettable characters, with heat and romance, and lots of guns. It wouldn’t be complete without a slice of humor and charm." Meet the crime-solving duo of the Florida Keys: Madison who has all the charm of the girl next door, not to mention a deadly aim and Fab, her best friend, a femme fatale private investigator with a taste for danger and stilettos.