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Joshua Tree Publishing proudly announces that The China Connection, published in January 2023, received the Bronze Award from the Military Writers Society of America on September 28, 2024. MWSA bestowed the Bronze Award in the Mystery, Thriller, Crime category. Authored by Timothy Trainer, The China Connection is set in 1998 Hong Kong.
The novel highlights Kellie Liang, the Chinese-American protagonist. She meets with local and Chinese business executives to expand business contacts. The executives have a different agenda and assume that their American visitor can enlighten them about trade and export tactics and strategies to increase their U.S. profits. Failing to satisfy her Chinese audience, one of the Chinese executives takes extreme measures to get more information. Finding herself in China without her travel documents, Kellie is at the mercy of others to find her and get her back safely to Hong Kong.
“U.S.-China trade tensions affect individuals and companies around the world. The China Connection focuses on that tension. The novel is more a geoeconomic novel than a traditional geopolitical espionage tale. Mr. Trainer sees the current real-world U.S.-China global trade competition as an expansive area to explore in his writing,” says publisher John Paul Owles. “Mr. Trainer continues exploring the issue of U.S.-China trade tensions and global competition in his next novel, The China Factor, that we expect to publish very soon.”
The China Connection is available on Amazon. In 2017, Mr. Trainer received the Bronze Award from the Military Writers Society of America for a non-fiction book published by Joshua Tree Publishing. The Fortunate Son: Top Through the Eyes of Others focused on a group of men who served together in Vietnam in 1968-1969.
Born into a family of writers, Dilobar Ortiqova has a passion for literature from the early ages. Her previous works mostly included poems and short stories. Living in different countries, starting from Central Asia to Japan, Singapore, and USA, they ultimately shaped who she is now and how she perceives the world. Exposure to different cultures’ languages, cuisines, and traditions revealed an unique and remarkable style of life for the author. Currently, Dilobar lives in America with her family.
When King Arawn of Rhodareen was betrayed by his youngest son, who claimed his right for the throne, the main ally of the king, the lord of mystical creatures named centenarians, declared war on all human beings. The war started between two kingdoms engulfed almost the entire world and could destroy the very life itself.
The main characters of the book are five people with different backgrounds and status who lived during the period of great recession and unrests, when people suffered because of wars, famine, religious and political crisis, witch-hunting, and many other troubles. In different circumstances, their paths converge, making them either friends or enemies. All in all, while fighting for their own survival, these characters are unaware that their actions may have significant influence on the outcome of the war.
The main story of the novel occurs in the years of 1644-1645. The major events in it happen on the territory of the Ottomans’ Empire, in France, on Crete, and two fictional kingdoms, Rhodareen and Alassoud.
Author Becky Cortesi-Caruso of For One More Wish was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame of Lemont High School on Saturday, September 14, 2024.
Her accomplishments included: Earned three varsity letters in softball (1991-93)… went 45-22 with a 1.46 ERA and 607 strikeouts in 455.0 innings… averaged 9.34 strikeouts per seven innings… also posted a .342 career batting average with 29 stolen bases… two-time All-Northeast Conference selection (1992-93)… tabbed with team MVP honors as a senior in 1993… earned all-area honors from several publications… cited as the WJOL Softball Athlete of the Year… chosen to participate in the Chicago Tribune Super 60 All-Star event… pitched every inning, posting a 21-8 record and a 1.25 ERA… struck out a career-high 314 batters in 186.0 innings (11.82 per seven innings)… also batted .349 with 15 stolen bases… earned team Offensive MVP and Pitching MVP honors as a junior in 1992… posted a 16-8 record and 1.81 ERA with 200 strikeouts… led the team with a .363 batting average… also participated in girls’ basketball and girls’ volleyball… earned softball scholarships from both the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Lewis University… has worked in the field of public education for 25 years, serving as both a school social worker and special education director.
“I am honored and humbled that I work with some amazing people who have the confidence and faith in my ability to be an effective Executive Director of Special Education!” Becky said.
“I am passionate about the world of special education and making a difference in the lives of our students!
“I was interviewed by the Center for Learner Equity and chosen to attend Move Together: A Call to Action to the Charter Ecosystem for Students with Disabilities Conference sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation!”
Throughout my life, I often heard the question, what would you do if you were granted one wish? I was fascinated by people’s responses. What do you think the answer to this question would be? World peace? A functional family? Good health? End poverty? On the contrary, many people “said” or “replied” that they wanted to win the lottery and have all the money in the world.
This question has resonated with me for a very long time. Why do people wish for money? I could never imagine wishing for any amount of money to make me happy.
I learned when I was younger that no amount of money could bring me happiness. In my humble opinion, our life experiences, and our outlook on life define our happiness. Therefore, the only wish that I would have ever wanted was to spend one more day with my beloved father, who died over three decades ago.
My father was my best friend, my mentor, and an absolute inspiration to me. There is no amount of money in this world that could bring me the happiness that my father brought me. I began thinking about the people closest to me and if they felt the same way: if they had one wish, would they choose to spend the day with a loved one who died?
For One More Wish explores not only my personal journey through grief but also shares the narratives of those people who were courageous enough to write to me. It takes a great deal of transparency and courage to write about having one more day with the person you loved the most in your life. The amazing people in this book wrote authentically about what their day would look like while transcending through their own grieving process.
Becky Cortesi-Caruso has dedicated twenty-six years to being employed in public education. A former school social worker, she eventually made the leap of faith into school administration and is currently an Executive Director of Special Education.
Becky earned a Master’s Degree in School Social Work from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois, and another Master’s Degree in School Administration and Leadership from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois.
She has devoted much of her career to assisting families in understanding the importance of special education law and advocating for students with special needs. She continues to be passionate about working with families and their children. In turn, Becky was selected by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attend the Center for Equity Learner Equity Conference where Executive Director’s from all over the nation were invited.
Becky was inducted into the Lemont High School Athletic Hall of Fame where she was honored by her school community, friends and family. This was a great honor to Becky as she was recognized for her athleticism at the highest level.
In addition to all of Becky’s professional and personal accomplishments, she is most proud of being an author and a mother. She is happily married to her husband, Michael, and the proud mother of three children.
Becky and her entire family, including Charleigh, know the joy and inspiration that comes from exploring the world of adoption. They have chosen to share their story, Chasing Charleigh: An Adoption Story Filled with Hope and Love in hope that it will encourage others to take the same leap of faith they did and explore the complex beauty of adoption. Lastly, Becky tells a courageous and poignant story that features her daughter Charleigh in her second book entitled: Beautifully Biracial: A Young Girl’s Journey to Love Herself. This book examines the deep impact that racial discourse has on her daughter and the lessons learned throughout her journey.
Lastly, Becky is excited to announce the publication of her newest book entitled: For One More Wish, a poignant story about surviving the death of a loved one and the journey that all human beings transcend through.
Becky Cortesi-Caruso has dedicated twenty-six years to being employed in public education. A former school social worker, she eventually made the leap of faith into school administration and is currently an Executive Director of Special Education.
Becky earned a Master’s Degree in School Social Work from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois, and another Master’s Degree in School Administration and Leadership from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois.
She has devoted much of her career to assisting families in understanding the importance of special education law and advocating for students with special needs. She continues to be passionate about working with families and their children. In turn, Becky was selected by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attend the Center for Equity Learner Equity Conference where Executive Director’s from all over the nation were invited.
Becky was inducted into the Lemont High School Athletic Hall of Fame where she was honored by her school community, friends and family. This was a great honor to Becky as she was recognized for her athleticism at the highest level.
In addition to all of Becky’s professional and personal accomplishments, she is most proud of being an author and a mother. She is happily married to her husband, Michael, and the proud mother of three children.
Becky and her entire family, including Charleigh, know the joy and inspiration that comes from exploring the world of adoption. They have chosen to share their story, Chasing Charleigh: An Adoption Story Filled with Hope and Love in hope that it will encourage others to take the same leap of faith they did and explore the complex beauty of adoption. Lastly, Becky tells a courageous and poignant story that features her daughter Charleigh in her second book entitled: Beautifully Biracial: A Young Girl’s Journey to Love Herself. This book examines the deep impact that racial discourse has on her daughter and the lessons learned throughout her journey.
Lastly, Becky is excited to announce the publication of her newest book entitled: For One More Wish, a poignant story about surviving the death of a loved one and the journey that all human beings transcend through.
Throughout my life, I often heard the question, what would you do if you were granted one wish? I was fascinated by people’s responses. What do you think the answer to this question would be? World peace? A functional family? Good health? End poverty? On the contrary, many people “said” or “replied” that they wanted to win the lottery and have all the money in the world.
This question has resonated with me for a very long time. Why do people wish for money? I could never imagine wishing for any amount of money to make me happy.
I learned when I was younger that no amount of money could bring me happiness. In my humble opinion, our life experiences, and our outlook on life define our happiness. Therefore, the only wish that I would have ever wanted was to spend one more day with my beloved father, who died over three decades ago.
My father was my best friend, my mentor, and an absolute inspiration to me. There is no amount of money in this world that could bring me the happiness that my father brought me. I began thinking about the people closest to me and if they felt the same way: if they had one wish, would they choose to spend the day with a loved one who died?
For One More Wish explores not only my personal journey through grief but also shares the narratives of those people who were courageous enough to write to me. It takes a great deal of transparency and courage to write about having one more day with the person you loved the most in your life. The amazing people in this book wrote authentically about what their day would look like while transcending through their own grieving process.
During World War II, Maria received a letter from the Romanian army stating that her husband went M.I.A., and they had to declare him officially dead.
However, a letter she received from her husband, just before the letter she received from the Romanian army, drove her to believe that her husband was still alive, and his disappearance was not accidental.
Therefore, a death certificate and his dog tags didn’t convince Maria that her husband was dead, and she refused to have a funeral service for him.
From that moment on, Maria decided to wear his dog tags around her neck until she would find the truth about what happened to her husband In Odessa—and hopefully reunite with him, regardless of how difficult it might be.
Bogdan Sopterean was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which is located in the beautiful region of Transylvania—yes, the region where Dracula was born. In 2002, Bogdan decided to move to America. His true passion for writing came at a difficult time in his life, but at that moment, he discovered that writing books is his calling and that he will never stop writing. Presently, Bogdan and his lovely wife Natali live in Illinois with their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter Sydney and their dog Grace.
Bogdan Sopterean was born on October 1, 1980, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which is located in the beautiful region of Transylvania—yes, the region where Dracula was born. When he began middle school, he started to practice martial arts, which helped him to become more focused in school and helped him learn to believe in himself. By age seventeen, he was a black belt and was part of the Romanian National Karate Team.
He graduated from Nicolae Balcescu High School, where Spanish, English and Romanian were his major courses. Because sports were already a big part of his life, he graduated from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education and Sports.
In 2002, Bogdan decided to move to America, known as the land of opportunity, where one could achieve anything they put their mind to, no matter who they are, and ever since, he looked for his calling.
His true passion for writing came at a difficult time in his life, but at that moment, he discovered that writing books is his calling and that he will never stop writing.
Presently, Bogdan and his lovely wife Natali live in Lake Zurich, Illinois with their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter Sydney and their dog Grace.
Vova Kosinskiy was born under the symbol of the Moscow Olympics in a Ukrainian provincial town of the USSR. “I endured the hardships of the economic crisis of the ’90s and poverty, surviving through small-scale trade and self-improvement. Books were my main friends and helpers. The turning point in my life came with the 2022 War in Ukraine. I decided to become a professional writer. Since a young age, I had questioned the universe’s workings, seeking answers in books, contemplating, and meditating. Over time, answers and knowledge began to come to me.”
A JOURNEY TO THE FOURTH DIMENSION OF THE MIND is a practical work aimed to change the reality of a person based on philosophy, psychology, and esoteric. I share my experience, my successes, and my tools. For readers, this is my unique experience of diving into the depths of the mind, not only as a researcher but also as a programmer of the mind and body. A significant part of the book is devoted to the investigation of time’s influence on the consciousness of a person and the events of their life. I offer practical techniques for working with time aimed at increasing longevity and developing a sixth sense.
I reveal the principles of mind programs and their influence on human behavior, decision-making, fate, and health. I show by my experience how these programs appear, develop, and how flaws accumulate. I describe the journey of thought beyond human consciousness and its influence on matter and living beings. I believe that a person can become the designer of their mind, to correct and write new programs for the subconscious. I show how I changed one of my programs that determined my decisions unconsciously. I explore the movement of time parallel to the mind and body. I share my experience of time’s influence on my body and how I achieved results in the sixth sense development.
Thoughts and practices will revitalize the mind of the reader. The energy in these lines will bring new thoughts and solutions. The reader will come to a new understanding of the world and themselves.
A JOURNEY TO THE FOURTH DIMENSION OF THE MIND is a practical work aimed to change the reality of a person based on philosophy, psychology, and esoteric. I share my experience, my successes, and my tools. For readers, this is my unique experience of diving into the depths of the mind, not only as a researcher but also as a programmer of the mind and body. A significant part of the book is devoted to the investigation of time’s influence on the consciousness of a person and the events of their life. I offer practical techniques for working with time aimed at increasing longevity and developing a sixth sense.
I reveal the principles of mind programs and their influence on human behavior, decision-making, fate, and health. I show by my experience how these programs appear, develop, and how flaws accumulate. I describe the journey of thought beyond human consciousness and its influence on matter and living beings. I believe that a person can become the designer of their mind, to correct and write new programs for the subconscious. I show how I changed one of my programs that determined my decisions unconsciously. I explore the movement of time parallel to the mind and body. I share my experience of time’s influence on my body and how I achieved results in the sixth sense development.
Thoughts and practices will revitalize the mind of the reader. The energy in these lines will bring new thoughts and solutions. The reader will come to a new understanding of the world and themselves.
Vova Kosinskiy was born under the symbol of the Moscow Olympics in a Ukrainian provincial town of the USSR. “I endured the hardships of the economic crisis of the ’90s and poverty, surviving through small-scale trade and self-improvement. Books were my main friends and helpers. The turning point in my life came with the 2022 War in Ukraine. I decided to become a professional writer. Since a young age, I had questioned the universe’s workings, seeking answers in books, contemplating, and meditating. Over time, answers and knowledge began to come to me.”
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Publisher : Joshua Tree Publishing (June 21, 2024)
