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Allen Barlowe

Allen Barlowe

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Allen Barlowe made his career on Madison Avenue and has pursued a lifelong passion for skinny-dipping.  He has enjoyed woodsy swimming holes, free beaches and naturist resorts from New England to California, Europe to the Caribbean.  On summer weekends -- when they're lucky -- he and his wife frequent the nude beach at the Sandy Hook National Seashore, just a short ferry ride from his native Manhattan.

The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule

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<p>What if you treated others the way you'd like to be treated? What if everyone did that? What kind of world could there be? Robert and Kait decide to look for the golden ruler that their Mom has told them about, only to find out that she meant RULE instead of ruler. What is this &quot;Golden Rule&quot; and what does it mean? Join in the children's quest to discover how to follow the Golden Rule and share it with others, as you meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books. This is the eighth rhyming children's book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon, whose other bestselling books include Mice &amp; Spiders &amp; Webs...Oh My!, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift. Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won thirty-six awards for her previous rhyming books and is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called &quot;an absolute master of rhyming&quot; by Mother Daughter Book Reviews and &quot;a modern day Dr. Seuss&quot; by GMTA Review. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Now retired, she travels the country with her husband in an RV, going from coast to coast to visit their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/sherrillscannon</p>

Story Behind The Book

Skinny dipping is a lot of fun, and it gets us in touch with the more natural side of our lives, but for some people it also raises a host of uncomfortable issues. My desire was to explore some of these issues in a story that was both amusing and yet provocative.

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">ForeWord Reviews:<span>  </span>Shoe Leather, Stakeouts, and Luck: Mystery Writing Without the High-Tech Razzle Dazzle</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">By Edward Morris<br /></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Allen Barlowe deserves a forest of upturned thumbs for daring to set his <em>Murder Au Naturel </em>(Llumina Press, 978-1-60594-507-1) in an upscale Florida nudist colony. After all, how much can one conceal while walking around naked? Former New York advertising executive Lee Spinacci and his wife Barbara have settled in as year-round residents at the cleverly named Xanadunes resort. Late one evening, Spinacci goes for a dip in the communal hot tub and discovers a corpse in the water. It’s not clear at first if the death is an accidental drowning or a murder. Whatever it is, Spinacci is quickly involved, chiefly through his being grilled by a dyspeptic local cop who’s pretty certain that everyone who dwells in this sybaritic outpost must be guilty of something. Complicating matters is Spinacci’s growing obsession—partly avuncular, substantially carnal—with his beautiful young neighbor, Ramona. What’s bothering her? Has she been participating in the orgies rumored to be taking place on the premises? Do they pose a danger to her? Spinacci embarks on his own investigation—and at considerable personal peril. Barlowe is detailed in his descriptions of the nudists and their sexual proclivities without crossing the line into pornography. But he comes delightfully close at times.</span></p>