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Have you ever loved, been loved, been confused about love, or suffered from loss of love? All these feelings have been captured and shared in the words of heartfelt poems, compiled over many years by a former teacher and award-winning author.Sherrill S. Cannon now shares her thoughts in this book of feelings. "As a teacher, I used poetry to help counsel many troubled teens and friends, and have continued this pattern throughout the years."There are three sections in her book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails ... (Love & Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms include free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets. Some poems are simply plays on words.A SignIn the depths of my winterI heard a small bird -Braving the cold,Bringing the word.He gave my heart hopeAs I heard him sing -Three little notesPromising spring.Sherrill S. Cannon, a former teacher and grandmother of 10, is the author of nine acclaimed rhymed children's stories that have received 48 national and international book awards between 2011 and 2017. Also a playwright with seven published plays for elementary school children, her works have been performed internationally in over 20 countries. Most of her children's books try to teach something, such as good manners and caring for others. Married for 57 years, she and her spouse are now retired, live in Pennsylvania, and travel in their RV from coast to coast, spending time with their children and grandchildren.Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/SherrillSCannon

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Though I never knew him, I grew up hearing stories of my grandfather's adventures and misadventures that led to him getting sentenced to death three times in the early 1900s in Russia (and living to tell, and write, about it). But it wasn't until I spent several years with his diaries, and with his voice in my head, that I began to get to know him. And while he was, indeed, daring, impulsive and completely unconcerned about consequences (in a manner that recalled a cross between Maxwell Smart and Bart Simpson), that I began to understand that he stood up for what he believed in, despite the personal risk.

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"The Accidental Anarchist is a profound testament to the power of faith, and to the continued survival of the Jewish people." --Elie Wiesel "The Accidental Anarchist" ... reads and feels like a great novel... [N]o Hollywood screenwriter could ever invent such an extraordinary tale..." --Robert Avrech, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter "...The adventures in this novel are many, and unforeseen... It's all part and parcel of the book's captivating plot that gets a big boost from the writing and the characterization." --BlogCritics.com "A story of the chaotic times of Eastern Europe in the 1900s, The Accidental Anarchist is a riveting read about one of the truly unique characters and stories of history that is not often heard about." --Midwest Book Review "A splendid, highly-recommended companion piece for students confronting the late-19th & early-20th century pivotal point in modern world history… It is an extension of the heart of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, the soul of searing Gulag writings & the pathos and futility of CATCH-22--suffused at every turn with the grit and wit of mendicant Judaism." --Herman Mast III, Emeritus, Department of History, UCONN "It is somewhat of a miracle that this book even exists. Written from the more than one hundred year old diaries of her grandfather, Bryna Kranzler has captured an amazing story of survival, certain but somehow avoidable death, dire conditions of climate, hunger on the verge of starvation, all taken with humor and conviction... The impact of this book is extraordinary. It reads like fiction, but all of it is true. It happened. From the diaries of a man who took the time to write an impossible history, all true, exciting and devastating." --Dick Lofton, Endpaper Review "This story is told by Bryna Kranzler, the granddaughter of Jacob Marateck. Ms. Kranzler’s captivating writing technique envelops the reader with Marateck’s magnetic personality... These conversations, events that should have been muddied by the ravages of time and history, are rewritten with incredible detail and exquisite narrative that pushes the reader ever-onward, hanging upon baited breath with each sentence. Yet between Marateck’s notes and Ms. Kranzler’s consistent ability to wrap it into moving prose, this memoir reads much more like a thrilling novel. In some cases, truth is indeed stranger than fiction... Marateck bares his heart through his carefully detailed notes. They become a symphony representing a brilliant, singularly valiant human life enveloped within the loving care of the author’s loving dedication. The Accidental Anarchist begins with a powerful allegro of youth, in which Marateck throws his life about in a careless affront to its sacred value." --New York Journal of Books

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