Bøger af Vern Turner

A Hero's Journey is the compelling second part of the Albert "Bert" Waller saga. After waving good-by to his wife, he went to Ft. Knox, Kentucky for U.S. Army basic training. Bert eventually went to Ft. Sam Houston, Texas to train as a combat medic, where the Army needed him most. The year was 1965.In the infamous battle in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam, he was wounded twice, but saved several soldiers from dying during heavy, mortal combat. For his heroism, he was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry and the Purple Heart for being wounded in combat. Upon returning home, he became a science educator in the inner-city public schools. His military training gave him the necessary skills to handle a school shooter and protect his students.This sweeping saga pulls no punches and provides strong, realistic insight into the actual times and experiences of an ordinary man who ended up doing many extraordinary things.

Every family has a saga that includes love, pathos, joy, disappointment, tragedy and hope. Meadows and Minefields is one such saga that encompasses the events and challenges that all "baby boomers" experienced in the 1950s and 60s. In light of today's inter-generational discussions, Bert Waller's compelling story about his generation is as rewarding to those who lived it as it is to their descendants, the alphabet generations. It includes the values, events and the social atmosphere of those times that shaped the children and grandchildren of the greatest generation, those who fought tyranny in WW II. Included is the messaging that subsequent generations draw upon, and continue to use, as our nation attempts to move forward into today's uncertain times. Meadows and Minefields is a compelling, well-crafted, colorful, romantic, true-to-life, page-turner where every chapter has startling new events, life-changing experiences, heart-rending exasperation or unqualified joy. When a Millennial waxes curious about Baby-Boomers, reading Meadows and Minefields will help him or her understand how America is the way it is today, and better understand the people responsible for making it so.

This book is a collection of opinion articles based on research of current events in politics, environmental and education issues. It offers many suggestions and action to overcome governmental stalemate, bias and fiscal responsibility as well as offer solutions and ideas to break our dependence on foreign oil. Additionally, public education suggestions, ideas and plans are interspersed throughout the chapters to emphasize how important it is in all aspects of our society.

For far too long we have nibbled around the edges of the public education issues and problems. This book, A Worm in the Apple: The Inside Story of Public Schools collects information from a broad spectrum of research and, most importantly, the actual class room experience of an experienced teacher. The chapters take the reader through the key elements of both the successes and failures of our schools brought on by certain aspects of our society, politics and selfishness. Few escape the spotlight exposing the causes of problems; least of all parents. The examination of parenting and its relationship to the children's preparation for school and the expectations derives from actual experience and observations as well as how the society drives parents away from the best interests of their children. Actual stories and anecdotes are written to summarize what every teacher experiences and what the net result is for the kids who actually WANT to learn something and those that don't.

A beautiful woman and her equally beautiful teenage daughter are subjected to horrifying experiences by a drug-addled husband and father who serves them up as sexual favors to pay his drug suppliers for providing the mind and soul destroying chemicals that transformed Crummy Keller into an amoral monster, wife-beater and all-around evil doer. This horrifying event plus the previous regular physical and mental abuse, finally drove Erica Keller, and her daughter Sonya, to flee for their lives. What follows is the metamorphosis of the daughter into a super athletic woman who learns the crafts and skills of a samurai warrior to avenge herself and her mother's shame.Sonya Keller becomes the embodiment of the Hindu goddess, Durga. It is as if she has those ten arms, each with a different weapon that destroys demons and protects the innocent - beginning with her mother and her best friend. Sonya becomes the most formidable crime fighter the drug criminals in her home town ever imagined. She exacts justice on the drug organization putting many of them in the hospital before the police and the courts lock them away for long sentences. No woman is stronger and more fearsome to the bad guys than Sonya Keller, just as Durga stoked fear in the hearts of her demonic adversaries, Sonya Keller lays waste to the thugs and modern-day demons plaguing her town.Along the way, she meets a very special man who carefully and patiently guides her along the path from rage and fear of men to a place of trust and tenderness. Finally, her discovery of true love fills the once-empty hole in her soul, much as Shiva did for Durga.The Ten Arms of Durga will leave readers asking for more from Sonya Keller. She has just scratched the surface of her abilities, intensity and ability to love.