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Sharon Monroe

About the Author

Sharon devoted her career to the public schools in Corpus Christi Texas from 1971 through 2009, primarily with children in Early Childhood Education through sixth grade. Although she was not raised in the mountains, they called to her, and she got there as soon as she could, retiring to the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, 14 years later, she left the vibrant aspens in the mountains for the stately oaks in central Texas. Surviving the Truth is her first novel.

Father Ken works with like-minded religious.  In Los Angeles Sr. Margaret Farrell assists runaways and homeless teens with counseling, food, shelter and contact with family where possible.  Sr. Mary Sean Hodges provides housing, finds jobs, and teaches life skills to prison parolees. Sr. Kathleen Bryant helps combat the scourge of human trafficking while Fr. George Horan’s restorative justice ministry works with those in prison and their victims. In Haiti the Daughters of Wisdom offer housing and education to deaf children, while in East Africa affiliated priests, nuns, and seminarians coordinate nutrition, education and health care over a large area.

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Surviving the Truth

Laura is a 53-year-old woman who discovers family secrets, loses her husband, wins some cash and learns, helping others isn't as easy as she thought it would be. The family secrets shatter the idyllic image she and her sister, Susan, had about their childhood in Kerrville, Texas. The loss of her husband in the mountains of Wyoming, shatters her confidence in herself and reality shatters her ideas about giving to others. Chocolate and Pinot Noir take the edge off their problems and that combination comes with its own set of difficulties.

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The Year of Five Emperors: Part 1: Pertinax

he vicious Emperor Commodus is dead, after one cruelty too many. How should a successor be chosen? By election? The Senate chooses the capable bureaucrat Pertinax. By purchase? The Praetorians like Didius Julianus, or at least his money. By inheritance? Clodius Albinus is from an ancient family with imperial ties. By force? A major branch of the army backs the blunt Septimius Severus. By acclamation? The common people adore the humble Pescennius Niger. Rival gods, too, contend for the people's loyalties. In a Rome that is tearing itself apart, the household of Tullius Secundus, a Senator of the old school, struggle to find happiness and love.

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The Year of Five Emperors: Part 2: Severus

The vicious Emperor Commodus is dead, after one cruelty too many. How should a successor be chosen? By election? The Senate chooses the capable bureaucrat Pertinax. By purchase? The Praetorians like Didius Julianus, or at least his money. By inheritance? Clodius Albinus is from an ancient family with imperial ties. By force? A major branch of the army backs the blunt Septimius Severus. By acclamation? The common people adore the humble Pescennius Niger. Rival gods, too, contend for the people's loyalties. In a Rome that is tearing itself apart, the household of Tullius Secundus, a Senator of the old school, struggle to find happiness and love. Ancient Rome boils with sordid power plays, constant intrigue, full moon rituals, and eruptions of bloodshed in Eckert's sprawling historical novel...An entertaining sword-and-politics saga full of engrossing period detail and sharp drama."

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The U.S. Leadership Program

After the loss of my daughter, I wrote a book called "The Medical Project," which was about fixing the medical industry and diverting my mind from the losses I and my wife were enduring. I am motivated to write this book due to the positive reception of my previous works, namely "The Medical Project" and "Self-Help and Mental Health Path to Wellness," which inspired me to write this book. Additionally, the lack of progress in the medical industry in harnessing the available computing power, along with other global issues that could benefit from computer technology, compelled me to undertake these projects. While this book is fictional, it contains numerous projects with ideas that have the potential to improve the world. Given the interest in adapting the first book into a movie, I decided that it would be prudent to write a second and third book in anticipation of a potential series.