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Books! Books! More Books!

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Click this link to find my books on Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Karen%20Molenaar%20Terrell%22

(I have a whole host of talented friends who are published authors and I’m going to include links to their books below. Note that, contrary to the well-meaning posts about “buying local” that I’m seeing on social media, sometimes the only place you’ll be able to find books by local authors is on Amazon.)

Edit: Please feel free to add book links to your own books in the comments below.

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Some of my books can, apparently, only be purchased through Amazon. I see that my Cosmic Celebrations books, Cosmic Connections and Cosmic Kinship, can’t be purchased through Barnes and Noble. My book of poetry, Since Then, can’t be purchased through Barnes and Noble, either. And my latest Madcap Christian Scientist book, Looking Forward, isn’t coming up there. Here’s the Amazon link where you can find those books: https://www.amazon.com/…/Karen…/author/B0044P90RQ

My friend, William Whittenbury, also has books on Barnes and Noble, as well as Amazon. William’s books chronicle the epic adventures in an alternative history. Here’s the link to his books on Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/William%20Whittenbury

My friend, Linda Lum, writes wonderful history-humor-cookbooks – the exactly kind of book we need right now: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Linda-Lum/author/B0BW17Z81N

My friend, Rob Slater, sells his young adult dystopian novels at Village Green in Bellingham, and other bookstores. His books can also be found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/…/Robert-L…/author/B00EKZDBY8

My friend, Heidi Herder, has written a beautiful true-life story about a cat named Papi. Here’s the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Ted-Adventures…/dp/B0CK3ZXRCY/

My friend, Claudia Buck, introduced me to the writing of her friend, local author Peter Randolph Keim. His book, Lanes Five and Six, was really poignant and beautiful. Here’s the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Lanes-Five-Peter…/dp/B0CLWLNR96/

My friend, Ann Bodle-Nash, is part of the Skagit Valley Writer’s Guild, and together they published this book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHDSW7GQ

My former student, Ryia Delgado, published this five-star book, Family in Progress, as her English project: https://www.amazon.com/Family-Progress…/dp/B01FWN5L08/

My former student, Haley, published her powerful book of poems, Little Lives, as her English project: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Lives-Haley…/dp/1795445289/

My former student, Varick Andrews, published his thought-provoking book of poetry, Data Dump, as his English project: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Dump-Musings…/dp/1540879410/

My former student, Cindy Sanchez, wrote a book of fairy tales, which can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Mean-Green-Witch…/dp/1506139140/

The Barnes and Noble link to the books of John Roskelley, mountaineer and author extraordinaire, can be found here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22John%20Roskelley%22

Leif Whittaker’s book about his pop can be found at this Barnes and Noble link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/my-old-man…/1123408019

And my Dad’s award-winning book, The Challenge of Rainier, can be found at this Barnes and Noble link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/the…/1132691178

All of Dad’s books can also be found here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dee-Molenaar/author/B001JRWQIM

Here’s the Barnes and Noble link to my friend Connie Mears’s wonderful book (I laughed! I cried!), The Bumbling Mystic’s Obituary:  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/the…/1129597510

And here’s where you can find Laura Lavigne’s soul-reaching books: https://www.amazon.com/…/Laura-Lavigne/author/B08NDGQXQB

My friend, Maria McLeod, is an award-winning poet. Here’s where you can find her books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Maria-McLeod/author/B095XG1H7C

My cousin Dan’s coloring books (therapeutic!) can be found on Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/search…

The young adult novels (light-hearted regency fantasy) of my friend, Marissa Doyle, can be found here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Marissa%20Doyle%22

The beautiful and life-affirming book Remarkable Resilience: The Life and Legacy of Noemi Ban Beyond the Holocaust by my friend, Diane Sue, can be found here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/remarkable…/1141396091

My friend, Demaris Wehr, wrote a beautiul book that seems, to me, very timely: Making It Through: Bosnian Survivors Share Stories of Trauma, Transcendence, and Truth. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/making-it…/1138568749

Scott Bailey, the husband of my friend, Mary Metz, wrote a brilliant piece of historical fiction – scholarly, entertaining, thought-provoking – called The Astrologer. It can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Astrologer-Scott-G-F…/dp/0989970051

My friend (and co-mother-in-law), Deeann Callis Graham, is author of Head-On Stories of Alopecia – a beautiful and inspiring collection of narratives from people who suffer from alopecia. Her book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Head-Stories…/dp/B01MY53YQZ

My friend, Matthew Jackson, wrote a beautiful book chronicling his adventures as he hitchhiked across Canada. I laughed and cried and felt all the feels. Here’s the link: https://www.amazon.com/Canada-Chronicles-Four-Year-Hitchhiking-Odyssey/dp/0973467126/

And here’s a link to my friend Cash Keahey’s insightful book about leadership personality types: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eight-leadertypes-in-the-white-house-cash-keahey/1127892093

Dream Voyage

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Sample from Xander Terrell’s  Dream Voyage, now available on Amazon as both a print book and a Kindle book. (If you buy more than $25 worth of books on Amazon today, you get $10 off!)

Where Happiness Lives

Golden lights
and the deepest shadows.
Smiling faces illuminated by life.
A commodity where I come from.
An inherent condition here.
Where joy runs rampant,
like that one naked man who,
in the presence of a police officer,
streaked across the town in the wake
of the city-wide party,
the officer laughing in mutual enjoyment
before calling the man by his first name,
as a friend and a neighbor,
to get his shit together.
– Xander Terrell

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Art by Xander Terrell

 

 

 

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Ode to Black Friday

I do not like Black Friday, sir
I do not like the brrr, grrr, whirrr
I do not like to fight over socks,
I do not like to get crammed in a box
store, you will not see me at the Mall
I do not like it, no, not at all.
The crazy, scrambling, hunter’s race
doesn’t fit my ambling, gatherer’s pace
I like to feel, I like to sniff
I like to take my time and if
I take more time than Sally and Sam
it’s the way I shop, and it works for me, ma’am.
So you will not find me camped outside the store
You will not find me standing at dawn at the door
You will not find me wedged in the mall’s lot
or crammed in traffic, with wares newly-bought.
For I do not like Black Friday, friend.
Well, except online shopping maybe – they’ll send.
– Karen Molenaar Terrell
from A Poem Lives On My Windowsill
(available from Karen Molenaar Terrell’s Amazon author page)

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Intro to Blessings: Adventures of a Madcap Christian Scientist

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(Introduction to Blessings: Adventures of a Madcap Christian Scientist)

Years ago an old boyfriend said to me, “I can’t see that Christian Science has made you any better than anyone else.”

“I know!” I said, nodding my head in complete and happy agreement, “But can you imagine what I’d be like without it?!”

He raised his eyebrows and laughed. What could he say? He was looking at a self-centered, moralistic, stubborn idealist who saw everything in terms of black and white. But I could have been worse. I believe without Christian Science I would have been worse.

Let’s get one thing clear from the start: I am not the best example of a Christian Scientist. I’m not as disciplined as I could be. I have fears and worries and doubts. I’m a little neurotic. I am the Lucy Ricardo of Christian Scientists.

I should probably put in a disclaimer here, too—the views expressed in these pages are not necessarily the views shared by other Christian Scientists. Christian Scientists are really a pretty diverse group of people—there are Democrat Christian Scientists and Republican Christian Scientists, “Green,” and “Red,” and “Blue” Christian Scientists, and Christian Scientists with no political affiliations at all. Frankly, I like that about us. We keep each other on our toes.

I should also tell you that this book is not an authorized piece of Christian Science literature. If you want to actually study Christian Science you should probably read the textbook for this way of life, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

My purpose for writing this epistle is really two-fold (I don’t think I’ve ever used the word “two-fold” in my life, and using it now is making me feel sort of professorial. I like the feeling.):

First-foldly, to introduce you to one Christian Scientist so that if you ever hear someone talking fearfully and ignorantly (feargnorantly?) about Christian Scientists you’ll be in a position to say, “I have a friend who’s a Christian Scientist, and, although it’s true she’s a bit of a nut, she’s also…” and you can go on and talk about how your friend has used her study of Christian Science to try to make the world a happier place.

Second-foldly, I feel the need to acknowledge God’s blessings in my life. I don’t want to be like those nine lepers in the Bible who couldn’t take the time to thank Jesus for healing them. I want to be like that one leper who “fell down on his face at his feet” before Jesus and gave him thanks (Luke 17). Through my study of Christian Science I’ve witnessed some incredible proofs of our Father-Mother God’s love for Her creation in my life. God has filled my life with infinite blessings and it’s time for me to acknowledge these blessings to others.

– Karen Molenaar Terrell

 

Freeeeeeee!!! Free is good, right?

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Quick promo: For the next five days my latest endeavor – The Madcap Christian Scientist’s Christmas Book – is completely, totally, and wholly free as an Amazon Kindle book – you can download it and keep it forever and ever – amen – on your Kindle, personal computer, and smartphone. FOR FREEEEEEEEE!!!! Here’s the link:

Merry Christmas! 🙂

 

Birthing another book – I didn’t even know I was pregnant!

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Just published the third book in the Madcap Christian Scientist series. Yippy skippy! Yee haw! And stuff. I brought Douglas Adams (author of the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series), Kurt Vonnegut (author of Slaughterhouse Five and other wonderful reads), and D.E. Stevenson (author of the Miss Buncle books) along with me in this book. I had to, really – I became acquainted with all of them just in the last year and they have become an important part of my life. (I know, right?! How could I have missed their gifts all these years?!) It was a pleasure working with all of them while I tapped out the latest Madcap. Of course, they’re all… well… dead… so I didn’t actually work with them in the person – but their humor and wit was with me during the process, and their quotes begin each chapter.

I didn’t actually know I was going to write another book until – much to my surprise! – I discovered myself writing it. “Whoah. I guess I’m writing a book!” I said to myself as it started taking form. “How the heck did THAT happen?!” I probably felt sort of – but not really – like those women who discover as they go into labor that they are pregnant. Who knew?!

And, like labor, birthing a book can be pretty intense. The focus narrows. Dinners burn. Calls go unanswered. Contractions come in odd hours of the night and one finds oneself ensconced in one’s office in front of one’s laptop tapping out words when one should be… like… sleeping.

As I was designing the new book cover, it came to me that I really should change the book covers of the previous two books to make them look like they’re all siblings in the same family. And THEN it came to me that… well, wouldn’t it be cool if I made a color wheel of them? Make the first one purple, the second one blue, the third one green… and so forth…? And THEN I thought… hey! I can use my own photos on the covers!!! So. Yeah. Here’s what I came up with…

Whatd’ya think?

Okay, I know that my hero Stephen Colbert suggests we should all boycott Amazon right now – and I understand his reasons for this, and I can’t say I disagree with them – but for authors like myself, boycotting Amazon kind of stinks. It’s like boycotting the midwife who helped birth my baby – or like refusing to look at photos of my new baby because you don’t happen to like the photographer who took them. Ahem. So I’m thinking that if you’re boycotting Amazon right now,  maybe you can make just a teensy weensy exception and… have I mentioned that my new book is now available on Amazon as both a printed book, and a Kindle book?

Print: 

Kindle: