Books with author Joan Anderson

He's looking for the one that got away. She wants adventure. Brett's just along for the ride. Twenty-three year old, fed up startup worker, Jake, quits his job in California and decides to go on a road trip with his best friend, Brett. Although they're just looking for adventure, Jake also has a mission in mind. Meanwhile, Jake's old friend and Brett's ex-high school sweetheart, Jess, mixes things up when she joins them.It's supposed to be an American road trip for the ages. The only problem is, Jess and Jake have a secret. And there's going to be hell to pay if Brett finds out. "He Runs with Lions" is a coming of age story about finding true purpose, navigating complicated relationships and discovering love.

What if you could go back and change the past? Kyle Cash made the biggest mistake of his life on March 13, 2014, when he crashed his friend’s Audi into a school bus full of children. The accident haunts him every day, until the sister of one of the kids killed in the crash comes to visit Kyle at Stevenson Youth Correctional Facility and offers him the opportunity to travel back in time. Kyle learns, though, that time weaving is more complicated— and more dangerous – than he ever could have imagined. The Tunnel is Book #1 from Time of Death, an EPIC Press series. Each EPIC Press series is made up of 6 short installments, intended for readers 15 and older.

A strong Credit profile is a major attribute to living your best life in America. These seeds need to be planted at an early age. Virtually no public-school system or college campus provides education to teens and young adults on the impact of good credit health and its major role in obtaining financial freedom in America. They have no idea how important personal credit is, why they shouldn’t take the big refund checks in college, when to visit urgent care vs the ER or how to appropriately handle a collection agency phone calls or disputing an inaccuracy from their credit reports. Even though it’s not taught as part of most school curriculum or within family discussions, a new quick read may be the answer. Shady Credit: The College Years has something for everyone. It’s a quick read that looks to improve the credit consciousness disparity among late teens and young adults by helping to create an understanding of how credit is a major factor in many of life’s everyday circumstances. This “quick book” which can be read within 2 hours, is the prequel to Juan’s Amazon bestseller: How I Fixed My Shady FICO. For many teens entering adulthood, there has been no discussion regarding the need for credit at all. Many young adults aren’t introduced to credit until they are persuaded to apply for their first credit card or are approved for their first car-in many cases a bad loan. Many damage their credit before they have a chance to understand how to use it properly. By instilling simple concepts and logic surrounding how credit and financial health work together early on, teens and young adults are better equipped to handle life choices directly impacted by credit, that are just up the road. Grab your copy today and become credit woke!

Zack is back—and taking on the school play! Bah humbug! Zack Delacruz wants to win the role of Scrooge in Davy Crockett Middle School’s production of A Christmas Carol—and Abhi’s admiration, too. But he’s not the only one trying out for the play. So are José (El Pollo Loco), Marquis, and Janie, who dreams of being all three ghosts. What role will Zack end up playing on stage . . . and in his life? Bowling balls, gurgling stomachs, complete chaos, and quick detective work turn this year’s drama into a spectacular scene that will have actors rising to new heights—literally—and leave readers rolling in the aisles.

Fort Benton, Montana’s main street was a child’s delight. The MacKay children, Rob and Marlo, loved this strange world of soldiers, trappers, Indians, and cowboys who walked and drank in the town’s confines. For adventurers, the fort was the end of the line.The notorious Clint Sharndo gang rides into town. Turns out the gang had robbed the gold shipment from the steamer Dakota. Deciding to lay low for awhile, they get rooms in a local hotel. Marlo playing near the hotel takes it all in.Having drank too much one evening and back in their hotel room, they talk of their robbery, and pass around a map where the gold is buried. What they don’t know is that Marlo, ever the adventure seeker, and her brother Rob, whom Marlo has dragged along, found the window to their hotel room. They see and hear everything.She sneaks through the window, into their room after the gang leaves, and retrieves the map. She convinces Rob not to tell the Sheriff. This is their secret and they will be the town hero’s if they recover the gold. They study the map and find, to their delight, that the gold is hidden in the White Cliffs Badlands, that border the Missouri River. They build a raft and take off into an exciting, bold mission. With the Sharndo gang hot on their trail and Indians in the badlands, will they make it to the hiding place and return safely home? Find out in Rob and Marlo’s, Dakota Gold Adventure.

This eighth in a series continues this ground-breaking word-by-word analysis of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This volume covers chapter 3.3, a long and difficult chapter in the form of a father's dream. Father HCE dreams of a passive son named "Yawn," a version of Shaun. Made passive by sucking up to customers, the father's primal desires project a passive son potentially subject to father control. And this Yawn is so passive he needs help in releasing his feces. Talk about anal retentive! The dreamer's script loads Yawn's defenseless psyche with aspects of father-troubled sons from the collective past, including Freud's famous client Wolfman, Cain and Oedipus. Father trouble registers as distortions in the son's sexual relationships. Father-fearing Wolfman took his controlled son role to a "hole" new level. After witnessing his parents' sex a tergo [male erect, female on knees, doggy style or "dog ma"] and fearing his father's angry reaction to his witness and celebratory primal turd, he adopted the ultimate passive beta male attitude: he wanted to be his father's wife. Yawn in the role of father-troubled Cain is questioned in the dream by the synoptic gospellers [Matthew, Mark and Luke]. They serve as tools of the father's desire to control his son, as they controlled the historical presentation of god's son Jesus. They try to reduce Yawn's particular take on independence, his Cain-like tendency to pursue his whims, including killing to get all the sisters. Cain's lack of caring gives us the problems of cities, which are splattered all over this chapter. Yawn in the role of father-troubled Oedipus makes the same mistake as Jesus in Gesthemane: he treats his foster father as his real father. Oedipus ends up with his mommy as wife as Yawn is hung up on his. The suggestion is made that the dreamer knows at some level that Shaun was fathered by Father Michael with a blackmailed ALP, not by foster father HCE. Freud's hypothesis plays out through Yawn's porous character: "individual gaps in human truth are filled by prehistoric truths." Yawn bears the puncture wounds of the prehistoric father desires for control. Yawn is defenseless because he lacks individuality. The chapter starts with an anal retentive and dependent son Yawn all alone in the dark, fearful and needing help with an enema. The chapter concludes as the new day dawns and a spontaneous evacuation is made. Gracing these more promising circumstances, the voice of the Holy Ghost [Joyce's version] as the individuality-enhancing father of Jesus boldly breaks into the dream, silences the OT father voice and brands as fraudulent the presentation of Jesus as a servant and eunuch by the three synoptic gospellers. The mystical gospeller John bears witness to the presence of the Holy Ghost by unloading a trinity of turds of shame and the old in order to clear his mind for active and mystical participation in the Holy Ghost. He unloads spontaneously, just as Wolfman did his primal turd. The Quick shed the Dead.

Zack Delacruz is back—and this time he has a crush! Zach really wants to meet Abhi, the new girl at school. But things get off to a rough start when he accidentally knocks her to the ground during a game of dodgeball. And whenever he tries to make amends, she just ignores him. Nothing works—not his friends’ advice or his “lucky” cologne. In fact, he just seems more and more cursed! Then, at the Fall Fiesta-val, Zack finally learns the real reason behind Abhi’s cold shoulder . . . but not before total chaos erupts. With a runaway train, exploding confetti-filled eggs, and Abhi’s terrifying older brother, will Zack ever get a chance to talk to his crush? In the end, Zack learns what it means to believe, to listen, and to be a good friend.   This dynamite sequel captures the middle-school experience—and will keep readers laughing from beginning to end.