Books with author W.J. Brown

Johann Smedley Oberhausen is a 16-year-old child prodigy with gifts in academics and baseball, but when he and his friends in the Eleutheria Club record top-secret phone calls from two devious, powerful men, Johann is forced to take a break from his college classes to help stop an impending world disaster.With family friend Chief Ryan leading their efforts, Johann teams up with Chinese student Huang-Tai, Eleutheria Club members, and many others from various U.S. departments, corporations, and countries to launch a satellite into space that could save millions of lives from two dominating men who can’t fight their own battles.In his fight against the clock, Johann realizes the beauty of humanity, and that perhaps every life is significant.

Johann Smedley Oberhausen is a 16-year-old child prodigy with gifts in academics and baseball, but when he and his friends in the Eleutheria Club record top-secret phone calls from two devious, powerful men, Johann is forced to take a break from his college classes to help stop an impending world disaster.With family friend Chief Ryan leading their efforts, Johann teams up with Chinese student Huang-Tai, Eleutheria Club members, and many others from various U.S. departments, corporations, and countries to launch a satellite into space that could save millions of lives from two dominating men who can't fight their own battles.In his fight against the clock, Johann realizes the beauty of humanity, and that perhaps every life is significant.

CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA: The Chapel Hill Press is proud to announce J.B. Brown’s Angelo and the Master. The works of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel are among the most famous in history. The images are models of faith and artistic grandiosity. When studying Michelangelo’s breathtaking work, we can’t help but be taken aback by its splendor. J.B. Brown wrote Angelo and the Master with children in mind. The story is about Angelo, a church mouse who lives in the Sistine Chapel in the sixteenth century. One day, wiling away the time, little Angelo witnesses the arrival of a master: Michelangelo. Over the years that pass, Angelo the mouse watches as that master fills the walls of the chapel with images destined to become an integral part of the Vatican, of Catholicism, and of Western culture. With Angelo and the Master, J.B. Brown uses gorgeous drawings to render Angelo the mouse in his Sistine Chapel with wonderful lushness. Through the story, Brown hopes to teach children an appreciation for the beauty of Michelangelo’s masterpiece, the Vatican, and art in general. After all, who better to grasp the pure magnificence of the Sistine Chapel than those of the purest minds? Jamie Brady Brown, an art teacher for 21 years in the Greensboro Public School System, has shown her artwork throughout North Carolina in juried shows and private galleries. She has shown in the Henley Show twice and had a piece selected for the Southeast Spectrum at Sawtooth Center. Her last works were shown in the Greensboro Artist League, Old Rock Gallery, and Sawtooth Center. She lives in Greensboro with her husband William and two children Allie and Peter. Angelo and the Master (ISBN 1-59715-018-5) is available through the publisher, Chapel Hill Press, Inc., directly from the author at www.jbbrownbooks.com, and select bookstores as well as online at amazon.com. If you need to order from a distributor the Chapel Hill Press works with Ingram, Baker & Taylor and Parnassus Book Distributors.

Stream and Shale Coloring Storybook takes children ages ten and up and their families on a trip to Pennsylvania during the gas rush. The story and seventeen illustrations bring gas country to life, sharing the beauty of nature and the effects of industry on the land and on families. Meet the little red cow and White Tailed Deer, follow the streams leading through the Marcellus Shale and learn about hydraulic fracturing, fracking, along the way.