Books published by publisher Bright Button Publishing

The life of Doodles Lanhorn is mediocre at best. Between his unruly red hair and lanky frame, being bullied at school, and constantly being pestered by his father to go out for a sport—any sport—all he ever wants to do is lock himself away in the world of his drawings. Despite having a tight-knit group of friends, Doodles often feels alone, and his non-confrontational nature often makes it hard for him to interact at all—so, what is the point?Then everything changes on his thirteenth birthday…A book filled with gorgeous paintings, a mysterious note from a stranger, a lone bookstore, and a single paintbrush pave the way to a world where magic is commonplace, and imagination is the only limitation. A “lifelike painting” takes on a whole new meaning as Doodles explores the world of Wizartry—a proud, haphazard heritage hidden away from prying eyes.With the fate of another whole world hanging in the balance, Doodles must face his fears, challenge his faults, and discover an ability he didn’t even know he had. He encounters friends and foes alike as he journeys through the secretive practice of the Wizarting world. With little guidance from his master, Doodles must pass each test and win the favor of the Gate Council in order to earn his place among this elite group.But his journey is just beginning…Join Doodles as he must discern truth from rumor, fact from myth, and good from evil in this hero’s journey where a boy becomes a man. Can he uncover the plot to destroy Inner Earth? Will he be able to reverse the Eraser in time? Pick up your paintbrush and discover what lies ahead…

As Barbara Bush's life was being celebrated, the many examples her family shared of her wisdom, humor and values inspired us all. Now what Mrs. Bush taught her children and grandchildren has been collected for all our children. Barbara Bush's grandchildren called her “Ganny,” and they knew how important it was to listen to what Ganny said.Author Chris Bridge collected Mrs. Bush's passions and priorities: loving family and friends, literacy and serving others and made a special trip to Kennebunkport to get inspiration for the illustrations. She walked the beach where Ganny walked, visited the library where she read to the children and talked to locals who knew her. It seemed that everyone knew Barbara Bush or had a story to share about her! The illustrations depict some of Ganny's favorite places and things. You'll see her big sunhat, her peonies and pearls. One page has her husband, President George Bush's, boat in the background. She filled her life with books and dogs, so you'll find plenty here, along with lots of beautiful blue: her favorite color.Take a deep breath, and imagine a soft breeze in the salty air as you take a walk with Ganny through the pages in this book. And always remember what Ganny says!

A Cyberpunk Dystopian LitRPG experience.Troy Warwick is looking to lift his spirits after a run of bad luck. He turns to his close-knit family along with a popular VR game called Psy-Hunters which features a game world where the power of the mind grants humanity amazing abilities like flight, telepathy, and pyrokinesis. Little does Troy know that a far reaching mystery awaits him inside the game, a mystery that involves the leader of a popular clan called the Black Heaven Army. That leader is his ex-girlfriend, Sabbatha the Black and Troy must find out what happened to her and her clan.*Psy-Hunters TV Ad*Ueden-Ter is a world on the brink of extinction. A powerful race of mechanized behemoths, known only as Overlords, have forever changed the future of the human race. A new race of genetically altered humans have joined together, led by the powerful Psychics. Psychics, Beasts, Cyborgs, Androids, and Humans alike all band together under the banner of the Psychic Hunters' Association or the Military Police Faction to protect Ueden-Ter from the tyranny of the Overlords. Will their combined might be enough to push back the threat of extinction?Join the battle in the virtual role playing game Psy-Hunters. Ages 10 and up.From the author of Hell's Glitch: Into a Dark Adventure and The Glitch Fiends: Hell's Glitch Volume 2.

She was a family legend, a nameless woman who had performed in the Barnum & Bailey Circus in London, England. She died young, leaving her children orphans to be taken in as boarders by the Rifle family in Lena, Wisconsin before 1900. There was no bible, no record, no remnant of this circus star. They said she was an acrobat, a rider of white horses, and an American Indian who had run away from the reservation as a child to join the circus.The true story broke in 2012. She was not an acrobat, a rider of white horses, or Indian. She was the second of the Georgia Wonder girls who came onto the entertainment scene in the early 1880’s. After witnessing Lula Hurst on stage, she was immediately able to duplicate her extraordinary feats of strength.Her name was Mattie Lee Price. She gave her first appearance at age 14 in front of the most influential men of Cartersville, Georgia. Since Lula Hurst was making a fortune giving her strong woman act, the wealthy men decided to form a stock company that night. They promised Mattie’s father $200 a week in a year long contract, arranged a wardrobe for the girl, and put her on stage at the Stilesboro Academy that very week.Mattie’s father and the company men started the girl’s tour immediately. Ninety-pound Mattie Lee Price could lift 2 or 3 large men in a chair and twist hickory sticks right out of the hands of the several men that held it. Audiences were astounded, and newspapers reported her abilities to be beyond human strength. They thought she must be electric or perhaps she accomplished the feats through animal magnetism.A problem arose when a lawsuit was filed against the gentlemen of the stock company. Mattie’s contract was immediately sold to a theater man from Cincinnati. Embarrassed, the members of the company returned home unheralded. Mattie’s name was never again printed in the Cartersville newspaper, in all likelihood to save the pride of the investors.And thus, Mattie Lee Price was forgotten in Cartersville even though she became a very famous Georgia Magnetic/Electric Girl in entertainment circles. She performed in dime museums and opera houses during the winter months and traveled with circuses from April to October. She seemingly worked every single day, often in twelve-hour stretches. In 1893, just after the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Harry Houdini and his brother were on the same venue with Mattie at the Kohl and Middleton dime museum. In his memoirs he wrote of her saying that she was quite possibly the best of The Georgia Wonder girls.The story of Mattie Lee Price weaves through a great variety of places in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, and England. She was billed as a sideshow act in The Robinson Show, The Great Wallace Show and Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth. She was a center ring act in The Walter L. Main Circus and even got her own circus poster. Her friends were bearded ladies, dog faced boys, armless wonders, midgets, and giants. The world of dime museums and circuses in the period between 1884 and 1899 was colorful, alive, and amazing.Mattie died far from home in a foreign land. Her grave has no marker with her name on it. And, while the majority of pre-vaudeville freaks and entertainers have been sadly forgotten, Mattie Lee Price and her extraordinary life are remembered here.

Have you heard of Welcome W. Wilson Sr., the man who became a multi-millionaire real estate investor in Houston, Texas?By any measure, Welcome Wilson, chairman of the Welcome Group has led a big life.Mr. Wilson has made friends in the highest places, developed communities that continue to prosper, survived some major setbacks and made hundreds of successful real-estate deals.Married his college sweetheart Joanne, and they have five productive and happy children. Growing up in South Texas during the Depression, Welcome learned the art of the Wilson Deal, an uncanny ability to pitch deals that favor the Wilson's, from his father and his many uncles.He sharpened this skill in partnership with his brother, Jack.Combining the Wilson Deal with hard work and determination, he found continuing success: at the University of Houston, in the Navy, in civic and Federal service, and again and again in real estate.It often took some fast-talking, some scrambling, and lots of hard work, but Welcome has always had great confidence that he could figure out a way to get a job done.Named a legend by the Texas Business Hall of Fame, he has received numerous other awards for his many accomplishments.Colorful, lively and opinionated, Welcome find real delight in bringing people together and making big things happen. His memoir provides insight on his relationships with Dwight D. Eisenhower, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson and other notable leaders, shows the many ways he supports the university and the city that have provided him so much opportunity, and explains the inner workings of his most notable deals, including the founding of The Jamaica Corporation and the development of the Astrodome.At age 30, he received the Arthur Fleming Award as one of Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Federal Service (Neil Armstrong and Robert Gates were later recipients).Welcome's candid and entertaining anecdotes will engage you and inspire you to find more success in your life to aim high and have confidence.Always Welcome Includes:Growing Up in the Depression and WWIIFrom Hungry Student to Happy HusbandAnchors AweighThe Cold War WarriorOur First DevelopmentHow to Own a Bank for $600 CashThe AstrodomeIt's Right to Support Civil RightsThirty Years on River Oaks BoulevardI Owe Everything to Having Good PartnersUp to My Eyeballs in Politics for Seventy YearsLeading the CougarsAnd much, much more!"Welcome's efforts as an entrepreneur have enriched the community, led to better lives for untold numbers of fellow Texans and inspired generations of admirers and followers to do greater things.My hope is that through reading this book, you will come to know Welcome W. Wilson, Sr., as I have--as a brilliant businessman, a loving family man, and a proud Houstonian."-Rick Perry, US Secretary of Energy, former Governor of TexasSo if you want to learn more about Welcome Wilson Sr.'s life then scroll to the top of the page and select "Add to Cart"!

Troop Leader is a unique account of one man's experience of the battle for Europe in 1944 and 1945. Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low Countries as a troop leader in Cromwell tanks, and was latterly a member of the initial occupying force in Berlin in May 1945. Against the rules, Bill kept diaries and notes of his experiences. His account is fresh and open, and his descriptions of battle are vivid. He witnessed many of his contemporaries killed in action, and this life-altering experience clearly informs his narrative. The accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy hedgerows in the height of summer, or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter, are graphic and compelling.

75 great American masters are introduced through open-ended quality art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography, full color artwork, and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more. Special art options for very young children are included. Many great artists will be familiar names, like Cassatt, Warhol, and O'Keeffe. Other names will be new to some, like Asawa, Smithson, and Magee. Each featured artist has a style that is interesting to children, with a life history that will entertain and inspire them.Sample of some of the artists and companion activities:Andy Warhol - Package DesignBev Doolittle - Camouflage DrawDale Chihuly - Pool SpheresMaya Lin - Memorial PlaqueJasper Johns - Encaustic FlagJoseph Raffael - Shiny DiptychRoy Lichtenstein - Comic SoundsThomas Jefferson - Clay KeystoneEdward Hopper - Wash OverGrant Wood - Gothic Paste-UpWolf Kahn - Layered PastelJackson Pollock - Great Action ArtMary Cassatt - Back-Draw MonoprintLouis Comfort Tiffany - Bright WindowsHans Hofmann - Energetic Color BlocksRube Goldberg - ContraptionGeorgia O'Keeffe - Paint with Distance2009 Moonbeam Children's Bronze Award2009 Benjamin Franklin Award

"Frighteningly good! YA Paranormal at its very, VERY best!"-'A Wishing Shelf 'Book ReviewThe saga that began with Echo Across Time and Echo Into Darkness continues in another breathless tale that will leave readers begging for more.Dreams Do Come True...More than anything, Echo wants to spend every day with Connor. She wants to hold his hand while they walk the school hallways and have a quiet life, safe from the threats they've faced in the past. This amazing life with her soulmate will begin if the Council grants her asylumin West Region.An anonymous video threatens to end this dream...In a secret cavern in Portland, Keenan is rebuilding his broken organization, the Mutila. But his gifted agents are following Echo's lead and fleeing in a mass exodus.Now, Keenan has declared revenge.To make matters worse, Jaxon's obsession with Echo takes on a wicked twist, and hundreds of paranormal kids in her community are threatened by Damona, a newcomer wielding strange and frightening power. In the midst of it all, Echo is forced to question her own destiny.Can Echo and Connor's dream survive?

The Florida School For The Deaf And The Blind is the setting for this fictional account of the daily lives of students in the school and the tragedy that occurred there. Chris Montgomery, a seventeen year old recently diagnosed with a severe vision disorder, learns to function in the unusual environment of a state institution and unexpectedly finds first love there. He meets and befriends a number of characters including Wesley Monroe who announces with meticulous detail, football games that are played only in his mind, and Dog Chandler who has dedicated himself to closely monitoring the development of Mouseketeer Annette Funicello’s breasts.An animosity develops between Chris and the school principal, contributing to Chris being suspected of the sexual assault of a young girl who, being blind, cannot identify her attacker.Chris befriends and eventually falls in love with Mrs. Gray, one of the adult supervisors, whose room is on the second floor of his dormitory. Being married, she half-heartedly tries to discourage the crush Chris is developing for her, but enjoys his company and the help he provides in caring for the young boys in her charge. Chris is particularly helpful in monitoring two of the young boys under her care who have developed an unusual dependence on each other and tend to wander away from the supervised group. Even more problematic is their newly developed tendency to slip from the dormitory at night to wander about campus. Chris cares for the young boys who return his affection.Chris’ actions inadvertently set in motion a series of events that precipitate a tragedy which shapes the remainder of his life. He covers up his part in the tragedy but finds he cannot escape the consequences of what he has done. He returns to the school forty years after graduation in an attempt to resolve issues related to the unfortunate event but finds solace illusionary.