Books published by publisher Authors Choice Press

This book is about the successful escape of a Slovenian from the Communist regime of President Tito. He managed to get his medical education in Italy and then complete a residency in orthopedic surgery in the USA. His ordeal is graphically portrayed as his native countrymen fought their way out of the country. His escape entailed dealing with adverse forces of Yugoslavia, Germany and England.Dr. Kovacic is a retired orthopedic surgeon who was trained in both Europe and America. He has had experience both as an anatomy instructor and a clinician in the US Army. His homeland was in Yugoslavia, but he had to escape because of the communists after World War II.

This book is about the successful escape of a Slovenian from the Communist regime of President Tito. He managed to get his medical education in Italy and then complete a residency in orthopedic surgery in the USA. His ordeal is graphically portrayed as his native countrymen fought their way out of the country. His escape entailed dealing with adverse forces of Yugoslavia, Germany and England.Dr. Kovacic is a retired orthopedic surgeon who was trained in both Europe and America. He has had experience both as an anatomy instructor and a clinician in the US Army. His homeland was in Yugoslavia, but he had to escape because of the communists after World War II.

Rocky Raccoon and His Responsible Band of Cowboys is the second in the series dealing with the character traits taught in the elementary schools. Rocky the Raccoon is the main character and a friend and leader that helps his friends living in the Old Oak Woods make the right decisions. Spike the split-eared Squirrel, Tommie the Turtle, Ollie the Owl, and others are just a few of the animals in the stories. Readers will learn valuable lessons through these stories while being entertained. The setting for the stories is the Old Oak Woods during various holidays and seasons. Each story has characters facing dilemmas that end on a positive note. Parents will enjoy reading to and with their children and grandchildren from an early age and beyond.

Rocky Raccoon and His Caring Classmates is the third in a series of six books dealing with Character Traits taught in the elementary schools.Rocky Raccoon, the main character, is a friend and caring classmate that heads up a Cookie Swap with the help of the Principal, Mary Day, faculty and parents. Readers will learn valuable lessons through these stories while being entertained.The setting for the stories is the Old Oak Woods during various seasons. This story takes place during the Holidays with the students baking cookies for the cookie swap. Each story has characters facing dilemmas that end on a positive note. Children between the ages of six to nine will be motivated to read each story.

On a rocky mountain, outcrop staring out to the distant forest and valleys is Young Bigfoot. Eighteen seasons old, standing eight and a half-feet tall, broad shoulders, narrow waist, weighting four hundred and fifty pounds of solid, sinewy muscle. The same instinct that for thousands of years has driven salmon and sea turtles to seek out and return to the beaches and rivers of their origin. That same instinct is raging through Young Bigfoot. He wants to ramble and he's going to. On a farm eighteen-hundred miles east stands Buck Holbrooks, wind swirling around his feet where crops should be growing. Buck was a good man, he worked as hard as any man could to make a go of the farm his daddy and granddaddy had farmed. He's watching another wagon train heading west rolled by. It's 1849 gold, it had been struck in California and folks were looking to strike it rich. It was time, he would tell his wife, Daisy that they were going to head west too, along with their children Penn and Belle. Young Bigfoot is a story about two worlds colliding. Buck's seventeen-year-old son Penn and Young Bigfoot. Their meeting and their friendship become legendary. It began deep in a forest in the Pacific Northwest and lives on today with the folks that live there.

Rocky Raccoon and His Responsible Band of Cowboys is the second in the series dealing with the character traits taught in the elementary schools. Rocky the Raccoon is the main character and a friend and leader that helps his friends living in the Old Oak Woods make the right decisions. Spike the split-eared Squirrel, Tommie the Turtle, Ollie the Owl, and others are just a few of the animals in the stories. Readers will learn valuable lessons through these stories while being entertained. The setting for the stories is the Old Oak Woods during various holidays and seasons. Each story has characters facing dilemmas that end on a positive note. Parents will enjoy reading to and with their children and grandchildren from an early age and beyond.

Why didn't Casey's kite follow all the others? And why didn't her kite crash when storm winds came? Was it magic or was it Casey? In this powerful little book, Casey learns the courage to build her own kite, the serenity to surrender when she has no control, and the wisdom to swap help with others. Working together, Casey and her friends build kites that each can fly in their own direction. Readers can too.

Why didn’t Casey’s kite follow all the others? And why didn’t her kite crash when storm winds came? Was it magic or was it Casey? In this powerful little book, Casey learns the courage to build her own kite, the serenity to surrender when she has no control, and the wisdom to swap help with others. Working together, Casey and her friends build kites that each can fly in their own direction. Readers can too.

After bedtime story time, when my grandson was young, he would usually ask me to tell him a story. I would tell him a story, but would make sure that there is a moral message in it for him. Sometimes I would ask him to tell me a story. It was amazing what stories his little imagination would come up with.I am publishing some of these stories in the hopes that they will encourage children to experience the treasures of the written word.As for me, I am enjoying my senior years in the Vancouver area of B.C. with friends and family.

With Team Triassic now in its fifth year, the teens' intense training has prepared veteran and novice Team members to meet most challenges. But when Daniel and his Teammates are kidnapped one by one, no amount of state-of-the-art training on Lone Mountain seems to be enough. The Team is at the mercy of a diabolical scientist creating rogue super-dinosaurs, using the Team's dino DNAs. The adventures in Team Triassic Rise Up range from frightening captivity and genetic manipulation in an underground laboratory to high drama and mayhem in the county courthouse, threats to Team leadership and the arrival of officers from the Pentagon, who want to take the Team on a "field trip" to Area 51. Now, what is that all about?