The Golden Shore
Thirty-one new fables in the old style, told in Aesop’s honor — ospreys, loggerheads, ghost crabs, drawn true to life. Built to be read aloud at bedtime. Hold the picture. Ask the moral. One fable, one night, is plenty.
Fables for the kids. A true ride for the wanderers. Treasure for everyone.
Three illustrated fables from Juno Beach and a Halloween read-along. Then a parable book, a true eleven-thousand-mile ride, and two novels of the Salt Kingdom.
Thirty-one new fables in the old style, told in Aesop’s honor — ospreys, loggerheads, ghost crabs, drawn true to life. Built to be read aloud at bedtime. Hold the picture. Ask the moral. One fable, one night, is plenty.
The next Golden Shore fables — told for the months when the wind turns mean and the sand keeps secrets. Same shore. Same ink plates. A harder sky. Loggerheads, pelicans, ghost crabs, and the bookkeeping a storm does when it puts the old world back on the counter.
The third Golden Shore fables — told for the nights the turtles come ashore. Same coast. Same ink plates. A quieter sky. Hatchlings, ghost crabs, the moon’s road on the water, and the work of returning.
Pip is a ghost crab. Not a ghost. A crab. On the night the Pumpkin Moon comes up out of the sea, every sound on the dark beach is scary — so Pip says the brave words: I’m not afraid. I’m not alone. A scripture-based Halloween read-along that closes with Isaiah 41:10.
The prodigal son came home — then what? Thirty of the best-known parables, carried one step further. For readers, small groups, and anyone who ever finished a parable wanting one more page.
One rider, one summer, eleven thousand documented miles — a thousand of them in a single day. Route 66, the Canyon, the coast, and the long way home. A #1 New Release in Motorcycles, July 2026.
The treasure fleet is drowned. The gold is the least of it. Someone wrote everything down. Based on the true wrecks of the 1715 Treasure Fleet — the gold still washes ashore at Juno Beach today.
The King has pardoned every pirate on the water. Every account is cleared — except the ones written in people. Three years after The Coast of Teeth, a boat with no colors crosses the reef at night for one name. A complete story; reads on its own.
Every evening she climbs to the roof and watches for a ship that is not coming home. The sea did not take it. A signature did.
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