The Captain and the Ambassador by Carol Ann Kauffman

Ambassador Tull Redmond is looking for a quick ride home back to Earth after ending her twenty-year mission as peace negotiator. 

All she wants is peace, quiet, and to be left alone. She boards the Earth Starship Giuseppe Verdi with its questionable leader, Captain Ben Jacobs anyway. It's the fastest way home. 

Her quarters has a full bath, a space view window, and a large, real bed! How bad could this rule-breaking, authority-defying Captain Casanova be? 

High Council hates him, true, but his crew loves him. Surely, she's too old and tired to be drawn into this bad boy of the quadrant's personal circus. 

Will Ambassador Redmond get the quiet, uneventful ride home she craves?

Link: https://tinyurl.com/ybku3l28


"Kauffman gives a try at sci-fi and it's an amazing story!
I love how Captain Ben Jacobs handles the situations, one of which he loses his ship and is going to get court-martialled. He is a very strong and compassionate man, who is willing to save Ambassador Tull Redmond's husband from certain death; especially since he was reported dead and the Captain and Ambassador fell in love.
You have to read how marvelous this book is written. I highly recommend it!"

                                                  -Amazon Review

The Art of Maurice Prendergast

The Art of Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was born on July 14, 1862 in Baumgarten, Austria. He was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession Movement. 

Gustav is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and onsets d'art.  Klimt's primary subject was the female body. His works are marked by a frank eroticism, but not here!

He was also a very good landscape artist and his figure paintings are full of shapes and vivid color. 

He started out painting architectural elements on buildings. He later painting the ceiling of the Great Hall at the University of Vienna and critics were aghast at its pornographic elements. 



 He became so upset that he never accepted another public commission. 

Luckily his next phase was his golden period, where he applied 24 carat gold leaf to his paintings. His father was a gold engraver and he was familiar with  gold leaf techniques. These met with much success and are still admired today.


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I claim nothing here as my own. All information and images are from the following sites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GustavKlimt

Gustav Klimt - The Complete Works - klim

tgallery.org

www.urbanloftart.com/‎

Red Sarah by Carol Ann Kauffman

Sarah is a beautiful redhead who works for a special agency that fixes broken timelines and rescues historically significant people who are in trouble. She has a special set of skills that allow her to 'tap' someone out of a dangerous situation. Her present assignment is to find and rescue a prince whose yet unborn son eliminates hunger and disease on his island nation.

“Save the Prince; save the King; and save the Reds. In doing so, Red Sarah may just save herself, who knows, but what might be the cost? Moving from modern day wisecrackery to a time of romance long ago, Carol Ann Kauffman’s tale is filled with majesty and bravery. This time travel story is a gift for all.” - Amazon Review

“Sarah has one job and that is to rescue Crown Prince Lucas of Mist from captivity in a dungeon. Yet everything is not as it seems and will Sarah be able to stop an upcoming war?
This was an interesting book about time travel and trying not to disrupt the time continuum. I liked Sarah and it was interesting on where her and Lucas ended up.”
-Amazon Review

"This is a fun easy, fast read. When science meets fantasy involving time travel is where the storyline lives and shines. The characters: Sarah a lovely redhead and a prince. The story starts out with Sarah approaching an apparent lifeless figure on the floor of a dark dungeon. She has come to help the Crown Prince Lucas of the Mist Kingdom in the highland of LaMere. The prince corrects her by saying he’s not the Crown Prince but his brother and if she saves him, he has nothing to offer here. She does return the next night with food. As conversation ensues the reader discovers that the prince’s father, King Theodore of the House of Walker is close-minded, stubborn, vicious, and brutal per the prince and per Sarah a beast. The prince was out riding on his horse and woke up in the dungeon. He was apparently falsely accused of attacking and killing two men per Sarah but he protests he attacked no one. As it turns out he is in fact the Crown Prince and learns that his two other brothers have been murdered. Here the story conflict has been set and the storyline moves along at a rapid clip. Without retelling the whole story suffice it to say it was an easy, sit down in a couple of hours by the fireplace fast read. It’s worth picking it up to find out if Sarah manifested the courage necessary to ultimately be the heroine she set out to be. No spoilers. I enjoyed the read right down to the poignant dedication after the story."
- Amazon Review

Link: https://tinyurl.com/y7zcmuq4

Schedule for June 4 -8, 2018

Schedule

Mon., June 4 - Red Sarah 
by Carol Ann. Kauffman

Tues., June 5 - The Art 
of Gustav Klimt

Wed., June 6 - Interview with YA Author
Cindy Lynch

Thurs., June 7 - The Art 
of Maurice Prendergast 

Fri., June 8 - The Captain and the Ambassador
by Carol Ann Kauffman