Available Paperback Books Written by Anne Hart

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1.   101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers

2.      101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients  

3.      102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy  

4.      1700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity

5.      30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open  

6.      32 Podcasting & Other Businesses to Open Showing People How to Cut Expenses  

7.      35 Video Podcasting Careers and Businesses to Start  

8.      801 Action Verbs for Communicators  

9.      A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book  

10.      A Private Eye Called Mama Africa  

11.  Ancient and Medieval Teenage Diaries

12.  Anne Joan Levine, Private Eye  

13.  Astronauts and Their Cats  

14.  Cleopatra's Daughter  

15.  Counseling Anarchists  

16.  Cover Letters, Follow-Ups, Queries and Book Proposals

17.  Creating Family Newsletters & Time Capsules  

18.  Creative Genealogy Projects  

19.  Cutting Expenses and Getting More for Less  

20.  Cyber Snoop Nation  

21.  Diet Fads, Careers and Controversies in Nutrition Journalism  

22.  Dogs with Careers: Ten Happy-Ending Stories of Purpose and Passion  

23.  Dramatizing 17th Century Family History of Deacon Stephen Hart & Other Early New England Settlers

24.  Employment Personality Tests Decoded

25.  Ethno-Playography  

26.  Find Your Personal Adam And Eve .

27.  Four Astronauts and a Kitten  

28.  How To Stop Elderly Abuse  

29.  How Two Yellow Labs Saved the Space Program  

30.  How to Interpret Family History and Ancestry DNA Test Results for Beginners  

31.  How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results For Family History & Ancestry

32.   How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online  

33.  How to Make Money Organizing Information  

34.  How to Make Money Selling Facts  

35.  How to Make Money Teaching Online With Your Camcorder and PC  

36.  How to Open DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting & Interpreting Businesses  

37.  How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, or Success Stories for Clients  

38.  How to Publish in Women’s Studies, Men’s Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family History Research  

39.  How to Refresh Your Memory by Writing Salable Memoirs with Laughing Walls  

40.  How to Safely Tailor Your Food, Medicines, & Cosmetics to Your Genes  

41.  How to Start Engaging Conversations on Women's, Men's, or Family Studies with Wealthy Strangers  

42.  How to Start Personal Histories and Genealogy Journalism Businesses  

43.  How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books  

44.  How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story  

45.  How to Write Plays, Monologues, or Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, or Current Events  

46.  Infant Gender Selection & Personalized Medicine  

47.  Is Radical Liberalism or Extreme Conservatism a Character Disorder, Mental Disease, or Publicity Campaign?  

48.  Job Coach-Life Coach-Executive Coach-Letter & Resume-Writing Service  

49.  Large Print Crossword Puzzles for Memory Enhancement  

50.  Make Money With Your Camcorder and PC: 25+ Businesses  

51.  Middle Eastern Honor Killings in the USA  

52.  Murder in the Women's Studies Department  

53.  New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman .

54.  Nutritional Genomics - A Consumer's Guide to How Your Genes and Ancestry Respond to Food  

55.  One Day Some Schlemiel Will Marry Me, Pay the Bills, and Hug Me.

56.  Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines  

57.  Power Dating Games  

58.  Predictive Medicine for Rookies  

59.  Problem-Solving and Cat Tales for the Holidays  

60.  Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome  

61.  Roman Justice: SPQR  

62.  Sacramento Latina  

63.  Scrapbooking, Time Capsules, Life Story Desktop Videography & Beyond with Poser 5, CorelDRAW ® Graphics Suite 12 & Corel WordPerfect Office Suite 12  

64.  Search Your Middle Eastern and European Genealogy  

65.  Social Smarts Strategies That Earn Free Book Publicity  

66.  The Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Ethnic DNA Origins for Family History  

67.  The Courage to Be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik  

68.  The DNA Detectives  

69.  The Date Who Unleashed Hell  

70.  The Freelance Writer's E-Publishing Guidebook  

71.  The Khazars Will Rise Again!  

72.  The Writer's Bible  

73.  Tools for Mystery Writers  

74.  Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry Online  

75.  Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry  

76.  Verbal Intercourse  

77.  Where to Find Your Arab-American or Jewish Genealogy Records  

78.  Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying?  

79.  Why We Never Give Up Our Need for a Perfect Mother  

80.  Writer's Guide to Book Proposals  

81.  Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops  

82.  Writing 7-Minute Inspirational Life Experience Vignettes  

83.  Writing What People Buy  

84.  Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries

Silk Road Kids' Adventures-Novels, Poems, and Poem-Stories

Gift Books for Time-Travel Fiction Readers

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A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book: Time Travel with the Kagan's Kids to 10th Century Kiev, "When Jews Of Eastern Europe Had No Hope Other Than The Grace Of The Almighty, The Coming Of The Meshiach, Or The Arrival Of The Khazars."
Publisher's price: $14.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 174
ISBN: 0-595-38159-6
Published: Dec 21-2005

A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book

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There may not have been any concept of Bar or Bat Mitzvah in 10th century Kiev ‘yet,’ but that wouldn’t stop the nearly grown children of the Kagan of the Khazars from arranging the appropriate rite of passage and blessing for the changing of the societies around them which they knew—the pagan Vikings, Rus, and Pechenegs surrounding Kiev, the Volga Finnic peoples of the Urals, the eternal Silk Road, Christian Byzantium to the south, the Caucasus Mountaineers, the grassland steppes, the rabbi-scholars of Constantinople and Spain, the Turks arriving from Central Asia, and the Islamic Caliphate of Persia and Baghdad to the East. Each encounter began a new concept and framework for their time-travel adventures.

The garden of the Khazars is a storyteller’s paradise, especially during the time that their ruler’s family, friends, and associates turned Jewish, and the Kagan of the Khazars got tied up in the belly of a Viking Ship, rescued by his thirteen-year-old son, and his daughter, the teenage, time-traveling Princess Tarbagatay rode between the fourth and tenth centuries with the Queen of the Steppes. Welcome to anthropology through fiction and my series for all storytellers on tall tales of Medieval Khazaria.

Let my first person proto-Bar or Bat Mitzvah gift story book novel, although fiction, guide you through the walkways of anthropology and ethnology in my Kagan’s Kids of Khazaria Time-Travel Adventures, the perfect book for a Mitzvah gift for thirteen to fifteen-year old readers and also for their parents. As an author of multicultural and multiethnic novels that reveal the nuances of anthropology through fiction—stories, novels, and plays—let this novel and the treat that follows be your mentor to open doors to new opportunities, choices, roads, and destinations.


 

 

Silk Road Kids' 10th Century Adventures

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Keeping Short Stories and Skits Brief

Interestingly, the best thing I learned from earning a graduate degree in creative writing is to keep it brief. I always aked myself these three questions that have been said many times before writing a book, article, or fiction--novel, script, play, or life story. Lecturing isn't communicating. Connecting is.

1. What's the situation, event, or experience?
2. What outcome/impact/result is it causing?
3. What's your resolution? (Solve the problem or get measurable results in clearn and easy-to-understand steps the readers can follow.)

It really works as a formula for writing book proposals as well as a query letter and also for the book or follow-up. That's the basis of a good novel or nonfiction book. The details are in the where, how, why, and when.
A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book: Time Travel with the Kagan's Kids to 10th Century Kiev, "When Jews Of Eastern Europe Had No Hope Other Than The Grace Of The Almighty, The Coming Of The Meshiach, Or The Arrival Of The Khazars." By Anne Hart

 

© 2002 By:  Anne Hart

Not since Sarkel set on fire.

Not since Samandar moved to Spire.

Not since Khatun called Khagan,"Cutie."

Not Since Khazaria went to Kievan booty.

Not since Bulan turned from pagan.

Lit the candles, and became the Khagan.

Not since Svyatoslav went to hire

Pechenegs from his transpire.

Not since yarmaq coins were minted.

Not since isinglass trade was hinted.

Not since Khazars fought oppression.

Not since Atil sank in depression.

Not since Samander went underwater.

Not since Byzantines married Khagan's daughter.

Not since Ha-Sangari converted the people.

Not since Balanjar became a steeple.

Not since the steppes stepped lively to a tune.

Not since Khazaria, did the sky ride the moon.

 

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A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book: Time Travel with the Kagan's Kids to 10th Century Kiev, "When Jews Of Eastern Europe Had No Hope Other Than The Grace Of The Almighty, The Coming Of The Meshiach, Or The Arrival Of The Khazars."

Our price: $14.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 174
ISBN: 0-595-38159-6
Published: Dec-2005
 

 
International orders:
Call 00-1-402-323-7800

Local orders: Call 1-800-Authors or online: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-38159-6

 

Let my first person proto-Bar or Bat Mitzvah gift story book novel, although fiction, guide you through the walkways of anthropology and ethnology in my Kagan's Kids of Khazaria Time-Travel Adventures, the perfect book for a Mitzvah gift for thirteen to fifteen-year old readers and also for their parents.

Book Description

There may not have been any concept of Bar or Bat Mitzvah in 10th century Kiev 'yet,' but that wouldn't stop the nearly grown children of the Kagan of the Khazars from arranging the appropriate rite of passage and blessing for the changing of the societies around them which they knew—the pagan Vikings, Rus, and Pechenegs surrounding Kiev, the Volga Finnic peoples of the Urals, the eternal Silk Road, Christian Byzantium to the south, the Caucasus Mountaineers, the grassland steppes, the rabbi-scholars of Constantinople and Spain, the Turks arriving from Central Asia, and the Islamic Caliphate of Persia and Baghdad to the East. Each encounter began a new concept and framework for their time-travel adventures.

The garden of the Khazars is a storyteller's paradise, especially during the time that their ruler's family, friends, and associates turned Jewish, and the Kagan of the Khazars got tied up in the belly of a Viking Ship, rescued by his thirteen-year-old son, and his daughter, the teenage, time-traveling Princess Tarbagatay rode between the fourth and tenth centuries with the Queen of the Steppes. Welcome to anthropology through fiction and my series for all storytellers on tall tales of Medieval Khazaria.

Let my first person proto-Bar or Bat Mitzvah gift story book novel, although fiction, guide you through the walkways of anthropology and ethnology in my Kagan's Kids of Khazaria Time-Travel Adventures, the perfect book for a Mitzvah gift for thirteen to fifteen-year old readers and also for their parents. As an author of multicultural and multiethnic novels that reveal the nuances of anthropology through fiction—stories, novels, and plays—let this novel and the treat that follows be your mentor to open doors to new opportunities, choices, roads, and destinations.

Browse Before You Buy at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-38159-6

The Narrated Play, adapted from the novel:  in Poem Form:

©2002  By:  Anne Hart

The Silk Road Kids’ Adventures

The day my whole country turned Jewish

Ha-Sangari leapt.

The people slept.

The sky rode the moon

Like a Khazar with a Tymakh.

 

The day my whole country turned Jewish

The heavens crept

With the spark

Of the Pinta Layyid,

The lark, the chord,

The Light in the Dark,

The flame of the Ark.

The day my whole country turned Jewish,

Khazaria roared.

 

“Now carry the news!”

Said the King to the Bek

“Our fortress at Sarkel

Is a wrecking ball wreck.

Your ships took eight nights

To smash our Sarkel.

You took all our rights,

Kievan prince of wheat knell.

 

Why did you come here?

When our rabbi has fled?

You have taken my house,”

Said the Kagan well read.

 

“But I must move in here,”

The Kievan prince soared.

“The Cossacks replaced you,

On my Don River board.”

The Gates of Atil closed

To the Kagan so wise

“Your Bek and the Tarkhan

Are cut down to size.”

“Where should we go to farm our lands?

 

“Where?”

“Where?”

“Where?”

“Over there, go!”

The Kievan Prince pointed due West.

 

“Pechenegs on my tail.

Polin’s land for your rest.”

The day my whole country

Turned Jewish by looks.

Obadiah, the king

Read twenty-four books.

 

As far as Atil

And the village, Dailam

Khazars strum their tymakhs

Singing Jeru-Salem.

“He wasted Atil,”

The Kagan told the Bek.

“You should watch your back,”

Roared the Prince from his deck.

“Want to stretch on my rack?”

Svyatoslav, Prince of Kiev spoke.

“I have nothing personal

Against Khazar and Jew

I simply like to fight,

And met my match in you.

 

I’ll mint your Khazar coins.

A yarmaq for your hat,

To carry on my loins.”

“The coins will be priceless,

Now that you are no more,”

Said the Prince of Kiev.

“I’ll keep them in my store.”

 

“Who will light a candle

And remember Khazars?”

The Kagan declared,

“We are wandering stars.”

Should the Khazars disperse

To the land of Tatar?

“To the ends of the earth

Our people roamed far.”

The Kagan and Bek

To the roads of the Steppes,

And their rivers of steeds.

On the Caucasus’ snows

To do Polin good deeds.

 

Where the River scalloped,

The Khatun and the Bek

To Polin each galloped.

Drink Crimea’s pity

By the Magyar’s green bows

The Pale became city,

When thunder split the rows.

 

‘Neath a rollaway moon,

Spooked by the storm, Togrul,

Their mythical hawk soon

Flew in a new tool.

And the hawk whistled,

Like cantors of the Turk

“Kusu kusu khaz-khan

Kusu khaz-khan

Kusu kusu khaz-khan, khaz-khan

Kusu Kusu khaz-khan, kusu khaz-khan

Kusu kusu khaz-khan, khaz-khan,”

Putting them all to work.

 

On to Bialystok

Togrul, the tribal hawk,

Financed the Khaz army,

And learned how to talk,

Kept frontiers of Europe

From strife’s cinderblock.

And married a Princess

From royal Khazar stock.

 

Welcome the convert.

Pillows drink widows’ tears

For you were strangers in Egypt

Four hundred years.

The Khazar King Joseph wrote

Pray!

Pray!

Pray!

Pray!

For Khazaria’s day

In our Turkic way.

Alphabet new!

How our speech flew and grew!

We read!

And in Cordoba learned Torah’s fame.

 

We fled!

In Harun’s time,

Byzantium’s game

Forced its Jews to go.

To Khazaria they came.

An untutored race,

A faith deeper than our own,

It’s logical

For us to pray a Jewish tone.

Like a Khazar with a Tymakh,

Teach the Kagan,

Converts beloved.

No power in Pagan.

 

Silvered mirror poles

Now Magen David’s shield

Tails flowing

Amulets and talismans yield

The Khazars, mostly Jews

That anchored the Silk Way

And buffered two kingdoms

Between the Night and Day

Our orchards and schools,

Yarmaq coins in the marts

Taught sons of Bulan.

That wise men and fools,

Absorbed science and arts.

 

Caliphs in Baghdad

Set a room with four thrones

Major world figures

Took their seats on the zones.

The Caliph stars

Next, Western Charlemagne,

Emperors of China,

And King of the Khazars.

 

Byzantine Emperors

Didn’t go to the party

They weren’t invited.

By the Caliph hearty.

So they threw a war

And Khazars delighted.

 

Absorbing Jews fleeing,

Unions of Turkic tribes

Found along the Silk Road

Refugee Slavs with brides.

Join our Khazaria!

All those escaping fear.

Be us—Jew, Arab, Slav.

Sarkel’s so near and dear.

 

Together we will stand,

Nomadic tribes no more.

Isinglass of the North

Has moved across our land.

Farm here and live well.

Expand our orchard’s glade

Our fortress at Sarkel

Builds our prosperous trade.

 

Each Kagan’s steppes have schools.

Our Bek proves in the battle

How leaders make their rules.

By the gates of Atil.

Tarkhans tied a knot of light.

That turned our nomad life

To seek virtues of right.

Without such blight or strife.

Nine climes of Khazaria speak now,

Or forever hold still.

Jews from Armenia, Persia, and Slovenia

Exchanged their skill.

Tell the tales old!

We wait for you! Read the years!

Turn the years!

Sing the years bold.

Khazaria’s fun.

If you know where to look.

You’ll find us in a book.

And in the shards of the souk.

 

From the Caspian Sea

If not for the Khazars

With their wandering stars,

Would there be silk bazaars?

When the Emperor of Byzantium

Made the Jews move out

They came to Khazaria

And sent us a scout.

The Book of Tradition

Names Israel anew

People from all over

Did not have a clue.

Or two!

Did not have a clue

That this Khazar child is a Jew.

 

Sing out of Toledo.

Of Abraham ibn Daud

In his Book of Tradition.

Rabbi Ha-Sangari

Left Byzantium’s position.

We protected Jews in other lands.

Fleeing here to win,

With our deep pockets and golden hands,

The door’s open. Come in.

 

A homeland for all Jews,

We were Jerusalem

Run by a Turkic tribe.

A Hebrew scribe.

A Sabbath bride.

Busy hands. Building grand.

A Kagan is a King.

A bek rules the land,

And a Tarkhan commands.

 

From our standard’s silver mirrors

Horsetails and tassels waved in the winds

The sun shone in the mirrors

Back at you.

Back at you.

What you wished us.

Turned back on you.

But we did not turn our back on you.

If a Jew is oppressed

Call a Mountain Khazar.

 

We will rescue and rest

With the zest of the best.

From the steppes or the Don,

And then we’ll move on.

Who will you call?

A Khazar, a Khazar.

We’ll sail up the river

And rye bread deliver.

For your child’s Conversion

We’ll respond to your needs

On our brilliant white steeds

And kosher your kitchen and hall.

 

The Eastern Caucasus

By the Caspian Sea,

Yesterday, our homeland.

Today we are free.

Mountain men.

Women taming horses.

Some of us became Jews.

Mountain people who dance.

Tell our story as news.

Write us as a romance.

 

Beckon the Khazar.

Or sit in your house.

For you were strangers in Egypt

Playing cat with a mouse.

The moon rode the sky.

A Kagan turned Jewish.

He koshered his kitchen

With Mosaics bluish.

“Our speech outlasts you,”

Sang the hawk to the King.

 

“Put your scrolls in Hebrew.

And let wisdom sing.

From the ends of the Earth,

People have come to you.

Many sing different songs,

But they pray like a Jew.

Everyone learn Hebrew.

 

Your thoughts—for all time.

Everyone write Hebrew.

Language moves on a rhyme.

So when you move afar

And no one says your name.

Use universal speech,

And give your scrolls their fame.”

 

Then Togrul and Bek

Placed Mezuzzim near walls.

And changed each tamga

For a Torah and shawls.

“Pray! Write! Pray! Write!

A menorah for all.”

The edge of the rift,

Infinity of light…

Pechenegs on the cliff

Prince of Kiev in sight.

Bihar, the Khazar

Leads his people to soar

For it’s better folklore

Than to march off to war.

 

To the rescue! Togrul flew.

Burtas, Bulgars, and Turks

ResistingWest and East

“Live where knowledge lurks,”

The Bek said.

“We are trapped between two great powers.

Which road to savage steppes,

And the Tribes in their towers?”

“The Tribes are our allies,”

Said the Bek to the King.

“They’ll drive you to Bialystock,

Over there.

So change your name to Levi,

Or Don Volga or Singh.”

“Singh? But that’s “lion” in Hindustani!”

“Then Kutkowski, Tucker, Herkowitz, or

Levine!”

Here’s a gold seal worth three solidi.

Hire your paid army, and there’s the

canteen.”

 

“Give generals Hebrew names.

Yosef and Aharon, Pesach, and Zvi.

Khazaria’s Jewish statecraft,

Not stagecraft—

Our second Jewish state.

Say Pax Khazarica,

Our allies, our fate.

Grow the settlements.”

Come to Khazaria

Spanish Jews under stress

From anywhere and everywhere,

Khaz Litvaks named Bess.

Cradle Ashkenazim

And their orchards of fruits.

 

Rabbis of Toledo

Can look here for their roots.

Armenian Jews

Baghdad’s Jews.

Greek Jews.

Turkic Jews.

Russian Jews.

Polin’s Jews

Galitziana

More Jews than Solomon saw.

Khazaria’s Jews are news.

 

What a land!

What a land!

What a land!

When the final curtain

Fell on a great drama,

The Khazars went their ways

In chain mail-clad glamour.

To Kiev

To Polin

To Bialystock

To Bessarabia

To Lithuania

And the land of the Litvaks.

To the Danube,

The Galitzianas in the west.

To Buda and Pest.

To almost everywhere

Where they could rest.

 

What was good for the Jews

As Khaz wandering schules

Were two Jewish leaders

And a balance of rules

And another will come

For this world is so small

To bring real books from life

And of Khazars, tales tall.

 

Pax Khazarica!

Where are your scribes, arts, books?

Show us each Queen—Khatun!

From the Hittites and exiled came looks.

What made you play charades?

And so…Where are you today?

The day my whole country

Turned Jewish, parades

Swept the Khazars away.

In Bessarabia

I saw the last Kagan

With mean violin.

He works with a Pagan,

And plays for his kin.

 

During medieval times, it has been said

“When the Jews of Europe

Had little hope

Other than…

The grace of the Almighty,

The coming of Meshiach,

Or the arrival of Khazars…”

There rode wandering stars.

 

Wander, stars of Atil.

From Volga to the Don

Ride your rain-soaked horses

Time is moving on.

Who gave you this freedom,

In a land so wracked by fate?

Should we tell your children’s children

You’re a thousand years too late?

 

There’s a Khazar in your docket.

Who’s opening the locks.

And a genie in your pocket

Turning back the clocks.

Strum your Khazar Tymakh,

Joys of vivid song.

Light up each dark winter

As we sing along.

 

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This paperback novel is  currently in print. If you want to turn it into a play, musical, or operetta, just email me for information at newswriting@hotmail.com.


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