Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

By Don Canaan

A free sampler of books written by award-winning journalist and editor Don Canaan

• Language: English
• Publisher: Don Canaan
• Release date: Jul 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386157144

Don Canaan

Don Canaan went from a Bronx tenement to success in television news film, immigration to Israel, return to the U.S. and then to print journalism. He edited news film and documentaries for NBC News in New York, receiving a joint editorial commendation (as Donald Swerdlow) for Producer Fred Freed’s “American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States.” In 1974, Canaan immigrated to Israel as part of an American group planning to found and settle in the new city of Yamit in the Sinai, north of El Arish. Upon returning to the U.S, Canaan became a unemployment statistic because news film had been superseded by videotape, which was controlled by a different union.. Ohio State University's School of Journalism came to the rescue with an offer to earn a master's degree while serving as an assistant in its TV news workshop. Canaan was hired as staff writer and photographer for The American Israelite in Cincinnati where he enterprised many stories.. His series, "Jews in Ohio's Prisons: Does Anybody Care?" won first place for best weekly journalism in Ohio from the State of Ohio Bar Association. . He is the author of “Horror in Hocking County” (a true-crime documentation of alleged satanic murders.

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Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

A Sampler by Don Canaan

All items in this book are Copyright 2018 by Don Canaan

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-Don Canaan went from a Bronx tenement to success in television news film where he edited film and documentaries for NBC News in New York. He later immigrated to Israel as part of a group planning to pioneer the new city of Yamit in northwestern Sinai.  Upon returning to the states. Canaan found that videotape had superseded news film; and videotape’s jurisdiction was owned by NABET, a union that he was unable to join.

The Ohio State University's School of Journalism came to the rescue with an offer to earn a master's degree while serving as an assistant in its TV news workshop.

Subsequently, Canaan was hired as a writer and copy editor for The American Israelite where he reported on many stories. His series, Jews in Ohio's Prisons: Does Anybody Care? won first place for best weekly journalism in Ohio from the State of Ohio Bar Association.

Canaan’s books include, among others, Daddy’s Girl, Pretty Little Girl, The Baby Thief, Entangled, Conceived in Liberty and Spaced Out: Baby’s Final LSD Trip. Excerpts from these books are below, all of which are available in e-Book, print and audiobook versions.

Canaan’s in-construction websites are  atwww.timeweavermedia.com andwww.books4usa.com

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-"Two score and six years from now, author Don Canaan’s hilarious time-traveling fantasy, Conceived in Liberty, brought forth to our nation the news of an unsuccessful assassination attempt on me by my wife, Mary Todd, my son Robert, John Wilkes Booth and his mistress.

"While you may have been taught differently in school, this information proves that educators have been promoting fake history at your expense. I predict that the current monarch of the Union of Royal American States. Queen Alyssa, will be truly dedicated to the proposition that all news need not be created equal.

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether our nation, founded by King Benedict Arnold, who defeated the traitor George Washington, can long endure.

"We meet today in a recreation area named after our late King Ike. While The Villages was not a great battlefield of that war, it did provide much of the brainpower and watermelon artillery that eventually re-united our distinctive monarchy under the auspices of King Donald.

"It is altogether fitting and proper that we should also pay tribute to Dr. Tamar Weaver, a young lady from the year 2063, who was able to reweave the fabric of time. The notes of her adventures during the 18th century Revolutionary War were found in a hermetically sealed container that withstood the ravishes of time as well as nibbling by roaches.

The world will little note nor read today’s words, but because of Tamar Weaver and Don Canaan’s re-telling of her story in Conceived in Liberty, your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will survive. They will not be destroyed by undocumented aliens from an unknown ninth planet; by aliens that will try to breach the protective dome that King Donald plans to build for your protection.

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-Chapter 1

On a gorgeous June day in 2044, Chauvin High School junior Tamar Weaver, wearing a trendy T-shirt whose literary purpose was solely to annoy adults, entered the building in the city of New York, the capital of the Union of Royal American States (URAS).

She remained in school for only one period and then escaped; her grandparents had always called the escape playing hooky.  On the term's final day, after a quick bus trip downtown, Tamar joined a group of time travelers from AT&T, Advanced Time and Tours. Their next stop would be the Mercy Crystal Palace in the year 1863.

As Tamar and the travelers arrived at the massive glass auditorium, an area surrounded by rundown shops and unpaved streets, she saw