Phontaine's Gifts - The Survival Legacy
Publisher: Barred Owl Publishing
Published: 2011
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780982998656
Description: Immerse yourself in a time when earthquakes, storms, and floods devastate America. Join three families struggling to survive and protect their children. Meet the people who refuse to believe it is happening, those who discover they are not prepared, and those who will survive because of Phontaine’s Gifts.
In this anticipated prequel to “The Scoloderus Conspiracy,” D.A. Blankinship tells a forceful tale about wide-spread devastation in America and how people cope with the overwhelming crisis. He takes us into the plans of a technology entrepreneur who has ominous doubts about entrusting computers and the Internet with the information vital to surviving a national disaster. He lets us participate in the struggles of a grocery store manager when thousands of people crowd into his empty store, desperately searching for food. He takes us for a ride in an RV that has been stripped to load supplies and people for a cross-country journey to make a last stand against desperation. And, he puts us inside the closed rooms where government leaders argue about how to handle the crisis.
Blankinship is the author of “The Scoloderus Conspiracy,” the “Woodcliff Anthology,” and he was a contributing author to the “Shameless Shorts Anthology.” His books and stories candidly explore the challenges of making some of life’s most difficult decisions.
Blankinship has worked as a clinical psychologist, a research psychologist, and he has served as a senior consultant to the US Department of Defense. He has also taught and held senior academic affairs positions at three U.S. universities. Dr. Blankinship currently serves on the board of directors of The Praxis Ethiopia Foundation and he is committed to ending extreme poverty in Ethiopia and sub-Sahara Africa. To learn more about the author, visit his website at www.TenParInc.com and to learn more about ending extreme poverty, visit www.PraxisEthiopia.org.