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Author D. R. Oestreicher
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Retired from Silicon Valley & substitute teaching.
Spouse, parent, grandparent and author.
#booksky
Book blog: https://1book42day.blogspot.com/

My books: https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-20171115075/list/1DW8ZF2IZXOU0
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BOX SET ON AUDIBLE & KINDLE UNLIMITED: With a Universe-wide respect for all living things, the Compact aliens are appalled by the Humans' terraformed colony planet, Azureign. It was too late to recover what had been lost, but the Compact set out to teach Humanity a lesson. #booksky amzn.to/3YoLK7R
Four pensioners (ex-spy Elizabeth, trade union organizer Ron, psychiatrist Ibrahim, retired nurse Joyce) search for £350 million in bitcoins co-owned by Nick Silver and Holly Lewis. Nick disappears. Holly is blown up by a car bomb. Cozy mystery. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass puts its message in the title. Once the story begins, Laura's life is death and disappointment. Powerfully, she survives with brief moments of gratitude and self-care. A subtle reminder to rest and be thankful. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/11/rest...
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
KINDLE UNLIMITED BOX SET: Climate change, genetic change, or global disease: each Pandemic Mystery explores an international crisis. Multi-threaded. Science-based novels. Diverse people who work together, showing humanity at its best as they solve an international threat. #booksky
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November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“I still care deeply about the Middle East, about global warming, about growing inequality, but these are no longer my business; they belong to the future.” Oliver Sacks, approaching his 80th birthday, in his book, Gratitude, 2015. #booksky
November 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In 1956, women had ambitions and desires. Men who didn’t respect them died. Who knew? And all in a small town. Peyton Place. The book was banned, but the ideas exploded into the women’s liberation movement. Not the book you were told it was. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/10/peyt...
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
In celebration of #BatWeek #bats #ilovebats #batweek2025 The world is on the verge of a pandemic. Using tribal and scientific medicine, can a small group of amateur scientists solve the unsolvable? Amazon link: amzn.to/47iiCCU
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
October 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I recall when Cracker Jacks switched from plastic prizes to paper ones. I never bought another box. 😢
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Fall foliage at Mont Tremblant, Quebec
October 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Trois-Rivières. The Ursuline Nuns settled here in 1697. Also to cathedral.
October 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Montmorency Falls
October 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
When Mr. Webber dies in Kellner’s Books, he leaves The Book of Doors to Cassie. “Any door is every door.” Cassie can teleport anywhere in space and time. She has many adventures with this and other magic books. A clever and confusing book. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Harold receives a letter from Queenie, whom he hasn’t seen in 20 years. She is in hospice. He believes she won’t die for as long as it takes him to walk to her. The walk is also his penance for his life’s sins. It goes viral. A novel of redemption. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
September 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Today is 9/16/25 or 16/9/25.
The only Pythagorean triple date.
3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2
#math #maths
September 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The dark side of California history. The Filipino immigrant experience. From the Spanish-American War to farm laborers to World War II allies to anti-Asian sentiments in the 21st century, the US relationship with the Philippines has been difficult. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Four generations of fathers and sons. Francisco, Emil, Chris, Enzo. Fathers want their sons to benefit from their experience. Sons want to set off in their own direction. Each generation lives in a different society. How can they span this gap? #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...
September 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m going to need a bigger suitcase
September 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Lily Bloom hated that her mother stayed with her abusive father. At 23, she married neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid. His sister Allysa was Lily’s best friend. Sadly, Ryle had a temper. Lily found herself in the same situation as her mother. Stay or go? #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/it-e...
September 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Took me 50 years to figure this out.
September 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
When Maya was 17, she watched her boyfriend murder her girlfriend. She didn’t know how he did it, and no one believed her. 7 years later, she saw him murder another girl on social media. She returned to her hometown to solve the mystery. Horror. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Mika Moon was raised by Primrose, the Very Secret Society of Witches’ matriarch. The rule was that witches must live alone. Mika was in trouble when she agreed to teach 3 young witches living together at Nowhere House. A cozy romance. Five stars. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
August 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Antonia struggles to find herself after her husband dies. She stages an intervention for her eldest sister. She aids undocumented Mario in rescuing his fiancée from the coyotes. She asks, Who is the most important? A meditation on life after death. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/08/afte...
August 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Most popular fruits

Tomatoes - 182 Million Metric Tons.
Bananas - 115.74 Million Metric Tons.
Watermelons - 103.97 Million Metric Tons.
Apples - 86.14 Million Metric Tons.
Oranges - 75.54 Million Metric Tons.
Mangoes - over 40 Million Metric Tons.
August 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Two lost people: Tova Sullivan, 70, lost her only child, Erik, when he was 18. Cameron Cassmore, 30, was raised by his aunt and is searching for his father. Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, saves them. 6/5 stars. #booksky 1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/08/rema...
August 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Reposted by Author D. R. Oestreicher
i really need all these people who think any anguish in a ts song is about a man to ask themselves if they are ever sad, angry, tormented, haunted, depressed in their own lives by things other than a romantic relationship.
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM