Genre: fiction (268 pages)

Keywords: high school, public education, coming-of-age

Description:
I M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. The words stared back, dark and ominous. So, naturally, I wrote them again: I M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE My name, not that it matters, is Thomas Berg. And I m really not supposed to be here.
So begins ROOM ONE: A Story of Public Education. In this new novel, master storyteller Michael Kanaly turns his unflinching eye on the troubled, yet often amusing world of public education. ROOM ONE is the story of Thomas Berg, certified Room Oner, trapped in the chaos...

Researcher David Strand s Whale Language Project didn t turn out like he d planned. Now, with the Outlaw Whaling Nations defying the international ban on commercial whaling, Strand finds himself in a desperate race to establish communication with perhaps the only other intelligent species to share the Earth with man. In this prophetic and often chilling tale, Michael Kanaly explores the very real possibility that we are not alone with our hopes, thoughts and dreams.

THE VOICE WITHIN is a story that explores the vastly different lives of whales and humans, as two intelligent species,...