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Art Of The Cube

The Rubik’s Cube Designs Of Fred Holly

Book Compiled by John Mankowski
Introduction by Vera Holly

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978-1-59790-027-0
Legally blind and dying from lung cancer, Fred Holly received great enjoyment creating unique, artistic designs with 64 Rubik’s Cubes. This 24-page, full-color booklet includes numerous photographs. Publication is timed to coincide with wife Ava Lee Holly’s biography: A Time To Speak.  ISBN: 978-1-59790-028-7. This project was a labor of love for daughters Vera and Sarah, and grandson John Mankowski.   

A Time To Speak

A Biography

By Ava Lee Holly

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978-1-59790-028-7

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A True Story of Perseverance Spanning Much of the Twentieth Century

Born with congenital cataracts that left him nearly blind, Fred Holly was sent away to the Florida School for the Blind in 1933. There, he faced even more challenges because of a speech impediment so severe that other children called him Dago.

Ava Lee, also born legally blind, grew up in rural Alabama. A tenant farmer’s daughter, she survived severe deprivation during the Great Depression. Her family saw no purpose in a blind girl going to school. Yet Ava Lee possessed an insatiable hunger for knowledge, and the determination to get her education.  

Together, despite poverty and disabilities, they raised three daughters. What could they offer the girls? An enduring love of learning.

And The Dominoes Fall

Sarah Mankowski

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978-1-59790-029-4

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When catastrophe shatters all that we know, can these three endure: Faith, Hope and Love?
A story of survival, family and faith
After the death of her mother, 14-year-old Vicki goes to live with an estranged aunt in East Central Florida. Even while she struggles with shocking family secrets and gets to know neighbors that ‘don’t much care for each other’ the world beyond their isolated neighborhood is unraveling.

After a cataclysmic volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park leaves most of the United States uninhabitable, their only hope for survival is each other and an unwavering faith that God.