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Becky Picard’s Newly Released “Have You Ever Wondered… Who is God?” is an Engaging Children’s Narrative That Helps to Explain Key Foundations of Knowing God

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Cedar Rapids, IA, April 05, 2023 –(CarryOnHarry.com)– “Have You Ever Wondered… Who is God?”: a vibrant celebration of faith that will inspire young minds. “Have You Ever Wondered… Who is God?” is the creation of published author Becky Picard, who has lived most of her life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she now lives with her husband, Denny. After graduation from St. Louis University, she spent seven years teaching high school German and French in nearby Granite City, Illinois. The next nine years were happily spent staying home with her two young sons, Christian and Ryan, while living in Illinois, Texas, and Colorado. For the next twenty years, banking was her career, becoming a vice president for US Bank and senior vice president for Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust and its parent company QCR Holdings.

Picard shares, “Does God eat pizza? Where does he live? Why did he make us? These are just a few of the questions that Emily tries to answer for her friend Henry.
‘Have You Ever Wondered…Who Is God?’ is the first in a series by author Becky Picard. It is a story of two friends, Emily and Henry, who walk home from school together and discuss a variety of things they wonder about. Today, Henry would like to discuss God because he has heard other kids talking about him, but he doesn’t know who they are talking about. Emily acknowledges that she is not an expert about God but tries to answer Henry’s questions.”

Published by Christian Faith Publishing, Becky Picard’s new book offers a helpful opening for aiding children in beginning their spiritual journey.

Picard shares in hope of touching the souls of upcoming generations in need of a strong connection with their faith.

Consumers can purchase “Have You Ever Wondered… Who is God?” at traditional brick & mortar bookstores, or online at Amazon.com, Apple iTunes store, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or inquiries about “Have You Ever Wondered… Who is God?” contact the Christian Faith Publishing media department at 866-554-0919.

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Scottsdale Author Joe Reina’s New Novel Follows a Killer Who Gets Away With It

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Scottsdale Author Joe Reina’s New Novel Follows a Killer Who Gets Away With It

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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Shadows over Scottsdale: An Unsolved Murder Mystery," built around a scenario true-crime statistics make uncomfortably familiar: a man commits a devastating crime and simply disappears, leaving investigators and a grieving community with no resolution.

The book follows a character named Robert, who flees the country using forged documents and a cargo ship after an act of destruction that leaves behind, as the publisher describes it, charred remains and an unanswered investigation. The case goes cold. The novel, according to its publisher, is less concerned with the mechanics of the escape than with what happens afterward, to the people left waiting for answers that never come.

Reina, now retired in Scottsdale, spent decades in international business across apparel, footwear, and real estate, with extensive time in Europe and a particular connection to Italy that shaped two earlier books, "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen" and "A Love Affair in Tuscany." "Shadows over Scottsdale" marks a different direction, built instead around the real scale of unsolved homicide in the U.S. The publisher’s materials cite roughly 346,000 unsolved homicides since 1965, with more than a dozen occurring unresolved each day. Separate reporting on the book has cited a figure of about 7,778 murders in 2023 alone, which it similarly frames as more than a dozen a day going unresolved.

"Writing ‘Shadows over Scottsdale’ forced me to confront uncomfortable questions about justice itself," Reina said, according to the announcement. "Too many crimes go unsolved, too many families wait endlessly for answers. I wanted readers to understand that behind every cold case statistic is a real story, real suffering, and real questions that may never be answered."

The publisher positions the novel as an examination of institutional limits as much as a crime story: the toll of a case gone cold on the people who can’t move past it, and what it means for a community when accountability simply never arrives.

"Shadows over Scottsdale" is published by Covenant Books and is available in paperback and hardcover through the publisher’s website and major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books.

Cold-case statistics tend to get cited and then forgotten. Studio CarryOnHarry is curious whether fiction built directly around that number does more to stick with a reader than the number alone ever does.

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Joe Reina’s ‘Lost Masterpieces’ Imagines a Fictional Farewell Among Renaissance Painters

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Joe Reina’s ‘Lost Masterpieces’ Imagines a Fictional Farewell Among Renaissance Painters

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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Lost Masterpieces: Three Paintings, 500 Years A Journey Through Time," built around an imagined scene from Renaissance history: the night before Leonardo da Vinci leaves for Milan, when three fellow painters each hand him a small work carrying a private message.

According to the announcement, those three gifts come from Sandro Botticelli, Titian, and Andrea Mantegna, each painting standing in for a different kind of counsel. Botticelli’s piece is described as layered with allegory and coded warnings about power and patronage. Titian’s is framed as warm and sensual, suggesting reinvention and a break from convention. Mantegna’s is austere and classically precise, encoding discipline and endurance. According to the announcement, these three paintings form a wordless exchange between masters, transmitting wisdom, mutual regard, and assurance across generations through visual means.

Reina comes to this material from outside the art world. His career was built in apparel, footwear, and real estate development in Chicago, and the publisher’s materials trace his interest in European history, and in Italy specifically, to years of international business travel. He has published several previous books, including "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen," "A Love Affair in Tuscany," and "Shadows over Scottsdale," before turning to this account of a fictionalized moment at the hinge of the Renaissance.

"I wanted to capture that extraordinary moment when masters speak to each other across time through their work," Reina said in the announcement. "These paintings represent not just gifts, but a conversation about what it means to pursue greatness while remaining grounded in purpose and principle."

The book is published through Covenant Books and is available in hardcover and paperback, as well as through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.

Studio CarryOnHarry is intrigued by novels that build fiction around real historical figures at a specific, dramatized turning point rather than attempting straight biography — the approach succeeds or fails based on how seamlessly the fictional moment integrates with documented historical fact.

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