About The books
Books by Susan Ogden Benting & Takezo Art
Black vs White: A Journey Through the Shadows of the Mind
A contemplative exploration of perception, contrast, and inner awareness.
This book invites readers to move beyond rigid thinking and reflect on how meaning is shaped by perspective.
Rather than offering answers, it creates space for thoughtful inquiry.
Ideal for readers drawn to modern philosophy and reflective writing.
A calm, intellectual journey through light, shadow, belief, and uncertainty.
Beautiful Lizzy
A gentle and heartwarming story about self-acceptance and inner beauty.
Lizzy’s journey teaches young readers that kindness, courage, and empathy matter more than appearances.
Through friendship and reflection, she learns to see herself differently.
Perfect for children learning confidence and emotional awareness.
A comforting story that celebrates being yourself.
Butterfly’s Love
A magical story of transformation, patience, and growing together.
Two caterpillars learn that change can be difficult, but also beautiful.
Through conflict, growth, and understanding, they discover love and acceptance.
Inspired by nature’s quiet wisdom and emotional growth.
A poetic tale about becoming who you’re meant to be.
Freddy the Rabbit & The Price of Wealth
A warm forest story about friendship, community, and true value.
When Freddy becomes distracted by wealth, he learns what really matters.
With the help of his friends, he finds his way back to kindness.
A gentle lesson on choices, humility, and second chances.
Perfect for teaching values through storytelling.
Macky the Little Spider and His Friends
A charming forest tale about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances.
Macky learns that mistakes don’t define us how we grow from them does.
Through his friends, he discovers compassion, courage, and belonging.
This story gently teaches empathy and responsibility.
Ideal for young readers and classroom discussions.
Caleb and Vivy the Squirrel:
A Bilingual English-Romanian Story & Coloring Book
Caleb and Vivy the Squirrel is a heartwarming bilingual English-Romanian story and coloring book that celebrates friendship, kindness, and respect for nature.
Seven-year-old Caleb feels a special connection with the forest behind his home. One day, he meets a curious little squirrel he names Vivy. As their friendship grows, Caleb learns that patience, compassion, and responsibility are the greatest gifts we can offer to the natural world.
Loe and Boo
English-Romanian Bilingual Edition: Story and Coloring Pages
In a warm jungle filled with flowers and buzzing wings, two very different bees discover an unexpected friendship.
Loe is a graceful, hardworking honeybee who has always followed the rules of the hive. Boo is a cheerful bumblebee who flies through life in his own unpredictable way. Together, they laugh, explore the jungle, and discover a bond that grows stronger with each passing day.
Sharab and Malia
A Bilingual English–Romanian Story & Coloring Book
What happens when fear gives way to kindness?
Sharab and Malia is a heartwarming bilingual English–Romanian story about an unexpected friendship between a young tiger and a little monkey. Trapped together in a deep jungle pit, they must learn to trust each other, work together, and discover that true courage is not found in strength, but in compassion.
The Pianist
A Song From the Heart
The Pianist is a heartwarming story about a young musician who plays perfectly but feels completely alone. One day, a mysterious old woman asks him to play “a song from the heart” – and everything begins to change.
After a strange transformation, he is forced to leave his world behind and journey into the forest, where he discovers kindness, compassion, and the true meaning of music. Along the way, he learns that real beauty does not come from perfection, but from feeling.
A Land of Lies
What is truth when love itself becomes a performance?
Max Cromwell is a respected philosophy professor who has spent his life searching for truth in books, in reason, and in the fragile architecture of human morality. After two devastating betrayals, he no longer believes in miracles. He believes in logic, in caution, and in emotional distance.
Then he meets Alice Monroe.
Earth’s Last Tear
Earth’s Last Tear is a powerful and thought-provoking story about a world pushed to the edge.
In a future where deserts expand, oceans retreat, and humanity struggles to survive the consequences of its own choices, one man refuses to accept that the Earth must die in silence.
Steven Hoppe begins a quiet and almost impossible mission: to bring water back to a dying planet.
From Hell to Heaven
Tararukku Island
From Hell to Heaven – Tararukku Island is a powerful story about hope, resilience, and the courage to transform despair into a new beginning.
Gyselle Telukke was born on a forgotten island where life is nothing but survival. With no running water, no electricity, and no future in sight, Tararukku is a place where dreams slowly fade. After losing her parents and the life she fought to build beyond the island, she returns home burdened by grief, responsibility, and the feeling that her destiny has been sealed.
His Name Is Leopold
Leopold is not a bad man.
He is simply the wrong man for almost every situation in life.
At fifty-two, Leopold has spent his entire life under the watchful eye of his sharp-tongued mother in a quiet house in Southampton. He feeds the chickens, fixes old furniture, and tries very hard not to make a mess of things. Unfortunately, making a mess of things is the one talent Leopold seems to possess in abundance.
Lost in the Future for a Day
Andrei Vasiliu never expected anything extraordinary to happen in his quiet life.
A simple man from Iași, Romania, he escapes the noise of the world whenever he can by retreating to his small cabin in the Carpathian Mountains. There, surrounded by forests, fresh air, and the simple joy of gathering wild mushrooms, life feels calm and real.
But one misty morning in the woods, everything changes.
Yellow, Violet
In the quiet countryside of Scotland, Ewan MacLeod lives a life of silence and routine on the family farm he inherited.
Then one ordinary Thursday, in a small supermarket, he reaches for a jar of strawberry jam at the same moment as a woman named Clara.
She is married.
He knows it.
Yet something fragile begins to grow between them.
My Father: The Story
George Palmer had everything — a loving family, a brilliant career, and the respect of everyone around him. Yet, blinded by ambition, he trades love for power and loses his soul in the process. When his world collapses, he wanders the streets of San Francisco as a shadow of the man he once was.
But a simple act of kindness — a meal shared with a stranger — opens the door to grace. In a vision of light, George meets the Divine and is given three choices that test the core of his humanity. Through loss, pain, and revelation, he discovers what truly matters: humility, forgiveness, and love.
Nothing
When Nothing Becomes Something
In 2020, in Bend, Oregon, an honest herbal shop owner watches real remedies fail while flashy promises dominate the market. Desperate and ironic, he decides to try an experiment: to sell Nothing, beautifully packaged and heavily discounted.
The town lines up. The media arrives. A global corporation takes notice.
Who Am I?
Adam Vogel lives a quiet and orderly life as an engineer in West Germany. His days are predictable, structured, and safe. Everything changes after a violent highway accident that leaves him close to death.
During the experience, Adam enters a strange state of consciousness where time, identity, and memory no longer follow the rules he once trusted. Visions appear that seem both impossible and deeply familiar.
Sasaky Kumbei
The Shadow Samurai
In a war-torn Japan, where a name can bring glory or death, one man chooses a different path.
Sasaky Kumbei does not seek fame. He does not seek power. After surviving an encounter with Oda Nobunaga and turning away from the road that could have made him known, he disappears into the world under another name, Hayashi Jiro.
He walks.
Chiyo
In the shadows of war-torn Sengoku Japan, a quiet girl is born beneath an ancient omen.
Her name is Chiyo.
From the moment of her birth on the eighth day of Yayoi, those around her sense something unusual. She does not cry. She watches. The monks speak of “two shadows,” of a child destined to steady another soul whose fate will shake the world.
Raised within the Akechi clan during one of the most dangerous periods in Japanese history, Chiyo grows between silence and observation
Einar Olafsson
Year 999.
Born on a stormy night in a small Viking village on the coast of Norway, Einar Olafsson grows up caught between two worlds.
His father, Olaf Haraldsson, believes a man earns respect through strength, conquest, and battle. Einar dreams of something entirely different. He longs to understand the sea, follow the stars, and discover what lies beyond the horizon.
When the Gods Were Silent
In the ancient world of Mesopotamia, where fear ruled the hearts of men and priests spoke in the name of silent gods, one young woman is chosen for sacrifice.
Ama is condemned to die in the waters of the Euphrates so the city of Uruk may be “purified” and saved from drought, famine, and divine wrath. But when Lugal, a hunter who refuses to bow before fear, rescues her from the temple of the High Priest Naram-Sin, their escape ignites a dangerous pursuit across the marshes and deserts of the ancient world.
