best-selling amazon.com author, rolf margenau, releases new novel

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Best-Selling Amazon.com Author, Rolf Margenau, Releases New Novel Frogworks Publishing announces the publication of Master Gardener by Tewksbury, New Jersey, author, Rolf Margenau. This book is subtitled: a novel about gardening, magic seeds, eco-terrorism, politics, big business, love and Wylie Cypher. In this book, the author revisits the hero of Public Information, his novel about the Korean War and its aftermath, who is now a seventy-five year old retired lawyer and Master Gardener. Wylie misses the excitement of earlier legal involvements

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Frogworks Publishing announces the publication of Master Gardener by Tewksbury, New Jersey, author, Rolf Margenau. This book is subtitled: a novel about gardening, magic seeds, eco-terrorism, politics, big business, love and Wylie Cypher.

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Best-Selling Amazon.com Author, Rolf Margenau, Releases

New Novel Frogworks Publishing announces the publication of Master Gardener by Tewksbury, New Jersey, author, Rolf Margenau. This book is subtitled: a novel about gardening, magic seeds, eco-terrorism, politics, big business, love and Wylie Cypher.

In this book, the author revisits the hero of Public Information, his novel about the Korean War and its aftermath, who is now a seventy-five year old retired lawyer and Master Gardener. Wylie misses the excitement of earlier legal involvements

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and eagerly comes to the aid of Ann Proctor, another Master Gardener, who came upon magic seeds on a visit to the Amazon. Their fantastic properties come to the attention of Big Ag whose CEO, Dick Geier, understands they represent a serious threat to the profitable seeds genetically engineered by Big Ag to resist the effects of plant-killing chemicals. Big Ag determines to crush the development of the magic seeds, at the same time sending the Department of Homeland Security after a band of eco-terrorists who seek to save the monarch butterfly. Millions of acres of the butterflies’ main sustenance, milkweed, have been destroyed by the application of glyphosate, Big Ag’s plant-killing chemical. The group manages to achieve its objective in spite of numerous roadblocks.

The author explains, “I had but a hazy awareness of genetic engineering in agriculture until the second month of instruction in Rutgers’ Master Gardener program. Then a lecturer explained the basics of genetically engineered plants. I did some research and recognized the process offered serious challenges to our environment. In one of those inexplicable and dangerous brain fevers that afflict writers, it came to me that I could write a story about my Wylie Cypher character, now much older and retired, who becomes a Master Gardener. The story could act as a sounding board for many of the issues I had been studying. Since it would be fiction, I could avoid taking a stand and getting myself in trouble.” Sections of the book are set in the Amazon jungles of Peru. Margenau says, “I couldn’t imagine a better place to produce magic seeds. And the splendor and lushness of the jungle offer a fine contrast to the cold winter in New Anglia that Wylie and Ann leave to solve the mystery of the seeds.”

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Samples of early reviews: *Margenau has a refreshing approach to start each chapter. Chapters begin with a gardening advice column written by one of the central characters, Bitsy. Not only is this a welcome change from the current trend to begin chapters with a quote or poem, but it is also a unique way to incorporate practical gardening tips into the book. "Master Gardener" has a story, a character, or a cause for everyone. *I enjoyed this book. It is not often I have a good time learning about serious threats to our environment as well as the best way to take care of my garden. *This is a great read. It made a rainy weekend a pleasure and I learned an awful lot. By sheer coincidence, Margenau is a retired attorney who has become a Master Gardener. Book Information: Master Gardener Author: Rolf Margenau Publisher: Frogworks Publishing ISBN: 978-0988231108 Published: March 2013 Pages: 302 Available in paperback ($23.95) and eBook ($2.95). Contact: [email protected] The book available at www.frogworks.com ; www.amazon.com and local bookstores. Contact: Rolf Margenau Frogworks.com LLC 48 Sutton Road, Lebanon, NJ 08833 908-832-6704 [email protected] http://www.frogworks.com