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"I didn't do anything and people want me dead. It's wrong. Why do people do the wrong thing?" -- Theresa .
"We're lost in this confusing world unlless we follow the directions of its Maker."
"Somebody who does the will of God has an invincible ally."
"Staying alive for me is like surviving a train wreck."
"I'm very simple. I follow my conscience. I am what I do."
"We enter new eras but the old laws still rule."
"We're lost in this confusing world unless we follow the directions of its Maker." -- Theresa
British Prime Minister Blair: "Will you try to gain control of HAL?"
Theresa: "Sure. It's only the most impossible, burdensome, insane task ever imposed on a human being. James Bond would break under this pressure."
"I can do anything." -- Theresa
EMPRESS THERESA
IS ON AMAZON.COM
AND ON BARNES AND NOBLE: barnesandnoble.com
It's full of unforgettable scenes. 😀
If you don't think deeply about things,
your life is only half full.
"This is a genius piece of work." -- five star reviewer on amazon.uk.com
WOW! UNBELIEVABLE! Today, Oct 26, 2022, at 9:12 a.m., Empress Theresa’s bestselling rank was 82,114. This beats 99.45 percent of Amazon’s 15,000,000 listed books. This is incredible for a stand-alone book that’s been listed on Amazon since March 2014 and has never been advertised.
Congratulations, Theresa! It’s another "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" you accomplished. 😁
Book sales
Paperback only Paperback and KINDLE
Mar 2014 - Dec 2017 116 145
Jan - Dec 2018 132 196
Jan - Dec 2019 142 206
Jan - Dec 2020 326 487
Jan - Dec 2021 334 405 KINDLE deleted June
Jan - Dec 2022 199 199
Jan 1 - 19 2023 16 16
Since Mar 2014 1,265 1,656 ( 16 ) WOW!! Thanks, everybody. 😀 🙋♀️
Helpful hint: Sales go up every year as Christmas approaches. Ah hah! Something nice to give to a teenager or anybody! It's loaded with spectacular scenes.
Give them something to think about. Theresa says: "I am what I do".
Holy smokes!!! 😲🤪 Sales shot up in the three weeks following school closing in mid-June. Teachers must have added Empress Theresa to their students' Summer reading list. They recognize the story's value. I've been writing letters to public high schools. It must be very hard to find books that would interest the young. ET is a sure winner. It's more exciting than Huckleberry Finn or Moby Dick while not sacrificing heart or many human characteristics.
IF THEY MAKE A MOVIE....
...... out of Empress Theresa, I can imagine the young actress who plays Theresa giving her Best Actress Academy Award acceptance speech as follows:
"My career is over. There will never be another role equal to Empress Theresa.
"It's fun to watch James Bond movies, but viewers don't put themselves in his place. They know they could not be James Bond. Theresa is an ordinary teenage girl who gets limitless power over the whole world, but she makes no efforts to influence people, impress prople, get people's attention, or be popular, all things actors do all the time. Like Theresa I was given an impossible task. People told me no actress could play Theresa. What was I to do? I didn't act. I behaved exactly like an ordinary teenage girl would in similar circumstances so viewers could put themselves in her place."
She holds her Best Actress Oscar up and the Academy cheers. Actors understand what she's talking about. You have to reach viewers with realistic characters.
Could you find another book like this? Forget it! Empress Theresa is a story like no other. It's truly one of a kind. It's full of scenes you've never seen before.
Consider the following. 😕 🙄
How many stories do you know that:
. are about an American teenage girl,
. take place in present day United States,
. have no foul language,
. have no objectionable situations,
. have no political agendas,
. have no references to race or LGBT,
. and have no violence,
….. BUT….
. have life threatening situations,
. have ‘impossible problems’ solved with brilliant solutions,
. have heroic sacrifice,
. have a wide variety of themes: coming of age, courage, generosity, youth, role of women, role of men, power, good and bad, humor, heartwarming scenes, patriotism, and many others,
. and after all that are fun to read?
Empress Theresa is all that. 😲 🤪 😁
Is this possible? Yes. The book was written over a span of twenty years and contains everything that can interest the young. It has universality. Anybody can relate to
Theresa Elizabeth Sullivan Hartley, the World Empress.
"Operatio sequitur esse": operation follows being. But we can choose what we do. Therefore, we can change who we are. "I'm very simple. I follow my conscience. I am what I do." -- Theresa, speaking to a White House East Room full of reporters.
Empress Theresa is a beautiful story because Theresa is a wonderful girl who does a lot of good. You have to love her.
The story of every individual is the constant struggle between the intellect and the emotions for control of the person. In Theresa's case, the intellect wins. 😁
ALERT: It's "Back to School" time..
Every year English teachers are faced with the problem of finding books suitable for their middle and high school students to read. It's a challenge. The requirements are that a book doesn't have objectionable material such as violence, foul language, racism, sexual scenes, glorification of drug and alcohol abuse, political leanings, and other controversial matters,
and yet
it must have situations for intelligent discussion sessions,
it must be 'grown up' enough so the students don't feel they're being fed a kids' story,
and with all that is must have a story interesting enough from cover to cover to keep the students involved. Few books can measure up to all these requirements .
Empress Theresa does. .
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R7ZQ02W9HJUVH/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1495450422
It's a thousand ideas tightly packed into 465 pages. You'll wish the book was longer.
Theresa demonstrates the American personality. Decent Americans want freedom, democracy and fairplay by and for all people. Theresa demonstrates all these as a young person with no experiences in anything who uses a child's open mind to react to circumstances in constructive and unselfish ways. There can be no argument that she does anything wrong. Her intentions are pure. "I'm just a kid. I don't want to be anything else."
Theresa takes on the world. "Prime Minister Blair said I'd be remembered for a million years." -- Theresa, page one
Theresa's actions change the whole world, not just the people in the world but the planet itself!
Most people go through this world and leave nothing behind. They achieve nothing. Theresa achieves a lot.
What's in Empress Theresa?
Violence, shootings, bombings? No. Foul language? No. Car chases? No. Sex scenes? No. Marital infidelity? No. Suicide? No. Drugs, alcohol? No. Mystery, crime? No.
Mysterious events? Yes. "Impossible problems" solved? Yes. Stupid, greedy adversaries? Yes. Teenage ingenuity? Yes. Love and friendship? Yes. Pet chipmunks? Yes. Courage? Yes. Heroism? Yes. Fame and fortune? Yes. U.S. President, British Prime Minister, Israeli Prime Minister? Yes. Global crises? Yes. Political situations? Yes. Philosophical remarks? Yes. Heartwarming scenes? Yes.
How many stories make you feel good?
Empress Theresa will.
Empress Theresa is a favorite target of internet trolls. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ― Mark Twain
Paraphrasing Twain's remarks: Little people ridicule your attempts to be great while the great encourage you to be great. Theresa wanted nothing more than a quiet life, but she doesn't get it. Prime Minister Blair has enough confidence in her to give her the task of saving humanity. She rises to the challenge.
From an internet troll's 'review' (??!!) on Amazon......
QUOTE
"There are parts throughout the novel where it was complete agony for me because there's nothing going on. "
END QUOTE
I have a list of 34 'spectacular and riveting' events in Empress Theresa. That's an average of one event every 13.64 pages. How many stories have you read that can keep up that frantic pace?
"This is a story like none we've ever heard. An eighteen year old girl is single-handedly driving world events. Heaven help us all!"
-- President Veronica Stinson
Makes a perfect Christmas present
for a young person, or someone who remembers youth and now understands it.
Every story should teach you something about yourself.
We can't change what we are. Nothing can be added to or subtracted from the essence of our humanity. But WHO we are can change depending on our actions. Theresa shows the way.
Theresa's parents raised her right. Mind you, her parents weren't extraordinary people. Theresa says little about them, just enough to let us know they were good but ordinary people.
Theresa might have been ordinary too if she'd had an ordinary life. Difficult circumstances made her grow into an extraordinary person. Her parents planted the acorn and made sure the sapling grew straight; Theresa developed into an oak tree spreading her branches over the whole world.
"Know thyself" --- ancient Greek saying
"The unexamined life is not worth living" --- Socrates, in Plato's dialogue 'Apology' just before Socrates is condemned to death
"Worse than death is the life of a fool"
--- Book of Sirach 22;11
"I'm very simple. I follow my conscience. I am what I do. If you think that's easy, try it for one day." --- Theresa Hartley, to a White House East Room full of reporters
Theresa gets it right!
“you should put away the old self of your former way of life,
and put on* the new self,” -- Ephesians, 4: 22-24
Few people have the courage to take an honest look at themselves. Theresa does, and therein lies her strength.
Read Empress Theresa and see what she finds. \
If the soul is only intellect and will, why aren't we all alike? The soul is also personality, the continuance of the actions it does, and personality can change.
The body can have a certain 'knowledge' of singulars, individual examples of a species, but it cannot 'know' universal ideas. The body may recognize Tom, Dick, and Harry, but doesn't know the universal idea of mankind.
The soul knows universals.
Since the body doesn't know universals, it can't act on its own to comply with universals. Yet we see that man deals with the universal idea of justice. We set up courts, judges, police, governments and laws to secure justice. Philanthropists help the poor in promoting the universals of goodness and mercy. And so forth.
It can only be the soul that prods the body to do these things. And since we are what we do, the soul is the form of the body, that is, the soul makes man what he is. Otherwise, there would be no people because free choice with understanding of universals is needed for personhood.
Of what is Theresa the empress? She's empress of her internal self, described by Henry David Thoreau as 'a realm besides which the empire of the Czar is a petty state', a land too vast to be explored in a lifetime. Theresa rules her inner self.
Theresa's personality development is transcendental. She knows her conscience is not just generated by her social and physical needs. The Holy Spirit is also in there constantly pushing her in the right direction.
In chapter five, Prime Minister Blair tells Theresa, "When the world falls apart around us, we look within ourselves and find ourselves. Show us what's within you".
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A NEW FIVE STAR REVIEW OF EMPRESS THERESA ON AMAZON, DATED OCT 19, 2017 BY 'NON MESS'. After clicking on Non mess's name and seeing what other items she's reviewed on Amazon, I have to believe she's a young lady in her late teens or twenty something.
"Not what youd expect
by Non mess Verified purchase
Ignoring all the critisisms directed at this novel, i decided to give it a fair shake. What i found blew me away. The author does a flawless job building a unique and fascinating world with words alone. The characters practically jumped out of the page and into my living quarters. To say i loved it would be an understatement. I cannot recommend it enough, especially to young adults. Give empress theresq a try if you're seeking a good role "
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IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Somebody wrote this Amazon listing 'review' on June 13, 2017;
QUOTE
This is the single worst book I've ever read. I didn't buy it, because you don't deserve money. I downloaded a free version and slogged through the perverse, lewd, disgusting Christian propaganda that is this book.
Please just... never write anything ever again. Ever.
END QUOTE
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Well, that says it all, doesn't it? "perverse, lewd, disgusting Christian propaganda"? Have you every seen anything that blasphemous? None of the dozens of other trolls objected to this remark. These people hate anything that even mentions God. You saw his words.
The truth is not a single Christian doctrine is mentioned in the entire book. Theresa never mentions who God is or what he does. An alien from another planet would have no idea what Theresa's religion was. If all the references to God in the book were gathered in one place, they would take up one and a half pages out of 466 pages. That's 99.7% secular, purer than Ivory soap, but that's not enough for these atheist trolls.
In chapter 2, Theresa is a star baseball pitcher in high school. Internet trolls viciously attack her on the internet. A teacher tells Theresa why they do that, and she understands.
"I saw why the trolls were angry. They knew they couldn’t go where I was going. I’d have a good life. They wouldn’t."
If I'd intended to write a story that the internet trolls would hate, I couldn't have done better than Empress Theresa. It's a natural internet troll target.
What is Empress Theresa about? It's about how to live to be the best of who you are.
"A woman who puts her trust in a higher power will be unchanged. Theresa will remain Theresa." -- Prime Minister Blair speaking to the House of Commons
"Nothing can stop Theresa except her own conscience, and it will." --Prime Minister Blair
"Somebody who wants to do God's will has an unconquerable ally. Theresa can't be defeated." -- Father Donoughty speaking to reporters
Empress Theresa says: "I didn't do anything and people want me dead. It's wrong. Why do people do the wrong thing?" She's stimied by a world filled with evil. "We're lost in this confusing world unless we follow the directions of its Maker."
If you glance at the Amazon listing for Empress Theresa you'll see the vicious attacks by the internet trolls. For a discussion of who internet trolls are, see the wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
We'll examine this phenomenon and learn a lot about Empress Theresa at the same time.
Why do internet trolls fear and hate “Empress Theresa” ?
Decide for yourself. Choose one or several:
Theresa is a good girl.
Theresa follows her conscience.
Theresa believes in God.
Theresa is beautiful.
Theresa is very intelligent.
Theresa has a sense of humor.
Theresa has a great personality.
Theresa easily attracts boys in college.
Theresa avoids the common problems of youth, drinking, drugs, bad friends and so on.
Theresa succeeds in her endeavors.
Theresa is courageous even to the point of death.
Theresa has empathy for others.
Theresa puts herself in danger for others.
Theresa saves the world.
Theresa makes the world a better place.
Theresa never harms anyone.
Theresa uses thousands of times as much energy as the human race has used since Adam and Eve.
Theresa has more power than all the world’s armies combined.
Theresa could be a world dictator but leaves everybody alone.
Which of these do the internet trolls fear and hate the most?
Internet trolls are not literary critics.
They show no evidence of knowing the first thing about literary criticism which is a disciplined science. All they do is criticize, using lies and distortions to denigrate the target of their hatred.
Let's take time to learn a little about the human flavor of Empress Theresa. Quotations will do it. Internet trolls will hate this!
Twelve quotations from Empress Theresa:
"Nobody could have dreamed of what I'd do years later and nobody would have believed it if they'd been told. Prime Minister Blair said I'd still be remembered in a million years." --Theresa's narration on page 1
"If people grieve your passing rejoice in the good you did and die like a hero going home." --Theresa's message to home when she believes she's about to die in minutes
“When the world falls apart around us we look within ourselves and find ourselves. Show us what’s within you.” --Prime Minister Blair to Theresa when she learns of her global responsibilities
“The more I see of the world the less I like it. People are unpredictable. They don’t act according to their professed beliefs. You can’t find enough trustworthy people to fill an elevator. I think people have stopped thinking about morality altogether.” --Theresa, complaining to Prime Minister Blair ( pity the poor man having to deal with this girl! )
"Don't mess around with Empress Theresa!" --Steve Hartley, Theresa's husband
"Those who challenge Theresa Hartley's power are fools. She could destroy the world. Don't push her too far." --Israeli Prime Minister Scherzer to his nation
"A woman who puts her trust in a higher power will be unchanged. Theresa will remain Theresa." --British Prime Minister Blair speaking to the House of Commons
"The only thing that can stop Theresa is her own conscience, and it will." --Prime Minister Blair to the House of Commons
"Somebody who wants to do God's will has an unconquerable ally. Theresa can't be defeated." --Father Donoughty speaking to reporters
"Theresa is a genius. Everybody knows that." --President Veronica Stinson at a press conference
"I'm very simple. I follow my conscience. I am what I do." --Theresa speaking to reporters in the White House East Room
On page one Theresa describes herself as a ten year old: “…when I was a little girl I didn’t have a clue about anything. My job as a kid was to figure out what the heck was going on and what to do about it.” Later, when she is challenged with global problems, it turns out that nobody else knows what to do. Theresa has to figure it out herself. Her husband Steve complains, “Politicians are hiding under their desks. Theresa has to do it all”.
Most of the book's chapters reveal how Theresa deals with her long list of "impossible problems". I can't give those away on this website, but I do give you five other chapters on the Look Inside pages. They give some idea of the story's nature and how Theresa rises from a ten year old girl to become the World Empress.
This is a story with positive values. Finally!
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The previous cover image.
Theresa looked like a Sumo wrestler!
Well, how many authors also
paint their own coven image?
For comments on Theresa's personality and behavior, see the Study Guide.
Empress Theresa could only be written once and then the story goes on the shelf. I've tried as hard as I could to make the story satisfactory to readers because there's no second chance.
Enjoy a few hours with Theresa!
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When visitors look in at this website their locations are listed for me for a few minutes. I catch a small number of them, probably less than one percent. Here are visitors's locations from outside the United States. Most of the international visitors look in in the middle of the night when I'm asleep. The city isn't always given.
People all over the world are fascinated with the American personality. Theresa is a great example of that.
Algeria ( no city )___Firmat, Argentina__Mendoza, Argentina_Vicente Lopez, Argentina_Villa Lynch, Argentina_
AUSTRALIA: __Australia ( no city 7 )__ Adelaide__ Ainsliegh __Bellara __Box Hill__Brisbane __Brunswick __Edensor Park __ Coogee, _ East Brisbane _Merrickville ___Hope Valley __HighWycombe ____Carlingford ___Carwoola __Frankston _Hectorville _ Malvern East _Melbourne _Ormiston_ Mildura __Pymble __ Revesty__ Sydney __Toorak __ Wheelers Hill __Point Cook __Templestowe Lower __Austria ( no city ) 3 __Mollersdorf, Austria_
Dhaka, Bangladesh___Overpelt, Belgium Hamilton, Bermuda___ Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina __ Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina__ Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina__Brazil ( no city ) 2 ___ Araraquara, Brazil__ Belo Horizonti, Brazil __Bom Jardin, Brazil____ Brasilia, Brazil___ _Camboriu, Brazil_ __ Canoas, Brazil ___Curitiba, Brazil_ _Dourados, Brazil__Fortaleza, Brazil __Guarulhos, Brazil ___Jose Do Rio Preto, Brazil _ Limeira, Brazil__Maceio, Brazil_ ____ Maringa, Brazil__Porto Alegre, Brazil (4)__ Recife, Brazil (2)_ Rio De Janeiro, Brazil_ 2 _Santa Cruz Do Sul, Brazil __Salvador, Brazil (2)__Sao Bento Do Sul, Brazil ___Sao Paulo, Brazil 3 ____Sofia, Bulgaria__
CANADA: Abbotsford, BC __ Airbrie, AB__ Bearharnois, QC_Brampton, ON (3) __Calgary, AB__(4) _Cambridge, ON__ Consecon, ON ____Edmonton, AB ( 8 )__ Etobicoke__Gatineau, QC __Grande Prairie __ Halifax, NS ( 2 ) __Iberville, QC ___ Laval, QC__ Leduc, AB__London, ON ___Medicine Hat, AB ___ Milton, ON _Montague, PE __ Montreal ___Niverville, MB __North York, ON ___Oakville __Orleans, ON __ Oshawa, ON __ Pembroke, ON __Peterborough, ON ___Pugwash, NS _Regina, SK (2) _Saint John, NB __St. John's, NL (2)__ Scarborough, ON _ _Sherwood Park, AB _ _Saskatoon, SK _Surrey, BC___Terrebonne, QC __ Toronto ( 11) __Tusket, NS _ _ Vancouver, BC ( 5 ) _Victoria _Waubaushene, ON__Welland, ON _Whirwhoueaw, YT ___Winnipeg, MB ( 5 ) __
Chile ( no city )__Coihaique, Chile ___Melipilla, Chile __ Santiago, Chile ( 7 ) __Quemchi, Chile___Beijing, China ( 6 ) __Chenzhen, China _ Changsha, China __Guangzhou, China __Hangzhou, China (2) ___Nanjing, China ( 2 ) __Shenzhen, China_ Columbia ( no city ) 1 __Bogota, Columbia_( 2 )___Croatia ( no city )__Czech Republic ( no city ) 1 _Steti, Czech Republic__ Most, Czech Republic _
___ Denmark ( no city ) 3 ___Silkeborg, Denmark___ Vanlose, Denmark
___Guayaquil, Ecuador___ Quito, Ecuador__Giza, Egypt _Tallinn, Estonia___
+++Finland ( no city 4 ) __Helsinki, Finland __ Tampere, Finland ( 2 )__ Limajoki, Finland ( 2 )____Vantaa, Finland --France ( no city 2) __Chaville, France ( 3 )__ Guiseneirs, France_Nantes, France__Troyes, France---Vincennes, France--
Germany ( no city 6 ) __Amberg, Germany__ ___ Aachen, Germany__ Augsberg, Germany __Berlin, Germany (5)__ Bielefeld, Germany_Dresden, Germany___Gronau, Germany___ Herne, Germany____Kaarst, Germany _Karlsruhe, Germany__Langenau, Germany__ Nurnburg, Germany __Muhlacker, Germany (2)__ Neu Wulmstorf, Germany__ Selb, Germany_Stuttgart, Germany __Xanten, Germany__Accra, Ghana _Arta, Greece_ Athens, Greece ( 2 )___Katerini, Greece __ Hagatna, Guam (2)___ Guatemala ( no city )__Guatemala City, Guatemala__ Saint Peter Port, Guernsey__
____ Port-au-prince, Haiti__Central District, Hong Kong (2)__ Hong Kong, Hong Kong__Kwai Chung, Hong Kong__Budapest, Hungary__
Reykjavik, Iceland____Ahirka, India___ Bangalore, India__Ludhiana, India__Pune, India__ Indonesia ( no city ) 3 ___Bandung, Indonesia___ Bekasi, Indonesia_ Geband, Indonesia ___Jakarta, Indonesia (2) ___Ireland ( no city ) 2 __Dublin, Ireland__Mullingar, Ireland___Letterkenny, Ireland__Limerick, Ireland__Tralee, Ireland__Ashdod, Israel__ Haifa, Israel_ Herzliya, Israel_ Ram On, Israel__Arconate, Italy__Casapulla, Italy_Even Sapir, Israel_Este, Italy_Italy (no city )__Lanciano, Italy__Parma, Italy___Rome, Italy 2 ____San Salvo, Italy__Vigonza,Italy__ Vimodrone, Italy_
__May Pen, Jamaica__Japan ( no city ) 2__Fukuoka, Japan__Haboro, Japan__Tokyo, Japan (2)___ Jordan (no city)
_ _Ansan, Korea, Republic of__ Daegy, Korea, Republic of__Jeonju, Korea, Republic of___ Seoul, Korea, Republic of (2)
__Skopje, Macedonia__Malaysia ( no city )____Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ( 4 )___Ipoh, Malasia_Kajang, Malasia__ Shah Alam, Malaysia__ Sungai Besar, Malasia_Ta’Xbiex, Malta_ __Mexico ( no city )__ Garza Garcia, Mexico _Guadalupe, Mexico__ Chilpancingo, Mexico__ De Cabadas, Mexico__La Paz, Mexico__Mexico, Mexico__(12)__ Monterrey, Mexico __Nuevo Laredo, Mexico___ Puebla, Mexico__ Tijuana, Mexico_ Zacatecas, Mexico ___
Chisinau, Moldova, Republic of__
Kathmandu, Nepal__Netherlands ( no city 2 )___Nieuwe Pekela, Netherlands__Nieuw-vennep, Netherlands__Utrecht, Netherlands__New Zealand ( no city 1 ) __Auckland, New Zealand (3)_ Hamilton, New Zealand_North Shore, New Zealand__Alta, Norway ( 2 )__Bergen, Norway ( 3 )__ Finnoy, Norway__ Halden, Norway__Kapp, Norway__Nordfjordeid, Norway__ Odnes, Norway ____Orsta, Norway__Oslo, Norway ( 8 )
Islamabad, Pakistan ___Panama ( no city 1 ) ___Panama, Panama___ San Sebastian, Puerto Rico___Lima, Peru__ Phillippines ( no city 9 ) __Acacia, Philippines___Barangay, Philippines__Cainta, Philippines (2) __Makati City, Philippines (2) __Makati, Philippines ( 6 )__ Malate, Philippines _Manila, Philippines (2) _San Juan, Philippines __Commonwealth, Phillipines __Karuhatan, Phillipines___Marakina, Philippines__ Quezon, City, Philippines (3)__Debica, Poland__Krakow, Poland__Manowo, Poland__Poznan, Poland__Braga, Portugal__ Barcelos, Portugal__Ponte Delgada,
Portugal__Sao Joao Da Madeira, Portugal__
__Qatar ( no city ) 1__Doha, Qatar_
-- Romania ( no city ) 2 __ Bucharest, Romania__Calafat, Romania__ Campia Turzii, Romania---Russian Federation ( no city ) 4 ___Lipetsk, Russian Federation ___-Moscow, Russian Federation ( 25 )--Mytishchi, Russian Federation-__Penza, Russion Federation_ Roston-on-don, Russian Federation (2)_ _ Ryazan, Russion Federation __Saint Petersburg. Russian Federation_(4)_Ural. Russian Federation__-
__Serbia ( no city )__Beograd,Serbia__Belgrade, Serbia (3) __Singapore ( no city ) 1 ___Singapore, Singapore ( 6 )__ _Slovakia ( no city ) 2___ Cape Town, South Africa (4) __Durban, South Africa (2) (2)__Johannesburg, South Aftrica (2)__ Pretoria, South Africa__Spain (no city 1)Barcelona, Spain__Benirredra, Spain__Cambre, Spain___ Madrid, Spain__ Madridonas, Spain__ Molina De Segura, Spain__ Otura, Spain__Palma De Mallorca, Spain____ Sevilla, Spain_ Zamora, Spain __ Bromma, Sweden___ Skarholmen, Sweden___Bergby, Sweden___Goteborg, Sweden__Kode, Sweden__ Malmo, Sweden __Onsala, Sweden _ Saltsjöbaden, Sweden____Stockholm, Sweden (3) ____ Switzerland ( no city 2) Bern, Switzerland__ Perly, Switzerland_ _ Uster, Switzerland__Zollikofen, Switzerland ( 2 )__ Zurich, Switzerland (2)
__Taiwan ( no city ) 1__ Keelung, Taiwan __Bangkok, Thailand ( 2 )____Ban Kho, Thailand __ Chiang Yuen, Thailand__ Phayakkhaphum Phisai, Thailand __ Port-of-spain, Trinidad and Tobago__Ankara, Turkey__Bursa, Turkey__ Istanbul, Turkey ( 3 )
Kiev, Ukraine __ Poltava, Ukraine__
Abu Dhabi, 01, United Arab Emirates ___ Dubai, United Arab Emirates ___
UNITED KINGDOM: United Kingdom ( no city ) 16___Abertillery___Alyesbury __Aylesford___Barnet (3) __Bath ( 2 )___Belfast___Birmingham( 4 ) _Bolton_Bradford __Brighton __Bristol __Buckhurst Hill__Cambridge_Chatham (2)_Canterbury_Chatteris__ Cheltenham __ Cinderford __Croydon __Eastbourne __ Ellesmere Port ___Falmouth__ Glasgow ( 4 )_ _Grays__Hammersmith__Harrogate __Haverhill __Ilford ( 2 ) __Inverness ___Ipswich __Kirkham __Leeds __ Leicester 2___ Leigh-on-sea __Leyton__Liverpool ( 2 ) ___London (5)__Maidstone__ Manchester (2) ___Neasden __Newcastle Upon Tyne ___ Newton-le-willows __ North Walsham __Northwich __Nottingham ( 2 ) __Oxford_ Portsmouth__Redditch, __Rochester __Rugeley __Salford _ Saint Helens __ Scarborough_South Petherton_Staines __ Stoke-on-trent __Swansea ( 3 )__Taunton ___Uxbridge __ Wandsworth__ Wellingborough_Westbury Wolverhampton_
Hanoi, Vietnam ! Really?
Nchelenge, Zambia__
( The web host seems to identify the nearest large city rather than a visitor's small town. )
THE FOUR CORNERSTONES OF THERESA'S PHILOSOPHY:
"We're lost in this confusing world unless we follow the directions of its Maker." page 2
"As a believer I was sure I was immortal and that gave me courage." page 70
"I did everything correctly. In this world perfection isn't good enough." page 207
( Theresa is trying to do something good for everybody, but nothing seems to be going right. When everything you believe in seems to be letting you down, your sanity is in danger. Every good person has had this experience in some way. )
-"I'm very simple. I follow my conscience. I am what I do. If you think that's easy, try it for one day." page 391
How many stories do you know that:
. are about an American teenage girl,
. take place in present day United States,
. have no foul language,
. have no objectionable situations,
. have no political agendas,
. have no references to race or LGBT,
. and have no violence,
….. BUT….
. have life threatening situations,
. have ‘impossible problems’ solved with brilliant solutions,
. have heroic sacrifice,
. have a wide variety of themes: coming of age, courage, generosity, youth, role of women, role of men, power, good and bad, humor, heartwarming scenes, patriotism, and many others,
. and after all that are fun to read?
Empress Theresa is all that.
How many stories do you know that:
. are about an American teenage girl,
. take place in present day United States,
. have no foul language,
. have no objectionable situations,
. have no political agendas,
. have no references to race or LGBT,
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021
Today, Oct 26, 2022, at 9:12 a.m., Empress Theresa’s bestselling rank was 82,114. This beats 99.45 percent of Amazon’s 15,000,000 listed books. This is incredible for a book that’s been listed on Amazon since March 2014 and has never been advertised.
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