Author of Mystery, Romance, & Poetry
Author of Mystery, Romance, & PoetryAuthor of Mystery, Romance, & Poetry
Author of Mystery, Romance, & Poetry
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About Marianna
Marianna Busching, aka Emma Aragon, began writing stories as a child, filling her school notebooks with fantasy tales of dramatic rescues and mythical beasts.
As a young adult her many short stories were published in romance magazines and religious journals.
Emma is also a published poet and the winner of a prestigious award presented by
The Southern Poetry Review
The Trilogy
False Awakenings
False Awakenings
False Awakenings
Book 1
False Medusa
False Awakenings
False Awakenings
Book 2
False Panacea
False Awakenings
False Panacea
Book 3
Events & Signings
Bird in Hand is delighted to host the relaunch of Marianna Busching’s trilogy of medical mysteries: False Awakening, False Medusa, and False Panacea! This event is the culmination of her collaboration with photographer and videographer Buddy Terry (who also happens to be your frequent barista at Bird in Hand).
A retired opera singer, Busching reveals in this trilogy an ability to investigate, with great focus and energy, questions of medicine through fiction: questions of illness that elude diagnosis, and questions of medical ethics and trust in medical professionals.
We hope you will join us to be a part of this one-of-a-kind celebration and conversation.
Series Continued
False Enigma - Coming Soon!
False Enigma - Coming Soon!
False Enigma - Coming Soon!
Book 4
They Called it Zebra
False Enigma - Coming Soon!
False Enigma - Coming Soon!
Book 5
TBD
False Enigma - Coming Soon!
TBD
Book 6
Events & Signings
Marianna Busching (Emma Aragon) with Suzy Vovak: They Called it Zebra
Friday August 7 at 6pm
Medical mystery author Marianna Busching (pen name Emma Aragon) presented her work at Bird in Hand. In the audience was Suzy Vovak, who would provide the inspiration for Marianna's next book, They Called in Zebra.
Now, Marianna and Suzy speak together at Bird in Hand to introduce this latest medical mystery, which follows 44-year-old Charlotte Ambrose on her quest to identify and treat the mysterious disease from which she has been suffering since childhood.
It’ll be a meaningful night, and we hope you’ll join us.
Book 1
False awakenings
Emily Branford's perfect life as the wife of a prominent surgeon is suddenly changed when a terrible dream awakens her to an even more terrible reality: something so dreadful is happening to her body that not even the best and finest scientists and doctors can diagnose the cause of the symptoms.
A naturally shy, quiet woman Emily gathers the strength to try and find the cause of something that may be killing her. Could someone deliberately be doing this to her? And if so, who is responsible? And Why?
The answer, if it can be found, will give you a chilling glimpse into the future.
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Book 2
False Medusa
When a famous doctor accepts a position at St. John’s Hospital, Dr. Roger Branford and his wife Emily are delighted to make friends with him and his wife. But shortly after Dr. Colburg begins his practice, a horrifying disease invades the hospital. Is it contagious? And what or who introduced this deadly syndrome?
It finally strikes Dr. Roger Branford, and Emily is left praying for his life. Who or what can cure him? Tracking down the disease reveals even more terrible consequences of this syndrome that you may not want to know.
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Book 3
False PANACEA
As a snowstorm begins, Dr. Roger Branford picks up an old woman from the street and takes her to St. John's Hospital. Once in the emergency room, she slips out of sight amid the crowd of incoming patients. Suddenly patients at the hospital begin to experience mysterious cures literally overnight. This phenomenon ends up on the news, and sick or injured people begin flocking to St. John's. The doctors are baffled and are even more stunned when, several days later, the cures suddenly begin to reverse.
Can these unexplainable events continue? Both doctors and police are shocked to finally find the truth and the horror that lies behind it.
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Book 4
False Enigma
COMING SOON!
Book 5
THEY CALLED IT ZEBRA
Charlotte Ambrose has been suffering from a mysterious disease since childhood. Now, 44 years old and multiple surgeries later, she is admitted to St. John's Hospital with an unbearable migraine headache. Fortunately, a famous geneticist takes over her case, and Charlotte has the rare hope of, if not a cure, at least the identification of this disease.
But while in the hospital under the care of the geneticist and her team, even worse things begin to affect Charlotte's health. Strange, nearly fatal events begin to threaten Charlotte's life as well as the lives of her medical team. Finally, there is indeed an unexplained and horrifying death.
Book 6
TBD
COMING SOON!
First Book
Images for Better Singing
This book is intended to be an extra tool for singers and teachers of voice. The living instrument that produces the sound is totally out of sight and cannot be heard accurately by the very singer who is performing the song. The ideas and instructions presented here are not meant to replace other methods of teaching voice but are intended, instead, to be an added help.
Most people respond readily to graphic images. This book seeks to employ graphic images to aid in learning a difficult art with a difficult instrument. Long before this book was written, the pictures and ideas contained here were already "tested" on hundreds of my own students with great success. My students are the reason this book has finally been written...in the hopes that these ideas may help other singers and teachers.
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"This book is truly amazing! I suffered a vocal injury in 2014 that made it painful to sing and caused my voice to seize up in pieces with a high tessitura. After doing the "hum and chew" exercises in the back of the book, I no longer experience pain and have regained my upper register. I'm so relieved to be pain free and be able to sing freely again.
Additionally, the images have given me confidence in other aspects of vocal performance. I read this book with great interest and enjoyment. It truly exceeded my expectations!"
- L S Christiane Enslow
Poems!
FROM EARTH'S FLOOR
These short poems are easy to read and invite contemplation with their often-unique perspective of God as the personal Creator and Savior. Although there is both joy and pain contained and expressed in these poems, there are touches of humor that may make readers smile. The “Ending” poems lead to a truly glorious “End.”
"Ms. Busching's collection is a luminous affirmation of belief with larger than any denomination confronting the hard facts of the human condition. Each poem is like a butterfly . . . present exquisitely and delicately against all natural odds . . . testifying to something more, something beyond articulation, sustaining hope against despair."
--Brian Anderson, Physicist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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"I found these poems deeply moving, many with a hymn-like quality. They are at once deeply personal and speak to our shared fears and hopes. But most of all, they speak to the Great Love that is there, if we only open ourselves to it."
--Leeann Roc, MD, Pathologist
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"What happens when an award-winning mezzo-soprano turns her talents to poetry? You are drawn into words, images, and inspirations that take the reader soaring through flights of song. Marianna Busching offers us 'luminous notes' on the 'life's wonder.' We just hope that it will be a while before she 'kneels and sings / that last, most glorious / Agnus Dei.'"
-Lucy Hogan, Professor Emerita, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
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"These poems are a gift."
- Rob Boulter, Dean, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore
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"In From Earth's Floor, Marianna, a faith-filled singing poetess, traces the sacred pulse that hums within the ordinary. Each poem is a prayer--chanted with gratitude, wonder, and the courage to look God in the face. From Earth's Floor is not merely a collection--it is a pilgrimage of the soul, where faith wrestles, weeps, and ultimately, sings."
-Debra Asis, Episcopal Priest and Poet
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