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Jean M. Auel
Jean Auel's new novel, Shelters of Stone, the fifth installment in the Earth's Children series continues the story of Ayla she began in Clan of the Cave Bear.R.J. Archer
Seeds Of Civilization novels incorporate actual archeological mysteries into the story lines. In Tractrix, a team of explorers investigates the origin of a mysterious black sphere, leading them on a journey from Seattle to the secret military installations of Nevada and on to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where they stumble across a three thousand year old secret that suggests a possible link between the shamans of Mesoamerica and a race of alien explorers. In Tsubute, an ancient Japanese throwing weapon leads the team across the Pacific to the tiny Japanese island of Yonaguni, where a 9,000-year-old submerged monument holds the key to the island's incredible secret. In Triangle, the conclusion to the series, the NWIDI team gets themselves into really deep water. As a result of their incredible discoveries in Mexico and Japan, the NWIDI team has become an unofficial resource for certain government agencies. A call from "the highest levels" sends them back to Mexico to investigate the nature and origin of sunken megalithic structures 2,100 feet below the surface just off the western tip of Cuba. Visit www.SeedsOfCivilization.com to learn more about the series.Jean Braden
John and Helen Schafer have been married six months when they decide to go to Oregon with John's family. The Journey to Oregon - 1934 is a true story of eight family members who travel from the drought and dust storms of Nebraska to the promise of Oregon. They are short of money and each time one of the vehicles needs repair or a flat tire is fixed, the stress of survival increases. The actual ten-day journey to Oregon is only part of the story. The rest takes place in Oregon and includes how a small farming community provides support for the family. The family is successful in finding a better life in Oregon, and many people follow them to share in the bounty the state has to offer.K. P. Burke
Proof Through The Night: A B-29 Pilot Captive In Japan is the true life saga of Ernest Pickett, as told to able scribe K. P. Burke, of his World War II odyssey and nightmare. Shot down behind enemy lines, Ernest survived the horrendous conditions which the Japanese military authority inflicted upon prisoners of war in general, and hated American bomber pilots in particular. A gripping, first-person saga of endurance, humanity, and the horrors of war.Jeannie Burt
Burt, a human resources consultant and breast cancer patient who has been affected by lymphedema, and White, a physical therapist, have put together an informative little book that should help all women suffering from the condition, at least to some degree, Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide to Prevention and Healing. Their useful guide will help women remain active and, one hopes, less obsessed with the "other" results of breast cancer. Recommended for patient health collections.Tom Cantwell
The Seminole and the Slave is Tom's first young adult novel. The year is 1835, and a young slave named Sam suffers constant abuse at the hands of a cruel master in Florida. Sam's only hope for escape lies with Osceola and the local Seminoles, proud Indians poised on the brink of war. Sam seizes his opportunity in the opening battle, but now he must quickly learn what it means to be a warrior. Joining the Seminoles and runaway slaves in the swampy wilderness, Sam falls in love with Okee-wa, a spirited Seminole girl, and faces life or death decisions that will test his loyalties. Based on the epic true story of two cultures united in a desperate struggle for freedom, Sam's sweeping adventure offers one teenager's perspective on growing up in a time of war. The Seminole and the Slave is available at Tom's website: www.cantwellbooks.com.S.W. Capps
With the law, a bloodthirsty ex-wife and a hired killer on his heels, Woodrow Salmon, a desperate corporate executive turned fugitive, embarks on a strange and harrowing journey, one that will lead him through the minefields of his past and change his life forever. Salmon Run is available in hardback and paperback at Cover to Cover Books in Vancouver and on-line at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, Powells.com, InkwaterBooks.com and www.swcapps.com.Grace Elting Castle
When Advanced Forensic Civil Investigations was released by Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, it was hailed as the "bible" of civil investigations. The second book, Advanced Criminal Defense Investigations was similarly received. These two books, used in college and university classrooms across the nation, as well as by practicing investigators, attorneys and paralegals, were edited and co-authored by WW member Grace Elting Castle, who now resides and writes in Eugene. A retired professional investigator, Castle encourages writers to use these books to learn the truth of how investigations are conducted. They are available on her website at www.cluesonline.com/books.htm.Donald Cauble
This Passing World tells the story of one man's journey to free himself from the prisons-within and without-of his own making. The time emerges from the depths of forgotten memories: everything rings with a universal chord, for we have all been prisoners of something once. How does one transcend? This Passing World suggests a way and leads us gently by relating the characters' experiences. For more information, visit http://www.seahorseseyes.com/Megan Clark
Megan Clark's literary erotic novels dare to be different, and have been compared to the provocative writing of Anais Nin. In SEDUCE ME, her latest novel, two unique women cross paths and embark on an uninhibited journey that brings them to very different destinations. Offering differing feminist viewpoints, Charlotte and Carissa are THE modern-day flappers. In Clark's debut novel, RESCUE ME, an aspiring photographer hopes studying abroad will open her to new experiences that will give her art more depth. She has no idea how successful her plan will be until she meets her new roommate, Natasha, a woman whose vanity plates read "Rescue Me." What ensues is a sensuous journey of bisexual awakening, drawing upon the many parallels between art and lust.Visit www.meganclark.net for upcoming events.
Karen Coates
Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of WarThis new book examines Cambodia in the aftermath of genocide and civil war. It is one of few publications to focus on life in Cambodia today. Each chapter investigates a different issue, covering health, democracy, development, women, children, psychology, environment, pollution, violence, relations with neighboring countries, the role of Angkor in modern society, Cambodian culture at a crossroads and prospects for the country's future.
Coates, a journalist based in Thailand, draws her research from print sources as well as hundreds of interviews with Cambodians from all walks of life. The book gives voice to farmers, royalty, beggars, teachers, monks, orphanage directors, politicians, NGO workers and Cambodia scholars. Dozens of exquisite photographs, taken by veteran photojournalist Jerry Redfern, illustrate the book. Cambodia Now also includes a glossary of Khmer words, people, places and names, as well as an appendix of organizations providing aid to Cambodia.
To see more work by Coates and Redfern, visit their website at: www.redcoates.net
Thank you! And samnang l'or.
Constance Crooker
Constance Crooker's Gun Control and Gun Rights is one of Greenwood Publishing Group's historic guides to controversial issues in America. Competing views on gun control are analyzed. The history of major gun rights and gun control organizations is summarized. The author, a lawyer, demystifies the legal arguments for and against the view that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was intended to protect an individual's right to bear arms. She summarizes, chronologically, the major federal gun laws of the past thirty years.T.L. Cooper
'T. L. Cooper's All She Ever Wanted is the story of a blossoming interracial friendship between a white woman and an African-American man and his family. Victoria Caldwell must confront and deal with her own prejudices, as well as those of her family, and those of her ancestors as recorded in their journals. A thoughtful, insightful look into the changing human mind and spirit evoked by an interracial friendship, All She Ever Wanted is a superbly written, highly recommended novel showcasing a theme that is as historic and universal as interracial human experience, and contemporary as today's newspaper headlines.' Midwest Book Review. For more information, visit http://www.authorsden.com/tlcooperNancy E Dollahite
Sourcework: Writing From Academic Sources, a writing text from Houghton Mifflin, offers step-by-step help for any university student writing an academic essay, with special emphasis on the challenges faced by ESL writers. Purchase of the book includes access to a website with detailed teaching instructions and answers to all exercises. Author Nancy E Dollahite, who, with her co-author Julie Haun, teaches at Portland State University, has worked in ESL for over 20 years in the United States, People's Republic of China, Mexico, Scotland and Brazil.Carola Dunn
In her 10th cozy featuring English writer Daisy Dalrymple (To Davy Jones Below, etc.), Dunn captures the melting pot of Prohibition-era New York with humorous characterizations and a vivid sense of place, and with careful plotting lays out an enjoyable tale of adventure.Mark Ellis
Dumbarton Ghosts chronicles the life-changing moments of characters faced with metaphorical versions of San Francisco Bay's most infamous bridge, a bridge doomed and risen. Through eleven eclectic tales, choice and fate attend each crossing. From the abyss, the cumulative madness of our era beckons. A love poem to the South Bay, the title story becomes universal as a couple struggles with infertility and the myths of phantoms.Craig English and James Rapson
Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices or the Chronically Nice is the first book to reveal the primary psychological cause of chronic niceness-anxious attachment. Anxious attachment drives the Nice Person to accommodate, acquiesce, and avoid conflict, leading to a host of emotional and relational problems. Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices for the Chronically Nice unveils seven powerful practices-a synthesis of personal and clinical experience, psychological theory, Buddhism, and gender studies. These seven practices are designed to heal the chronically nice person, transforming a life of anxiety into one that brims with self-confidence, serenity, and passion.Susan Fletcher
For grades 5-9. An imaginary kingdom resembling Scandinavia during the Dark Ages is troubled by dragons, and spirited Kara, the heroine of this prequel to the author's Dragon's Milk (Atheneum, 1989), finds herself unwillingly enmeshed in her sovereign's plot to exterminate the creatures.Benson S. Forbes
Does America have a hand in the outbreak of Mad Cow and Foot and Mouth diseases in Great Britain? Was a similar outbreak in Washington State merely a case of the past haunting the present? Benson S. Forbes dishes out an intelligent and solid mystery novel in MAD COWS COME BACK TO BITE. Through two unlikely protagonists, we race through England and America, rummaging through the inner workings of governments and top-secret agencies, on a mission to expose cover-ups of botched military experiments of the past.Benson S. Forbes
Five boyhood chums come of age as the sun begins to set on the British Empire. Along with hundreds of thousands of their countrymen, they eagerly volunteer to fight in the "War To End All Wars," but soon discover that they are at the mercy of the British high command's antiquated tactics. Will they survive? Or, will they be among the millions sacrificed on the altar of aristocratic pride? They are the unsung heroes of World War I. They are The Bottom Five.Diane L. Goeres-Gardner
Before 1903 all Oregon hangings took place at the county level and allowed hundreds of people to watch. Until now, the facts about those events were lost in history. Necktie Parties-A History of Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851 - 1905 is the first book ever printed to examine Oregon's forays into capital punishment before they were moved to the state penitentiary. The 50 cases in "Necktie Parties" focus on the people, culture and attitudes present at the time of the individual hanging. For an unforgettable trip into Oregon's past, "Necktie Parties" is unique in its field.Necktie Parties-A History of Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851 -1905, by Caxton Press, ISBN 0-87004-446-x Paper, 348 pages, Illustrated, Index, $16.95. www.necktieparties.com
Paul Gerald
With 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Portland as your guide, by Paul Gerald, you have dozens of places to hike to your heart's content, and all within an hour's drive or less. 60 Hikes within 60 Miles provides you with the information you need to choose the perfect day hike, including maps, directions, trail lengths, hiking times, and a wealth of detail about the trail itself.F.I. Goldhaber
What if you were mage-born but no one alive could teach you how to use the Magic and you had never seen nor heard a spell invoked? Would you give up everything you have - your inheritance, your family and friends - for a chance to learn how to be a wizard? F.I. Goldhaber's novelette Finding Magic is a winner of the Paul B. Duquette Memorial Short Science Fiction Contest and appears in the anthology CrossTIME Science Fiction Anthology Vol. 2, available from amazon.com (ISBN #1890109053). Signed copies are available under "more buying choices."Florence Hardesty
Rock Garden Flower: Growing Up During the Depression is a memoir that describes growing up in the Depression and being a teenager during WWII. It provides a glimpse of a time disappearing from the memory of the nation. It tells of the author's parents struggles to stay together and provide for their children. Major decisions about the author's life were shaped by WWII.Florence Hardesty
A former nursing professor writes about her students with affection and humor in her book I Always Faint When I See a Syringe: Nurse Student Tales. She introduces the reader to her favorite patients, the ones whose struggles with mental illness, inspired and illustrated her lectures for a quarter of a century. Hardesty's own experience as a mature returning student should encourage those who seek furthur education.Carolyn Harris
Carolyn Harris spends her winters touring New Zealand in her motorcaravan, and she's written a book about her adventures, RV in NZ: How To Spend Your Winters South-Way South in New Zealand. She'll show you step by step how to:* Buy a motorcaravan
* Get the motorcaravan on the road
* Find free or low cost parking
* Meet and travel with New Zealand movaners
April Henry
The Holocaust comes to Portland, Oregon, in Henry's fourth Claire Montrose novel. Claire's elderly Jewish roommate, Charlotte "Charlie" Heidenbruch, is forced to relive the past when hate crimes occur in the neighborhood. Charlie's vivid and disturbing memories of life in a concentration camp are interspersed throughout the story, which also focuses on a more recent event in Charlie's life--the death of her friend Elizabeth's fiance in the 1950s.Jack Everett Johnson
To Rise Above It All is a thrilling - action filled novel about three young teenagers as they climb to fame. It is a story of love, the love of MUSIC, and the love of the women who helped create their story. It is a story of romance, sex, power and control between men and the women that they loved. It is a story - told time and time again, of how musicians climbed above it all. Despite the corrupt recording industry that suppressed them, the TV satations who adored them, yet they all rose to fame. This story is based in part on the life and times of three famous musicians of Portland, Oregon who managed to, “Rise Above It All”.Bill Johnson
Willamette Writers' office manager Bill Johnson's A Story is a Promise and Deep Characterization explores principles of storytelling through reviews of popular novels, plays and movies. This second edition has twenty pages of new material. Each chapter of the book has questions designed to help writers better understand the stories they are creating. The book also includes a step by step process for outlining a novel that can be used to revise a finished novel, or to help get a new novel off to a strong beginning.Claire Krulikowski
Claire's Grants For Writers, http://www.lulu.com/content/1270501, and Book Publishing Contracts: Be Prepared, http://www.lulu.com/content/1251095, offer information about getting grants and understandign book contracts.Gabe Kubichek
TRUE TALES From Here and There is a collection of stories, some biographical, some autobiographical; all of them having been safely stored in the memory bank of the author for years. To place an order, search for True Tales From Here and There in your favorite on-line bookstore or visit www.anauthorsdream.com. ISBN: 0-9771091-7-8 978-0-9771091-7-3, $13.95.Koenig's Wonder
The year is 1937 when two brothers are forced to leave their home in Germany. They arrive in New York City with only a white Lipizzan stallion and a stolen Friedrich painting. What happens next affects three generations of the Maseman family as they become torn apart by greed, war, and revenge. Years later, in Oregon, Emma Maseman discovers the harsh truth about her family when she is investigated for the theft of Koenig's Wonder, a Kentucky Derby winning thoroughbred.Koenig's Wonder is a fictional portrayal of Linda Kuhlmann's family history that began when her great-great-grandfather and his brother came to America and were separated, never to meet again. Visit her website for an excerpt and reviews: www.lindakuhlmann.com
Ron Kurtus
Tricks for Good Grades: Strategies to Succeed in School is a delightful book with tips and ideas of how a student can excel in school and still have time to go out and have fun. It covers topics from the best ways to do your homework, test preparation, dealing with teachers and why cheating on tests doesn't pay off. The book is based on the essays in Kurtus' award-winning School for Champions website (www.school-for-champions.com), as well as feedback from the many students using the site. It is available in hardcopy and as an e-book from Amazon.com and other outlets. InKen Lewis
In Ken Lewis' suspense/thriller Little Blue Whales, the new police chief in a small, but troubled town on the southern Oregon coast makes the desperate choice to risk his life and the life of the woman he loves, when he first tries to deny, but is ultimately forced to admit to, a horrible truth about himself and his past.Mitch Luckett
To Kill a Common Loon is part murder mystery, part contemporary fantasy, part eco-fable, and all fun. Harp P. Gravey, a down-and-out sometime-banjo picker, just wants to fulfill a deathbed promise to a friend and scatter his ashes in the wilderness. He never bargained on shape-shifting dragons, Indian Princesses, hat-loving cougars, and a villain who will stop at nothing to steal his friend's land.Dick Lutz
Exploring Egypt is a concise history of Egypt. Ancient Egypt is described concisely in Part 1 of this book and Part II discusses the years between ancient Egypt and modern Egypt. In the third part an actual tour of the country and many of its monuments is described in detail. Part IV is about Cairo and modern Egypt. Dick is the author of eight books including books about the Amazon, Patagonia, and Belize.Elizabeth Lyon
Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writers Can Afford to Ignore is Elizabeth's final and most comprehensive book for writers. Other books, all in print, include A Writer's Guide to Fiction, A Writer's Guide to Nonfiction, The Sell Your Novel Tool Kit, National Directory of Editors & Writers, and her bestseller, Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write.Doc Macomber
Embedded in the slender neck of the burned corpse, a gold coin beckons. Its surprising thumbprint peels back the veneer on a morass of intrigue that threatens to destroy military investigator Jack Vu's sense of order and his career. As his hunt for the murderer unravels, Vu ricochets from the Big Easy to the unlucky waters of the Pacific Northwest. Along the road, he discovers unlikely allies and unexpected enemies. The Killer Coin is Doc's first novel.Ted Magnuson
Ted Magnuson's first novel, Moses Probe, is the story of Jac, an astronaut, and Cheryl, a cosmologist, who are the first to travel to Protos, the planet at the center of the Universe, a place of power and danger. ISBN 1594261229, Mundania Press, www.mundania.com. Also available in ebook format (html, ms reader, pdf file).RC Marlen
RC Marlen's (Rosalie Marlen Schele) Inside the Hatboxes has been published by iUniverse.St. Louis, Missouri, 1932: Too poor to afford a funeral, firefighter Tony Scaglione and his wife Claire bury their fourteen-month-old daughter in a secluded woods. While driving around town that night, Tony stops to smoke a cigarette. Out of the darkness, a lost little girl wanders to his Packard coupe and promptly climbs inside. Overwhelmed by grief and blind to the consequences, he takes the child. Tony, Claire, and their new daughter return to the city, not knowing how this crime will affect their future.
Ten years later, druggist John Bartlett has an engaging conversation with the young and vibrant Suzanne. The young girl reminds him of his own daughter, Elizabeth, lost so many years ago. When his family meets and becomes friends with hers, they begin a collision course with fate. When the truth in their lives is learned, everyone will be astounded...including the reader.
RC Marlen
The Drugstore: During 1955, neighborhoods in St. Louis flooded with change and prejudice after Brown vs. Board of Education. In the Bartlett family drugstore, stories unfold of ordinary people's strife, like the fire at Miss Pansy Dimestore and Mr. Joe's death by knife. Becky Bartlett, whose father runs the corner drugstore, wants to help solve these crimes and all the holdups. Becky and her brothers get caught in a whirlpool of crime. After one brutal holdup, Becky flees from Freddie Payne who had tried to rape her. Soon he starts calling her, and she realizes that he always knows her whereabouts. Nothing can stop the demise of the neighborhood, but can Becky outwit Freddie Payne?For more info, visit www.rosaliemarlenschele.info
Lindy McClean
Lindy McClean's new activity book, Senior Smart Puzzles, is now available for sale through her website www.seniorsmartpuzzles.com or Amazon.com. It's a book of simple-to-solve picture puzzles, illustrated with vintage scenes.Marilyn Catherine McDonald
Little Girl Lost, a true story of a boy's drowning and his 10-year-old sister's loss, is drawn from the author's haunting memories of growing up in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan in the 1940s. Part II of the book offers adults resources and a bibliography to assist children experiencing loss and grief. The author has said: "Thank God, there's an increasing awareness and emphasis in helping children understand and process the impact of traumatic and tragic events and experiences that directly or indirectly affect their lives. The counseling of children has come a long, long way from the times of which I write - half a century ago."Phillip Margolin
The papers call him the Ice Man. David Nash, defense attorney -- cool, unruffled, practically unbeatable in the courtroom. Most of his clients are guilty. A few may be monsters. Suddenly the Ice Man is assailed by doubts and unanswerable questions. What is the cost of each victory, each rapist or murderer set free -- to society and to Nash's soul?Marlene Moore
If you hate shopping, Marlene Moore's humorous book Hunting for Mr. Good Bargain will tell you how to enjoy shopping. If you are a collector this book gives tips on how to expand your search without leaving town. Hunting for Mr. Good Bargain is full of personal anecdotes that will put you at ease with your shopping woes, offer you a few laughs, and eliminate your embarrassment about that bargain that was not a bargain after all.Jessica Morrell
If you have always longed to write but when you sit down to do it you discover that you're afraid of starting, trying, putting your bruised heart on the line, Writing Out the Storm takes you to your next steps. You'll discover how to read close so that you understand how other writers think and how their techniques end up on the page.Mike Moscoe
Now, in the thrilling follow-up to First Dawn and Second Fire, Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear return from 4,000 B.C.--and discover a radically changed civilization, and a society infested with a different sort of plague.Mike Nettleton & Carolyn Rose
The Hard Karma Shuffle is hit-the-floor-running entertainment from the first page to the last.the kind of fun you used to find only in the movies. It's Paladin vs. the bad guys -- including his loveable, cynical self!Sharon V. Parker
A guide to selling today and achieving business success, without sacrificing integrity, personal satisfaction, or spiritual growth. A career in sales can provide monetary rewards, but at what price? Selling With Soul gives clear instruction on how to sell in today's economy, while leading with integrity. You can achieve career success, without sacrificing personal satisfaction and spiritual growth.Irene Radford
In the conclusion to her series devoted to Merlin's descendants (Guardian of the Vision, etc.), Radford's adroit mix of dark fantasy and Elizabethan politics, involving the complicated rivalries among the English, Scottish, French and Spanish, continues to entertain.Nel Rand
Nel Rand's Mississippi Flyway combines the vibrant flavor of Southern literature with the complexity of a daughter's love for an abusive father. With glimpses of a time and place long since past, Mississippi Flyway reveals the turbulent history of the 1960's and a woman's struggle to search for peace in the midst of personal tragedy. Visit www.nelrand.com for more information. Available from iUniverse, Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble.com; ISBN: 0-595-35762-8.Steven Schoen
The Truth About Fiction presents readers and creative writing enthusiasts with comprehensive coverage of the elements of fiction and real-world writing techniques that help build skills - such as sensory detailing, character construction, and cause and effect plotting. Plenty of practical advice completes this treatment of the fiction genre.L. J. Sellers
Jenna just wants to get pregnant. But the doctor at the fertility clinic takes one look at her and has other plans. Stealing one of Jenna's eggs is supposed to be a simple procedure that the "donor" will have no memory of. But from the beginning, things go terribly wrong. Soon Jenna's life is in danger, and no one even knows where she is.Reviewers say Beyond Conception by LJ Sellers is an edge of your seat, pulse pounding, thrill ride, can't put down, page turner of a suspense novel.
Jennie Shortridge
Tallie Beck is a 34-year-old washed-up, self-centered, rock-n-roll singer who has never grown up. Now she has to go home and face the music. Her career is in tatters, her bank account is nonexistent, and the only job her agent can offer is in a piano bar in her hometown. Shortridge's book chronicles the growing-up process from Tallie's perspective, providing a haunting inside look at the world of musicians on the edge between success and failure.Riding with the Queen is a story of running away, running on empty . . . and finally, learning to run your own life.