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Murder Over Kodiak

An Alaska Wilderness Mystery Novel

Robin Barefield

When a floatplane mysteriously explodes above the Alaska wilderness, investigators begin digging into the lives of the five passengers and the pilot. Was the target of the bomb the U.S. senator in the midst of a hotly contended re-election campaign or her husband, a corporate raider with no shortage of enemies? Or could the bomb have been meant for the cannery owner involved in a contentious divorce, or the refuge manager who has a long list of adversaries, including one who has vowed to get even with him. Even the pilot could have been the target, since his girlfriend has violent tendencies and knows how to use explosives. Dr. Jane Marcus is determined to find who murdered her young assistant and the other passengers and the pilot of the floatplane, but when her own life is threatened, she knows she must and the murderer, before she becomes the next victim.

My Own Story

My Own Story. A Fictionalized Autobiography

D.B. Copper

D.B. Cooper is wild and conservative, smart and stupid, careful and courageous. He has imagination, determination, and an adjustable conscience. You've got to like him and despise him. He is a pirate, a friend, a schemer, a drug dealer, a nurturer, a murderer, a family man. And now--a writer It's an intriguing tale. But D.B. Cooper is not a story character, he is real. He planned and schemed and prepared to hijack a plane, then did it and got away with it. Look it up--it was in all the papers, on television, in conversations around the country, around the world. People will say D.B. Cooper, Where are You is fiction, it is some writer's fanciful account of what may have happened Could be. You know what they say about becoming a writer. Write about what you know. Seems like Walter Grant knows way too much about skyjacking and growing pot. Sort of like D.B. Cooper.

The Club

Revolution Continues

Walter Grant

 Geoff arrived home, was arrested, tried, found guilty, and executed for his fiancees' murder—a crime he did not commit. He awoke from a drug-induced coma to learn his execution had been faked and he now owed the Club the next ten years of his life. He accepted the Club's conditions and became a member-—there was no choice.

The Founding Fathers having fled tyrannical monarchies of Europe established the Club as insurance against their greatest fear—a corrupt and ever expanding central government. The first name on the Club's founding documents can be found on the American Declaration of Independence.

Club II

Live Free or Die

Walter Grant

We lured him to a motel with a promised sexual encounter unlike anything he'd ever known. We made good on our promise—there was no sex, but it was without doubt unlike anything he'd ever known. We spiked his drink, teased, and toyed with him until he passed out. Then we tied him up, duct-taped his mouth, threw him into the trunk of our car and drove him to an abandoned farmhouse in the woods where he could scream himself hoarse without anyone hearing him. We waited until the drug wore off and then introduced him to pain. In the end we gave him a choice; he could tell us what we wanted to know and die quickly or die stripped naked with syrup poured in his ears, nose, eyes, and on other areas of his body while tied down in the vicinity of a fire ant community. We took him outside where he could view the area—there were dozens of ant hills. I thanked him for his cooperation and made sure he saw me smile as I slit his throat. I can only speculate as to how deep corruption goes and who is involved in any given circumstance. I only know I will never fully trust my government ever again.”

A Sound of Freedom

One man's war against the KGB

Walter Grant

Troubled by a large number of KGB agents operating freely in the US, the lackadaisical attitude of the general population, and the media's irresponsible depiction of communism, an ex-double agent sets out to use all he has learned in his position as a captain in the KGB's western intelligence section. He was all that stood between the soviets and their plan to take control of the first test launch of the Peacekeeper--America's newest ICBM. The soviets aimed to destroy several cities along the southern California coast--an apparent accident. This, they surmised, would show America too incompetent and irresponsible to be allowed to develop high-tech weapons. The Soviet Union would become the world's only super power. The marine has his own demons to fight, both past and present. Complicating his life and his one man war against the KGB is the woman he met and fell in love with--she is a mystery.

Alaska Hunting

Earthworms to Elephants

Jake Jacobson

Alaska Hunting: Earthworms to Elephants, a collection of 39 stories, is intended to be seasoning for a Hunters' pie, rural Alaska style.

Most hunters extol the charismatic mega fauna, but pursuit of lesser game often takes center stage. Occasionally hunting discoveries lead to other endeavors, from jade mining to gold prospecting and fossil recovery. Possibilities are limitless. As we engage in hunting and fishing pursuits memories are laced with the big ones—the exceptional, genetically endowed giants—but some of the brightest memories are of average representatives of their species. What made them so memorable was the combination of circumstances under which they were taken—or lost. Companions, whether human or animal, often make the hunt memorable and its recollections of trophy quality.

Alaska Tales

Laughs and Surprises

Jake Jacobson

You should buy this book. It will make you laugh. It is full of stories you'll want to read again, and again. You'll tell your friends about it. Thinking about it will make you smile during boring meetings. People will wonder what you are up to. On a bad day, when you've screwed up at work, your wife is mad at you, and the kids are sick, this book will give you half an hour's respite. It will take you to a place of adventure, danger, and humor, all woven together by one larger than life character. I had to get all that down fast, because it's important. I'm not a writer, and I don't know how long I can hold your attention.

Dr. Larry GatesThe stories in this collection are true. In some instances, the names have been changed to protect the innocent and the not so guiltless.

With most days of the past forty-seven years spent in Alaska, the thirty-six stories in this collection are connected primarily with Jake's guiding activities in the Great Land. These stories were selected for their humorous content.

This selection of tales is trivial, eclectic, and of minimal redeeming value. But there may be some valuable bits of information, if one looks for them. These stories attempt to entertain readers, to give them a giggle, or at least a wry smirk.

Alaska Flying

Surviving Incidents & Accidents

Jake Jacobson

ALASKA FLYING: Surviving Incidents and Accidents encompass many short stories about Jake's experiences gained from 1967 to the present as a pilot in Alaska. Though he logged time as pilot in command in other parts of the world, including Southern Rhodesia, Namibia, Australia, Bolivia, Hawaii, Arizona and other locations, the stories in this collection relate exclusively to Alaskan flying.

The Matter of the Deserted Airliner

Alaska Disappearing Crew and Passengers Caper

Steve Levi

Unicorn Airlines Flight 739 with no pilot, no crew, and no passengers lands at Anchorage International Airport. As the authorities are wondering what happened, a ransom demand is made for the passengers: $25 million in diamonds. Chief of Detectives for the Sandersonville, North Carolina, Police Department, Captain Heinz Noonan, is visiting his in-laws in Anchorage when he is called onto the case. He has 36 hours to determine how crew and passengers disappeared off Unicorn Airlines Flight 739 before the $25 million in diamonds is paid to the extortionists. But can he solve what appears to be an impossible crime, free the hostages, arrest the perpetrators, and resolve The Matter of the Deserted Airliner before the ransom is paid?

Cowboys of the Sky

The Story of Alaska's Bush Pilots

Steven C. Levi

For more than 80 years, bush pilots have carried supplies, delivered mail, and transported emergency personnel over Alaska's rugged terrain. They've flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, with corpses strapped to the wing, and with drugged polar bears sleeping in the cargo compartment. Ever since aviation came to Alaska planes have been far more important than cars or truck to the residents of the far-flung bush communities. In Cowboys of the Sky: The Story of Alaska's Bush Pilots, humorist and historian Steve Levi takes you on a wild ride through the heyday of aviation in Alaska, from the golden years, before federal regulations curbed the more dangerous and outlandish flying practices, all the way to the present. Through photographs and anecdotes, you'll meet brave and colorful pilots, the true cowboys of the sky who carved the face of America's Last Frontier.

The Matter of the Vanishing Greyhound

Golden Gate Bridge Disappearing Greyhound Bus Caper

Steve Levi

How can a Greyhound Bus with four bank robbers, $10 million in cash, the contents of all of the safety deposit boxes and 12 hostages being followed by the San Francisco Police vanish off the Golden Gate Bridge?  The police are stumped so a specialist in impossible crimes, Captain Heinz Noonan, the Bearded Holmes, is sent to San Francisco to solve the crime. With the clock ticking, Noonan will have to unravel how the bus was able to disappear – and why there are still hostages if the money has already been stolen and the bank robbers have vanished. Ride along with Captain Heinz Noonan, the nation's foremost impossible crime sleuth, and see if you can solve the crime as fast as he does!

Walrus with a Gold Tooth

Crime in Anchorage, Alaska—the Pioneer Way—Unorganized!

Steven C. Levi

In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of 10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a cash register. At the same time Anchorage was one of the few cities in America where organized crime never got a firm foothold. Uptown, downtown, out of town, the locals were clever enough to keep the East Coast families out. Walrus With A Gold Tooth is a fictionalized version of crime in Anchorage over these two decades and a step-by-step history of how the local squeezed out the mob before it ever made it in. And if you know your Anchorage history, you just might be able to determine which characters are actual people whose names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Show Me the World Eskimo - Indian Olympics

Casey Ferguson

Norma Lewis

The indigenous peoples of Alaska have a rich and colorful history. Come to the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (WEIO) to learn more about it. The games, all rooted in Native history, are made up of such diverse events as blanket tossing, high kicking, knuckle hopping, fish cutting, seal skinning, muktuk eating, and beautiful babies in Native regalia. WEIO is one way those histories are kept alive. Through his work at the Alaska Native Heritage Center and in the Native Studies Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, Casey Ferguson is making a career of making sure the old ways are celebrated.

Kasey’s River Song

Spinnig Dreams In Gold Rush Alaska

Norma Lewis

Thirteen-year-old Kathleen Camille (Kasey) Mackenzie faces challenges in Alaska that will require all the strength and courage she can muster. She is forced to struggle with everything from a dress-stealing bear to a killer storm. The unthinkable happens: the death of her beloved father in a mining accident. Her mother had died two years earlier. Now she's alone in Alaska, but only until her grandmother comes to rescue her--whether she wants rescuing or not. Though mature beyond her years, Kasey is far from perfect. She can't quite control a wide stubborn streak and alienates two of the people she loves most. Her strong will might help find everything she longs for—or it could be her undoing.

Ki’ti’s Story, 75,000 BC

Book One of Winds of Change, a Prehistoric Fiction Series on the Peopling of the Americas

Bonnye Matthews

Neanderthals: had fair skin and some had red hair and blue eyes could speak as well as we can, were intellectually bright catching dolphins (something that cannot be done from shore), killing megafauna for food with spears, surviving cold temperatures and hostile environments that would challenge our best outdoors men and women, created art, buried their dead with red ocher, and/or flowers, cared for their disabled.

Ki'ti's Story, 75,000 BC, provides an opportunity to explore a unique view of Neanderthal life based on recent science. It's a coming of age story in the succession of the People's Wise One. More than that it is the story of a People who survived for hundreds of thousands of geologic years. Come walk with Neanderthals and explore a different time and place. Meet Wamumur, the Wise One, who recaptures love and learns a little too late that he pushes too hard as a teacher, as did his father before him; Totamu, the administrative head of the People, whose officious behaviors are accepted often with irritation but with the realization that she works for the good of the People; Ki'ti, the child whose childhood is cut short because she has been gifted with memory of the stories of the People, who is wise beyond her years in some respects and ignorant and willful in others; Nanichak-na, the individual recognized for hunter leadership who would be chief it they had one.

Manak-na’s Story, 75,000 BC

Book Two of Winds of Change, a Prehistoric Fiction Series on the Peopling of the Americas

Bonnye Matthews

The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues:

• When people came to the Americas, • Who came to the Americas, and • From where did they come?

The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago?

The first book in the series, Ki'ti's Story, 75,000 BC (2012), is the foundation for the novel series, and it takes place in what is today southern China. The second book in the series, Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC (2013), involves an adventure from China/Mongolia to Mexico and return. The third book in the series, Zamimolo's Story, 50,000 BC (2014), involves a partial migration from China/Mongolia to Central America, where they (1) experience an abduction, (2) meet migrants from Australia's aboriginal people and Pacific Islanders along with some others from Africa, and (3) encounter a number of strange animals. The fourth book, Tuksook's Story, 35,000 BC (2014), involves a partial migration of the People from China/Mongolia to Alaska's Cook Inlet region, as they flee from a drought. Read to see (1) whether they fare well in their new home in Alaska, (2) what Alaska's Cook Inlet was like in 35,000 BC, and (3) whether the People can convince the starving ones who remain behind to leave their drought stricken land to join them in the new land.

The Winds of Change is an exhalation from the nostrils of Wisdom, causing change. It affects individuals, groups, localities, regions, or the entire world. When the Winds of Change affect the world, all life responds. The first four books exist in a world of peace following the eruption of a super volcano. With the last great Ice Age the lives of the People change from a world of peace required for survival--where in-fighting was a luxury they could not afford--to a world of war, well established by 11,700 years ago, that continues to this day. "

Zamimolo’s Story: 50,000 BC

Book Three of Winds of Change, a Prehistoric Fiction Series on the Peopling of the Americas

Bonnye Matthews

The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues:

• When people came to the Americas, • Who came to the Americas, and • From where did they come?

The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago?

The first book in the series, Ki'ti's Story, 75,000 BC (2012), is the foundation for the novel series, and it takes place in what is today southern China. The second book in the series, Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC (2013), involves an adventure from China/Mongolia to Mexico and return. The third book in the series, Zamimolo's Story, 50,000 BC (2014), involves a partial migration from China/Mongolia to Central America, where they (1) experience an abduction, (2) meet migrants from Australia's aboriginal people and Pacific Islanders along with some others from Africa, and (3) encounter a number of strange animals. The fourth book, Tuksook's Story, 35,000 BC (2014), involves a partial migration of the People from China/Mongolia to Alaska's Cook Inlet region, as they flee from a drought. Read to see (1) whether they fare well in their new home in Alaska, (2) what Alaska's Cook Inlet was like in 35,000 BC, and (3) whether the People can convince the starving ones who remain behind to leave their drought stricken land to join them in the new land.

The Winds of Change is an exhalation from the nostrils of Wisdom, causing change. It affects individuals, groups, localities, regions, or the entire world. When the Winds of Change affect the world, all life responds. The first four books exist in a world of peace following the eruption of a super volcano. With the last great Ice Age the lives of the People change from a world of peace required for survival--where in-fighting was a luxury they could not afford--to a world of war, well established by 11,700 years ago, that continues to this day. "

Tuksook’s Story: 35,000 BC

Book Four of Winds of Change, a Prehistoric Fiction Series on the Peopling of the Americas

Bonnye Matthews

The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues:

• When people came to the Americas, • Who came to the Americas, and • From where did they come?

The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago?

The first book in the series, Ki'ti's Story, 75,000 BC (2012), is the foundation for the novel series, and it takes place in what is today southern China. The second book in the series, Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC (2013), involves an adventure from China/Mongolia to Mexico and return. The third book in the series, Zamimolo's Story, 50,000 BC (2014), involves a partial migration from China/Mongolia to Central America, where they (1) experience an abduction, (2) meet migrants from Australia's aboriginal people and Pacific Islanders along with some others from Africa, and (3) encounter a number of strange animals. The fourth book, Tuksook's Story, 35,000 BC (2014), involves a partial migration of the People from China/Mongolia to Alaska's Cook Inlet region, as they flee from a drought. Read to see (1) whether they fare well in their new home in Alaska, (2) what Alaska's Cook Inlet was like in 35,000 BC, and (3) whether the People can convince the starving ones who remain behind to leave their drought stricken land to join them in the new land.

The Winds of Change is an exhalation from the nostrils of Wisdom, causing change. It affects individuals, groups, localities, regions, or the entire world. When the Winds of Change affect the world, all life responds. The first four books exist in a world of peace following the eruption of a super volcano. With the last great Ice Age the lives of the People change from a world of peace required for survival--where in-fighting was a luxury they could not afford--to a world of war, well established by 11,700 years ago, that continues to this day. "

The SealEaters, 20,000 BC

Book Five of Winds of Change, a Prehistoric Fiction Series on the Peopling of the Americas

Bonnye Matthews

The SealEaters, 20,000 BC is the last of the planned books in the Winds of Change Series on the Peopling of the Americas.  The time period is the onset of the last Ice Age which ends the Time of Peace and ushers in the Time of War on earth.  The Time of War continues today.  The novel is a survival story of the Solutreans in southern France/northern Spain.  due to advancing ice sheets, seals from the north have beached on their shores and the SealEaters have come to depend on them for their major food source.  The SealEaters face advancing ice from the north, warring groups beyond the mountains to the east and south.  In search of a new land, a small number of SealEaters travel the arc formed by the ice sheets, eating seals along the way across the Atlantic Ocean to the east coast of what is now North America, a coast very different from what we know today.  They survey the land and groups of people living there, trying to find a new living place.  There are differences among the Solutreans and the people they meet in the new land when compared to the People in the first four books.  The SealEaters' group cohesiveness has disintegrated  when compared to the People of the preceding books.  The SealEaters, 20,000 BC tells the tale of this effort to find a new land.

Freedom, 250,000 bc

Out From the Shadow of Popocatépetl

Bonnye Matthews

After years of abuse from his father Wing leaves the only home he's ever known to find, as the male lion he sees leave its pride, a new home or die. At age 16, frail, injured, and alone in the mountainous untamed and untouched wilderness of Mexico of 250,000 BC, Wing struggles to survive, proving himself against a bear, where he learns elementary freedom. Award Winning Writer of Prehistoric Fiction, Bonnye Matthews' novella, Freedom, 25,000 BC, tells the story of hearts and minds of primitive, early Americans and of Wing's growing understanding of freedom and his application of it to life.

“America's preeminent writer of prehistoric history . . . a book of hearts and minds.” Grace Cavalieri, award-winning author, host The Poet and the Poem from Library of Congress

“This outstanding Winds of Change series is very highly and enthusiastically recommended for personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic library historical fiction collections.” Midwest Book Review

Bonnye Matthews, what you write is amazing and beautiful, it is the ability of men with a life on our continent unsuspected by millions of people thank you for enriching our human history. I look forward to buy your book when on sale i can write a little english! Jonathan Melendez, Valued Reader from Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Courage, 30,000 BC

The Boqueirao Refuge at Pedra Furada

Bonnye Matthews

It's 30,000 BC. Hiding in a giant mimosa tree, Maru watches her father meet with the leader of a treacherous Andean tribe. Her father, furious that she's followed him, tells her that if he is killed—something he fully expects—she must warn their people to flee. The people are prepared; Maru at age seven is not. Her father places heavy responsibility on her because she followed him.

“Courage is the story of a people who are utterly threatened but ultimately contribute from adversity some of the most amazing cave art in the Americas. America's preeminent writer of prehistoric history. Matthews tethers fantasy to fact and bases fi ction on reliable and credible sources. Her characters are well drawn and believable; their emotions are plausible; their psychological action is commensurate with physical action. This is not only an action adventure story, it's a book of hearts and minds, and humans who combat nature and an unfriendly environment to survive and succeed. There are places that captivate the reader and Matthews' writing is exemplary and riveting.” (On SealEaters, 20,000 BC ) Grace Cavalieri, award-winning author, host of The Poet and The Poem from the Library of Congress

“This outstanding Winds of Change series is very highly and enthusiastically recommended for personal reading lists, as well as community and academic library historical fiction collections.” Midwest Book Review

My Wonderful Life with Diabetes

Rick Mystrom

“You are about to meet a man who never let diabetes prevent him from accomplishing everything he wanted in life: good health, success in business, community service, family, and politics. Rick Mystrom knew that understanding his disease was crucial to his health. He has become one of the most knowledgeable persons living with diabetes in my extensive practice and frequently serves as a role model and authoritative resource for others.”

Jeanne R. Bonar 

MD, FACP, FACE

Endocrinology, Internal Medicine

“It is the patient, not the doctor, who manages diabetes. Rick Mystrom is the gold medal winner for controlling his diabetes. He has become so skilled that he can predict and adjust his insulin level just by looking at the meal he is going to eat. His results: no complications from his long history of the disease. He is the expert. I am the learner.”

Thomas Nighswander MD MPH

What Should I Eat?

Solve Diabetes, Lose Weight, and Live Healthy

Rick Mystrom

What Should I Eat is based on 60,000 blood tests taken after nearly every meal the author's eaten for the past 34 years.

What Should I Eat will be life changing if:

you'reaTYPE2 DiABETiC who wants to lower your blood sugar and lose weight, or

you're a PREDiABETiC or BoRDERliNE DiABETiC who wants to avoid ever getting diabetes, or

you're a TYPE 1 DiABETiC who wants to improve blood sugar control and live a long, healthy life, or

you're one of the two thirds of American adults who want to Lose Weight!

Blood Appeal

Vigilante - A Species of Common Law: Book Three In The Palatini Series

Lyle O'Connor

After assisting in taking down a Mafia operated porn and sex ring using underage girls in Toronto, Palatini Knight, Walter Eloy Goe, needs to kick back and wind down. How better than with a “little more than” friend, Joyce Farmer, in sleepy little Shell Knob, Missouri where headlines of the weekly paper are comprised of simple news like birthdays, vegetable gardens, and too much or too little rain. Shortly after checking into Miss Farmer's Lakeside Resort a disturbing 911 call comes into the local sheriff, “I've's got me a body layin' out here, and she's a-lookin' deader ‘n' hell.” News of a young girl, dead and laid out naked in a patch of blackberry brambles, spreads like wildfire and panics the community. No one can remember such a brutal, cold-blooded murder ever occurring in this quiet little town. Just like that, Walter, a stranger to the community and newly arrived guest of Miss Farmer, becomes a person of interest to the Barry County Sheriff. Walter must solve the case before incriminating secrets from his shadowy past can be discovered. He acquires useful information by assisting a local, inexperienced, newspaper reporter to uncover nefarious circumstances, unknown and unsuspected by law-abiding citizens of this community. Two Palatini associates come to his rescue. The trio discover they are playing a game that has put them in harm's way as they follow a trail of corruption, greed, and murder from Missouri to Alaska and back, all the while leaving bodies in their wake.

Due Process

Vigilante Serial Killer—Justice Dispatched with Extreme Prejudice

Lyle O’Connor

Enter the realm of a serial killer; share his thoughts, his emotions, his pain, and his need to assassinate. Walter, an ordinary factory worker, obsessing over the mistreatment of victims by the courts becomes a vigilante for justice. Appalled by adjudicators coddling criminals under the guise of civil rights, Walter factors himself in as a lethal consequence for depraved individuals walking out of court with a-slap-on-the-wrist as punishment for heinous crimes. He has no particular skill-sets qualifying him to fight crime. He relies on cunning, isolation, and his hunting and tracking skills to take down targets and bring about his form of justice. A kaleidoscope of dreams and apparitions thrusts Walter into a nightmarish world where the lines of good and evil are discernible. When applying justice he finds right and wrong interchangeable; body count is his only measure of success.

Lawless Measures

Vigilante--The Fight Continues: Book Two In The Palatini Series

Lyle O’Connor

Walter Eloy Goe, crime fighter and vigilante for justice, takes on a Palatini project aimed at eliminating the Mafias' sex trafficking of underage girls along the New York and Canadian border. The operation morphs into an all-out war when the Palatini's lead asset for the project, Anna Sasins, goes missing and is presumed murdered by the Abbandanza crime family. Walter splits with the Palatini Knighthood when he's ordered by Society Palatini Grand Master, Maximillian Karnage, to abandon Anna and to tie off the operation. Walter takes his one-man war to the mob in methods they understand. Body count climbs as he abducts and interrogates mobsters' mafia style. The war heats up when two Palatini Knights join Walter in his lust for blood. Together they set out to revenge Anna's death and to annihilate the Toronto based crime family engaged in the sex trade involving kidnapped underage girls.

Into the Fire

Death, Sex Slaves, and Drugs in South Vietnam

T. Martin O’Neil

The cover of darkness was pulled back by the NODS scopes in their hands. The enemy had no idea what was about to befall them. With the rush of wings of dragons, the sounds of M-14s, M-870 shotguns, M-16's and grenades spoke the finality of death. This gave the human pack mules a taste of what would continue to reign upon them in the House of the Dragon. North and South Vietnam were at war. Indeed, all of Southeast Asia was at war. Due to national commitments, the U.S. military was drawn into the fray. Members of the elite Navy SEALS performed operations from counter-narcotics, counter-human trafficking and even counter piracy. These men placed their lives on the line daily as true humanitarians. Seen through the eyes of attached Naval Intelligence operatives, their stories can now be revealed. These operations, specific missions, even their love stories, are recounted in Into the Fire.

Legacy

The True Inglorious History of President Obama

I.S. Petteice

A man with aspirations of being a world leader, Barack Obama, a man with many secrets of his own, set out to destroy the strongest power by bankrupting the nation, diminishing its military, and apologizing to all other countries for its arrogance. A man that has his own army and concentration camps ready at his whim for you. A man that could and should have brought unity between black and white America but his cause was to further his own agenda to take guns away from America and destroy its Second Amendment. Barack Obama, the man that said he was a Christian when everything he did pointed to the fact that he is a Muslim. Barack Hussein Obama, the man who will go down in the annals of history known as a Muslim, a Luminati, a member of the New Black Panthers, a member of the gay community, and as the worst President the United States of America has ever elected.

Alaska Bears

Jake Jacobson

ALASKA BEARS: Shaken and Stirred is a collection of 24 stories describing Jake's personal experience hunting and guiding for all the species of bears in Alaska. Bear biology, hunting techniques, cabin depredations and avoidance thereof, and other aspects of bear pursuits are detailed. These are true stories except for the names of some of the hunting guests from Jake's fifty years of living and hunting in Alaska. 

The Lyin Kings

The Wannabe World Leaders

I.S. Petteice

The Lyin Kings. The Wannabe World Rulers. Two people, a man and a woman who fought for power in 2008, may once again do battle in 2016. This time, will it be up to the Illuminati, the gay world, the Illegals, FEMA, or the Militia that will decides who wins or loses. Hillary Clinton, a confessed Socialist, and Barack Obama, a practicing Socialist, both want to lead the world, not our country; both want to destroy our Constitution and Declaration of Independence; both were students and worshipers of Saul Alinsky. Clinton who has no acclaim as a former Secretary of State and Obama who has become the worst President we have ever had. Obama will not give up his kingdom easily and will call martial law, if necessary, in order to thwart the 2016 election.

Ravens Cove

An Alaska Iconoclast Mystery

Mary Ann Poll

Welcome to Ravens Cove, Alaska, a tiny town nestled in a small hollow on the majestic Cook Inlet. A town familiar with storytelling—after all, Alaska abounds in rich legends. Unlike other tales, however, the account of Ravens Cove is not just based in fact. It is fact. Meet Josiah Williams, the peculiar stranger whose warning to lifetime residents Kat Tovslosky and her cousin, Sheriff Bart Andersen, raises more questions than answers; a man whose dark past and knowledge of the murders make him a suspect more than an ally. Join Kat and Bart as an unlikely troop forms (including a very unwelcome FBI agent) to discover the identity of a killer. The unearthing of which will throw the reluctant warriors into a battle for their very lives and the lives of all who call Ravens Cove home.

Ingress

An Alaska Iconoclast Mystery

Mary Ann Poll

The dark and cold of an Alaska winter settled over Ravens Cove. To boost the sagging economy, Mayor Thomas Orthell brought in a new tourist attraction—an ancient town abandoned for almost a century. The Forgotten Place is rumored to be cursed and to hold the threat of death for any who enter. Now, the town and its curse have made their way to Ravens Cove. As mysterious deaths, legendary entities, and folklore come to life, the town is hurtled into a spiritual battle with a familiar nemesis. The lessons learned during the Iconoclast siege are going to be put to the test—along with the small troop of warriors that have been brought back together to learn a better way to fight and defeat a shrewd and dangerous enemy.

Gorgon

An Alaska Iconoclast Mystery

Mary Ann Poll

An accountant is gruesomely murdered in Anchorage. The hag tree guarding Ravens Ravine is chopped to the ground. Two separate events hundreds of miles apart are the harbinger of a new battle for Ravens Cove--and a new enemy. Some people are destined to be warriors against what most of the world cannot see. Some battles are eternal. Welcome back to the Cove…..

Dullahan

Mary Ann Poll

A sinister secret lies hidden in the swamps of East Texas. One which has been kept for centuries. A small town, a headless apparition, and a young man in a hospital hold the keys to unlocking the mystery. Four thousand miles away, Kat Tovslosky, Ken Melbourne and Bart Andersen prepare to leave Ravens Cove for a routine conference. What begins as a well-needed break becomes the fabric of most people's nightmares. For Kat, Ken and Bart, though, it's just another day in the life. Look out, East Texas, the Cove is coming to town. You might want to take cover. Because, you see, their all-too-familiar nemesis is waiting for them in the small town of Bordman's Crossing and will destroy anyone who gets in his way.

Heart of Abigail

A Lyric Novella of Juneau, and Treadwell

R. Phillip Ritter

Weaving spellbinding fiction into meticulously researched history, Heart of Abigail tells the harrowing story of bonnie Abigail Sinclair, a young nurse who travels from Edinburgh, Scotland to Alaska in 1899 to work at the St. Ann's Hospital in Douglas during the height of the great gold mines of Treadwell, 700 Foot, Mexican, and Ready Bullion. Against a backdrop of authentic history, Abigail experiences her first true love, perilous danger, malignant retribution, and ultimate redemption as she confronts the deepest feelings of her own heart. Richly illustrated throughout with historic photographs relevant to the story, Heart of Abigail will imbue the reader with clear and intimate knowledge of the mining history of Juneau, Douglas, and Treadwell within the transparent fabric of a masterful fictional story.

The Perilous Journey Begins

A Magnificent Epic of Seven Tragically Entangled Lives

Rich Ritter

In 1860 a Scottish lass protects her younger sister from a savage beast on the windswept highlands above Pentland Firth. An Iowa farm boy discovers a dark secret on the gory battlegrounds of Shiloh in 1862. Two years later a Colonel of the Taiping Army retreats in shame after the bloody fall of Nanjing. Born of an English father and a Sioux mother, a U.S. Cavalry Scout fights for his life on the unforgiving plains of western Kansas in 1867. During autumn of the same year, a Russian fur trapper sails from Sitka, Alaska on an American ship bound for San Francisco in a farcical quest for gold. Two years later an enigmatic law student calmly departs Budapest after the brutal murder of a corrupt policeman. In Salt Lake City during the spring of 1871, a young woman a few months shy of fifteen gallops away from her wedding reception to escape an arranged marriage. And after the dawn of the twentieth century, the winsome Muireall Anne Ravenscroft—inspired by the tragic intertwining of these seven lives—will write her definitive history of the American West. But this is only a prelude to the magnificent epic that awaits you….

My Father’s Will

An heir must satisfy the terms of her earthly father's will without violating her Father in Heaven's will

Magdel Roets

Stephan Howard Hammond knew he could count on his children to squander the fortune he would leave them in his will. His anguish over their future left him no choice but to find someone dependable to provide for them when the money ran out. This meant he had to reveal some deep hidden secrets, not knowing what the effect would be, unaware that Francine had already discovered part of the truth. Struggling through her own shock and disappointment she decided to keep quiet about what she had found until it was too late. With more secrets revealed, she must still go through with the plans her father's will provided for her; throw their inheritance to the wind. And withstand their unsympathetic treatment of her.

How My Father's Will Came About: Enjoying a slice of cheese cake and an espresso in a coffee shop one day, Magdel overheard two men behind her boasting about all the things they planned to do with the money they were about to inherit from their late father's estate. One wanted a speedboat; the other wanted to get his private pilot's license. Oh, how the girls would love them. Right at this point the idea for a story was born in her mind. She took out her notebook and started making notes to research boats and airplanes, and a number of other things, like private companies and estates. She decided there had to be five children to share an inheritance. Being some sort of artist herself, she chose the main character, Francine, to be an artist, but a much more professional one than Magdel. From there she worked out the plot and built the characters.

The Bigger Fish

Two Girls, One Guy, Some Choices

Magdel Roets

Two girls, one man, drugs, and salvation. They all have to choose, and when they do, their choice have to be from a sincere and undivided heart.

Man in the Picture

Magdel Roets

An elderly woman dies with the picture of a man in her hand. No one knows who the man is and the hunt for the truth begins.

Feather From A Stranger - An Alaskan Mystery

An Alaskan Mystery

Marianne Schlegelmilch

Four years after losing her new husband in a plane crash in South America, Mara Edwards sets sail for a new life in Alaska. Aboard a northbound ferry, a peculiar run-in with an old man signals that her troubles are not yet over when he hands her a feather and utters these prophetic words:Your present is the future of your past. You will need this to protect your future from your past. All who come here seek the future of their past. As her life becomes unexpectedly entwined with the members of a loving family, a loyal stranger and a wolf-dog named Thor, the new beginning Mara seeks unfolds with all the intensity that crime, passion, loyalty, friendship, love, betrayal, and adventure can provide. In the beauty of pristine Alaska, after four long years of grieving, she learns if she can ever truly be released from her past.

Two Tickets and a Feather

Present Alaska--Future of her Past another Alaskan Mystery

Marianne Schlegelmilch

Newlyweds, Doug and Mara Williams, chose to settle in Homer, Alaska, owning both a small home on the bluffs overlooking lower Cook Inlet and a fishing seiner docked among a fleet of other working boats in the picturesque harbor at the end of the Homer Spit. With the warning prophecies of Alaska native elder Joe Michael already faced and resolved in the first book in this series, Feather From a Stranger, the newlyweds undertake their final preparations before they leave for the Sitka herring fishery. Thanks to the amazing sacrifice made for them by Joe Michael, they set out for their first adventure as a married couple in Doug's seiner, the Fire Ring Roamer, no longer fearful of the future of their past—until, on her last day of work, Mara receives another mysterious message. With its setting in many Alaska locations, Two Tickets and a Feather is the second in this mystery series and the sequel to Feather from a Stranger.

Driftfeather on the Alaska Seas

Ultimate Future of the Past another Alaskan Mystery

Marianne Schlegelmilch

Could it have been a strange coincidence or a magical matter of fate that allowed the final draft of Driftfeather on the Alaska Seas to be finished during the full solar eclipse of May 2012? For Mara Benson, interspersed among all the losses have been moments of brilliant awareness, yet until now, she has been comfortable—perhaps even secure—drifting in the wake of life's journey. Now, in the third book of the Feather series, Mara Benson will finally reach the ultimate future of her past. You've come to know her well. Destiny will now allow her to know herself. Join her in this modern day mystery as she expands her horizons, makes new liaisons, is tempered by fresh challenges, and emerges from the shadows of darkness into the nurturing warmth of the sun—all in this place named Alaska that they call the last frontier.

Feather for Hoonah Joe

Alaska Can Be a Very Small Place

Marianne Schlegelmilch

Sal Kindle has been sprinkling the pages of the feather series with so much homespun grit, that it's hard to imagine that an octogenarian can really develop any more facets to her earthy personality. Her husband, Joe Michael, doesn't think so either, which makes life all the more interesting when the two of them not only take on a new business venture, but also discover there's more to Sal than anyone dared imagine.

Within the scenarios of Hoonah, Alaska, Rhinebeck, New York, and brief moments in Sitka, Alaska, and New York City, new adventures for Mara, Doug, Joe, and Sal lead to even more new adventures--right up to the clifhanger of an ending that will leave you either grabbing the arms of your chair, or frantically checking the battery level of your e-reader to make sure you can make it to the end of the story in time to find out what really happens.

Feather for Hoonah Joe is the fourth in the Feather series of mystery novels and some say it is one of the best in the series.

Feather for Forever

Alaska

Marianne Schlegelmilch

A missing feather, the strange appearance of a series of gray bandanas with orange volcano icons on one corner, a mysterious connection with the son of Doug William's right hand man, old alliances, new alliances, broken alliances, and renewed allegiances take Mara and Doug Williams skyrocketing into the path of danger and uncertainty once again.

Will this last book in the Feather Series spell the end of their troubles, or the beginning of an eternity on the run? Will Mara finally face the future of her past for the last time or will the protection of the feather remain as elusive as has been the peace and solitude she so longed for when seeking a new life in Alaska. Can our collective belief in finding a happy ending guide the final storyline in the feather series to its ultimate place as a beacon of hope in our troubled times, or will the evil that has plagued one family finally and unequivocally prevail?

The answer lies within these pages of Feather for Forever ~ Alaska, and in the hearts and minds of all those who believe in the goodness in life.

Raven’s Light

A Tale of Alaska's White Raven

Marianne Schlegelmilch

Zak was a normal raven until a vacation to Prince William Sound changed his life forever. Caught in the aftermath of the greatest oil spill in Alaska's history, Zak's inner light was nearly smothered as he faced the enormity of the disaster. Unable to reconcile the overwhelming emotions wrought by witnessing the devastation on millions of birds, animals and people, Zak ceased to do little more than exist until meeting the white raven from the heart of Denali. Paired beautifully with the commanding splendor of Alaska and its people, Raven's Light is the tale of Zak's struggle. Set amongst the beauty and people of Alaska's Matanuska Valley, Raven's Light is an intimate glimpse at the journey within that leads to the ultimate serenity of inner peace.

Gaston's Crow's Nest

An Alaska Tale

Marianne Schlegelmilch

From the moment he first woke up out at sea in the crow's nest of fisherman Gaston Angelo Noel's purse seiner, the eagle Hali knew the adventures he had longed for since leaving his nest in Anchor Point, Alaska for life on the Homer Spit were about to begin.Sad that his hatchmate, Leuc, would not be able to join him, Hali finds himself on a journey more interesting than he ever imagined while learning a few life's lessons about courage, loyalty, and love along the way.Scattered throughout the book, are photo illustrations made from original photographs that inspired this story taken by the author and her husband. Gaston's Crow's Nest, a modern Alaska story of original fiction, is suitable for all age groups and the second book in the Alaska Tale series.

Socks on Rocks

These silly sheep knit silly socks

Mike Spindle

As a toy designer, sculptor, and illustrator for Disney, Hallmark Cards, Hasbro, and others, Mike Spindle has helped bring to market a variety of toys and gifts for more than 35 years. From L.A. to New York, and places in between, Mike has met, illustrated, and sculpted notable characters including Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Care Bears, Muppets, Bugs Bunny, Phineas and Ferb, and Doc McStuffins, just to name a few.

But, the call of the wild brought Mike to Alaska. It was only natural that he meet a mail carrying moose named Miles. Nothing can stop him from delivering his letters. But, will he ever find Blueberry Lane?

This is one of the ALASKA TALES.

Miles is a Mailmoose

One Moose's Misadventure

Mike Spindle

As a toy designer, sculptor, and illustrator for Disney, Hallmark Cards, Hasbro, and others, Mike Spindle has helped bring to market a variety of toys and gifts for more than 35 years. From L.A. to New York, and places in between, Mike has met, illustrated, and sculpted notable characters including Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Care Bears, Muppets, Bugs Bunny, Phineas and Ferb, and Doc McStuffins, just to name a few.

But, the call of the wild brought Mike to Alaska. It was only natural that he meet a mail carrying moose named Miles. Nothing can stop him from delivering his letters. But, will he ever find Blueberry Lane?

This is one of the ALASKA TALES.

Ni Night, Alaska

Sometimes it's hard to fall asleep

Mike Spindle

As a toy designer, sculptor, and illustrator for Disney, Hallmark Cards, Hasbro, and others, Mike Spindle has helped bring to market a variety of toys and gifts for more than 35 years. From L.A. to New York, and places in between, Mike has met, illustrated, and sculpted notable characters including Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Care Bears, Muppets, Bugs Bunny, Phineas and Ferb, and Doc McStuffins, just to name a few.

But, the call of the wild brought Mike to Alaska. It was only natural that he meet a mail carrying moose named Miles. Nothing can stop him from delivering his letters. But, will he ever find Blueberry Lane?

This is one of the ALASKA TALES.

Bringing Your Book to Market

A Writers' Guide to Becoming a Published Author

Evan Swensen

Publication Consultants specializes in publishing the works of writers worldwide. We've been in the publishing business since 1978. We're not only publishers, we're writers, and know many problems confronting writers. How to solve those problems and bring writer's work to market is our business. We welcome this opportunity to become acquainted with you and your work.

Publication Consultants produces books and publications of any size, number of pages, and variety of binding and covers. We think there is more to book publishing than just putting ink on paper. Our services include design, typesetting, printing, binding, eBook conversion, and all necessary steps to publish your book, both as a printed book and an eBook. We take your book from conception to completion and bring your work to market with one of five different programs.

One Last Cast

From Alaska Outdoors Radio Magazine

Evan Swensen

Listeners of Alaska Outdoor Radio Magazine turned up the volume just a little as Evan ended his show with "And now before we close the show, there's just time for one last cast."

One Last Cast is the collection of 120 of listeners' favorite one last casts. It's more than fishing Alaska. It's flying with Charlie's pilot, an early-morning walk on a deserted Kachemak Bay beach, digging clams, pulling crab and shrimp pots, taking pictures, keeping a campfire going, and watching and interacting with Alaska's wildlife. Sometimes it's doing nothing -- taking time to just sit, relax, and enjoy the surroundings, breathing air so pure you can't see it, listening to the deafening silence of a still night, or feeling the immense size of wilderness on a clear day with unlimited visibility. One Last Cast is the genuine Alaska outdoor experience.

Becoming a Published Author

Agony and Ecstasy of Writing a Book

Evan and Lois Swensen

Becoming a published author is a daunting experience. Bringing and keeping a book before potential readers is a challenging and taxing undertaking. Almost everyone has dreamed about writing a book—but few there are that have what it takes to do it. Becoming a Published Author is a book written by those who have done it—who had a vision of being a published author and had what it took to make it happen. These are stories from authors about their writing and publishing journey from the beginning of their idea to the thrill of their first book signing—and beyond. Becoming a Published Author includes thoughts, insights, and the emotional highs and lows of becoming an author and marketing a book.

Real Chances

An Alaskan Dream Come True

Katrina Wilterding

A once in a lifetime chance. Sometimes we are given a shot, a chance to change the entire course of our lives. The strong take those chances and run with them, the fearful let them pass, afraid to face change. Chance or opportunity. However you decide to view it, these once in a lifetime events don't happen everyday. When one comes knocking will you take it? Real Chances displays the effect that opportunity has on not only the person taking that chance, but others in their life as well. We may not always be aware of the far reaching effects of our choices. Is not knowing a good reason to stay where we are? To decide to just not decide? Life is in a constant state of change, without which we become boring, unable to grow. Let Real Chances show you how change works in your life to create something beautiful.

Real Life

Alaska Girl Thaws In California

Katrina Wilterding

If you think high school is bad, wait until real life starts.

Real life? What does that mean?

How is love, death, grief, and joy not real life?

So much can happen in just a short time. Four years, the amount of time in high school on average. Four days, the amount of time before astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission walked on the moon after leaving Earth. Four hours, the time it takes to fly from Anchorage to San Francisco. Four seconds, the time it takes to say “I do” on your wedding day. It does not take much to change a life forever. Real Life tells the story of a little over four months in the lives of two high school students. Four months was all it took to rearrange their lives for forever.

How To Market Books

Bonnye Matthews

What others say

If you've ever wondered how to market your book(s) to libraries, Bonnye Matthews' How to Market Your Books to Libraries and Readers in the Digital Age is a must read. It is an easy to follow, well-written, step-by-step process. I highly recommend it! Mary Ann Poll America's Lady of Supernatural Thrillers, USA

This book has totally answered all of the questions I have ever had about how authors get their books into libraries. It is not just well written and informative, it is detailed and educational. Unlike so many other articles you read, this one is different as Bonnye gives you all the secrets – all the tricks of the trade – all the information you need. Irene Petteice Senior Author of Political Perspectives, USA

Bonnye Matthews, writer of prehistoric fiction, has put her hand to writing a book to help writers market their books to libraries. I have read this book and I can honestly recommend it. It may sound like a simple task, but once you try it, you'll find many obstacles along the way. Bonnye indicates clearly, step by step how to go about it. The whole process from how to find the libraries's email addresses right up to the final step of sending the letters, is described in detail. Her instructions are clear and easy to follow. All aspects of the process is covered. Anyone can have success. Bonnye, like all your other books, this is a winner! Magdel Roets Writer of Christian Fiction South Africa