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Dare The Devil – Roger L. Conlee
Investigative reporter Jake Weaver dares the devil by writing hard-hitting news stories exposing the crimes of postwar Los Angeles gangsters Bugsy Siegel and Jack Dragna, putting himself, his wife and daughter in jeopardy.
Add to the mix a beautiful female British spy and a sadistic Nazi fugitive, a vicious torturer known as The Buchenwald Butcher, and you are on a thrill ride.
“A breathless read!” — Lynn Kennedy, author.
264 pages
Deep Water – Roger L. Conlee
Deep Water deals with the early days of the Cold War and the paranoia of McCarthyism. You’ll encounter Harry Truman, William Randolph Hearst and young John F. Kennedy as reporter Jake Weaver finds himself in deep water while investigating powerful corporate and banking conspiracies.
“A page-turning thriller (which will) keep you reading through the night.” — Lynne Kennedy, author
254 pages
After the Wind – Roger L. Conlee
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst has died, and ace reporter Jake Weaver tries to help Hearst’s long-time lover, Marion Davies, receive her share of the fortune. But the plan backfires and Weaver becomes a murder suspect. And Weaver’s friend, Marine Corps office Kenny Nielsen, finds himself embroiled in the savage early months of the Korean War.
“After the Wind reads like history because it is real history.”–Edward Joseph Mayo
Plunge! – Sally Stiles
An exceptional, deeply-moving memoir—a classic love story.
In the late 1970s, a fragile thread linked a woman living on Park Avenue in Manhattan and a man in a guarded house in West Africa. “I love you very much he whispered softly across 7,000 miles of ocean and up the East River.”
Plunge! is a love story, exquisitely told. Sally was a New York career woman when David showed up in her life. Their first dinner date was July 13, 1977, the night of the New York Blackout. Six weeks later he told her he had accepted a job in Nigeria. After a romantic weekend at the Pierre Hotel, David left the city. “The noise of the engines was muffled through the window, and as the plane taxied to the runway, the sound faded away, like a love song drawing to a melancholy close.”
As David struggled to clear a jungle to build a paper mill in West Africa, Sally worked at her fast-paced job, occasionally flew private planes, and led the tenants of her Park Avenue apartment building into battle against her landlord. Over the next nine months, they corresponded—openly, often with humor—and had three brief reunions: in Nigeria, London and New York. “Perhaps the distance that separated us, the lack of instant interaction, helped us both to communicate more thoughtfully, more honestly and even more passionately than we might have otherwise.”
“An amazing, beautiful literary accomplishment.” – Carol Shaben, author of Into the Abyss
“I can’t remember the last book that affected me like Plunge! It’s very moving and strong and honest and beautifully written. I was drawn in from the start—a gifted writer.” — Dalia Pagani, author of Mercy Road
“So well written and so compelling.” – Louise Crowley, Program Director, Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Writing
“A deeply moving and deeply-felt story which will resonate with others as it resonated with me” — Michael Boxall, author, The Great Firewall
“Alive and vibrant . . . An interesting, compelling narrative.” — Phyllis Barber, author of eight books, including Raw Edges
281 pages
I Got Nuthin’ Strange to Rite – Jeff Toalson
GOT NUTHIN STRANGE TO RITE by Jeff Toalson
A SELECTION OF FORGOTTEN SOUTHERN LETTERS 1861-1865
This book, like the three preceding, is dedicated to preserving the true history of ordinary Confederate soldiers and civilians. It is the culmination of 15 years of research resulting in the publication of unforgettable letters documenting hardship, illness, loss and love during the Civil War.
The letters are published as they were written, and the chapter titles speak to the range of material included. For instance: “I lived three days on five biscuit and a little bacon”; “I got a pice of mule neck in my mouth”; “I still remain your loveing wife until death”.
The voices captured in I GOT NUTHIN STRANGE TO RITE take you straight to the camps and onto the battlefields of war; to the farms and the family left struggling behind; to the predicaments of slaves hired out on contract. You’ll learn about the deadly diseases that affected soldiers–smallpox, dysentery, measles. You’ll learn what it was like to slog through forests and swamps with shortages of supplies but no shortage of perils.
This extraordinary collection of letters is a treasure painstakingly created through a labor of love.
188 pages
The Haiku Guide to Williamsburg – Sally Stiles
THE HAIKU GUIDE TO WILLIAMSBURG by Sally Stiles
This small book is a gift of carefully rendered poetry and artful photography to celebrate those aha! moments which residents and visitors alike experience in the historic triangle of Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, Virginia.
75 pages
Crazeman in the Bottle – Sally Stiles
CRAZEMAN IN THE BOTTLE by Sally Stiles
An enchanting collection. You’ll laugh and cry, stop in J.D. Salinger’s home town, go to the movies, visit with a shaman, ride on Pegasus’ bare back, travel to East and West Africa and learn how man might really have been created. Accessible but thought-provoking.
60 pages
Haiku Guide to the Inside Passage (Revised edition) – Sally Stiles
This beautifully crafted volume merges poems and photographs in recreating an actual voyage and a voyage of personal discovery. Even if you have never sailed from Puget Sound to Alaska, these tender and evocative haiku, and their complementary photos, will take you there in ways you could never imagine.
You will sail into deep fjords, watch wildlife graze remote shores, anchor beside glaciers only accessible by boat or float plane and visit first-nation fishing villages. According to first readers: “The book evokes majesty, surprise, humor, tension and danger.” — “It’s a travelogue, love story and fine poetry collection wrapped up in one beautiful package.”
“The book is a meditation on the shifting emotional textures of life aboard Haiku, a 31-foot trawler. Weather changes, light shifts, the tides ebb and flow. Haiku’s wake vanishes and only these words remain. This is a beautiful book, about a woman, a man, and the waters they pass through. Read it. But slowly.” – Michael Boxall, author of The Great Firewall.
A perfect book for travelers and a must-have book for all true lovers of poetry.
97 pages
The Dragon Stone: Tales of Arthur, Merlin & Cabal – John Conlee
In which Arthur, the younger son of a minor British nobleman, receives vital help from Merlin and Arthur’s dog Cabal, and survives a series of attempts on his life, in the process proving himself qualified to become Britain’s new High King. Just out — a new, revised edition.
176 pages
A Cup of Kindness: Tales of Arthur, Merlin & Cabal – John Conlee
In the second novel in the series, the new young king’s ability to rule Britain and establish civil order is severely tested in a series of struggles against the rebellious barons and lesser kings who have refused to accept young Arthur as King Uther Pendragon’s true heir and Britain’s rightful king. (Revised cover shown)
174 pages
The King Mud & Grass: Tales of Arthur, Merlin & Cabal – John Conlee
British forces, with their backs against the wall, must do battle at the high hill known as the Barren Down against the invading Saxon armies. In this third novel, Arthur, Merlin, and Cabal are tested in different ways—and not all three of them succeed in passing their test.
177 pages
In the Summer Country: Tales of Arthur, Merlin & Cabal – John Conlee
In this fourth novel, Arthur and Cabal experience the wonders and brave the grave dangers of the Faerie Otherworld in their attempt to rescue Gwinevere and her little brother Melleas from their cruel and tyrannical captors.
190 pages