Bonita by Carl R. Brush AMAZON.COM Meet Bonita. Often reckless, often victimized, a deeply spiritual person who transforms herself from a rebellious adolescent into a prominent entrepreneur. When we meet her as a twelve-year-old in 1843, her future looks idyllic—a privileged life on a hacienda overlooking San Francisco Bay. But her penchant for eavesdropping and…
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The Maxwell Vendetta by Carl R. Brush AMAZON.COM Early California, 1908. Andy Maxwell sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the stabbing death of his younger brother outside a San Francisco bar. He’s certain the murder is part of a vendetta against his family, but frustration and suspense mount as he fails to convince authorities…
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Empty Promises by Nick Shepherd AMAZON.COM Miguel Perez is not an ambitious person, leading a hedonist but ultimately unfulfilling life as a tennis pro at a high-end club and selling cocaine on the side. As he descends deeper into the cocaine business, the ruling drug cartel tracks him down, shooting Miguel and his friend Steve.…
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A Teacher’s Tale: A Memoir by Joe Gilliland AMAZON.COM It was never in author Joe Gilliland’s plan to become a teacher, certainly not a college teacher and most certainly not an English teacher. But that’s what happened, and he’s never looked back. In A Teacher’s Tale, he explains how by neither planning for nor seeking…
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The Door: My Twenty-Six Years Working Inside Canada’S Prisons by Vern Thibedeau AMAZON.COM For Canadian corrections offi cer Vern Thibedeau, it all began at Disney Worldor at least the penitentiary that ironically carried that nickname. Within ten months, he is seriously injured. One year later he has a pistol aimed at his head during an…
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The Battle for Nova Scotia: A Trilogy of Tales by Ronald Gaffney AMAZON.COM From the time of its capture by British and New England forces in 1710, the French Colony of “Acadia” in the American Northeast was contested by France, French Acadian settlers and the First Nations or “Indian” tribes of the region. They attacked…
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Israela: Final Edition by Dr. Batya Casper AMAZON.COM As their lives unfold, the three women find themselves facing choices they would never have envisioned. In my heart, I call to their mothers, ‘Take your sons to your houses. Bind them to your chairs: gag them, blindfold them if necessary until they grow calm. Then teach…
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Electra: A Gender Sensitive Study of the Plays Based on the Myth, 2d ed. Batya Casper AMAZON.COM Shakespeare’s Hamlet–written 1,000 years after the classical Greek period–follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myth, and it isn’t the only story to do so. We see signs of Electra’s influence again in the…
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Blood, Sweat and High Heels: A Memoir Cheryl Waiters AMAZON.COM Exemplified by the power of the human spirit, life in the face of death, she had the courage to challenge a generation to release the shackles of ignorance surrounding women and gender roles. All of this and more is lyrically conveyed in Cheryl Waiters’ autobiographical…
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Starfish Sky Timothy Slykhuis AMAZON.COM Imagine waking up one morning, to suddenly find yourself physically and mentally severely disabled, unable to do anything, not even to think!
