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A biographical novel of Tecumtha, a Cherokee statesman and warrior who created a tribal alliance to resist the white settlement of Indian homelands. National promotion campaign, advertising.

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In the year 1141, murder and religious intolerance confound the nuns of the Benedictine Abbey at Shaftesbury. Dame Averilla must bring the truth to light, lest anarchy topple the rule of law.

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This bawdy, satirical look at the aftermath of the Vietnam Experience is as relevant today as it was a generation ago. This is a unique, poignant exploration of society's corruption and the hope of individual redemption, seen through the eyes of a returning veteran whose life and homeland have been changed forever.

2010 BAIPA Award Winner: Best Art Book. Realm of Silence approaches the most devastating event in modern history with tenderness and beauty. In her pairing of nine oil paintings and nine poems, Elvire Coriat de Baere has created a series of reflections with which the eye and mind may engage gently, reflections that honor life and condemn barbarity in the most human ways. In her work, we find a recognition of the darkest realities of the Second...

2010 BAIPA Award Winner: Best Novel. The park was beautiful, as were the restored Victorian houses nearby, but Sacramento Park Ranger Hank Forrester predicts that drunks and vagrants will migrate there to drink and panhandle, and criticizes city officials for having created a skid row. Claire Patterson, still grieving the recent deaths of her husband and aunt, has chosen an entirely new direction: she ll manage the bookstore and live in the Vi...

Deadlines" launches into action when a land-use activist, Beverly Bancroft, is slain on a stretch of California shore. The killers, who disguise her death as an accident, work for Cornu Point, an equestrian resort seeking to boost profit from public land along the coast. A young reporter, Sebastian Palmer, finds Bancroft's death could be a clever murder. He's assisted by a new friend, Elle Jatob, a beautiful, athletic Brazilian who yearns to b...

I Thought So is a distillation of wisdom in the classic tradition of Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Epictetus, Samuel Johnson, and la Rochefoucauld. If you love epigrams, you'll be delighted by the original mind reflected here. If you enjoy seeing things from a different angle, and like to discuss life s larger questions, then this is the book for you. Sample Epigrams Some people would rather lose the relationship than the argument. A good cook is...

Preparing a paper on Frankenstein, scholar Anna Trevor falls into alarmingly realistic dreams, meeting Mary Shelley, who reveals truths only she could know. When the dreams enter Anna's waking state, she begins to believe that Mary and her lovers, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, actually exist as conscious beings sharing time and space-and mind-with her.

Meet nine girlfriends who've been through infertility treatment (IT) and can help make your IT easier by sharing what they learned. This is a candid, humorous description of what treatment is like from the parient's perspective. The girlfriends tell you who'll be touching you where, and what, why, and what it feels like, and give you practical tips on how to balance your life, handle the shots, ride the horomone roller coaster, play doctor rou...

This intriguing collection of short stories portrays the complexities of love, unrequited and requited, fantasized and realized. The characters, who yearn for connection despite their ambivalence and their varying abilities to achieve it, range in age from sixteen to seventy-five. They have compelling lives, jobs, and interests, yet they continue to pursue some kind of resolution within the complexities of their situations. A graduate student ...

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I Thought So, Volume 2 is a new distillation of wisdom in the classic tradition of Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Epictetus, Samuel Johnson, and la Rochefoucauld. If you love epigrams, you'll be surprised and delighted by the original mind reflected here. If you enjoy seeing things from a different angle, and like to discuss life's larger questions, then this is the perfect book for you.

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WARNING! Based solely on what one person says to the police, you or anyone you love could be arrested for child sexual abuse. This startling book reveals how you could be treated - or mistreated - by police, the legal system and the media. A candid narrative intended to help others who might be accused understand and cope with a terrifying and overwhelming situation.