Ken Salter: 7 books

In 1848 Yerba Buena was a sleepy, backwater trading post with 2,000 inhabitants living in tents, shanties and adobes. In 1849, John Marshall’s gold discovery reverberated around the world and the gold rush was on. Individuals lucky enough to be in California provisioned themselves with food, tents,...

Skip trace investigator R. C. Bean works for a bumbling, alcoholic divorce attorney. He’s asked to trace hidden assets to help their client, Gloria Simmons, defeat a prenuptial agreement. Gloria is the the sexy, scheming wife of a local black, playboy mortician who’s hooked on gambling, drugs and...

Mindy Rohnert is bored while studying for an exam. She accepts an offer to have a drink from a good-looking fellow she meets in the university library. She has a good time knocking back a few beers with her new friend and his companions at a local watering hole near campus. Feeling comfortable and...

1853 begins with relative prosperity and calm for San Franciscans. More and more families from the United States and its Western Territories arrive weekly to settle in California and improve their lot. Foreign immigration, especially Chinese, French and German, continues at a brisk pace despite the limited...

The second volume of a three-part trilogy chronicling the adventures of Pierre and Manon Dubois, a French couple in San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush.

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...

When Robbie fails to get a special birthday present, he makes a farfetched wish on a falling star, waking to find he is a newborn Apatosaur. Confused and afraid, he must learn to adapt to his new surroundings in order to survive. As Robbies plan unfolds for the final standoff with the ferocious T-rex, Tyra, he must decide if he is willing to risk losing his life for the sake of his friends.