Bert Brun: 12 books

At Yalta, in Russia, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet in February 1945. World War 2 is nearing its bloody conclusion with Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender. Stalin badgers Churchill and manipulates a worn out and dying Roosevelt so that, in the end, the Soviet...

In "The Turtle", a blustering entrepeneur gets his comeuppance from an imagined performer. In "The GLA's Great Day", two gun promoters are surprised by a turn of events. In "Strange Love", an insect and a human forge a new relationship. In "Cissie's Hair", a...

CERTAIN THINGS HAPPENED By Bert Brun After their parents’ marriage breakup, the Anderson siblings get on with their lives. Julia and Nora, following high school find jobs in Manhattan, while younger brother Kurt continues his schooling. World War II is already beginning in Europe....

Bert Brun’s restlessness has driven him to several different occupations – travel counselor, hospital administrator, rubber plantation inspector, teacher, oceanographer, fisheries administrator, biologist and cruise ship lecturer. He’s worked in Norway, Indonesia and New Zealand and has also...

Thomas Jefferson, our third president, represents small government and the interests of what he calls the common man. John Adams, along with Alexander Hamilton, are allied with those who wish a more far-reaching, larger federal government, and to see powerful interests in charge of the young nation....

Instead of appearing for breakfast at the Seattle Victorian bed and breakfast run by Meg Yarmouth and recently retired Anders Hauge, gentle young Tab Oakley, a guest, is found mutilated and murdered in nearby volunteer Park. The only clue is his vanished gold Celtic crucifix. Even worse, one, then...

Church pandemonium, as congregants begin to drop like flies, after drinking arsenic-laced coffee just after the liberal Unitarian church Sunday morning service. Four later die, including Alicia Holmes, a visiting minister. Riverton, Alabama’s new Police Chief and church member, Donald Ginsburg,...

Ed Harmens, co-owner with his wife, Meg Yarmouth, of a Seattle bed and breakfast, while jogging comes across a murdered homeless man in a local Park. They meet SPD detective Roosevelt Brown and become involved in the investigation. Two additional murders occur and, as the trail to the surprising killer...

After running a Victorian house Bed and Breakfast for four years at the top of Seattle's Capital Hill, two seniors want something completely different and hatch a plan to move a cottage to the edge of a beautiful, remote tidal marsh in eastern North Carolina. They run into unexpected difficulties...

Eric Harmon is visiting his salmon fisherman Uncle Larry and his wife, Olga, in beautiful British Columbia. He discovers a mysterious totem pole in the woods and soon teams up with a Northwest Native American girl, Jenny Whitefeather, to try to discover the pole’s story, which seems to be buried...

1918, Bergen, Norway, and handsome Navy Lt. Eric Andersen meets and marries spirited "Bus" Holmboe. They emigrate to booming 1920s California, where Eric's film industry job brings in money for stock investments which promise to make him rich. The Depression strikes, they lose everything...

Kayla, her baby brother and her mom go to the playground on a very windy day. Holding tight to her hat she is blown way up into the jet stream. Using their own big local big hats, children in Holland, China and Mexico copy her and soon all four kids are flying around the world. When Kayla arrives...