Bob Fields: 14 books

Boys author Bob Fields depicts an accurate and vivid description of young adolescent males in the 1940's & early 1950's in rural Maine. Fields’ perceptive analysis of boy’s personality traits and how they influence their attitude toward life (and girls) is on target. The onset of testosterone...

Color Blind is an insightful account of racial issues in American society during the 1950's. Bob Fields does not write in a judgmental or moral voice but an honest, no sugar coating, straight forward voice telling it like it was. His story tells the stark, unspeakable, unspoken truth about the insidious...

Lyla is author Bob Fields 11 month old great granddaughter. Inspired by her birth, he set out to introduce himself to her through stories, not of his successes in the military or the business worlds, but rather, in his own childhood where the foundations of his character were formulated. At age 12,...

Who knew that a National Guard Summer Field Training trip would turn out to be the first step in a lifetime of entrepreneurship?Twenty Army 6X6 Cargo Trucks filled with soldiers, four Jeeps with officers and radiomen, one food van, one utility van, and six 105 mm howitzer cannons mounted on carriages...

Memory is more than a dustbin of time, stuffed with yesterday’s trash. Rather, memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them. (Hal Boyle). Here are my memories of growing up in a small Northern Maine Town. Some...

“GIRLS” explores the complexities of being a girl in the 1950's. The setting is a small town in Northern Maine. Fields describes the typical girls dress code, hairstyle and choice of jewelry. However, it is girl behavior that has several adolescent boys baffled. They share their theories...

Long before the Internet made viral marketing a cinch, one long-nosed little character named Kilroy made his way around the world the old-fashioned way, becoming a legend among the millions of military men and women who served during World War II. The rudimentary doodle, which featured a balding head...

A well paced story about discrimination, love, murder, revenge and the ultimate understanding between people in small town America. Houlton, Maine, doesn’t afford many opportunities to members of the Maliseet tribe of Native Americans—including young Padgett Harvey, who is half Maliseet, half...

A haunted tree, a black cat, murder of a young girl, the hanging of an innocent man, and a message from a Ouija Board overwhelm 4 teens at Evergreen Cemetery. A dark tale of reckless youth gone wild.

Description Imagine going to your medicine cabinet and finding a small cup of pine needles, a glass containing the juice of a milkweed plant, a cup with crushed onion wrapped in saran wrap, and a saucer with a chunk of gum from a spruce tree. Then imagine you need to go to the emergency room and it...

Traveling to a wedding reception in Rome New York, Ron and Jane Barnes, residents of a log home located on a lake deep in the Adirondacks woods discovered two abandoned baby Raccoons. Ron and Jane rescued the baby raccoons and devoted the next few months nurturing them and preparing them for release...

INTRODUCTIONOn June 5th, 1944, towards the end of World War II, amidst the roaring sounds of aircraft, firearms, combat vehicles and explosions. a British Hawker Typhoon dropped an air to ground rocket on the Electronic Warfare Van occupied by Eugen Schroeder. He, along with other members of his team,...

Few stories of supernaturalism will grab readers like this one. Ghosts or spirits of Houlton's founders who reside in Evergreen cemetery appear to two local adolescent boys. The ghosts are not threatening, demonic, gruesome, grizzly, or have any intention of interfering with the teenagers'...

He trained Thoroughbred hunters and jumpers, three gaited and five gaited America Saddle bred show horses; and at one point in his career, totting horses at race tracks in New England. This is a story about Albert Pouler. The horse trainer, it was said, who could train anything with hair on it. He...