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Andrea Granahan has served as a journalist on California’s north coast for four decades. She describes the rural area she worked in as “QuirkUtopia” because of the varied and interesting people (and animals) she has met there. She revisits the roots of some of the more controversial and exciting...

Book 3 forms the denouement for SEEDS IN THE WIND. In Part Four, THE PLAN, Jahthra and Sprout put together bits and pieces and are gradually drawn into an unexpected adventure. “A Field Guide to Inner Peace for Dummies” serves as the ultimate addendum for Part Four. In Part Five, THE CONCORD...

Susie Yovic Hoeller tells her story about growing up on the West Island of Montreal when the city was the cosmopolitan jewel of Canada. In 1963, as a nine-year-old girl, she posed as a boy to play hockey in an organized league. The same year, she underwent open heart surgery performed by a young doctor...

Jim Rouse secretly bought 14,000 acres of farmland in segregated Howard County, Maryland, in 1964. He promised to transform the land into a city of 100,000 that was "economically diverse, poly-cultural, multi-faith and interracial." Veteran journalist Len Lazarick tells the fascinating story...

Through much of the 1980's & 1990's, Owen Levy got to know the divided city of Berlin inside out working as a film and music journalist. He was struck by the realization that a city so ravaged by tensions and division still boasted all of the underground cultures, scenes and venues usually associated...

Have you ever sacrificed happiness because you worry about events outside of your control? Do you ever feel insecure and hope that someone will say something nice about you in hopes you will feel better about yourself? Have you ever doubted the love others have expressed toward you? Have you ever...

Do the Golden Years really exist? Or, are we just falling apart? Is there a middle ground? How do we cope with the personal challenges with which we are faced? With chapters that include, but are not limited to, Hair of the Dog, Gum & Bear It, Men-A-Pause/Dangling Participles, Maneuvering...

Hollywood Vibes is an outlandish black comedy farcical satire on contemporary Hollywood/LA. It mangles screen personalities galore and takes its comic ideas to unbridled extremes. Hollywood/LA is lampooned for its vulgarity, greed, philistinism, mindless hedonism, artistic pretentiousness, stupidity, violence, murder and vice… "Think Quentin Tarantino meets Woody Allen"

In June of 1969 a U. S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft, code named Rivet Amber, disappeared while flying from Shemya Island to Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska. No wreckage or any sign of the missing plane was ever located. This story fictionalizes that incident by moving it...

New book from Maine author Meredith Kendall lucubrates the secrets of Reiki and nursing. Kendall's conversational style is conducive to hip-hopping around the text. Start at any page and get ready to be enthralled.  Author and columnist Mark LaFlamme said this about Reiki Stories: My...

“Revenge is only a tourniquet for the bleeding soul” Chief of Police Reese Glockman just thought he had problems, with his wife lying comatose in the hospital and his estranged daughter nowhere to be found, but things get dramatically worse when two murders dirty the quality of life in...

A Duffel Bag of Army Stories is easy to read and was written for an audience that is not intimately familiar with day to day military life. The author reveals the fun and confusion for new soldiers who are still recognize rank, the diversity of military chow halls and dining facilities and explains...

For years Ciri has been encouraged to write a book about her unusual life. Packed with crazy adventures and experiences, this is a brief peek into some of the more bizarre, dangerous and enlightening episodes she has encountered in her journey thus far through her Quirky Life. She tells about...