Wheatmark: 217 books

Over 650 Vietnam War novels have been published, mostly dark tales from the war zone. In Wild Blue Yonder, Airman Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers goes not to Vietnam but Germany, straight into a military Catch-22. His assignment: writing stories for the Stars and Stripes newspaper that will never see...

My earlier book, The Wrights of Vermont (Wheatmark, 2013), reported the search I began about ten years ago for my father's Vermont forebears. I had learned a lot, especially about my grandmother's heroic efforts to save her shaky marriage. Eventually she left Vermont to begin a new life on Staten...

Legacies are not easily built. They take dedicated individuals who are willing to risk everything, work hard, and be examples of excellence. The eclectic group of pioneers who laid the foundation for Stihl's success in America could not have been more different from each other. But they shared the...

Most people who have only been on the customer side of the retail counter have no idea what sales clerks and others in retail go through on a daily basis. But they should. After all, it's hard to be empathetic when you have never walked the walk. In Retail: The Other Side of the Counter, author David...

Throughout my life, expressing my thoughts and feelings on paper was a way to pacify what was troubling me. So it was only natural, during my acute respiratory distress syndrome recovery, that I began to document what I remembered and what I was told about my illness. I started to recreate what transpired...

"God has the right to design and perform His own miracles. Who are we to tell Him what they should be?"When Kimberly Boone's mother was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, Kimberly believed that she had received an assignment from God to speak life. Regardless of how dire the situation appeared, no...

Bucky Veil was a professional baseballer who played the game in the early years of thetwentieth century, a time when baseball was beginning to evolve into Americas nationalpastime. As a twenty-two-year-old rookie with the 1903 Pittsburg Pirates, he pitched in the firstWorld Series of modern major...

Set amid the tumultuous days of American dissent against the Vietnam War and worldwide student protests, Anarchy brings Tim Rosencrantz, from Wild Blue Yonder, back into Nathaniel Hawthorne's life with evil and disruption. Tim, an SDS member, avowed Communist and anarchist, has had a transformation...

Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College is a different sort of college guide -- one that helps students and their families better understand the vast amount of options available for college based on a student's interests. Topics in this comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide include,...

"A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power." — Leopold Kohr, Breakdown of Nations This insight was Thomas Naylor's lodestone; it informed...

Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey until he made the arrogant mistake of killing his last victim in the basement of his uncle's...

Level Headed takes you behind the scenes of one of the greatest business turnaround stories of the twenty-first century. Your narrators are Doug Pruitt, chairman and chief executive officer of Sundt, and Richard Condit, senior vice president and chief administrative officer. Both men led Sundt...

As a lieutenant in the Eighty-Second Airborne Division, Franco Chevalier routinely led men into combat. Now Franco is back in New Orleans, working as a security manager at his uncle's club and struggling to adapt to civilian life.But civilian life is about to look a lot like military life. While hosting...

Everything worthwhile in life comes at a cost. Wisdom must be earned. Love must be nurtured. Peace must be brokered. Many of these sacrifices are negotiations of the individual with the greater universe, and many, sadly, don't survive the journey or are broken by it. Bob Parson was one of them. Separation,...