J Olsen: 22 books

This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies. Christopher J. Olsen has drawn on local election returns, rural newspapers, manuscripts, and numerous county records to sketch a new picture...

Succinct, with a brace of original documents following each chapter, Christopher J. Olsen's The American Civil War is the ideal introduction to American history's most famous, and infamous, chapter. Covering events from 1850 and the mounting political pressures to split the Union into opposing sections,...

This story has comedy, adventure and action. A New Beginning is the start of a series of stories about Jenny Dewberry, just an ordinary, thirteen year old girl, who had an ordinary life, until her grandmother, Alinore Grayson passes away. Alinore leaves Jenny an old wooden trunk, which is hidden in...

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...

The journey of Jenny Dewberry's magical life continues in the fourth book as she fights the most nefarious, evil demon ever to exist. This demon, the Emperor of the underground, the greatest Sorcerer ever, is the cause of all the corruption going on in Oceanview, where Jenny and her family and friends...

He doesn't know where he is. He doesn't know why he's here. He doesn't know the way out. Only YOU can help him escape.  The last thing John remembers is insurgents sawing off his arm. Now he's shackled to an operating table, and, astonishingly enough, his dismembered limb is still attached....

Arms. Every man has a pair. But not all arms are created equal. Nine years ago the Desolation laid waste to humankind, leaving only scattered pockets of civilization in its wake. Now John Osborne drifts through the ravaged remains of the North, his only companion the six-shooter at his side. When...

Ramses is on the run in a brand new Northland Adventure!  Fresh off his hair-raising encounter with John Osborne, Ramses Brushnell is rushing through the Minnesota wilderness toward Restoration Army HQ to deliver his report to the General. With only his feet to carry him, Ramses progress is...

Hunter. Hunted. Huntress? Gunslinger by trade, cyborg by circumstance, John Osborne fearlessly roams the Desolation-ravaged ruins of North America. But with his health rapidly failing, John grows desperate to learn the true nature of the artificial appendage grafted to his shoulder. Running...

A dead metropolis. A strength-sapping bionic arm. A long-forgotten friend. John Osborne has a four-week lease on life. His survival depends on finding the Northland Core, an enigmatic power source hidden within the forsaken ruins of Minneapolis. With a whole city to scour and time growing short,...

In the 1990s, Julia Honeychurch moves to Canberra with her new husband Brian to take up a position at a school for troubled children. When the marriage sours, Julia learns that, in Canberra, it’s difficult to keep secrets. She’s fallen in love with Kate Selby, a university lecturer and consultant...

When Emma Bentham disappears without explanation, two men are thrown into turmoil - David Chess, who was having an affair with Emma and her husband Daniel, a technician in David’s university department. Has Emma left them both for someone else? David’s sorrow at losing Emma leads him into strange...

StoryHack Action adventure is a fiction magazine in the style of the great pulps of years past. It includes stories from a wide variety of genres. In this issue, you'll find: New Rules for Rocket Nauts by Michael DeCarolis. A recently dismissed recruit watches in horror as an alien...

Brace yourself for the next exciting issue of StoryHack Action & Adventure. Taking cues from the greatest pulp magazines of a bygone era, StoryHack publishes all-new stories of bravery and derring-do in a wide variety of genres. There is something in here for everyone, and each story includes...