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At the peak of the Cold War, Mitchell Minor was born to a military family living on Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan. Unknown to his parents, the base's groundwater was contaminated from firefighter foams (PFAS/PFOA), de-greaser, and jet fuel. His mom drank the poisonous water which caused Mitchell’s small head (microcephaly) and other birth defects. This book is for every family who feels overwhelmed and for friends and family to better understand how to help. The Minor family invites you to experience God’s love during their 30-year journey with Mitchell.

Cadzow, a full-blooded Athabaskan Native, becomes a pawn in a high stakes gamble by a malicious Juneau mine owner. Cadzow is falsely accused of robbery, and the mine owner anticipates that Cadzow will be caught and hanged. Since the native cannot reveal where the money was hidden, the mine owner, who had robbed his own mine, would end up with the money. But Cadzow is not stupid. He steps free of the trap and escapes across the Mendenhall Glacier into Canada ahead of the posse on his trail - led by the greedy mine owner.

Every one knows that our educational system is broke. How do you fix it? Well, here's how I'd do it.

With so many sides to the legalization of marijuana, how do you know who’s right? Based on what is happening in Alaska right now, The Cannabis Stampede is an on-the-ground, narrative nonfiction look at the legalization of marijuana told from 30 perspectives. These perspectives include the housewife, aging hippy, police chief, doctor, school teacher, historian, Evangelical, Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, THC refugee, and half-way house owner along with the people who will be making the money: Pot delivery man, grower, importer, and edible product inventor.

This is a crime and science fiction novel. It's back to the flatlands for Reggie! It appears that a multi-planet mining company is manipulating the universe gold market. Once again, if the price of gold goes down too far, Cerberus will go ghost. And once again, like in book one, Reggie must find the new source of gold and to see if it exists or is just a scam.

This is an anecdotal approach to teaching high school students that history and economics are intertwined. The audiobook is designed to give the student a thumbnail sketch of a dozen events of merit in American history intertwined with the basic economic laws.

When Lightning Tickled History is a popular, narrative nonfiction, history audiobook designed as a supplemental history book for college students as well as a general interest audiobook. It is a light, breezy, historically-accurate collection of vignettes of incidents when lightning played in part in the drama of human affairs. It includes sections on lightning’s impact on the origin of life, Roman history, both Babylonian Captivities, Martin Luther, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Charles Darwin, Hindenburg, Nicholas Tesla, and the role of lightning in the modern age.

Half a Bubble Off Level is a 50,000-word young adult nonfiction book designed to be a supplementary text for middle school and high school social science classes. It gives an overview of 15 significant historical theories and their real world applications. The subjects and personalities include the Elenctic Method, Council of Nicaea, Martin Luther, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Henry Ford, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Einstein, Credit, and Externalities. The chapters are written in a light, breezy fashion so that the concepts are understandable.

History is the most boring subject in school. Don’t believe me? Ask any student. Or read the lead story in Newsweek March 28 and April 4, 2011: “How to Get Smart Again”. If we want to make history a quality subject we have to make it relevant and interesting. What we are going to need are books that offer a fresh perspective on why history is important. What we need are books that are understandable, entertaining, and educational. In a nutshell, books like Who Really Cares What Happened on March 3, 1903?

This is the right audiobook at the right time in American history. It is a novel in the form of a collection of present day, interwoven, short stories of a nuts-and-bolts drama that is being played out everywhere in America: a powerful, rich, conservative Republican state senator wants to replace a low-income, ethnic neighborhood with a public building which he intends to name after himself.

A gang of diamond bandits holds an entire city hostage for 25,000,000-dollars-worth in gems.

A retired female Alaska state trooper is forced to help drug smugglers in Alaska recover a shipment of cocaine. She is able to escape with the cocaine and being chased by the drug smugglers. She turns the tables and goes from the hunted to the hunter.

A broke, out-of-work Alaska bush pilot becomes entangled in a CIA/Red Chinese plot to steal 16 tons of gold from a plane wreck on a remote mountain top in Alaska.

Faux history of North Carolina's outer banks.

On Borrowed Time is a literary, historical snapshot of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown going ghost because of corruption - not the gold running out. It is allegorical of what is happening today when the "bad guys" are “too big to jail.” A novel of interlocking, first-person vignettes, it is a three-year look at the nail-biting, day-to-day drama focused on how the rich legally squeeze out the middle and working class.

Santa Zanni, is a work of narrative nonfiction. It is a collection of interlocking short stories offering a snapshot of California history from 1916 to 1920. It is also humor disguised as social commentary disguised as literature. It falls into the category of creative nonfiction.

A young adult Alaska Gold Rush adventure.

The lessons of history are real life lessons. That is because history is real life. History is the study of the future. This book gives the high school students a dozen real life lessons and how to use history to see the future.

The Best Boots I Ever Ate is a 70,000 word, literary, historically accurate saga of the Alaska Gold Rush novel of three years in the life of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown, from formation to demise, 1903 to 1906. The drama is told via 31 interconnected short stories focusing on the unique characters and events of the Alaska Gold Rush.

Two historians discover 1,000 pounds of double eagle $20 gold pieces that were hidden in a San Francisco basement for 150 years. But to get the gold they have to outsmart a street gang and beat a fleet of bulldozers to the vault site.