Founded by the Spanish in 1777 to provide food for the military settlements in Monterey and San Francisco, San Jose is the oldest civilian settlement in California. After independence from Mexico, San Jose became the county seat of Santa Clara County and the first state capital. For many years, San Jose was the center of a rich farming community whose vistas of blooming orchards prompted the nickname 'Valley of Heart's Delight.' Following World War II, a massive transformation took place i...

Charlie lives close to the normally placid Humber River. And while his fascination belies his paralyzing fear of water, he is drawn both to its shores and to the lissome young girl who becomes his first love. As their feelings grow, they must navigate the universal and sometimes painful challenges of teen years. For Charlie, that means struggles with body-image, sexual awakening, and the bewilderment of entering high school. On the home front, he witnesses his grandparents' lose their belo...

Emotions are the most powerful things we ever meet - they wreak havoc where it matters most - in our innermost private lives. This book assumes from the outset that we should be in control of them, not them controlling us. It traces a logical, straightforward path through the emotional tangles which beset us - rage, violence, personality disorders, anorexia, panic attacks, addictions, divorce, war - showing clearly how to overcome them. Neither academic psychiatry nor science allows us eve...

Based on actual events during the politically tense period leading up to the American Civil War. It tells the tragic true story of the sculptor Thomas Crawford chosen to create the iconic image, Statue of Freedom, crowning the Capitol Dome in Washington, DC. His life as a sculptor in Rome intermingles with some of the most interesting personages of the era—the great abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts Charles Sumner, Clark Mills a self-taught sculptor and Washington insider, and Captai...

Bob Johnson had lost everything, and with the movement of his family back to the Ozarks he was in culture shock and needed a change. The Navy seemed to be the answer he was looking for. At his Officer Candidate Training graduation, a long time family friend showed up to take him for a long weekend celebration. Little did Bob realize that long weekend would change his life forever in so many ways.Love, and the SEALS came into his life, and his friend Commander Harris would pull him i...

Named one of Literary Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025LONGLISTED, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection (2026)FINALIST, Society of Midland Authors Book Awards (2026)FINALIST, Short Stories, National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA) (2026)A country woman makes a Sophie's Choice regarding her family's survival. A small town marshal hunts his own son for mu...

"Occult Investigator Real Cases from the Files of X-Investigations" chronicles author and private detective Bob Johnson's REAL-WORLD experiences investigating all manner of paranormal and occult events. He is the founder of the world's only occult and paranormal investigation firm – X-Investigations that's affiliated with a licensed New York City private investigations company. Unlike the myriad "ghost busting" teams that garner media attention for their "scary photos and creepy sound reco...

This book is based on 60 years medical experience, including a special interest in philosophical issues such as Determinism, Intent, Free Will, sanity, and the barest bones of medical practice and healthcare. It is written in response to the rigid orthodoxy currently prevailing among medical editors, and in the dire medical consequences of the medical mistakes the "psychiatrists' bible" makes, which my recent blog describes, with evidence, as "MEDICALLY speaking, the DSM is unfinished busi...

For the vast majority of folks their homes are their single biggest investment and asset. They've invested thousands of dollars to purchase, maintain and improve them and to make them their own. Nobody knows your home as well as you.Yet according to an National Association of Realtors 2011 profile of home buyers and sellers, only 10 percent of all homes are sold by owners. Why is this so low?Fear.Selling your home yourself is THE best way to save a ton of money but,...

Children of preschool age are rarely able to differentiate between capital and lower case letters. This book is composed of 26 puzzles, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each puzzle has both capital and lower case letters hidden in them. Each reader will try to find the hidden letters and keep track on the enclosed score card.

Fossil fuels don’t simply impact our ability to commute to and from work.They condition our sensory lives, our erotic experiences, and our aesthetics; they structure what we assume to be normal and healthy; and they prop up a distinctly modern bargain with nature that allows populations and economies to grow wildly beyond the older and more clearly understood limits of the organic economy.Carbon Nation ranges across film and literary studies, ecology, politics, jou...

An archaeology of Western energy culture that demystifies the role that fossil fuels play in the day-to-day rituals of modern life.Spanning the past two hundred years, this book offers an alternative history of modernity that restores to fossil fuels their central role in the growth of capitalism and modernity itself, including the emotional attachments and real injuries that they generate and command. Everything about us—our bodies, minds, sense of self, nature, r...