Returning home from battle on the other side of the parallel universe, a young doctor seeks to return to a normal life, or at least as normal as it can be given his new found magical friends..

Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association)The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the ...

This collection of short stories is presented in alphabetical order for no reason at all. Some of the stories are suitable for dramatic readings, and I hope that they will be used as such.All of the stories are fictional except for those noted otherwise.The intent is to present a range of ideas, some of which will make you angry. Some will make you think. I hope some make you say, "AWWW, isn't that cute?" The collection is something of a rollercoaster ride that needs to be re...

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s CP from its founding through 1958.Cherny draws on FBI files, the records of the CP at the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, interviews, and memoirs to follow male and female party and union leaders, rank-and-fi...

When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a “compound for cattle”—hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanish California. Today San Francisco is a bustling metropolis with picturesque neighborhoods, dramatic engineering feats such as the Golden Gate Bridge, and innovative tech companies. How did we get here? To answer that question, A Short History of San Francisco moves from the first Ohlone settl...

American Whoreson is the first of two books. This book is historical fiction placing fictional characters in the midst of actual, documented, historical events. It focuses on the life of the son of a whore. He is White, but his lack of a birthright denies him the entitlements of being White. He will find himself on the wrong side of history several times. This book takes place between 1884 and 1890, ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee.The second book, American Whoreson -The Bui...

"May You Meet a Stranger" is the first in the Logger's Ridge series and tells Teddy's story. It was written as a stand-alone work and may still be read as one. The other volumes that follow it build on its locales and characters. It starts first but does not end until after the end of the second book in the series. A young pianist and his newfound singer girlfriend use their music to rescue a historical resort from bankruptcy and reverse the economic downturn of their small town while fall...

This work is a young adult coming of age topical romance that is richly illustrated with photographs.

Three Warlocks, brothers, triplets, run a ranch where they train horses for cowboys and cattle ranchers. They use their special powers to keep their ranch solvent and, despite the recent death of their adoptive mother, are content with their lives. All that changes when a pre-teen equestrian shows up with her father to buy a horse. On the same day, triplet witches and their mother are directed to the ranch by a mysterious stranger.The witch's mother and the girl's father have a his...

Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most of them in buon fresco, Nearly all of them drew upon the palette and style of Diego Rivera. The project boosted the careers of Victor Arnautoff, Lucien Labaudt, Bernard Zakheim, and others, but Communist symbols in a few murals sparked the first of many national controversies over...

A renegade botanist hunted by eco-terrorists takes a brilliant high school junior to be his protégé. The boy's police officer father has been killed in the line of duty, and his mother is dying of cancer. The property that the botanist has taken over had been in the boy's family for three generations before recently being split up for development.On the hunt for new herbal medicines, the botanist moves in across the street from the boy and uses the large open property to cultivate ...

Standing in the blood of the man who tried to kill him, the boy, almost a man, froze, horrified at what he had done. The head, separated from the body, lay face down in the forest undergrowth. Blood flowed from the open neck onto the mat of decaying leaves. There had been no time. There had been no time to think. No time to plan. Only one would walk away from that confrontation in the woods. The boy had gotten the better of this man who had killed many before him.When the woman, dre...