The Wounded find Ricky Belisle and Marie-Jeanne Charbonneau have left their remote Lake Superior village, a world circumscribed by Life Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post, the radio, stories told around a kitchen table during winter storms, and such news as an occasional visitor might bring from the city.Marie-Jeanne, younger by months than Ricky, wiser by years, understood that two created such meaning as vague words––love, respect, sharing, kindness––conveyed through...

Ricky Belisle is a boy born to first-generation Americans who have migrated north to farm and hold land that cannot be taken away from them. They bring with them the beliefs, manners and stories of the homeland that they have not occupied and in so doing they create a disconnect in Ricky that forces him to begin the exploration that will eventually take him away from the land that has leached into his bones, that has given him the foundation for how he sees the world.Marie Jeanne C...

Tales of Revolutionary War: 30 Historical Novels gathers a capacious body of Revolutionary-era fiction in which military conflict, political allegiance, domestic sacrifice, espionage, frontier encounter, and the afterlife of independence converge. Ranging from romance-inflected adventure and sea narrative to regional chronicle, juvenile historical tale, and psychologically alert historical romance, the volume demonstrates how the Revolution became a fertile imaginative archive. Dramatic ca...

The Independence Day Collection: 30 Best American Revolution Novels assembles a capacious imaginative archive of the struggle for independence and its afterlives. Adventure romance, sea narrative, frontier tale, historical melodrama, political fiction, and morally searching romance converge to portray revolution as both public upheaval and intimate trial. Episodes of espionage, military campaigning, divided loyalties, colonial society, and the contested promise of liberty reveal the genre'...

Robert Townsend, the author of the best seller Up the Organization, is the former CEO of Avis …and the man credited with Getting Avis to Try Harder! Townsend’s Theory Y Management Style is well worth memorizing or at least reviewing weekly!

Laura's Wedding is the sequel to Laura's New Boyfriend. Laura and I start making our wedding plans, and we seek out a local church. We find one with the unusual name of "The Holy Church of Saint Mary Magdalene The Non-Virgin, and get to meet its' eccentric minister, The Reverend Popplethwaite. Our plans go along swimmingly until Laura's maiden Aunt Maisie comes to stay for a weekend. When she discovers that Laura and I regularly sleep together, she goes into an apoplectic shock and throws ...

Laura's Baby is Book 3 in the Laura series of erotic comedy fantasy novels. Shortly after our wedding Laura discovers that she is pregnant with our first child. An ancient Arthurian prophesy about a mystical Red Moon Child is becoming manifest. The Reverend Popplethwaite stumbles upon a group of crackpot devil worshipers holding a black mass in his church cemetery late one night, and chases them away. They then move into Dunehaven and it soon becomes apparent that Laura and I are being sta...

Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.”This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Rob...

For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto's The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself wor...

Laura's New Boyfriend is the first installment of a series of complete comedy novels. It is set in the fictional seaside holiday resort of Dunehaven on the south coast of England in the present day. One bright and sunny day, while strolling along the seafront, the story teller discovers a somewhat peculiar gift shop that has just opened for business. With time on his hands he goes inside to browse around. His eye catches a strange and mysterious fossilized toad on display in a glass cabine...

From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others.In History's Babel, Robert B. Townsend takes us from the beginning of this professional shift—when the work of history included not just original research, but also teaching and the gath...

It is 1953. Danton Larionov, son of NKVD major Wolf Larionov, lives in Suzdal, ancient Russia's capital and spiritual center. Its medieval fortresses, monasteries, and nunneries are now an NKVD Gulag. Screams punctuate the night. Woman's Wood, a tract of ancient forest, emanates deathly silence. The rasputitsa, Russia's spring thaw, ejects those buried in mass graves, brings the murdered to the surface, as if rejecting Stalin's victims buried with proper rite and ceremony....