Novels
Empire Falls Fast
Empire falls fast
Will Michelet
Empire falls fast is a science fiction novel centered on three people from the southwestern United States who travel to Mars under the Strunk Administration. Jeff McNally is a former Policeman in Empire Falls, Sonorte, Nikki Bickel is an ambitious banker there who becomes a liaison to the Mars space mission, and a retired lawyer named Milt Jensen. Jeff reaches Mars first and is made the leader of an Expeditionary Force to discover if there is life on the Red Planet, and his Force eventually reaches an advanced subterranean civilization named PSpS Plus where it is warmly welcomed. The Strunk administration on Earth wants only to conquer this civilization to plunder its minerals. Nikki and Milt join Jeff and his Force to help PSpS Plus defend itself against the colonizing Earthlings, and all hell breaks loose.
Ceremonial Cycles
Ceremonial Cycles
Will Michelet
The second of Northern Arizona's major ethnic groups, the Native Americans primarily of the Hopi and Navajo Indian tribes, are the focus of this second novel of Will Michelet's "Norzona Quartet."
The story itself plays out against the backdrop of this brilliant Hopi ceremonial cycle performed each year for more than the last millennium. It allows one through this book to gain a deeper sense of how the Hopi have survived and flourished on their three mesas in northeast Arizona.
Loca Si O No
Loca, Si 0 No
Will Michelet
The Southwest of the US was till the mid-19th century territory of Mexico, so it is not surprising that its population today is still substantially people of Mexican origin. In perhaps the most scenic part of this beautiful region, the high country of contemporary Northern Arizona has often been built and preserved by its Mexican-Americans, whose native language Spanish lives on in its street signs, place names, and person and business appellations.
The first novel of Will Michelet’s ‘Norzona Quartet’, Loca, Si 0 No, follows the Sandoval Family in the lovely town of Sheldon where Locaria and Fidencio bore and raised their fourteen children, most of whom still live there.
Jesse, A Man Good Enough
Jesse a Man Good Enough
Will Michelet
Jesse La Follette, an imagined social reformer, advocates for a program of transformative political change for Wisconsin in the mid-twentieth century that is eerily reminiscent of the early Christian Prophets. When he threatens too many of the powers that were then, though, he escapes the fate that Jesus Christ suffered two thousand years before only by the skin of his teeth and flees to a surprising and ironic refuge nearby to quietly continue his teaching. While in India as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Will Michelet learned about language as a means of connection to others and as a result became able to communicate to all of its various castes.
Sinagua Greens
Sinagua Greens
Will Michelet
From a bizarre and raucous weekend jaunt along the Mexican border spinning out in Nogales and ending to the west above the Pacific’s blue and tranquil waters below Tijuana, Eric Lange’s present to his son Steve for his 21st birthday establishes an unusually close bond between the two men. But upon their return home to Prescott, Arizona, Eric decides to change his career track as a machinist and moves to the Verde Valley on “the other side of the mountain” to sell the weed he will mostly cultivate at his isolated garden in Sycamore Canyon.
But after Steve becomes the primary pusher for this marijuana, the currents of the 21st century catches the Lange family up.
Operation Undertow
A Police Thriller that takes place in the city by the bay in the early 70's.
“The sky was dark, but the city’s sodium overhead lighting and the advertising neon illuminated the streets as if it were twilight. Distracted as I opened the driver’s side door of my unmarked cruiser, I saw a flash of light, felt something stinging my face, then heard a loud bang. I dropped to the ground, laid there momentarily, then low crawled to the back of my cruiser for more cover. I waited, maybe fifteen seconds while I composed myself, made a hasty look-see, then duckwalked back to the driver’s side door and reached inside for the radio mike, ‘Central-300, shots fired at me, Vallejo and Stockton.’”
A Patriot's Dream
A Patriot's Dream
Kent Thompson
What happened to our nation? The United States of America that the founding fathers created was driven by much different values than those that permeate the government and much of society today.
John Mogen, a conservative retiree and true patriot in every sense of the word, can no longer sit back and watch his beloved country slide further and further away from what it was intended to be. Determined to make a positive change, he decides to write a fictional book about restoring the Constitution. However, when he shares his idea with his brother-in-law, Carl, he sets into motion a much larger chain of events than he ever could have imagined.
Desperados
Desperados
Art Isberg
Trey Wingo was born under a dark star. Bound to start his young life on the wrong side of the law, he could never shake off the 'Trouble Maker' name that quickly evolved into 'Wanted Killer.' In love with Chita Ovalis who is carrying their child, Trey finally attempts to reform his ways and live within the law. His fate, however, could have already been determined while still a teenager. Dark stars never leave their host; they haunt them to their grave.
Goshawk
Goshawk
Goshawk
Doug McPheters
After the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union disintegrated, David Garvey, a Manhattan international lawyer, built a hugely profitable loan-sharking operation in Russia and nearby countries in Eastern Europe. David's fund quickly amassed large pools of collateral for high-interest loans - home and apartment mortgages as well as business and personal collateral. Sparked by innovative technology imagined and patented by the author, this fast-moving thriller plays out in the streets and courtrooms of Manhattan and Northern and Eastern Europe.
Novels
The Rise of Echlys
The Rise of Echlys
Joy Simons
Book 2 in the Rule of Wisdom series, The Rise of Echlys chronicles Ja'el's slide into darknes and Jakfa's rise to power through the fortunes of the evil dragon Echlys. Umberlan is torn apart by the rise of a new religion, The Order. Dugan's army grows and he successfully pushes back against Gailen's advance, but the war reaches a stand still at the battle of the Angese. With General Tobin stopped at the river, Echlys begins to manipulate humanity for his own gains.
However, Echlys is unaware that the ancient dragons have sent Echlys's sister to combat the expanding evil. Weaker than her brother, she desperately searches for a way to defeat him, making an alliance with King Gailen and Robin, a boy in the care of Ja'el.
The Bulge
The Bulge
Wayne Fredrick Treptow
The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of The Bulge lasted from January 16th 1944 to December 25th 1945. It would become the largest, and bloodiest engagements of World War 2. The opposing armies had different names for the battle: the Germans named it- “UNTERNEHEIM WACHT AM RHEIM” meaning (operation watch on the Rhine)The Allied forces named it: (Ardennes counteroffensive).The French named it: “Bataille des Ardennes” (battle of the Ardennes).This would be the last German offensive on the western front with Hitler throwing everything he had at the Allies.
Southern Cross
Southern Cross
Will Michelet
This historical novel gives a panoramic view of a very important but little-known corner of Africa from the beginning of time to its not-too-distant future. The peoples of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia are altered by immigrants from near and far, then colonizers. Finally Chimbos and Patels, then Bandas and Phiris, and mostly the Siame Family of Livingstone grow Zambia into a country of great hope but dashed dreams. At last Priscilla Siame, her family and friends who are in many ways a typical fusion of tradition and modernity that is Africa today, take responsibility for their homeland and bring this tale to an unexpected and stunning conclusion.
The Original Sin
The Original Trip: A long Asian Road Trip with a Mission
Will Michelet
There is a school of thought that finds Mao Tse-Tung the most important personage of the entire 20th Century. Certainly, if the criterion for that status is a positive impact on the greatest number, this unlikely choice makes more sense, given that his native land still today holds off India in its position of having earth’s greatest number of human inhabitants at nearly a billion and a half at last count.
Mao was the eldest son to survive infancy of Mao Yichang, a prosperous farmer of the Shaoshan Valley in the southern Hunan Province, so it was unlikely he came to glory as the dedicated MarQist-Leninist who would emerge to lead the famed Long March of 1934-35 away from the Civil War with Chiang Kaishek’s Nationalists in the south