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Out of the Fire, by David Hobbs |
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Paperback: 382 pages
Publisher: 4 L Press; 2nd edition (2007)
ISBN: 1599716615
 When a young Midwesterner leaves home for college in California and
adventure with the U.S. Forest Service, he finds a lot more than he
bargained for: from catastrophic wildfires to gut-wrenching affairs of
the heart; from crewman on cutting edge helicopters and the elite Rouge
River Hotshots, to a summer in Berkeley at the height of the hippie
craze. Join David Hobbs on this unvarnished autobiographical odyssey as
he struggles to find out what life is all about and discover the
surprise ending that changes his life completely.
A warm thank you to local author David Hobbs; Out of the Fire
demonstrates autobiographical honesty, and a clear sense of the
writer's ability to self-reflect.
Every reader will see some of themselves in the life of David Hobbs,
and perhaps more so as the writer explores those all too familiar
questions: What is love? What is friendship? What is meaningful in life
and where does true happiness come from?
Full of humor, heartbreak, adventure and faith, Out of the Fire is a
testimony both to the Christian community and the community at large.
Read more about author David Hobbs >>>
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True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: TwoDot an Imprint of Falcon (June 01, 2005)
ISBN: 076272756X
Price: $10.95
 WANTED: A girl who will love, honest, true and not sour; a nice little cooing dove, and willing to work in flour.
Desperate
to strike it rich during the Gold Rush, thousands of men traveled West
to the emerging frontier, where they outnumbered women twelve to one.
Only after they arrived did some of them realize how much they missed
female companionship.
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: PublishAmerica (June 12, 2006)
ISBN-10: 1424120748
 Raven Nighthunter, telempath, healer, and warrior, is in the service of
the Powers. She has recently been supplied with a husband, Colonel
Jorden Madwolf. He and his three companions have swelled her team from
three to seven.
Respect and affection notwithstanding, there’s a
head-on collision of cultures between the humans and Raven and her
alien comrades that make her feel like pulling out handfuls of her body
fur.
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 John Sanbrook's debut work is a fascinating biography of the lives and times of his parents, Jack and Elizabeth Sanbrook. "It all began at the turn of the twentieth century. Times were hard in the United Kingdom."
John "Jack" William Sanbrook was born in March of 1907; his father deserted wife and son soon after. Young Jack had a thirst for knowledge, but poverty denied him his education and class discrimination severely limited his prospects. In 1929, fate lent a hand; the Shanghai Municipal Police Force needed officers and Jack answered the call. He would discover a true love of justice and the law in a land filled with beauty, danger, and luxuries he could never have enjoyed in his native England. In time, Elizabeth would become his wife and they would begin their family. In 1942, with the Japanese occupation of the International Settlement in Shanghai, the Sanbrooks’ idyllic life came to a close. "The family had been caught up like rats in a trap. Their lives were now in hostile hands."
From the early years of Jack's work with the Shanghai Municipal Police, through the family's World War II years in the concentration camp, later work for the War Crimes Commission in the jungles of Borneo, and the Sanbrooks’ eventual emigration to America, In My Father's Time opens a window on the dramatic changes that made the world we see today.
As the voices from that era fall silent one by one, this book is a welcome and valuable record of a vanished world. "It is my parent's story. One that I felt needed to be told."
This reader would agree.
Review written by DJ Nold, the former Copy Editor of The Business Journal of Yuba and Sutter Counties, and author of two published fantasy-adventure novels, Raven's Fate and True Companions .
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