Here I Stand gives the reader a glimpse into the life of a career police officer as recalled by Robert Fletcher. As Fletcher is standing at the head of the conference table in the Organized Crime Bureau, being honored for thirty years of dedicated service, memories come flooding back. Here I Stand presents these memories, good and bad, as they happened. This true account starts with the author being a teenager in trouble with the law. After being caught in the midst of a crime, he was given a second chance and became a straight arrow. Later, the Phoenix Police Department took a chance on him and an outstanding career began. From the very beginning his career was unique. About half way through the police academy, the entire class was pulled out and put into service to help quell a race riot in Phoenix. After being back in the academy for a short period, Fletcher and eleven other recruits were chosen to be turned loose on the City without training officers. That was a grand experiment that was never repeated. Robert Fletcher worked on numerous details and assignments during his career. They included Patrol, Walking Beat, Selective Enforcement, Warrant Detail, Solo Motorcycles, Detective Bureau, Community Relations Bureau, Information Desk, Communications Bureau, and at the time of his retirement, he was the sergeant in charge of the Investigations Unit of the Organized Crime Bureau. This book shares memories from each of these details and assignments.

The story of Lela McGuire's teenage years in Idaho during the 1890's continues in Rusty. In the first book, Cart-Wheels, Lela moves with her family from their comfortable, established ranch in Oregon to the raw frontier of Idaho's high Camas Prairie. Having left behind not only her home but also her first sweetheart, she has to adapt to her new life in the town of Cottonwood, where she finishes the highest class in the local school. In Rusty, Lela gets to further her education. Her uncle, recently elected sheriff, has moved to the county seat and has invited her to stay with his family there, so that she can attend high school. Her memorable year in the sheriff's household brings lots of hard studying, punctuated by sometimes violent incidents of law and order. When it is over, she returns to Cottonwood and meets handsome young "Rusty," just back from the Spanish-American War . . . Lela's true story, originally written in her own words in the early 1970's, is the basis for both books. Collaborating with her at that time, her daughter did much to shape the memories into fiction for young readers. The books in their present form are the result of editing and re-working by Lela's granddaughter, Susan Quainton

After only two weeks beneath Solaris, Joe and his gang have found themselves in more than enough trouble. Enraging both allies and enemies as emperors and arch mages vie for his allegiance, Joe - the supposed Sun Child - can barely stay alive let alone stay true to himself. Joe has to deal with the question: is he helping Mystakle Planet or is he just making the world worse off? There is no going back, but a million different directions available going forward.

Mark Gentry, like every other college student just about to graduate, is facing the most difficult decision of his life: what does he want to be when he grows up? Unlike most other graduating seniors, Mark Gentry is a thirty-one year old former professional baseball player without a notion of what he wants to do. Mark's career counselor proposes agriculture as the answer. Mark's girlfriend believes that the solution lies in a ballpark in Helena, Montana. Catchers, Cows, and Nachos, a sequel to 2001's Wildfire Summer, follows Mark Gentry's adventures in the Big Sky Country as he tries to determine his future on the other side of the backstop. While working undercover on the game-day staff of a baseball team, Mark not only stumbles across the answer to his question, he also learns that life is never more perfect than when one is surrounded by the three C's of baseball.