Stories which to life the early days of a prairie settler.

Dakota Incarnate: A Collection of Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

McDonald, Bill

United States

New Rivers Press

Columbia: Cornerstone of the Carolinas (Urban Tapestry Series) This City created more than 2 centuries ago has survived the devastation of the Civil War and the Vagaries of economic development to become not merely a premier City in South Carolina, but one of the major Urban centers in the Southeast.

Columbia: Cornerstone of the Carolinas (Urban Tapestry Series)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Towery Pub

Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane

Science & Math

Coutts, Robert

Biological Sciences

Queensland Museum Shop

"With a voice that's part Annie Dillard and part Mike Royko, Bill McDonald helps us see the familiar world with the wonder, humor, and clarity it deserves."

At the Oasis

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Trafford Publishing

College reunions present a pageantry of who has found fortune, fallen far, remained buff, aged poorly, married well, or divorced often. For Olivia Walker MacLearn (Liv) the stakes are higher because forty-six years before the internet spit out her contact information onto reunion organizer Guen’s laptop, Liv had cut all ties with her friends from Kentucky’s prestigious Morrison College. Not so much as an exchange of Christmas cards has tied her to her past. But when an invitation to a 46th reunion arrives, Liv is strangely drawn to the place she fled, even though she knows that an explanation of why she went off-radar could reveal a secret long kept. Then an email arrives from Rich, the man who broke her heart those decades ago at Morrison, and with it tempting thoughts of a relationship mulligan. Liv guardedly communicates with her college buddies, always under the microscope of her fiercely-loyal best friend Mary Alice. The five share life stories as they email back and forth. Like so many middle-agers, unceremoniously yanked into the non-exclusive guild of senior citizens, Liv and her friends struggle with the dichotomy of mind and mirror. They acknowledge, mostly with humor, that their bodies may be beyond the bloom of youth, but their minds still brim with passion. As the reunion approaches, increasingly intimate conversations between Liv and Scotty, her best college buddy, a lanky boy turned intriguing man, bring both clarity to Liv’s past and a new set of questions about her future. Might a new relationship develop or will the spark of an old love, extinguished for decades, reignite? And if that spark should spring forth once more, can the fire burn brightly regardless of the years gone by?

Mind Over Mirror: A romantic beach read for the bifocal set (Life, Love, and Bifocals)

Cole, Wandaleen

Hailey, Jack

Walther, Jo Ann

Anestis, Jan Allinder

Women's Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Graduates from the Morrison College Class of 1967 don’t seem to have read the rulebook – the one that replaces romance with less youthful infatuations. Sure, they love to garden, adore their kids and grandkids, read, knit, and deplore texting, and yes, the television volume occasionally approaches rock concert level, but nothing – I repeat nothing – has replaced romance or passion. As love’s illusions are sampled and digested, Liv’s decades old secret, Rich’s relationship with his ex-wife, and Scotty’s adventures with fame, fortune, and the wicked witch of the west, are ingredients for a perfect tale of lust and love. Reunion organizer Guen remains caught between two generations as she struggles to have a life of her own, and Mary Alice manages full-time child care and stolen moments with her man with a droll sense of humor. In LOVE'S ILLUSIONS, volume two of the series Life, Love, and Bifocals, the bifocal set once again declares that the mirror is not the judge of who they are. Now if they can just figure out what is…

Love's Illusions: A romantic beach read for the bifocal set (Life, Love, and Bifocals)

Romance

Allinder Anestis, Jan

Contemporary

What is it like to be sixty-eight and in love? Some will say, forget passion. With luck there might be an occasional kiss on the cheek – more likely long detailed discussions about aches and pains. Most assuredly evenings on the porch in wooden rocking chairs, sweet ice tea, and a little soft music on the victrola. Sound right? Not even close! The final volume of the Life, Love, and Bifocals series delivers passion, a romantic triangle, struggles with addiction and guilt, jealousy, a visit from the FBI, and oh yes, more passion. As they cruise toward their seventies, Guen, Liv, Mary Alice, Rich, and Scotty once again prove that images in the mirror are poor predictors of what life has to offer.

Quakes and Willows: A Romantic Beach Read for the Bifocal Set (Life, Love, and Bifocals)

Walking on a Moonbeam is Bill McDonald’s first book. It is a collection of poems written during his career as an engineer/scientist working in the US space and national defense programs. The poems were written based on personal life experiences and are organized into nine topics: youth, adventure, love, seasons, change, hope, places and things, farewells, and prayer. Consequently, it also tells much of his own personal story, beginning with his youth, continuing with his adventures in the United States moon program, and covering many of the events, activities, and circumstances of his life.

Walking on a Moonbeam

Self-Help

Motivational

Xlibris

Our lives are unique, but not that special really. Our adventure in Vietnam continues for as long as God allows. It is our joy to share with you, the reader, a bit of our incredible story…again, unique but all of God’s people who are truly yielded to Him can accomplish much…for us Vietnamese fruit…fruit that remains… for you…God knows…ask Him!

A Tree Grows in Thai Nguyen

Biographies & Memoirs

Vision Publishing (Ramona, CA)

Old Geezer Romancing in Cyberspace

Bill McDonald, an award-winning journalist, had no intention of writing about the internet dating he began at age sixty-nine. What could occur on the dates of an old geezer like me, he reasoned, that would pique ones interest or keep a reader spellbound? It didnt take long for him to realize hed failed miserably as a soothsayer. One first-time date met him, quite intentionally, while she luxuriated in a bath of soapsuds and bubbles. A luncheon date startled him with a fact not mentioned in her profile: she was the great-granddaughter of Mark Twain, having discovered the kinship only two years earlier. A sex therapist insisted on smudging him before he could enter her home. This ancient ritual had her wafting herbal smoke around his body to eliminate negative vibes. These and other noteworthy occurrences led the author to write a fascinating page-turnerOld Geezer Romancing in Cyberspace.

Memoirs

Xlibris US

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