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Adventures of Rusty Son of Tall Elk
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Adventures of Rusty Son of Tall Elk     Charles H. Bertram

ISBN 0-7414-5213-8

Rusty has been with the Cheyenne that adopted him for three years. He fights horse stealing Crow and learns Indian ways, while struggling with questions of identity, white man or red Indian?

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Bikini Wednesday
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Bikini Wednesday     Charles H. Bertram

ISBN 0-7414-5716-4

Bikini Wednesday: Fatimah wears a bikini to a Malibu beach as a protest to Muslim ideas about women. CUTTING MOTHER IN HALF, like the other ten stories, deals with contemporary issues and humor.

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Chipped Beef on Toast, SOS     Charles H. Bertram

ISBN 0-7414-1554-2 Infinity Publishing (keyword 'chipped')

A collection of mostly humorous stories about life in the military. Some are based on the author's adventures, most are the result of interviews with veterans. This is a work of fiction. The story of Stone Bear is different. While it may offend many Japanese, it deals with issues that need to be remembered.

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Corporal Rusty
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Corporal Rusty     Charles H. Bertram

ISBN 0-7414-5986-8

Rusty tries to visit his white family, but finds he is on a wanted poster as a renegade. He faces being drafted into the Civil War, unless he can prove he is under age eighteen. To prove that means revealing his true name and renegade status. He does end up in the Union army, fights in the war, and when wounded, gets a discharge. He goes to Ireland and rescues his Indian sister Setting Sun. Once back with the Cheyenne he plans to marry Setting Sun after he makes a dangerous trip to the Blackfeet.

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Rusty Son of Tall Elk
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Rusty Son of Tall Elk     Charles H. Bertram

ISBN 978-1933255439

An innocent game of cowboys and Indians becomes a reality for 10-year-old Russell Weaver when he is captured by Cheyenne Indians in this historical adventure novel. "Rusty" is a bright, red-haired, freckled-faced farm boy from a German-Irish Midwest family, and when Chief Walks Fast sees Rusty's red hair, he adopts the boy. The chief has a daughter of mixed ancestry with fire red hair, and believes it will be strong medicine to raise a boy and a girl with this unusual trait. Rusty's new sister is one inch taller, one year older, and none too pleased about this new rival to her status. Rusty must prove himself to his new sister, make a place for himself in his new family, and adapt to an entirely alien way of life. He discovers a talent for storytelling, and becomes expert in making slings and javelins. Little by little, this pale stranger becomes assimilated into his new tribe, and at age 12 he undergoes a traditional vision quest and vows to stay with the Cheyenne until the age of 16.

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Stone Bear
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Stone Bear     Charles H. Bertram

ISBN 0-7414-1991-2 Infinity Publishing

An American tale of an Irish Poacher and his struggle against English rule when even the use of their Gaelic language was forbidden. He finds life with the civilized Cherokee Indians better than the life of an Irishman in the big cities. He is called the White Cherokee. His family for generations struggle against race domination, from the White mans demand for land and gold to when Stone Bear, a great-great Grandson is not allowed to speak his native tongue at College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In WWII he fights the Japanese as "Shadow Demon" a guerilla soldier. Gold on the reservation is found by solving the mystery of an old tomahawk, in the 1960's when Indians in New Mexico are not allowed to vote.

 

Stone Bear and the Magic Bullet
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Stone Bear and the Magic Bullet     Charles H. Bertram

ISBN 0-7414-2783-4 Infinity Publishing

District Attorney Martin heard the shot that murdered Judge Foster. He was on the bridge driving to the Judge's cabin. Ballistics experts say the slug that killed the judge came from the .38 Colt owned by D.A. Martin. A gun that was in his briefcase at the time of the shooting.

Martin calls his own private investigator, ex-FBI agent Webster and his companion, Cherokee tracker Stone Bear.

Stone Bear was an ex-marine with a reputation from his days as a guerilla warrior in the Pacific during WWII. With help from Berry, his Cherokee nephew, he figures out how the same bullet was used. Then he joins Webster in tracking down those behind the killing.

 

Escape Into Hell
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Escape Into Hell     Vinny Dee

ISBN 1591135508 Booklocker

It's all here - sadistic murder, nail-biting suspense, love and deception - all with an erotic hint stirred in. It dissolves the banality of normal life into the realm of madness without an escape....or is there?

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American Castles
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American Castles     Julie Eberhart Painter

ISBN 1-4137-3652-1

A band of optimistic seniors work together to save their historic hotel from the clutches of city hall and its two-faced environmentalists. While meeting the obstacles hands on, they find time to share travel, the arts, games, and dancing. An old lady finds fulfillment. Couples discover their way back home. A young woman finds independence and everyone achieves respect and the joy of castling in Central Florida. Justice can be illusive, but determined seniors prove no one can steal their American Castles.

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The King Maker
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The King Maker     Julie Eberhart Painter

ISBN 1-56901-536-8

A trap to escape - a romance to relive.

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From the Inside Out     Julie Eberhart Painter

ISBN 1-58749-272-3 Awe-Struck E-books

A volunteer looks at staying motivated.

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www.volunteer-motivation.org

 

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Tahitian Destiny     Julie Eberhart Painter

ISBN 1-4040-7444-8 Xlibris

Legend draws Laura to her ancestral home.

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The World the Flesh and the Devil
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The World the Flesh and the Devil     Julie Eberhart Painter

ISBN 1-4241-3819-1

In 1904, Margaret, the most passionate of the Donovan children, leaves her lumber mill family for a convent. She falls in love with her confessor, who's fulfilling a family obligation. Scandal and guilt drive the lovers apart. Margaret gives up her vocation and leaves her religiously obsessed father's house. She and Lily, her cellmate from the convent, move across the state to work in Lily's father's millinery shop. Margaret marries well, but the Roaring Twenties and subsequent crash of '29 tax her ingenuity. Then coincidence rekindles the earlier scandals, changing Margaret's and Lily's lives again.

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The Second Sequence in Maurice Sceve's 'Delie'
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The Second Sequence in Maurice Sceve's 'Delie': A study of Numerological Composition     Christine Raffini

ISBN 0-917786-62-9 Summa Publications

Clothbound, illustrated

The meaning of the discovery of a hidden structure in a collection of French Renaissance poetry.

 

Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic and Political Approaches to Renaissance Platonism
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Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic and Political Approaches to Renaissance Platonism     Christine Raffini

ISBN 0-8204-3023-4 Peter Lang

Hardcover, Illustrated

The significance and influence of three atypical figures of the Italian Renaissance.