< El Gancho Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Travis, Michael
$29.95
Prudenciano Nava is a Mexican colleador -- a rodeo performer of exceptional skill and strength who flips bulls on their backs by grabbing their tails. A trained horse and agile colleador partner allowed him to escape the deadly horns, and bask in the admiration of the crowd.
Nava, scornful of honest labor, has an uncontrollable temper, a weakness for drink, and abandoned his wife. Pursued on horseback, the 49-year old Nava eloped with his brother's 15-year-old stepdaughter, leaving the drudgery of his father's rancho, for riches in Mexico's northern states. But the Mexican revolution explodes, shattering the nation and Nava's dreams. He and his family flee north yet again.
During a botched train holdup in New Mexico, Nava nearly kills a man; now he must elude the law and a fearsome Apache bounty hunter. Nava becomes Tereso Minjares and seeks a quiet life. But his lust for fame lures him to run guns for the legendary rebel, Pancho Villa.
Ultimately humbled, Tereso never realizes that he was the instrument of the greatest El Gancho (Hook) of all. Because of Tereso's faults and God-given strengths, the Minjares family is brought to a new destiny in Los Estados Unidos.
El Gancho, the true stories of an illiterate great-grandfather once taken as a spinner of exaggerated tales, is the experience of real people who endured the hardships of history, and became the foundation of a nation.
Elim Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Jackson, Joan
$9.95
Elim, The Determined Athlete is based on a true story and told according to the pup. Elim, The Determined Athlete, reveals the real reason a four month old Alaska village husky joined champion musher, Jeff King's team on the Iditarod trail. Uplifting and motivating, the reader learns about setting goals, working hard, proving oneself, and ignoring peer rebuffs. Jeff King assisted the pup in becoming a real athlete -- a sled dog, instead of just another basketball wanna-be.
Enticed by Gold Click Picture of Cover for Larger View De Vries, Doug
$12.00
In the spring of 1902, Sven Olafsen decides to return home to Minnesota, but he doesn't want to leave his partner, old Tunis Vander Werff, who refuses to leave Alaska. After traveling from Nome by dog sled and river boat, they arrive at Captain Barnette's store on the banks of the Chena River. Pedro Felix's discovery of gold in the area shortly after their arrival leads Sven and Tunis north into the hills where they stake claims on three streams.
Sven stays with Tunis through another winter and into the summer of 1903. Together they build cabins on two of their claims and another in the developing town of Fairbanks. Together they dig shafts in hope of finding more gold, and together they face scoundrels who attempt to take over their claims.
Enticed by Gold Hard Cover Click Picture of Cover for Larger View De Vries, Doug
$12.00
In the spring of 1902, Sven Olafsen decides to return home to Minnesota, but he doesn't want to leave his partner, old Tunis Vander Werff, who refuses to leave Alaska. After traveling from Nome by dog sled and river boat, they arrive at Captain Barnette's store on the banks of the Chena River. Pedro Felix's discovery of gold in the area shortly after their arrival leads Sven and Tunis north into the hills where they stake claims on three streams.
Sven stays with Tunis through another winter and into the summer of 1903. Together they build cabins on two of their claims and another in the developing town of Fairbanks. Together they dig shafts in hope of finding more gold, and together they face scoundrels who attempt to take over their claims.
Erik's Story Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Thompson, Linda
$17.95
Erik's Story is the true story of young Erik David Behnke, born with Down's Syndrome, autism, and at one time --no future. His single mother, Linda Kay Thompson, takes a job in rural Kenny Lake, Alaska, as a special education teacher, determined to free the light she glimpses within her child. Where everyone struggles to survive in a frigid land, Linda finds more than a loving community; she discovers her oldest son is an artistic savant. Thrilled beyond her greatest hopes, she works tirelessly, helping him develop as a professional artist, which she knows absolutely nothing about, before he graduates from high school. Erik has three professional shows in Alaska his first year, which lead to his art being shown and sold around the world. Erik's Story is a triumph of survival, the faith of a family, and the grace that is love.
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