A 12-year-old Chumash Indian boy and his family experience what it might have really been like within the California Spanish mission system.
Book One of the Lands of our Ancestors series for juvenile readers tells the story of a twleve-year-old Chumash boy named Kilik and his eleven-year-old cousin, Tuhuy, who live happlily in their village called the Place of River Turtles more than 200 years ago. They and their families have no idea how their lives will change for the worse the day Spanish priests and soldiers march into their village during the annual harvest ceremony. This well-researched historical novel reveals what life might have really been like for California Indians in the Spanish missions, institutions that enslaved Native Peoples and forced them to work and punished them when they tried to escape.
I'm so glad that you have published this book for young people about the atrocities that the Spanish carried out, not only for the native people of California but throughout South and Central America. It's a story hidden behind religious piety and time that needs to be revealed for what it was.
I have just published (posthumously) a book by Brian S. Goodson. He died on August 8 and didn't have the funds to publish it. Seven Fires is a science fiction novel relating how the Indian Nations were prepared and able to survive a nuclear war and establish a new treaty with the government after using Indian lore and tradition to solve the world's worst problem--destruction of the natural environment. I spent nine months helping Brian by editing the book and am glad to bring it back in a third edition.
Third Book in Five Book Series - Southern Swallow - a tale of 12th Century China. Li K'ai-men becomes entangled in an intrigue that becomes his undoing.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
