The Man Who Vanished: A Lew Travis Mystery

Dayton, Charles

Literature & Fiction

Create Space

Shadows and Dreams: Twelve Stories

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Foothill Associates

Lew Travis is a curmudgeonly seventy-two year old part-time investigative reporter who lives in Sienna, a small town in Northern California’s Sierra Nevada foothills. He decides to look into the suspicious drowning of a prominent local attorney with whom he had a difficult history, and soon finds himself involved with a brutal biker and a gorgeous femme fatale less than half his age. In addition to the intrigue and suspense, this book provides insights into this colorful region and the Native Americans who once populated it, while introducing the cast of characters that inhabit this series.

Come Hell or High Water

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In the second book in this series, Lew Travis, a 72 year-old curmudgeon, is faced with unraveling the death of a teenage girl, the daughter of a nearby friend. This takes him into the local high school, a milieu he hasn't occupied in half a century. He is quickly ensnared in a complex web of characters, motives, and clues. These pile up such that Lew has to draw on all his sleuthing skills to unravel it, assisted by his friends at the Sienna Sentinel and his teenage computer guru. It all comes down to a climax even he hasn't anticipated.

Hell Hath No Fury

In his Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein proposed that time was not a fixed entity, but depended on the perspective of the viewer. Experiments that followed confirmed this unlikely claim, proving that time was indeed a variable. What are the implications of this finding? Some of the unsettling possibilities are explored in these ten stories, from a strange building where it’s hard to gauge the time, to a young man who seems to be in more than one place, an old professor who has spent decades seeking a way to re-live his lost past, and a busy housewife who prays for more time, only to experience some unexpected consequences. These stories, written with both amusement toward and compassion for their sundry cast of characters, explore the implications of looking at life from different perspectives. Perspectives that might be characterized as…somewhere in the twilight zone.

Time Passages

Gabe, a forty-four year old homeless man down on his luck, is living illegally in a tent in the Tahoe National Forest, with only the occasional company of another such hobo and a friendly squirrel. His funds are dwindling, winter is fast approaching, and his future appears bleak. Into this scene steps a new element: an unlikely interloper discovers his lair. She is appalled by his presence yet concerned for his survival. An improbable relationship is triggered, full of tension and uncertainty; where this will lead is a mystery.

There But For Fortune: A Novel

Literary

Provides step-by-step guidance for setting up career academies. Offers advice on staffing, budgeting, student selection, parent involvement, and how to build effective school-business partnerships

Career Academies: Partnerships for Reconstructing American High Schools

Education & Teaching

Stern, David

Raby, Marilyn

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

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