“Heartwarming and humorous, a solid pick” --Kirkus Reviews “A touching, wise book. Adventures grandparents will enjoy” –R. J. Franklin Biology-geek Julia Water’s divorced parents come and go, her career-driven mother traveling for her job, and her career-military father deploying to dangerous assignments in war zones. Julia (age 13) misses them and worries about her father being wounded or killed. In school she’s a loner because to save money, Mom has moved the family so often into a cheaper place to rent in a different school district that Julia has given up trying to make friends. After school’s out for the day, she wants to lose herself in expanding her “Log of Animals” to study more unique and fascinating specimens but instead must care for her sister, Belinda (age 8) and their dog, Portia, a gift from Dad. During a summer visit to her grandparents, who live on a Pacific Northwest island, Julia has adventures in which help from Gram and Papa, opinionated Belinda, and intelligent Portia teaches her that she doesn’t have to solve all problems on her own. When an interesting boy with the unusual nickname “Mister Blue” arrives on the island, Julia is immersed in new adventures that force her to grapple with issues of fear, jealousy, maturing puppy love shared by Mister Blue, and bullying by local teens, whose taunt, “Your dad’s coming home in a body bag,” sickens her. With wry humor, an action-packed plot, and characters that come to life on every page, Each Unique and Fascinating is a rare tale of the everyday bravery of a young girl expected to deal with challenges beyond her years. Grandparents, members of military families, parents who work in dangerous professions or must often be away from their children, and those who want to encourage girls to be interested in science also find it revealing and engaging.

Each Unique and Fascinating

Literature & Fiction

Powers, M. Ferguson

Genre Fiction

Whidbey Publishing

<p>“Action-packed environmental thriller” --Kirkus Reviews“Swift-moving story of adventure and redemption” --Wayne Ude, Northwest Institute of Literary Arts“Covers critical issues about Southern Resident orcas” --Howard Garrett and Susan Berta, Orca Network “Captures the roles of protest in making public policy” --Allen L. CarpenterOrcaSpeak is a Pacific Northwest orca protection organization created by Ben and Frances Singleton. A ferry crash occurs at a local dock when a peaceful protest against fossil fuels conducted by eco-activist Donal Hopkins is sabotaged by a violent teammate, Nick Malit. Donal kidnaps Frances on the ferry and steals her car to carry out the next phase of his protest. When Frances and her car apparently disappear in the crash, police think she’s dead but Ben searches for his beloved wife helped by marine biologists Selena Campbell and Gabriel Jordan. As Donal tries to block Nick from worse acts of terrorism and plans a new mission to protect orcas and whales from sonar tests by the U.S. Navy, he falls in love with his prisoner, Frances. This novel is a moving story that conveys the urgency of containing impacts of the military-industrial-political complex on orcas, whales, and ocean pollution, and the dedication and personal sacrifice that public protest can require. OrcaSpeak’s prequel, “Frankenfish Code,” Selena and Gabriel’s first adventure together, will be available in 2014 from Whidbey Publishing. “A swift-moving story of adventure and redemption” --Wayne Ude, Northwest Institute of Literary Arts “Covers critical issues about Southern Resident orcas; a suspenseful thriller with fun characters” --Howard Garrett and Susan Berta of Orca Network (photos at www.orcanetwork.org) “Captures the roles of protest in making public policy”--Allen L. Carpenter OrcaSpeak tells gripping tales of stubborn men, a loner who must find courage and ingenuity to prevent hundreds of deaths, and a husband who searches for his beloved wife although police insist she’s dead. Their quests occur during environmentalist struggles to contain impacts of the military-industrial-political complex on orcas and ocean pollution. Ben Singleton and his wife, Frances, operate OrcaSpeak, a Pacific Northwest orca protection organization. A ferry crash occurs at a local dock when a peaceful protest against fossil fuels organized by eco-activist Donal Hopkins is sabotaged by a violent teammate, Nick Malit. Donal kidnaps Frances on the ferry and steals her car to carry out the next phase of his protest. When Frances and her car apparently disappear in the crash, police think she’s dead but Ben is helped in his search for her by marine biologists Selena Campbell and her husband Gabriel Jordan. As Donal tries to block Nick from further acts of terrorism and plans a new mission to protect local orcas from sonar tests by the U.S. Navy, he falls in love with his prisoner, Frances. OrcaSpeak’s prequel, Frankenfish Code, Selena and Gabriel’s first adventure together, will be available in 2014 from Whidbey Publishing.</p>

OrcaSpeak

Whidbey Publishing LLC

<p>In this suspense-charged, touching novel, Counting on Trust, information is stolen from a U.S. genetic engineering company (Omniprotein) by an employee promised payment by a Chinese general who wants to profit from selling the company’s technologies in the military region of China he commands. To force quick payment the thief attacks fellow employees and threatens to continue until his money arrives. Will his next targets be:oyoung lovers, computer geek Gabriel and gorgeous biologist Selena, who are discovering loving sex while trying to overcome post-traumatic effects of Selena’s girlhood rape . . .ocompany president, Eleanor, who’s determined to keep some privacy and intimacy although her job’s high profile and her husband, Charley, has just had prostate cancer surgery . . .oventure capitalist, John, who plans to duplicate Omniprotein’s facility in China and reunite with his ex-wife, fashion designer Ziyi, who returned to Shanghai after their only child died.The personal stories of these couples explore how privacy and trust are changing in our social-media age. Sex is taken beyond modern America’s view of it as equal female-male access to a commodity to its ages-old status as a supreme way of celebrating love and cementing caring relationships.Reading this novel is nourishing: it offers escape into another world that is so thoroughly researched and detailed it seems alive. The experience is like binge watching a fine television series such as Downton Abbey or The Wire.Counting on Trust is the prequel to OrcaSpeak (2012), in which a lone wolf eco-activist fights to protect killer whales. OrcaSpeak also is available in paperback from Amazon.com and on Kindle.</p>

Counting on Trust: A Novel About Theft of Research, Loving Sex, and Murder

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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