As a Boy Scout, Peter Baird fought in the Cold War by scanning the skies over Moscow, Idaho for inbound Soviet aircraft. He fought other wars as well, with paralytic polio, rock n roll, his mother s cancer and his father s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from a World War Two gunshot wound. As an adult, Baird became a professional magician who gave shows across the country to benefit cancer research. He also became a trial lawyer who represented his wife before the United States Supreme Court in a freedom of belief case, Ernesto Miranda of the famous Miranda case, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. which had been infiltrated by government spies, and four Hare Krishna members charged with loitering. As a man, Baird battled depression, made stupid mistakes, endured divorce, was accused of child abuse by his mentally ill daughter, suffered literary rejection, confronted herpes in Las Vegas, published a novel, and reconciled with his father as the old man descended into Alzheimer s. Throughout, Baird wrote essays and stories - sometimes hilariously funny and sometimes profoundly serious - about life as he lived it, and law as he practiced it. They are all here in Protecting Moscow From the Soviets. Winner of the 2009 San Fransico Book Festival Award for Compilations/Anthologies

Protecting Moscow From the Soviets

Literature & Fiction

Peter Baird

United States

National Writers Press, Inc.

Award-winning syndicated morning radio and television host Michael Patrick Shiels has authored a new book entitled: Invite Yourself to the Party. Your life can be extraordinary if you force yourself to show up, says Shiels, who explains that his rollicking book is motivational, inspirational, and anecdotal. By inviting himself to the party, Shiels has experienced everything from brushes with celebrities to run-ins with the law. This book encourages readers to find their own way to the memorable, exciting experiences waiting for them around every corner. You name it I ve done it...or failed to do it. I am a very regular person...who just happens to be living a very entertaining life. You can, too, he says. That s why I ve written this book. I am sharing these stories so that more people can enjoy the party that life really is. Invite Yourself to the Party reveals, among other things: Why physically writing down your fondest wishes turns them into goals...and then realities. Why you may have learned all you need to know about business success by trick or treating on Halloween. How to ensure better respect and treatment in your workplace. How to make your dinner parties the talk of the town. President George Bush s secret light em up game, and how you can do it, too! How to cozy up to celebrities and get inside the enclaves of show business. A close, but ultimately embarrassing encounter with Hollywood starlet Morgan Fairchild.

Invite Yourself to the Party

Michael Patrick Shiels

Attending college at 50-years-old was rare in the 1920s especially for a woman. For Ynés Mexía it marked the beginning of a career as a botanical collector. Throughout the rest of her life, she took long expeditions into the wilds of Mexico, South America and Alaska accompanied, with few exceptions, only by her native guides. These explorations enabled her to find thousands of specimens including several hundred newly discovered ones. Her legacy lives on through her botanical discoveries and a new genus and fifty new species named after her.--

The Perfect Specimen: The 20th Century Renown Botanist--Ynes Mexia

History

Anema Ph. D, Durlynn

World

Lure of the Unknown: The 20th Century Renown Adventurer and Explorer--Harriet Chalmers Adams

Camels Over the Sierra Nevada

Anema, Durlynn

Americas

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