Let’s Talk Patents is patent primer. It explains in short order what small business owners, inventors, and entrepreneurs need to know to protect their ideas and leverage them in this information age. Not another "how-to" book, Let’s Talk Patents explains in easy-to-read format such issues as who owns the patent rights, patent infringement and enforcement, and how not to compromise your patent rights. The book also includes a table of the costs involved (including attorneys fees), illustrated examples of patent infringement, and a comparison of patents to trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. 
This book is targeted for businesspeople, written by a registered patent attorney experienced with the trails and tribulations of small businesses. It is clearly and simply written, avoiding legalese and extraneous information typical of books about patents.

Let's Talk Patents

Business & Money

Etherton, Sandra L.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Rocket Science Press

In 1798 Bonaparte strides across the stage of Europe. He now covets Egypt and the newly commissioned frigate HMS Eleanor deploys into the Mediterranean on a covert mission to help check the tyrant’s ambitions.Thus begins The Sailing Master . . . a novel of the sea, and the coming of age for its narrator, Owen Harriet. At just twelve years old, Owen joins Eleanor to serve as cabin boy for his uncle, Captain James Cedric. The boy’s mathematical prowess draws the attention of Mr. Lau, Eleanor’s sailing master, and due to the frigate’s heavy losses at sea, Owen quickly advances. But Owen also possesses a secret, the capacity to perceive and comprehend . . . the Sukiyama.

The Sailing Master: Book One: Coming of Age (The Sailing Master Book Series)

Literature & Fiction

Henschel Jr., Lee

Genre Fiction

One Degree South is a sweeping tale of love, politics and witchcraft set in the oil-rich nation of Gabon just as the Cold War ends. The U.S. relationship with African dictators suddenly changes and election fervor, which dominates the headlines in African capitals, sweeps through the remotest of tiny villages. "Stephen L. Snook’s One Degree South is one of the most powerful first novels I’ve ever come across. Snook is both a master storyteller and a perceptive and insightful observer. The novel is part love story, part political narrative and part supernatural thriller." — Twin Cities Arts &amp; Opera Critic William Randall writing at www.GOODREADS.com “Stephen L. Snook’s One Degree South is a colorful African tapestry of romance, mystery and a little witchcraft. This debut novel by an author who worked in Africa for 25 years is a perfect summer read.” — Mary Ann Grossmann, Saint Paul Pioneer-Press Stephen L. Snook is a specialist in international development who has spent over 25 years living and working in Africa. In addition to Gabon, where he served as a Peace Corps volunteer, he has worked in (or visited) Botswana, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Steve has a doctorate in political science from the University of Florida. He is married, the father of three daughters, and currently lives in Vermont. This is his first novel.

One Degree South

Snook, Stephen L.

Contemporary

“I once asked my dental hygienist what the white teeth inside wide smiles say about the meaning of life.” – from Jackal-Heads and Holidays – from author and retired columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jim Klobuchar: Emilio DeGrazia is one of those writers who loves the ambience of a writers' gathering––the fraternity, the probing of ideas––whether the subject is poetry or the jock strap empire of sports. What I can tell you is that not many people I've read, whether in Minnesota or beyond, write of the human condition with the same mixture of discovery, forgiveness and judgment that Emilio brings from his study. Years ago a small group of us, at the prodding of the toastmaster, were asked to identify three or four people who would be our choice if we were marooned on a desert highland and had to spend foreseeable months or years listening to each other. My first choice was Emilio. I never tire of hearing what this man has to say about the humanity around him.

Eye Shadow

Politics & Social Sciences

DeGrazia, Emilio

Philosophy

The Sailing Master—Book Two: The Long Passage Readers will happily yield to the spell cast by Book Two without having to first read Book One! Conflict. Love. Commitment & Betrayal . . . all abound in this intrepid novel of the sea set in the Golden Age of Sail. The looming shadow of the Napoleonic War dims the waning glow of the Enlightenment, yet Owen Harriet’s heartfelt narrative provides insight into the human condition. And an overarching question emerges . . . is this chronicle simply the story of a man, or of an entire age? From the opening broadside at the Battle of the Nile to the ironic conclusion off Ushant, Owen continues to come of age, maintaining a steadfast relationship with his beloved mentor, Ignatius Comet Lau, HMS Eleanor’s esteemed Sailing Master. Deep within French Indochina. Lost on the Mekong River. Owen befriends an inscrutable boy monk, only to fall prey to a demonic French privateer. A powerful enigma continues to haunt Owen and he begins to understand. A premonition of unknown origin? An Oracle? Or a remnant calling from his own childhood imagination.

The Sailing Master, Book Two: The Long Passage (The Sailing Master Book Series)

New Mexico, circa 1930s. Red Bricks begins with JT Swain who at seventeen loses everything that matters to him, including the ranchstead he called home. He sets out on a journey west, hoping to find the feeling of connectedness now gone in his life. In the Mesilla Valley he meets Dalia Jackson, the rebellious daughter of a Las Cruces rancher and is strangely drawn to this 15 year old half-Nahua Indian, half-white girl who has her own ideas of a woman’s place in the world. When she disappears, a series of events force him to challenge the law and leads him to the barrios of Juárez, Mexico where he bears witness to the ugliness of human trafficking. JT risks all in an attempt to find Dalia, warned that he may not recognize her if he does.

Red Bricks

Muccino, Anne

In her memoir Club of Stars, Maria Souza Hogan evokes the cultural celebrations, oral history of northern Brazil. Rich African heritage and rituals like Candomblé, which developed as a result of the slave trade, were a central part of the Brazilian culture she embraces growing up. The lives of her extended family, her poverty-stricken community, women in particular, are intrinsic to her story. Souza Hogan’s work details life and death in the inhumane slum where she lived with ten brothers and sisters. Her home in the favela was situated between the figurative a rock and a hard place—bordered by the tempestuous Atlantic Ocean on one side, and on the other, a dangerous two-lane highway. Hogan’s memoir chronicles not only her struggle with hunger, her extraordinary resilience, and her determination to get an education; but also, the effect of poverty on her family and community. Club of Stars is a narrative of a collective memory demanding to be told. Souza Hogan shines a light on the blunt reality of inequality and social injustice in Brazil. In vivid prose, she articulates exactly what it is like to go hungry for days, to go to school without shoes or books, and to tutor well-fed students, hungry herself, in order to buy food and books.

Club of Stars: A Samba of Survival in the Slums of Brazil

Biographies & Memoirs

Souza Hogan, Maria

Community & Culture

A memoir by a newsroom reporter for state and national newspapers in Albany, NY; Portland, ME; Minneapolis, MN. It is also a coming of age tale about a young working mother from a tiny Norwegian community thrown into a largely man's world in the 1970s; and it is a poignant lifelong love story that begins at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism.

Tireless: A Reporter's Life

Halvorsen, Donna

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