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July 24th, 2010
A trial consultant in Tucson, Arizona, Calla Gentry devotes her time and energy to victims in civil cases rather than criminal trials. The rape and near murder of her sister, Amaryllis, has done much more than affect Calla’s career; she hides behind locked doors and jumps at shadows, a veritable victim by proxy after Amaryllis is left in a coma following a failed suicide attempt. When Calla is assigned against her will to the trial of Raymond Cates, a wealthy landowner’s son accused of rape and first-degree murder, she cannot help but note the parallels between the crime he stands accused of and her sister’s assault. Determined to uncover the truth, Calla begins an investigation of Cates and the events of that fateful night. But things are seldom what they seem–and Calla’s investigation leads her to buried lies and a new world of violent rage.
Title: Forcing Amaryllis
Author: Louise Ure, a 1976 graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, lives in San Francisco with her husband.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (May 1, 2006)
Description: Paperback, 320 pages
Price: $30
ISBN: 978-0446615020
Information: www.louiseure.com/tree1.php
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July 22nd, 2010
“Murder on Elbrus” begins with world famous mountaineer Scott Devlon scarcely recovered from the disaster told in Murder on Everest, when he is sent to observe an EU sponsored conference in southern Russia. This casual assignment turns deadly with the murder of a Russian official atop Europe’s highest mountain. Joined by the beautiful Natasha, the most powerful woman in the media world, Scott must run for his life, uncertain of her loyalties and true motives. Joined by a tread worn CIA agent, a Russian mobster and Georgian nationalist, they flee across war torn Chechnya with the Russian army in hot pursuit. Along the way ethnic vendettas play out while old secrets are revealed. Scott can’t know where his greater enemy lies: with him or on the fields of fire. Set against the bleak terrain of the north Caucasus this action packed thriller unfolds at a breakneck pace. The Summit Murder Mystery Series is a unique set of novels. Join authors Charles G. Irion and Ronald J. Watkins for this extraordinary journey of exciting exploits and murder atop each of the seven major continental summits, beginning with Murder on Everest.
Title: Murder on Elbrus
Authors: Charles G. Irion and Ronald J. Watkins. Irion is a 1975 Thunderbird graduate. He was inspired to pen the Summit Murder Mystery Series after his own 1987 expedition to Everest.
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Charles G. Irion, Irion Books (2010)
Description: Paperback, 6 x 9, 204 pages (Also Kindle and iPad)
ISBN: 978-0984161829
Information: www.SummitMurderMystery.com
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July 22nd, 2010
“The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain” addresses one of the most heated policy debates of our day: Access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits. Seven scholars – an anthropologist, an economist, a sociologist, and four lawyers – discuss how a museum can flesh out the relevant ethical issues that frustrate any purely technical solution.
Title: The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain: A Place, A Process, A Philosophy
Editor: Joseph Henry Vogel, Ph.D., is a 1978 Thunderbird graduate and professor of economics at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras.
Publisher: Anthem Press (June 2010)
Price: $99 (£60)
Description: 174 pages
ISBN: 978-1843318620
Information: www.anthempress.com
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July 22nd, 2010
After a year of planning and preparing, the motorcycle ride to the Arctic Ocean was actually going to happen. Travel with me up through British Colombia, across the Top of the World Highway, the Yukon River, drink a Sour Toe in Dawson City, fight off panic on the highways, battle the muddy Haul Road for two days, only to reach the town of Deadhorse. A place where no one lives yet has a population of over 3000. What’s an adventure without a little blood? A little danger? A quirky little place of Chicken? And a little insight into one’s own measure.
Title: Deadhorse on Two Wheels
Author: Jan Daub is a 1970 Thunderbird graduate. He filled two tours with the Peace Corps, first in Panama and then in Colombia. He has been a self-employed real estate investor since 1985.
Publisher: Blurb (January 30, 2009)
Price: Softcover $39.95; Hardcover $54.95; Hardcover ImageWrap $59.95
Description: 130 pages
Information: http://wp01.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/545255
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July 22nd, 2010
“Descent to Batopilas” describes a fall 2007 motorcycle journey to the bottom of Mexico’s Copper Canyon (Baranca de Cobre), which is three times larger than the Grand Canyon.
Title: Descent to Batopilas
Author: Jan Daub is a 1970 Thunderbird graduate. He filled two tours with the Peace Corps, first in Panama and then in Colombia. He has been a self-employed real estate investor since 1985.
Publisher: Blurb (November 15, 2008)
Price: Softcover $29.95; Hardcover $39.95; Hardcover ImageWrap $44.95
Description: 48 pages
Information: http://wp01.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/423538
Written on
July 22nd, 2010
December 26, 1969: After serving two years in the Peace Corps working with remote Indian tribes in Panama, I left to return to the United States. My mode of travel was a motorcycle I had just learned how to ride. My bed, a hammock, an old army sleeping bag and two small rucksacks for my tattered clothes. Travel light and be safe. Join me on this 25-day journey of discovery, awakening, adventure, danger and of return.
Title: Headin’ Home
Author: Jan Daub is a 1970 Thunderbird graduate. He filled two tours with the Peace Corps, first in Panama and then in Colombia. He has been a self-employed real estate investor since 1985.
Publisher: Blurb (January 21, 2009)
Price: Softcover $19.95; Hardcover $31.95; Hardcover ImageWrap $25.95
Description: 82 pages
Information: http://wp01.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/546198
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July 13th, 2010
Reporter Johnny Rose investigates the murder of a Vietnamese man who recognized a customer in his restaurant as an American pilot, officially killed in Laos. A tale of war veterans involved in drug trafficking.
Title: Blue Rain
Author: Charles L. (Chuck) Freadhoff is a 1984 Thunderbird graduate. He is a vice president of Capital Research and Management Company’s Fund Business Management Group and director of media relations for The Capital Group Companies. Prior to joining Capital in 1995, Chuck was an international economics and trade writer for Investor’s Business Daily in Los Angeles. Before that, he was a medical and general assignment reporter for The Stars and Stripes in Darmstadt, Germany. He has written three suspense novels, “Codename: Cipher,” “Blue Rain” and A Permanent Twilight.
Publisher: Harpercollins (1999)
Price: $19.99
Description: Hardcover
ASIN: B001QHW0NG
Information: www.amazon.com.
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July 13th, 2010
Johnny Rose is the kind of investigative reporter whose stubborn insistence on doing his own thing has already lost him at least one job at a big paper and threatens his tenuous hold on what may be his last one. When he hears the fear in the voice of his runaway niece Sara, who’s never asked for his help before, he knows she’s in trouble. But by the time he gets to her, it’s too late. She’s dead, killed by arson in an abandoned squat where she’s been living with a couple of friends.
Title: A Permanent Twilight
Author: Charles L. (Chuck) Freadhoff is a 1984 Thunderbird graduate. He is a vice president of Capital Research and Management Company’s Fund Business Management Group and director of media relations for The Capital Group Companies. Prior to joining Capital in 1995, Chuck was an international economics and trade writer for Investor’s Business Daily in Los Angeles. Before that, he was a medical and general assignment reporter for The Stars and Stripes in Darmstadt, Germany. He has written three suspense novels, Codename: Cipher, Blue Rain and A Permanent Twilight.
Publisher: HarperTorch (December 4, 2001)
Price: $6.99
Description: Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0061097287
Information: www.amazon.com.
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July 13th, 2010
From Publishers Weekly: “Freadhoff’s slick, well-written debut is lent an air of authority and authenticity by recent events in Europe, most notably the reunification of Germany. Holding a U.S. Army major hostage, terrorists have gained control of a cache of nuclear weapons housed in an Army ammunitions depot in Ochsenburg, Germany, and have threatened to detonate the weapons unless infamous terrorist Hamid al Hamani is released from prison. Jonathan Cane, a journalist for an L.A. newspaper who had once lived in Ochsenburg, requests and is granted the assignment. As Cane delves deeper into the incident, he raises myriad questions. Why are Henry’s captors attempting to free Hamani, previously denounced by his own comrades? And why don’t the terrorists simply take the explosives and flee? Is it really Hamani they want or are they using his release as a cover for some other demand? As Cane approaches the truth, he realizes he is also perilously close to his own demise. Freadhoff builds suspense well throughout, but a too hasty resolution detracts from his otherwise taut novel.”
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title: Codename: Cipher
Author: Charles L. (Chuck) Freadhoff is a 1984 Thunderbird graduate. He is a vice president of Capital Research and Management Company’s Fund Business Management Group and director of media relations for The Capital Group Companies. Prior to joining Capital in 1995, Chuck was an international economics and trade writer for Investor’s Business Daily in Los Angeles. Before that, he was a medical and general assignment reporter for The Stars and Stripes in Darmstadt, Germany. He has written three suspense novels, “Codename: Cipher,” “Blue Rain” and A Permanent Twilight.
Publisher: Walker & Company; 1st Printing edition (June 1991)
Description: Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0802711502
Information: www.amazon.com.
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June 1st, 2010
Timothy and Sparky have just escaped from the Land of Nightmares. But they crash onto the Land of Candies where someone has been eating away the candy floss on which it floats/ Our heroes but find a solution before they plunge into the water below. Join Timothy and Sparky in some more exciting adventures as they try and make their way home.
Title: Timothy’s Fantastic Adventure
Author: Prashant Pinge is a 2006 Thunderbird graduate. In addition to his Thunderbird degree, he has an electrical engineering degree from Purdue University and a post graduate diploma in management from the Indian School of Business. Apart from writing, he has an interest in mythology, psychology, and ancient history. Prashant and his wife, Avantika, live in Mumbai, India. He can be contacted at prash2175@gmail.com.
Publisher: EuroBooks (2010)
Price: Rs.99 (about US$2.10)
Description: Paperback, 96 pages
ISBN: 978-8128623226
Information: www.eurobooksindia.com.
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