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Dissent in Wichita: the Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72
(University
of Illinois Press, 2001/2007/2023)
a ground-breaking study of the civil rights
movement outside the South, won the Richard Wentworth Award, the
Hall Center Award for best book by a Kansas author, and the William
Rockhill Nelson Award for the best book by a Kansas or Missouri
author....
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RESISTANCE!
RESISTANCE! is a near future novel
set in Paris when the National Front Party has just won election
and is imposing its far-Right policies. A twenty-something mixed
race woman arrives to pursue a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and
finds herself recruited to save NATO's AI from Russian take-over...
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Where is Ana Amara?
Where is Ana Amara? follows a
British woman's search her partner, a journalist in Syria now a
refugee in London. Ana has disappeared and the conservativeBritish
government leaves Jennifer fearful of what may have happened to
Ana, who has been investigating what is happening to refugees and
asylum...
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They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story
They Met at Wounded Knee: The
Eastmans’ Story (University of Nevada Press,
2020) tells the story of US policy toward Indigenous
American from the Civil War to World War II through the lives and
writings of two prolific writers, Dakota physician and civil
servant Charles Ohiyesa Eastman and...
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The Set Up, 1984: Britain's Biggest Drug Bust (Classified until 2064)
When two down-on-their-luck Brits are
recruited to pick up the largest shipment of cannabis resin ever
smuggled into Britain, they add to their numbers a
Greek-Cyriot sailor, a Greek-British woman to cook for them, and
David Bennie who they pick up when their tawdry boat malfunctions
on...
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Finding Duncan
Duncan Allan is a successful stock
broker living with his wife in Wichita, KS, but haunted by his
parents' sudden death in a car crash when he was a child. When he
returns from a business trip to find his wife and brother at the
kitchen table holding hands, he assumes the worst and...
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Maybe Crossings
Maybe Crossinngs is the first
novel in Eick's Crossings Series, followed by Dark Crossings
and RESISTANCE! Each is a stand-alone read that follows
characters introduced in the earlier books.
Maybe Crossings begins in the
1960s with Black and White young people who join the Civil...
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Dark Crossings
Richard Allen, composer, and Keisha Johnson, historian, live
with their two children in Evanston, IL where they teach at
Northwestern University. They are a loving, happy family until
murder devastates this bi-racial family, leaving Keisha and her
teen-aged children traumatized and lost. A DNA...
