JOHN SLADE, with a doctorate on William Faulkner from Stanford University, escaped from the traditional academic world to teach in the Caribbean, in Norway, and in Russia. His novels, stories, and non-fiction enable the American reader to visit other lands, and to look upon our contemporary America with a keener eye.

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About the Titles... These novels, as well as the other books in Slade's growing collection, look at our world today from a completely fresh point of view, in probing detail. Written in clear, lively and strikingly beautiful language, they will take you on a fascinating journey, then bring you home again, where you will look about yourself with opened eyes. Every paragraph will entertain you, and challenge you, and enable you to look at your children's future as you never did before.

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Available July 4, 2008 ...

In ARCHITECTS OF PEACE, the third volume in the ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy of novels, the town of Balsam Corners hosts over one hundred disabled veterans from the war in Iraq, and their families, for one week in July. On adaptive bikes, the New American Veterans ride on highways free of motorized traffic, through the forested hills and welcoming villages of the Adirondack Park. This is a story about AMERICA AS IT COULD BE..

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Titles From Woodgate International

ADIRONDACK GREEN, Volume I of the ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy, is a novel that tells the story of a small American town which decides, after much debate, to put a wind turbine on top of the local ski mountain.

In Global Warming and War, Volume II of the ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy, the people of a small American town respond to the dying of their forest, and the death of one of their sons in Iraq.

OSLO IN APRIL This unique novel, set in Norway, follows eight musicians from early morning on the first Saturday in April, to the symphony concert which they perform that evening in the Oslo Concert Hall.

BOOTMAKER TO THE NATION is an historical novel set during the entire American Revolution. A married couple tell their story about life in General Washington's army.

DANCING WITH SAMUEL is a love story set in the Adirondack wilderness. The novel is also an examination of American education, and a proposal of three strategies that would greatly contribute to our wallowing system.

CHILDREN OF THE SUN is a love story set on a beautiful Caribbean island. This novel is also a powerful tale about inter-racial love, about veterans and their families as they struggle to find peace after the war in Vietnam, and about the threat of nuclear weapons in a world where 32,000 nuclear weapons still exist.

A JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS is a love story set in the wild mountains of northern Norway. This novel is also a highly unusual journey into the field of global ecology.

HERBERT'S MOUNTAIN, 21stories about people becoming better people. Clear, vibrant, positive short stories.

THE NEW ST.PETERSBURG Daily life for real people in St. Petersburg, Russia, during the first decade of the New Russia. Written by an American teacher who lived there and visited homes, schools, market places, and newly opened churches.

ACID RAIN, ACID SNOW A clear and vibrant description of acid rain and global ecology. The book examines many solutions. Used as a lively text in high schools and universities.

A DREAM SEEDED IN THE EARTH A play about the choice between marriage or career.

COVENANT, a poem in both English and Russian on facing pages, about the creation of our world, the evil of war, and our challenge today.

GOOD MORNING DADDY! is a children's book, with snapshots of a child's father when she first greets him in the morning. A lively book for grade school classes. One class responded by making its own book in the same style.

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