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Reckoning at Sea: Eye to Eye With a Gray Whale

A 12-year circumnavigation

By Max J. Young with Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March         NOW AVAILABLE             Max Young was sailing alone on June 12, 2012, on a northerly course through moderately choppy swells 60 miles off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. He was bound for San Francisco, heading home with only 490 miles remaining on the final leg of a remarkably adventurous 36,600-mile circumnavigation of the globe that he had begun at a leisurely pace 12 years earlier. Alone with his thoughts, Young was contemplating the vastness of the sea and the expanse of the heavens as stars poked pinholes of light through the shroud of a dark, moonless night. Without warning, a gray whale that likely had been feeding in the depths below breached and landed with full force on the portside stern of the sailboat, causing irreparable damage. The tremendous impact had cracked the hull. As the hours agonizingly ticked away while his sailboat, Reflections, slowly sank, Young had his reckoning at sea as he contemplated the nightmarish end of his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. A freighter rescued him minutes before his sailboat sank thousands of feet to the bottom of the sea. Young describes his circumnavigation journey in detail in Reckoning at Sea: Eye to Eye With a Gray Whale. More details and ordering information

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Within My Grasp: A Double Amputee's True Story

By Mike Penketh with Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March      American Airlines Captain Mike Penketh maintained a perfect safety record while flying passengers, but on his own time he got his adrenaline rushes by mastering aerobatics and flying in competitions. He raced his homebuilt Pitts S-1 biplane in the Reno Air Races. In his quest for speed, he miscalculated only once – and he paid dearly.      Trauma surgeons were forced to amputate Mike's hands following a horrific accident that nearly killed him. Although the course of his life was unalterably changed, he was determined against all odds to fly airplanes again. He culminated two years of preparations when he successfully demonstrated for doubting FAA examiners his ability to fly an aircraft using electronic prosthetic hands. The FAA reinstated his pilot's license and, while he never flew Boeing 737s again, he went on to perform intricate maneuvers in aerobatics shows to prove to himself and the naysayers that he could do it. Mike, working in collaboration with Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March, tells his story in Within My Grasp: A Double Amputee's True Story. It is an inspirational autobiography about the challenges of coping with a disability, and learning how to focus on what you can do, rather than what you cannot do. More details and ordering information

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Ark: Asteroid Impact

Book 1 of the Ark Trilogy By Thomas A. Cahill      Ark: Asteroid Impact is a gripping story about a band of Californians who take refuge and manage to survive the calamitous effects of the collision of a large asteroid with the Earth. The devastating impact shatters civilization and eradicates nearly all forms of plant and animal life on the planet. The book describes in vivid detail the survival struggles and ingenuity of refugees who find themselves marooned in the forbidding, barren, frozen environment that envelops Earth following the colossal impact.      The "Ark" in the title alludes to the quest of the survivors to rebuild civilization. They scavenge the meager resources at their disposal to improvise shelter from the punishing cold, to generate electricity, to supply food, and to devise means of transportation to search for a more suitable climate, as well as to find other survivors.      Thomas A Cahill, an imaginative storyteller with a fertile mind, conceived this chilling saga within the context of scientific possibility, based upon the firm foundation of knowledge he amassed during five decades as an eminent physicist and atmospheric scientist. He meticulously researched the likelihood of events described in this book and his first book, titled Annals of the Omega Project – A Trilogy (see below). More details and ordering information

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Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? – Volume 2

By Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March         Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? – Volume 2, published in November 2012, contains authorized true-life memoirs of musical soloists and band members whose songs hit the top of the music charts beginning in the 1960s. Through conversations with those performers, as well as producers, managers and family members, we share fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses into the lives of these creative, talented people.         Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? – Volume 2 includes chapters on seven musical groups and solo performers: THE BUCKINGHAMS, a Chicago-bred quintet whose songs include the chart-topping hit "Kind of a Drag" and the top-10 songs "Don't You Care" and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"; BOBBY GOLDSBORO, a country-pop singer-composer who is best known for his gold record "Honey," and whose hits also included "Little Things," "It's Too Late," and "Summer (the First Time)"; THE MOODY BLUES, the phenomenal band that brought rock music to an unprecedented level of sophistication with the groundbreaking concept album Days of Future Passed, and whose 20 chart hits included the top-10 singles "Go Now," "Your Wildest Dreams," and the gold record "Nights in White Satin"; DONNIE BROOKS, whose three chart singles included the top-10 hit "Mission Bell," and whose later work as a promoter into the early 2000s kept an innumerable number of '60s performers working on stage; SAM AND DAVE, whose frenzied live performances established them as the most electrifying duo in the history of rhythm and blues music and earned them the appreciative nickname "the Sultans of Sweat." Their top-selling hits included "Hold On, I'm Comin,'" "I Thank You," and the gold record "Soul Man"; RAY STEVENS. a prolific composer as well as singer and producer whose repertoire encompasses comedic novelty tunes, ballads, and "message" songs, including the top-10 hit "Ahab the Arab" and gold-certified "Gitarzan," "Everything Is Beautiful," and "The Streak"; and THE GRASS ROOTS, one of the early progenitors of folk-rock whose sound evolved into blues-influenced pop, and whose 21 chart singles included the top-10 hits "Let's Live For Today," "Sooner or Later," and the gold record "Midnight Confessions." More details and ordering information

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Annals of the Omega Project – A Trilogy

By Thomas A. Cahill      This is a fast-paced thriller novel from the pen of Thomas A. Cahill, Ph.D., an internationally recognized scientist. Published under the EditPros LLC imprint in July 2012, Annals of the Omega Project – A Trilogy, describes what happens when a group of scientists investigating the beneficial powers of telepathic energy comes under savage attack by ruthless Coven members who subject their hapless victims to ancient mind-control techniques.      The story begins on an airline flight from Sacramento to Denver, when Professor Ken O'Neal discovers he has a telepathic and loving connectedness with flight attendant Michelle Kolberg. Believing that other "sensitives" probably exist in their midst, the two of them embark on the formation of a group of "like" minds they call the Omega Project at a University of California campus.      Author Thomas A. Cahill is a professor of physics at the University of California, Davis. His data in 1973 on the impacts of airborne lead was instrumental in the adoption of the catalytic converter in California in 1976. He founded the UC Davis DELTA Group to investigate two areas of concern — aerosols and global climate change — for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A U.S. Department of Energy colleague asked Cahill and his team to evaluate air at the excavation project following the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in the autumn of 2001. Cahill was among the first to warn that workers at the site were at risk of serious health threats from the toxic metals in the air. More details and ordering information

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Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? – Volume 1

By Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March         Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? – Volume 1, published in July 2011, chronicles the lives of musical soloists and band members whose songs hit the top of the music charts in the late 1950s and in the '60s.         Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? – Volume 1 will include chapters on seven musical groups and solo performers: THE ASSOCIATION ("Cherish," "Windy" and "Never My Love"); HERMAN'S HERMITS ("Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter," "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" and "There's a Kind of Hush"); THE KINGSTON TRIO ("Tom Dooley," along with "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Greenback Dollar"); CHRIS MONTEZ ("Let's Dance," "Call Me" and "The More I See You"); THE SPIRAL STARECASE ("She's Ready," "No One For Me To Turn To" and the smash hit "More Today Than Yesterday"); BOBBY VEE ("Take Good Care of My Baby," "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" and the million-selling "Come Back When You Grow Up"); and THE ZOMBIES ("She's Not There," "Tell Her No" and the gold record "Time of the Season"). More details and ordering information

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Echoes of the Sixties – digital (e-book) version

By Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March      Echoes of the Sixties, the first book by EditPros co-owners Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March, has been reissued in digital form. Preserving the original 1999 book manuscript, the e-book version of Echoes of the Sixties consists of 12 chapters, each focusing on a musical group or solo artist who first achieved popularity in the 1960s. Every chapter begins with an essay documenting the recording achievements of each band or soloist, followed by individual biographies examining the lives of each of the 43 featured performers. The book contains photographs of the musical artists with whom we had wide-ranging conversations, showing them as youths and as mature adults..         Organized chronologically, Echoes of the Sixties includes chapters about: THE FIREBALLS, with vocalists Chuck Tharp and Jimmy Gilmer ("Sugar Shack"); GARY "U.S." BONDS ("Quarter To Three"); THE TOKENS ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight"); THE ANGELS ("My Boyfriend's Back"); PETER AND GORDON ("A World Without Love"); MIKE PINDER of the MOODY BLUES ("Nights In White Satin"); THE BEAU BRUMMELS ("Laugh, Laugh"); SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHARAOHS )"Wooly Bully"); THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL ("Summer In The City"); GARY PUCKETT AND THE UNION GAP ("Lady Willpower"); COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH ("I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag"); and IRON BUTTERFLY ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"). More details and ordering information

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