Pale Truth
Author: Daniel Alef
Publisher, Year: MaxIt Publishing, Inc., 2000
#Pages, Price: 588, $27.00
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-9700174-1-3
Category: Fiction - Historical

Daniel Alef's big, ambitious and well researched debut novel, the first in a planned historical trilogy, brings you into a world of remarkable men, amazing women and incredible events.  If you think San Francisco is wild now you should have seen it in 1850.  In 1849, San Francisco's gold fever sparked an unprecedented maelstrom of opportunity that drew the eccentric, corrupt, powerful and cunning from every corner of the known world. In the eye of this Midas storm come intruiging characters from Mary Ellen with her dark secrets, embittered ex-manhattanite Colbraith O'Brien, Scottsman Thomas Brand.

Remember This My Children
Author: Noah benShea
Publisher, Year: Maxit Publishing, Inc., 2001
#Pages, Price: 144, $27.00 - Preorder
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 097007456
Category: Non-Fiction - Inspirational

Parents want to remind their children what to think, and do, and remember. It just goes with being a parent. Unfortunately parents are often at a loss as to what to say to their children. And at times it is too late. Until now. Remember This My Children is a gift of thought, and heart, and reminder. It is timeless.

For California's Gold
Author: Joann Levy
Publisher, Year: University Press of Colorado, 2000
#Pages, Price: 280, 24.95
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-87081-566-0

The inspiring story of reluctant forty-niner Sarah Daniels, timid mother of four who, fearful of losing her westering husband, experiences all the desperation and danger, exhilaration and triumph of the nation's epic adventure. On the perilous journey west--a 2,000-mile gauntlet of cholera, insanity, and deadly accident--Sarah discovers the courage and fortitude necessary to save her family on the terrifying 40-Mile Desert, where gold is forgotten in a struggle to stay alive.

Judo Heart & Soul Author: Hayward Nishioka Publisher, Year: Ohara Publications, Inc., 2000 #Pages, Price: 256, $14.95 Binding: ISBN: 0-89750-137-3

In this collection of vignettes from Black Belt Hall of Fame member (1968, Judo Competitor of the Year and 1977, Judo Instructor of the Year) and judo champion (Pan-American Games gold medal, AAU Nationals grand champion, National Masters Champion) Hayward Nishioka, shares with you memories of his glory days as a judo competitor and explains how the positive qualities of judo practice and competition have changed his life.

Jacob's Ladder Author: Noah benShea Publisher, Year: Random House, Inc., 1998 #Pages, Price: 165, $18.95 Binding: Hardcover - Author Signed ISBN: 0345404386 Genre: Fiction - Spiritual

Jacob's Ladder is a little book filled with wonderfully big ideas about life, wisdom, and parenting. Jacob, a character known to-and loved by-Noah benShea's readers around the world, is a baker and a sage who once wrote little notes to himself in an effort to help make sense of life. In this book, Jacob has returned home, and something stirring in his heart with lead him down an altogether new path: fatherhood.

Centennial Stories
Author: Daniel Alef
Publisher, Year: MaxIt Publishing, Inc., 2000
#Pages, Price: 227, $15.95
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0-9700174-2-1
Category: Fiction - Historical

The reader is transported to San Francisco in the 1800s. Rampant raw human ambition rules the day. Fortunes are made in a day. And lost. New worlds are being born by the moment and lives snuffed in the same moment. The one vital monetary currency is gold dust. But the currency of power is the barrel of a gun.

What Every Principal Would Like to Say ... and What to Say Next Time Quotations for Leading, Learning, and Living
Author: Noah benShea
Publisher, Year: Sage Publication Ltd., Corwin Press, Inc., 2000
#Pages, Price: 159, $25.95
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0761976051

Whether you're the principal of a school, the principal figure in your company, the principal figure in your home, or, as you have finally realized, the principal figure in your own life, this book is for you. Here are ideas that will help you manage daily life intelligently and compassionately, and make tomorrow more manageable.

Jacob's Journey Author: Noah benShea Publisher, Year: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1992 #Pages, Price: 116, $18.95 Binding: Hardcover - Author Signed ISBN: 0345377990 Genre: Fiction - Spiritual

Jacob's Journey is an ageless tale of wisdom and compassion that follows Jacob the Baker on a journey to restore inner peace-a moving sequel to the international best-seller Jacob the Baker.

Jacob the Baker Author: Noah benShea Publisher, Year: Random House, Inc., 1990 #Pages, Price: 128, $18.95 Binding: Hardcover - Author Signed ISBN: 0-3453666-2-X Genre: Fiction - Spiritual

Jacob the Baker is a timeless story about a man whose humble life and profound wisdom are a source of both inspiration and reflection to those around him. Eighteen years in writing, this deceptively simple book kindles the human spirit in the manner of a modern classic, its gentle message inviting each of us to witness that "a miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way."

The Word Author: Noah benShea Publisher: Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1995 #Pages, Price: 375, $25.00 Binding: Hardcover - Author Signed ISBN: 0-679-42584-5 Genre: Spiritual

The Word is a sweeping collection of aphorisms, quotations, and teachings- spanning over three thousand years-that offers every reader a chance to discover-or rediscover-the Jewish message and its messengers.