Sailing The Nameless Ship
Wendover’s best known poet Justin Evans’ latest book is named Sailing This Nameless Ship (BlazeVOX, 2013), which takes part of the classic myth of Homer’s Odyssey and places it in a contemporary setting. Evans received a Jackpot Grant from the Nevada Arts Council to help support the publication of this book. He also received an honorable mention Artist Grant from the Nevada Arts Council in 2008.
Justin Evans was born and raised in Utah. After graduating from high school in 1987, he joined the Army, serving in Texas, Germany, Operation Desert Storm, and in North Carolina. After the Army, he continued his education at Southern Utah University, where he earned his degree in History and English Education. Later, he earned his master’s degree in education from the University of Nevada, Reno. He has lived in West Wendover with his wife Becky, and their sons for the past 14 years. He teaches various subjects at West Wendover High School, to include various history and English courses. His books include four chapbooks, most recently Friday in the Republic of Me (Foothills Publishing, 2012); and the full length poetry collections, Town for the Trees (Foothills Publishing, 2011) and Hobble Creek Almanac (Aldrich Press, 2013). He is also the author of Dear Mr. Rove: 32 Letters to Karl Rove (Imbecile Press, 2008).
The Cure, A Thriller
“Bradlee Frazer’s novel The Cure features vivid details and sharp writing to move the plot forward. The characters are engaging and believable, and the premise is compelling. The central idea of focusing on a protagonist who is the cure for a worldwide pandemic instead of on the pandemic itself separates The Cure from the other “bug books.” This is a gripping legal/medical thriller.”
“If Stephen King and Michael Crichton had written Double Indemnity, it would have been The Cure. Health nut Jason Kramer’s life ends when, between jobs and insurance plans, he is diagnosed with a fatal disease — Triptovirus L — that has killed a million other Americans in an epidemic that has the nation in an uproar, and for which there is no known cure. To add insult to injury, his wife leaves him.
Jason’s disease goes into sudden and unexpected “remission,” which looks like good news, though it turns him into a human guinea pig in a remote Arizona facility. But things really get bad for Jason when it turns out that his blood — transfused in the right doses — can cure other people suffering from the disease. Suddenly he becomes the MacGuffin in a deadly contest among many relentless schemers, including his wife and her lover, ruthless former CDC agents, and, worst of all, the billionaire pharmaceuticals mogul whose vast profits Jason’s natural healing gift threatens.
Frazer’s novel is exciting and well-paced. His characters crackle with distinctive personality and his plotting is satisfyingly complex. This is a great debut, and makes me hope he has another in the works.”
Bradlee Frazer is an author, speaker, blogger and Boise, Idaho native who loves the blues, Ray Bradbury short stories and his wife, daughter and dogs. He is also the lawyer who successfully registered the color blue as a trademark for the iconic artificial turf in Boise State University’s football stadium.
Bradlee’s nonfiction has been published in national legal treatises on matters of Internet and intellectual property law, and he is a frequent speaker on those topics. His works of fiction include the short story “Occam’s Razor,” which was published in an online literary journal, and he has co-authored two screenplays, Dangerous Imagination and Spirit of the Lake. He has written scripts for sketch comedy, radio productions and short films, and in college Bradlee was a film critic who wrote and hosted a weekly half-hour television program called Premiere!. The Cure is his first novel.
Heroism In The Forest
Heroism in the Forest: The Jewish Partisans of Belarus by Zeev Barmatz tells the long over looked story of Jewish armed resistance against the nazi’s in World War II.
Published by KIP-Kotarim International Publishing The book is also available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in hard cover, paper back and e-book .
The role of Jewish partisans in eastern Europe in defeating the Nazis is one of the most over looked stories in World War II. It was officially repressed by the Soviet Union because the presence of religious Jews forming one of the principal fronts against the Nazi’s conflicted with the Soviet narrative of the loyal atheist communist partisan.
After the fall of the Soviet Union the Jewish partisan role was also intentionally ignored or down played by the newly independent countries of eastern Europe which had a very mixed history in the war.
It was only in the last ten years with the release of the film ‘Defiance’ that the role of the Jewish partisan brigades began to be widely studied in academia and in the popular press.
“This book shatters the widely held belief that the Jews of Europe in WWII died ‘like sheep to the slaughter.’ Through riveting stories, with the help of firsthand accounts, Heroism in the Forest brings to life the world of the large and widespread Jewish resistance movement in Belarus.
“Barmatz’s book is a must for anyone who wants to learn more about the armed resistance against the Nazis in Eastern Europe, as well as for anyone who thinks he already knows.” Wrote the review in Barnes & Noble booksellers.
The book translated and edited by Wendover native Anna Copelan Mowszowski
