Personal Adventure Books

By Paul Berge

This novel is a tale of daring Prohibition aviators who risked their lives smuggling whiskey over the American plains. The year is 1929, and smuggling whiskey from Canada to Nebraska, an old collection of down-and-out pilots, flying everything from Jennys to Curtiss Robins, takes on the cruel Midwestern snows, towering thunderstorms and endless expanse of prairie where engine failure spells a long walk out. Big money and biplanes. Pilots and gansters, their women, their lives. Some succeed and may die.

5 1/2, SB, 427 pages.

By Darwin Wile

Many people talk about leaving their conventional lives and following a dream- sailing around the world, moving to the wilderness, or living on a romantic island. The author did this 3 times! In Volkswagen campers he and his wife, Lynette, set out to see the world- North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia.

Continental Drifting is a travel story like no other. The author grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, rode a football scholarship to Harvard and forged a successful business career. All the while he had a dream- to see the world up close and personal.

During a 25-year period, not once but 3 times, Mr. Wile quit his job and with his family embarked on transcontinental odysseys. Follow the Wiles on their world-wide adventures exploring other cultures, battling adversity, touring ancient ruins, observing breathtaking natural beauty and home-schooling their children. It won't be long before you'll be ready to begin following your own dream.

The book includes a photo CD-ROM disk of over 400 photographs with captions from the author's travels. 6 x 9, SB, 449 pages.

By Patricia Valdata

Ellen Horvath, whose college education is interrupted by personal tragedy, finds herself in the cycle of Life's realities, at a time and place chosen by Fate.

Crosswind is her story, as she sorts through barriers and obstacles, until she finally discovers a world so appealing her life is changed again.

This book is about a segment of Ellen's life, but the characters and personal interactions, and the outside influences on her life, can't help but make each reader think of his/her own life, and the combination of choices and circumstances that puts us where we are.

219 pages, SB, 5½ x 8½.