A multi-generational saga, it looks at the heart of the immigrant experience in agricultural America, and the later movement of farm youth into the professions.     The author’s most requested title, Now Choose Life, is a story about the fortunes of two families of German descent that emigrate to the New World, are assimilated into the post-Civil War agrarian landscape of Minnesota’s frontier, and then carry forward the pioneering experience in Washington Territory’s Palouse country.
	Now Choose Life
		This is a story about Spokane’s oldest charitable institution and the men and women who chartered and guided it.  The author takes readers on a tour of shelter life through the eyes of staff and volunteers who labor tirelessly on behalf of society’s surplus animals.  All proceeds from this book will be donated to the Spokane Humane Society to further its work with the “castoff critters” who pass through its portals.
	In Pursuit of Compassion
		Here is a book for anyone who has driven along America’s highways and passed through small towns and villages and wondered about their names and their histories and the life that has been lived in them.       Today Spangle, Washington, may seem like little more than “a wide spot in the road” seventeen miles south of Spokane, by-passed now by a freeway, the first stop for south-bound passengers to exit for a cup of coffee before continuing on to Washington State University at Pullman to attend a football game, but it is a town with a history and a heritage and a roster of outstanding citizens, and a past that will provide some interesting reading for anyone interested in the settlement of the American West.
	Gateway to the Palouse
	Reflections on a Dark Horse
		Excerpts from The Shoebox Letters have appeared in several magazines including an article in Washington Magazine. Editor Larry Shook wrote,                  “it is the irresistible account of ordinary people swept up in the tidal wave of history.”             In Dora Siegfried’s letters to an aunt in America, the reader discovers a class society: Dora, executive secretary to the mayor of Stettin, falls in love with a roguish common laborer with whom “marriage is impossible.” Richard appears and reappears in Dora’s life. She is overjoyed when, at the end of World War II, a search through the Red Cross turns him up alive, only to discover that he is thriving in West Germany and she is a destitute refuge trapped in the East Zone — and  now that the class divisions that separated them before the war have disappeared, he has married another. *New, revised and expanded second edition is planned for 2008
	Shoebox Letters
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