New Releases by Jim Lynch

Birddog Charlie tells the stories of horses that made a substantial contribution to the authors life beginning at age 11 by revealing the wisdom and secrets of the natural world.

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic? This book is for anybody with interest in protecting life on the planet. Studies on the origin of life and scientific contributions to safeguarding the planet are examined in light of current thinking on climate change. A major focus is the spread of microbes, put in the context of environmental assessment and management, including descriptions of microbiomes and a consideration of the risks of genetic modifications. Professor Lynch shows how failure to control disease can lead to the collapse of any biotic population. To avoid this, the ethics of management of disease by biological control and by vaccination are discussed, at the practical level and in a moral theological context.

Brandon Vanderkool n''a qu''une passion, les oiseaux. Poussé par son père, il vient pourtant d''entrer dans la Border Patrol, la police des frontières américaine, où il est chargé de surveiller un bout de frontière poreuse - et paisible - entre les États-Unis et le Canada. Est-ce parce qu''il est dyslexique, ou qu''il possède une perception unique du monde, toujours est-il qu''il commence à enchaîner les arrestations. Cette efficacité soudaine fait de lui un héros dans sa petite ville frontière, où les conversations vont bon train. Pendant ce temps-là, Madeline, la voisine canadienne de Brandon, désireuse de fuir cette petite communauté, s''initie au trafic de drogue. Une histoire fantaisiste, avec un héros décalé et attachant.

Dans la famille Johannssen, le grand-père dessine les voiliers, le père les construit, la mère, admiratrice d''Einstein, étudie leur trajectoire. Par tous les temps, le dimanche est synonyme de sortie en mer. Les deux frères, Bernard et Josh, s''entraînent avec passion, sous la bruyante houlette paternelle. Ruby, la cadette, écoute à peine. C''est inutile : elle semble commander au vent. Mais lorsqu''un jour elle décide d''abandonner une carrière de championne toute tracée, la famille se disloque et s''éparpille. Douze ans plus tard, une nouvelle course sera l''occasion de retrouvailles aussi attendues que risquées.

Une nuit, Miles O''Malley, treize ans, se faufile hors de chez lui pour aller explorer les étendues du Puget Sound à marée basse. Il fait une découverte qui lui vaut une célébrité locale. Certains se demandent quand même si cet adolescent imaginatif n''est pas un affabulateur ou... peut-être même davantage ? En fait, Miles est surtout un gosse qui s''apprête à grandir, passionné par l''océan, amouraché de la fille d''à côté et inquiet à l''idée que ses parents divorcent. Alors que la mer continue à abandonner des présents issus de ses profondeurs mystérieuses, Miles se débat avec la difficulté d''entrer dans le monde des adultes.

Joshua Johannssen ha pasado toda su vida entre veleros. Su abuelo los diseñaba, su padre los construía y competía en ellos; su madre, obsesionada con Einstein, sabe por qué y cómo funcionan (o no). Josh y sus dos hermanos llevan la vela en la sangre, y su patio de juegos fue el estrecho de Puget, en el estado de Washington. Pero tanto su hermana como su hermano huyeron hace muchos años: Ruby a África, entre otros lugares, para hacer buenas obras en tierra, y Bernard a quién sabe dónde en el mar, como fugitivo y pirata. Con la sensación de haber llegado a los treinta y uno de repente, Josh (que repara barcos de todo tipo en un puerto deportivo al sur de Seattle) se siente dolido y confuso por lo que quiera que fuese mal en su volátil familia. Sus padres no se hablan, su desconcertado abuelo bebe cada vez más y él mismo (pese a su incesante y cómico frenesí de citas en línea) ni siquiera está cerca de encontrar novia. Pero, cuando los Johannssen se reúnen inesperadamente para la regata más importante en estas aguas (todos juntos en un velero clásico que construían hace décadas), encontrarán sus destinos y llegarán a conclusiones reveladoras.

Communists, Capitalists & Cokeheads The second novel in The Generations Series is entitled: Communists, Capitalists & Cokeheads: The Connected Generation. It picks up where the first novel Boomers, Bastards & Boneheads left off and covers the period of the 1980's. It introduces the next generation of Babcocks and Johnsons, while dealing with residual issues of infidelity, sexual torment and manslaughter, which the previous generation had left unresolved. Once again Shenandoah High School, baseball, politics, spirituality and music provide a structural context. Fox Babcock and his half-sister Maureen "Mo" Babcock play prominent roles. Vietnam War hero Mickey Johnson remarries (his first wife died in the earlier novel, BB&B.) and his new wife Sydney (A/K/A 'Syd') delivers three children into their family. Syd Johnson has an Italian father and an African American mother. The plot deals with a new premeditated murder and an intensifying family animosity between the Babcocks and the Johnsons. It also details Simone's 18 month sabbatical in the squalor of Calcutta on the Indian subcontinent. Simone attempts to discover her own spirituality while working with Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa's charity. Meanwhile 13 year old Maureen Babcock runs away from one of America's wealthiest family households and the consequences are tragic. Fox Babcock finally becomes aware of his authentic pedigree and wrestles with this truth during his high school days at Shenandoah; through his college years at Harvard and onto his first year at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Major social issues of the 80's also punctuate the plot. AIDS; cocaine addiction; racial tensions and gender (in)equality are central to the plot. Also the progression of the nascent personal computer industry foretells the insidious influence of these machines on the global future as well as on the lives of the Babcocks and the Johnsons. Likewise, the earliest cell phones emerge and begin to impact the lives and livelihoods of the two families. Racially polarizing events such as the Bernhard Goetz Subway Shootings and the Central Park Jogger case cause developing disharmony between multiracial members of the Johnson family. Meanwhile Mickey Johnson's career has brought him a new prosperity, even while his outlook on life becomes more rigidly rooted in working class values. The Johnsons and the Babcocks continue to deal with their ever-escalating hostility. In addition, parts of each family have moved to California to participate in the stimulating atmosphere of Silicon Valley. Simone rejoins this capitalistic development after she returns from India. This second novel climaxes in 1989 with the main characters assembled in an attempted rapprochement at the home of the woman who has been a part of both families. However, the Loma Prieta earthquake intervenes and alters the intentions of Simone Muirchant. The near-death experiences of the primary members of the Babcock/Johnson Feud provide for some relief in the rancor. However it offers no real closure to the conflict. As the USSR and the USA begin to wind down their Cold War, a frigid wall is erected for the next generation of the Babcocks and the Johnsons. This section of that saga ends on the doorstep on the Internet Age. Book three of the Generation Series, Thinkers, Techies & Terrorists: The Tribal Generation (scheduled for release in October 2017) will take the Johnsons and the Babcocks through that doorway.

Which of her three lovers will beautiful twenty-three year old Simone Muirchant chose? Will it be her wealthy blue-blooded fianc�? Could she choose the high school senior who is her passionate secret lover? Will she succumb to the earthy insensitivity of the mysterious third man in her love life? Or will she simply sustain all three lovers?The above encapsulation is the central anchoring plot dilemma for Boomers Bastards & Boneheads: The Wasted Generation, the first of four novels in a fictional quartet entitled The Generations Series. This first book is set on Long Island during the years of 1965 through 1980. The chapters of Boomers Bastards & Boneheads unfold during some of more intriguing events of the period including the Vietnam War; the Moon Landings; Chappaquiddick; Woodstock; Watergate and even the long lines at gas stations during the 1973 Oil Embargo.**********Collectively the four novels that comprise The Generations Series depict the sequential story of two Long Island families throughout multiple generations of intriguing characters. The Babcocks and the Johnsons share more than just a persistent hatred of one another. The ongoing plotline revolves around a carnal reality that there had been a blending of the families back in 1965. That was when the beautiful but enigmatic Simone Muirchant managed to become part of both families. The hatred and hostility between the Babcocks and the Johnsons leads to misogamy, mislaid blame, murder and mayhem. **********One early reader has described the milieu of the 4 volume epic as "Jay Gatsby versus Forrest Gump." Set on Long Island in suburban New York, the epic saga is illuminated by the evolution of thoughts, behaviors and mores in the United States from 1965 through 2016. The fictional all-male Catholic high school - Shenandoah - also plays an essential role in centering the progression of changes that take place for the principal characters over a fifty year period. The bitter hatred between the Babcocks and the Johnsons transcends the timeworn topics of War; Spirituality; Morality and Politics. It also utilizes a fifty year chronology to depict the development of Music; Baseball; Drug Abuse; Sexual Liberation; Political Evolution; Racial Unrest; Feminism and Information Technology across five decades of change in the United States and on Long Island. By the end of the fourth novel the reader will have relived a half century of Americana that may very well serve as a gateway to the exciting future ahead.**********

Following The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion. Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not). For Josh and his two siblings, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land, and Bernard to god-knows-where at sea, a fugitive and pirate. Suddenly thirty-one, Josh—who repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattle—is pained and confused by whatever the hell went wrong with his volatile family. His parents are barely speaking, his mystified grandfather is drinking harder, and he himself—despite an endless and comic flurry of online dates—hasn’t even come close to finding a girlfriend. But when the Johannssens unexpectedly reunite for the most important race in these waters—all of them together on a classic vessel they made decades ago—they will be carried to destinies both individual and collective, and to a heart-shattering revelation. Past and present merge seamlessly and collide surprisingly as Jim Lynch reveals a family unlike any other, with the grace and humor and magic of a master storyteller.

These three, inter-related stories describe the lives of three generations of the McGowan family and their personal battles to make a living by working on the Boston waterfront. The common thread that runs through them is the challenges presented by the shape-up or pick-up system, a procedure that was archaic and rife with favoritism and was the sole determining factor whether you received a salary that day. At a young age, Jim McGowan goes to work as a longshoreman not knowing one end of a ship from the other. Fighting alcoholism, bad companions and family hardship, he strives to make a decent living for his family. Jim''s uncle Owen is an immigrant from Ireland in 1920 who finds work on the docks, one of the few jobs available to him. Working alongside veteran longshoremen, he decides to become part of the political establishment in order to improve the working conditions on the docks. Owen''s cousin Mike is a seasoned dock worker, content with his life but wanting something better for his children. The Longshoremen details the working conditions and challenges of working on the Boston waterfront and is based on the real-life experiences of longshoreman, author Jim Lynch.

En uforglemmelig natt sniker 13 år gamle Miles O''Malley seg ut av huset for å utforske fjæra i Puget Sound på jakt etter skalldyr. I stedet oppdager han noe svært usedvanlig: en sjelden kjempeblekksprut. Han blir straks en lokal kjendis, og hans synske venninne Florence spår at enda flere forbløffende oppdagelser er i vente - tegn på at den høyeste tidevannsbølgen på femti år er underveis. Journalister flokker seg nysgjerrig rundt gutten, som tilskrives profetiske evner. Miles er bare en tenåring som svermer for nabojenta og bekymrer seg for at foreldrene hans skal skilles og at alt han er glad i skal forsvinne. Mens havet byr på stadig nye overraskelser, sliter Miles med mysteriet det er å bli voksen.

When an idealistic young journalist gets pulled into a disgusting political campaign, lives and attitudes suffer greatly in the end. All that's left is a sense of humor

Roger Morgan, the promoter responsible for bring the World''s Fair to Seattle in 1962, runs for mayor in 2001, right after the tech bubble bursts, while budding reporter Helen Gulanos probes his secretive past.

Brandon a toujours eu une vision un peu particulière de la vie. S'il sait reconnaître le chant des oiseaux, il a du mal à trouver sa place parmi les humains. Son père, éleveur de bovins, ne sait pas quoi faire de lui. Promu agent de la police des frontières, Brandon surveille des centaines de kilomètres entre les Etats-Unis et le Canada, où se déroule la guerre contre le trafic de drogue, les clandestins et les terroristes. Le paysage se peuple de politiciens paranoïaques, de caméras de surveillance et d'immigrés qu'il arrête par hasard. Mais Brandon n'a aucune conscience de ces problèmes. Tel les hirondelles colonisant la région, il reste libre de franchir la frontière invisible, et d'observer les deux communautés si éloignées par la politique mais si proches à vol d oiseau.

The Rhapsody players is a captivating story about how a fascinating group of characters create a springboard to longevity. The story examines the choices they make with respect to their own health, wellness, sexuality and spirituality, even as they build a business that provides these choices to others. The novel is rich with vibrant characters whom you quickly learn to love or to despise. All of this is achieved in a global setting, replete with the issues that face the world during the years 2008 through 2012.

En roman om lokalsamfunnets liv og røre i skyggen av verdensbegivenhetene. Brandon Vanderkool er en dyslektiker med et stort hjerte som er glad i å være alene ute i skogen der han katalogiserer og studerer fugler. Han tar seg jobb som grensevakt og sørger både for at marihuanasmuglere, ulovlige innvandrere og mulige terrorister blir tatt hånd om.

Set in the previously sleepy hinterlands straddling Washington state and British Columbia, Border Songs is the story of Brandon Vanderkool, six foot eight, frequently tongue-tied, severely dyslexic, and romantically inept. Passionate about bird-watching, Brandon has a hard time mustering enthusiasm for his new job as a Border Patrol agent guarding thirty miles of largely invisible boundary. But to everyone’s surprise, he excels at catching illegal immigrants, and as drug runners, politicians, surveillance cameras, and a potential sweetheart flock to this scrap of land, Brandon is suddenly at the center of something much bigger than himself. A magnificent novel of birding, smuggling, farming and extraordinary love, Border Songs welcomes us to a changing community populated with some of the most memorable characters in recent fiction.

Een dromerige nieuwkomer bij de Amerikaanse grenspolitie zet met zijn hilarische acties de overheid aan het denken.

A longshoreman has a clue about a murdered bartender from Charlestown, a section of Boston. Rather than endanger his family by going to the police, he joins the force, falls in love with a woman, and works his way up to detective. He uncovers secrets that point to the killer but must work quickly as the Irish Mafia seems to be looking for the same person.

L''adolescence d''un jeune garçon passionné par la biologie marine. Touchant et sensible. [SDM].

Le jeune Miles sort souvent de chez lui en secret pour explorer les eaux de la haie de Puget Sound, dans l'Etat de Washington. Une nuit, à marée basse, il découvre une créature marine rarissime échouée dans la vase. Il devient alors la vedette locale, assailli par d étranges personnes qui ne savent pas s'il s'agit d'un simple observateur, d'un intrépide ou d'un éventuel prophète. Mais Miles a bien d'autres préoccupations. Il doit prendre soin d'une vieille dame un peu médium et empêcher le divorce de ses parents, sans oublier son ancienne baby-sitter, qu'il tente maladroitement de séduire... Au cours de cet été pas comme les autres, il va apprendre à décrypter les mystères de la vie et ceux de la mer.

One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the mud-flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly, he becomes a local celebrity and is pursued by TV crews urging him to explain the phenomenon. His psychic friend Florence predicts that even more astonishing discoveries are to come, indicators of the highest tide in fifty years. Yet, Miles worries more about matters closer to home: will his passion for his ex-babysitter Angie go unrequited? Will his arguing parents divorce? Is everything, even the bay, shifting from him?

Een 13-jarige jongen weet alles van het leven in de baai voor zijn huis, waarin hij zelfs twee nieuwe diersoorten heeft ontdekt die hem nationale beroemdheid opleveren. Dan voorspelt hij een ernstige vloedgolf.

Americans are fascinated by sports. It''s not uncommon for businessmen and businesswomen, or anyone for that matter, to read the sports news before turning to the business pages. Sports terminology has even found a place in the vernacular of the business world with commonly used terms such as "strike-out," "time-out," and "throw a curve." In Coaching for Performance Improvement, authors Jack Ramsay and Jim Lynch link successful coaching in the athletic arena to effective business management. In sports, as in business, the management of people is crucial. The authors have put together an outline for becoming an exceptional leader through their more than twenty years of experience gained coaching in the National Basketball Association, as well as in academic and corporate environments.

A pictorial tribute to the disasters of September 11, 2001. Interviews with Mayor Giuliani, Govenor Pataki, Senator Schumer and more.