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.

The book describes the adventures of Zeb Clancy, the author''s avatar. Zeb moved to Kentucky to purchase a farm big enough to establish a simmental cattle breeding operation. Once there Zeb meets some legendary Mountain Men and goes on many adventures. They include gunfights, robberies, poker games, and tall tales from men who were living legends.

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.

Even a billion dollars can''t liberate Frank Babcock. He knows that his jealousy has contributed to the murder of Wayne Johnson, the man he once believed had illegitimately fathered his own heir, Fox Babcock. The wrong Johnson was murdered. Mickey Johnson not Wayne Johnson was Fox Babcock''s biological father. The Babcock/Johnson Feud persists in the third volume of the "Generation Series" as the two Long Island families battle through another iteration of generational loathing. The animosity between the Babcocks and the Johnsons escalates against a new backdrop of global instability - a product of racial unrest; radical religious extremism and the technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web. The final decade of the twentieth century brings the Babcock/Johnson Feud into a New York courtroom, even as global economic inequities bring the United States into a global kangaroo court replete with terrorist judges. "Techies, Trials & Terrorists" takes the feuding Long Island families through a decade of desperation and distrust that culminates in the long awaited murder trial of Frank Babcock. The trial itself rehashes a 25 year old love quadrangle that resulted in the ambiguous parentage of Dr. Fox Babcock. Fox Babcock is now married and has children of his own. But just like his mother, Fox Babcock has not remained faithful to his spouse. In fact Fox has parented an illegitimate child of his own. New familial discord lurks in the background as the murder trial unfolds. And while carnal revelations, during seamy trial testimony, recount old erotic discord between the Babcocks and the Johnsons, the more recent sexual liaisons further undermine any possibility of rapprochement. Meanwhile, Frank Babcock has a new Jewish bride, a new Christian son and a new Saudi Arabian mistress. His business takes him throughout the Middle East even as his young wife remains in New York parenting her sister''s child. Life becomes ever more intriguing for the billionaire as the existence of his varied business and personal relationships are compromised by his compelled cooperation with American Intelligence agencies. These agencies are investigating the ties of a certain Saudi Arabian family to the rise of terrorist attacks against the United States. As the twentieth century hurdles toward a close and the dawning of the new millennium awaits, the lives of several generations of Johnsons and Babcocks become ever-more entwined. As the internet age unfolds on a global stage, the financial prosperity of the feuding families blossoms along with the burgeoning technology. The saga of sex, money, murder and mayhem follows the family fortunes from the dunes of Saudi Arabia to the white waters of West Virginia and back again to the shores of Long Island. This third book of the "Generations Series" highlights the transient decade that sets up the new Millennium and the challenges that await all of the characters as they embark on 21st Century and the advent of the Social Media. This in turn will be the subject matter of Book 4 in the Generation Series: "Madmen, Millennials & Malcontents: The Social Media Generation." (Due for Publication in the Fall of 2020)

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.

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.

Brandon Vanderkool er en brande av en dyslektiker som trives best alene i skogen. Når han får jobb som grensevakt, sørger det skarpe blikket hans for at han arresterer smuglere, ulovlige innvandrere og antatte terrorister i et antall som skaper panikk. Grensesang handler om lokalsamfunnet i skyggen av verdensbegivenhetene. Brandons mor er på vei inn i Alzheimers, farens melkekyr blir syke, en innflyttet massøse tar opp alt som skjer på video, en pensjonert professor brøler ut sin forakt for alt amerikansk... Et satirisk portrett, en usedvanlig kjærlighetshistorie og en påminnelse om at noen ganger kan de pussigste tilfeldigheter føre til mirakler.

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.

Het zijn zware tijden op de boerderij voor Norm. Het laatste wat hij kan gebruiken is de hulp van zijn zoon Brandon, die is niet geschikt voor het zware en ingewikkelde werk. Daarom regelt hij een baantje voor hem als grenswacht. Want dat is, op de langste onbewaakte grens ter wereld, geen veeleisende baan. Het blijkt een gouden greep. De jaren waarin Brandon weinig meer deed dan naar vogels kijken, betalen zich nu uit: geen ongebruikelijk detail ontsnapt aan zijn aandacht en hij arresteert de ene smokkelaar na de andere. Dan arresteert hij opeens iemand die verdacht wordt van terroristische activiteiten en verplaatst de war on terror zich naar dit zo rustige grensdorp. Noordgrens is een verrassende en humoristische roman die laat zien dat geen plek van de wereld zich kan onttrekken aan de grote verhalen. ''

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.

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.

A poignant coming-of-age story and an enchanting primer on the life aquatic. The Highest Tide is as crisp and clean as a cool dip into the water, and just about as refreshing.-Entertainment Weekly

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.