Kirjahaku

AN ESOTERIC JOURNEY-a mystical adventure in the Land of Brahm, the Ruler of the three worlds of the Hindu, the Buddhist and the Vedantas, opens a portal to the Earth World, the ashcan of all the universes, and sends Zvi, a young neophyte who is searching for answers, and above all Truth, into the middle of the Gulf War crisis, now as Captain Zackery Breinstein, to test his understanding and his worthiness in his search for Truth.Because of his last name, he is considered an Israeli spy, a Jew, and is held hostage even after the war is over. After months of imprisonment and beatings, he discovers the truth behind all of the illusions and deceptions and escapes and finds his way back to the portal.Now as Zvi, the young neophyte once again, he stands before The Great Brahm and challenges Him.

The Honorable Julian Werner hooked his glasses on the end of his nose and looked at the defendant. . . . "I find you guilty of night-hunting and fine you $1,000.00 and congratulations, you now belong to The Three Day Club."After 30 years of chasing poachers and looking for lost people and having pranks pulled on him, Warden Ian Randall decides to give the game up. Not because he is tired of the long hours and the cancelled days off during deer season. . .and he certainly isn't tired of the game. But Ian has met the nicest woman he could ever hope to find, in Kedgwick, New Brunswick. . .Maria.Maria understands that before they can get married, Ian has to first give up his mistress of 30 years. . .being a Game Warden.

Jason became a man at age eleven, working for his father in the woods, driving a team of horses. He also became the camp meat provider, shooting moose and deer to feed the crews. He soon developed a notorious reputation for poaching and an uncanny ability to talk his way around most encounters with the local game warden. For thirty years Jason was relentlessly pursued by Mos Jalbert, the local game warden. The times were hard and money was scarce. Mos developed his own system for handling poachers. A voice echoed in the stillness of the night, ". . .take it all and don't let me hear about it in town " The courts worked fine, but few wanted to come under the scrutiny of Mos Jalbert. Mos decided to retire after thirty years and coincidentally, Jason too retired from the woods and stopped his poaching (some). The most eloquent caper will manifest itself when Jason skins the granddad of all bucks and finds the ole Fox's deviltry.

Not wanting to fight against the Americans in the War of 1812, Eben McNinch decides to travel north of Fort Gibraltar in the Manitoba Territory to trap beaver. He befriends a Cree Indian tribe and he is allowed to live and trap on their land. Eben soon becomes a legend and is called "Big Red Beard Not Afraid."After the end of the War of 1812, the Canadian Parliament has concerns about President Jefferson's proclamation of America's Manifest Destiny and its right of expansion to the Pacific Coast. Eben McNinch, because of his wilderness knowledge and amiable relations with the natives, is asked to accompany and guide a military party along the 49th Parallel, the border with the United States, to ascertain and stop any American settlers or trappers from homesteading in Canada and annexing the land for the United States.Eben's grandson follows two Leet brothers south into the United States to avenge the brutal death of his folks. But the Leet clan isn't going to simply let the grandson, Eben, get away with killing one of their own, and Boufford Leet swears an oath to avenge the death of six Leet men.

Bill and Gus Hastings had hoped for a big catch on this fishing trip. A big enough catch, and they would be set for the season. They never imagined it would be their last fishing trip, that the storm would take their boat and leave them in a lifeboat, headed for a remote island off the coast of Maine. They never imagined the buried treasure they would discover, and how their lives would instantly change. Out of fear of being found by those who buried it, the brothers secretly move their families to the unsettled woods of northern Maine. They hide the treasure, never telling their families, for fear they might expose the secret. Duty calls, and the brothers go off to war...the war of 1812...and the secret of the treasure goes with them.Game Warden Ian Randall loves his job and he takes it very seriously. He'll go to great lengths to catch a night hunter, someone illegally trapping, or help rescue a lost hiker. It's all part of the job that can be so rewarding, but it has also cost him a lot. He is torn with the thought of retiring, giving up the excitement of 'the game' for a more stable life. While deciding, he looks after his territory with great pride...a territory that includes a long-deserted settlement at Hastings Brook.

Lucien Jandreau went to work one day just like he had done every other day, but this particular day an incident would change his life forever. Prison life taught him many lessons and offered him many opportunities. Although he was a feared man due to his size and strength, it surprised everyone he met how he was a peacemaker no matter where he was or what the situation. Time to think is all Lucien has until he is offered a deal he can't pass up. He may come to regret his decision, but ultimately it leads him to many wonderful Indian Natives. A life of trials and tribulations and making the right choices brings him to exactly where he is supposed to end up in his life.Amy Robertson

Although Uncle Royal, native to the Matagamon region of Maine and a character, and his city-born nephew, Thomas Wellington III, are engaging and true-to-form, they are fictional. The rest of the folks who populate this book are or were real people. They lived, worked, and helped to mold the history and heritage of this wilderness region in northern Maine.These people are tough and hardy, independent and reliable, their lives woven into the land they worked and loved. Uncle Royal characterizes those who have lived and died in this region, their attitudes and lifestyles. Young Tom represents those who come into this land seeking an enjoyable experience without knowing its history or character.

After eighteen years Robin Hood is now the one who needs help. All those he had helped through the years now help him when he and his wife are in need. When Banjo Jack passes away, the murder field mystery intensifies. Chester's past comes to light and he and his wife, Tawny's, lives are changed forever. Game Warden Rafe Knockwood marries a blonde beauty and instead of staying home waiting for her husband, she travels with him and they become a living legend.

For 56 years, from 1879 - 1935, the Sandy River and Rangeley Lake Railroad was an important transportation system for the entrepreneurs in the early lumbering industry in North Franklin County. Opening a vast woodland forest, it became a necessity for the local residents and farmers who serviced the growing lumbering operations.It took a lot of food to feed hungry workers, so the contractors depended on moose, caribou and deer to feed the men. But when the Maine Warden Service was established in 1880, the legislature passed a law prohibiting the commercial killing of wild animals to feed the crews.Sterling Silvanus became a game warden and together with his wife Wynola, they enforced the laws and patroled the woods and lumbering communities along the Sandy River and Rangeley Lake Railroad for more than 20 years....and Sterling unravels the mystery of Kirby Morgan's disappearance.

The Maine people have been complaining for years about New Brunswick lumbermen cutting the king pine and giant white spruce trees in the Aroostook Territory with little support from Augusta or Washington. Until, that is, the people in the Aroostook Territory started threatening to declare was on the entire British Empire if Washington didn't do something soon. Maine lumbermen were tired of being arrested for cutting the king pine with the King's broad head mark. They were tired of being harassed by New Brunswickers as they tried to river-drive their logs to market and they were tired of having to pay a tax to do so. When New Brunswick posses started patrolling the Maine woods looking for violators and arresting land agents, Maine's governor finally agreed to send a volunteer militia to the Territory to build fortifications and defend the disputed area, Langdon MacBayne of Bethel, Maine, decides he wants to be part of this and he joins the militia and travels to what was to become Fort Fairfield on the Aroostook River. When the volunteer militia is replaced with trained troops MacBayne comes home and then he decides to trap beaver on Abenaki land north of Parmachenee Lake. And by a quirk of fate he lives with Piopolis' People at Lac Megantic for 15 years before returning home. "...you have two wives now."

Whiskey Jack Family concludes the Whiskey Jack series.Rascal and Emma Ambrose have continued to grow and evolve through the series. When the old village was removed, they stayed and made a profitable living from the old hotel they had transformed into a fishing and deer hunting lodge. Through the years, Rascal's best friend was the game warden Jarvis Page who had put him in jail. . . and later Rascal's wife, Emma. Rascal becomes a playmate for an uncommon friend, Bear. Bear takes it upon himself to watch over and protect those at Whiskey Jack Lodge and helps to shorten Hitler's war in Europe. Rascal and Emma raise their son, Archer, at Whiskey Jack with respect and responsibility and a rare sense of people skills. Archer receives an appointment to the Annapolis Naval Academy from two of the most popular presidents of the new nation of North America. He goes on to become the youngest sailor ever to be promoted to Captain-aboard the Destroyer Bear.

Peace is declared in Korea, and Captain Parnell Peasley resigns his commission in the U.S. Army and boards a train in Bangor, Maine, for Howe Brook Village, a wilderness settlement that grew up along the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in T8-R4 on the shore of the St. Croix Lake. Parnell likes the hermetic lifestyle at the village and decides to remain, even after the buildings are removed and everyone else has left. His best friend, John Corriveau, instructs Parnell in the delicate art of poaching and how to avoid apprehension by the local game warden, Ian Randall. As the outside world begins to creep towards Howe Brook and Parnell's backyard, a few hunting opportunists see this new wilderness as their own playground. Parnell resents this new intrusion, particularly when someone poaches in his domain. He sets the stage for apprehension by Ian Randall and then absconds with the illegal spoils. Parnell acquires a learned respect and admiration for Ian Randall and agrees that it has -been a Great Game.

Chesterfield Stanway returns home after the war in Europe is over only to find that he no longer has a home in Whiffle Tree, Maine. Both of his parents died while he was fighting in the war. He buys a lot of land with an old log cabin on it, in the Felka Township, two miles south of the Felka lumbering village.He and his new wife, Tawny Hawkes, build a log house there. . .what is locally known as the murder field. Their closest neighbor, two miles west, Banjo Jack, was originally blamed for the murder.Banjo Jack is a reclusive sort who lives alone near Brandy Pond. He tells the local game warden, Rafe Knockwood, about his history and how he came to live alone at Brandy Pond. Chester and Tawny, by chance, solve the murder field mystery. The real murderer returns to eliminate the witnesses, and his dream of an affluent lifestyle south of the border are gone forever. *** "You You're Robin Hood?"

Emma spends a long, sleepless night in jail, understanding the reasons for her being here this night in cell #1. Whiskey Jack village is gone now, and all that remains is the hotel which Rascal and Emma have turned into a hunting and fishing lodge. Not wanting a bad reputation for the new lodge, Rascal had to forgo his poaching ways. Three years after starting the new lodge, two very important and influential people meet at Whiskey Jack Lodge to discuss possibilities that would be beneficial for millions of people and have an immense effect on most of the world.

Rascal and Emma travel to Washington, D.C. for his hip surgery and while they are there a whole new world opens for Emma. But as interesting as she finds this new world, she, like Rascal, can't wait until they can return home to Whiskey Jack Lake.President Cutlidge and Prime Minister Kingsley met at Whiskey Jack Lodge to discuss the possibility of The United States and Canada merging to form a new Nation, North America, and the capital situated at Sault St. Marie. Because of the merger, the nation's economy is the strongest in the world. When corrupt financial groups try to create a run on the New York Stock Exchange in a move to control industrial businesses, they are stopped by this new national parliament.Because of the strength of this new nation, when Hitler begins his war to control all of Europe, North America immediately joins England and France and Hitler is stopped before he can move his troops out of Germany. Action is immediately taken when the intelligence agency uncovers information of Japan's intention to attack Pearl Harbor and Admiral Nagamo is met by the huge North American naval fleet before he can launch his bombers and fighters. Emperor Hirohito is forced to surrender. The atom bomb is never used.After the war, Hitchcock Lumber Company moves back to Whiskey Jack Lake and Presidents Cutlidge and Kingsley return to Whiskey Jack for a friendly visit.