William L. Sullivan

Oregon's bestselling author and his partner, the artist Janell Sorensen, are traveling to Europe for half a year to explore the Continent from Italy to Norway. But they've also brought their two children, six-year-old Ian and eight-year-old Karen, to experience the Old World by enrolling them in school in a small German town -- with the promise they'll get to visit Legoland. It's 1989, and with car trips to Tuscany, the Alps, and Communist East Germany, the entire family learns lessons about life abroad. Alternating entries by Bill and Janell reveal differing points of view in this lively journal, illustrated with original pen-and-ink drawings,

This carefully researched historical novel tells the story of the Swedish Vikings who founded Russia in the ninth century and went on to besiege the fabled Byzantine capital of Constantinople. Alternate chapters follow the Swedish archeologists a thousand years later who excavated the grave of a female Viking warrior (a Russian queen?) and raised the mighty Vasa warship from Stockholm's harbor. Along the way the archeologists learn from Cold War spies that the end of the world foretold by the Vikings might turn out to be nuclear Armageddon.By the same author, The Ship in the Hill told the story of the start of the Viking age in Norway, and The Ship in the Sand described the Danes' conquest of England. In the works is The Ship in the Ice, about the Vikings' fateful voyages to Iceland and America, and the end of the Viking Age.

Harald Bluetooth, the first king of a united Denmark, was a Viking with a conscience. When an English king slaughtered his daughter in a genocidal attach, the Danes took over the English throne. A thousand years later, the English returned the favor by freeing Denmark from the tyranny of the German Nazis. This historical novel alternates chapters between the two eras, following the Danish archeologist Mette Anderson as she struggles to help her Jewish fiance in World War I.. Meanwhile in the Viking age, a sorceress spies for three kings but also serves a mysterious deeper purpose at the behest of the Norse gods. Who is right, and who will win? Only the gods and the archeologists seem to know.

In this classic adventure memoir, Sullivan sets out to discover the spirit of the wilderness by backpacking 1361 miles across Oregon, traversing four mountain ranges and eighteen Wilderness Areas. Along the way he is held at gunpoint by a marijuana grower, poisons himself with mushrooms, and hikes forty miles a day through Hells Canyon trying to outrun October snowstorms. His insightful journal has been chosen one of Oregon's "100 Books" by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission.

When a swami reveals that the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has been reincarnated as a 26-year-old barista in a coffee shop in Northeast Portland, detective Neil Ferguson suspects there will be trouble. In the 1980s the original Bhagwan brought thousands of red-robed followers to Oregon, preaching enlightenment and free love. They built a utopian city in Eastern Oregon's desert -- and then poisoned hundreds of people in an attempt to overthrow the government. Now the Rajneeshees are back, building a new commune on an Indian reservation near Crater Lake. When people begin falling victim to a mysterious sniper, Ferguson has to find out the truth behind the Rajneesh revival -- and rescue his niece Harmony.

Giant earthquakes and tsunamis devastate western Oregon every 300 to 600 years. The last one hit in 1700, so we're due anytime. This informative, entertaining book tells the stories of Oregon's past floods, fires, and eruptions -- including the Vanport Flood, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, and the Columbus Day Windstorm. Then it investigates the cycles behind our natural disasters and takes a look at what may happen when the next "Big One" strikes.