Books published by Kitsap Publishing

In the day's dying light, Lady Timandra Lotterby peered out the coach window at thedark and shuttered house and wished she had never offered to accompany her friend, ElizaTilbury, to Perfidious Brambles. A cold shiver crept up her spine, and she squiggleduncomfortably on the padded seat cushion. Eliza's trembling hand slid over hers, and Timandrafelt instant shame. She was here to support her friend, not give way to silly, baseless fears. Yes,the estate grounds appeared unkempt, and the house foreboding, but an old man living on hisown might find little need to keep up appearances.

"...you could disappear in the blink of an eye and no one would ever find you." Perched on an island three miles from shore, McGinley's School for Girls has been the center of controversy for decades. One of the new arrivals, Sarita Teymouri, finds herself beginning a two-year sentence for manslaughter; the result of a plea deal. After one of the other new arrivals dies just before reaching the facility, Sarita becomes involved in a pact to hold the staff responsible. Her actions later attract both the attention of the school's headmistress and a group of inmates looking to escape. Certain she won't survive if she remains on the island, Sarita agrees to assist the other inmates. As the plan progresses, each of them find themselves in increasing danger. With the staff watching their every move, Sarita and the others must stay one step ahead if their plan is to succeed."If you like nail biters you'll enjoy this book, and if you like no punches pulled in the language department it's right up your alley and that is where the braveness belongs to both the author and readers. This isn't your mother's horror, but it isn't tasteless either, it's everything the opposite can muster and worth reading repeated times over." - Reprospace Reviews

A Puget Sounder by birth, Judith Barker Kvinsland presents a collection of fifteen, inter-related personal essays that invite readers to accompany her through the twists and turns that disturbed the calm of an otherwise, ordinary life. Her memoir, told in memorable, lyrical prose, is a recollection of the time in post-World War II America, as well as a remembrance of place, while growing up in rural South Kitsap County in northwest Washington state. She reminds us how the memories of significant persons and specific places can impact us and be relied upon to give us strength, inspiration, and insight as we maneuver through turning points in our lives.Kvinsland concludes her memoir with present-day realities that continue to disturb the calm in adulthood, events that readers may have already experienced, or may eventually face: empty nests; new, unfamiliar living locations; serious illness; aging parents; loss and painful grief; and ultimately, the joys of grandparenting.“Disturbing the Calm: A Memoir of Time and Place,” is an honest, often humorous, heartfelt telling of a life that will stir readers to reflect upon their own lives and say, “I know just how she felt.”

A book for all business leaders who want to maximize their unique potential, realize their full talent and live a more rewarding and enriched life. Just as an unleashed dog can more fully attain freedom by escaping its yard, leaders can also become Unleashed from the often self-inflicted restrictions to their potential. By accomplishing this, they set the stage to create similarly Unleashed cultures in their own organizations, thus affecting many others.Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to and resource for enhancing skills, radically improving employees' abilities to overcome obstacles, and creating a strategic plan to sustain the zeal for pursuing new opportunities. Regardless of the stage of your career, this book will provide tactics to leverage employee skills and do more than you have ever imagined.You'll Learn How To Rapidly build your self-confidence as a leader and the self-confidence of those around you. Guide and mentor others to maximize their talents and skills. Improve organizational performance and results. Enhance your most critical leadership skills: language, public speaking, influence, conflict resolution, time management, life balance, and effectively dealing with a diverse group of people. Implement strategies for improving organizational culture, employee morale, and employee engagement. Create internal and formal programs for mentoring, coaching, and accountability. Leverage technology to enhance relationships, increase discretionary time, and add valueto your career and life. Sustain momentum and success personally, professionally, and for the organization.

Sam is an ordinary teenage girl. She is going to high school and hanging out with her loving family when world war three breaks out. This war is not a conventional war, where two nations are fighting one another for land, or superiority. It is a war made and planned out by all world leaders. Not to take control, but to save the planet. What they did not expect was something to go wrong. Sam and her family got stuck in the middle, and not everyone will make it. Can Sam overcome the losses? Can she become the hero the world needs?

When Anthony C. West's first collection, River's End and Other Stories, appeared, the reviewer in the Oxford Mail (August 11, 1960) described reading it as "quite an experience. Like a kick in the guts from a jack-booted leprechaun." The image is apt. West powerfully united violence, decay, and corruption with natural, fanciful, poetic, and spiritual beauty. The combination is the complex, contradictory texture of life itself, of course, and West had a genius for making the reader see and feel it. Through the senses, he reached for the head and the heart. Like his literary countrymen Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, and Sean O'Casey, West offered a complete world view. Parts of that view were esoterically Christian; all of it was socially munificent, and most of it was ahead of its time in being ecologically responsible. Receiving highest praise, his work was in print for fifty consecutive years: The Native Moment, Rebel to Judgment, The Ferret Fancier, As Towns with Fire, miscellaneous poems, essays, and a dozen or more short stories. For recent decades, however, it has seen neglect. Attempting to repair this loss, Eyler explores West's critical reception, his auto-fictive method, and other mysteries about his writing life. She has discovered among his papers other novels, promised but never published, and she brings to light his surprisingly feminist magnum opus, The Lady Actaeon, which occupied him over six decades.West's remarkable life (1910-1988) became the material for his ever-developing art: his childhood spent between big house and peasant fields in Down and Cavan, his hobo years in the United States during the Great Depression, his Royal Air Force Pathfinder navigating in the bombing of Germany, his experiments in communal farming, his role as father of eleven children, and his own spiritual development. This narrative he steadily mined for his separate but cohering fictions. Through the fiction-especially through Actaeon-and through his letters and interviews, Eyler investigates the special proximity of West's life to his fiction and finds a way to let the writer tell his own amazing story of fidelity to his art.

Convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to hang, Tempest Winslowe is swept from the gallows by Captain Garrett D'Arcy. Aboard the Wind Rover, Tempest forges new friendships and wins the admiration of the crew as first a pirate attack, and then a storm at sea test her mettle. But her most troublesome challenge lies in the containment of the impassioned fire that simmers just below the surface of her carefully controlled demeanor as she is thrown into close daily contact with her entirely too charming savior. Endorsement"A willful heroine cornered by a relentless foe and a dashing sea captain tormented by his past cast their lots against the tides of a history dark with treachery, storm-filled canvas, and hanging rope. A compelling read cover to cover." Michael DonnellyAuthor of False Harbor and Awakening Curry Buckle

With the Royalist defeat at Worcester in 1651, Adler Hayward, fearing prison more than death, flees England. Heartbroken at leaving his home and family, he finds solace in the eyes of Glynneth, the wife of Etienne Fortier. The Fortiers and their family, including Etienne's father, brother and his brother's wife, and Etienne's and Glynneth's two children, are bound for New Netherland not only to build a new family fortune but in the hope, the climate will help Etienne who suffers from consumption. Adler and his friend, Latimer Draye, decide to join them and seek their own destinies in the new world.Though Adler loves Glynneth more than life itself, he is devoted to her husband, and he and Draye are protective of the Fortier family. To earn their living, Adler and Draye become woodsmen, trading with the Mohawks and sharing several near-death adventures.Despite her deep love for Etienne, Glynneth recognizes the attraction she feels for Adler. With her husband's death, she must decide where her future lies, but before she can make any decision, she must fight for her life as an assailant abducts her and carries her into the hinterland. Calling on the wilderness skills Adler taught her, she escapes and is reunited with Adler. Now she must decide what will be her destiny.

Journey through the bustling wilds of Delhi, the pastoral road to Agra, and experience the sweeping spiritual beauty of Kathmandu in Christopher Ochs's debut book, Into the East.This three-part travel narrative spans three different visits: the first two to Delhi, India and the third a more in-depth experience as an honourary citizen in Delhi with a side journey to Kathmandu, Nepal.Christopher Ochs offers readers a look into the daily life, people, and traditions of these places from a Westerner's eye. With a sense of journalistic curiosity, Into the East details both the realism and wonders of each destination.

The Rainbow Watchers is a novel of spiritual fiction based on a true NDE (near-death-experience). It is the story of Elizabeth Welles, a young woman who is unable to cope with depression and despair after the untimely death of her husband. After a suicide attempt, when she is clinically dead, she encounters two luminous archangels, Sandalphon and Metatron, who usher her into the crystalline rainbow realms where every color plays a part in her healing and the choices she faces. Her transformation and exercise of free will fascinate and challenge the traditional beliefs of the clergy, friends, and family. For all who have ever dwelled in darkness, this book is a story of inspiration, depth, and miracles that await us on both sides of the veil.