DEALING WITH DRAGONS, BEARS, AND SOME NICE PEOPLE TOO: A Diplomatic Chronicle One U.S. diplomat’s 45-year involvement with the dramatic changes in China, the Soviet Union/Russia, and Southeast and Central Asia, and his efforts to invigorate the United Nations’ management of conflicts around the world.

THE ELEGANCE OF NATURE SOFTLY CARVED IN SOAPSTONE This volume traces the history of the Chinese soapstone carvers and explains why they chose nature and symbolic figures as the subject matter. It includes a selected gallery from the author’s collection of hundreds of soapstone pieces.

AMERICANS BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: Tales of Detention, Resilience, and Freedom in Cold War East Berlin Using unpublished materials and personal interviews, the author documents the fate of American prisoners held in Stasi prisons. This book expands on the knowledge of Cold War diplomacy in Berlin during the 1960s.

AFRICA, YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN WASHINGTON: An American Diplomat’s Adventures in Sub-Saharan Africa A career diplomat specialized in African and European affairs, the author of this memoir highlights his experiences south of the Sahara, and looks back at the Foreign Service as an elite corps devoted to national security and national interests.

MURDER IN MONTENEGRO: A Novel Murder in Montenegro is the fourth volume in a tetralogy that follows the investigations of Inspector Vasiliev of the Moscow police into the plots to assassinate Alexander II, the pogroms in Kiev, and the Siberian exile system. This last volume takes him through breathless adventures in the Balkans, Western Europe, and Russia.

THE GENTLEMAN BANKER: Amadeo Peter Giannini. A Biographical Novel A novel based on the life and work of Amadeo P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of America. This son of Italian immigrants changed the history and the economy of the United States and much more.

THE MAGIC LILY PAD AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN This is a collection of 21 short-shorts which evoke a sense of magic.

BILLY AND LORD BYRON, or, A MATTER OF TIME Billy and Lord Byron is a coming-of-age story, focusing on the development of Billy’s life from youth to adulthood through the care and healing of an injured crow he discovers while at his summer job digging ditches.

LIMBO: Part Two of The Profane Comedy Limbo is Part Two of The Profane Comedy, an epic poem that encompasses all of US history, literature and philosophy. It uses Dante’s epic architecture to show the way to attain enlightenment by following a modern, secular path.

ARISE AND WITNESS: Poems by Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, About Faith, Prison, War Zones and Nonviolent Resistance

POESY SPECTRUM: Flow… A collection of poetry and art by Cymn Lai-Fong Wong, which in her words, “are imbued with a subtle fuse of intrinsic motion and poetic fluidity, allowing the inner-echoes flow to lead the brushstrokes on its own accord.”

FIRE ON THE ZEN: BE WATER FOR HONG KONG’S 2019 This collection of poems unites shattering loss and grief and a deep and hopeful resilience in the face of tragedy both natural and man-made. The collection includes photographic art that helps the reader to more carefully reflect upon the poetry.