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  • THE GRAVEYARD ELEGY MEMORIES OF ABILENE

    THE GRAVEYARD ELEGY MEMORIES OF ABILENE was inspired by cemetery visits and the poem “Elegy in a Country Courtyard” by Thomas Gray. It is largely a photographic journey of Abilene in four parts: Part I. The Protestant Cemetery, Early Abilene History, Personal Memories Part II. The Catholic Cemetery and Growing Up Memories Part III. Select Abilene Businesses and Victorians, Memories Part IV. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • THE SCAMP ODYSSEY II

    Part 1 - The Redwoods and the Coast of Oregon Part 2 - Washington and the Columbia River East

    THE SCAMP ODYSSEY II Part 1 - The Redwoods and the Oregon Coast Part 2 - Washington and the Columbia River East This book is a travelogue of Mark and wife Keah, journeys in the Scamp Trailer and wonderful times to the West Coast. Among them: in Part 1, the California Redwoods, Newport and its Aquarium, Yaquina Point, The Tillamook World War II Blimp Museum, and the Evergreen Air Museum with "The ... Read more

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  • RURAL ODYSSEY VII

    Or What Is To Come

    RURAL ODYSSEY VII Or What Is to Come continues the Rural Odyssey series making fiction of real life and now science fiction. It tells of Mike and Mariah O'Brien back in Abilene working at Dwight D. Eisenhower College. Mike heads "Kansas and Southwest Studies" and Mariah is Dean of Women and Counseling plus teaching one course in American Literature. Daughter Ariel is a freshman in high school. ... Read more

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  • THE SCAMP ODYSSEY

    Part I. The First Scamp Trip, 2004 Part II. Kansas and Nebraska, 2011

    “THE SCAMP ODYSSEY” is the first in a new series by the author telling of annual trailer trips from 2004 to 2022. The title is inspired by “The Motorcycle Diary.” In Part I the author details travel from Vallecito Lake, Colorado, to Backus Minnesota and return, a 4000-mile trip. He details places passed and visited with commentary on the local history - towns of the San Luis Valley in Colorado, ... Read more

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  • Rural Odyssey VI

    Abilene Trail Mix

    RURAL ODYSSEY VI Abilene - Trail Mix combines fiction and history. It tells of Mike O'Reilly, his wife Mariah Palafox O'Reilly and daughter Ariel's return to Abilene, Kansas for a one - year stay. Mike and Mariah hold adjunct positions at DDEC, Dwight D. Eisenhower College, where Mike taught since 1963 and Mariah in the 1970s. Daughter Ariel returns to the town and schoolmates where she grew up. ... Read more

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  • LETTERS FROM BRAZIL V

    “LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL”

    Mark Curran is a retired professor from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. He taught Spanish and Portuguese and their respective cultures. His research specialty was Brazil and its “popular literature in verse” or the “Literatura de Cordel,” and he has published many articles in research reviews and now some fourteen books related to the “Cordel” in Brazil, the United ... Read more

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  • Travel Made Fiction "Adventure Travel" to British Columbia and Alaska

    Travel Made Fiction “Adventure Travel” in British Columbia and Alaska is the 8th in the series of the travel - made - fiction “Adventure Travel” series by Curran. What is different is that this time the book is like a travelogue with an abundance of photos, although description on the places visited appears along with limited fictional remarks by the author. Travel to major sites in Vancouver, B.C ... Read more

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  • FIVE "ROMANCES" OF "CORDEL"

    "CINCO ROMANCES DE CORDEL"

    FIVE “ROMANCES” OF “CORDEL” is a return to a long - time research topic, but now to the very beginnings of Brazil’s “literatura popular em verso” or “literatura de cordel.” The early “romances” or “historias” of “cordel” began as narrative poetry telling a story based on popular literature from Portugal, Spain and France. The stories from Europe were in prose and were sold by the Livreiro Garnier ... Read more

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  • TRAVEL MADE FICTION - SOUTH AMERICA BY AIR

    “TRAVEL MADE FICTION SOUTH AMERICA BY AIR” is the seventh book in Mark Curran’s “Adventure Travel” series. It combines real life history, culture and tourism with an at times humorous fictional account of travelers and staff of AT on the trip. There are ten parts, like the Greek Epic. Travel is to Peru, Buenos Aires, Uruguay, Iguacu, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia, Manaus, Bogota, Cartagena de ... Read more

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  • "Adventure Travel" A New Partnership

    The Royal Princess

    "ADVENTURE TRAVEL" - A NEW PARTNERSHIP The Royal Princess is a return to the author's "Adventure Travel" series, now the 6th. It is based on real travel but made fiction. Professor Mike Gaherty and Assistant Expedition Leader Amy Carrier, long time friends and collegues and some time lovers, reconnect in a new venture for AT - a Partnership with Princess Lines. AT in effect will add to the ... Read more

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  • RURAL ODYSSEY V

    TROUBLE IN A KANSAS RIVERSIDE TOWN With THE BALLAD OF "THE SMOKY HILL RIVER RAMBLER"

    RURAL ODYSSEY V - TROUBLE IN A KANSAS RIVER TOWN is a return to fiction. It tells the latest in Curran's stories of Abilene, Kansas. Trouble comes to Abilene in an unexpected armed attack on the town and its residents in 1971 by KKK and "rugged individualists" out for revenge for the conviction and imprisonment in Abilene of their relatives and cronies in past years. Following the "troubles," the ... Read more

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  • "ADVENTURE TRAVEL" IN COLOMBIA - MOMENTS OF MAYHEM

    Or, Colombia Revisited

    "ADVENTURE TRAVEL" IN COLOMBIA - MOMENTS OF MAYHEM Or, Colombia Revisited is a return to the author's travel and research in Colombia years ago, but now revised and made into "historical and cultural fiction." Professor Michael Gaherty and "Adventure Travel" Assistant Expedition Leader Amy Carrier travel to Colombia to research and scope out the country for a possible Expedition Trip by the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD