With good planning and preparation, your goats will be healthier and happier. Everything you Never thought you'd Need to Know About Goats provides advice before you get goats and afterwards. Topics include Herd Management, Nutrition, Breeding, Pregnancy and Kidding, Bottle Babies, Meat and Dairy Goats, Diseases and Illnesses, and Antibiotics and General Medications. It also provides a listing of useful resources and a glossary of terms often heard in the goat world.

India Basin Triangle is a crime novel in the San Francisco Noir tradition. Based on an actual case involving international drug traffickers in the rollicking 1980s, the story juxtaposes the thoughts and actions of three main characters as they move inevitably toward a final collision that is quietly orchestrated by a mysterious woman. Henry Acuna, the dedicated, straight-shooting FBI agent in charge is one angle of the triangle. Jairo Restrepo, the cunning and intelligent Colombian drug lord is another. And Jack Lauer, a neer-de-well, good time Charley ex-Navy Seal completes the pyramid and creates a snapshot of the era. San Fracisco, Costa Rica and an exotic Caribbean island form the backdrop for this journey to a spider web of political intrigue and ambiguity, moral relativism and unbridled hedonism. E-book version is also available for both (Amazon) Kindle and (Barnes & Noble) Nook for $7.99.

There are many people who dream of raising their own food, not only for the satisfaction in doing so but because it can be much healthier. Rather than start with large livestock, chickens are a very good way to ease yourself into raising your own meat. They are less labor intensive than sheep, cattle, or pigs and take much less land to thrive on. Chickens are a good way to introduce yourself to raising your own livestock. They are small and with and poultry is said to be healthier than red meat or pork. Even if you just want fresh eggs, raising chickens can be very rewarding and even entertaining.

If there was ever a ""ring-tailed roarer"" of the backwoods of New Mexico, he was Quentin Hulse (1926-2002). Hulse lived and worked most of his life at the bottom of Canyon Creek in the Gila River country of southwestern New Mexico, but his reputation spread far and wide. His western image appeared on a tourist postcard and souvenir license plate in the 1950s. Footage of a lion hunt led by Hulse and his hounds appeared on the Men's Channel in 2005, three years after his passing. Hulse grew up primarily in western New Mexico when that ranch and mining country was still remote and raw. At the age of ten he witnessed a point-blank shooting, the culmination of an old-fashioned frontier feud. He followed his parents between mines and towns until his father established a ranch at Canyon Creek. While serving in the navy during World War II, he landed on the bloody beach at Okinawa. After returning from the war, he was shot in a bar near Silver City during a night of carousing. Hulse was most at home in the rugged Gila Wilderness, in which he ranched and guided for fifty years. With compassion and nuance, Nancy Coggeshall tells the compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life. Drawing on oral history, archival sources, and her personal association with Hulse and the Gila, she brings this unique westerner, and New Mexican, to life.