Take better travel photos with your camera. Choose and use a new camera, from simple to professional models. How to use the controls and settings for better photos. Tips for traveling with cameras and taking interesting pictures. Using your computer to correct, enhance and share your pictures. This new volume II expands on the first volume with help choosing and using digital single lens reflex cameras, lenses, flash attachments and computer software. This is a "must read" for anyone interested in better photos with their camera.

World War Two is about to begin and a German Naval Officer is going to war. Again. Oskar Keppler, a U-boat veteran of the Great War, takes command of the Type VII submarine U-115. Based on the actual War Diary of a German U-boat at the outset of World War II, this novel presents the U-boat experience from the perspective of those who lived it. Vivid descriptions of life in a diesel-electric powered submarine: day after day of mundane drilling, horrendous smells and ever deteriorating food are punctuated by moments of action, elation, terror and dread. In perhaps the most important single patrol of the first half of the Battle of the Atlantic, a handful of men will change the balance of power, and strategic capabilities of their adversary, for years to come.

Life is not easy when you are twelve and mad. Alex Thompson feels abandoned by his dad when his father leaves him and goes to war in Iraq. Fearing that her son's anger will turn into hatred, his mother asks her father, Dr. Jason Jamison, for help. On a camping trip, Alex asks his grandfather if he ever felt abandoned. In response, Jason tells about a time over fifty years earlier when he was fourteen and innocent.

In 1954, life was simple and carefree. All Jason and his best friend, George Alexander, wanted to do was to play baseball when their tranquility was shattered. Polio paralyzed George, and fear griped Smithville, Kansas, because there was no polio vaccine at the time, and anybody could be the next victim. Jason was upset and felt abandoned when his father, the town physician, sent him to stay with his grandparents on Ash Creek Farm. Moreover, George's parents abandoned their paralyzed son by sending him to a nursing home and nobody seemed to care. How could Jason help George when he was isolated on the farm and miles away from his friend?

Will Jason's story help Alex understand and accept his own father's obligation?

After leaving a philandering husband in Texas, Patricia McDermont had found serenity but not happiness in the ski town of Vail, Colorado. There, she meets medical oncologist, Jason Jamison, the widowed father of twelve-year-old Brittany whose world centers on ice-skating. As the rink manager, she is impressed with Brittany's talent and helps her enter the world of competitive skating to prepare for the upcoming regional championship.

Patricia is attracted to Jason, but she isn't interested in a committed relationship. Moreover, Brittany doesn't want another woman in her father's life. She misses her mother, who died of ovarian cancer, and wants her father for herself.

When Patricia's husband stalks and terrorizes her, Jason defends her, while her best friend, a Wiccan Priestess, provides her insight and spiritual support. In addition, Patricia supports Jason when a hospital administrator, angry that Jason has built a freestanding clinic, threatens his medical practice. As their relationship grows, they encounter adversity and many challenges.

Will she overcome her stalking, abusive husband? Will he endure the seductive world of ice-skating and the ruthless world of medicine? Will they find happiness?

"Summer Solstice" is about prejudice and reconciliation in a small Kansas town. An abusive man is killed, but by whom? The town doctor tries to solve the mystery only to find his hippie son, who wants to avoid Vietnam, is responsible.