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Books and CDs/DVDsHere you will find books written by J. Glenn Evans, his alter ego, Jack R. Evans, and other poets and writers. The listing includes both poetry and non-poetry books, CDs and DVDs. Support independent bookstores in your area. FEATURED ITEM
Stars Slim Pickens and Mark Miller in a classic film that captures the timelessness of friendship and compassion expressed not only at Christmas, but throughout all seasons in our communities. It is a story that captures the spirit of Christmas in the vein of Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life. This is Slim Pickens next to last movie and his performance as a cowboy angel trying to make it to the Great Divide is one of his best performances. The original 16MM film was lost for twenty years. Jack Evans, a partner and financier of the original film, learned the original 16MM film master was in the possession of a family friend of Clark Paylow, the film’s executive producer, who died in 1985. Evans, better known as J. Glenn Evans, the poet, novelist and political activist, regained possession of the original 16MM film master and arranged for Victory Studios to digitally remaster the film into the latest DVD format. The new digitally mastered DVD retails for $12.99, and if purchased in 3-packs the retail price is $10.00 each. Makes a wonderful gift. View the movie trailer.
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Zeke's Revenge, a true heir to B. Travern's classic, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, is an adventure story with the power and inevitability of Greek drama. In this bold morality tale, Evans creates a tough-minded, but good-hearted prospector, Zeke, setting out to make his fortune, an odyssey that takes him to Montana, Idaho, Arizona and Washington. The salt and pepper prose Mr. Evans uses reflects the uncompromising spirit of the miner's world—a world which Mr. Evans knows "first hand." This is true coin of the realm writing with freshly-minted characters—including Zeke, his soul make, Morning Glory, the seductive Ruth and his partner, Hammersmit, a complex sociopath. This is riveting stuff, crackling and suspenseful to its surprising endgame. —Michael Magee— Poet, critic, playwright.
A group located in Seattle’s Pioneer Square district is homeless and they set out to do something about it by creating a place where they can live and survive by self-subsistence farming as well as helping others. The protagonist, a Native American Cherokee, is joined by a disbarred lawyer, a cuckolded preacher, a Vietnam veteran, a former high-class San Francisco call girl, and an ex-CIA man. Together they create an exciting and suspenseful novel.
Broker Jim by J. Glenn Evans Evans tells the story of Broker Jim against the backdrop of America as a nation in transition—from the sexual mores of post-World War II America to the greed of the 1980s. Evans's narrative brims with the authenticity that comes from more than twenty years as a stockbroker and investment banker. He writes the story in the first person so we share Jim's interior world in which an earnest young man struggles to make it in the world of buying and selling dreams. Jim makes some dumb decisions, but you root for him anyway. In and out of one crisis after another, he still lands on his feet. Although he doesn't have a golden parachute to weather the storms, he does have the ubiquitous Seattle umbrella to get him through the rainy days.
It is a deadly game of cat and mouse for Deacon Davenport, “fishmonger emeritus” and self-appointed protector of Seattle's Pike Place Market. He falls in love with the young Dahlia Swartz, when he rescues her after she is thrown out of a Lamborghini. As this mystery unfolds, the author presents a surrealistic world of flying fish, brass pigs, stoic fortune-tellers, and street zombies. This fast-paced and witty first novel was a finalist in the 1994 Southern Writers Association Writing Contest. BIOGRAPHY
A diary that reflects daily life a young girl experienced under Russian occupation with encounters with Russia soldiers, both good and bad. The struggles and hardship of staying alive, caravans of refugees going by and what happened to friends and people she knew. Her determination to live and realizing, "Who wants to live has to fight."
Richard Thorp’s first introduction to big money came when he was about five years old and accompanied his grandfather to see his banker in downtown Yakima. At the outbreak of World War II, Thorp’s family moved to Bremerton where the budding entrepreneur honed his skills as a paperboy, altar boy, fund-raiser at school, football player, and pilot. Richard Thorp knew to get where the bucks were. Always the adventurer, he took risks to start and develop more than thirty companies, including EDMARK, the educational software company before it was acquired by IBM. Thorp’s ancestors were men like Major John C. Thorp, who led a group of pioneers over the Oregon Trail, and Fielden M. Thorp, who in the mid-nineteenth century was the first white man to settle in eastern Washington. NONFICTION
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| Vol. I, No. 1, Spring 1998 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. I, No. 2, Summer 1998 - Poetry by Pamela Moore Dionne, J. Glenn Evans, Paul Gillie, Connie Hutchison, Kevin Miller, Jess Mills, Bonita Olson, Judith Skillman, M. Anne Sweet, Jeremy Voigt, Pieter Zilinsky, and Matt Zook. | |
| Vol. I, No. 3, Fall 1998 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. I, No. 4, Winter 1998 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1999 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. II, No. 2, Summer 1999 - Poetry by Victory Lee Schouten, Chris Cantu, Nancy Dahlberg, Madeline DeFrees, Christine Eisen, J. Glenn Evans, Roberta Fein, Molly Goforth, Jessamay Howell, Dorothy Krist, Kurt Kristensen, Kerri Lyn Kumasaka, Sigrun Susan Lane, Donna Lathrop, Kay Mullen, Mildred Renfrow, Catherine Wing, and Pieter Zilinsky. | |
| Vol. II, No. 3, Fall 1999 - Poetry by Mineko Akishige, Elizabeth Austen, Paul Brase, Larry Crist, Mike Dillon, J. Glenn Evans, Bruce Fleming, Jessamay Howell, Kara L.C. Jones, Michael Magee, Carlos Martinez, Iskandar Soekardi, and Leonard Tews. | |
| Vol. II, No. 4, Winter 1999 - Poetry by Steph Anne Best, Eric Browning-Larsen, John Burgess, Susan J. Erickson, J. Glenn Evans, Steven Garmanian, Elizabeth Gray, Connie Hutchison, Tammy Kaiser, Jean Musser, Cathy Ruiz, and Joan Swift. | |
| Vol. III, No. 1, Spring 2000 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. III, No. 2, Summer 2000 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. III, No. 3, Fall 2000 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. III, No. 4, Winter 2000 - Poetry by Rodney Williams, Nancy Abercrombie, Kathleen Baginski, Michael Barre, John Burgess, Phyllis Collier, Larry Crist, Danika Dinsmore, J. Glenn Evans, Cindy Williams Gutièrrez, Thomas Hubbard, Kim Kelsey, Erynn Rowan Laurie, Michael Louella, Jean Musser, Leonard Tews, David Thornbrugh, Connie Walle, Linda Weaver-Fox. | |
| Vol. IV, No. 1, Spring 2001 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. IV, No. 2, Summer 2001 - Poetry by Mike Dillon, Martin Blackman, Frieda Cramer, Larry Crist, Pat Duggan, J. Glenn Evans, Harvey Goldner, Casey Jepson, Valdez Ladd, Lauren Valk Lawson, Cathy Ruiz, Florence Sage, Victory Lee Schouten, Judith Skillman, Peter Suruda, M. Anne Sweet, Rod Tipton, and Koon Woon. | |
| Vol. IV, No. 3, Fall 2001 - Poetry by Sarah Singer, Judith Adams, Peter Bernstein, Lane Chisholm, Olivia Diamond, James Dott, Arthur Ginsberg, Donald Kentop, Priscilla Long, Ruth Osato, Cameron Prow, Madelle Quiring, Sherry Reniker, Mark Rubin, Lena Schreier, Christine Swanberg, and Pieter Zilinsky. | |
| Vol. IV, No. 4, Winter 2001 - Poetry by Jean Musser, Joshua Coberly, Robert Bevan Dalton, J. Glenn Evans, Dean Granholm, Karen Havnaer, Lorraine Healy, Donna Lathrop, Amy Racely, David Thornbrugh, and Daniel Williams, and others. | |
| Vol. V., No. 1, Spring 2002 - Poetry by Shannon Borg-Randolph, John Burgess, J. Glenn Evans, Julie T. Gerrard, Sheri A. Harper, Glenn (Chip) Hughes, Michael Magee, Marjiann Moss, Victory Lee Schouten, Dorothy J. Williams, Pieter Zilinsky, and others. | |
| Vol. V., No. 2, Summer 2002 - SOLD OUT. | |
| Vol. V., No. 3, Fall 2002 - Poetry by Nancy Dahlberg, Peter Bloch Garcia, Kim Hamilton, Patricia Hamrick, Jared Leising, Linda Malnack, Leonard Orr, Glenn Reed, Victory Lee Schouten, Daniel Williams, and Pieter Zilinsky, and others. | |
| Vol. V., No. 4, Winter 2002 - SOLD OUT. | |
Little History of Pike Place Market by Jack R. Evans
SCW Publications: ISBN 978-1-877882-04-6
Softbound, 81 pp., 35 historical
photographs; $6.95
Pike Place Market is an institution loved with the same passion by the hometown folks in Seattle as San Franciscans do their cable cars. This book tells the story of this world-famous market from its beginnings in 1907 up to the present and includes the history of farm products. The easy-to-read, fact-filled book covers the rebellions by local farmers, the history of the Japanese and the market, the many craftspeople, flying fish merchants, and the characters who sometimes provide as much color as does the gorgeous produce. The Market, its buildings, hotels, and alleys together make up a rich and vibrant historic area, but it was the farmers, merchants, and other folks who helped to create this bastion of free enterprise. Starbucks started here as did other companies, like Tradewells and Mannings cafeterias.
Swedes Whence They Came by Jack R. Evans The heritage of old Sweden has contributed immensely to the molding of the contemporary Swedish citizen and the character of the nation. Beginning with the Vikings and Sweden's early trading contacts with the ancients, Rome and Egypt, the history includes the rebel heroes, Engelbrekt and Dacke, who became legends in the hearts of common folk. A nation’s history is made not only by kings and warriors, but also by poets, writers, artists, scientists, and inventors. This book vividly describes the advent of repression, religions, fire, pain and suffering that contributed to molding the Swede of today.
Levant F. Thompson: Hop King, Banker, SenatorOne of Washington state’s earliest pioneers, Levant F. Thompson was the youngest territorial legislator and the oldest state senator. Much of his story is told in the pioneer's own words. Coming across the Oregon Trail in 1853, he describes the junkyard that stretched for miles littered with abandoned treasures. Levant Thompson, in his autobiography dated 1893, looked back at forty-three years of adventures and ventures, from the perils of everyday life on the trail, of being stranded in the desert and almost perishing, his days of Indian fighting, and operating his sawmill.
Little History of Bothell Washington
by Jack R. Evans
SCW Publications: ISBN 978-1-877-881-00-3
Softbound, 44 pp., 23 historical photographs; $3.95
The Bothells founded and first platted the town in 1889. The history covers the early pioneers, loggers, lumbermen, merchants, and historians. The Bothell bankers knew how to handle bank robbers. Many Bothell firsts are listed and early tall tales are revealed.
Little History of Gig Harbor Washington by Jack R. Evans
SCW Publications: ISBN 978-1-877882-01-1
Softbound, 32 pages with 23 historical photographs;
Retail $4.95
How did a banker's cigar become Gig Harbor's financial barometer? This book covers the early settlers, fishing and fishermen, steam boating, shipbuilding, rooster races, schools, and churches. After Gig Harbor's discovery in 1841, three fishermen arrived twenty-six years later and settled among the Indians and founded the town.
Little History of Renton Washington by Jack R. Evans
SCW Publications: ISBN 978-1-877-882-02-X
Softbound, 24 pp., 11 historical photographs; $2.25
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Christmas Mountain—The Story of A Cowboy Angel DVD 
Zeke's Revenge
Wayfarers—Where No One is an Outcast
The Dahlia Connection by Michael Dovell
Tagebuch 1945 (Diary)
Val Laigo's Passion by Barbara A. Evans
Chasing
His Dream: Life of Entrepreneur Richard Shannon Thorp
Re-Educating Myself by Bob Gebelein
The Mental Environment
Uncommon Common Sense by J. Glenn Evans
Songs of Life
Roll Me Over
This is
the 5th poetry collection by J. Glenn Evans, poet-novelist and political activist. Poems are listed under nine
headings: Call to Arms, Between the States, Smoke Signals, WW II, Vietnam, Middle East, The Victims, What Power
Says, Final Twitch. Forward is written by Don Richardson, author of The Gaia Conspiracy: The Last Days of Homo
sapiens. Described by one reviewer: Evans is an important American poet after Allen Ginsberg in the 1960s and his
poems should be songs for the 21st century Beatles.
Window in the Sky by J. Glenn Evans
Seattle Poems by J. Glenn Evans
“This
diverse collection includes poems by Nancy Dahlberg, Pat Duggan, J. Glenn Evans, Murray Gordon, Michael Magee, Carol Shaw, Laura Snyder, Leonard Tews, Rodney Williams, and Pieter Zilinsky. These poems, generated by Poets Table, a poets’ round table of writers, are about love and loss, work and the natural world, art and politics. The coverpiece comes from a painting by Northwest artist Richard Gilkey, entitled Table for Poems. Its muted bronze and gold carries the sense that here is substantial work. A book lies open and the table seems to be flowering and growing before our eyes.”
(Remarks by Michael Magee)