Bøger af Tom Norton

The backdrop for this the fiction book is a subject and reality that is far from fiction. The story is of two immigrants from pre Second World War Germany that became involved in matters concerning the Nazi party and the remnants of that party. The objective of the two was to try to rectify the disgrace of what happened to the Nazis, post-world war two. For all of the atrocities performed by the Nazi Party under Adolph Hitler, only a few of the highest ranking Nazis that were in Germany were prosecuted. The remaining ninety percent were not. They successfully hid in Germany or escaped to a few foreign countries. Many were just ignored or incorporated into other countries as professionals in their trade. Something to bear in mind is that Hitler didn't personally execute tens of thousands and few of the SS officers personally did. It was the common German soldier that lined people up and shot them by the tens of thousands. After the war they just blended into the German society with no punishment whatsoever. In 1945, the German atrocities in Eastern Europe were replaced by Russian atrocities.

This small book covers a time period from 1943 through 1950 in the city of Richland. It is an accumulation of recollections from someone who as a neighborhood boy of three in 1943 can remember today. It was Richland as I observed it through 1950 and remember it. A lot of older people have written about early Hanford life and for the most part it was not the life I remember. Obviously because I am not them and everyone living in Richland at this time period had different life styles and now different memories. This being a very good time in my life, it was not always like a lot of others remember it. These memories of course through the eyes of a young boy. Ironically, my mother remembered it just like I did, with the exception of course of my mischievousness she was not totally aware of. When I say mischievous pertaining to the boys in the neighborhood, I don't mean anything destructive, violent or mean in nature. You have heard "Boys will be boys," well that was us they were talking about. It was a little more earthy in the area where I lived than a lot of people's descriptions. Before the Manhattan Project and the establishment of Hanford Operations, Richland was a farming community in an arid part of Washington. Farming was only possible due to water for crops from the Yakima and Columbia Rivers and farming only occurred where these waters could be transported from the rivers. The general area of what we now call the Columbia Basin and a lot of the Yakima valley, was as it had been for thousands of years, little more than a desert. Other than for dryland wheat, the areas under cultivation lined the rivers and were in close proximity to them. Both the Columbia River and the Yakima River experienced heavy annual flooding and due to this as well as the ground containing large rocks and gravel, much of it made farming impossible. If looking from overhead at this area at the time, one would see farms next to the Columbia River west of Pasco and near the river. Not far west of Pasco the desert sagebrush started and continued on the east side of the river from there on with orchards at Ringold. There were some farms near old downtown Kennewick and the Finley area and a long stretch of rough terrain with a few homes and businesses between the Richland Y and on Bateman Island there were asparagus fields under cultivation. The Yakima River delta was a flood zone and covered with natural Timothy grass or hay that some harvested for livestock. The town of Richland was a small business area surrounded by orchards, vineyards, asparagus fields and from the top of Carmichael hill to the west was orchards and sagebrush . North of Richland were farms nearing to where 300 Area was located and then it was sagebrush and sand dunes until nearing the old White Bluffs town site many miles upstream. Other than what history I have read about this area, how do I know this? Well, there isn't an inch of it I haven't seen, and the old irrigation ditches, Yakima River dam remains and old farming furrows in the ground tell the story. This was a time when the remnants of the Wanapum Indian people visited the now West Richland area and had a burial site there.

This is the story of two teenage boys living in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1850. Their lifestyle there was a not too unfamiliar story during that time, although they were much better off than most teenage boys because their father owned a bank. Due to their divorced father's authoritarian manner and unexpected marriage, the boys went from free bank labor to living in a shed behind the newlyweds' house. One thing led to another and the two boys were on the run for bank robbery. The lure of the new California gold strike where you just picked up gold lying on the ground was as good a place to run to as any. They were pursued by the law in California while they used their wits and what meager amount of money they had. They dealt with the opportunities in the new state of California and all of its mining issues, army soldiers, Mexican bandits and Chinese laborers.

The backdrop for this story is the little known battle of Attu between the Japanese and the Americans during World War Two. Attu is a small island in the Alaska Aleutian Islands, closer to Russia than mainland Alaska. This story is of two Army Airforce Majors who experienced a great deal more of Russia than they liked after they crash landed in remote eastern Russia. For two years they encounter sub-zero temperatures, lack of food, wild animals, Indians, Russian deserters and the Japanese army. Although these two Majors are fictional characters facing such hardships, there were many soldiers during WWII who faced similar hardships.

This story was written for those of us who enjoy a good conspiracy theory and in particular one where millions will die if the theory is proven correct and action cannot be taken to prevent the catastrophe. We follow several years of the life of an individual who by conscience or just also being a conspiracy theorists acquires knowledge known by the Russians and not by the Americans or Cubans that in fact could mean the lives of millions of the Americans or Cubans. Our individual starting the story as a Dan Brown has several difficult years pursuing the conspiracy theory under the most dangerous of circumstances. His travels put him at the mercy of people at the highest rank of government down to criminal at the lowest ranking in societies. Our Dan Brown is not Dan Brown long due to circumstances and in fact he was never actually a Dan Brown. Those who are interested in conspiracy theories are also the type people reading of Dan Brown's dilemma that will surely think that this is just the kind of mess that they would get involved with.

When one acquires knowledge of U.S. history, it is almost always about men involved in events and the hardships they endured or their successes. Little is said about women other than for a few social movements they were involve with and almost nothing about the millions of children who also lived the history of the U.S. This book consists of short stories that try to shed light on the lives of women and children of the past and what they had to contend with in a man's world and life in the U.S. at the time. Of course there were millions of stories and these short stories do not represents the lives of all women and children in the past, but they do represent the majority of the women and children of the past. The stories are short, but they each convey a message. This message being about the United States and the time in history when the stories took place as well as the social and economic conditions at that time. It is amazing how different things were in the past, and at the same time, amazing how similar they are now. The history of the U.S. primarily consisted of the wealthy and the poor and the vast majority of Americans for most of this time period were poor.

The Neanderthal skulls and bones that have been discovered in Europe predate 40,000 years in the past. The proof for any later than that may just be due to lack of discovered artifacts and if they occupied Europe after that time, Neanderthals were few in number. In this fiction story, (Sam) a Neanderthal died some 25000 years ago, so he would have been one of the last or possibly the last Neanderthal. Atlantis has been described by the Greek Homer and it is not clear whether it was just a fable, a civilization that lived during Homer's time or he was just relating knowledge passed down for thousands of years. The popular consensus is that Atlantis was an island containing a civilization that was far more advanced than those at the time of Homer some 2000 years ago. It is also not clear why this civilization was socially and technologically more advanced considering it was of a limited population and isolated from other civilizations. One theory is that they were advanced in all aspects, because they had been that way for many thousands of years and how they originated as a people and culture can only be guessed at. In fact, there is no evidence that Atlantis ever existed, except as described by Homer and a few that may have been influenced by Homer. The existence of Atlantis, that was believed to be an island, has never been confirmed and historic beliefs are that the island of Atlantis sank into the sea and disappeared. It is a stretch to believe that Neanderthals and the people of Atlantis were present on the earth at the same time, but never the less, this fiction story is about such a possibility. The suspected and unproven connection between Neanderthals and Atlantis was discovered at a cave site in Europe by the three archeologists in the story and this created an ongoing problem for the three archeologists that made the discovery. The consequences of their yet unproven theory that the Neanderthal (Sam) and people from Atlantis had interacted is the story in this book.

A brief description of each of forty five books authored by Tom Norton

This is a fantasy story that begins on what we call May 5, 2021. It is a story of stone castles, kings, queens, princes and princesses in a world likened to our twelfth century. How could this be? Human society's advancement on earth has been dependent on resources and technological development and without resources there is no development. The back drop of the story is the lack of technological and social development due to the lack of resources. May 5, 2021 would be significantly more different than it is now if the societies had no access to oil, iron, coal and other resources so that a society could develop. This story takes place on what we call May 5, 2021, on the only known isolated land mass on earth where for whatever reasons, the sea level is thousands of feet higher than it is today. After tens of thousands of years, a society that stagnated technologically and socially, awoke due to a small metal object found buried in beach sand. It is a simple story of a much more simple time with fables of red haired demons and blue rabbits.

The contents of this book describe just some of the many hunting and fishing memories of the author. This book fills in the years when our younger sportsmen were not around and brings back fond memories of years gone by for older sportsmen. "What was the hunting and fishing like in the forties and fifties?" Few younger sportsmen have not given this some thought. I have tried to turn back the clock to those years, with some of my experiences. Belonging to a family who pursued hunting and fishing to the extreme, I have tried to describe from 1943 until today. This is how it was, from someone who was involved in this pursuit on a daily basis rather than someone who participated on the weekends or opening days. Although the geographic area covered in this book is "The Columbia Basin," in the northwest, I am sure that fishermen everywhere can relate to its contents. What was to be lost memories, is now history.

This historic fiction story takes place during a time when North America was as it had been for thousands of years with one exception, the introduction of the horse to North America from Europe. From what history is known of the Native American culture, habits, resources and the varying landscapes they lived in, one can as conjecture reverse engineer the association between horses and the American Indian. An integral part of this is also the habits and characteristics of horses. To Native Americans, the first sighting of a horse was dramatic and their first impression was that the horse was a giant dog. For this reason the name God Dog was commonly used. The resounding question is; how did horses get from Latin America to South Dakota? This story is a simple, but also complicated story that takes place in a few years and trying to condense what actually took place during the approximate period of 1620 to 1750. The story begins with a tragedy and two young Native American boys who had never heard of a horse or even imagined any animal a Native American could ride.

This story takes place in an era of kings, queens and castles. The setting is somewhere during a much simpler time when laws of monarchies and the church were absolute. The Forbidden King of Dristavia was just that; an event and king that were forbidden. The story is based upon an heir to the throne that throws a wrench into an otherwise stable society that had existed since the beginning of time. Nothing lasts forever.

Within the last eighty years a phenomenon known as UFOs has been with us. These UFOs and their occupants have been witnessed by thousands and UFO research indicates that they have been visiting Earth for centuries. Artifacts from the Incas and the Egyptians represent what is being observed today. The UFOs and their obvious alien occupants have had no detrimental or beneficial effect on Earthlings, so the question is; why are they here?THERE IS AN EXPLANATION THAT ANSWERS THIS QUESTION.

There is a small planet some 150 trillion miles from Earth and if someone on Earth sends a message to this planet at approximately 40,000 miles per hour, it will take 500,000 years to deliver it. For all of the obvious reasons, including one that the sender doesn't even know for sure the planet is there; there will not be a lot of communication taking place. But in the loosest of terms communication is possible, but it requires a sender who will be extinct hundreds of thousands of years before the message is delivered, doesn't know who they are sending it to, and a recipient who has no idea a message is in route and probably didn't exist when it was sent. As absurd as this scenario is, a message is on its way.

A series of events occurred during the early twenty-second century which were unexpected. The first being a large solar flare that was much larger than the Earth had ever experienced before. The second being a Super Nova being much too close for comfort and the third being unexplained geological activity of the Earth, which had destructive consequences and the potential for more in the near future. There was the possibility that these were potential hazards which could annihilate all living organisms in our solar system. Action was taken so that the human race should have the best chance possible to survive and propagate. Although it could not be in this solar system.

In a lower middle income suburb of an unspecified city, live an older couple who have a daughter who lives in the same city and she has two children; Susie and Jimmie. Susie is a fourth grader and Jimmie is in the second grade. Grandpa is a hair on fire, banner waving Trump Conservative, whereas Grandma is a cynical Liberal and rarely speaks to Grandpa about politics or ideology. The interaction between Susie, Jimmie, Grandpa and Grandma is caused by Grandpa and Grandma babysitting the kids after school until Mom picks them up. Mom is a Liberal of the highest order and has made every effort to bring her children up the same way. This book is a compilation of communications between Grandpa, Grandma, Susie and Jimmie and is intended to be humorous and satirical in nature. It is intended to be along the lines of the humor of the Archie Bunker TV show and is admittedly very bias against Trump and some of his Republican supporters. The content of this book is about the contrast between Grandpa and the others in respect to their ideology and Grandpa's lifestyle that is stereotype Conservative with a Mississippi swamp background.

The content of this book consists of 130 different topics, which could be considered controversial by some and not by others. This is totally dependent on the mindset, beliefs and perceptions of the individual reader. To some degree these factors are addressed in this book. The author of this book is not claiming the topics of this book are even accurate. They are only perceived to be accurate by him due to his limited knowledge, experiences, what he has witnessed and what he remembers as to what he has read. From this, he has developed his personal perception of the topics. There are also topics in this book described as perceptions, by people other than the author.This is an interactive book in that the reader is invited to determine if the author's and other's perceptions are correct or incorrect and how they differ from the reader's perceptions and to consider why. How do two people see the same thing and have a different perception of it?

The subject of this novel is a 45-year-old introvert named Allen Meyers. For reasons unknown to him, he was separated from his parents as an infant and the subsequent years of his childhood were turbulent. Running away from a foster home at the age of ten, he found himself on a beach near Los Angeles. This remembered beach scene plagues him through adulthood and he believes that he is losing his mind. Allen never likes where he is at any time and always would rather be somewhere else; possibly the beach. Seeking medical help for his condition, he is diagnosed as a Significant Telepath, resulting in him working for a secret agency within the U.S. government. His condition and his new occupation put Allen in dangerous situations concerning a nuclear device acquired by Al-Qaida. It seems things go from bad to worse for Allen Meyers, as one dangerous adventure leads to another.