THE HUNGRY HILLS Book Title: The Hungry Hills. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: February 29, 2000. Retail price: $16.95.Regional Humor/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 336 pages. ISBN: 0-595-09044-3. Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: Ingram Books, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, and most chain bookstores in the United States. Synopsis: The Hungry Hills is a collection of 32 humorous stories about real hillbillies living in the southern Missouri Ozarks. There along Ridge Road lives Uly Mae Bumgardner, who runs a late-evening and early morning pick-up service that keeps the area free of trash; the Rev. Holy Bob Roller, pastor of the Sacred Temple of Blessed Faith Chapel and father of most of the congregation; Vardaman the Talking Crow (a politician, as it turns out); and, of course, the Professor, Clarence Phleugel, who moved his Phi Beta Kappa spouse and two anemic children out to the hills to get away from the smells, noises, and complications of the big city.

MADAM PRESIDENT Book Title: Madam President. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: May 7, 2000. Retail price: $20.95. Political Satire/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 423 pages. ISBN: 0-595-09853-3. Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: Ingram Books, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, and most chain bookstores in the United States. Synopsis:Madam President is an adventure thriller about the first woman to occupy the Oval Office legally. Martha Feldon, the former wife of a U. S. Senator, a strong Women's Rights advocate, ran on a platform promising to end wars, sexism, crime in the streets, and the national debt. After two very expensive wars and another on the horizon, worldwide terrorism out of control, worsening domestic crime and prejudice, and the highest national debt in history, the two largest voting blocks in the country simply voted their consciences-and gave Martha the reins of government. She did the rest. Men became second-class citizens! And, of course, a civil war broke out. What happened next is told without bias or prejudice by the only man qualified to tell it.

THE RIVER BEND Book Title: The River Bend. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: August 15, 2000. Retail price: $12.95. Autobiography/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 234 pages. ISBN: 0-595-12284-1. Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: Ingram Books, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, and most chain bookstores in the United States. Synopsis:Once upon a time there was a fabulous place known as the River Bend, in Seminole County, Oklahoma. During the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl it was an ideal place for an intergetic boy to grow up, despite the hard times. There were none of the luxuries and accessories that we have come to take for granted today, but there were wild and exciting places like the Willow Bottom and the Red Clay Ditches and the Sand Canyons; and the kid from whose viewpoint these stories and anecdotes were written made the best of them. He was a Tom Sawyer of the West!

THE SPLENDID FIVE Book Title: THE SPLENDID FIVE was published in 2000. It is the true story of five wooden subchasers in the Pacific Theater of War during WW2. In New Caledonia they were converted to LCCs (communications ships) and turned over to Gen. MacArthur and his island-hopping invasion fleet. The author served as a radio operator aboard the SC-995. During General Quarters he was the gunner of a 20mm. antiaircraft gun. His ship participated in a number of landings, experienced a number of battles with Jap 'Zeros' (including a large number of kamikazes), and survived one of the worst typhoons ever recorded in the Pacific.

HARD TO KILL Book Title: Hard to Kill. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: March 15, 2001. Retail price: $14.95. Western Romance/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 196 pages. ISBN: 0-595-17513-9. Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: Ingram Books, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, and most chain bookstores in the United States. Synopsis: Slim woke in a dark alley with a hole in his head, and he not only did not know where he was but he had not the slightest idea who he was. He had a strong feeling t hat someone had shot him and he had fallen from an upstairs window. Thus the story begins of John Wesley Hardin waking up with amnesia in a small Wyoming town. His life would surely have ended that dark night in Greentree, had it not been for a beautiful girl who just happened to come along and ....

THE HOOLIGAN NAVY Book Title: The Hooligan Navy. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: July 5, 2001. Retail price: $26.95. Ships and the Sea/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 519 pages. ISBN: 0-595-19017-0. Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: Ingram Books, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, and most chain bookstores in the United States. Synopsis: The Old Coast Guard, shortly after WW2, was where the action was at that time. I shipped over from the wartime Navy in early 1947, accompanied by two other sailors of fortune. We went to the West Coast, where I signed on as a radioman aboard the CGC Alert, tied up in Eureka, California. One of my friends went to the Coast Guard Tug, tied up at Fisherman's Wharf. Rugged duty. The other became part of Ship's Company at the Government Island Coast Guard Base. That was the beginning of a wild hitch that found me manning the radios of the cutters Chautauqua, Taney, Bramble, Escanaba, and the Storis, not to mention two visits to the Alert! My duty began on the West Coast, moved to the East Coast, down to Panama, around and up the West Coast to Seattle and, finally, Juneau, Alaska. It was a wild and zany time, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

YESTERDAY'S CHILD Book Title: Yesterday's Child. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: September 11, 2001. Retail price: $18.95.Travel Romance/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 330 pages. ISBN: 0-595-19904-6. Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: Ingram Books, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, and most chain bookstores in the United States. Synopsis: Shortly after WWII ended, Jason Rhodes, Stephanie Howorth, and three other veterans of the Pacific War were returning to the States when the PBY in which they were flying crashed near an island in the Yasawas, at the northwest edge of the Fijis. This is the story of young first love cursed by ambition and pride, and the roles that chance and fate often play in our lives. Rhodes, convinced that he is the favorite of a minor god, sets out to fulfill two driving ambitions: to win the hand of the beautiful Stephanie Howorth, the only child of a rich Southern tycoon, and to write the Great American Novel. In the beginning, it appeared that his god was paving the way for him....

CAIN McGEE Book Title: CAIN MCGEE, JUNIOR G-MAN. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: December 31, 2001. Retail price: $15.95.Childrens Adventure/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 287 pages. ISBN: 0-595-21275-1. Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: Ingram Books, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, and most chain bookstores in the United States. Synopsis:A companion to The River Bend, this is the author's own personal story about growing up in a very remote Oklahoma neighborhood. He was the last of eleven children born to Horace Greeley Hall and Mallie Rue Karr, devout Baptist and Methodist (respectively) Christians. It is the story of a boy very much alive to the wonders of the outdoors and things like writing for the county newspaper, sending off for free 30-day free-trial stuff, sleuthing for the Junior G-Man Club, organizing a Lone Scout Tribe, and playing Outlaws at Bugscuffle School.

THE HALL TREE>This is an American family history, eleven generations of the descendants of John Hall of Perth, Scotland. Unlike most such family trees, it includes stories and legends handed down, census records, recent developments in the family, and much more. The first edition of this book was published in 2002; and a revised and enlarged second edition is available at Amazon.com and other chain bookstores

KILROYKILROY, HOME FROM THE WAR is the second volume of a trilogy that began with T he Splendid Five and was followed by Pinky. It is the (true) story of the author (whose nickname is 'Pinky' through most of the book and 'Red', after he proves himself to be a man), a WW2 sailor back home after almost three years in the Pacific. It is a most exciting time for ex-servicemen of that time because everything is free for the asking. In the eyes of the homefolks they are all heroes and saviors, and there is literally nothing that the adoring civilian public would not do for them. Red buys a 1935 Ford and names it Kilroy, and during his year as a civilian he and his friends have many adventures in and around their little Oklahoma hometown.

EAGLES & CANARIES Book Title: Eagles and Canaries. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: December 11, 2002. Retail price: $16.95.Short Stories/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 290 pages. ISBN: 0-595-25902-2 (pb); 0-595-65419-3 (hb). Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: Ingram Books, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, and most chain bookstores in the United States. Synopsis: Eagles & Canaries is a collection of twenty-six short stories and sketches that range all the way from portraits of rednecks and white trash (reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor grotesques) to (darkly) humorous insights into the lowly and frustrated lives of modern-day hillbillies, rednecks, and trailerhouse people. The title story, for example, is set in a redneck bar in the Queen City of the Ozarks. It's actually a philosophical discussion about the two kinds of women that frequent the place, those that are looking for a nest (and would welcome the prospects of a cage) and those that are out for a one-night fling and have no intention of becoming 'involved' with a member of the opposite sex. The discussion is led by the Resident Astrologer of the Pub, Halitosis the Guru, who has intimate knowledge of both types of women. His fellows at the table (on which are several pitchers of beer) are Jeremy the Lion-Hearted (whose real name is Richard), John the Unbaptized (an artist who cannot paint anything but nude females), and Cherry Pitt (who has four sisters, all named after fruit).

BRIEF CANDLE Book Title: Brief Candle. Author: Wesley E. Hall. Publication date: April 7, 2003. Retail price: $20.95.Biographical Fiction/Trade Paperback. Size: 6X9. Length: 366 pages. ISBN: 0-595-27441-2. Publisher: Writers Club, iUniverse. Available: iUniverse.com ( Synopsis: Jake Boswell, a Victorian born in America during the Jazz Age, discovers that he is deeply in love with a trailerhouse girl. This comes after thirty years of good behavior and marriage to the same woman. Finally, at the top of the academic ladder, Jake finds himself facing two enormous problems: at home a wife who has become a dipsomania and at work an endless wave of young liberated retreads. Lola, once a lovely and charming companion, has become a migraine disaster; but even so, if Heather Roberts had stayed in her trailerhouse with her two kids and her beer-guzzling and guitar-playing husband, he would (more than likely ) have stayed in the rut he had dug for himself. Part of the blame might also be shared by the politicians in Washington who thought up the idea of paying young mothers stuck in trailershouses to go back to college to learn something besides how to have babies.