David A. Woodbury

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About David A. Woodbury

Publishing through DamnYankee.com, David A. Woodbury is a native American who also has putative aboriginal ancestry. He grew up in Allen County, Ohio, and Franklin County, Maine. Since 1977 he and his wife have made their home in Penobscot County, north of the 45th parallel. Their children and grandchildren all live in Maine as well. With diplomas in wildlife management and Russian language, his wage-earning career has been bracketed by military service as a Russian cryptanalyst in the ASA and self-employment as a Registered Maine Guide, active in fishing, hunting, and recreation. Visit ColdMorningShadow.com to find a Reading Guide, to request a PDF copy of the song, for some background about this book, and to discuss it. Email the author at coldmorningshadow@gmail.com, even if only to say Hi. Go to DamnYankee.com to see all of his written work.

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Fire, Wind & Yesterday: A Tale of Ukraine and Khazaria Aug 3, 2017

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Set in a treacherous ninth-century land that is now Ukraine and southern Russia, Fire, Wind & Yesterday is a novel for those who love serious historical fiction. Laïsha sees the chance and claims her freedom, fleeing alone down a cold Russian river. Her escape is thwarted but perhaps she can manipulate Kolyek, a bumbling Slavic healer deep in the woods, to shield her until she finds another way home. But the forest rings with the howls of wolves. Wait… no, not wolves. Holy men from Greece. They are headed in the right direction. Will they take a young woman along or does the healer have to come too? So many deadly mistakes and the lies to cover them! So where is the danger if faith be bold and the truth be told?

That's her perspective, anyway. What about his? Kolyek sees himself as a humble peasant aspiring to become a physician of modern ways. When an unconscious, injured woman lands literally at his doorstep he discovers that he is left no option but to take up the cause of two Greek holy men who also darken his door and cross the steppe with them and with the fugitive woman in pursuit of an elusive rendezvous. While Kolyek awakens to the Greeks’ advanced culture, becomes an unwitting hero in his near-fatal defiance of a nomadic chieftain, and decides whether he is a man to whom things happen or a man who makes things happen, the holy men discover in the humble peasant’s cottage the rudiments of what is now the Cyrillic alphabet.

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Cold Morning Shadow Feb 12, 2020

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An upbeat family saga, Cold Morning Shadow begins as four teenagers in rural South Dakota are laying the cornerstones for lasting friendships in the late 1960s. Cyleine, an off-reservation member of the Oglala Lakota, and her brother, Lionel, befriend Wilton and his sister, "Rockie," post-European newcomers just moved from urban Virginia. One of the girls, whose heedlessly unfiltered utterances melt hearts and barriers, is imperturbable and obliviously alluring. The other, secretly daring and agonizingly sentimental, is a connoisseur of numbers and words. One of the boys is outwardly fierce but privately gentle, the other quietly observant and disastrously cautious. One of the four, a visionary, transforms the family business. One, who is deaf but not as helpless as it might sound, becomes penpals with President Nixon. One organizes stray thoughts, the family's horses, and the people who matter most. And one, who wants to propose marriage but can't find the words, is branded a deserter in Vietnam. The story dares ask, with optimism: What if things that seem doomed turn out for the better instead? What if forbearance and human kindness prevail? What if disaster is not merely averted but vanquished? What's wrong, after all, with a happy ending that is then the beginning of what is yet to come?

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Babie Nayms: (Baby Names): thousands of suggested first names for whitish babies without strong ethnic roots Mar 25, 2011

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With thousands of suggested first names for whitish babies who don't have strong ethnic or pseudo-ethnic roots, Babie Nayms gives the widest range of possibilities for creating new names. The book takes a harsh look at the nuttier things whitish people have done in naming their kids, but it also makes serious suggestions for naming babies who may one day grow up to be real people.

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The Clover Street News Apr 18, 2010

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In a brisk novel of youth, family, neighbors, and best friends, a 13-year-old girl earns a night in jail, the unexpected consequence of good intentions. She couldn't have done it though, without help from a little brother, a computer, and a grouchy neighbor. And she wouldn't have a lot to look forward to afterward without the support of an elderly neighbor with famous connections.

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Tales to Warm Your Mind: Ten Whimsically Morbid Short Stories Mar 29, 2010

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Petey, a small boy, disappears from sight in front of a crowd of witnesses – a magic trick gone wrong or an act of malice? A teacher orders two boys outside to clean up a dog mess, but the principal has to step in. The boatman has a job to do, but whom does he serve? Marzy spent years on stage as the real Aunt Jemima, but that was a long time ago. When he is cleaning up his late father’s affairs, Donald is jarred by the recollection of the girl whose face he fell in love with when he was nine. Larry’s father hated the new traffic light at the corner down the road, but it was no deterrent to Larry and his first car. Three boys discover a cavity under a rock in their backyard woods, but is it just a cave? Hollis takes his aging father to visit the abandoned one-room school the old man attended when he was young, impulsive, and trying to impress a certain little girl. Two cousins go camping and barely escape the assaults of nature. Hollywood made a movie about them when they were young, but now they're just an anonymous old couple clogging up the streets. Set mostly in quieter times and told with an ear for compassion and whimsy, these are tales to warm your mind.

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