Our Bookshelf
Sports

Pickle Juice: The Fluid Motion Factor for Pickleball
An amazing exploration of how your existing capabilities can be released from internal interference so you can play your best game.

Quiet Champion - Tennis
A fictionalized account of how Fluid Motion Factor sports principles and techniques helped a world-class tennis player access what he already knows and return to the top.

Quiet Champion - Golf
A fictionalized account of how Fluid Motion Factor sports principles and techniques helped a world-class golfer access what he already knows and return to the top.
History

The White Rose
Non-Fiction account of a group of student anti-war, anti-Nazi protestors. The opponent? Their own country: Nazi Germany. Their origins, actions, capture, execution, and legacy.

Human Shields
The remarkable story of civilians who traveled to Iraq hoping their physical presence could deter war, documenting their ideals, conflicts, assignments, experiences, and difficult aftermath.

The Pursuit of Black Hawk
The miscommunications, tragic encounters, missed opportunities and brutal outcomes of the collision of two peoples in a running battle that shaped the current American Midwest.
Opinion

Plurocracy: A New Civic Architecture for a Plural Society
A provocative proposal for redesigning democracy around genuine pluralism, asking how political institutions might better represent competing communities, viewpoints, identities, and interests without chronic paralysis.

Paul Fixes the Tax System: And other dangerous ideas about money and the common good
A witty, provocative rethink of taxes, wealth, fairness, and the common good, challenging familiar assumptions while offering unconventional ideas for a healthier shared civic economy.

Is My AI Showing?
A candid, humorous exploration of writing with artificial intelligence, examining authorship, creativity, collaboration, authenticity, and what happens when human judgment increasingly meets machine capability directly.
Politics

The Talking Dead: How the Republican Party Lost its Way
A sharply argued account of how the Republican Party became detached from its earlier principles, tracing ideological shifts, political incentives, personalities, and consequences for democracy.

Life Support: How the Democratic Party Lost its Mojo (and what to do about it)
A diagnosis of the Democratic Party’s loss of energy, identity, and persuasive power, paired with practical ideas for reconnecting with voters and rebuilding political vitality.

The Religious Wrong: The Anti-Christ Coalition
An examination of the alliance between conservative Christianity and political power, arguing that partisan religion can betray the moral teachings it publicly claims to defend.
The Travesty in Chief: He Who Shall Not Be Named
A satirical chronicle of the current US President's political rise, public behavior, rhetoric, controversies, and cultural impact, examining how one outsized personality reshaped and decayed American political life - without adding to the onerous, repetitive, nearly omnipresent (and self-gratifying) proliferation of that name in the environment.

J'Accuse: A Public Record, Lest We Forget
A documentary-style political indictment preserving statements, actions, and events for the historical record, asking readers to remember what happened, who enabled it, and precisely why.
Autobiography

David Gjestson: Volume I
The first volume of David Gjestson’s life story, tracing Norwegian family roots, childhood, formative experiences, work, relationships, travels, and the events that ultimately shaped him.

David Gjestson, Volume II
The continuing story of David Gjestson’s life, following later adventures, relationships, challenges, achievements, and reflections while preserving family history for generations still yet to come.

The Map of Iowa
Paul Stokstad's memoir mapped across Iowa towns, roads, schools, jobs, weather, sports, family, and memory, where ordinary Midwestern moments gradually reveal the geography of a life.
Places

Loam Rangers: Mountain Biking in the Bellingham Area
A spirited guide to mountain biking around Bellingham, combining trails, local culture, riding lore, practical knowledge, and an affectionate portrait of a world-class cycling landscape.

Fairfield: A Home in the Heartland
A portrait of Fairfield, Iowa, exploring the people, institutions, culture, architecture, creativity, spirituality, and unexpected influences that make this small Midwestern town so unusually distinctive.

The Transcendentalists
An exploration of the surprising intellectual journey linking ancient Indian thought, New England Transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau, meditation, and the continuing American search for higher consciousness.

The Movement: An Anecdotal History - Volume I
An anecdotal history of the Transcendental Meditation movement told through people, places, episodes, personalities, and firsthand memories that capture an unusual cultural and spiritual era.

The Movement: An Anecdotal History - Special Edition - Bevan Morris
A special edition centered on Bevan Morris, gathering stories and memories that illuminate his leadership, character, influence, and distinctive place within the Transcendental Meditation movement.
