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Modeling the Earth and Sky--in preparation

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Science Education Books

Modeling the Earth and Sky, Investigations in Water, Land, and People
by Russ and Mary Colson

Modeling the Earth and Sky offers a suite of activities for a 5-week STEM investigative unit focused on water movement in and under the land and how that water and its movement impact landscapes and humans. Classroom activities emphasize the recognition and interpretation of patterns in scientific modeling and engage students in a variety of experimental, interpretive, and modeling practices. In addition to earth science, principles of physical science, as they occur in the natural world, are examined.

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A Light in the Sky--Coming soon

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Science Fiction Books

A Light in the Sky

--the second novel in the certainty principle universe

Stranded in the distant past, physicist Susan Arasmith is delighted with her new friend from the future--until she learns he might be planning to kill her. When she realizes that he must kill her to save the human race, and that he desperately needs her help, she has a number of hard choices to make.

A Light in the Sky is set at the end of human life on Earth where desperation and serendipity bring together five strangers from different times and cultures. Alone, each faces terrible loss. Together they might find hope. But, only if they learn to trust each other.

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The Kilns of Jupiter--Coming soon

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Science Fiction Books

The Kilns of Jupiter

--the first novel in the Quelly Clary series

Quelly Clary, a prickly high school dropout and self-taught planetary processes expert, teams up with a rich ne'er-do-well to save Earth from dangerous agents looking for an ancient library hidden somewhere in the volcanic ice of the moons of Jupiter.

The Kilns of Jupiter is an old-fashioned science fiction adventure set a couple hundred years in the future when giant ships regularly loop between Earth and Jupiter, carrying tourists, businesspeople, and a few assassins. Twenty-one-year-old Quelly Clary really wants to trust people, but life hasn't made that easy. When she heads to Jupiter to investigate an attempt on her life, she finds more than she imagined—including an ancient power buried in volcanic ice on the moons of Jupiter that promises to change forever humanity's place in the universe. Quelly's expertise in geology may be Earth's best hope to survive that power. But, can she learn to trust the rich and arrogant "Barn" McAdams and the rest of her team soon enough to save the world? Saving the world may require just that as well as all of Quelly’s exceptional skills in scientific deduction.

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Fabric of the Ages--Work in progress

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Science Fiction Books

Fabric of the Ages

--Written with coauthor Laurie Sand

Raven Vega wants to be taken seriously as a textile archaeologist and the possibility that the puzzling fabric she finds at an Exxon construction site is of alien origin is too absurd to be credible in the academic world she hopes to impress. What’s more, she finds herself drawn into the mythology of her own Pueblo heritage—the world of the Kachina “sky beings” and their home in Shipolo, the “Land of Mist and Clouds”—which proves an unwelcome connection to the UFO sensationalism that she despises. But as she follows the evidence, it seems to suggest that not only might the aliens be real, but she herself may have been brought to Earth by them, and the people she's always called family have been lying to her for years...

Fabric of the Ages is the story of Raven Vega, an ambitious textile archaeologist, and Milo Adams, her laid-back geochemist ex-husband, who discover an eight-hundred-year-old fabric made in a style too advanced for the time and are drawn into a dark past involving the murder of Milo's mother, a mysterious 'missing time' for Raven's people, the descendants of the Pueblo, and the deepening realization that many people they know, including Raven's own family, are not at all what them seem to be.

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A People Joined Assunder--In planning

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Science Fiction Books

A People Joined Assunder

--The second novel of the Quelly Clary series

In between struggling to understand the mysterious inert battle station found in The Kilns of Jupiter, counter attacks by the power-hungry Mongoose, and navigate her relationship to new-boss Barn McAdams, self-taught geosciences expert, Quelly Clary, discovers a stratigraphic record on the moons of Jupiter that reveals an immensity and meaning to time that had not been imagined before and that offers proof of a human destiny linked inescapably to another race from another world.

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