Instead of simply waiting around, getting fed up, and finally quitting at the worst possible moment, as so many of us have been tempted to do, Gordon Miller has developed a system for quitting strategically -- and improving your pay and career opportunities at the same time. This is a real-world practical guide for dramatically increasing wages, as told by an average working stiff who quit four jobs in five years and tripled his pay. The pithy Quit Your Job Often and Get Big Raises was a self-published phenomenon that has continued to sell in its Main Street edition.

When young Chet Palmer joined the crew of the coastal schooner Exact in the frontier city of Portland in Oregon Territory in the year 1851, he had no intention of losing his freedom. But a routine trading voyage to the Indian west coast of Vancouver Island, with a short stop in Puget Sound to offload a group of pioneers who planned to build a city there, has left him in the alien world of the Nootka Indians as a slave and triggered an adventure of survival and enlightenment beyond his wildest imagination. Given the degrading name of White Clam by the tribe who captured him, Chet must face up...

GOLD AND SALVATION is a 63,332-word noirish crime novel. It's a tale of murder, love and greed in the border cities of Windsor and Detroit, then down through the States in a 1940 Ford coupe all the way to Juarez, Mexico. The year is 1952 and it's tough finding an honest job with all the boys back from the war. But Jimmy Delaney figures he's stepped out on Easy Street. He's stolen $60,000 in gold bars-the score of a lifetime. Now all he has to do is haul ass down to Mexico and lay on the beach with Clover Spence: a Metis woman and the love of his life. Clover is a smart P.I. who's been...