Saturday, January 6, 2024

Hot Off The Press

We have a few books below. You can read them on the blog for free. No reason to buy - free is good. I am also putting them on Amazon.com.  I have not quite mastered getting the formatting which is a bit tricky and causing me to lose what hair I have left. I don't have the table of contents in books properly formatted. I had put a great deal of information online on blogs.  My friend and coauthor of Sarasota Sister Cities, Dr. Ray Young, convinced me of the merits of putting the books on Amazon, where more people will find them.


SCAS Book Publication Release and Signing Celebration Happy Hour


Join our celebration of all the volunteers that have contributed to Sarasota Sister Cities. Enjoy getting to see old friends again from SCAS. Come see your name and perhaps your picture in the book.

2nd floor of the Azul Restaurant for our "SCAS Book Publication Release and Signing Celebration Happy Hour" on January 25 from 5:00-7:00. The restaurant is located at 1296 1st next to the Sarasota Opera House and across from the Selby Library, a very convenient location.

Get a signed copy of the book for only $10.  All profits from Book Sales go to Sarasota Sister Cities. Or read an earlier less developed book on https://booksarasota.blogspot.com/, or read on Amazon.


Quest To Save The Castle Ca'd'Zan: From The Pirate Captain Red Tide and The Purple Polluting Pirates

These are blogs with embedded books, podcasts and short videos written for children and their parents. They have the following purposes:

    1. Be Entertaining to children
    2. Teach Green” Sustainability

    3. Promote Sustainable Tourism


They are designed so that if the parent wishes they can download the book into their word processor and insert their children's photos into the book.

Click to read:  questtosavethecastle.blogspot.com

The plan for all the children's sustainability books are on: 

questbooksforchildren.blogspot.com. I have also put the book on Amazon.com.




This was originally published in 1987. It is interesting to see how many projects came to fruition versus how many died. I later put it on a blog: dreamsandschemeschicago.blogspot.com and now on Amazon.com

The Chicago region contains many attractive and desirable communities. However, the region has suffered greatly from the recent recession. The Southern Suburbs and the industrial portions of the City of Chicago have been the most negatively impacted during this financial downturn. 

The purpose of this discourse is to outline some major improvements to the area which will improve the Chicago region, both for current residents and for prospective investors. Some of the projects listed here are underway, while others have not been publicly discussed.

The book was initially published as a Book in 1987. The text was written on a Radio Shack Model 100 portable computer, transferred and edited on a Kaypro 2 CPM computer, transferred and edited on an Epson Equity II+, and desktop published. I converted it and updated it to a blog and Google Document in 2017. I put it on Amazon.com in 2024.




This book was written by my Mother, Louise Liffengren Hullinger, in 2000. It is a number of fictional short stories based on her experience  about growing up in western South Dakota in the 1930's. You can read it on a blog at: louisehullinger.blogspot.com and on Amazon


"Louise Liffengren Hullinger, a South Dakota daughter, weaves memories and stories into a compelling rural pageant of the 1930's and early 40's. Life was a struggle brightened by pie socials, baseball rivalry and neighborhood dances. NEXT YEAR COUNTRY presents characters who even after crop failure three years in a row could say next year will be better." . . . Harriet Carlson, articles editor, NLAPW, Inc. 


"As homesteaders wrestle South Dakota prairie into farmland, Hullinger draws readers into NEXT YEAR COUNTRY, stories filled with history, humor, insight and neighborliness.". . . Linda M. Bendorf, MAT, JD Instructor, U of Iowa Summer Writing Festival 


"Those who have experienced gumbo roads, grasshoppers and catalogs in the outhouse are stirred to nostalgia by NEXT YEAR COUNTRY, an apt description of depression years while helping later generations to understand that era"  Bob Karolevitz, columnist and author of 35 books including TEARS IN MY HORSE-RADISH and OTHER RIDICULOUS STORIES. 


". . . drouth drying up so new wells had to be poked all over to get enough water for the cattle. Hullinger writes with perception about driving cattle to market, churning butter and teaching in a one-room school-house."... Ruth McGinnis, poet and freelance reporter. 


"In Hullinger's NEXT YEAR COUNTRY, there is no 911 to call when a student and teacher are stranded in a one-room school house during a blizzard nor when prairie fires threaten to devour grassland and farm. Neighbors do what they can." . . . Ella M. Clark, oral interpreter.










This book is under construction, not yet complete. It is about our extended family and what we know about them extending back to Switzerland in the 1400's and before that with our paternal DNA.  You can read it on 
hollingerhullinger.blogspot.com. The first chapter is on Amazon.com





This is a novel about Vietnam. It is under construction and not really ready for prime time. It is the story of a Marine Lieutenant in Vietnam and his interaction with a lovely Vietcong.  I was a Marine Lieutenant in Vietnam, but this fellow had a much more interesting experience than I did. You can read it on


SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America. Culling transformative ideas from the realms of historic preservation, sustainability, ecological urbanism, and the innovation economy, Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong present a holistic vision for restoring industrial cities suffering from population decline back into stimulating and productive places to live and work.
 
With a particular emphasis on the Rust Belt of the American Midwest, 
SynergiCity argues that cities such as Detroit, St. Louis, and Peoria must redefine themselves to be globally competitive. This revitalization is possible through environmentally and economically sustainable restoration of industrial areas and warehouse districts for commercial, research, light industrial, and residential uses. The volume's expert researchers, urban planners, and architects draw on the redevelopment successes of other major cities--such as the American Tobacco District in Durham, North Carolina, and the Milwaukee River Greenway--to set guidelines and goals for reinventing and revitalizing the postindustrial landscape.
 
Contributors are Paul J. Armstrong, Donald K. Carter, Lynne M. Dearborn, Norman W. Garrick, Mark Gillem, Robert Greenstreet, Craig Harlan Hullinger, Paul Hardin Kapp, Ray Lees, Emil Malizia, John O. Norquist, Christine Scott Thomson, and James Wasley.

Available on Amazon



Economic Development - Our Book on a Blog, eventually on amazon.com





I have numerous stories written on many blogs. You can read them on allourscoop.blogspot.com.



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Craig Hullinger
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Hot Off The Press

We have a few books below. You can read them on the blog for free. No reason to buy - free is good. I am also putting them  on  Amazon.com ....