Roderic Schmidt

• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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Hermanos is a story of cultures in conflict. Set in a small town in California, the novel describes the clash of values when two brothers, Alfredo and Mario Alhambra, show up to surf at what a high school classmate considers his surfing grounds. Mari...

• Aug-2006
• / Action Adventure
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Toby: In Five Acts recounts the experiences of young Toby Giles as he learns, through a series of experiences, to come to terms with a tragic incident that scarred his young life. Toby begins life with his twin brother, Donnie, but discovers that he ...

• Jun-2009
• / Historical Romance
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Adam O'Kee is the half-Cherokee son of a prosperous brothel owner from the gold rush town of Bodie, California. Young and strong-willed, Adam is forced to grow up quickly after the unexpected death of his beloved mother. Left without family, Adam fle...

• Oct-2011
• / Historical
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What Goes Around, a work of historical fiction, recounts the events leading up to the death of Harold, King of England, at the Norman Conquest led by his cousin and arch rival William Duke of Normandy. Such events include Harold's visits to the Norma...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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"...is the narrative of Agnes who lives on in our souls as the ghost of Harris Grade. Her narrative begins with her unhappy childhood, continues on to describe her wondrously happy life with her childhood sweetheart and concludes with her untimely de...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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In When Darkness Reigns, Schmidt returns to his cherished Sierra Nevada Mountains - the scene of his earlier novel Out of Bodie. However, Darkness is considerably bleaker: its narrator, Joey, then Joseph Sparrow, and his Indian blood brother, Runn...

• Dec-2016
• / General Fiction
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Battlefields...the story of war--any twentieth-century or twenty-first-century war and its often tragic aftermath. It is the story of Jody Alvarez, told mostly in his own, often disjointed, words as he struggles to deal with PTSD (post-traumatic s...

• Sep-2020
• / Historical
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Gaviota Beginnings traces the three generations of Californios beginning with Sean Michael O'Shea, who settles in the upstart community of Santa Barbara following his flight from the mountains north of Dublin. Sean Michael's narrative quickly becomes...