PARK PLACE PRESS Spotlight Gifts

Christmas in Montpelier
by F. Ross Peterson

ISBN 978-0-9961850-3-5  (paperback)
​ISBN 978-0-9964150-4-2 (eBook)

​$15.95 paperback
​$4.95 eBook
​212 pages

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Christmas in Montpelier recalls twelve true stories from the author's youth. Growing up in Montpelier, Idaho, Ross learns valuable lessons of service, responsibility and faith.


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Jacques and the Forbidden Christmas
by Martha Sears West

ISBN 978-1-7329799-8-7 (hardback)
ISBN 978-7353718-0-1 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-7329899-9-4 (eBook)

​$22.95 hardback
$16.95 paperback
​$4.95 eBook
​62 pages

​Napoleon has declared Christian worship illegal, but courageous eight-year-old Jacques helps the villagers remember Jesus. Does his friendship with a revolutionary soldier put his family in danger? Or can Jacques soften the soldier’s heart?
I Can Cook: A Visual Cookbook
by Mickey Fryer
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ISBN 978-815027582-4-8
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$18.95 paperback
​86 pages


​This cookbook is designed to help beginners and people with disabilities learn the life-skill of cooking with more independence. The recipes are easy, the pictures are colorful, the directions are simple, and the meals are delicious.



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Martha Sears West: The Hetty Series

Hetty: First in Series
by Martha Sears West

​ISBN 978-0-9886784-7-7 (print)
ISBN 978-0-9886784-8-4 (audio)
ISBN 978-0-9908693-9-9 (eBook)

​$13.95 paperback
$13.97 audiobook
​$4.99 eBook
​165 pages

Gentle, imaginative Hetty feels at home with her kindly parents but struggles to find her place in a new school. She takes refuge in her secret forest hideaway When as accident forces her to rely on others, will Hetty find what it takes to grow up and fit in? And is a mysterious stranger watching over her?
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Hetty Happens: Second in Series
by Martha Sears West

​ISBN 978-1-7329799-7-0 (print)
ISBN 978-0-9908693-3-7 (audio)
ISBN 978-0-9908693-8-2 (eBook)

$13.95 paperback
$13.97 audiobook
​$4.99 eBook
​175 pages

Seventeen year-old Hetty is lovesick and miserable, yet not even her kindly parents know. She can't speak about the one she loves. He'll soon marry someone else. Does she suffer from a youthful crush . . . or is it lasting love? Gentle, imaginative Hetty can fix other peoples' problems, but can she repair the damage she caused with her foolish promise?
Hetty or Not: Third in Series
by Martha Sears West

ISBN 978-0-9908693-5-1 (print)
ISBN 978-0-9908693-2-0 (audio)
ISBN 978-0-9908693-1-3 (eBook)
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$13.95 paperback
$13.97 audiobook
​$4.99 eBook
223 pages

In this tender love story Hetty graduates from college early to marry her beloved Morgan. But the beautiful Katrinka joins forces with a cruel elephant trainer in a scheme to win the rich, handsome Morgan for herself. Against such beauty, ambition, and cunning, does Hetty's pure and constant love stand a chance?
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Honeymoon Summer: Fourth in Series
by Martha Sears West

ISBN 978-0-9908693-6-8 (print)
ISBN 978-1-7329799-1-8 (audio)
ISBN 978-1-7329799-0-1 (eBook)

​$13.95 paperback
$13.97 audiobook 
​$4.99 eBook
190 pages

Hetty suffers insecurity on her honeymoon. Could such a perfect man really love her? Morgan forfeited his vast inheritance to marry Hetty, but what can she offer in exchange? When a newspaper reports their marriage is illegal, Morgan's gorgeous, conniving, ex-fiancée arrives. Can Hetty unlock the secret to lasting love?
Hetty on Hold: Fifth in Series
by Martha Sears West

ISBN 798-1-7329799-4-9 (print)
ISBN 978-1-7329799-2-5 (audio)
ISBN 978-0-9908693-7-5 (eBook)

​$13.95 paperback
$13.97 audiobook
​$4.99 eBook
218 pages

In this gentle story of friendship and devotion, Hetty unlocks the secret to lasting love. As the story moves through surprising twists and turns, Hetty’s character illuminates even the dark shadows. The power of Hetty’s tender nature and undimmed spirit remind us that love never fails.

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It's Me, Pippa! : Sixth in Series
by Martha Sears West

ISBN 978-1-7329799-3-2 (print)
ISBN 978-1-7329799-5-6 (audio)
ISBN 978-1-7329799-6-3 (eBook)

​$13.95 paperback
$13.97 audiobook
​$4.99 eBook
184 pages

Ignatz, a reformed petty criminal, acts as Pippa's surrogate father while her parents are away. Nine-year-old Pippa arranges a romance between her handicapped teacher and Ignatz, but will her good intentions compensate for her bungling? Though Pippa tackles dangers and grown-up problems with courage and imagination, can she escape the cruelty of the school bully?

Martha Sears West: Children's Books

Jake, Dad and the Worm
by Martha Sears West

ISBN 978-0-9886784-5-3 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-4751899-1-5 (paperback)

$13.95 paperback
$20.95 hardback
42 pages

A lowly earthworm teaches Jake that, even when you're small and ignored, you can still do big, heroic things-especially when encouraged by a sensitive father. Forty years ago the debut author, summoned by a commotion, rushed to the front porch. There, other family members cheered on an acrobatic worm dangling precariously over a step. The worm, to applause, righted itself and survived, as did this true tale that gave Jake fresh courage.
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Rhymes and Doodles from a
​Wind-up Toy
by Martha Sears West

ISBN 978-0-98886784-0-8 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-9886784-4-6 (paperback)

$4.08 paperback
$24.95 hardback
111 pages

Rhymes and Doodles began primarily as a book of rhymes for grownups. But the author couldn't keep a lid on her childish glee, nor could she refrain from doodling in what once were empty margins. Packed with surprises for people of all ages, these fanciful rhymes entertain without being edgy. They will make you laugh and cry.
Warning: Expect to break out in rhyme yourself upon exposure! ​
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Longer than Forevermore
by Martha Sears West

ISBN 978-0-9886784-2-2 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-4774012-3-9 (paperback)

$13.95 paperback
$20.95 hardback
40 pages

​No matter how high, how far, or how deep you go, we will always love you just the same. 
One Mother's Day morning the author looked back on the sweetness of earlier years with three small children. She was flooded with gratitude for her children who are grown and now have families of their own. With these words she told them of her tender feelings:"One thing never changes, and will last forevermore: We'll love you still when you are grown, exactly as before."

Probitas Press Books

True Wealth: The Vision and Genius of Innovator James LeVoy Sorenson
by Lee Roderick

ISBN 978-0-9961850-0-4 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-9673432-0-0 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-9961850-7-3 (eBook)
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$14.10 paperback
$18.50 hardback
$9.99 Kindle
433 pages

Jim Sorenson was born into poverty to teenage parents. Yet he died a billionaire, having risen to rare heights as an entrepreneur. Dyslexia made reading extremely difficult, but also planted in his mind the seeds of awesome abilities. He invented many medical instruments that today are standard equipment in hospitals around the world, and pioneered entire industries while launching some forty companies.
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For Time and All Eternity: The Sterling and Ellie Colton Story
by Lee Roderick

ISBN 978-0-9961850-0-4 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-9673432-0-0 (hardback)
​ISBN 978-0-9961850-7-3 (eBook)

$30.00 paperback
$30.00 hardback
$9.99 Kindle
526 pages

Rarely do two people complement each other so perfectly and are so completely in love. Sterling is serious and responsible. Ellie is full of fun and occasionally irreverent. Both are excellent leaders. Their life together has unfolded over seven delightful decades. They have raised four outstanding children—three boys and a girl—traveled the globe, assisted numerous needy individuals, and spearheaded a variety of good causes.
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Ellis Kackley: Best Damn Doctor
​in the West
by Ellen Carney

ISBN 978-0-9673432-3-5

$36.94 paperback
352 pages

ELLIS KACKLEY Best Damn Doctor in the West opens as Dr. Kackley is graduating from medical school at the University of Tennessee and prepares to face unknown frontiers in the small, lawless town of Soda Springs, Idaho. Surrounded by vibrant characters this unforgettable portrait of an early western doctor in small-town America is filled with humor, warmth, tenderness and sadness. Ellis swims the Bear River to deliver a baby, takes out a man's kidney in a sheep camp, and attracts patients—including outlaws from across the U.S.

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Bridge Builder: Hugh Colton from Country Lawyer to Combat Hero
by Lee Roderick

ISBN 978-0-9673432-1-1

$17.78 hardback
466 pages

By his mid-20s Hugh Colton had accomplished a lot. Early in 1927 he wrote his good friend J.W. (Bill) Marriott and suggested he secure a franchise from A&W Root Beer for the greater capital area. On May 20, 1927  Hugh and Bill opened their root beer stand charging just 5 cents a mug. Not a lot, but enough to launch what became Marriott International.
The following year Hugh longed to be back home in the West. Returning to Vernal, Utah Hugh became a rancher and country lawyer.
​As WWII crept closer to America’s doorstep, Hugh organized a local unit of the Army National Guard. For the next five years Hugh led troops in the US and Europe. One correspondent called Hugh and his men the “bravest of the brave.” Hugh received a battlefield commission to full colonel from Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower, and returned to Utah a decorated hero. 





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Television Tightrope: How I Escaped Hitler, Survived CBS and Fathered Viacom
by Ralph Baruch with Lee Roderick

ISBN 978-0-9673432-2-4
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$47.31 hardback
416 pages

If you get more than a handful of television channels, thank Ralph Baruch. Facing great odds, Baruch led the pivotal battles against broadcasters, regulators, and legislators that pried Washington's fingers from the neck of cable television and set it soaring.
Tightrope is also an intimate memoir. Teenaged Ralph led the escape from the Nazis of his family over the Pyrenees Mountains to Spain and then freedom.
After tragically losing his first wife he fell in love with a remarkable woman who would anchor Ralph through all the turbulence ahead. He had survived Hitler, CBS, feckless government bureaucrats, and greedy outsiders who coveted Viacom. However, he failed to see, until too late, some insiders bent on buying and carving up his company. Ralph, however, had not yet played his last card. In the wings was Boston businessman Sumner Redstone. In a titanic takeover struggle, he wrested Viacom from the cabal of insiders. It remained to be seen if Redstone would also carve up and sell off Viacom—as analysts predicted—or continue to build the global enterprise envisioned by Ralph Baruch.
Courage: Orrin Hatch—Leading the Fight for Constitutional Rights
by Lee Roderick

ISBN 978-0-9673432-4-2
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$10.00 hardback
608 pages

Issue-oriented and revealing, this biography of the senior U. S. senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch, shines a light on the recent years of the Senate’s leading consensus builder for conservative ways to solve national problems. From his opposition to President Obama's health care bill to his repeated sponsorship of constitutional amendments to balance the federal budget, Hatch seldom leaves questions on where he stands. The political life of one of the nation’s most visible and influential senators is explored, from his toe-to-toe confrontations with both Democrats and his own Republican colleagues on issues from tax cuts and labor-law reform to terrorism and the war in Afghanistan. Engrossing and informative, with more than 100 pages of photos, this is a detailed, honest look at one of the leading conservative voices in America today attempting to renew the country for tomorrow.





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