Böcker av Joe Wise

A gabby garden. Not housebound by a housedress. Gene Kelly's not the only one "happy again." A comforter in sleepwear. Ward Cleaver carries Yogananda. The Big Dipper meets a Honda. Three close encounters of the third kind ...with music. A young white-coat truth-teller. Unlikely bloomers and likely singers. Sounds of silence and sounds of war. Following the Aspens and vice versa. Being still. Being held. A dad, a prayer, a doctor. And, what about next time?Gifts in a life.Each in its turn.

Joe's music has been known and sung around the world since the mid 60's. His four degrees are in Philosophy, Theology, Education, and Counseling and Guidance. For the first 22 years of his work life he wrote music, recorded it and performed it; gave lectures, conducted workshops, and facilitated retreats-throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Wise has been a resident of Arizona since 1995. Before that he lived 55 years in Louisville, Kentucky where between travels he offered a variety of workshops on writing and video story- telling, including as facilitator with other artists at the Louisville Visual Artist Association and Bellarmine College. His painting career has included studies with many accomplished artists including Ed Hermann and Joe Fettingis. His primary mentor was Dick Phillips. Joe is a member of the Sedona Visual Artists Coalition and a charter and juried member of the Northern Arizona Watercolor Society. His paintings have received numerous awards and hang in corporate headquarters and private collections. He has written, produced, and recorded 22 albums of music, published 6 books and scored a film. He has worked for over a dozen years teaching writing as a therapeutic tool in treatment centers for addictions, and conducts retreats using the journal as a gateway for spiritual awareness and clarity. Joe lives with his wife Maleita in the Sedona area of Northern Arizona. He travels out presenting readings of his works, some song, and reflections on the grand mix of life. Joe can be contacted at: wise1@q.comor through: www.joeandmaleitawise.com

On a spring day in 1874, a reporter for Harper's Weekly traveling with a surveying party on a wilderness road through a remote mountain valley in Colorado's San Juan mountains, wandered onto an abandoned campsite where he found the mutilated and rotting bodies of five men. Immediately a search began for Alfred Hammit (Packer), a hapless drifter and the sole survivor of the ill-fated prospecting expedition, suspected of murdering the five men and living off their bodies during the severe winter weather that had trapped them. Fascinated by the compelling details of this 120-year-old case, David Walton and his friend Jack Fuller team up to reinvestigate the mysterious events surrounding the prospectors' deaths and the two trials that led to Hammit's conviction. Before the end of what at first seems like an academic exercise, Walton and Fuller find themselves digging up graves, trailing a suspected drug dealer through the mountains and dealing with the murder of a local mine operator.Library Booknotes called it a "e;fascinating historical thriller."e; Tony Hillerman said: "e;People who love good writing are going to love CANNIBAL PLATEAU. Joe Wise is an artist with words--every sentence clear and true. A Winner!"e; The Albuquerque Journal reported, "e;Wise does a splendid job of describing the beautiful scenery of the region, and the protagonists' investigation into the old murders is, at times, riveting."e;