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Hawkins County
A cocky, wise-cracking young Juvenile Probation Officer battles troubled lives and senseless deaths as he establishes a career and finds adventure friendship, romance and a new home in Hawkins County. Although fictionalized, this bittersweet story is based on actual people and events on a small, rural county. But "Hawkins County" is more than a corrections casework study. It is a trip back to the 1970's, and it's all here - the movies, the TV shows, the tunes, the jokes, the humor, the heartache, Vietnam - all the elements that influenced our lives during the era. "Hawkins County" is for baby boomers, Vietnam veterans, law enforcement officials, social workers, youth counselors, probation officers - yes, even juvenile delinquents and others who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law - and everyone else who savors a nostalgic story about life as it happened during the 1970's.

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Toby Ryker
Toby Ryker, a colorful old mountain man and lord-knows-what-all similiar to J.B. Books in Swarthout's classic, "The Shootist," is forced to come to grips with his mortality. He moseys into Laramie and stirs up a saloon brawl just for the fun of it then pays for the damages, thus bailing everyone out of a passle of trouble. Moments later, he collapses of a heart attack. When he wakes up, the doctor directs him to adopt a quiet way of life. He looks up an old friend, David Stewart, a rancher living in the area who is now married with a family, and the two decide to go on a last hunting trip in the Medicine Bow Mountains. Ryker learns that McQuiston, a sadistic bounty hunter, has trailed him to Laramie over a shooting he committed in Deadwood. McQuiston kills a local cowboy soon after his arrival and the chase is on, with Ryker and Stewart hunting elk, McQuiston hunting Ryker, and the sheriff hunting McQuiston. The final shootout leaves McQuiston dead, but with a story ending that is not what it appears to be.

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Deadwood Days
"Deadwood Days" is the sequel to "Toby Ryker" and features Ryker and the Stewart family. They relocate from Wyoming to Deadwood where David and Matthew take over Ryker's Potato Creek Gold Mine, which he has deeded to them in his will. Ida Mae Stewart opens a home school for Deadwood's young. Ryker, who has heart failure, puts his life in order by clearing his name with the law. He has an assault charge against him for wounding the murderer of his wife and child, and being a wanted man bothers the daylights out of him. They have several adventures and meet many colorful characters, both historic and fictitious, during the story. Issues including capital pubishment, robberies, shootouts, prostitution, gambling, alcoholism, and the deadly effects of the plague are explored.

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SURVIVING THE CRISES OF YOUTH
In this memoir, Larry Bauer-Scandin not only describes in detail the crises of the youths whom he supervised and supported during his career, but his own personal health battles which began in childhood. This remarkable story of this remarkable man has been featured in the St. Paul, MN Pioneer Press newspaper, on WCCO TV in Minneapolis, and most recently on the national evening news on CBS's Assignment America with Steve Hartman. It is a wonderful, inspiring book that leaves you with a warm feeling toward this unassuming, unselfish man whose only concern is the well-being of others.

See interviews with Larry on Lulu.tv at the following links:
Clip from WCCO TV
CBS:Assignment America

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