Happy Christmas & Merry New Year 2021

May You Live In Interesting Times: A New World

 

May You Live In Interesting Times: A New World: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1949 to 1960. Coming Labor Day from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books. The fourth and last volume of the Ostrogorsky - Ivanauskas family history and archive distilled from nine hundred family photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, World War II Allied bombing, and train and transport ship journeys to the New World. Available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller.

The first three volumes have been published by Blue Parrot Books. Volume One, May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Family Memoir and Archive Circa 1885 to 1960, traces the arc of family history from the depths of Tsarist Russia to a new world of 1950s America. War and revolution chase the family out of their ancestral home in old Russian to refuge in central Europe to post-World War II transport ships bound for a new home in a new world. Volume Two, May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1918 to 1945, focuses on the volatile period from the end of World War I to the end of World War II, 1918 to 1945. Volume Three, May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1945 to 1950, covers the immediate post-World War II period 1945 to 1950, when the Ostrogorsky - Ivanauskas family resided in displaced persons camps in Kempten, Germany while searching for a new home in a new world, and where most importantly to me, my mother and father happened to walk into the same café and ended up dancing with each other.

Volume Four covers the period 1949 to 1960 when the family relocated to Canada and the United States, when my parents married to start a new life in a new world. 8.5 x 11 hardcover. 164 pages. ISBN 978-0-578-91983-6.

May You Live In Interesting Times -- Purported Chinese Curse

 

May You Live In Interesting Times -- purported Chinese curse. In the process of wrapping up my Covid winter project, a four volume family history and archive distilled from nine hundred family photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and World War II Allied bombing.

This collection includes hundreds of family photographs and letters, as well as documents from Russia's post-Tsarist Bolshevik government, the Russian White Army, assorted military officials during the Russian Civil War, the French Consul of Constantinople, the British and French Red Cross Missions in Constantinople, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the German occupation government of Yugoslavia, the Nazi Third Reich, the U.S. Military Government of Germany, the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the International Refugee Organization, the U.S. Displaced Persons Commission, the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, and any number of private refugee relief organizations.

First two volumes covering the years 1918 to 1945 have been published by Seattle's Blue Parrot Books. Blue Parrot Books will publish the third volume, 1945 to 1950, July 4th. The final volume, covering the 1950s, to be published this fall by Blue Parrot Books.

May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1945 to 1950

Coming July 4th from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books. May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1945 to 1950. By Michael Ostrogorsky, Ph.D.

This is the third of a four volume family history and archive distilled from a collection of 900 photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and World War II Allied bombing.

This third volume presents the collection covering the immediate post-World War II years, 1945 to 1950, when my family lived in refugee camps in Kempten, Germany, in the American zone of occupied Germany. Having lost their homes to revolution and war, the family busied themselves searching for a new home, from America to Tanzania. Most importantly for me, this was also the time my mother and my father happened to walk into the same café in Kempten and ended up dancing with each other.

This volume includes photographs, letters, and documents issued by the U.S. Military Government of Germany, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the International Refugee Organization, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, assorted consulates, the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, and any number of private refugee relief organizations, as well as scores of letters to friends around the world seeking help to secure a new home.

ISBN 9780578896793 8.5 x 11.0 hardcover. 476 pages.

Available for pre-order now from your favorite bookseller or the Blue Parrot Books webstore.

May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1918 to 1945

May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1918 to 1945.

Coming from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books April 15th, second of a four volume family history and archive distilled from a collection of 900 photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and World War II Allied bombing. Available for pre-order now from your favorite bookseller.

This second volume presents the collection covering the volatile period from the end of World War I to the end of World War II, 1918 to 1945, and includes documents issued by Russia's post-Tsarist Bolshevik government, the Russian White Army, assorted military officials during the Russian Civil War, the French Consul of Constantinople, the British and French Red Cross Missions in Constantinople, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the German occupation government of Yugoslavia, the Nazi Third Reich, and the U.S. Military Government of Germany.

ISBN 9780578867533 8.5 x 11.0 hardcover. 184 pages.

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year 2020!

Blue Parrot Books 2021 Calendar

Our Hyacinth Macaw Parrot and Resident Witch Princess Tara is thrilled to offer her very own Blue Parrot Books 2021 Calendar featuring the best photos of her and her sidekick Aboo from this past year we're very thankful to get behind us!

 

Blue Parrot Books 2021 Calendar

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

 Author Reading Chapter Two

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

 Author Reading Introduction and Chapter One

Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy

Now available through your favorite bookseller anywhere on the planet, but exclusively from the Blue Parrot Books web store for TWENTY PERCENT OFF!

Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy under one cover. Paperback 980 pages. ISBN 9781087903514

A coven of shape-shifting witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat, led by a coffee-swilling blue-skinned goddess named Princess Tara, enlist the help of a trio of Seattle history professors to seek magic to stop a god of war and his goddess of death intent on destroying our world. The professors discover they face a conundrum no book or library can address. How do they defeat a goddess who controls death and time? Can they? Our heroes and villains bounce across the galaxy and dive into the depths of time to search for a solution. They discover that reality and time itself is as fluid as a glass of cold beer.

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

Part Three Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, Book Six Princess Tara Chronicles

Socially distanced author reading in the time of Corona:

A coven of shape-shifting witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat, led by a coffee-swilling blue-skinned goddess named Princess Tara, enlist the help of a trio of Seattle history professors to seek magic to stop a god of war and his goddess of death intent on destroying our world. The professors discover they face a conundrum no book or library can address. How do they defeat a goddess who controls death and time? Can they?

Paperback edition from Blue Parrot Books available through your favorite book seller anywhere on the planet! 478 pages. ISBN 9781087889320

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

Author reading: Introduction to She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot Part Three Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, Book Six Princess Tara Chronicles. Starring our very own Hyacinth Macaw Parrot and resident Witch Princess Tara. A coven of shape-shifting witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat, led by a coffee-swilling blue-skinned goddess named Princess Tara, enlist the help of a trio of Seattle history professors to seek magic to stop a god of war and his goddess of death intent on destroying our world. The professors discover they face a conundrum no book or library can address. How do they defeat a goddess who controls death and time? Can they? Paperback edition from Blue Parrot Books available through your favorite book seller anywhere on the planet! 478 pages. ISBN 9781087889320

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

A coven of shape-shifting witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat, led by a coffee-swilling blue-skinned goddess named Princess Tara, enlist the help of a trio of Seattle history professors to seek magic to stop a god of war and his goddess of death intent on destroying our world. The professors discover they face a conundrum no book or library can address. How do they defeat a goddess who controls death and time? Can they? Part Three of the Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, Book Six of the Princess Tara Chronicles. Paperback edition from Blue Parrot Books available through your favorite book seller anywhere on the planet! 478 pages. ISBN 9781087889320

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Blue Tara Trilogy: Princess Tara Chronicles

First Blue Parrot Books Paperback Edition

Princess Tara thrilled to announce the Blue Parrot Books paperback edition of the Blue Tara Trilogy, first three books of the Princess Tara Chronicles under one cover, now available from your favorite bookseller virtually anywhere on the planet.

A coven of shape-shifting witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat, led by a coffee-swilling blue-skinned goddess named Princess Tara, enlist the help of a couple of Seattle history professors to seek magic called the tlogwe to stop a cannibal warlock and his zombie army of the dead intent on destroying our world. The professors discover they face a conundrum no book or library can address. How do they defeat a warlock who can bring the dead back to life? Can they?

672 pages. ISBN 9781087879000

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Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess?

Author reading of Introduction to Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess? Part One of the Blue Tara Trilogy. Book One of the Princess Tara Chronicles. Starring our Hyacinth Macaw Parrot and resident Witch Princess Tara. About a parrot who just happens to be a witch. A witch with a coffee addiction:

Author reading of Chapter One Part One: Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess? Part One of the Blue Tara Trilogy. Book One of the Princess Tara Chronicles:

Author reading of Chapter One Part Two: Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess? Part One of the Blue Tara Trilogy. Book One of the Princess Tara Chronicles:

Author reading of Chapter One Part Three: Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess? Part One of the Blue Tara Trilogy. Book One of the Princess Tara Chronicles:

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot: Part Three Kālarātri Trilogy (Book Six Princess Tara Chronicles). Kindle edition now available.

About a parrot who just happens to be a witch. A witch with a coffee addiction.

Paperback edition coming soon from Blue Parrot Books.

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

How do you defeat a goddess who controls death and time? Can you? Find the answer in She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot, Part Three of the Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, Book Six of the Princess Tara Chronicles, about a parrot who just happens to be a witch. With a coffee addiction. 100,000 words. 450 pages. Coming from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books Memorial Day:

Little Free Libraries

We apocalyptic fantasy fiction writers were writing about the apocalypse before the apocalypse became cool. Our Hyacinth Macaw Parrot and Resident Witch Princess Tara dropped off copies of her fantasy novel series, the Princess Tara Chronicles, at a couple of the Little Free Libraries here in West Seattle, at Endolyne Joe's by Lincoln Park, and the Westside Unitarian Universalist Church on California Avenue. The phone booth is on the Othello Street side of the building.

About a couple of Seattle history professors who fall in with a coven of shape-shifting witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat to seek magic to stop a god of war and his goddess of death intent on destroying our world. Starring, of course, Princess Tara!

She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot

How do you defeat a goddess who controls death and time? Can you? Find out in She Was the Kind of Person That Keeps a Parrot, Part Three of the Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, Book Six of the Princess Tara Chronicles. About a parrot who just happens to be a witch. With a coffee addiction. Coming from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books Memorial Day weekend!