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Yellowfish

A Novel

By John Keeble. Foreword by William Kittredge. Afterword by John Keeble

Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-all-trades," takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the 1970s. Three are teenaged "Hong Kong...

The Shadows of Owls

A Novel

By John Keeble

In a literary thriller about science, power, and the lives of ordinary people, John Keeble tells the story of a woman whose passion for her work puts herself and her family at serious risk.

Kate DeShazer...

Broken Ground

A Novel

By John Keeble. Foreword by Kathleen Moore

2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

Broken Ground employs a construction project in the Oregon desert as the basis for a story with far-reaching political and moral implications. Hank Lafleur...

Ruben Trejo

Beyond Boundaries, Aztlan y mas alla

By Ben Mitchell, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, John Keeble

“Multiple backgrounds can form such two- and three-dimensional ideas that they take you to the brink of lunacy, but I have used this rich background and ethnic landscape for creating art. As a student at...