Best Selling Books by David M. Carroll

A renowned artist, author, and naturalist, David M. Carroll is exceptionally skilled at capturing nature on the page. In Self-Portrait with Turtles, he reflects on his own life, recounting the crucial moments that shaped his passions and abilities. Beginning with his first sighting of a wild turtle at age eight, Carroll describes his lifelong fascination with swamps and the creatures that inhabit them. He also traces his evolution as an artist, from the words of encouragement he received in high school to his college days in Boston to his life with his wife and family. Self-Portrait with Turtles is a remarkable memoir, a marvelous and exhilarating account of a life well lived.

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal: An “admission ticket to a secret corner of the world” (Bill McKibben). Naturalist David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands. He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, vernal ponds, and the creatures who live in them as most of us are about our families and closest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks, dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges—everything that swims, flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this “intimate and wise book,” Carroll takes us on a lively, unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his own elegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are so important to his life and ours—and to all life on Earth (Sue Hubbell). “Carroll covers four seasons of wading through marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens. [His] eye for detail serves him well, whether he’s spying on a tiny garter snake struggling to suck down a much larger wood frog or watching a raccoon savagely digging a turtle out of its shell.” —Entertainment Weekly “In my pantheon of nature writers, David Carroll walks on water.” —Robert Michael Pyle

Presents a collection of pen-and-ink-illustrated reflections on the ecology of wetland creatures, in a volume that traces the life cycles of such subjects as hawks, tree frogs, and rare wood and spotted turtles.

A year after defeating the witch, their new jobs of private detective isn''t all Misty and Dewayne thought it would be. The excitement of their first case has never returned and they both find themselves wondering if this new direction was the right one to take. But, when the lead scientist investigating the Brown Mountain Lights goes missing, Misty and Dewayne find themselves caught up the world of the supernatural once again. They are hired to find the missing scientist, and if they are able to do it, they will receive one million dollars. The down side is, they are racing four other detectives who are the best the world has to offer and the million dollars is winner takes all. Their competition is Jane Klotzengrave - Canada''s premiere detective who has solved more missing persons cases than anyone else on the planet. Paul Diego - Half detective, half masked wrestler. He is the pride of Mexico City and has defeated a Chupacabra in hand to hand combat. Vincent "Vinny" Vargus - Former British secret service. Vinny has saved the world more times than he can count, now he does it for profit. Khulan Ganzorig - The most formidable detective the east has to offer. A direct descendant of Genghis Khan and the best tracker the world has ever seen. As Misty and Dewayne dig deeper into the case of the missing scientist, they discover that he is caught up in a curse that is over a hundred and fifty years old. A curse that is intended to kill every man, woman and child in the new world. And a curse that is only days away from becoming a reality. Now, not only are Misty and Dewayne racing the other detectives, but the curse itself as they try to find the missing scientist as well as figure out who took him and why they are trying to bring about the end of the world.

In the late sixties Charlie Daniels fought, and defeated, the devil. Not for a golden fiddle but for the soul of country music. However, with the victors passing the door has been opened for the Devil to get his rematch. One last chance to gain influence over all of country music. Standing in his way, Jolene Carter and Vampyra, Mistress of the Damned. Two sisters who haven''t seen, or spoken to, each other since their parents'' funeral, decades ago. One, the queen of country music. The other, queen of the B movies and the universal mascot of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. The sisters will have to work through the issues they''ve spent a lifetime creating while the Devil continues to stir the pot of anger and distrust that already exists if they hope to have a chance of defeating him. Along the way the spirits of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Patsy Cline, the Carter Family, and Minnie Pearl are pulled into the conflict alongside the sisters as they prepare for the final confrontation against the ultimate evil.

Charlie Collins has been many things since the dead began to rise. Survivor, failure, friend, leader, target, and some would say a hero. But now he''s something new. Homeless.The counsel, having been exiled from their home, sit in the watchtower, observing Jericho, the new leader, as he destroys everything they had spent the last four months building. Charlie still isn''t sure if they are watching their old home in order to make sure they are capable of surviving on their own, or if they are watching for an opening to take back what is theirs.Then there''s the New American Army. An armored column with the muscle of a tank backing them up. A group who have been moving from settlement to settlement, taking supplies and conscripts as they go. They have arrived in Johnson City looking for two things. Supplies and Charlie Collins. The one man who Drecker, the army''s leader, has labeled to be almost as dangerous as he is. With their old home and the lives of their friends in danger. Charlie and the others must find a way to defeat an army that is almost untouchable. To complicate matters further he must work hand in hand with a group of survivors from his past who want him dead as much as they want to see the army destroyed.With everything on the line, Charlie''s fractured mind begins to crack further under the pressure. The ghost of Jim and the memory of his mentor, Jack, both appearing to him in a battle to usher in, or stop, his decent into madness.In a war that will break friendships and end lives, Charlie has to decide how far he is willing to go to win this conflict, and which of the counsel members he''s willing to walk away from in order to do what he feels needs to be done.

The secret world of freshwater turtles emerges as artist/naturalist David Carroll presents the fascinating life history of these familiar yet mysterious creatures who have endured since the age of dinosaurs. Drawing from 40 years of personal study & observations, Carroll leads us through their yearly cycle & introduces us to the flora & fauna that inhabit the same areas in New England woodlands. He has an intuitive understanding of & scientific background in his subject. An enchanting book with exquisite full-color paintings & carefully executed black-&-white drawings, & an excellent volume of natural history.