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William Greenleaf is an American novelist best known for writing several nonfiction and sci-fi novels. Greenleaf was born in Illinois but most of his life has been spent in Southern Arizona, where he attended college at Arizona State University, and worked as a financial and corporate strategic planner before becoming a novelist. He now works as a full-time novelist, creative writing instructor, and freelance book editor at Greenleaf Literary Services, the company he set up to help aspiring writers get published
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Order of William Greenleaf Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Time Jumper | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Tartarus Incident | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Pandora Stone | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Starjacked | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Clarion | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Bloodright | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | A Plague of Gods | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Great Lakes Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens | 1958 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Detroit Riot of 1967 | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Waiting for the Morning Train | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Call It North Country | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
10 | John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Queen of the Lakes | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Long Winter Ends | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
16 | All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
20 | A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
21 | "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Graveyard of the Lakes | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
24 | History of the Finns in Michigan | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
29 | The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
31 | A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
34 | To Keep the South Manitou Light (Short Story) | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
35 | "I Hope to Do My Country Service" : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils (Short Story) | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
39 | My Forty Years With Ford | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
40 | House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
41 | A Pocketful of Passage (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
43 | A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
45 | When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Who's Jim Hines? (Short Story) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
47 | Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
49 | The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
51 | Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
52 | The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
53 | Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
54 | Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
55 | The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
56 | Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier's Civil War Journal | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
57 | The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
58 | The Colored Car (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
59 | Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
60 | "Old Slow Town": Detroit during the Civil War | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
61 | Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
62 | Great Girls in Michigan History | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
63 | Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
64 | Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
65 | Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
66 | A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
67 | A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
68 | Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
69 | Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
70 | To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
71 | Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
72 | Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
73 | Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
74 | Bold Boys in Michigan History | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
75 | John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
76 | Rosie, A Detroit Herstory | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
77 | Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
78 | What the Chickadee Knows (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
79 | A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
80 | I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Greenleaf published his first novel “Time Jumper”, the first of his standalone novels in 1980. The publication of the novel paved the way for several more novels that have also become highly popular. Most of his novels came out in the 1980s as he took a long hiatus from writing until he came out with the 2011 published “Bloodright”.
BEST WILLIAM GREENLEAF BOOKS
Three of William Greenleaf’s most popular and critically acclaimed novels are:
A Plague of Gods: The novel that was first published as Clarion is a mysterious and thrilling science fiction tale that combines fantasy and space opera with speculative fiction. The lead protagonist in the novel is Dorland Avery, a master storyteller and psi-player that suddenly finds himself the target for an assassination. Meanwhile, a fanatical cult like religion is growing ever more popular in his homeland of Sanctuary.
The dictatorial Holy Order has been slowly consolidating its authority and now controls its subjects by decree, manufacturing new gods, creating laws promoting idolatry, and controlling population growth by banning unsanctioned births and marriages. Sanctuary is slowly but surely collapsing, but if anyone is to stop the rot brought about by the Order, they need to stop it at the source.
Together with his newfound friend Paul, Avery rallies the Resistance and sets out to find the headquarters of the Order, the so-called Temple of the Holy Order. But it seems the Order knew they were coming as they arrive to find the leaders of the cult have invoked ancient, horrific rituals that have awoken a new power.
Bloodright: The second novel by William Greenleaf is a fantastical, eerie, and riveting tale that will take the science fiction buff on a ride full of thrills. The chief protagonist in the series is Nathan Oakes, who comes back from his run to discover that the light coming from the South is eerily dissimilar from normal sunlight. Soon he and the whole city see a red pinpoint of light moving toward them. Meanwhile, Kathy Stratton an astronomy expert gets a call from Washington, with a brief to investigate the peculiar light that officials in DC believe is from outer space.
Across the continent in her San Francisco home, Kathy sees the bright glow of the bizarre light. Meanwhile Nikki Jamison a teenage girl fascinated by the light decodes its blinking message and using a flashlight sends back a welcome message. To her surprise, the aliens respond to the message and arrive to whisk her and her friend Oscar Villalobos to their space ship. They soon learn the eerie plans the aliens have for the planet and its people, and know they must escape if they are to have any chance of saving themselves and the Earth.
The Tartarus Incident: The novel is a terrifying tale of a space ship and its crew stranded on a strange planet. The last transmission that came to the team on the mother ship is a cryptic “somebody please get us out of… What the mother ship team never thought would ever happen has suddenly become a chilling reality – a ship and its crew has gone missing while on a routine reconnaissance to the planet Sierra.
The crew of the reconnaissance team now find themselves stranded on a rocky hostile planet with no communication to the mother ship, and a dead drive system. Things only get worse when John Wheeler, who has been drawn away from his companions by a strange alien presence, wanders off and discovers an ancient sprawling city that had been reduced to a ruin. His colleagues have no choice but to try to find him.
Even as the old city seems to have been abandoned for long, the place could not have been any spookier. But one thing is certain for the team – the loss of communication marks the end of a predictable and comfortable routine. It heralds an interstellar nightmare that is referred to as the Tartarus Incident.
When Does The Next William Greenleaf book come out?
William Greenleaf doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is A Plague of Gods and was released on January, 27th 2016.