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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
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
1 Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens ( By: Harry Barnard, David L. Lewis) 1958 Description / Buy
2 The Detroit Riot of 1967 ( By: Hubert G. Locke) 1969 Description / Buy
3 Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence ( By: B.J. Widick, Horace L. Sheffield Jr.) 1972 Description / Buy
4 Waiting for the Morning Train ( By: Bruce Catton, William B. Catton) 1972 Description / Buy
5 Call It North Country ( By: John Bartlow Martin) 1986 Description / Buy
6 Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow ( By: Robert Traver) 1987 Description / Buy
7 Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It ( By: Joe Grimm) 1987 Description / Buy
8 Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit ( By: Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Edmund Cardinal Szoka) 1990 Description / Buy
9 Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit ( By: Richard Bak) 1991 Description / Buy
10 John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic ( By: John D. Haeger) 1991 Description / Buy
11 Queen of the Lakes ( By: Mark L. Thompson) 1994 Description / Buy
12 Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 ( By: Richard Bak) 1994 Description / Buy
13 The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes ( By: Charles K. Hyde, Ann Mahan, John Mahan) 1994 Description / Buy
14 Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit ( By: June Manning Thomas) 1997 Description / Buy
15 The Long Winter Ends ( By: Newton G. Thomas, William Mulligan) 1998 Description / Buy
16 All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement ( By: Carlotta R. Anderson) 1998 Description / Buy
17 Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson ( By: Sunnie Wilson, John Cohassey) 1998 Description / Buy
18 Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War ( By: Frank B. Woodford, Arthur M. Woodford) 1998 Description / Buy
19 Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake ( By: Napier Shelton) 1999 Description / Buy
20 A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters ( By: Mark L. Thompson) 1999 Description / Buy
21 "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968 ( By: Sidney Fine) 2000 Description / Buy
22 Graveyard of the Lakes ( By: Mark L. Thompson) 2000 Description / Buy
23 Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast ( By: William Ashworth) 2000 Description / Buy
24 History of the Finns in Michigan ( By: Armas K.E. Holmio, Ellen M. Ryynanen) 2001 Description / Buy
25 Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 ( By: R. Alan Douglas) 2002 Description / Buy
26 Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors ( By: Joe Grimm, Ivan Walton) 2002 Description / Buy
27 Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War ( By: Leroy Barnett) 2003 Description / Buy
28 Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation ( By: Charles K. Hyde) 2003 Description / Buy
29 The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 ( By: Jean Lamarre) 2003 Description / Buy
30 Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan ( By: Elizabeth B. Sherman) 2003 Description / Buy
31 A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law ( By: David Gardner Chardavoyne) 2003 Description / Buy
32 Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company ( By: Charles K. Hyde, J.C. Long) 2003 Description / Buy
33 Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood ( By: Anne-Marie Oomen) 2004 Description / Buy
34 To Keep the South Manitou Light (Short Story) ( By: Anna Egan Smucker) 2004 Description / Buy
35 "I Hope to Do My Country Service" : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry ( By: Robert Beasecker, William M. Anderson) 2005 Description / Buy
36 The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy ( By: Charles K. Hyde) 2005 Description / Buy
37 Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton ( By: Joe Grimm, Ivan H. Walton) 2005 Description / Buy
38 Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils (Short Story) ( By: Charles Ferguson Barker) 2005 Description / Buy
39 My Forty Years With Ford ( By: John Kenneth Galbraith) 2006 Description / Buy
40 House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education ( By: Anne-Marie Oomen) 2006 Description / Buy
41 A Pocketful of Passage (Short Story) ( By: Loraine Campbell) 2007 Description / Buy
42 Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 ( By: Marijean Levering) 2007 Description / Buy
43 A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke (Short Story) ( By: William H. Mulligan Jr.) 2007 Description / Buy
44 Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir ( By: Neal Shine) 2007 Description / Buy
45 When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45 ( By: Neal Shine, Robert E. Quirk) 2007 Description / Buy
46 Who's Jim Hines? (Short Story) ( By: Jean Alicia Elster) 2008 Description / Buy
47 Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors ( By: Charles K. Hyde) 2009 Description / Buy
48 Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation ( By: Anthony J. Yanik) 2009 Description / Buy
49 The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights ( By: Steve Babson, Dave Riddle, David Elsila) 2010 Description / Buy
50 Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent ( With: David L. Lewis) 2011 Description / Buy
51 Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006 ( By: Terry S. Reynolds, Virginia P. Dawson) 2011 Description / Buy
52 The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull ( By: Anthony J. Yanik) 2011 Description / Buy
53 Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade ( By: Hayan Charara, Nabeel Abraham, Sally Howell, Lawrence Joseph, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Andrew Shryock, Kim Schopmeyer, Kristine J. Ajrouch, Khadigah Alasry, Amaney Jamal, Mujan Seif, Matthew W. Stiffler, Eren Tatari, Rachel Yezbick, William Youmans) 2011 Description / Buy
54 Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake ( By: John Gagnon) 2012 Description / Buy
55 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics ( By: David G. Chardavoyne) 2012 Description / Buy
56 Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier's Civil War Journal ( By: Mark Hoffman, William Horton Kimball) 2013 Description / Buy
57 The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise ( By: Jayne Morris-Crowther) 2013 Description / Buy
58 The Colored Car (Short Story) ( By: Jean Alicia Elster) 2013 Description / Buy
59 Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II ( By: Charles K. Hyde) 2013 Description / Buy
60 "Old Slow Town": Detroit during the Civil War ( By: Paul Taylor) 2013 Description / Buy
61 Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City ( By: Robert Fishman, June Manning Thomas, Henco Bekkering, Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Yanjia Liu, Joe Grengs, Maria Arquero De Alarcon, Larissa Larsen, Margaret Dewar, Robert Linn, Lars Graebner, Toni L. Griffin, Monica Ponce de Leon) 2015 Description / Buy
62 Great Girls in Michigan History ( By: Patricia Majher) 2015 Description / Buy
63 Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit ( By: Julia Marie Robinson) 2015 Description / Buy
64 Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years ( By: Sidney Olsen) 2015 Description / Buy
65 Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933 ( By: Michael W. Nagle) 2015 Description / Buy
66 A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland ( By: David W. Blight, Karolyn Smardz Frost, Veta Smith Tucker, Bryan Prince, Irene Moore Davis, Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Roy Finkenbine, Margaret Washington, Debian Marty, Carol E. Mull, Louis A. DeCaro Jr., Larry McClellan, Barbara Hughes Smith, Kimberly Simmons) 2016 Description / Buy
67 A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek (Short Story) ( By: Gerald Wykes) 2016 Description / Buy
68 Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes ( By: William Rapai) 2016 Description / Buy
69 Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture ( By: Michael G. Smith) 2017 Description / Buy
70 To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey (Short Story) ( By: Barbara Carney-Coston) 2017 Description / Buy
71 Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities ( By: Gary S. Sands) 2017 Description / Buy
72 Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community ( By: Edmund Jefferson Danziger Jr.) 2017 Description / Buy
73 Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company ( By: C. Roger Pellett) 2018 Description / Buy
74 Bold Boys in Michigan History ( By: Patricia Majher) 2018 Description / Buy
75 John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age ( By: Brian C. Wilson) 2018 Description / Buy
76 Rosie, A Detroit Herstory ( By: Bailey Sisoy Isgro) 2018 Description / Buy
77 Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit ( By: Alesia Montgomery) 2020 Description / Buy
78 What the Chickadee Knows (Short Story) ( By: Margaret Noodin) 2020 Description / Buy
79 A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan ( By: David Gardner Chardavoyne, Hugh W. Brenneman Jr) 2020 Description / Buy
80 I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I ( By: Hilary Connor) 2020 Description / Buy
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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.

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