Bob Welch

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BOB WELCH has authored 14 books, two of which are due out in the fall of 2012.

Fifty-two Little Lessons from It’s a Wonderful Life (Thomas Nelson, due out October 2012) dips into America’s holiday Christmas classic for nuggets of wisdom about daily living. A nugget per week!

Resolve: From the Jungles of WWII Bataan, the Epic Story of a Soldier, a Flag, and a Promise Kept (Penguin Books, due out November 2012) is the story of an unlikely hero, Clay Conner, who eludes the Bataan Death March and helps a small group of Robinson Crusoe-esque soldiers survive for 34 months after “going rogue.”

American Nightingale (Atria Books, 2004), about the first nurse to die after the landings at Normandy in World War II, was featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.

Easy Company Soldier (St. Martin Press, 2008) was ranked No. 1 in the nation by Amazon.com among World War II/Western Front books in 2009.

My Oregon II (2009). A collection of 108 Register-Guard columns from 2004-2009.

My Oregon (2005). A collection of 109 Register-Guard columns from 1999-2004.

Pebble in the Water (2008). Welch’s four-year journey to discover WWII nurse Frances Slanger, and the lessons learned along the way.

My Seasons (2007). Welch on sports, growing up in Corvallis and dreaming dreams. (Currently out of print; contact us about a special order.)

A Father for All Seasons (Harvest House, 1998) The five seasons fathers and sons go through. Won the Gold Medallion Award for Family & Parenting. (Currently out of print; contact us about a special order.)

The Things that Matter Most (2001). How relationships, not materialism, matter in the end. (Currently out of print; contact us about a special order.)

Stories from the Game of Life (2000). Sports and life. Later released as “My Seasons.” (Currently out of print; contact us about a special order.)

Where Roots Grow Deep (1999). Families, legacies and how our influence continues once we’re gone. (Currently out of print; contact us about a special order.)

More to Life Than Having it All (1992). Money can’t buy you love — and other profundities on materialism. (Currently out of print; contact us about a special order.)

Bellevue and the New Eastside (1989). The arrival of Bellevue, Washington, is a big-time city. (Currently out of print; contact us about a special order.)