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Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s — Who will like this book?

“A beautiful book and interesting local story!”

—Fort Bragg Branch, Mendocino County Library on Facebook

Adults and older teens who value well-crafted literary fiction, including historical and California fiction, appreciate Let No One Enter. The following topics and more are encompassed in its pages: immigrant assimilation, small-town relationships, teaching profession, high school culture, bullying, adult singles life, boarding house life, male-female relationships in early twentieth-century America, life during the Great Depression, 1930s culture and art, and Northern California, including Mendocino County communities.

This posthumous novel is by Glenn A. Reed, former English department chair and professor emeritus at San Jose State University and a Stanford University alumnus. Dr. Reed began his career in Mendocino County, teaching citizenship classes and high school English in the Pacific Coast community of Fort Bragg, California, which was then a small, primarily logging town of Azoreans, Finns, Germans, Italians, the Pomo, and others.

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Let No One Enter was the July 2019 Book of the Month selection of The Blue Stockings Book Club of Mendocino County, California.

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Ask your public library for Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s

New fiction in public library collections includes Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s.

public LIBRARY PATRONs
Is Let No One Enter in your local public library’s collection?

If not, ask your library to purchase it—as, e.g., Sonoma County Library, Mendocino County Library, City of Monterey Public Library, and others have done.

This book was published September 26, 2018 (trade paperback, ISBN 9781732464704). On October 25, an e-book edition was released as well (ISBN 9780463104002).

Refer your library to fortbraggbook.com for purchasing options and other details, including previews/excerpts and who will like this book.

Librarians’ readers advisory tasks are made easier because they can quickly grab the following on this site: book cover image, author photo, and a 30-word book annotation for Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s, i.e.:

Literary fiction encompassing immigrant assimilation, small-town relationships, teaching, high school culture, bullying, male-female relationships in early twentieth-century America, adult singles, boarding house life, Northern California during Great Depression, more.

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Preview / read an excerpt from this book — Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s

Below, read excerpts from the paperback edition of Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s by Glenn A. Reed.

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ISBN 978-1-7324647-0-4 (paper)

ISBN 978-0-4631040-0-2  (e-book)

One summer in the 1970s, Glenn A. Reed traveled to a primitive cabin, no electricity, in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. There, seated at his manual Underwood typewriter and accompanied only by his loyal Dalmatian, he returned in memory to Fort Bragg, California, where he taught high school from 1935 to 1937. The result, this posthumous novel, provides a look at the life of a schoolteacher in what was then an isolated Northern California town in the depths of the Great Depression.

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The above are excerpts from Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s by Glenn A. Reed. Click here for purchase information and other details about this book.

ISBN 978-1-7324647-0-4 (paper)

ISBN 978-0-4631040-0-2  (e-book)

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NOW AVAILABLE — Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s

trade paperback and e-book editions

Purchase information and other details for individuals, libraries, and retail booksellers are provided below.  

For media inquiries and review copy requests, please refer to our Contact page. To preview / read an excerpt from this book, click here.

TITLE: Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s
AUTHOR: Glenn A. Reed.
PUBLISHER: Glenn C. Reed
DATE OF PUBLICATION: September 26, 2018
RETAIL PRICE, USD: $16.95 (paper), $4.99 (e-book)
ISBN: 9781732464704 (paper), 9780463104002 (e-book)
PAGES: 267 — WORDS: 93,270
DIMENSIONS: 6″ x 9″

READING audience 

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Trade paperback edition — purchase info
Electronic edition / e-book — purchase info
  • Purchase this e-book via any of the following: Barnes & Noble, Indigo, Kobo, Scribd, Smashwords. (Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Scribd include options to preview the e-book before purchase, without opening an account.)
  • This e-book is also expected to be available via Apple iBooks. It is not being sold via Amazon’s Audible or Google Play.
  • This e-book is featured in the Smashwords Premium catalog. Participants include Apple, Baker & Taylor Axis 360, Barnes & Noble, Bibliotheca CloudLibrary, Blio, Gardners, Kobo, Odilo, Scribd, and Tolino.
Library patrons and libraries

Patrons, if this book is not already in your local public library’s collection, ask the library to purchase it, as these and other libraries have done.

Librarians, in addition to the book cover image (above) and  author photo on this site, you may also find it helpful to make use of the following 30-word book annotation for Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s:

Literary fiction encompassing immigrant assimilation, small-town relationships, teaching, high school culture, bullying, male-female relationships in early twentieth-century America, adult singles, boarding house life, Northern California during Great Depression, more.

Librarians, this book is listed on WorldCat. The e-book edition is featured in the Smashwords Premium catalog; participants include Apple, Baker & Taylor Axis 360, Barnes & Noble, Bibliotheca CloudLibrary, Blio, Gardners, Kobo, Odilo, Scribd, and Tolino.

reviewers

Please refer to the Contact page of this website.

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December 2018 Benefit for Save the Redwoods League — #Stand4Redwoods

Thanks to all who participated in this special benefit for Save the Redwoods League. 

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December 1-31, 2018 the publisher of Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s, the posthumous novel by Glenn A. Reed, is honoring the 100th anniversary of Save the Redwoods League. The League was founded in 1918, eight years after Reed’s birth. Below, read about Reed’s association with redwoods, and how you can benefit Save the Redwoods League through your purchase of the paperback edition of this book.

How to participate

The publisher is donating to Save the Redwoods League 25% of retail price of all paperback sales of Let No One Enter purchased in December 2018—online or in-store—from Bookshop Santa Cruz. To participate in this effort, purchase the paperback edition from Bookshop Santa Cruz no later than December 31. To order online, go to https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/book/9781732464704. If purchasing in-store, you may place a hold or confirm the number of copies in stock by phoning Bookshop Santa Cruz,  831.423.0900.


associations between Let No One Enter and Redwoods

Glenn A. Reed wrote this novel in California’s Sierra Nevada, home to Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). The book sprung from his experiences teaching high school in Fort Bragg, California, home to Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). 

Readers of  Let No One Enter know that the book’s setting and some of its art include Coast Redwoods. Curious to know a little about the work of Save the Redwoods League in that setting’s vicinity?

Here’s just one example. Read about the Skunk Train—which is also featured in Reed’s novel—in a post by Richard Campbell, “Is Save the Redwoods League Going into the Railroad Business?” https://www.savetheredwoods.org/blog/forest/is-save-the-redwoods-league-going-into-the-railroad-business/

Below, an untitled train track scene first published in Breath of Ocean 1933, and republished in 2018 in Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s. Used by permission of Fort Bragg High School.

Thank you to Save the Redwoods League for partnering with us for this special December 2018 promotion.

If you’d like to also make a direct, tax-deductible donation to the League, visit https://www.savetheredwoods.org, then click their donate button.

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