Welcome to Dahlberg Books

Update on Cyclone Nargis in Burma, July 1, 2008

The Burma Government is urging Cyclone victims to leave the temporary shelter villages, get back home and plant rice. The difficulty is, many homes, and sometimes whole villages no longer exist. Many lack equipment, and even the strength, to get back to farm work. In some instances the land and water is still polluted with neighbors' dead bodies and the carcasses of farm animals. Nevertheless, they feel an urgency to get their rice crops started so they will have a harvest, and food, six months from now. Relief workers in the devastated area say the highest priority for most people in the Delta now is seed. It is available, but not in the quantity needed, for the same reasons other supplies have been limited.

Nevertheless, there are relief workers on the ground in the Delta area. Volunteer workers are teaming up with citizens in groups of villages to provide equipment, supplies, food, and counsel for the trauma, physical and emotional, that comes with the loss of homes and family members. The real heroes are the local people.

Continue to pray for the people of Burma, and help them in their recovery efforts, even as crises in other parts of the world supplant them in the news media.

This website began as an advocate for peace, with the publication of its first two books in 1998 and 2002. Originally the website focused on the nation of Burma (also known as Myanmar), at a time when that nation appeared to have some hope of improving its people's political and economic hopes. Although we still retain interest in Burma, Dahlberg Books is expanding into other areas, both fiction and narrative non-fiction. Our website will be under construction at times, but we expect it to remain on line throughout the year.

BRIDGE AHEAD, a medical memoir of practice in Asia and America: The proof-read galleys have been sent to the publisher, and. barring delay from an on-going discussion of the front cover, it should be at least in online bookstores by September, and on the shelves of bookstores soon after

Six years after its first edition came out, the novel Flame Tree continues to sell moderately well in its Orchid Press edition. Look for further exploits of George and Vienna Daniels as THE SAMANA INCIDENT brings them to the Southwest Pacific to work alongside Police Lieutenant Jason Kerro and the Papua New Guinea Royal Constabulary. Expected to be on the bookshelves by early 2009

Check out our new Blog Site, "Old Doc's Blog" (See side bar.) This will be mostly about American medicine and what people say they want to see improved. Sometimes it will be about health problems you may have. There will be new posts weekly; maybe oftener. For more literary topics, check out our books and articles (the side bar on this website, or "lit bit" on the blog.)




USA Datanet