Jim Wallace
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Description
Jim Wallace lived in Norway for a year on a Fullbright, taught school in Kampala, Uganda for three years, and worked in Tokyo teaching English and writing English language textbooks. Later, Jim was senior editor at McGraw-Hill for six years and then acquisitions editor for two years. Jim moved to Vermont in the 1970s and kept up with an eclectic set of hobbies: riding motorcycles, editing books, DJing on the radio, fixing cars, and chainsawing lumber. Jim contributed many hours of friendship, writing, and teaching to our world before he passed away in 2012. [source](
Books
Golf at the links
This book is not a history of the Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club but rather a series of stories about some of the members, past and present, and their experience out on the links and behind the scenes as officers and volunteers.
Choose Your Own Adventure - Rock and Roll Mystery
The reader becomes the leader of an up-and-coming rock-and-roll band. It's the day before the first tour and two band members have been kidnapped! Has another band abducted them, or is it the work of a fanatical organization that wants to exterminate rock and roll? The reader solves the mystery.
Terror on the Titanic
It's April 1912, and you are a passenger on the Titanic, the most luxurious cruise ship of its time. Four days into your voyage, the Titanic hits an iceberg and begins to descend slowly into the ocean. You overhear one of the ship's officers saying that there aren't enough lifeboats for everyone on board. What happens next and how the story ends depends on the choices you make.
Choose Your Own Adventure - Search for the Mountain Gorillas
You're on a photojournalism assignment in Uganda, piecing together the plight of the mountain gorillas. You've had tremendous help from different people from all over Africa, but now a man from a local tribe has come to you for help. His young daughter has vanished, and you and your friends must brave a rainstorm to help him.