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Bruce Olav Solheim

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Born

in Seattle, The United States

Website

http://www.bruceolavsolheim.com

Genre

Fiction, History, Paranormal

Influences

Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut

Member Since

April 2017

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Bruce Olav Solheim was born on September 3, 1958, in Seattle, Washington, to hard-working Norwegian immigrant parents, Asbjørn and Olaug Solheim. Bruce was the first person in his family to go to college. He served for six years in the US Army as a jail guard and later as a helicopter pilot. He earned his PhD in history from Bowling Green State University in 1993.

Bruce is currently a distinguished professor of history at Citrus College in Glendora, California. He also served as a Fulbright professor in 2003 at the University of Tromsø in northern Norway.

Bruce founded the Veterans Program at Citrus College and cofounded, with Manuel Martinez and Ginger De Villa-Rose, the Boots to Books transition course—the first college course in the United ...more

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Average rating: 4.4 · 57 ratings · 16 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Ali's Bees 4.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dr. Jekyll Alien Hunter by Bruce Olav Solheim (Goodreads Author), Julia Kazanowska (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Timeless: A Paranormal Personal History 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vietnam War Era: A Personal Journey 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anzar the Progenitor 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making History 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snarc 2 by Bruce Olav Solheim (Goodreads Author), Gary Dumm (Illustrations) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Timeless Trinity: An Extra-Terrestrial and Paranormal Personal History by Bruce Olav Solheim (Goodreads Author), Gary Dumm (Illustrations), Yvonne Smith (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'm An American: A Personal Approach to Early American History by Bruce Olav Solheim (Goodreads Author), Gary Dumm (illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Timeless Deja Vu: A Paranormal Personal History by Bruce Olav Solheim (Goodreads Author), Gary Dumm (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Transitional Presidency?

I'm a historian and a writer. I'm not political, I don't belong to any political party, and I tend to keep my opinions to my self. As a professor, I believe my role is to encourage independent, critical thinking and empower my students and not indoctrinate them or inculcate them with partisan ideologies.

History reveals patterns and cycles, some large, some small. One pattern that I think I've dis Read more of this blog post »

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