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By Richard Vaughn
A lonely boy's landscape encompasses the U. S. Middle West and California during the Great Depression 1930s through the World War II home front and late 1940s. Broken shards of youthful memory: rooming with strangers, moving from place to place with sudden frequency and continual uncertainty because of poverty and a mother's marital failures. Seen through a boy's eyes from six to sixteen, here are children and adults in the throes of financial hardship and tumultuous wartime: an empty house with deathly echoes, relatives swept into the cataclysm of war, a cousin gripped by suicidal grief, a family betrayed, and unexpected humor, friendship, hope and first love. He escapes into movies, comic books, adventurous imagination with fantasy excursions, and fascination with guns. Through it all is his mother, raised on dreams of a luxurious life but thwarted by doomed relationships as she searches for love and security when both are rationed or transient. He lives an adolescence not knowing who he is or where he belongs as events propel him toward the looming horizon of manhood.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Richard Vaughn
A lonely boy's landscape encompasses the U. S. Middle West and California during the Great Depression 1930s through the World War II home front and late 1940s. Broken shards of youthful memory: rooming with strangers, moving from place to place with sudden frequency and continual uncertainty because of poverty and a mother's marital failures. Seen through a boy's eyes from six to sixteen, here are children and adults in the throes of financial hardship and tumultuous wartime: an empty house with deathly echoes, relatives swept into the cataclysm of war, a cousin gripped by suicidal grief, a family betrayed, and unexpected humor, friendship, hope and first love. He escapes into movies, comic books, adventurous imagination with fantasy excursions, and fascination with guns. Through it all is his mother, raised on dreams of a luxurious life but thwarted by doomed relationships as she searches for love and security when both are rationed or transient. He lives an adolescence not knowing who he is or where he belongs as events propel him toward the looming horizon of manhood.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Richard Vaughn
A lonely divorced man jogging along the beach obsesses about a strange girl who passes every day; he changes his life to find out who she is. Haunted about aging without grace, a prissy high school teacher seduces a young art student to obtain a timeless portrait that will outlive her. Drought in a prairie town provokes a murderous incident. The legacy of a family's pearl necklace reveals a secret of sacrificial devotion. Deer hunters and duck hunters confront more than sport when they venture into the wild. A social climber who preys on wealthy guests at a resort is undermined by fraud. Tourists and travelers in Italy, Korea, China and the Philippines find themselves in frustrating and dangerous incidents. An elderly man confronts a teenage sweetheart he must escape, while other men learn to accept unexpected love or ultimate rejection and loss. Throughout these thirty-two tales are people who encounter longing, regret, humor, success, failure, love and regeneration as they cope with, and try to survive, events they have instigated or inherited under the relentless terms of the human condition.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Richard Vaughn
A lonely divorced man jogging along the beach obsesses about a strange girl who passes every day; he changes his life to find out who she is. Haunted about aging without grace, a prissy high school teacher seduces a young art student to obtain a timeless portrait that will outlive her. Drought in a prairie town provokes a murderous incident. The legacy of a family's pearl necklace reveals a secret of sacrificial devotion. Deer hunters and duck hunters confront more than sport when they venture into the wild. A social climber who preys on wealthy guests at a resort is undermined by fraud. Tourists and travelers in Italy, Korea, China and the Philippines find themselves in frustrating and dangerous incidents. An elderly man confronts a teenage sweetheart he must escape, while other men learn to accept unexpected love or ultimate rejection and loss. Throughout these thirty-two tales are people who encounter longing, regret, humor, success, failure, love and regeneration as they cope with, and try to survive, events they have instigated or inherited under the relentless terms of the human condition.
FORMAT: E-Book
By John Dutch
Paddy, the old sheepdog, and Amy, the little butterfly, are an unlikely pair on a mission to help-who, what and how, they are not sure, but they know they must complete it, or something dreadful will happen. Driven by that certain knowledge, the pair journey into the unknown, combining their special talents to overcome danger and avert disaster. Experienced, strong and resourceful, Paddy is an ever vigilant sentinel for the brave but impetuous Amy who is excited, and scared, on her first trip away from family. Other books by John Dutch include (part of marketing and book description):
Sunshine
When I Need A Hand
April Brooker
April Brooker: The Tournament
April Brooker and Emily McLean
April Brooker: The Family
Games of Consequence
Playing Advantage
April and Anderson
A New Beginning
FORMAT: E-Book
By Estella Slattery
We seem to constantly look for love, God's love or love for individuals. To me these pursuits are simultaneous, indistinguishable. We just go about it differently. To see God's love we pray traditionally, with learned words. To gain human love, we rampage, parade, fake modesty. I hope the reader will discover, as my characters and I have, that sometimes love surprises us.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Lewis Green
The printing of this book is a limited edition, pointed mainly toward some students in my past writing classes who stay in touch, and some in a planned future class. There is a spread of characters and range of situations and experiences.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Lewis Green
The printing of this book is a limited edition, pointed mainly toward some students in my past writing classes who stay in touch, and some in a planned future class. There is a spread of characters and range of situations and experiences.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Shane Gordon
B.N. Napoleon is a female Private Eye who sometimes, when the situation warrants it, becomes a male by dressing in a man's suit, shoes and wearing a false moustache. Her hair is cut short and fortunately she is under endowed. She does this when it becomes apparent that a prospective client conveys he or she is looking for a male private investigator at which time Barbara Napoleon informs them that her brother will be back in town in the morning and if they will leave a phone number, she will inform her brother B.N., and he will call in the morning upon his return. Thus the transformation the next morning to B.N. Napoleon, P.I.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Shane Gordon
B.N. Napoleon is a female Private Eye who sometimes, when the situation warrants it, becomes a male by dressing in a man's suit, shoes and wearing a false moustache. Her hair is cut short and fortunately she is under endowed. She does this when it becomes apparent that a prospective client conveys he or she is looking for a male private investigator at which time Barbara Napoleon informs them that her brother will be back in town in the morning and if they will leave a phone number, she will inform her brother B.N., and he will call in the morning upon his return. Thus the transformation the next morning to B.N. Napoleon, P.I.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Donald Krist
This collection of short stories hosts humor, adventure at sea, romance, and suspense. Meet Danny Brightly and his talking dog in a fun-filled tale of canine expression; Runyonesque characters like Freddie Garth in an intriguing, reader-pleasing tale of “The Last Crap Game” and read about the suicide on a dreary “Easter Sunday.” Bob in a life raft in the Argintinean sea with Luis Raoul for nine days as he survives with a fortune in diamonds tied around his waist only to . . . Experience the tragic, but fulfilling romance of “Forgotten Lullaby”, and breathe a sigh of relief as a near-disaster imprisonment in a South American dungeon turns the tables for Count Davin DeMornay, all told in a new-era of dialog and short-burst narrative for your entertainment by Donald Krist, author of this “Lost Chameleons and Other Tales” volume, a story-telling Wizard of Ahs.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Joe Beine
“Dreaming is the only way an adult can become like a child again.” Paper Angels collects many of the annual Christmas stories written by Joe Beine, who has been sending them to friends for over a decade. In “Strings” and its sequel “Dodging Snowflakes,” we watch twelve-year-old Ellen as she begins to find her way in the adult world.Two stories about whimsical goblins add a touch of laughter to the proceedings. Three angels, Arianne, Jessi and Isabelle, wander through half of the book’s stories. Arianne and Jessi transform San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge into a cathedral. Isabelle tells a mysterious tale about two children’s snowy playtime. Together these wistful tales capture the peculiar magic of the Christmas season.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Eugene M. Silverman
In Crime and Management, and Other Tall Tales, Carmine Cacciaguida gets a toy car for his fifth birthday. He checks his father’s car to see if it works the same way and discovers a dead body in the trunk. Years later, he becomes boss of his father’s gang but hates the violence. He and his daughter Claire devise a way to manage violent crime, similar to the way HMOs manage health care. Constituents pay insurance, the proceeds of which go to the criminals to ensure that they don’t commit crimes. Victims of crime are reimbursed from this collected money reducing what the criminals get. So the criminals have no incentive to commit crimes. The story traces Carmine’s idea from its birth to implementation through deals with politicians and the contentious but humorous heads of the twelve major crime families in New York City. After one year, crime is down thirty-four percent in the city and Carmine makes plans to extend the network outside of the city. The six other tall tales reflect the quests for emotional intimacy of a dying Nobel laureate, a reluctant Don Juan, and the point of view of a surprised frog, an icon and a teapot, an artist who takes liberties with a statue, and a politician’s wife. “Exciting, readable, humorous, full of multicultural flavors…but beneath all that is the ingenious comparison of ways of dealing with medical needs and a potential way of dealing with crime.” —Robert Kahn, Director, Institute for Social Research
FORMAT: Softcover
By Victoria Baker
"A fragile light has been kindled, a flame so delicate that the slightest wind or puff of air can extinguish it forever. And it is this fragility, undefined, which flavors the first days of love and draws us ever deeper into a world we never wished to enter, and now cannot bring ourselves to leave." Come enter a universe where love will take you by the hand and lead you to explore regions of your heart you thought you had forgotten. This collection of stories is unique for its artistry. Set in bygone eras, the amorous intrigues, betrayals, and backstage dramas of opera singers, composers, and musicians are brought to life with startling reality. But the music in this book is only a backdrop to the main character: Love. A unique look into the world of passion and emotion, every chapter is a book unto itself. Told with a great deal of imagination and poetic flair the stories will take you on an unforgettable journey In Search of Lost Love.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Victoria Baker
"A fragile light has been kindled, a flame so delicate that the slightest wind or puff of air can extinguish it forever. And it is this fragility, undefined, which flavors the first days of love and draws us ever deeper into a world we never wished to enter, and now cannot bring ourselves to leave." Come enter a universe where love will take you by the hand and lead you to explore regions of your heart you thought you had forgotten. This collection of stories is unique for its artistry. Set in bygone eras, the amorous intrigues, betrayals, and backstage dramas of opera singers, composers, and musicians are brought to life with startling reality. But the music in this book is only a backdrop to the main character: Love. A unique look into the world of passion and emotion, every chapter is a book unto itself. Told with a great deal of imagination and poetic flair the stories will take you on an unforgettable journey In Search of Lost Love.
FORMAT: E-Book
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