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Echo of a Nightmare
by Gordon Froede
ISBN 0-595-23081-4
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $25.95

In the waning days of the Third Reich Hitler, prodded by his deputies Bormann and Himmler, sired two illegitimate children. One was to be his successor. The other one was a back-up in case something should happen to the heir-apparent. The boys grew up separated from each other, without knowledge of one another; one in East Berlin, the other in the Western Sector. Only one of the boys was willing to continue in the footsteps of his biological father and become the leader of the Fourth Reich, but his half-brother, aided by the forces of democracy, had other plans for him.

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Echoes of lucifer
by Michael K Belt
ISBN 0-595-17758-1
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $15.95

Porsche, a beautiful young college girl, finds out that love is reserved for hopeless hearts. Being young, wild, and sexy she thinks she has life in the palm of her hands.

Porsche has a terrible secret which she tries to hide from her family. Trapped between good and evil her secret grows out of control. Time and time again she gives in to the whispers. Slowly, Lucifer begins to take over her soul.

As Porsche uses men to get what she wants her soul is badly bruised by her past. She has not quite figured out that her life is the beginning cycle for her son, Baby Michael. Therefore, she uses him as a means to vent her overwhelming anger.

Baby Michael is unconsciously taught how to flirt with one of the three sixes that dwell within Lucifer's spirit. He searches for love and acceptance to cure his unbloomed heart. As the echoes enter his life Baby Michael becomes a walking time bomb. Having an untamed soul Baby Michael grows to trust no one.



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Eclectic Libbyland
by Francis DiPietro
ISBN 0-595-26773-4
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $14.95

Is he a delusional coward, or the remnant of an exiled visionary? At times, Walton Friendly can seem like any number of things; from an obsessive-compulsive Mormon who stalks an astonishing woman named Libby Hendricks (and keeps notes on her activities in the margins of his Mormon Bible), to an artist vanquished from the core of his beliefs, and forced to adopt drugs and hallucination as his reality. He wanders through a dreamscape of emotions, and enlists on his quest to gain Libby’s affections the most unlikely of helpers: William “Crazy Bill” Capresci, self-proclaimed kingpin of the subway derelicts, yet once an honest man. Walton and Bill connect on a level which sees them sharing their contempt for commercialized society, and they are each radically revolting (pun intended).

"It's got all the talk of trapped universes and bodily orifices that Burroughs' 1959 cult classic Naked Lunch had, but without the dashes or ellipses."
—Ben Berzai, Medford Transcript, 5/02

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The Edge of the Water
by Mike McNabb
ISBN 0-595-09845-2
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $14.95

Now in his mid fifties, Doug Wallace takes a look back at the summer that not only changed, but directed his life for almost thirty years. Although the novel is set in the sixties, it is not about the sixties. Anyone who has ever worked a summer job away from home or who remembers what it was like to start making adult decisions during their teen years will recall memories of that certain summer. This work is one part “Catcher in the Rye,” one part “Stand By Me,” and a little bit of “Trainspotting.” There are a few tears, a lot of laughs and some of the most colorful people the South has to offer.

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Education of Native Son
by H. Richard Dozier
ISBN 0-595-24596-X
Format: Paperback  / Hard Cover
Our Price: $24.95 / $34.95

Education of a Native Son begins where the novel, Native Son, by Richard Wright ends.

Thomas, a black young man who grew up in Harlem is accepted to a prestigious Ivy League university in New England. While in college Little, as he his known, will be confronted with the pressures of the everyday college student and the pressures of being Black at an all white university. In addition to adjusting to college life, he will soon learn the secret of his parent’s past, a past that could lead to the destruction of his family, friendships and ultimately his life.



About the author...

H. Richard Dozier was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. Like many Black Americans he has deep roots in the South. Unlike many Black Americans of today, he is the grandson of the former slave James Johnson, of Valdosta, Georgia born in 1850. Richard, has worked in higher education for over twenty years in various capacities. He is currently the Dean of Student Services at Palm Beach Community College in Palm Beach County, Florida.


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Ejje Amore
by William Phillips
ISBN 0-595-09592-5
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $15.95

An occult adventure fantasy with Witch Bowen and Warlock Vincent traveling through the Tunnels of Time.

An occult fantasy adventure about Witch Bowen and Warlock Vincent finding the Ejje Amore Scrolls and traveling to the Village of Ejje Amore. Along the way they meet the antagonist, Le Patriarch, a joker, a partier. They travel through the Tunnels of Time through various time periods until they come up to modern times and are involved in implementing Phase I World Peace.
About the author...
William A. Phillips was born in Springfield, Illinois in 1953. He attended Pleasant Plains High School where he was heavily involved in music. He went on to attend Southern Illinois University where he studied Electrical engineering with a minor in music. He has traveled across Ameerica many of the last twenty years as a computer consultant. Of those years many were spent performing in various bands as well as writing over a hundred songs and classical pieces. He started writing in the late eighties. Ejje Amore was begun in 1989, but due to other commitments wasn't finished until 1995. Currently he is working on other music and books back in Springfield.

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Eliot's Rock
by Terry Shumaker
ISBN 0-595-17716-6
Paperback $10.95

A mystical tale of conflict between a man's heart and his conscience at the birth of the Atomic Age.

Despondent over a great personal loss, geologist John Bowen wanders the deserts of the American Southwest. When he is recruited to work on the Manhattan Project during World War Two, he finds himself faced with a moral decision that could end his life. He must decide where his greatest obligation lies; with those closest to him, or with the entire human family. Eliot's Rock is a sweeping tale that takes the reader from the deserts of New Mexico to the lonely white expanses of Antarctica, and ultimately to wartime Japan. This is a story of love, loss, terror, betrayal, and eventual reunion. It is an exploration of a lost culture, and an examination of what must be a man's final responsibility.

About the author...

Terry Shumaker has worked as an artist, photographer, cartographer, and field biologist. He has surveyed for endangered wildlife in the deserts of Arizona and California, and has worked for three seasons along the Antarctic coast. His travels have taken him to all fifty states and to parts of four continents.

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An Enduring Evil
by Henry Hoffman
ISBN 0-595-17739-5
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $11.95


A psychological thriller that pits a menacing stranger against a husband and wife determined to protect their marriage from the diabolical designs of the intruder.

An Enduring Evil is the story of a middle-aged woman who suffers from a severe form of schizophrenia and her over-protective brother who, in an effort to defend her from a menacing stranger claiming to be her son given up at birth, ends up eliminating the "intruder" in a clandestine way. At the core of the conflict is the brother's wife, a successful newspaper editor, who is kept uninformed of the incident until by a twist of fate she becomes privy to it. She subsequently is forced to confront her unrepentant husband and a myriad of choices that place both her marriage and career at risk.


"...takes the reader through an exploration of the troubling and potentially threatening memories and deeds of the past...Hoffman's suspense novel is about not only the deceptiveness of appearances, but of personalities." —Henry Berry, Editor/Publisher
The Small Press Book Review

"...the story of a woman with a severe form of schizophrenia and, if that weren't bad enough, there's a menacing stranger claiming to be the son she gave up at birth...it just gets more frightening with every page you read...you'll be hooked!" —Alan Caruba, Bookviews.Com

"I really like this book...splendid...a winner." —Prudence Foster, author of The Vow and Blood Legacy



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The Er-Dan Stories
by Jeffrey Redmond
ISBN 0-595-13201-4
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $12.95

A choice follow up to the Er-Dan books series. This work continues on with stories of that far away future planet. Now a part of The Imperium and its control of so many planets in the Galaxy, the planet of the three moons has its newly established Terran Colony. Migrants and transplants from Earth, they have come to the planet to establish new lives. These stories tell of their lives amongst themselves, other beings from other planets, and their endless efforts at survival. The more violent and erotic aspects of both human and other humanoid natures are fully realized and discussed. Their stories enhance, entertain, and enlighten to the fullest extent. A wide variety of tales of adventure, romance, war, eroticism, sexuality, and survivalism. True to life descriptions of first person accounts. How and why the inhabitants were able to cope with the uncertainty and insanity of inter-galactic struggle for power and order, dominance and control. Thrilling, enthralling, instructing, and developing. A must for every beyond the normal science fiction library.

About the author...


Jeff Redmond is a writer for newspapers and magazines. He has authored books of both fiction and non-fiction. He has attended various universities and has various degrees in History, Psychology, Education, and International Business. Jeff speaks several languages, and is an experienced world traveler. His chief love is to help others to improve their lives, and to offer them all the encouragement he can.

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Escape, a novel
by Robert A Gallinger
ISBN 0-595-26151-5
Paperback $14.95
Hard Cover $24.95


Escape is a breath-taking suspense that pits the will of a paranoiac commune leader against the determination of a grade-school teacher, who fights to escape his madness and power.

On a familiar jogging trail in the densely wooded area near historic Blakeley Park, Pilar Brighton slices through the shafts of early morning light. Like a frightened gazelle in flight, her eyes are glazed with terror as she dashes for her very life. Four men are behind her now, dressed in dark sweats and ski masks. They are closing fast, determined to drive her to Willnook Springs, a commune headed by Leo Croker, an ex-convict and self-ordained priest. If Pilar loses this race, she will soon discover that Leo Croker is more than a self-proclaimed priest; he is a madman out to kill her. Determined, Pilar pushes on; hoping that her legs and wind hold, helping her escape this time. But fate is not always so kind. Sometimes it can be dashed in a flash, especially with energetic pursurers so close behind. But Pilar has faith. She runs harder.


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Escaped!
by Howard A Losness
ISBN 0-595-12765-7
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $18.95

His government sent him on a mission. Now they want to kill him after 22 years of imprisonment in a Vietnamese POW camp.

Sergeant Zachery Collins and his friend, corporal Adams have just escaped the Vietnamese jungle prison where they had been held prisoners for the past twenty-two years. Picked up by an American submarine, they're delivered to the states. The moment they step off the submarine, they're met with gunfire. Adams is killed and Collins escapes. someone deep in the government doesn't want their story told.



About the author...

Howard Losness is a member of Mystery Writers of America and has published nine books to date including an illustrated children's book. He is an artist as well, specializing in Northwestern and African art. He has a masters degree in psychology.

 


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eXploZion!
by Ross Wells
ISBN 0-595-25411-X
Paperback $17.95
Hard Cover $27.95
A fast-paced Beat Generation-inspired thriller set in a dangerous place, where magic ignites the resurrection of your dreams.

"Were you first attracted to me or my art?" the dangerous feline beauty purred, coyly curling on the soft black leather chair in the dark southwestern corner of the "Pink Iguana" coffee house. Isis, an intoxicating beatnik poet, encourages a cowboy drifter to resurrect his lost dream regardless of the consequences. In Beat Generation fashion, modeled after their icons (novelist William S. Burroughs and film director David Cronenberg), Gabriel, a traveling folk-rock artist, and Isis, his oriental muse, compose an explosive New Wave film that exposes corruption, abuse, harassment, censorship, and mind control in contemporary society! As a result, the couple fights for their lives against the corrupt bureaucratic establishment! This revolutionary first novel by Texas playwright Ross Wells also features a unique guide to the most unusual yet influential films ever made! So, get hip and dig this incendiary film trip! You've never experienced anything like it!
About the author...

Ross Wells, a professional journalist, playwright, film-maker, and educator, has written film and theater criticism for the San Antonio Current (in Texas) and the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (in Georgia); has experienced the stage productions of his plays, including Of Strange Voices & Watermelon Men,; has directed films, including Raven's Nightmare and In the Realms of Madness; and currently teaches communications and debate in San Antonio.

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Extremities-4
by Bob Lupo
ISBN 0-595-25976-6
Paperback $20.95
Hard Cover $30.95

Extremities-4
, a modern-day morality tale/medical fantasy, examines the origins and consequences of a dreaded Simian-like disease of the limbs and tracks the plight of four unlucky specimens weaving the landscape of an America livid and pale from a bad case of Darwinian déjà vu.

Calypso Ambiliano, Casey Dawes, Jose Greene, and Steve Einstein are caught in the crosshairs between civilization and reality.

Vilified and despised by a startled citizenry, the Authorities herd the afflicted to an esteemed Medical Research Center, where they are probed, cut, X-rayed, and scanned.

Cal, Casey, Jose and Steve escape to the serenity of northern Vermont—only to be betrayed by old enemies.

The four stumble into an old root cellar, a cave of beginnings, and witness the nation, the world succumb to its Animal Claw origins.

The nation again celebrates its sameness, but the descent into nature continues.

Extremities-4
is a macabre and bizarre tale of the familiar and the foreign.



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The Fablesinger
by Judith Woolcock Colombo
ISBN 0-595-19058-8
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $11.95

"An engrossing fantasy story of mystery, magic, and coming of age. Allegory and legend combine in a fable which is unique and involving ;and rich in Caribbean folklore and tradition."
—The Midwest Book Review

The Fablesinger, in the words of Kirkus Reviews, is a mythical tale of a struggle between the forces of good and evil; which engulfs the reader with its power and conviction. The novel's plot travels between reality and myth enfolding the reader in the magic and mystery of Caribbean Myths where a young girl grows to become a powerful shaman.


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The Fanatic
by James Lawson
ISBN 0-595-15820-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $12.95

A satire on religious fanaticism about a college professor who seeks salvation in two religions at the same time.

The Fanatic is a satire on religious fanaticism, concerning a foolish college professor whose search for sainthood in two religions at the same time leads him from one catastrophe to another.
About the author...

James Lawson has written 11 novels, 9 screenplays, hundreds of TV commercials and numerous other works, including a TV special for PBS, which won a CINE Golden Eagle, and the trailer for the movie, "Star Wars". He lives in New York City with his wife, Katharine, a professor of pediatrics at Einstein College of Medicine and their children, Victoria and Nicholas, both students.

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Far From the Angels - a Tale of Revoluionary Mexico
by Ben Tarver
ISBN 0-595-00959-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95
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A young gringais rescued from Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico in 1916 and spirited away into Chihuahua. She is forced to pass as a boy and live in squalor, subject to all the horrors and bloodshed of the 20th century's first major revolution. She becomes a pianist/spy in a bordello before joining Villa's doradosto fight side by side with her dashing Mexican lover in the cause of land reform and freedom. Her dangerous exploits carry her into the far reaches of the Sierra Madre where she encounters both love and death. Captain George Patton, an officer in General "Blackjack" Pershing's expeditionary force, apprehends this "revolutionary Villista," discovers she is really a young girl and sends her back to her wealthy father in New York. The lure of adventure and heeer love for the boy she left behind comples her to return to Mexico in search of him so they can continue the fight for justice-- and the right to pursue their passion and love in peace.

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The Farthest Eden, California!
by Louise OFlaherty
ISBN 0-595-00810-0
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $31.95

To a dusty, flea-ridden pueblo, Los Angeles in 1851, sailed Captain Patrick Donovan with his spirited, headstrong daughter Bets and his sister Mary, abandoned by her Spanish husband, robbed of her child, but still upright and proud. They came to settle, fighting for fortune and happiness.

"A first-class family saga and extremely entertaining."

Publishers Weekly

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The Fat Lady Sings
by David Scott Milton
ISBN 0-595-14748-8
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $14.95

A hard-boiled detective thriller in the tradition of Jim Thompson and Elmore Leonard. Gamblers, convicts, strippers, killers-The Fat Lady rocks! A sledge hammer to the heart!

Paul Dogolov, divorced Vietnam War hero and novelist, teaches a writing class in a maximum security prison. Convinced that one of his students, serving a life sentence for brutal murder, is innocent, he sets out to find the real killer. The search leads him to a remote, dust-blasted California desert town and a scorpion's nest of bizarre and vicious characters. The result is a tale of intrigue, corruption, and savage humor, in which Dogolov, through his encounter with the horrific, yet wildly comic, Fat Lady of the title, learns about terror, degradation, and ultimately, love in a funhouse-mirror world where illusion is reality, reality, a chimera.




"David Scott Milton is certainly one of the most talented, uncompromising prose writers of his generation, and The Fat Lady Sings is perhaps his best and also most appealing novel." — Peter Bogdanovich



About the author...

David Scott Milton is an award winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. His novels include, "The Quarterback", "Paradise Road", "Kabbalah", and "Skyline". His play, "Duet", with Ben Gazzara, was seen on Broadway. His film, "Born to Win", starring George Segal and featuring Robert DeNiro, has become an underground classic.


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Fatcat's Cross
by John Allen
ISBN 0-595-15908-7
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95

Cecil J. Peters is a master-deceiver—a televangelist extraordinaire.

Harman Judson is the televangelist’s partner in crime. His sole ambition is to rid himself of the encumbrance his business attachment represents. Then there’s his daughter Kate, who always believed her father was in computers. She learns to her cost what it means to have a crook for a parent. There’s Ray, a genuine and solid pastor, plodding along as he attempts to discover the truth behind the man on the screen. And Stephanie, the darling of Montmartre, whose dancing attracts the crowds on the square outside the Sacré-Cœur, and whose Saturday routine is rudely shattered by unexpected visitors.

From London to Paris, this book sweeps us along as murky intrigue travels side by side with mirth-filled revelry. What John Allen has put together is more than a novel—it’s an experience. Laced with humor and depth of feeling, the author invites us to partake in his own authoritative perceptions.

Hard-hitting and leaving nothing to the imagination, Fatcat’s Cross is a must for those who want to know what’s behind the people up front.




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Fifteen Flags
by Ric Hardman
ISBN 0-595-14824-7
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $26.95
Fifteen Flags re-creates the American military intervention into Siberia during the Russian Civil war, one of America's earlier failed attempts to control the fate of nations. This epic novel focuses on company commander Captain "Hunkpapa" Jack Carlisle and his second in command, Lt. Ira Leverett, known to their men as the Sioux and the Jew. Their mission was to maintain neutrality on an isolated sector of the Trans-Siberian railway which was targeted by Bolshevik and Czarist troops, by roving bands of Cossacks and by the forces of a dozen other nations which sought to control Siberia. In 1920 when they received orders to withdraw Lt. Leverett deserted the company to find Maryenka Austin, widow of an American sergeant who died in action. Captain Carlisle and his men, riding two rail wagons behind an erratic wood burning switching engine, beat their way East toward Vladivostok trying to outrun an armored train commanded by a rogue White officer, Colonel Sipialef, who has stolen the Cazrist gold reserves. When Leverett locates Maryenka with a band of Partisans and learns she is pregnant, he convinces her and the Partisan leader that Maryenka should be evacuated with the American forces so that her child can be born in the United States.


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Finding Faith
by Andrew Barriger
ISBN 0-595-26309-7
Format: Paperback  / Hard Cover
Our Price: $14.95 / $24.95

Surrounded by an unlikely cast of characters, Taylor Connolly learns just how small a town can be and just how cunning temptation is. Sometimes, Faith can be the most dangerous thing of all.

Taylor Connolly was a nice guy. So, when he came home to find his boyfriend of over two years in the arms of another man, it was only natural he had trouble finding room to forgive and forget if he was going to be nice, how could he expect less of the man he thought to spend his life with? Depressed, dejected, demoralized, and probably a few other de- words he couldn t think of right away, Taylor decided to move away from the big city to a small town. He was close enough to keep his job, but far enough away to try to forget him. For Taylor, it was time to start over and forget about relationships for a while or so he thought. After all, he didn t look gay, and small towns didn t have gay people in them, right? Avoid temptation and thou shalt not be tempted.

About the author...

Andrew Barriger is a sometimes writer, sometimes programmer, sometimes artist, and sometimes executive, when he's not busy doing something else. He lives in Michigan with an overbearing cat and contends eating chocolate at least once daily is the secret to a long life. Finding Faith is his first published novel.

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Finley
by c. e. snodgrass
ISBN 0-595-09246-2
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95

c.e. Snodgrass tells stories that will make you examine how you deal with difficult topics. He will take you back to the history of this small quentessential American community. You will get to know the people who shaped Finley. You will get to know the people that were shaped by Finley. These wonderful stories will stay with you for a long long time!

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The Firedrake
by Cecelia Holland
ISBN 0-595-17582-1
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $13.95

"Powerful and brilliantly realized."
-- The New York Times

Cecelia Holland's first novel follows the career of an Irish mercenary knight who joins the army of William the Conqueror and fights at the Battle of Hastings.

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