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Scott Sigler called Doucette’s cozy apocalypse story, “entertaining as hell.” Come see how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whatever . . .
The whateverpocalypse. That’s what Touré, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes
...A wounded veteran discovers the healing power of nature in this classic American novel by the author of A Girl of the Limberlost.
Wounded in World War I, Jamie McFarlane is looking for a peaceful place to spend his final days. After escaping the grim confines of a California military hospital, he finds himself at the seaside home of the Bee Master. There, with the help of an impish eleven-year-old called Little Scout, Jamie
...Approaching Wilderness is a collection of six short stories dealing with dementia, originally published in various literary journals. The author was inspired by his late mother's struggles with the disease during her last years. He explores the questions that all family members must eventually face: Where does that beloved person go? What goes on in the secret life of her mind? The stories, filled with humor and compassion, are one man's attempt
...Vitelli in Venice: A Rich Vitelli Mystery - A dream ten-day honeymoon in Venice! What could possibly go wrong? Well, for Metro Detective Rich Vitelli and his new wife, Pam, just about everything!
First, the wife of Pam's friend, Calvin Iams, is abducted from their Venetian hotel. Then Iams gets word that unless he cooperates in the theft of millions of dollars' worth of contemporary art, his wife, Donna, will be killed. And
...Five years to the day, almost to the second, after he disappeared form the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, leaving his host body in a catatonic state, the being known as prot (rhymes with goat) has returned. Now, in sixteen more sessions with psychiatrist Gene Brewer, prot reveals that he has come back to escort a chosen few to his home planet, K-PAX.
K-PAX is an idyllic planet free of the pain and suffering of earth. Prot has incredible insights
The Family That Wasn't is an absurd fable for all ages (from middle grade to adult). Thirteen-year-old John Boggle (whose real name is John Bazukas-O'Reilly-Geronimo-Giovanni-Li Choy-Echeverria) finds his real family so impossibly crazy that he cannot stand living with them another moment. He invents a new and perfect family so convincing that he suddenly finds himself living inside this imaginary world.
But John finds that he too
...Annie Collins emerged from the wreckage of the last invasion of Sorrow Falls with a spaceship in her garden, a loud alien idea in her head, and—because returning to college was out of the question—a lot of free time.
What she chose to do with the idea, the spaceship, and all that free time, ended up kickstarting a worldwide technological boom. Now, nine years later, it seems as if not a day passes without the announcement of
...Two early stories of daring crime-solving by private detective Boise Montague. "The West Indian Manner" features the murder of a seamen whose wife comes looking for answers and gets more questions. "Horror Set Death" shows the deadly side of show business when a crew member winds up dead on the set of a horror movie, Boise must solve the murder fast to keep the film from shutting down. Both stories feature thrills and island mystery as only Gene
...Before you is a Christmas story. A short story. A short Christmas story. It is all you need to know about three men you will never forget.
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, and Prophet John are lonely people, each from a different and difficult place, whose lives are thrown together by circumstance, fate, or God Himself. They are rail-riders, rovers, vagabonds, and thieves. They are running toward as much as they are running from, and one of
..."I'm something like sixty-thousand years old, and I've probably thought more about my own death than any living being has thought about any subject, ever. I used to be unduly preoccupied with what might constitute a "good death", although interestingly, this has always been an after-the-fact analysis. What I mean is, following a near-death experience, I'll generally perform a quiet review of the circumstances and judge whether that death would
..."I have always believed in the right to bear arms, though legs, brains, and hearts are no less important." (from The Right to Bear Arms)
The Absurd Naturalist is a collection of 43 humorous essays and sketches published over a span of 30 years, and assembled here for the first time. Included are pieces dealing with tofu hunters, the art of toad throwing, same-species marriage, getting rid of nature, lizard watching, reasons
...In 1805, seventeen-year-old Jack O'Reilly sets sail with his parents from America to Cuba aboard the Perdido Star. But when tragedy strikes shortly after their arrival, Jack makes a desperate escape, rejoining the departing Star as a member of the crew. On his yearslong journey...
If you enjoy firsthand accounts from real people, you'll love 1926.
Rural America...
...Great Depression, Dust Bowl.
One might be discouraged, but this young farmer was quite the opposite. You'll find Gene to be a bit mischievous and a lot hardworking.
Pull up a chair. Stay a while. Gene remembers growing up in rural America on a small farm.
...Seven hundred years in the future, star-to-star travel is common, but so is violence, necessitating military forces capable of maintaining peace throughout the galaxy. Sgt. Ma is a highly trained soldier from Aleutin, orbiting the binary system of Sirus. She spent seven years in the Planetary Militia but aspired to be accepted into the All Worlds United Armed Services. (they wear Aquamarine uniforms she will look good in)
Generally, she
...19) Little Criminals
Frankie Crowe is not one of the great criminal masterminds. He's a small-time thug who thinks that kidnapping one of Dublin's newly rich businessmen just may be the low-risk fast track to the status and money he's certain he deserves. When the local crime boss won't let him make the snatch, he shoots the boss...
This is the story of Pancho and Lefty, whose lives were memorialized and immortalized in the song "Pancho and Lefty" by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. The story is from a written record left for posterity by Jesus "Lefty" Boehm. It is a story of friendship, adventure, murder, and betrayal.
While many of the characters and events in this story are based on real people and true events, this is a work of fiction and an indispensable
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