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A serial killer's desire to protect children fuels a parallel drive to murder other sadistic men in this immersive and literary psychological thriller.

Each year, Windows XP is pre-installed on 30 million PCs sold in the U.S.--and 90 million worldwide--making it the world's most popular operating system, and proving to frustrated users everywhere that preponderance does not equate to ease of use. There are literally thousands of programs, tools, commands, screens, scripts, buttons, tabs, applets, menus, and settings contained within Windows XP. And it has only been in the last couple of years...

When Dev gives birth to a baby boy who caused the floor to rumble, the walls to shake and the lights to flicker during delivery, she knows she is raising a witch. Oak was raised in a family coven, but witches don't need magic the way they did in the past. In order to suppress his powers from bursting at the seams, they find that raw garlic keeps his powers in check. Unfortunately, the consequences of smelling like garlic in high school takes a...

Although he grew up in the United States, Presnton L. Allen was born in Honduras, on one of its Caribbean possessions, the island of Roaton, which is populated by a thriving community of English-speaking members of the African diaspora. "Preston Allen's writing is in the tradition of writers such as James Baldwin...His work is especially important because he reveals within the consciousness of young Black men, who have too often been the targe...

A riveting, poignant satire of societal ills, with an added dose of fantasy, Every Boy Should Have a Man takes place in a post-human world where creatures called oafs keep humanlike 'mans' as beloved pets. Preston L. Allen's picaresque journey into uncharted territory in earth, sky, and firmament features echoes of Jack and the Beanstalk and Gulliver's Travels. Filled with surprising twists and turns, the novel is in part a morality tale that ...

Echoing Jonathan Swift, Preston L. Allen breaks new ground with a new novel that is part allegory, part fantasy.

An allegorical fantasy novel which echoes Jonathan Swift, set in a post-human world.

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While other books on gambling seek either to sermonize on the addiction or glorify it by highlighting its few prosperous celebrities, All or Nothing explores the hope, the flame, the magical thinking that sustains a gambler even at his or her lowest. Preston L. Allen is a recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship and author of the thriller Hoochie Mama, as well as the collection Churchboys and Other Sinners. His stories hav...

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A majestic new novel that will launch Preston L. Allen into the ranks of Junot Diaz and Toni Morrison.

Welcome to the bright red bouncing-ball world of Cindique Sanders-Lassiter in this slick, sleak, sexy tale from the undisputed master of literary erotica, Preston L. Allen. Cindique is in love with Roderick Redd, the cutest phone pro at McDarc Inc., but can she save him from the clutches of their boss, Groan of Dark? In the meantime, Cindique herself is being pursued by the violent wildman with the pretty, pretty shoes, who still holds the ke...

Sheba accepts. And the trouble begins.