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Clifton and Tricia Long are on Holiday in the Black Forrest of Germany when they become victims of a terrorist attack. The novel, within a novel, follows Clifton's attempt to survive after witnessing a horrific incident, in which he discovers that existence probes deeper than physical reality, and that there is nothing more misleading than simple innocence.The novel within a novel consists of excerpts from a manuscript Clifton had been working...

Frank and Earth Goddess RoseEmerald, are headed for the Oregon Coast in their automobile named Hardy, when they pick up a hitchhiker who claims to be Jesus, and crash their car in front of a Strange Lonely Church. Taken in by the mysterious Keeper, Frank and RoseEmerald become entangled in a historical battle between religion and mysticism whereby they transcend time in a magical mystery tour of thoughts, dreams, fantasies and emotions, and ex...

Brown has become tramatized by the random violence of the city and the intense alienation of human existence. In an effort to escape, he 'disappears' into the rural landscape of America, where he encounters an eccentric family and much more than he had ever bargained for.Becoming Brown is an existential examination of the American Psyche, as the novel explores both man's indifference to himself, as well as his fellowman. It is only when Brown'...

After a nuclear holocaust, the survivors of a mental hospital struggle to find some sense of order among the chaos. Imprisoned within the hospital itself, a particular group of crazy inmates attempt to locate the legendary Z Room which offers the only way out of the intricately mazed institution.Z Room is a satirical take on the Nuclear Holocaust, where the clinically insane and deviant finally discover the stability and moral fabric they need...

Written for the food scientist, and food product developer, this reference manual discusses the physical and chemical properties of sucrose and its contribution to product flavour. Aspects covered include the history of available sugar sources, from naturally formed sugar in plants to the commercially developed, high quality product used in the food industry. The manufacture of refined sugar from both beet and cane plants is also discussed. Ea...

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Absurdity, social realism, and the in-depth examination of the human condition are but a few of the themes that comprise the contents of the seventy-three short stories breathing menacingly between the covers of this book. Humor attacks surrealism on a landscape sun-saturated with saintly thought and intense clarity - creation's first simple act of pure effervescence getting drowned.

These two novellas are strange companions indeed. Wimble Lord depicts one man's fight for survival while the world around him is on the brink of extinction. What sets Wimble Lord apart from other 'end-of-the-world' sagas are his mad recollections of a futuristic civilization long since past. Emerging from his bomb shelter, he is confronted by a desert that bears a jungle of giant fruits and swarms of migratory, other-worldly insects. Pieces of...

The dust roamed, and in its midst, the code ..." Thus begins the revelations of Occultus Liber, an epic tale of the journey of civilization through time and space. With its collective cast of extraordinary characters both mythological and real, the quest to discover the fate of planet Earth leads to a bizarre odyssey of Biblical proportions. Satire abounds as dozens of players join the chase to dismantle God and claim the world as their own in...

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G Day is basically man's attempt to murder God for leaving the world in such "dire" conditions. The team of assassins includes a Harvard educated Cyclops, his assistant, composed of human excrement, named UGH, a mysterious woman with a somber history of sexual abuse name, None, A woman employed by the C.I.A., previously a statue in a museum, named Ida, a scientist with a half omniscient mind, name Dr. Sseus, twenty-seven past presidents, and D...