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So Many Things to Say examines the relationships among a group of young people in Austin, Texas in the early 1980s. In those days the Lone Star State¿s capital city hummed with creative energy. At the University of Texas, Michael Dell cobbled together computers in his dormitory room. An earnest young Paul Begala ran for student body president, losing a close race to a giant purple cartoon character called Hank the Hallucination. Stevie Ray Vau...

Brian Radkey is the Grundoon, a twenty something Austin lawyer who has never quite come to grips with the death of his little sister. Several years after her death, Radkey finds himself under pressure to betray his own ethical standards at work at the same time that he's falling in love with a beautiful but troubled young woman. As the grief he's held inside starts to seep to the surface, hearts break, shots are fired, and apparently impeccabl...

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Brian Radkey is the Grundoon, a twenty something Austin lawyer who has never quite come to grips with the death of his little sister. Several years after her death, Radkey finds himself under pressure to betray his own ethical standards at work at the same time that he's falling in love with a beautiful but troubled young woman. As the grief he's held inside starts to seep to the surface, hearts break, shots are fired, and apparently impeccabl...

Beatrice at Bay is the second Beatrice McIlvaine Adventure, a story that follows the soft-spoken and somewhat telekinetic Beatrice as she grows up in a world of increasingly sophisticated threats. The saga started with Beatrice and the Basilisk, a modern-day fairy tale that resonated unexpectedly with readers young and old. Beatrice was twelve then. She's fifteen now, and facing different challenges: a potential step-father, her own immense bu...

Centerpiece of this collection is "The Turning Point, " a narrative poem about the battle for Guadalcanal in November of 1942. Fusing elements of Homeric and Norse saga with contemporary slang, it's McCandless's attempt to create a uniquely American epic out of one of World War II's most important campaigns. Also included: poems about baseball and businessmen, and an extended sonnet sequence about lost love, "A Beginner's Guide to Disappointme...

Sometimes the Enemy Walks Among Us. An ancient curse. An army of the dead. A vengeful spirit that has walked the world since before the time of man. They all come together in Libya in 1805, when a makeshift army of foreign mercenaries and U.S. Marines sets off across North Africa to rescue three hundred American sailors imprisoned by the King of Tripoli. In this haunted land, the Realm of the Hidden, the expedition is soon beset by a series of...