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Frank is a survivor of Vietnam and the Hanoi Hilton where he spent two years after being shot down. When he is liberated, he learns that the woman he was engaged to married another man. Depressed and despondent, he takes a cruise to clear his mind when he meets Antoinette. Antoinette is a recruiter for an organization call the "Company." She is interested in his aviation background and signs him on. He goes to Panama where the "Company" is loc...

When Rev. McNamara solemnly stands before the wedding couples, he hears some outrageous things the guests never hear, like the bride saying to the groom, "I just felt the baby kick, ." or the groom saying to the bride, "This tux is giving me a wedgie." "I have been performing weddings in Las Vegas for several years. There are things that I hear, things that I notice because prior to the ceremony, I am pretty much a wallflower and everyone feel...

The fourth and final volume of the historical novel series The Temple Buck Quartet describes the final years of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade through the eyes and words of Temple Buck and his trapper comrades as they continue their quest of beaver through the uncharted wilderness of the Rockies through forbidding western deserts to the Pacific Ocean in Spanish California and back again, harvesting on the way not only beaver pelts but a...

This semi-autobiographical novel is the story of a desperate small-time businessman whose travels through China on the eve of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre take him into a netherworld of corrupt local officials, Hong Kong's criminal "Triads, " and renegade CIA operatives. Throughout, he is forced to confront his own inner demons from Vietnam, and the larger meaning of his Jewish heritage. The Jingwei Bird realistically portrays the politi...

Set amid a reclusive community of aging yachts in mid-Atlantic, The Admiral is a swashbuckling tale of people riding out the holocaust on land caused by a risen sea, the effects of climate change and social collapse. The changes are still happening and Aqual, the scarred, tenacious granddaughter of The Admiral, founder of Akkadia, believes her people are becoming too complacent, too comfortable with their lives despite the ominous signs around...

Volume II: Free Men, 1824-1826 chronicles the exploits of Temple Buck and his rowdy trapper companions in the American Rocky Mountain fur trade from 1824-1826. In this, the second volume of the Temple Buck Quartet, they push ever farther west in their quest for beaver pelts, exploring new country and encountering fresh adventures, some of them welcome, others not at all. This well-researched tale, told in Temple's own words, blends historical ...

PI Chris Day is hired to solve the complex double poisoning on the Scarborough family's private Florida island estate. Eighty-five-year-old William Scarborough and an uncle are murdered at the patriarch's birthday party. Everyone is a suspect and Chris has to unravel the crime, doing it in his own "outside the box" way. One murder was twenty years in the making. The other went back many decades. Past sins, sex, greed and revenge take center st...

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Stacy Jenkins is a senior in college whose life is on the brink of destruction. She must rebuild after the man she was destined to spend the rest of her life with committed the ultimate betrayal. While picking up the pieces she has set her sights on the handsome, smooth talking, junior lawyer, Trent. He, however, must choose between her safety and his livelihood. Quickly. Jumping from the frying pan directly into the fire, Stacy must wade her ...

In 1849, when Macau's governor is murdered, Vicente Mesquita, a lieutenant in Macau's small battalion is forced to avenge the murder of Macau's governor and ordered to attack a Chinese fort¿an action considered to be a suicide mission. Mesquita is trapped in conflict between two fading empires, China and Portugal. With a foot in each culture, he is torn between which masters to follow.. The Macau of Mesquita's time was a boiling pot created by...

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Her known world was shattered by a Soviet bullet. Only six years old, Terez was already learning about life's mean streaks. But being an orphan didn't stop her. At seventeen she was one of the youngest women in a 1960's Chicago medical school, where love, racism and loss were thrust upon her, creating a distaste for life in her adopted country. Fleeing to a clinic in rural Afghanistan, she embraces romance once more, only to have it stolen fro...

When two authors turn up dead at the Boston publishing house where she works, audacious, street-smart Frances Paige exploits her family's ties to the Irish Mob to follow the leads . . . from the hidden coves and waterfront bars of Gloucester to swanky Back Bay watering holes and New York's Diamond District. Abducted by a Beacon Hill antiques dealer for poking around where she doesn't belong, Frances soon discovers Boston's shady worlds of anti...

Milton is an intelligent, albeit sarcastic person who, due to his physical appearances, is misdiagnosed with Down Syndrome. Consistent with the socially ignored and disregarded, Milton is pulled through life by the scruff of his low self-esteem by those who would use this medical oops to their own evil ends. First by his poor mother, who perpetuates the lie to advance her career and then later by the psychopath Billy, who uses Milton in his vi...

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Forty-seven funny and poignant stories of growing up Italian in the Bronx in the '50s and '60s. The Bronx Kid, Daniel DeNapoli, reminisces about a more innocent time when getting in trouble meant slapping a policeman with a fish, blinding cop cars that are chasing you with a "sun ray laser, " or stealing a bike from a junk yard to give to your disadvantaged friend. The stories are told in the author's voice. You can hear the 10-year-old Bronx ...

The true story of 18-year-old Danielle, who leaves her comfortable home to move into a cramped apartment with her controlling boyfriend. At first everything seems exciting and foreign. Soon, though, their small space seems to get smaller, she starts to miss the comforts of home, the peace and quiet of her own room, and her family. Her boyfriend insists as long as they're together, all is good, but he's becoming more and more unstable with each...

NYPD Detective, Jennifer Campbell, investigates the murder of New York's top fashion designer and a model while working against the clock to stop a madman who plans to kill seven children before murdering Jennifer herself-his twisted version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. A deadly game begins after the delivery of a mysterious code. Children are tagged in the game of death, and Jennifer struggles to take control of the case, but the FBI ...

When Loretta leaves her husband Dan Pulaski for a ruthless drug lord's son, she starts a roller coaster of violence and tragic events. Murder, deceit, blackmail, alcoholism and heartbreak all come into play in this suspenseful novel. Loretta's selfishness and greed, inherited from her powerful and heartless mother, lead her to take her young daughter Annie from Dan, leaving him with nothing but a bottle of booze to solace his pain. Loretta's l...

Deadly sins, greed and envy, stir up a toxic potion in the second noir mystery in the Boston Publishing House Mystery series. The museum heist of a priceless Renoir, ripped from the pages of Harpoon Books' forthcoming blockbuster, lands the publisher on the front page of The Boston Globe once again in this life-imitates-art whodunit. The heist's mastermind leaves behind two tantalizing clues: A dead thief sprawled on the marble floor in the mu...