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Advance Man is an evergreen political adventure. Set in the hard-fought early days of the 2008 Democratic primary season, it is an insider's look behind the scenes at seventy-two hours in the most challenging and secretive, yet most public part of American presidential politics-the Advance operation that creates and controls the media image of a presidential candidate, as well as everything that happens within a quarter-mile radius. Although this book is explicated in the tradition of autobiographical fiction it is a must for anyone eager to understand the guts of an American political campaign.

Meet the Haralsons-retired, eccentric, always discontented. Margarita, the post-menopausal narrator, wants a baby, while her heroic husband Alex is obsessed with finding the missing 11th commandment. Perhaps conjured from their obsessions, arrives John Chapman, a Max Headroom type cyborg from the distant future, begging the Haralsons to save his race of Jewish robots from extinction. The result is a mad escapade through time and space to Airets, Earth's mirror planet. Prepare for the many antics of the libidinous Margarita as she does battle with gossips, hypocrites and her double-dealing electronic progeny.

A cast of magnetic characters share this little piece of paradise in chaotic harmony, with one character more magnetic and dangerous than the rest-Captain Jay. The island captivates an accidental hero from Middle-America, the Rookie, who arrives in the late 1970s and unwittingly heralds a reluctant populace into modernity. The Rookie's relationship with Captain Jay will heartbreakingly and hilariously change them both, and the island-forever.

It is 1993 and Ashley Cooper, in his fiftieth year, loves his work at a prestigious law firm, dealing with post-perestroika Russia. He has it all: a 5th Avenue penthouse overlooking New York's Central Park, membership in all the right clubs, fast cars, and an even faster mistress. But people start dying, including his wife and some close family and friends. With the help of his beloved teenaged daughter, Annie, he begins studying diaries written by his real father and grandfather, which expose the World War Two atrocity of Iron Cage" and the presence of supernatural forces working to hide him from those who would assassinate him. He is the hidden prince, destined to lead the Iskandarov clan into the 21st century, and he must be severely tested by the formidable forces of the Polinkov-the deadly rivals of the Iskanderov for millennia. This is the first novel in a series called People of the Blood.

On November 17, 1986, flight JAL 1628, a cargo jet, made international history. The crew on a routine flight to Anchorage, Alaska, encountered three massive UFOs. Days after the incident, it became one of the most famous UFO cases of all time.This true story is what Mark Barresi's powerful science fiction novel Encounter Over Alaska is based upon. When lead executive investigator the FAA, Scott Andrews, is made aware of the case, he is at first unfazed by the report and believes there must be a plausible reason for the experienced pilot and his crew to make up such a wild claim about UFOs. But when investigative reporter Nicole Martone proves to Andrews there is an evidential cover up of both military and civilian radar reports, showing that UFOs tracked a cargo plane for forty-five minutes, the two become a team, risking their careers, and fight to expose government deception.

A renowned physician and medical scientist reveals the secrets of heart disease-uncovered through 50 years of clinical investigation-that have revolutionized current management of heart disease and may eliminate it in the future. Richly illustrated with individual patient and experimental details, the book also weaves in the dramatic story of the development of the first drug approved specifically for African Americans, and how politics and misguided accusations of racism have tragically inhibited widespread use of this life-saving therapy.

In this second book of the Hassie Calhoun trilogy, the now twenty-nine-year-old single mother moves from Nevada to New York City to pursue her career as a singer. Though she enjoys a degree of success, she cannot adequately care for her son and so agrees to marry a handsome gay lawyer, who is delighted to have a family. While attending the funeral of her childhood mentor in England, she falls in love with a charming Royal Navy officer, finds greater career success in London's West End and spends four years traveling between London and NYC, in an attempt to avoid hurting the ones she loves. Set during 1970s and 80s, this paging-turning epic spans the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and the Falklands War.

The Cold War was in high gear. Terrorist attacks around the world were on the increase; two hundred forty-one US Marines having just been killed by a suicide bomber in Beirut. Reagan was loaded for bear. America needed a win. Reagan pounced. His target was an idyllic island in the Windward chain of the lower Caribbean whose primary export, besides tourism, is nutmeg.A couple of hundred miles north of Grenada, a bumbling group of island misfits have stolen a boat and kidnapped the girlfriend of the local dive master and tough guy, Captain Jay. Captain Jay wants her back. He and a close-knit group of friends begin an island-hopping chase with the kidnappers that leads them through the Caribbean and, eventually, to the island of Grenadäon the eve of Operation Urgent Fury.

Alterio Delgado, an unscrupulous man with mesmerizing charm, has been spending a lot of time on a beautiful, unspoiled island off Mexico's Caribbean Coast, dangling the notion that it should be developed into a new tourist destination-the next Cancun. The island residents who control the island are poor but happy fishermen, descendants of pirates who settled it more than a century ago. They've embraced Alterio's promise of finding billions of dollars to develop the island; not fully understanding that mass tourism development would irreversibly change their island and destroy their culture.What Alterio doesn't know is that El Simpatico has been secretly cultivating this opportunity for years and is determined to be the clandestine developer of Mexico's next major tourist destination-whatever the cost.

An anthology of previously unpublished short stories, selected and edited by Steve McEllistrem and Cynthia Kraack, by authors of Calumet Editions, which includes a mixed genre short story by Ian Graham Leask.

Law Firm Confidential is a provocative story that chronicles the career of the very studious Paige Turner, who has all the necessary qualifications to succeed. But in this corporate world of innuendos and obscured language lines become quickly blurred. Words like "teamwork" and "team player" make or break careers. But Paige's image does more than opens doors. It surpasses expectations and charms invisible serpents to the surface, slithering with nonverbal, naked demands for sexual favors that disintegrate a firewall of protective policies. This disarming novella takes readers on a charming journey of the young life and times of Paige Turner.

Alexander Haralson, the deranged star of Leonard Borman's eccentric debut novel Our Jewish Robot Future, returns--only slightly more sane-in his new effort, Fix the Roads, as a retired accountant who wants to start a new career as a stand-up comedian. His ambition is to tell it like it is to the corrupt politicians and be the new Lenny Bruce, but with his well-used heart all aflutter over his new mistress Flossy, and his beloved city of Detroit suffering dire deterioration, he's in for a bumpy ride.

Lovely and talented Hassie Calhoun arrives in Las Vegas to make it as a singer. Her beauty immediately opens doors at the Sands Hotel, but that same beauty draws her into a dangerous relationship with her brooding lover, Jake, and attracts the attention of the powerful Frank Sinatra. Like the goddess Persephone, Hassie finds herself torn between the darkness and the light the two men offer. Jake is her personal Hades, whose love borders on obsession, and Hassie's innocence keeps her from recognizing the dangers that she invites. With her innocence and identity on the line, the road to stardom puts Hassie in several compromising situations. Author Cory offers a deceptively sophisticated look into the life of an ambitious young woman during the era of the Rat Pack, whose very passions impede her dreams in a way that many women could secretly relate to.

An anthology of previously unpublished short stories by multiple authors.

Rachel Kemper Kelsey was fourth on her parents' emergency contact list so an evening phone call from their physician signals a major calamity. Her mother Katherine, who rigidly controls family communications, has avoided contact with her older daughter for years.As the family crisis deepen, Katherine is declared a vulnerable adult and removed from the home. Rachel's father, Art, increasingly leans on Rachel to make the transition work. But Rachel's brother and sister, two alcoholic narcissists, fight to bring their mother home.Rachel, a psychologist and author of self-help books for families, has the respect of her father and the medical community, but is resented by her mother and siblings. As Katherine slowly slides into dementia and failing health, Art renews his relationship with the daughter his tyrannical wife had banished from their home years ago, causing a family rift with tragic consequences.With characters as rich as those in stories by Anita Shreve, Pat Conroy or Sue Miller, The High Cost of Flowers is an American story as classic as suburbs, working parents, and multi-generational confrontation. The characters are people who readers will recognize in their neighborhoods, their kids' schools and their own families. The hardest part of living is watching Katherine die.

What is prayer if not the acknowledgement of one's relationship to the Divine? What is poetry if not a kind of prayer that rises from the heart in image and metaphor? What is this book if not the poems offered up as testimony to the author's relationship to the Divine? From his entry into the religious life in 1965 to the 2020's pandemic pause, these are intimate prayers, images of life lived in times of transition, and metaphors of how one understands what it means to be human.

These poems by an undiscovered Minnesota author, celebrate nature, music, love and loss, plus a lovely short story, all conjuring a snapshot of the mid-twentieth century. June Skjervold's dedication to "everyday poets" offers the best insight to understanding her work. The poems demonstrate that which appears in our daily lives as mundane is actually wrapped in the supernatural and natural worlds with their beauty available to all the everyday poets. June says that her inspiration was based on observations of the world around her and she "just wrote it down". June is perhaps too modest in that summary considering the care and depth of expression that went into producing prosody of such structure and stylistic variety. The poems illustrate that the everyday world we live in is rounded with magic that resonates with the poet in us all.

How do you paint a regret? As single parents each with two young daughters, Tearza and Ryan struggle with loss, love, and their mistakes. Tearza is devastated with guilt over her husband's sudden suicide and the loss of her job. She's worried about the grief consuming her daughters, Marci, and Ella, and afraid to move forward because every time she loves something she loses it. Ryan lost his wife through divorce due to Post-Partum Depression which led to her chemical dependency. Obsessed with his desire to make partner in a prestigious law firm, he struggles to balance work and his two daughters, the same age as Tearza's. Wounded by his past mistakes and broken promises as a husband, he fears he's failing as a father and mother to Sarah and Gracie. Time is running out. If he doesn't make changes soon, he'll regret it for the rest of his life. Together, Tearza and Ryan learn to make difficult choices that come with risk. Their relationship follows the circle of life through four seasons in one year. Along the journey, they discover how their worst regrets become their greatest blessings.

A group of fanatics has created a virus that could wipe out humanity. Zora and Curtik, the bio-engineered cadets who were saved by Jeremiah Jones before they could annihilate Earth, are intent on redeeming themselves by finding and stopping the terrorists.They go to work with an entire CINTEP team - including Ned Jefferson, Lendra Riley and Trogan Brosk - as they attempt to track down Susquehanna Sally. Will they succeed, and will they be in time? Or has the spread of the virus reached a tipping point, creating an unstoppable force? From Indonesia to London to Washington DC, the race is on to save humanity.And there's another problem demanding attention: Walt Devereaux has been stricken by the virus too. Will they be able to save him as well? Eventually, Jeremiah is forced to come out of retirement and join in the efforts to save the world. But he is just a shell of his old self, decimated by the virus, no longer the near-invincible agent he once was.As we finally learn Susquehanna Sally's identity, and what motivated her to become the world's most dangerous terrorist, a Chinese spaceship approaches the Escala colony on Mars and ignores all efforts to contact it. Aspen and her fellow cadets suspect that its inhabitants' intentions are hostile, while the peace-loving Escala don't seem concerned about enacting defensive measures. How far will Aspen go to protect them?The Devereaux Decision was named as a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award, a Midwest Book Award, and an International Book Award in Science Fiction.

These poems boldly appropriate lines from interviews with famous and infamous artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and architects, and with these found lines construct small literary objects with something new to say. The pattern of intense repetition creates an incantation in which shifts in meaning occur as the repeated lines are slightly revised and given a new context. The sampled lines reverberate between stanzas, creating echoes that slow us down, providing startling sonic views. Mark Strand and Eavan Boland in The Making of a Poem, call the pantoum a ""perfect form for the evocation of a past time."" This mash-up of that ancient form with the interview offers unexpected glimpses of the creative process that are nearly perfect for this strange time now. Quotes about interviews instead of quotes about the book itself?My opposition to interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.-James ThurberI get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to.-Emma StoneThere's lots of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.-Imogen PootsMy wife thinks I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answers on the guitar.-David GilmourI've never really done any interviews as myself.-Sacha Baron CohenI never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.-Bob RossI often conduct interviews in my truck.-William Shatner

Ukrainian Nights is one of those gritty, unforgettable noir novels that takes its main protagonist to the nadir of love and obsession and then spits him out, almost broken. Hunter, a young New York Times journalist, assigned to investigate sex slavery and money laundering in Kiev just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is not a tough guy, not in the least, but he falls in love with Alina, the mistress of Karasov--the head of Ukraine's largest mafia--and refuses to let go of her. The love story is run against a background of desperate brutality in Kiev and New York City, the result of the competing interests of international geopolitics, drug money, human trafficking, crooked banking--and for the rich spoils of oil and gas. The plot of Ukrainian Nights twists and turns and the reader is left wondering who is right and who is wrong.