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TRACKS
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99America – land of opportunity – nation of immigrants.
There is a special magic to America. It comes from the diversity of its people.
Like the characters in Tracks they come from all over – places like Guadalajara, Chapala, Chihuahua and Zacatecas, Mexico, Kirkaldy, Scotland, Barnmeen, Ireland, Copenhagen, Denmark, disputed territory in the shadow of Mt. Ararat in the Caucasus Mountain Range, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Padua, Italy.
In 1919, when young Pedro Figueroa and Antonio Flores were refused seats to a travelling Shakespearian and Broadway show on a Saturday night in a saloon in Socorro, New Mexico, the lead actor stopped the show and took them aside. He offered these words of encouragement:
“You boys got to do the same things my folks did. Work hard. Raise a family. Make sure your kids get to school. Your day will come. This is a great country. Look, we got rid of slavery. Things get better all the time. Lives are lived in stages. Look at the caterpillar, crawling about, making little tracks
on the ground, and then it’s into a cocoon, and before long, it’s flying about, a butterfly.”
Tracks is a testament to the spirit of immigrants who come to America and make it a better place.
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The Care and Feeding of Harry
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99It seems Harry Flapper leads a charmed life.
But then again, maybe charmed isn’t quite the right word. Because when Harry is around—and even when he isn’t—very strange things seem to happen. Like a moose goring a dune buggy to death. And the fixation of the local police with the mysterious Flapper Gang. And who could forget Victoria, Harry’s winsome mother who daily faces the many challenges of keeping her husband Bull alive and in one piece and her family one step removed from another calamity. Add a full cast of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and several other hapless and sometimes flirtatious creatures, and you have a recipe for mishaps and hilarity.
And then there’s Harry himself: only son, besotted with his ever-expanding bug and coin collections, naïve to the wiles of certain young ladies of his acquaintance and never far from his own misadventures. The Care and Feeding of Harry is a fun-filled tale of Forrest Gumpian proportions. Prepare to enter Harry’s world, where nothing is sacred and each story is full of wit and irreverence. And find out why he detests chocolate.
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Earth Lost Without Power: The Neutron Bomb
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99When greed for power consumes people’s souls, there is no limit to how far they will go in pursuit of their goals, regardless of the destruction they may wreak on others.
When an enormous missile launches from within the Russian empire, countries around the globe are in shock. It seems Russian scientists have developed power neutron bombs and placed them in orbit around the earth in order to consolidate the empire’s power. But their plans go awry when faulty equipment launches all of the missiles back toward the earth in one shocking blow. The Russian military activates a self-destruct mechanism, but it is too late for billions of people on earth. Those who don’t die in the initial explosions-as their bodies’ nervous systems are fatally disrupted-find themselves living without electricity. Planes plummet from the sky, and modern life comes to a screeching halt. Now only time will tell if humanity will ever recover.
In this science fiction novel, powerful neutron bombs devastate human life on earth, leaving the survivors to pick up the pieces.
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The Helpmate
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is a well-orchestrated prose-work, fiction. Although events in the narratives are mirrored to reflect real life occurrences. It is a tragic story. A tale of struggles, hardship, fortune, survival and death. The Book has fifteen chapters in total running into 108 pages with intriguing starting ending narratives which qualifies the story as comical tragedy.
It touches on some cultural demeanors of people from certain tribes in Africa (Nigeria as a focus) where extra-marital affair is silently prevalent despite legality to engage in polygamy. The book: Helpmate muckrakes the evil of broken-homes and parental negligence on young adults. The strenuous roles of fending for self as a child and taking up the responsibility of an adult in the process of survival is pivotal incident within the pages.
Man’s love for beast is not always without the influence of what they could produce. This statement is justified by the roles the Dog: ‘Riro’ plays on Dara’s path to fulfillment. These unique roles have usually been sanctioned to be the reason why many pet-owners (especially in Africa) own their Dogs and cater for them and not really because of unaligning love for these animals. The story justifies this more with the dramatic risk of life efforts ‘Riro’ (the Dog) had to make to preserve Dara’s life whle the Dog owner-Dara could not be said to attempt similar efforts to the turn of substituting his own life to rescue the Dog when her own (the Dog’s) critical situation beckoned.
We dream, we hope, we expect with longings in life, but we do not know what tomorrow holds. This is explained by the unexpected and sudden end of Riro. For this sudden and unexpected end of Dara’s lover bring him back to a zero level of fulfillment, bruising his desires like the impact of the sun upon a fallen leave…
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Head Smashed In
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99W. Fred Bowen is a retired educator who lives part-time in Canada and Switzerland. Since he was very young, while growing up in Montana, one of his many interests has been the pre-history of the aboriginal peoples of prairies. He has been fascinated by the artifacts left behind by these people and curious about how they were able to exist in a harsh and difficult world. Head Smash In, written predominantly for younger readers, is his first story about that world. Combining his arrowhead collecting hobby with his knowledge based on years of research, Mr. Bowen has created an entertaining and thought-provoking story of North America’s earliest habitants.
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Suspicion
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99When Ivan’s Jewish parents smuggle him out of Germany during World War II, they leave him a letter with two pieces of advice: work hard, and be wary of those offering help. Taking this counsel to heart, Ivan studies diligently and becomes an internationally recognized neuroscientist. He marries and has a son, but his intrinsic distrust of others pushes his family away.
When the US government offers him a top-secret assignment working with German and Russian scientists in Iran to develop a new weaponized drug—along with a significant pay raise—Ivan jumps at the opportunity. Soon, however, his suspicious nature forces him to question the work’s real purpose. He discovers the German-Russian team are creating a weapon of mass destruction, and his suspicions are confirmed: the CIA didn’t plant him as a scientist but as a spy.
Meanwhile, Ivan’s son, Michael, has become a member of a US Special Operations team. Michael hasn’t spoken to his estranged father in years, and he never expects them to meet again. When they do, the circumstances will demand that they rediscover their ability to trust in each other. Their lives may depend on it.
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Veronica’s Challenge
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Veronica was packing for her trip back home to New York. Her mother walked into the room. “Are you going to have breakfast with us before you leave?” her mom asked. “Sure, I will. I don’t have to leave right away,” Veronica said. “I’m going to check to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything,” Veronica told her mother. As Veronica was getting ready to go downstairs, she thought “It’s nice to be here again. This house has good memories…
Veronica’s Challenge, is a story about a woman who works in an aquarium. She has an accident, then she meets Tess and her life has changed.
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Spyder Hole
Price range: $3.99 through $19.95Former American Green Beret Dan Halevi, now an Israeli Mossad officer, had the key to stopping the 9-11 attack in his hands but never realized it. Now he has information that terrorists will detonate nuclear weapons in New York and London. This time he won’t let it happen.
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Deacon’s Promise
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Deacon’s Promise is an action thriller set in South Africa. In the midst of his own crisis of faith, Deacon Adelius receives a letter from a murdered friend, pleading with him to go to South Africa to rescue his children, whose lives are in danger from international drug smugglers led by a villain who is clever, ruthless, and beautiful. What his friend asks from the grave, Deacon must grant. To honor his dying friend’s request, he will have to rely on fellow members of a secret society of Gabrians, of close friends, of a retired colonel of the South African police, and of a unique trio of honorary uncles. Deacon becomes a hunter and hunted, as he weaves his way from Cape Town to Zimbabwe in a trail of violence in which he must call upon all his Chicago street smarts and previous military experience to survive and accomplish his mission.
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Two Souls
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99This is where Two Souls met with the Devil Serpent. This is when he sold his
soul to it. He sold his soul for power.”
Davila delivers a highly charged, exciting adventure in this novel.
His narrative is intelligent and multilayered.
– The U.S Review of Books
Death born of the Devil. . .The human soul is like doorway that can lead us to the realm of hell. Or very easily take us to the door that leads to the light. Two Souls contains the element of horror, fantasy and Fiction. From the first page it takes you into a different world. An engrossing story where the action is quick paced, the edge of your seat kind. The tale is powerful and intense. In contains suspense and love that will keep you turning the pages until the mystery of the golden amulet and Two Souls is resolved.
David Davila was born in Austin, Texas and served 6 and ½ years in the U.S.M. Corps. After getting out of the Marine Corps he went to live in Portland Oregon with his wife Rosalee where he was employed by the postal service and wrote his first novel Two Souls. Returned to Austin, Texas and finished the remainder of fifteen years employed by the U.S. Postal Service.
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Brothers
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Brothers takes detective Pete Rodrequiz and his partner, Paul, to a world of the unknown, where strange occurrence take place in mother nature. Two brothers, Frank and George, take you on a killing spree and tell their story of abuse and how they evolved to survive.
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We Run over Snakes: A Fictional Novel in a True Historic Setting and Time
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99“WE RUN OVER SNAKES” is a fictional novel set in an actual historical time and setting. It is a story of the struggle of military veterans and their families carving homestead farms from dirt, sagebrush and rattlesnakes in rugged Wyoming. The lives of three families become intricately interwoven as they form friendships and partnerships in battling the rigors of scratching out a living on soil that won’t cooperate. Wanting only to be left alone to love their land and their families, the farmers find themselves drowning in politics as they discover the government had misrepresented the capabilities of their homestead land. This is a story of disappointment and hope, of pain and triumph, of fear and faith.
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Mystery at Higby Ranch
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Allison’s problems were just beginning. After an argument with her father, she goes looking for Mr. Molly, her cat. Instead of finding him, she finds a dead body in the pump house. She runs to get her father and when they return, the pump house is empty. When Allison and her best friend Trish set out to find the disappearing body, they encounter more strange happenings at the ranch. Mysteriously a light turns on in the barn and when the girls investigate noises inside, they find the barn empty. Determined to solve the puzzle, Allison and Trish enlist the aid of Robert and Brad. Just when the four get close to finding the answer, the boys disappear. Trish goes for help and Allison is left on her. Things couldn’t get spookier, she thinks . . . until she hears something in the cellar.
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Adam
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Dr. Jeffrey Mongroll II created a monster out of his grief for the loss of his father. He vowed that he would create the perfect humanoid that would thrive in this world to take over humans as we know. It escaped into the waters of the Willamette River of Portland, Oregon. This creature if left to live will be the extinction of all mankind.
Detective Pete Rodrequiz, a transplant from the state of Texas, and his new partner, Johnny Rodrequiz, are given the assignment. Death occurred caused by this vicious illusive creature. The invisible killer baffled Pete. Why is there death of the innocent? Pete confronted Dr. Mongroll. There seemed no way to stop this killer until his team is given a break. The creature was seen. Pete requested help from Dr. Robis, a marine biologist, Dr. Mongroll and his colleagues, and the Navy SEAL Team.
The story will take you into an intense ride of fear–a fear of what lurks in the depth of the river.
In the depth of the Willamette, the creature attacks the Navy SEAL Team and the submersible with Dr. Robis and Dr. Mongroll and his colleagues. They stared on as the creature killed many of the SEAL Team.
Back on the deck of the coast guard ship, the battle for life between man and the creature and life as we know it began.
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Murda Mansion
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99In the darkened basement of an old Mansion lies a mystery; an enigma powerful enough to change the world as we know it today. Young Riley McCaden and best friend Bowdie Pager accidentally stumble upon it and come face to face with the most difficult challenges of their lives.
An old map showing the way to an Ancient City thought only to be myth; becomes the focus of a desperate race against time. Torn from their families and armed only with courage, the boys embark upon a journey like none they have ever known.
Filled with danger, risks and daring, they travel into the past and down the road of high adventure; where along the way they meet up with the kind of people who change your life forever! MURDA MANSION… the dream of a life time! -
