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The Isle of the Dragon: The Last Flight of the Bugs Bunny
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99In The Isle of the Dragon, author Rolf Stibbe portrays the heroism and courage of United States Army Air Corps flight crews during combat in World War II against the forces of Imperial Japan.
In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese swept all Allied military threats from the South Pacific, including the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Dutch East Indies, Guam, and the Wake Islands. Facing peril and with death likely, a unique cast of characters make for a suspenseful, riveting read.
Stibbe interviewed a World War II combat veteran who flew the B-25 Mitchell Bomber nicknamed “Bugs Bunny,” in New Guinea. It sparked his interest to write this jungle adventure story. Readers will be thoroughly drawn into the story and entertained as they follow the plight of the lost bomber crew.
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Boys of Babylon
Price range: $3.99 through $10.30There is a small tourist trap in the Northern Midwest. A trap may be exactly what it is. People go for the fudge, but is it good enough to risk their lives for? In Midwestern fashion, dark secrets are covered up and disguised as quaint diners, candy shops, and beautiful vacation homes. During the summer of 2004, like every year, tourists make their way into town. However, this year, six pubescent boys take advantage of several unsuspecting vacationers, sending them to a watery grave on a popular recreational river. This rite of passage turns on the town when tragedy strikes one of their own. The children’s parents are forced to come face to face with the sadistic games of their once “sweet angels.” But how does one handle a child without coming to terms with such a twisted reality in a place where no one wants to confront their demons?
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Trapped
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99After speaking from my heart and providing my husband with my real feelings. I could see from the expressions on his face that his ego had just been shattered into pieces. He never had to suffer from knowing my love could vanish away at an instance due to his cheating behaviors. I never expressed feelings of entrapment in our marriage either. And I sure didn’t express my thoughts of us going nowhere. I would just sit back and let him do him. But to be honest, my marriage for years has reminded me daily of a demolition ball swinging into a building. And once the ball made contact, all the bricks of the structure came tumbling down not knowing where they would land. The only difference is, these bricks in my marriage landed right where they were supposed to. Leaving Derrick and I trapped in a pile of broken people and situations trying to squirm our way out. But unfortunately, because our structure was destructed by a ball, we can’t get rid of. We can’t do anything but accept a reality of staying trapped, right in the pile of rubbish we put ourselves in. Better yet, we may even have to push and maneuver ourselves around for the very people we said we loved but showed them different. It may even get so hectic, that our marriage may look to be going in the wrong direction. But could it actually allow us to live happily ever after? Who’s to say. Maybe or maybe not! So, we think!
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Where’s My Wife?
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Where’s My Wife? Is the story of Rocky Stone, a former Captain of the Texas Rangers, who began writing very successful dime novels and his wife, Latesha Stone, daughter of Henry Hudson IV, one of the wealthiest men in America.
Rocky and Latesha met in New York after being introduced by Rocky’s publisher’s wife, one of Latesha’s closest friends.
They were married and moved to Boonville, Missouri, where their home sits on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri River. Watching the traffic on the river below was one of their great joys in life.
They made a trip on riverboats to New Orleans so Latesha could buy some new dresses which had just arrived from Paris, France.
They boarded The Pride of St. Louis riverboat to return home to Boonville and while Latesha was busy straightening up their cabin, the ship’s captain asked Rocky to have a drink with him.
After having a drink and a lot of conversation with the captain, Rocky returned to their cabin and found the door unlocked and Latesha was gone. Rocky thought she must have needed something for their room and went to get it and would return shortly.
Rocky lay down on their bed as the riverboat was making its way up the Mississippi River and promptly fell asleep. A few minutes later Rocky awoke; Latesha hadn’t returned to their cabin so he went looking for her since they were to meet the captain for dinner.
He couldn’t find her and after talking with the captain, the riverboat was searched from top to bottom but she was nowhere on the ship! After accounting for all of the other passengers, they found three other passengers were missing.
No one could understand how four people got off the ship without anyone seeing them leave the ship before it sailed. Th ey were just gone. It made no sense.
Rocky shouted, “Where is my wife? Rocky’s quest in life now was to find his wife.
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Edafos: Divine Wind
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99Cardia, one of the many continents in the realm of Edafos, has remained relatively peaceful after 300 Years of War, a war to conquer the land started by the god-like beings called Divines. Through unimaginable pain and suffering, peace had been achieved, though for only a little more than a century. Now as corrupt Kings and religious struggles arise, one boy whose path was set to conquer Cardia rebels against the ideals of his people. He forges his way across the land, coming at odds with many trials. Will he and his band of friends change the fate of Edafos, as well as their own, or will they simply follow the path that was laid out for them?
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The Case Of The Enslaved Souls
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99When an 18-year-old college freshman vanishes from her downtown Boston apartment, a worried father hires a local private eye to locate his missing daughter-and that individual is none other than Boston’s own Eddie James. A former 5-time Martial arts champion turned Private Investigator, Eddie also happens to be a 5th degree black belter in karate. But as he starts out to begin his first investigation, our hero soon comes to realize that there’s more than just a missing college student at stake.
So might I suggest you get a comfortable chair, and get yourself ready for a one of a kind thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat throughout. Welcome reader! You’re about to enter The Case of the Enslaved Souls.
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Sin: Walk of Shame
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99SIN; WALK OF SHAME is a story that I created as an adolescent about the Seven Deadly Sins and the people in Hell who must find the Seven Heavenly Virtues in order to escape slavery by the Sins. Their journey through the various parts of Hell in their enslavement to SIN and see the workings of all of the Sins as well as the Virtues against the Sins. This story is a precursor to other stories that I have created and hope to spread a message with, as well. I hope that the stories I create are influential to those who read them.
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Two Cowboys in New York
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Two Cowboys in New York is the story of what happens when two cowboys come for a friend’s wedding in the big city and find when they arrive that the bride’s father has disappeared. They offer to try to find out what happened to him after he left a meeting at the Port of New York and they become entangled with the New York’s Mafia, who was robbing passengers at the port.
The Mafia never ran into adversaries like these two cowboys before in their history. Indian Leader and Rocky Stone just didn’t play by the same rules that the Mafia was used to facing. They were men of the west and lived by the code of the west.
Indian and Rocky didn’t back down, they would never quit until they either won or died trying. By the time they were through, things at the Port of New York would never be like it was before they came calling.
Can Indian and Rocky find the bride’s father and let their friend’s wedding finally and corral the Mafia at the same time?
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Stealing Man’s Greatest Blessings: War on the Unborn
Price range: $3.99 through $18.50Stealing Man’s Greatest Blessing is both a spiritual revelatory and educational manual aimed at enlightening humanity of the spiritual atmosphere around us in relation to man’s behavior. Revealing the beauties of God’s blessings, at the time exposing the invisible hand of the devil in our lives, our children, our families, and our homes which resulting from how we treat the temple of God, our bodies. The awareness and prevention of such practices gives no room for the devil. This is revealed as we proceed to turn the pages in this book.
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Indian Leader Trail Boss
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99INDIAN LEADER TRAIL BOSS is the story of a trail drive led by Texas’ most famous trail boss, due to never losing a herd or a man on a drive.
Indian Leader was contacted to lead 3,000 head of Longhorns from the Star Ranch, to Dodge City. He agrees to take the job when he finds the owner killed by rustlers and his daughter Serene, desperate to get her cattle to market to pay off a loan when her bank threatens to foreclose on her ranch.
They have all the normal problems of a trail drive; too many miles; too many rivers to cross as Indian has people trying to kill him for killing their brother.
Indian and Serene find they are falling in love during the trip while a neighboring rancher, Kent Eagle, is determined to do anything he can to take over Serene’s ranch.
Indian’s problems grow with every mile: getting the cattle to market; staying alive while people are trying to kill him; selling the herd; pay off the bank loan, and keep Serene.
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How to Make Divorce Fun
Price range: $3.99 through $18.00Anyone who has been through a divorce can tell you that it is a sad, miserable experience. The cruelest part of divorce is that it is the death of a dream. Both parties feel angry and betrayed, and they want to lash out at the other person. This anger and animosity can be unbearably painful. The good news is that it does not have to be this way. Don’t pick up that hatchet just yet. Yes, you heard us right: DIVORCE CAN BE FUN! This witty and charming book offers a quick read guaranteed to put a smile on the face of anyone regardless of how depressed they may be. It offers hilarious and rea-world advice for people facing this horrible tragedy. DON’T SURVIVE DIVORCE; HAVE FUN WITH IT.
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Tales Times Ten
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99TALES TIMES TEN begins with the struggles of an up and coming young professional magician. We find him playing ‘finders – keepers’ inside and outside his Disappearing Cabinets, as MISTER MAGIC here in Detroit. Next, in a TWINKLING OF AN EYE, we are a witness with the ravens and a lone cardinal to one of those old time negotiations for a better life. After the ink is dry on the contract, we then take a visit to a Library of the Future as a student requests THE DOCTOR CLARK FILES. She is working up a thesis on the taboo deviant sexual behavior of certain members of Academia in the Twentieth Century. Before the authorities arrive, we find ourselves invited inside the mind of a lady architect killing time doing a puzzle in HOLY CROSSWORD DOROTHY. Just before she steps forward onto the stage, we head back to the vacant offices of Infinitex Enterprises. Here, even farther into the future, we discover the many faces of TACTILE UNDERSTANDING.
Better than halfway through, we find ourselves taking notes and dodging bullets. That is, before we spot the torn flyer requesting our presence at the grand opening of the TECHTOWN BOOK CLUB. We barely close the book on this event, when we grow increasingly alert to a rising din out there in the streets. We are startled to realize it can only be from the nearby LAND OF A THOUSAND CRIES. Now back to the future we go, leaving the screams of the past to die in the vacuum while we conduct a further learned study about the state of SEX EDUCATION. After being thoroughly briefed, regarding our study materials and classroom requirements, we then find ourselves in the Math Clinic hiding Internet Porn from the tutors as we are SOLVING FOR ‘X’.
Finally, with all this said and done, it is time to return our ticket stub to the Parking Attendant, after affixing our SPIRITUAL SIGNATURE to these TALES TIMES TEN…
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Ginger
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Cord is a single man. A multi-millionaire that has made his money developing technologies. Selling that technology to Corporations and traveling with a team that trains employees of those corporations.
At one of the resorts Cord is presenting, he meets Adri and realizes his stepdaughter has been leaving her two daughters unattended. Adri has been watching the four-year-old Emmy, that had hooked up with Adri’s granddaughters. But who has been watching the baby sister, Ginger?
Cord wants custody of his Granddaughter Ginger, but he must find her biological father first. Before he can find Ginger’s biological father, Cord learns that Ginger was born with AIDS.
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The Ranch: You’re Hurting Me
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99The Ranch is a story of Anna, the daughter of Samson Creed Caster and Patricia Violet Carter, owners of one of the largest ranches in Texas. After graduating from Veterinarian School, Anna returns home to The Ranch. Anna loves every aspect of the Ranch life.
Joe Mercer Sr., owner of the neighboring Mercer Ranch, immediately brings home his son to pursue Anna. Joe Mercer Sr., or Papa Joe as he insists he be called, has his own reasons for Joe Jr. to pursue Anna. He thinks that the marriage of Anna and his son will give him control over Anna and control over The Ranch.
On the wedding day of Anna and Joe Jr., it appears that Papa Joe’s dream of owning one of the largest ranches in Texas is coming true. Papa Joe must just make sure his own son is not going to ruin this for him.
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Water in the Belly
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99In this parody of all-knowing capitalism, Frank Holmes survived the stock market crash of 2008 by parody, forming a rock and roll band called the Cherry. He is Odysseus in his parody of Homer and Joyce. It’s PG-13. Parallel to this plot is the story of a spy, Butch Lautsky. It’s a spy novel parody defending the FBI.
Universal and evolutionary, the congress can be a lifeguard. Article I, section 10 of the US Constitutional Law is used to attempt to void state government regulations, not federal regulations.
D. L. Snow graduated from the University of California and the University of Chicago.
Intertwined with the parody are thoughts about U.S. politics, religion, events, the constitution, the state of the world, congress, etc. Words such as “rebirth” and “zen” are mentioned quite a bit throughout the book. An excerpt from Water in the Belly that speaks to the mixture of story, thoughts, writing style, is: “Sherry’s religion is the Catholic Church. We need our mythodology to let us get a foothold on the world of Homer. The dead immortal God like Zeus. The Odyssey is the story of a man who spent 10 years at war and spent in years coming home, with references to The Iliad throughout the former classic by Homer. It’s all time, the tropes of history. For Public Policy.”
It is an intellectual maze to fully come to grasp with this extensive piece of literature. Perhaps there is more artistry and genius within than what appears on the surface. Water in the Belly will be of interest to Homer’s Odyssey enthusiasts, or perhaps it is just one person’s unique and untranslated thoughts about America and how a man in the 2008 recession era can be compared to Homer’s Odyssey. Regardless, D.L. Snow certainly deserves credit for his creativity and pursuit of such a difficult task as writing this unusual 500-page novel.
-Pacific Book Review
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The Hawk of Yonezawa: Historical Fiction with J.S Bach
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Hawk of Yonezawa is a short novel, or novella, about the fictional adventures of Johann Sebastian Bach who is transported to the island of Japan. Bach is on a rare trip outside his world of Leipzig, Germany, a little after the year 1742. The coach breaks down and he misses the concert that would have featured George Frederic Handel performing his own works by him. On the return trip he meets a twelve-year-old boy and his young mother.
They find that he knows how to play the organ and so they invite him to fix the one at their church. Bach refuses graciously, but once more the stage coach breaks down, and Bach is transported in a dream with the boy and his mother from him to Japan, where he is beset with adventures while trying to fix the local church organ. This novella is written for a general, religious and musically inquisitive audience. It is family fare, also suitable for high school and college readers.
Donald D. Joye is a retired professor at Villanova University. He has been enthusiastically involved in classical music since he was thirteen years old.After growing up on Long Island, New York, attending college in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he settled in Philadelphia, where he and his wife Claudia raised their three boys.
