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luke-james's picture
Jun.15.2012
It’s 1079 AD and fourteen-year-old Ulf, son of a dung shoveler, lives in a hut in the shadow of the walls of Litchfield Castle. Their hut is but one of hundreds clustered at the foot of Lichfield Castle’s towering granite walls. But Ulf is cursed with a natural intelligence and a burning desire to...
brad-schreiber's picture
Sep.19.2010
A collection of fictitious world records, supposedly rejected by other record books for being dangerous, moronic, or goofy, grouped in such areas as the human body and artistic achievements.
leslie-larson's picture
Feb.24.2010
Cora Sledge is horrified when her children, who doubt her ability to take care of herself, plot to remove her from her home. So what if her house is a shambles? Who cares when she last changed her clothes? If an 82-year-old widow wants to live on junk food, pills, and cigarettes, hasn’t she earned...
heywood-gould's picture
Sep.27.2008
To a hired killer a “double bang” means two hits for the price of one. This is a hard-edged novel about cops and killers, wise guys and not-so-straight straight-shooters. At the center of it all is Dr. Karen Winterman - a beautiful psychoanalyst who falls for a seductive psychopath, who just...