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Aberdeen High Jinks
by Steven C Stoker
ISBN 0-595-24577-3
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $19.95

A sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, but always poignant look at the high school antics of a teenager in a wonderful small farm town called — Aberdeen!

Relive a humorous memory of high school through the eyes of a teenage boy in a small Idaho farming community. Share his wretchedness and despair as he endures unrequited love, contact sports, failing grades, ever-changing music departments and an ongoing battle with his own mediocrity! More fun from the author of “Aberdeen Stories: Growing Up Right in Small-town America.”



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Aberdeen Stories: Growing Up Right in Small-Town America
by Steven C Stoker
ISBN 0-595-19653-5
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $19.95

Journey back to a simpler time and share the love and humor of a town where "wheat smarts" is needed more than "street smarts."

See the influence a small Idaho farm town makes on a young baby boomer growing up in a simpler time and place! Each chapter a separate, stand-alone story! Each story a memory-jogging nostalgic tidbit! A fun read that will make you wish for your very own "Aberdeen!"

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Abiding Legacy
by Mike A Baker
ISBN 0-595-21262-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $15.95

Intrigue and suspense, to catch you unaware, right to the very last page.

Alex Sachs uncovers a mystery which links four centuries. From the glorious art and loves of Pierre Paul Rubens to his unknown grandfather's tie with Nazi stolen art. From Luciana Gonzaga, one of Rubens' models, the link travels down the centuries to a mysterious French woman with whom Alex is inexplicably drawn.

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Abigail
by Joan A Druett
ISBN 0-595-13297-9
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $19.95

Born at sea and raised in early nineteenth-century New Zealand, strong-willed Abigail Sherman is the daughter of the American owner of a shore-whaling station. Trouble with the English authorities prompts Captain Sherman to set Abigail on board a ship bound for Massachusetts, at the start of a series of hair-raising adventures that shifts from vicious mutinies to storms off Cape Horn, to encounters with militant women’s rightists, to a murder trial in New Bedford.

Teased by a cryptic riddle that promises a fortune, and shocked by news of her father’s brutal assassination, Abigail escapes her puritanical relatives and heads back to New Zealand, determined to claim the ship that is her rightful inheritance. It is a turbulent expedition, in which she crosses paths with gamblers, fortune-hunters, and opportunistic whaling captains, and survives the savage jungles of Panama and the dangerous alleyways of the ports of Chile and Peru, finally to meet the ultimate challenge of treachery in the South Pacific.

Here, Joan Druett, the author of twelve popular maritime books, has created a novel of compulsive readability. Superbly researched, the story of Abigail confirms the reputation of a widely acclaimed spinner of tales of the sea.




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Abner's Gulch and Judson's Landing: Two novels under one cover
by Duane Howard
ISBN 0-595-00381-8
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $10.95

Abner's Gulch - ABNER TATE is a Civil War veteran who journeys to Colorado Territory after the war to find his family. He learns quickly in struggles with other men and the forces of nature to fend for himself. Battered by a tornado he takes refuge in a gulch which will become his home.

Judson's Landing - AMOS JUDSON is an aging mountainman who adopts a Ute Indian boy and settles down to operate a ferry boat. As he changes from wild to civilized he is reminded that a man must remember how to protect himself when the villainous cousins of a competitor attempt to rob him.


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Abracadabra, You're Dead: A Magical Murder Mystery
by John Bohannon
ISBN 0-595-26808-0
Format: Paperback
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Abracadabra, You re Dead is the story of Sebastian, a professional magician who is falsely accused of murder. He must find the real killer before the police arrest him for a crime he did not commit. Sebastian is also a voice-over announcer for TV commercials. This novel, which contains no difficult words, provides an inside look at professional magic and commercial broadcasting. And the devious art of murder. A famous Hollywood producer has optioned the book as a major film. But, to make it more commercially successful, it will be rewritten to depict an old man who takes his rowboat into the sea and catches a really big fish.


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Abraham, The Dreamer: An Erotic and Sacred Love Story
by Rolf Gompertz
ISBN 0-595-17697-6
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $14.95

Abraham and Sarah set off to serve a new God in a new land, with an unspeakable family secret in their heart and a marriage in serious trouble. Childless, Sarah offers Hagar, her slave, to Abraham. Hagar not only gives Abraham a son, Ishmael, but also offers him a passionate, fulfilling love that he had never known with Sarah. When Sarah, unexpectedly, gives birth to Isaac, she drives Hagar and Ishmael away, arousing a deep-seated murderous rage in Abraham that, in time, threatens Isaac, all in the name of the new God.

"...A powerful, modern midrash on the life of Abraham, giving it a comtemporary ring...The Biblical characters come alive and become very human. It has been meticulously researched and bears the mark of a master storyteller." - Rabbi Moshe J. Rothblum, Adat Ari El, North Hollywood, CA

"...Simply stunningly brilliant and plausible, in every way...A lovely, powerful and important book." - Rev. Alla Rene-Bozarth, Ph. D., Episcopal priest, author-poet, therapist, Sandy, Oregon. Author of The Book of Bliss and At the Foot of the Mountain




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Absolute Black
by Soren Narnia
ISBN 0-595-26778-5
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $11.95

Within lies a collection of what its author calls 'soul horror'--horror fiction whose power lies in its relentless darkness and a nightmare tone from first word to last. In You're Scaring the Children, a man recounts his days as a student at an elementary school cursed by a string of freakish supernatural incidents. An Oral History of HellBeckoning Woods, Finishing a Play traces the mounting fear of a writer who suspects that some faint scratchings from his basement foretell a confrontation with a madman. And Adagio for NightAbsolute Black is designed to terrify without distraction, to scare without the possibility of even a momentary release.
relates the experiences of a suicide wandering the afterworld and trying to make sense of the mortal terrors which claimed him. In follows a paranormal researcher into a house inhabited by ghosts who prey upon the deepest conflicts of his tortured heart.


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The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing
by Michael E Hickins
ISBN 0-595-12467-4
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $9.95


Michael Missing, the name of eleven different young men in various states of unrest, is the linked but unrelated protagonist of these wry and angry tales—a hit man, the cabin boy of 19th century French pirate Jean Lafitte, erstwhile baseball hero and the man who would be President of France, a frustrated salesman who loses an evening with Captain Kirk in the unrequited hope of laying the town slut of Scarsdale. Readers will shudder as, to their dismay, they recognize themselves, or at least part of themselves, in the naïve and angry young man who sincerely wishes things were different, and who regrets he has never overheard someone say, “Michael is a real good guy.” A criminally funny and perceptive literary debut.



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Adam and Even
by Terry C. Schiffman
ISBN 0-595-16272-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $12.95

This story is about a rib-tickler-of-a-marriage where Adam and Eve overcome evil snakes and bad apples to live happily ever after.

Adam and Even is a satire featuring a little angel, Skeetzie Pooker, Lucifer and his fallen angels, and the creation of man and woman. It is the story of Lucifer’s having brief regrets over his evil intentions for woman. It is the story of a loving and forgiving Deity who allows one fallen angel, Ms. Sadie Sue Rose Gloria, to return to heaven, the generous reward bestowed on the littlest angel for his bravery, and the creation of the guardian angel.



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The Adventures of Deputy Hawthorne Hound Catscammed and Doggnapped
by Nerissa Cannon
ISBN 0-595-16325-4
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $9.95

Deputy Hawthorne Hound is Huckleberry Hound with a twist! Two exploding, adrenaline pumping plots, with one dramatic capture.

Deputy Hawthorne Hound’s on a mission to save Kittyville from Sly and Swindle’s mayhem. His assignment takes him on the ADVENTURES of a dog’s span! He’ll collide with an unsuspecting storm, a bit of eventful, hair-raising magic with weird Ralph Racoon and then go on a wild, high-speed chase that leads to a daring escape! Will the Deputy CAPTURE the suspects in time to get his promotion? Get in the passenger’s seat, buckle up and ride along and see!


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After the War
by Joe L Navarro
ISBN 0-595-24716-4
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $14.95

This book is a magical realistic western, which defies conventional definitions. It is most definitely a trip.

This novel will be of interest to fans of Franz Kafka, Carlos Castaneda, and Juan Rulfo. It is a surreal romp through a remote Mexican village filled with bizarre events and characters. Baltazar Fife, a twenty-four year old Vietnam veteran, finds himself in the company of gunfighters and magicians in this unconventional novel, told in the best tradition of magical realistic fiction, transporting the reader through a time-warp adventure of self-realization and discovery.


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Ain't that America, a novel
by Sean Hoade
ISBN 0-595-09529-1
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $19.95

A thriller for the cynical, the bitter, and the doomed.

It was supposed to be so simple. Gordon Mitchell had the good life all planned out – a million and a half in embezzled cash, a plane waiting in Mexico to take him far away, and a sexy little thing named Janey to call his own. All he had to do was stop off on the way and kill his wife, Wanda. Simple. At least it was – before an Ivy Leaguer turned highway robber named Spike Jones held him up, fell in love with Wanda, and shanghaied his RV.

Now it's not so simple.

But the way Gordon sees it, the good life is still within his reach. And a little more blood on his hands sure isn't going to stop him from getting it.


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The Albino Stag Witness
by Robert w Feragen
ISBN 0-595-22255-2
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $26.95

The Hamilton Times headline read "Nazi past haunts Pioneer Village..."

A bitter stepson reveals the nazi past of his stepfather to force him to leave town, and give up the farm one promised the son. Antique steam tractors at Pioneer Village become the focal point of investigation. Multiple conspiracies compete, confusing the local sheriff. Jack Traid, ex Dallas detective, retired to teaching math is asked to solve the murder.


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Also Rising
by W. Joe Innis
ISBN 0-595-15200-7
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $16.95

“Full of humor and insight, Innis’ story brings together some of the best aspects of contemporary American fiction.”

ALA Booklist

“(Innis’) balanced yet stirring description of the bullfight becomes the subtext for his sensitive depiction of the life of a dedicated artist.”

Publishers Weekly

“Amusing portrait of the artist as an earnest schlemiel, leavened with an ironic, Hemingwayesque admiration of its south-of-the-boarder setting...brilliantly executed.”

Kirkus Reviews

“Finely drawn with a cunning display of detail and internal emotional conflicts, this bittersweet tale...reveals much of the inner nature of human courage, love and ambition.”

The Dallas Morning News


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Always Standing By
by J. Burnett Smith
ISBN 0-595-16135-9
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $12.95

Brad Hastings, a former rodeo cowboy, is on leave of absence from his job as a deputy sheriff in New Mexico. He catches up with his father, Doug, who is entered in a rodeo in Mesquite, Arizona, and is in trouble with the law as usual. Doug is now in danger of violating his parole when he is thrown in jail for starting a brawl in a local saloon and he is also a possible suspect in the attempted murder of one of the rodeo promoters. The victim, a man named Mancuso, is not expected to live. Brad needs to clear his father before the local sheriff realizes that Doug is on parole from an earlier incarceration for murder in Arizona. Information on Mancuso leads Brad to Reno, Nevada, where he soon learns of a plot to kill an old friend and her husband. When Brad suspects this same plot may be tied to the Arizona incident, he seeks help from his cousin, Gary, a Phoenix police officer. The two men attempt to prevent more killing and clear Doug of any involvement in the current crime.


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Assumption of Risk
by Jim Silver
ISBN 0-595-16143-X
Format: Paperback
Our Price: $19.95


A darkly-erotic thriller that hurtles along with surprising twists right up to the frightening finish.

Insurance can be a real killer. Luther Sitasy, one-time Vietnam vet, wealthy eccentric, now manager of the policy limits section of Trans Patriot insurance, trips into a savage plot. Someone is calculating the cold blooded murder of certain high reserve plaintiffs, using the millions of freed-up reserves for their own high stakes gain. Luther's investigation forces him back to a time of guns, honor, and another, darker sense of morality as he hurtles towards a sociopathic killer and his sensual and sexy partner, while the body count steadily rises.

"Assumption of Risk is a grabber...totally engrossing, sensual, full of edgy terror and unpredictable twists. Jim Silver is a name to remember, an natural storyteller and a true pro."—Ann Rule


"Jim Silver has created a wild and cunning mystery that twists, intrigues, and spellbinds at the same time. The best creative thriller of the year."—Clive Cussler



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Beneath A Dragon Sky: Book One Incipit
by James Donaldson
ISBN 0-595-26341-0
Format: Paperback  / Hard Cover
Our Price: $16.95 / $26.95

Dragon Skies is the dark and magical history of northern Britain in the late sixth century. The series blends myth, legend, and history into a vibrant and powerful retelling of the events that led to the birth of Northumbria and the collapse of the Romano-British kingdoms that comprised Y Gogledd. One lonely man, fated by the gods to walk the battlefields and witness the events, will become legend. This is the history of Lailoken, known as Myrddin, the last dragon harper. In the collapse of Roman Britain, the North returned to the centuries old hatreds and tribal rivalries. Each generation of kings and tyrants fought over the bones of the land. No Arthur arose to unite the kingdoms and bring peace, though there was no lack of pretenders to his legacy. Beneath a Dragon Sky begins the journey through this troubled land. Bran the Blessed seeks to fulfill his dreams of restoring his people; but the fates have another design. In the midst of the North, Ceidio s kingdom along the old Roman wall is locked between powerful enemies and will find its greatest in its shadow when Peredur Steel Arm comes to claim his legacy. The dreams of a young man with a soul for music will be tested.

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