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By Graeme Daniels
Co-protagonists and old friends Eric Metcalf and Richard Barnes are thirty-something men in an early stage of estrangement from one another. Both are struggling with early-to-mid adulthood: with women, career disappointments, the distance of fathers. Eric is solipsistic yet brave; Richard externalizes with drugs, women, and betrays friends. When Eric chooses a radical change in career, he contemplates severing a long-standing dependency upon his family, but in so doing draws intensified concern due to a self-destructive past. Meanwhile, the alcoholic misadventure of his father leads that character to enter psychotherapy: the subsequent self reflection enables an honest but dangerous reciprocity within the family.
Reviews:
Graeme Daniels ventures into literary territory that distinctly echoes Henry James in both style and theme. His debut novel, Living Without Blood, explores the phenomena of consciousness, perception, personal relationships, and the shifting balance of power between human beings.
Using an imaginative blend of interior monologue, exterior dialogue, and variable points of view, Daniels explores the minds of men teetering on the edge of clandestine maturity. A perfect book for those cerebrally-oriented readers wrestling, like characters Eric Metcalf and Richard Barnes, with the moral conundrum that is 21st century living.
Reviewed by Joan Gold,
freelance journalist and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
FORMAT: Softcover
By Graeme Daniels
Co-protagonists and old friends Eric Metcalf and Richard Barnes are thirty-something men in an early stage of estrangement from one another. Both are struggling with early-to-mid adulthood: with women, career disappointments, the distance of fathers. Eric is solipsistic yet brave; Richard externalizes with drugs, women, and betrays friends. When Eric chooses a radical change in career, he contemplates severing a long-standing dependency upon his family, but in so doing draws intensified concern due to a self-destructive past. Meanwhile, the alcoholic misadventure of his father leads that character to enter psychotherapy: the subsequent self reflection enables an honest but dangerous reciprocity within the family.
Reviews:
Graeme Daniels ventures into literary territory that distinctly echoes Henry James in both style and theme. His debut novel, Living Without Blood, explores the phenomena of consciousness, perception, personal relationships, and the shifting balance of power between human beings.
Using an imaginative blend of interior monologue, exterior dialogue, and variable points of view, Daniels explores the minds of men teetering on the edge of clandestine maturity. A perfect book for those cerebrally-oriented readers wrestling, like characters Eric Metcalf and Richard Barnes, with the moral conundrum that is 21st century living.
Reviewed by Joan Gold,
freelance journalist and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
FORMAT: Hardcover
By T.R. HANEY
Once again Father Mike is drawn into another felony. An anonymous man comes to him with what he calls an unpardonable sin and whispers the words, Ebola virus. Through his friend Hollywood actress, Jill Chamberlain, Father Mike becomes involved in a terrorist plot to take over the United States, the Roman Catholic Church and perhaps the whole world. The plot is traced to a mega international conglomerate, being funded by an anonymous trillionaire. Jill is abducted. Her fiancé, Larry Clausen, who works for this conglomerate, is murdered. Father Mike, working with the local police and the FBI, follows the clues in a rapid paced, twist and turn story, trying to solve the problem of the terrorist plot and bring the anonymous trillionaire and others to justice.
FORMAT: E-Book
By T.R. HANEY
Once again Father Mike is drawn into another felony. An anonymous man comes to him with what he calls an unpardonable sin and whispers the words, Ebola virus. Through his friend Hollywood actress, Jill Chamberlain, Father Mike becomes involved in a terrorist plot to take over the United States, the Roman Catholic Church and perhaps the whole world. The plot is traced to a mega international conglomerate, being funded by an anonymous trillionaire. Jill is abducted. Her fiancé, Larry Clausen, who works for this conglomerate, is murdered. Father Mike, working with the local police and the FBI, follows the clues in a rapid paced, twist and turn story, trying to solve the problem of the terrorist plot and bring the anonymous trillionaire and others to justice.
FORMAT: Softcover
By T.R. HANEY
Once again Father Mike is drawn into another felony. An anonymous man comes to him with what he calls an unpardonable sin and whispers the words, Ebola virus. Through his friend Hollywood actress, Jill Chamberlain, Father Mike becomes involved in a terrorist plot to take over the United States, the Roman Catholic Church and perhaps the whole world. The plot is traced to a mega international conglomerate, being funded by an anonymous trillionaire. Jill is abducted. Her fiancé, Larry Clausen, who works for this conglomerate, is murdered. Father Mike, working with the local police and the FBI, follows the clues in a rapid paced, twist and turn story, trying to solve the problem of the terrorist plot and bring the anonymous trillionaire and others to justice.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Elizabeth A. Namyniuk Deckard
When you think you’re safe and all is well, the unthinkable things begin to happen. The police create their own crime spree. The victims suffer and death finds some. Straight-up New York style private investigators step in to solve the dangers created by the monsters. We have all put so much trust in them and yet this happens. Beware—they are out there.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Elizabeth A. Namyniuk Deckard
When you think you’re safe and all is well, the unthinkable things begin to happen. The police create their own crime spree. The victims suffer and death finds some. Straight-up New York style private investigators step in to solve the dangers created by the monsters. We have all put so much trust in them and yet this happens. Beware—they are out there.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Mal Tempo & Nathan Sott
Jurassic Park, Ancient Rome, & the Wild West!!
In 1880 a “Bone Rush” created a frenzy in the American West. A treasure trove of prehistoric bones sent scavengers in search of fossils. Nearby, Billy the Kid terrorized New Mexico during the Range War. Together these tales intertwine, based on the writings of Governor Lew Wallace, a personal friend of the Kid and author of Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. From buffalo hunting with Billy and Pat Garrett to dramatizing Wallace’s last official days in office, this unusual Western folktale sets ablaze conflicting legends with mythic characters!
FORMAT: Softcover
By JAMES THOMAS
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FORMAT: E-Book
By JAMES THOMAS
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FORMAT: Softcover
By JAMES THOMAS
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FORMAT: Hardcover
By Jay Higginbotham
Boris Stepanov, a child of the Revolution, is born to an avid Leninist and communist idealist in the village of Nadezhdinsk in Western Russia. His childhood is impoverished but happy until Stalin comes into power and the Stepanov home is absorbed as a collective farm. Although Boris’s father, old Vladimir Stepanov, defends Stalin, he is caught in a web of local intrigue and mysteriously disappears one night, which shatters Boris and his family.
A year after Vladimir’s disappearance, Boris marries: He sires two children and gradually his life improves. When Hitler invades Russia, Boris goes off to defend Moscow, but on the way his unit is routed. He and a comrade named Yakov are wounded, make their way to a hospital and finally are sent to Stalingrad where they participate in the great battle, then join the counteroffensive across Russia. Boris idolizes Yakov, who saves his life on several occasions.
After the Battle of Kursk, the Nazis retreat to Germany. Boris is ecstatic as town after town is liberated and he exults in the Red Army’s triumph, in the camaraderie his fellow soldiers have shown toward each other. He imagines returning home as a hero and reuniting with his family. He even imagines that his father may be there, or at least that Stalin will release him when victory is complete.
His dreams are shortly shattered. The Nazis, though in retreat, have launched a scorched-earth policy, and when Boris finally reaches home, he finds the village of Nadezhdinsk in ashes, his entire family having been burned alive.
His family destroyed, Boris is devastated. He turns his hopes once more toward finding his father, but Yakov disabuses him of this dream and Boris lashes out at him. They part in anger, a fact that Boris regrets ever after.
Distraught and half-crazed, Boris thinks of nothing now but massacring Nazis, but instead is captured and dragged to a concentration camp in Germany. While in prison, he contemplates his fate and concludes that Yakov was right about Stalin, about life and idealism. He begins thinking of his father as a fool, almost equating Stalin with Hitler, and finally joins the Russian Liberation Army (RLA), which is seeking to rid Russia of Stalinism and restore true Bolshevism.
The war ends, however, before the RLA can enter Russia and Boris is caught in the middle. He escapes to the British Zone and later an official helps him get to London where posing as a Finnish national he changes his name to Boris Stevens, acquires a false passport and lands a job on a freighter traveling to America. While docking at Mobile, Alabama, he jumps ship and hires on as a cook in a café. When the café folds, he becomes a partner in a restaurant business in the community of New Hope just outside Mobile.
After his partner dies, Boris becomes the business’s sole proprietor, but has problems managing it, until a young woman on the rebound helps him make a go of it. After a time, Boris and Kendra fall in love and are married, which union produces one son, Joey.
Kendra’s father, Papa Joe, owns a small dairy but has greater ambitions. By hard work, shrewdness and an obsession to get ahead, he makes a small fortune in several investments, including a shopping center. Boris, in his desire to forget his past, looks up to Papa Joe as a kind of father figure, in a sense denying his own father (“If my father had been as shrewd and realistic as Papa Joe,” he tells himself, “he would never have gotten caught up in such foolish idealism.”). Following Papa Joe, Boris gets caught up in the idea of success, in “getting ahead.” Having accumulated a certain amount of capital, he begins, like Papa Joe, to become absorbed with protecting his property and begins sympathizing more and more with the “Communist menace” crowd of red-baiters and John Birchers. He becomes both an avid capitalist and a superpatriot.
Papa Joe’s and Boris’s attitudes rub off on Joey who grows to young manhood in an atmosphere of verbal violence and later goes off to war in Vietnam. Joey, apple of his grandfather’s eye, is first reported missing then comes home a hero but also as a changed person. Something happened in Vietnam that he can’t quite reconcile with his Christian upbringing, that drives him deeply inward.
Boris and Kendra realize something is wrong, but they don’t know what to do about it. Joey’s bizarre behavior is baffling and creates mounting tension between Joey and Boris (who goads Joey to go to work and show some ambition to get ahead), but Papa Joe defends Joey, and he and Boris have a falling out.
In a moment of frustration, Joey pulls a gun on Kendra, after Kendra throws his girlfriend’s picture into the fire, and Boris shoots Joey dead, just as Papa Joe arrives. The question is, was Joey really threatening his mother or did Boris react too quickly, out of frustration with the way Joey was behaving? Or was there some other unperceived reason?
Papa Joe believes Boris killed Joey in sheer anger, and his statements, as well as the testimonies of community members (that Joey was a fairly normal person), lead to Boris’s indictment and conviction of second-degree murder.
Boris goes away to prison, serving nearly 15 years. At first, Kendra loyally visits him, but after a year, she is still in shock and through a misunderstanding thinks Boris has rejected her (as, she believes, the rest of the community has). A divorce follows, and the Boyles family, seeking to forget, moves to Nevada.
Boris is eventually released from prison, but now is a homeless waif, his situation not unlike his last days in Russia. Penniless and totally devastated, he periodically contemplates suicide. He has lost everything: He has no money, no friends, and even Kendra, he feels, who was everything to him for nearly 25 years, has deserted him.
Such is Boris’s mental state when he is invited to the public library to do some oral history interviews. He seems now even more bent on taking his own life, but shortly afterwards something happens which elicits a change in his outlook. Kendra dies, he is informed, but before she dies, she makes out a will leaving her entire estate to him. This brightens Boris’s life and gives him reason to live, but it’s not the money that revives Boris’s will to live so much as the thought that Kendra, in spite of everything, must still have loved him. The power of love, even in death, is enough to bring him back from despair, to cause him to resurrect and relive his father’s ideals (justice, equality, compassion) about the worth of living. He thus resolves to spend his inheritance, not on regaining his former comfortable existence but on ministering to the poor, the wretched, and the forsaken, whom he now seeks out in society as his new comrades in arms—humanity at large.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Jay Higginbotham
Boris Stepanov, a child of the Revolution, is born to an avid Leninist and communist idealist in the village of Nadezhdinsk in Western Russia. His childhood is impoverished but happy until Stalin comes into power and the Stepanov home is absorbed as a collective farm. Although Boris’s father, old Vladimir Stepanov, defends Stalin, he is caught in a web of local intrigue and mysteriously disappears one night, which shatters Boris and his family.
A year after Vladimir’s disappearance, Boris marries: He sires two children and gradually his life improves. When Hitler invades Russia, Boris goes off to defend Moscow, but on the way his unit is routed. He and a comrade named Yakov are wounded, make their way to a hospital and finally are sent to Stalingrad where they participate in the great battle, then join the counteroffensive across Russia. Boris idolizes Yakov, who saves his life on several occasions.
After the Battle of Kursk, the Nazis retreat to Germany. Boris is ecstatic as town after town is liberated and he exults in the Red Army’s triumph, in the camaraderie his fellow soldiers have shown toward each other. He imagines returning home as a hero and reuniting with his family. He even imagines that his father may be there, or at least that Stalin will release him when victory is complete.
His dreams are shortly shattered. The Nazis, though in retreat, have launched a scorched-earth policy, and when Boris finally reaches home, he finds the village of Nadezhdinsk in ashes, his entire family having been burned alive.
His family destroyed, Boris is devastated. He turns his hopes once more toward finding his father, but Yakov disabuses him of this dream and Boris lashes out at him. They part in anger, a fact that Boris regrets ever after.
Distraught and half-crazed, Boris thinks of nothing now but massacring Nazis, but instead is captured and dragged to a concentration camp in Germany. While in prison, he contemplates his fate and concludes that Yakov was right about Stalin, about life and idealism. He begins thinking of his father as a fool, almost equating Stalin with Hitler, and finally joins the Russian Liberation Army (RLA), which is seeking to rid Russia of Stalinism and restore true Bolshevism.
The war ends, however, before the RLA can enter Russia and Boris is caught in the middle. He escapes to the British Zone and later an official helps him get to London where posing as a Finnish national he changes his name to Boris Stevens, acquires a false passport and lands a job on a freighter traveling to America. While docking at Mobile, Alabama, he jumps ship and hires on as a cook in a café. When the café folds, he becomes a partner in a restaurant business in the community of New Hope just outside Mobile.
After his partner dies, Boris becomes the business’s sole proprietor, but has problems managing it, until a young woman on the rebound helps him make a go of it. After a time, Boris and Kendra fall in love and are married, which union produces one son, Joey.
Kendra’s father, Papa Joe, owns a small dairy but has greater ambitions. By hard work, shrewdness and an obsession to get ahead, he makes a small fortune in several investments, including a shopping center. Boris, in his desire to forget his past, looks up to Papa Joe as a kind of father figure, in a sense denying his own father (“If my father had been as shrewd and realistic as Papa Joe,” he tells himself, “he would never have gotten caught up in such foolish idealism.”). Following Papa Joe, Boris gets caught up in the idea of success, in “getting ahead.” Having accumulated a certain amount of capital, he begins, like Papa Joe, to become absorbed with protecting his property and begins sympathizing more and more with the “Communist menace” crowd of red-baiters and John Birchers. He becomes both an avid capitalist and a superpatriot.
Papa Joe’s and Boris’s attitudes rub off on Joey who grows to young manhood in an atmosphere of verbal violence and later goes off to war in Vietnam. Joey, apple of his grandfather’s eye, is first reported missing then comes home a hero but also as a changed person. Something happened in Vietnam that he can’t quite reconcile with his Christian upbringing, that drives him deeply inward.
Boris and Kendra realize something is wrong, but they don’t know what to do about it. Joey’s bizarre behavior is baffling and creates mounting tension between Joey and Boris (who goads Joey to go to work and show some ambition to get ahead), but Papa Joe defends Joey, and he and Boris have a falling out.
In a moment of frustration, Joey pulls a gun on Kendra, after Kendra throws his girlfriend’s picture into the fire, and Boris shoots Joey dead, just as Papa Joe arrives. The question is, was Joey really threatening his mother or did Boris react too quickly, out of frustration with the way Joey was behaving? Or was there some other unperceived reason?
Papa Joe believes Boris killed Joey in sheer anger, and his statements, as well as the testimonies of community members (that Joey was a fairly normal person), lead to Boris’s indictment and conviction of second-degree murder.
Boris goes away to prison, serving nearly 15 years. At first, Kendra loyally visits him, but after a year, she is still in shock and through a misunderstanding thinks Boris has rejected her (as, she believes, the rest of the community has). A divorce follows, and the Boyles family, seeking to forget, moves to Nevada.
Boris is eventually released from prison, but now is a homeless waif, his situation not unlike his last days in Russia. Penniless and totally devastated, he periodically contemplates suicide. He has lost everything: He has no money, no friends, and even Kendra, he feels, who was everything to him for nearly 25 years, has deserted him.
Such is Boris’s mental state when he is invited to the public library to do some oral history interviews. He seems now even more bent on taking his own life, but shortly afterwards something happens which elicits a change in his outlook. Kendra dies, he is informed, but before she dies, she makes out a will leaving her entire estate to him. This brightens Boris’s life and gives him reason to live, but it’s not the money that revives Boris’s will to live so much as the thought that Kendra, in spite of everything, must still have loved him. The power of love, even in death, is enough to bring him back from despair, to cause him to resurrect and relive his father’s ideals (justice, equality, compassion) about the worth of living. He thus resolves to spend his inheritance, not on regaining his former comfortable existence but on ministering to the poor, the wretched, and the forsaken, whom he now seeks out in society as his new comrades in arms—humanity at large.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Graham Hayward
We’d sail by the White Island hotel. Its bony pier reached like a long, wooden finger, anchored to the sandy floor of the Gulf with crooked green pilings. Tourist girls from Miami would tantalize two loners from Wisconsin and Philadelphia, by lifting bikini tops, as the wind carried us on a conveyer of aquamarine. I met a new server at The Riverside. Millie Cuantreau. From Arkansas; a buxom girl with red lips and dark brown eyes, she moved as if she meant it. She was a fire barely in control. She was nineteen years old. Millie made love like she was forty. She touched me in places I never knew were my favorite. On my twenty-fourth birthday, she bought me a bottle of Moet Chandon champagne. We broke into a screened lanai containing a heated swimming pool attached to a large home on a canal. We drank from the bottle, naked, under the moonlight, our legs dangled in warm water. We laughed at nothing and everything. Millie made me take large reckless bites out of my days. We did crazy things together, fast delicious things. From tiny White Island in southwest Florida, to the streets of New York City, discover what you are capable of when you decide to take a chance. Moreover, when all seems lost, feel what it’s like to lose even more.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Richard Cook
Frank HenryThe mystery of Frank Henry is a suspenseful character study of the relationship of an awkward and disfigured little boy and his mentor, Frank. It follows the little boy from birth until his untimely death. The relationship that slowly develops between these two is both heart-warming and alarming at the same time. Frank is a violently disturbed individual who identifies too closely with the problems facing his new charge.Although Frank is small and timid looking, he is a violent, vindictive man who will do anything to become a hero to the little boy. As the little disfigured boy comes of age Frank, his protector, is forced to deal with many crises. Frank has an unusual approach to problem-solving in each case. Frank Henry is also unique in that it deals with a number of contemporary issues in education. Everyone who has gone through school can appreciate the problems that the two men endured. Frank has a violent nature, nevertheless, this should not diminish his success at problem-solving. Many of the readers of Frank Henry will find the issues and their solutions controversial. Hopefully there will be an honest and fair analysis of the actions taken.
FORMAT: E-Book
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