As the greenest private eye at the Aalborg Detective Agency, Bick Bates gets assigned a “nuisance file,” a case nobody else wants to touch. Herbie Barnwell was a skid-row bum who was still in a coma, the result of a mysterious mugging. A new hire, Bick is a “college-boy professional,” low man on the totem pole amid a dozen or so agents, the majority being stogie-chomping ex-cops. His colleagues looked down on a callow youth who was there to run errands for the bosses or sit down with prosp...

Like father, like son. Whoever coined that one had never heard of Joe and Stanley Buckley. Joe is a ne'er-do-well fugitive who tends bar in Belize. All he knows of the son he hasn't seen in years is that "he likes computers," the understatement of the year. Susan, Joe's ex and Stanley's mother pleads with him to come up to an Oregon beach to attend his son's upcoming wedding. Joe barely makes it in time for the nuptials and stays on through Father’s Day a week later, raising havo...

It's a hilariously evil twist on Humpty Dumpty and seven other fairy tales.

As the greenest private eye at the Aalborg Detective Agency, Bick Bates gets assigned a "nuisance file," a case nobody else wants to touch. Herbie Barnwell was a skid-row bum who was still in a coma, the result of a mysterious mugging. A new hire, Bick is a "college-boy professional," low man on the totem pole amid a dozen or so agents, the majority being stogie-chomping ex-cops. His colleagues looked down on a callow youth who was there to run errands for the bosses or sit down with prosp...

Here are 17 entertaining tales from Gary Alexander with themes you might think were ripped from the pages of the Weekly International Tattler:Roswell Woman Is An Alien Love ChildKiller Theme Parks From HellSatan Adapts To Times, Offers Lease-Option On SoulsMidget Makes Mucho Moola For The MobEinstein’s Time-Space Continuum Is A Car WreckBanana Republic Goes BananasJFK Assassin Still On The LooseReincarnated Aesop Updates Fable...

Nosebleeds from WashingtonHeights reveals a number of salient episodes that took place in WashingtonHeights between 1940 and 1958. Written as poignant short stories, the tales are replete with what for many may be long forgotten people, places and events. For some, it will be an unforgettable passport back into those lost years filled with the kind of detail and stuff of which memories are made, which will jar and delight.

Pineapple Grove & Other Short Stories is a book of ecclectic stories from the philosophical and nostalgic to the satiric and whimsical. For the science-fiction fan there are several of those included in this collection, as well as a take off or two on the pulp type horror talesof the fiftieswith some surprising twists. The collection of stories in Pineapple Grove contains short stories in boththe classical tradition of cozy yarn spinning and the kind of tales rarely stumbled on today. Read...

This book is about.wonderful hopes, and shattered dreams, the pain of growing up, and the pains of loosing family. It is about..what we think we cannot live through, but find we can. It is about conquering our mind and changing to what God wants us to be. It is about those things that we can conquer in life and how to be proud of those accomplishments, but more important it is what we can be if we do not give up. This life is not easy! What seems today as the worst day in our life, tomorro...

This satirical view of college professors features a philosophy professor who believes logic will solve all problems from bringing justice to everyone to personal relationships. His problems include convincing his colleagues to unionize to dealing with a history professor who believes he is the 21st century version of Henry VIII and an English Lit. professor who believes she can become Ann Boleyn.

Energy efficiency is an important factor in an economy, since it helps meet energy needs, decrease costs, and lower environmental impacts. A review of the evolution of energy intensity in European and Former Soviet Union countries indicates a positive trend: high-energy-intensity countries have now reached the level of medium-energy-intensity economies 15 years earlier, and in the same period, medium-energy-intensity ones had similarly evolved to levels of low-energy-intensity. At the same...

In a twisted parallel world, Jared's doppelganger is a ruthless killer. When they switch bodies, his wife becomes the target of this murderous imposter.Jared's life is turned upside down as he's randomly forced to switch bodies with his alter ego J-Rock, who takes advantage of the opportunity to wreak havoc on Jared's real life and chip away at everything and everyone he holds dear. Seeing the pain his evil twin has inflicted upon the woman identical to Jared's own...

While in captivity, Rhodan attempts to learn all he can about his captors, the Naats. He plans on using that knowledge to formulate a plan using psychic communication with his comrades in the hope of saving as many of the Tosoma's survivors as possible. But a power struggle is brewing among the Naats, and Novaal's leadership is unexpectedly challenged by an unlikely opponent, potentially upending the current order.In a base on Rayold’s largest moon, commander Tresk-Takuhn does all ...