By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (published in the U.S. as Cody) quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. Burroughs was an early fan, Clicking Beat remains remarkably curr...

Keith Hale wrote poetry from the age of fourteen until the age of twenty-four. Many poems were destroyed over the years by fire, typhoon (Paka), tornado, or landfill. The following is a selection of his surviving poems*.* Most are poems he sent to his brother, Steve, when Keith was twenty and Steve was eighteen and serving in the U.S. Army in Germany. Steve kept his copies; thus, they were spared the destruction visited on the poems Keith possessed himself. In his only public poetry readin...

The original American foundation is on the verge of collapse. Each decade forward from the 1960s has allowed another element of moral decay to erode the societys infrastructure. Satan is successfully unraveling the moral fabric of this nation and the church, with his hostilities aimed especially at Christianity. Is there anything we can do to fortify our nation and our church, defending it against these attacks?In Journey: From a Foreign Land to a Promised Paradise, author and mini...

When Rex Sutherland and his employer, Eleanor, Dowager Duchess of Drakeford, find a body by the lake of Bircham Manor, Her Grace – or ‘HG’ as Rex calls her – is reluctant to let it ruin their picnic.After all, HG is a sleuthing professional and at home with crime scenes, having cracked many a case with Scotland Yard’s top dog, Inspector Whipple, over the years.The duchess has been invited to the manor by her friend Colonel Crispen Percival-Travers, alongsid...