B B Irvine: 34 books

A writer recounts odd conversations, food, bands, and other diversions experienced at FIASCO'S, winner of a Least Awful Gourmet Award for its "signature Italian-type food," whatever that is. Meet owner Adolfo MacDuff, maitre'd Carmina Burana, chef Falcon Roost, and many others who are frequently found...

Doing a friend a favor isn’t supposed to risk life and limb, but that’s what happens when millionaire Baxter Benton asks his old pal Leto Macellum for one. Within six hours Leto has nearly been blown up, beaten up, shot (twice), and Baxter has vanished into the Florida sunshine. Will this be a...

When radiologist Dr. Andy Bosch agrees to help the legal team representing his Tae Kwon Do teacher, who has been accused of murder, he doesn’t expect he will soon be beaten up, will fall in love, and will find himself about to be killed by the actual killer, all in the course of one week. Lawyer...

Following discovery of the Shoggoth in Antarctica during the ill fated Hobblestone-Thorpe Expedition, sole survivor Sam Oliver has had a difficult time readjusting to his life on Earth as he knew it. Then “Mayday” and “abandoning ship” are the last words heard from Clementine Prioress, the...

Moving to a new Indy Type car team, race car driver Anna Korsova also faces two rivals: Patti York on the race track for a first win, and Sarka Sandbourne at home, where the British starlet is researching a film role by spending time with Caitlin Shea while her wife Anna is out on the road. Third book in the Anna and Caitlin Adventures, building on Silk In A Firesuit and Racing Hearts.

Racing Hearts / In the sequel to Silk In A Firesuit, ex-deputy sheriff Caitlin Shea is kidnapped as part of a plan by a man obsessed with killing race car driver Anna Korsova. Caitlin hasn't heard from Anna for several months, and although the death threat brings them together again, she isn't ready...

"Interstitial short stories" include Ecurba’s rescue of 31 kids during Operation NESTKNOCK (2176), his meeting of a daughter he did not know he had (2194), the full closing of the circle between Admiral Xiu-Li Chen and Captain Priti Fareyes (2192), and Admiral Chen’s meeting with “Katsavr’s Qitten” (2194).

“Welcome to this opening of the Arte Museum of Unusual Crafts,” reads the press release. Located somewhere near Syracuse, the museum has been open for eight months but under a hundred people have visited it, so this Opening Night has a lot riding on it for Assistant Director Robert Derain. The...

Shooting a man with a police woman’s gun to save her daughter’s life reveals Thorn is living in New York City. Locals seek revenge against him as others around the globe who identify Thorn want him killed for past actions against them while he served with the US military. Thorn evades local “wannabes”...

Shooting a man with a police woman’s gun to save her daughter’s life reveals Thorn is living in New York City. Locals seek revenge against him as others around the globe who identify Thorn want him killed for past actions against them while he served with the US military. Thorn evades local “wannabes”...

Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars touched the water. And for Albert Einstein,...

A married person falls deeply in love with someone else. A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car. A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a dramatic impact, sometimes...

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome,...

A practical, refreshingly optimistic guide that uses centuries-old wisdom to help us better cope with the stresses of modern living. Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately this is not the case. Stoicism...