Ed Teja: 22 books

Tropical heat, money, and lust Henry Miller once said, "One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things." I think that's why, on an extended vacation from my programming job to Cartagena, Colombia, I let a rich and chatty American expat tell me his story....

The magnetic pull of your opposites can provide an unfathomable attraction. To put it simply -- you know better. Still, that attraction is as powerful as the lure of the dark and giving in to it is as exciting as it is disruptive. 

Marrying Bart gave Lisa money, position...all the things she'd thought important. But he was controlling and boring. She was trapped. On vacation in Mexico she decided to have a little fun. But the fun caught up with her; now she's being blackmailed. So one problem became two. But a clever and impatient...

The craziness that comes with the summer heat gets into your bones, fraying relationships and making even thought a chore. Hitting the road leads to finding a mountain without even the weight of a name. Taking a job in a small-town diner where the Norwegian cook reads Cambodian books, it all begins...

A story told in a bar triggers a strange response A writer backpacking in Asia finds a quiet place guest house and settles in to write a story about a real criminal on the run. But telling a story about an event that took place halfway around the world provokes a curious reaction right in the here and now.

Never before published images of Cambodia seen through lens and mind. As for the suitcase, it has no pretension, no markings, no grandeur as is right for such a vessel. Yet it has carried within a world of worlds forgotten and promised. Its past cannot be comprehended, its future contemplated....

Fun with poetry: A fictional review of a fictional long poem by a fictional poet, and the romantic tale of how the search to find the cause of potato bruising led an academic to find love and a new life in the potato patch.

Getting away from it all is hard, and when your business is trouble... it's everywhere. Even leaving the city, getting away from the crime, the craziness, to go fishing doesn't always work out the way you plan. Especially when you go to see an old pal and walk into a murder. Especially when the victim worked for your pal and he wants to call in a favor--having you solve the crime.

Who is Wyatt Osgood? In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged Galt's Gulch was a physical place where the best minds could retreat--withdraw their skills and support from a corrupt system. Today, distributed ledger technologies such as Bitcoin, allow anyone to "Go Galt" when, where, and how...

The origins of a modern Flying Dutchman, trying to sail round the world, his adventure interrupted by his own success as a businessman. He learns that following your dreams isn't as easy as you'd like, and even when you do, dreams can be a tricky things. Beautifully illustrated with photos by Tom Tsui.

Old Sweet ain't gonna build no more boats... On the Caribbean island of Kayakoo, a local boatbuilder named Sweet is found dead on the beach. Detective Johnny Cliff needs to find out what happened to him. With a little help from a friend from a Scotland Yard detective who is there on vacation,...

Trouble is brewing on an island paradise. Not only is there a stranger sitting out on the boat of that nice French couple looking all suspicious, but Martha's skillet has gone missing. She's starting the morning fixing up and it ain't in its place. It gotta have been thieved! Johnny gotta find out...

"A man oughta be able to walk home drunk without some damn fool running him off the road, you know." The hub of life in the islands is the local rum shop and though living in the Windward Islands in the Caribbean might be a little different than other places, maybe move at a slower place, the...

All she needs is an author! Stephanie Masters has exactly what she needs to make her mark in publishing as an editor. She has found a writer who has written a great book and is writing more. But he is a recluse and there is no way he can promote his book--she needs an author, a charismatic...