R Harlan Smith: 10 books

Robin of Tudor Gables is a novella length story about an eight year old boy growing up in the tenements of post WWII Chicago. He is convinced the grownups are crazy, and what he sees going on around him gives him every reason to believe it. Sometimes, at night, the neighbors hear him scream. Sometimes,...

Farley's best friend's dying wish is that he deliver a mysterious gift to a mysterious, disfigured woman. Her landlord threatens him with his life to stay away. Margie wants to open it. She tells Farley she's sure there's money it, and Anna Kalupski doesn't deserve it, but is she telling the truth?...

All Conrad Daniels wanted was to leave his killing life behind and farm with his family. But time catches up with a man, like Lenore from his past, his reputation as a gunfighter, and the horrors of Antietem Creek catching up with him. Now there's a female bounty-hunter who wants to kill him, and...

The Factory Worker is the story of three couples in a midwest steel town. Victor finds his first real love, Patty, his boss's daughter, but only to lose her? Lacey has a haunting secret from his past. Will Caroline understand? And Roark, the oldest is married to Francine, who realizes her strength comes from her husband. Will he come back this time?

A selection of thirteen short-shorts, short stories about people and animals.  Some, paranormal. Some, fact. Some, fiction. The reader is left to decide which is which. A great addition to collectors of short fiction.

Mitchel Becker ventures in Versailles, France days before the Nazi occupation, confident he can get out before the Nazis invade. It isn't the first time he's been wrong. Then he meets Kirsche. He doesn't realize she is a trained Gestapo assassin.  Enter Burns of Army Intelligence who coaxes...

What Follows is an eclectic selection of ten short stories of various genres; Science Fiction, Fantasy, Whimsy, and Literary fiction, featuring "The Quatro**:** four short stories from the village of Dos Cruces, east of Chihuahua, in the Sierra Madre." 

All Alex has to do is think of something, and it happens. It's easy to bring an object or an event into his life. He tries to keep it a secret from his friends. He just wants to be ordinary like anyone else. But things get complicated. When his live-in girlfriend leaves him, he accidentally...

Willard wants to write a novel, but he doesn't have any ideas, until he meets Robert on the strand at Venice Beach. Robert offers Willard a story, a story about which he swears every word is true, but there are some complications that come with it.  Robert appears to be harmless enough, but...

The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and JackR. Harlan.