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How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista’s electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between...

What if you suddenly found out your world contained not just humans, but also Elves, sometimes called Alves and Dwarves or Dwargs? What if it contained Vok-Moi, known as Wee-Voks or half-lings? What if you inherited your grandfather’s magical sword and people wanted you dead…because of the sword?...

A prerecorded message on a computer memory chip arrives at the office of Houston Mayor Amon Burlingame.  It’s just the beginning of what turns out to be a nuclear terrorist threat.  The mayor must deal with the infighting between the local, police, sheriff’s office and the F.B.I. all while trying...

Relationships are not easy.  We all have our reservations whether we entering into a new one, or trying to keep an existing one alive.  At The Reatta Hotel on South Padre Island, Texas, Barton, the young senior assistant manager and his significant other, Erika, another assistant manager,...

This adult sex comedy is set in a Texas cat house in Galveston with a host of whacky characters, sexy young women and romance in the midst of the oldest profession of all.  Farin owns the bordello where Mom, his adopted mother, is madam to all the girls, including Apple Pye, Mom’s and Farin’s...

In the Hispanic/Latino culture, a folk healer is called a “curandero.”  Noe’s grandfather, Santiago, was a wise and powerful healer who, in the end, could not cure or save his own daughter, Noe’s mother.  As child Noe made the decision he would become a “real doctor” even though his...

Young and attractive TV reporter Kodi Burch has visions of three rattlesnake murders. Her insights at first surprise the Texas Rangers who are assigned to the case but become invaluable as other such murders occur. Ranger Keith Catlin and his partner Tomas Botello reluctantly seek the help...

Doyle Gillette is in his last semester of law school and planning to marry his fiancée and graduate journalism student Kari McCrinnon.  One day an anonymous message turns up on his answering machine one day saying, “You can’t marry the girl you’re engaged to.  She is your sister.” Doyle’s...

Batting .400 for a Major League Baseball season? Absurd. Never again. Hitting .400 is the most sacred and secure mark in all sports, and will never be done again. Never by a superstar, and never, ever by a .259 lifetime guy like Paul Demeter. It’s the last month of the season, the world is watching;...

With nearly seventy-five new poems and over two hundred selected from his previous books, God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike is the book of a lifetime in poetry, one that will lead to the author being recognized as among American’s best living poets. A work of intense illumination, these...

Half-human and an outcast from birth, Elirah Encathla finds life amongst the elves of the Aluaundi tribe insufferable, especially after the death of her beloved foster-father. Heeding the call of her human side, the beautiful Elirah sets out, leaving the only home and the only love she has ever known...

The New Adam finds himself not in Eden, but in a crowded world of men and women who look like him but who cannot comprehend his powers or his unique mentality. Nature had placed Edmund Hall a rung higher on the ladder of evolution than the men around him. How could he live in a world populated by creatures as far below him as the ape is below us?

"But what is reality?" asked the gnomelike man. He gestured at the tall banks of buildings that loomed around Central Park, with their countless windows glowing like the cave fires of a city of Cro-Magnon people. "All is dream, all is illusion; I am your vision as you are mine." Dan...

"An engaging fantasy. A most worthy and enjoyable entry in the ‘feisty female’ fantasy genre,” said Kirkus Reviews. Don't miss The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Book Links Lasting Connections, and was an ALA...