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FEW AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS WERE EVER TAUGHT WHAT'S IN THIS BOOK! "This guide for African-American college-bound students is packed with practical and insightful information for achieving academic success...The primary focus here is to equip students with the savvy and networking skills...

Danny Kurtis is 17 and loves being a delinquent. He loves the threat he poses over others. He eagerly anticipates his father's release from prison. When Danny's father is killed in a prison riot, Danny seeks to avenge his father's untimely death. Danny and his best friend, Cory, begin the...

Detective Leonard Harris moves to Springfield, Missouri, a midsize Midwestern city, and gets embroiled in a rash of felony crimes. When Assistant District Attorney Elliott Hobson is shot to death on the street, panic ensues. Witnesses say a white Ford Crown Victoria pulled up and the driver, dressed...

When ex-CIA operative Damon Courter is called back to help interrogate one of his old Russian contacts, he gets more than he bargained for. The contact is an imposter and his ex-wife is also on the case and wants to reunite with him. Damon’s life takes some unexpected turns as he is...

What? is a collection of previously unpublished essays and writing, consisting of four elements: Boggles, Rants, Musings, and by the anagrammatic use of the author's name, Macksims, which are keen and discerning aphorisms. The objectives are didactic and intellectually engaging, but in an amusing...

A worthy addition to the growing new genre of Buddhist fiction, this remarkable collection of short stories explores moments of personal crisis and breakthrough through the lens of Tibetan Buddhist insight. From a paddle boarder out much too far on a midnight sea, to a young Tibetan monk’s effort...

When private eye Eddie Lombardi discovers the body of a young pianist in an abandoned Brooklyn slum in the depths of winter, he vows to find the person who murdered her. But the more he investigates, the more discrepancies he finds between her family's image of her and who she really was. Her father,...

When Brooklyn private eye Eddie Lombardi saves hit man Carlo Cattalanotte from an assassin’s bullet, he sets himself up for trouble. Carlo, it appears, has stolen Mafia kingpin Jimmy Santini’s entire inventory of cocaine, which is why Santini wants him dead. Eddie couldn’t care less what happens...

Young Bobby Broyles has one foot in his new world as a Private Investigator and one back in the conventional working class world of his parents, friends and an ex-girlfriend. As Bobby navigates life among murderous drug dealers,corrupt politicians and beguiling rich women, he returns to Mom and Dad...

Nine-year-old Katie Jordan’s story began with the well-reviewed Turkey Monster Thanksgiving, Tails of Spring Break, and Bittersweet Summer (published by Albert Whitman & Co.). Katie’s latest GREAT IDEA is to showcase her dog Lucy in a neighborhood talent show. But when Lucy forgets...

A spy thriller set in wartime Sweden when Stockholm was a bourse for foreign intelligence and German war booty. British SIS officer Peter Faye is sent to Stockholm to spy on German Intelligence Officer Karl-Heinz Kramer. With the help of his assistant Faye recruits an Austrian maid working for the...

Just plain funny! Amid a record-setting, nerves grating, unrelenting heat wave, our former city folks discover that they’ve been sharing their house with a massive colony of bats. So begins a wry and hilarious recounting of their life in the suburban countryside where they face an endless...

A series of disappearances and murders in a normally peaceful village in northwest Montana involves a professor of psychology, Dr. Madison Kanter, on sabbatical who, with others, link the local mayhem to the ordered execution of a major manufacturing executive, his wife and two daughters among the...

Samantha Parker is not a cop or a private investigator. She's a nosy paralegal with a talent for snooping, so when a handsome stranger walks into her office and gives her twenty-five thousand dollars to have her find out who is following him, she can't resist taking his case, even if she doesn't believe...