Escargot Books: 30 books

Cover of The Amazing Adventures of Chilly Billy
by Peter Mayle, Arthur Robins
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

Bestselling author Peter Mayle and acclaimed children’s book illustrator Arthur Robins combine their talents in this delightful children’s storybook. Once you’ve met Chilly Billy and heard of his adventures inside the refrigerator, you’ll never open the fridge door in quite the same way again!...
Cover of Up the Agency
by Peter Mayle
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

In Up the Agency, originally published in 1990, Peter Mayle turns his mind back to what drove him to the south of France in the first place: the advertising business, where he lost thirteen perfectly good years of his life. Once known as “the greatest copywriter alive,” Mayle’s uproarious and...
Cover of Many Stories

Many Stories

The Point of the Needle

by Sebastian Orth
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012

MANY STORIES: The Point of the Needle The son of an English teacher and a college professor, Sebastian Orth’s moment of awakening took place at the age of seventeen in the biology class of a California high school. It happened almost accidentally, with a single drop of drawing ink and the...
Cover of Never Again

Never Again

Building the Dream House

by Richard La Plante
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

"Never Again," Richard La Plante promised after he and his new wife completed building their family home in East Hampton, New York. But he did not keep his promise. Instead, he bought twenty acres of raw land on a mountaintop located three and half thousand miles away, in a small...
Cover of Going Virtual

Going Virtual

Part 1: Why do we need offices?

by Todd Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Going Virtual is the new business playbook for the new normal economy. It presents a paradigm that enables businesses to not only survive, but also prosper in a prolonged dark economy. CEOs looking for a “silver bullet” enabling them to succeed in this contraction will find it in Going Virtual.
Cover of Going Virtual

Going Virtual

Part 2: How to build a virtual office

by Todd Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

Going Virtual is the new business playbook for the new normal economy. It presents a paradigm that enables businesses to not only survive, but also prosper in a prolonged dark economy. CEOs looking for a “silver bullet” enabling them to succeed in this contraction will find it in Going Virtual. Part 2 focuses on how to build a virtual office.
Cover of Footprints in the Butter
by Peter Mayle, Arthur Robins
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014

Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins combine their talents to bring you this wonderful children’s storybook, first released in 1987. In The Amazing Adventures of Chilly Billy you met the little man who lives in the fridge. Now Footprints in the Butter brings you further adventures of this delightful character and his many colorful friends!
Cover of Tegné

Tegné

Soul Warrior

by Richard La Plante
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014

Mastery of the martial arts is a hallmark of the works of Richard La Plante. His heroes have carried readers into the heart of the warrior's craft—but never more so than in Tegne: Soul Warrior. As the boy grows to manhood, he becomes a fighting machine, but though he can defeat his teachers in battle,...
Cover of Mind Kill
by Richard La Plante
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

Incarcerated cult leader Justin Gabriel, convicted of ordering his followers to kill, has spent ten years honing his mind control abilities. His parole hearing is approaching—his one and only shot at freedom—and  he is determined to silence anyone who might speak against him. Taking the form...
Cover of Steroid Blues
by Richard La Plante
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

John Winston Flint, prominent Philadelphia physician, has been systematically tortured to death. Every bone in his body has been shattered—even the joints of his fingers and toes reduced to powder. The doctor’s hidden side is revealed when a police search turns up a collection of sadomasochistic...
Cover of Leopard
by Richard La Plante
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

Combining the Eastern exoticism of Rising Sun with the gripping serial-killer intensity of The Silence of the Lambs, Leopard is the terrifying sequel to Richard La Plante’s acclaimed first thriller Mantis. Medical examiner Josef Tanaka returns to his native Japan for the first time in fifteen...
Cover of First Born
by Richard La Plante
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013

From his first breath, people know that John Reed is special. Gifted with an uncanny awareness and ability to communicate, he also possess the power to heal. Before long, a local priest heralds the infant as a new messiah, inadvertently drawing the attention of Neo Tech, part of a clandestine organization...
Cover of Last Day
by Richard La Plante
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

A near-fatal mistake during the attempted bust by the cops leaves a bullet lodged in the right temporal lobe of Charlie’s brain. Operating to remove it would likely kill Charlie. Living with it will change him forever. Two men linked forever by a tangle of lies and twisted loyalties. Two...
Cover of The Acid King
by Maggie Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013

Four long-estranged friends from London's turbulent Sixties scene of sex, drugs and rock and roll are thrown together after seventeen years when one of them accidentally discovers the secret identity of their betrayer; a man they knew only as the Acid King, a charismatic figure who orchestrated a...
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