Lost Coast Press: 7 books

It is the mid-twelfth century: the Normans have conquered England, Empress Matilda and King Stephen contend for the crown, and continual violence and corruption arise from the sick and vulnerable land. Dame Averilla, infirmaress of the Benedictine abbey at Shaftesbury, is sorely troubled: a precious...

John Burnam served two combat tours in the Vietnam War (1966 1968), first as a US Army infantryman and then as a German shepherd scout-dog handler. John quickly learned the incredible advantages of having a dog to detect the sight, sound, and scent of hidden dangers. The dog was far superior to even...

Comedy of Terror is a droll satire that takes a juicy bite out of all of America’s paranoid delusions and sacred cows: Military war hawks, the bunglers at the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, ATF, CIA, and all the other alphabet noodles that foster our fantasies of safety. Shady politicians...

An aphorism is a statement of truth condensed into few words that express much. “Concise, clever, often paradoxical,” says Webster’s Dictionary. In the ancient world, the first aphorisms were inscriptions in verse, carved into the stone of tombs, statues, temples, and triumphal arches. With...

Award-winning author Phil Harvey has said, “We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle.” Love and the relationships it spawns—with children, for parents, among friends, and between neighbors—are addressed in a moving collection that explores emotional struggle....

It is the year 1141, and the nuns of the Benedictine Abbey at Shaftesbury face new tribulations. The abbey is near bankrupt, threatening the completion of a much-needed altarpiece for St. Edward’s chapel. Worse, the tranquillity of the daily round of prayer and ritual is disrupted by the murder...

Award-winning author Phil Harvey is the president of Adam & Eve, one of the world’s leading suppliers of sex toys, adult films, and condoms. Because a substantial amount of “the sex factory’s” profits finance family planning worldwide, Mother Jones dubbed Harvey a “hard-core philanthropist.”...