Shark: 92 books

A father accepts his son's challenge to tie him up so he can test his escape skills.  The son gets free and teases his father.  The father ties him up a second time and things turn violent.

A grandmother takes her two grandsons to the Grand Opening Luau at the Molokai Shores condo complex. The grandmother crosses paths with her ex and the grandsons try to get them back together. The younger boy meets his ex-girlfriend from Punahou at the luau and he attempts to rekindle an old flame.

These dreamscapes explore the places of in-betweens, the gray zone between life and death, living and dying. Would father make love again to his wife's best friend, even though she's become a zombie? Why is Gramma chasing the narrator out of the rest home? Has father learned a lesson in empathy when...

A son sees his mother with another man at the Woolworth's lunch counter.

The second son of a minor barron, Robert Smallmeadow dreams of impossible glory, impossible because he lives in the shadow of his cruel older brother, Ethelred. And then Pope Urban II proclaims the Crusades. Robert’s dreams of glory may come true—if he can find a sword. And he does find...

The rules for slaves are simple--keep your head down and train hard. For it is only your training that can save you in the Coliseum. All this Thrace knows. But he forgets it in a moment when a young slave's cry of terror rouses him from his sleep. The boy, young Africanus, has found a body--and...

What’s an ancient god of death to do in the modern world? Anubis, Egyptian Guardian of the Veil, has a problem—two runaway children. HIS children. His search for his beloved twins has brought him grief and worry and a trip to Minneapolis. He’s meeting with an “artist” who churns out commemorative...

This collection of Kafkaesque miniatures offers a terrifying vision of the Worcester asylum where the writer's uncle spent most of his adult life. The asylum theme zips into overdrive in a series of sometimes darkly comic flashes threaded throughout the book. Dadio and June Spoon have created their...

A collection of Nouveau Noir stories, many reminscient of Kafka. Some of the stories are set in the Czech Republic while others are set in Hawaii. There is a dreamlike quality to most of the stories, but others are realistic in temperment.  

The smart beachgoing tourist packs plenty of sunscreen, uses a blanket to keep the sand out of his shorts, and always watches when the kids play in the ocean. But how many tourists know what to do when the rotting denizens of Hell come shambling out of the green Pacific? This is the problem for Lincoln...

The Nine-Eleven planners were inventive—and ruthless. But the world’s lone superpower has learned al-Qaeda’s tricks and hit back hard. The terrorists are on the run. Until they up their game. The Sheikh is a new breed of terrorist, infinitely more dangerous than his predecessors...

Any spec ops mission is bound to be a dangerous and nasty affair—but this one is RIDICULOUS. Not only does the President of the United States send Commander Achilles Black’s ghost team to a dying world, but he forces Black to take along a senior political advisor. But that’s only the beginning...

When dealing with a new alien species, even a small misunderstanding can be lethal. First contact specialist Father John Cardinale thinks he understands the question posed to him by Bakra-Third-Singer of Tales--but he's wrong. By the time he REALLY understands, it's much, much too late. This compelling...

In the year 2083, the United States of America is a very different place. FBI agent Jason Xia (pronounced "Shaw") is sent to investigate a terrorist threat. What he finds instead is the most famous missing person in American history, Callie Cook, a beautiful, young senator whose unexplained...