Arabian Nights Lost: Celestial Verses I is the first part of an epic romantic adventure fantasy trilogy set in the golden age of the classical Arabian tales. Richly researched and deeply seeped in Arabian and Sassanian mythology, folklore and tradition it is culturally and historically authentic and exceedingly reverent to Islam. At its heart is the story of forbidden love between Yusuf, a Roman galley slave, and Jamila, a Jinni and Princess of the Sea from the mysterious Isle of Pearl. A conjuring Grand Vizier demands the princess in marriage for his landed king and their fabulous adventures just begin.

Arabian Nights Lost: Celestial Verses I

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Covino Jr., Joseph

Fantasy

Epic-Press

Arabian Nights Lost: Celestial Verses II is the second part of an epic romantic adventure fantasy trilogy set in the golden age of the classical Arabian tales. Richly researched and deeply seeped in Arabian and Sassanian mythology, folklore and tradition it is culturally and historically authentic and exceedingly reverent to Islam. After Princess Jamila is abducted to the City of Brass by a gigantic Raven-the Ill Omen of Separation-Yusuf runs afoul of desert raiders, cannibalistic changelings, ghostly sorcerers, menacing creatures and the Angel of Death to escort his beloved to her betrothed, the Red King of the Land.

Arabian Nights Lost: Celestial Verses II

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Inspired by the classic 1960s TV series, the Wild, Wild West, Night of the Nobility Cult: A Wild, Wild Western is a faithful and reverent send-up, yet creatively a completely original story pilot with fresh characters set in an updated time period, populated by actual persons and events in history: the year's 1886, during America's Reconstruction Era, under President Grover Cleveland. With the violent labor unrest of the notorious Haymarket Affair in Chicago, Illinois as the backdrop, a labor-friendly Congressman is murdered by a strange, skull-faced assassin. The only lead to the killer is an invitation to an initiation ceremony for a sinister secret society called the Order of the Skulls, also known as the Brotherhood of Death. United States Secret Service agent, Ernest Jordan, recruits to the service a Pinkerton detective, James T. Justice, to investigate the initiation site based at the Melrose Castle in Virginia. Change-through-Chaos is the society's stated threat to the nation. After escaping incineration in a crematory, the new partnership team of Justice and Jordan are sent on a cross-country trek to witness three demonstrations of the society's power to create conflict and chaos in a bid to shadow the government, not by overt takeover, but through outright extortion, manipulation, domination, and control: first to a lighthouse to witness an artificially triggered tidal wave in Texas; next to an artificially triggered earthquake in South Carolina; and, finally, to an undisclosed demonstration in New York City. On their way, the agents encounter President Cleveland, and his lovely young wife, Frances Clara Folsom; the Red-Shirt Riders of South Carolina; a beautiful young suffragist named Kitty; and an assortment of other mysterious and menacing characters. Their expedition ends with a climactic confrontation at the dedication ceremony for the Statue of Liberty! For this new government agent duo--as well as for the reader--it's a spectacular, unforgettable, and completely surprising first mission worthy of its original inspiration.

Night of the Nobility Cult: A Wild, Wild Western

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

San Francisco has a new iconic private detective for the times, a complex character you will come to care deeply about. His name's Francesco Ferrari. A former Franciscan seminarian-turned-shamus, he drives a Ferrari California T sports car, packs a .357 magnum and operates out of a flat in the historic Buena Vista Cafe on the city's northern waterfront. And he covers only those cases affecting the city he loves-his namesake City of Saint Francis. In this continuation sequel, Francesco Ferrari Combs North Beach, Francesco Ferrari’s latest case begins with a big bang once a Cadillac and two driverless Tesla cars collide and explode on the crooked section of the city’s famed Lombard Street. A mysterious Egyptian harboring secret motives hires Ferrari to find a missing associate whose photograph reveals him to be Ferrari’s familiar mobster nemesis, Vic Velotta, who may or may not have survived his presumed demise in the preceding saga. Before long, after seeking out the help of Velotta’s favorite henchman and an investigative journalist, Ferrari becomes entangled with the Egyptian’s youthful femme fatale, a teenage French prostitute; gets threatened by the FBI; and discovers the brutal strangulation murder of a Bureau clerk who’s leaked to criminals the name of an important government informant. That’s just the start of a complicated case involving the city’s dark underworld of fancy brothels, hookers, dives, residential hotels—and even the past hangouts of Beatnik poets—as Ferrari scours North Beach in search of something even more sinister: the reason why some secret software could aid and abet a nefarious terrorist plot. With the informant as the living pawn in a deadly shell game, Ferrari’s pitted against FBI agents and killers in a race against time to prevent the plot and save the life of the young girl he’s slowly falling for. A climactic confrontation at San Francisco’s celebrated Coit Tower decides who survives the fatal collision of opposing forces.

Francesco Ferrari Combs North Beach

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

MOMMIE DEAREST REBOOTED, no relation to the Joan Crawford expose, is the all-factual, all-true autobiographical account of the seven long, hellish and horrendous years an extremely sensitive and unassuming kid was forced to mis-spend(in Pensacola, Florida)with two of the sickest, and most evil and malevolent non-"parents" ever to inhabit the planet--by name: PEGGY B. SILLS and CLESTER(CLES)ROLAN CHEETHAM, rightly referred to throughout as the Bitch Mother and the Fat Bastard step-father. This depraved and perverse pair subjected this kid to every outrageous atrocity thinkable. Spanning the period from the fourth through the eleventh grade, this true memoir recounts, in frequently graphic detail, every insidious incident, every vile event: foul animal abuse, brutal beatings, maliciously cruel pranks, drunken rampages, sexual perversities, slavish involuntary servitude, savage whippings and wicked mis-treatment of the harshest and severest kind. All told, it's the true story of the broken home, child abuse, the dys-functional family and family violence. Beyond that, it's the long overdue exposure--and outing--of the two disgustingly degenerate instigators of all the grievous and grueling adversity they forced this kid to inexcusably, and undeservedly, suffer and endure. Most importantly, it's the story of how this resilient and resourceful kid tenaciously resolved to not only survive and persevere, but even to triumphantly prevail over even the most coercive, domineering, intimidating, menacing and threatening tactics of these two violent and vulgar individuals. Ultimately, it's the inspirational story of how this unpardonably abused and bullied kid resolved to be not the victim--but the victor!

Mommie Dearest Rebooted

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Francesco Ferrari Mines the Mission, a reverent send-up of Alfred Hitchcock’s major motion picture masterpiece, VERTIGO(1958), is the third and most epic entry in this crime suspense thriller series. Francesco Ferrari, San Francisco’s new iconic private detective for the times(not the dated Sam Spade past), a former Franciscan seminarian-turned-shamus, drives a Ferrari California T sports car, packs a .357 magnum and operates out of a flat in the historic Buena Vista Cafe on the city’s northern waterfront. And he covers only those cases affecting the city he loves--his namesake City of Saint Francis. This time out, Ferrari’s hired by the president and CEO of an internet pornography company, located in the city’s largely Latin Mission district, to watch and follow his young and enigmatic Catalonian wife, whom he claims is obsessed with a once celebrated but dead Spanish dancer known as Senorita Carmelita. A feminist anti-pornography activist plummets to her death from the Mission Dolores basilica bell-tower and Ferrari’s quickly implicated in her demise. Creatively adapting essential elements from both the classic Vertigo novel and movie, this complex, erotic, romantic, and wholly original detective/love story is neither a copycat imitation nor a make-over of the Vertigo story. This is, make no mistake, most definitely not your parents’ Vertigo--nor even your grandparents’! Just when you think this story is traversing familiar territory it will deviate drastically into fresh, unfamiliar, and even surreal realms, which will both startle and surprise. Once Ferrari falls--and falls hard he does--for the sultry and seductive subject of his surveillance, becoming obsessed with solving the secret mystery she lures him into, he’s forced to follow a haunted trail that turns as emotionally daunting as it does deadly--leading, dizzyingly, to a shocking, climactic conclusion from which the tough and tenacious detective may never fully recover. One you won’t see coming. One you won’t ever forget. Listen to soundtrack music composed by Bernard Herrmann while reading this book, and you’ll believe you’re reading a Hitchcock film!

Francesco Ferrari Mines The Mission: A Homage To Vertigo

United States

Francesco Ferrari Explores Chinatown

Mark Hazard is BACK! And he's reclaiming his name!World Without Want is, unabashedly, a James Bond novel-in-disguise. In Ian Fleming's twelfth and final novel, James Bond co-opted the name, Mark Hazard, as an alias. In this novel, Hazard reclaims his name and picks up where he left off in that preceding story. A secret agent for the British Secret Service and a member of its Zero-Zero Department, Hazard is now assigned a new number-008-and is Licenced to Liquidate. His superior officer, EM(Executive Minister)sends him out on the most dangerous and deadly assignment of his career: to directly confront the terroristic Islamic State network! After an American-launched Tomahawk cruise missile, targeting suspected terrorist sites in Syria, is mysteriously diverted and re-routed to destroy a naval command center in Turkey, certain clues lead the West to believe that a terroristic organization has acquired the capability to turn their own missiles against it by resorting to a highly sophisticated, high-tech homing device apparatus. Hazard is dispatched first to war-torn Syria to track down the source of his only lead: a seductive Trinidadian courtesan spirited on-site by a high-level naval commander just before the base command center was destroyed. In Raqqa, Syria, Hazard gets abducted by female members of the notorious Khansa Brigade, interrogated by an Islamist militant at a ruined castle, and nearly drowned at Tabqa Dam. Hazard's hazardous investigation takes him next to Romania, where he discovers an even more shocking secret: a bevy of beautiful Brides of the Islamic State, who are being recruited to act as live homing devices for deliberately deflected enemy missiles-taking the horrific concept of suicide bombing to a new and more lethal level. Even more shocking than the inventor of this innovative new threat, discovered in Sweden, is the startling revelation of its unpredictable sponsor-with whom Hazard has his most climactic and chilling confrontation. True to Bond creator, Ian Fleming's original style and spirit, this is no artificially-contrived, hyper-pretentious, revisionist novel. Translation: it's wholly without any politically correct RUBBISH! Replacing the rubbish is real Bond-ian drama! It is, without doubt, a Bond-like adventure like no other-unlike any you've ever read; or likely ever will read. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the cinematic James Bond film franchise, this unforgettable thriller pays special tribute-first and foremost-to the incomparable life and legacy of James Bond creator, Ian Lancaster Fleming!

World Without Want

Thrillers & Suspense

JFK: A Dallas Homicide

History

Americas

CHS: Class of 1972, Book of Remembrances, ﻿ is your literary cosmic Time Capsule, transporting you back to your uniquely spectacular Past, in celebration of your grand, golden 50th anniversary Class Reunion! Set within the arresting context of the time's current events, and written in a richly engaging style, this candid, compelling, epic account has it all-the academics, the activities, the athletics, the students, the teachers, all the unforgettable excitement, all the memorable melodrama-in short, all the exhilarating thrills and chills of your uncommonly sensational and spectacular Catholic High School Crusader experience! Even if you're unacquainted with its writer, you'll revel and rejoice in this book! Even if you're unacquainted with this Class, you'll revel and rejoice in this book! Survivors of the CHS Band will most especially delight in reading this book's extensive, concluding account of the band's annual trip to state contest in 1972-drawn from a freshly remembered journal account composed at the time! Any and every spectacular Crusader who ever traversed the hallowed halls of Pensacola Catholic High School-by their common kinship and shared brotherhood-will wallow in this book! Take a rollicking romp down memory lane, and prepare to be profoundly moved, amused, touched, entertained, and enthralled no end! Guaranteed!

CHS: Class of 1972, Book of Remembrances

Parenting & Relationships

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