Tangles of the Mind: A Journey Through Alzheimer's

Politics & Social Sciences

Stewart, Elizabeth

Social Sciences

Elderberry Pr

When a group of hippies settles on the outskirts of a small East Coast fishing village, creating their commune and drug-trafficking headquarters in an old farmhouse, one of the local sons is drawn into their fold and seemingly destroyed. Mockers is a portrait of this village as it passes through time from the commune days of the 1960s to the fall-out days of the 1990s. The progress of culture and industry forever change this village, as described by Dair: "The saturnalia burst like a tick and was eviscerated, vans and small foreign cars in the parking lot no longer possessing pride of place, an open-air drug market dismantled, its passing clientele snatched by neophytes. They blew in through the door of the tavern like parchment, neither fish nor fowl, in that intermediate state of quickening before dandyism created a caricature of fishermen and loggers".The characters, more than the plot, drive this novel. It is a study of how one person's actions ripple through the community affecting everyone. For instance, the novel begins with an old ship captain who has secluded himself in his home and has been rumored to be dying for more than a dozen years. His son is a convicted murderer whose parole has the children from the nearby housing project hiding in hedges and orchard trees, sure he will return home and hoping to be the first to spot him. The commune itself is home to many of the murderer's old friends, including a "buddha-faced" woman named Holy Cow who surprises even herself when she gives birth to a child in the local tavern.In Dair's dialogues the reader is often left with a sense of middle entry into a private conversation. The reader is sometimes unable to understand allthe unspoken meaning behind the words because the speakers share a common background that the reader does not. Perhaps it is this feeling of eavesdropping that will drive a reader's interest.The author employs an extensive vocabulary, which occasionally slows the act

Mockers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dair, Dan

Thrillers & Suspense

Karl Latte doesn't like the 21st century. Not recombinants, not Ultimate Reality, not Digitally Mastered Immortals. Most of all he dislikes the talent that's damned him–the ability to see into minds. A forty-year-old ex cop with bad knees and a arrhythmic heart, he may be the last man in 2030 LA without a stcom implanted in his cortex. A 21st century Luddite with the skills of a gun-for-hire, he returns to take a case that's already left nine agents parted out. The assignment takes him to a sea platform owned by the genetic conglomerate, Genesistems. His task: find Romy, one of the last surviving first-generation recombinants. Tall, slender, gifted, with a beauty as artificial as she is, Romy is the apogee of genetic perfection–and everything Karl loathes in a woman. All Karl wants is to go home–but before he can he must smuggle Romy off the platform alive. Easier said than done. Genesistems wants them dead, a sadistic cabal murders Sisters two a night, and a 21st century demon lurks just out of sight, craving possession of them both. Most alarming for Karl, as he grows to know the patented life form he has come to protect, his most charished prejudices teeter as his concept of what is human and what is not skews bewilderingly.

Sisters of Glass

Literature & Fiction

St. John, D. W.

United States

The year is 2084 and the liberal party has a stranglehold on Fairland. A limited nuclear exchange between Asia and the North Americans in 2033 set both peoples back to the Middle Ages. Conservatives, largely annihilated in the Revolution of 2034, were either prosecuted as enemies of the state or eliminated. Thus rose the Liberal fairyland, Fairland. Established within the borders of the US and Canada, it was a country of ultimate caring, fairness and equality. Fairland's citizens are cared for with a firm but loving hand by the beneficent dictator, Big Mama, who knows each of her dependents by name. Big Mama loves each of her charges equally, but--as John Winston is to discover--some are more equal than others. 2084 is parody, but also biting satire. As in the satire of Voltaire and Swift, 2084 bends outrageous plot and motley characters to the cause of exposing the hypocrisy of the present and recent past with a humor as irresistible as it is acerbic. Read it and laugh...but not too much.

2084: The Year of the Liberal

Hale, David L.

Humor & Satire

Night Hume is good cop, an honest cop, a cop who believes in the job. For three years as an undercover narcotics task force officer he’s lived the life of the maggots he pursues——years that have cost him a home, a marriage, a daughter. 
Assigned to make a buy from a college professor who sells to her students, the last person he expects to meet is Ceridwen Laurence. Night knows dealers, and Ceridwen doesn’t fit the mold. What is it about her that makes him break the rules he’s lived by, question every precept, lie——to her, to his partner, to his boss, to himself? After twenty years as a cop, is he losing his faith in the law? 
Job in the balance, Night finds himself neck-deep in a government cover up that nearly costs him and his partner their lives. Now he must decide not only whether to gamble their lives exposing a political conspiracy no one will believe, but whether the enforcement of marijuana laws is worth a child’s life. 
Tough decisions… 
 If he stay alive long enough to make them…

Maggot Night : A Contraband Novel

BOOK BY PUBLISHING INSIDER TOPPLES PUBLISHING FROM PEDESTAL A new satire of how-to-write-books by NY publishing insider Madelyne Simone Rovenhauer has the market all to itself. In a genre rife with deadly serious texts purporting to teach the beginner to write bestselling novels, there is now a deadly satire. Anything but the usual publishing cheerleader, Rovenhauer bites not only the hand that feeds her, but every hand within reach. Her nasty little book topples publishing from its pedestal and into the gutter where it belongs, and anyone who has ever read any of an endless stream of how-to-write books in hopes of being published—and collected rejection slips—will want to read this hilarious spoof.  Rovenhauer deals with all aspects of writing a bestselling novel on one’s first try—from awaiting the muse to coping with ensuing fame. Included in her acerbic guide are: secrets of ‘bonding’ with new york editors, writing about sex, what genre is ripe for ‘breaking in’, why you should not ‘write what you know’, how TV can be your doorway to success, why literary agents want to ‘discover’ you, and much more. Bitingly satirical and choc-a-block with lies as it is—this nasty little tome serves up a bigger dose of truth than any gross of the usual how-to-be-published books.The Nasty Little Writing Book guarantees a contract with a large publishing house and a million dollar advance on the reader’s first attempt. Ms. Rovenhauer is that confident, that filled with sage advice for the novice. Vicious as it is nasty, those familiar with the realities of the publishing world will find Rovenhauer’s nasty little spoof acerbically on target.

The Nasty Little Writing Book : Longtime New York Publishing Insider Reveals Secrets Only Best-Selling Authors Know

Madelyne Simone Rovenhauer

Literary

Written by an educator in everyday language, "Reclaiming Our Schools" is a guide for parents both dismayed by a public school system producing students scoring among the lowest of all industrialized national and unsure of what to do about it. Included are non-confrontational questions for school administrators, both research and common-sense challenging current educational practices, and a detailed examination of the myths driving them. (Education/Teaching)

Reclaiming Our Schools: Whose Kids Are They, Anyway?

Education & Teaching

King, Richard L.

Schools & Teaching

Get ready to embark upon the most hilarious misadventure since Michael Dukakis was seen riding around in a tank pretending to know which end of the turret not to stick his face into! 
Set against the breathtaking scenery of Vienna shortly before the outbreak of the Gulf War, Children and Fools is a tour de force of rib-tickling antics, all designed to answer The Three Immortal Questions: 
The Meaning of Life 
The Purpose of Existence 
How to Ride Around on Austrian Public Transportation Without Paying For It 
Witty, charming, insightful, yet psychologically intense and gripping, Children and Fools is guaranteed to make you smile.

Children and Fools: A Twisted Tale of the Vienna Woods

Biographies & Memoirs

Mirll, Terry

Leaders & Notable People

Like all wars, Vietnam has its legends. Among combatants, stories of heroes and battles are told and retold. These we know. Less familiar are those related by former POW’s and their loved ones, tales of MIA’s who survived, yet never came home. These, though denied by both sides, endure as only truth endures. Kept as slaves long after war’s end, word of their survival has leaked out piecemeal over decades. By word of mouth, in lists smuggled out by POW’s, in dogeared photographs—in hundreds of ways, through scores of eyewitnesses, evidence of their survival amounts. Despite everything media and government have done to discredit the whistle blowers, stories of the men we left behind refuse to go away. In March of the Skeleton Men, Four American and one Australian POW are thrown together, first during the war, then later in the post-war camps we have been told never existed. Drawing strength from each other to survive conditions unimaginable to anyone who has not been a guest at the Hanoi Hilton or prisons like it, they survive long after their comrades have returned to ‘the world.’ Each has one goal, one desire, one hope that keeps them alive—to make it home again. This is their story.

March of the Skeleton Men

Hardwick, Harry

Contemporary

In a quest to uncover the origin of Lyme disease, the author zeroed in on Russia’s fur shipping industry and its New York brokerage, AMTORG Trading Company. FBI mole, Robert Hanssen was simultaneously assigned to monitor AMTORG in Project Pocketwatch under the Clinton Administration overseeing the Russian Counter Intelligence Desk. Verdon’s FBI FOIAs were stonewalled a dozen years, greatly impeding her research; other files simply vanished. Unbeknownst to the author at that time, spy Hanssen had forked over some 60,000 pages to the Russians, many originals.  AMTORG’s founder, Russia’s most favored fur dealer, Armand Hammer, hired accountant Arthur Andersen to head his new oil venture, Occidental Petroleum. Together, Ken Lay (Nixon’s Undersecretary of Energy and future CEO of ENRON), Andersen, and Hammer ushered in a new Détente with Russia and Red China. For the privilege of the US Export Import Bank subsidizing Oxy’s Siberian gas pipeline, Hammer would be obliged to make illegal campaign contributions funneled to the Watergate burglars. Had the history of the USSR’s biological warfare program been destroyed to preserve Détente and placate Hammer, or worse, cover up a terrorist network?  Forced to seek a historical witness to the Soviet-Nazi collaboration in dispersing tick borne diseases of the nervous system, I.G. Farben’s chemist, Henry Tolkmith, fit the bill. Recruited under Operation Paperclip for DOW Chemical as a pesticide/poison gas specialist, most likely Tolkmith was protected under the 100 Person’s Act. Tolkmith’s real identity became suspect when perusing his WW II files. Conflicting physical descriptions, simultaneous sightings in the USA and USSR and double entry to the States raised alarms. Was Tolkmith the infamous Death Angel of Auschwitz, Josef Mengele, an expert in Lyme, Multiple Sclerosis and poison gases? Interviewed, Tolkmith denied his dossier photos were of himself and conveniently died. Had Josef’s brother, Karl, been uncovered in the Brazilian grave at Sao Paulo? Had these two look-a-likes been switched at birth and switched at death? The Brazilian Mengele held ties to Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie of ODESSA, a drug and arms dealer serving a network of international terrorists and the mujaheddin. Arthur Andersen’s new client, ENRON, had hired dope-peddling terrorists, al Qaeda, to guard its Afghan pipeline. Poppy-field potheads are a pathetic, fickle army against Communism.  The FBI could not keep track of these terrorists at home or abroad, its mole was busy at work. Just after spy Hanssen’s arrest on February 17, 2001, Attorney General Ashcroft created the Strategic Management Council, headed by Arthur Andersen to re-organize the antiquated FBI, soon to be followed by the attack on 9/11. A month later, ENRON imploded, 26 trunk loads of files were shredded. Did Arthur Andersen pick up where Hanssen left off? The man who can solve the mystery of Lyme Disease and the SS Elbrus as well as ENRON and 9/11 may well be the FBI’s top mole, Robert Hanssen.

Lyme Disease and the SS Elbrus

History

Verdon, Rachel

World

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