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This satirical view of college professors features a philosophy professor who believes logic will solve all problems from bringing justice to everyone to personal relationships. His problems include convincing his colleagues to unionize and dealing with a history professor who believes he is the 21st-century version of Henry VIII and an English Lit professor who believes she can become Ann Boleyn.

This is a story of boyhood friendship and irrepressible vitality told with the speed of trains and the understanding of the awkwardness, significance, and fragility of that time. This is a day in the life of two boys as told by one of them.

In the mid-21st century, an unexpected explosion of quantum-gravity technology opens the gates of universes in a multiverse. Interdimensional travel, politics, and spirituality, mixed in with the experience of oneness with lovers and gods, completely changes society, its obsessions, and expectations over 100 years of astonishing discoveries, including a particle collider built around the Earth’s orbit.

North Myrtle Beach detectives Jake Stellar and Avis Lint investigate the murder of Wanda Truman and soon find that the deeper they dig into her past , the longer the suspect list becomes.

Bobby Seed has questions. What's another word for 'thesaurus'? How can I tell Bel I want her as my girl friend, not my girlfriend? How much pain is Mum in today? Has she taken her pills? And sometimes, secretly, Why us? Bobby's little brother, Danny, has questions, too. Will Bobby let him have Rice Krispies for dinner? And can he stay up late on the computer? And why won't Mum's stupid illness just go away? But it's Mum's question for Bobby that could turn everything on its head. It's the Big One. The Unthinkable One. If Bobby agrees, he won't just be soothing her pain. He'll be helping to end it. Would he? Could he?

Join Detective Jake Stellar and his partner Detective Avis Lint in this fast-paced, North Myrtle Beach-based Jake Stellar Series. In this fourth installment, The Obedience of Fools, Jake and Avis butt heads with some of The Grand Strand's elite as they try to uncover a secret that may hold the answer to a string of recent homicides.

Adam Sphere wanted to touch the stars. Listen to the story of a young boy who dreams of being an astronaut and a cruel world that distorts this ambition.

Has a serial killer from the past returned to North Myrtle Beach? Jake Stellar is back in When Death Returns. Join Jake and his partner Avis Lint, in this exciting, third installment of the Jake Stellar series, as they investigate a homicide that eerily echoes the past.

North Murder Beach is the first installment of the story of North Myrtle Beach police detective, Jake Stellar. The spring bike rallies have ended, the spring breakers have all gone back to school, and the summer tourist season is a few weeks away. What better time for a police officer to take a nice quiet relaxing week off from work? That's what Jake Stellar had in mind. That is until someone from his past resurfaces to remind him of a terrible secret he has spent years trying to forget.

It's a beautiful Sunday morning in North Myrtle Beach and Emily Bowen, a wife and mother of four, lays dying on the beach. Jake Stellar returns in Beach Shoot, a new mystery by Rodney Riesel. Beach Shoot is the second Jake Stellar book and sequel to the Amazon Best Seller North Murder Beach. In Beach Shoot, Jake finds himself teamed up with the most unlikely of partners - his nemesis and fellow detective Avis Lint. Join Jake and Avis as the piece together the clues in this thrilling new mystery.

Belfast, 1993: Jackie Shaw is a young tearaway running with paramilitaries in Belfast. He treads a fine line keeping psychotic hard-man Rab Simpson in check while sleeping with gang leader Billy Tyrie's beautiful wife on the side. When a bomb claims nine lives, he is given the role of getaway driver in a planned reprisal killing, a key role in a major operation. But Jackie may not be who he seems....

In a German industrial town, four unemployed and despondent men reenact Roald Amundsen's turn-of-the-century trek to the South Pole. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance.

Joe Dolan wakes with a 'headful of hornets', a warning that today's going to bring something bad. He attends the funeral of an innocent - an Angel - and tries to work out if his wife has been kidnapped. Father Millar makes an appearance, we step inside the Blue Frog Tavern, and we meet Joe's brother Frank, as well as an artist and other notable residents of Refuge.

A young man escapes in an asylum seekers' boat, but it gets sunk by pirates. And that's when the nightmare begins in this tale inspired by Lovecraft's "Dagon". He wouldn't look down - that was too frightening. He looked up at the stars, the horizon, the foam on top of the waves as they rose and fell with the ocean's swell. The tiny red boat must be more refugees, mustn't it?

Whitney is a thief. A good one. Like a mosquito she comes in quietly, first anaesthetising, then feeding, and finally leaving before her prey know any better. It's a strategy which has worked for her 22 times in the past. But when she lands in Refuge, a discovery at an estate sale opens the door to other possibilities.

A keen crossword puzzler is puzzled even more by disturbing news about the crossword's creator. A tale for the armchair sleuth and anyone who is following the goings-on in the strange little town of Refuge.

The closing down of the steelworks meant the end of being in work - but John and his pal don't intend it to be the end. "Keep hens! That's the answer."

The Prodigal tells the mystical tale of four people on Ocracoke Island whose destiny is tied to an abandoned schooner, thought to have been lost at sea more than a century ago, that one day drifts ashore. Marcus O'Reilly, a renegade Catholic priest, must confront his inner demons. Ibrahim Joseph, a Bahamian fugitive, must face his past. Aidan Sharpe, a fallen lawyer, struggles with self-doubt and his growing affection for Molly McGregor, a fearless towboat captain who cannot find the courage to love.

Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today and the Joshua he was. His father is a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua's bar mitzvah; Joshua has overcome his inauspicious beginnings in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal to become a celebrated television writer and a successful journalist. But Joshua, now middle-aged, is not a happy man.

The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors–as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again also introduces four new women, ready for...