Gerald: 1985 books

A Look at the Ward and Burgevine and their efforts to suppress the Taipings in service of the Quing Government in the 1860's.

Between the sublime confidence of both biblical fundamentalists and radical atheists lie various shades of belief, agnosticism, wishful thinking and escapist fantasy. The passion to prove the existence of God has always been frustrated by rationalism and always will be, which is why the subject of...

For over five thousand years, there have always been three binding rules for all Masters of Sinanju: Payment is always in gold. No checks. There is only one Master and one pupil. No woman will ever be trained in Sinanju. Sunny Joe Roam will throw the last two rules out the window in order...

Are Freya and Stone, the deadly assassins-in-training, ready to call it quits? When they find their pasts, will Sinanju lose its future?When Stone discovers his long-lost mother, he’s thrilled. But if he thinks that family life is going to be simple, he’s wrong…dead wrong.Half...

Shadows and Reflections is the Roger Zelazny tribute anthology you’ve been waiting for. Here are stories that are not just inspired by Roger Zelazny, but stories set in universes created by Roger Zelazny. Finding Shadows and Reflections is like discovering a new Zelazny collection full of old friends...

THE LADY OF THE CANYONA late foggy night…Not a good start to his retirement, he is already tired from driving all day in impenetrable fog. Four hundred miles creeping along jammed roads, guided by radar equipped Highway Patrol cars. Finally, he is on a two lane country road passing through...

Five men decide to kill a boy one summer. But the boy is much more than he seems. Slow and a giant, but there is something nefarious, something terrible just underneath the surface of his vacant eyes. When their plan springs into action they will discover that the trouble they've stumbled into has a cost attached the whole town will have to pay.

A woman discovers that she is always excited, and decides to take matters in hand.  Erotica for open minded adults only.  All persons depicted in this work of fiction were at least 18 years of age or older at the time of the depiction.

" Thicker'n fiddlers in hell. Independent as a hog on ice. If a bride makes her own clothes, it's bad luck. It'll snow in May if it thunders in February. How's a hen on a fence like a penny? What's the reddest side of an apple? Learn what folklore and folk culture are and enjoy a generous helping of sayings, rhymes, songs, tall tales, superstitions and riddles from Kentucky.

Mankind has just been knocked off his perch atop the food chain. The zombie apocalypse is here. But it didn't come alone. Sure, there are legions of hungry mouths, tearing hands, and soulless eyes, but the apocalypse brought a friend. A distant memory that terrified you as a child- remember that creepy...

Even before the explosion in the industrial area on the south side of the city they started showing up. There was something wrong with them. Anybody could see it. They leaked from every orifice and their stomachs were translucent bags showing rotting internal organs. But the ones the police had shot...

In a world where ghosts are an accepted reality, Stout Roost, reality star and host of the Network's The Ghost Toucher reality series has vanished. But Israel, the spiritual detective they hire, doesn't exactly have a plan to find him. Kelly Greene, a customer service rep, is tapped to assist the...

Mankind has won the Vampire Conflict. But the cost of victory is that a few humans have been turned into vamps–half human, half vampire. Prejudice against the vamps is high so finding work is near impossible. Plus, the slightest infraction could send any one of them back to the Pens, a place that’s...

5 new short stories hot on the heels of Goners published last year! Join Leo and Carl as they make 1 last stop on Halloween, a township supervisor's wife as she investigates her first husband's disappearance, a roommate who attempts to help his friend exorcise his wife, a lovesick wife who gets rebuffed...