James D : 1091 books

Upstate New Yorker Baz Rathbone makes ends meet by selling human skulls. By contract, he should cremate them, but he doesn’t. His little business comes to the attention of the FBI when a woman spots her late husband’s skull being used as a candlestand by a skinhead (she recognizes the skull from...

Clem Darby's quest for a new life brings him to New Orleans to join a Mississippi riverboat. There, he finds a dying man, who asks him to pass a message identifying his ambushers to his gang boss, Ed Keller. But, in doing so, Clem invokes Keller's suspicion and becomes marked for death himself. Meanwhile,...

Jay Huss is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the opportunity of a lifetime, running the Baja 1000. Locked in with the Mexican Mafia, Jay finds himself running drugs through the border of Mexico to the United States. Soon it becomes clear that what he thought was friendship becomes deadly

Rose Parker passed quietly one night, never having required custodial or hospice care. The support Ray received from his father and his adopted son, Manny Morris, was admirable. Erin and Miller weathered the gossip and had three normal children and a wonderful life together. Gaye and Jay were married...

Sometimes anxiety overwhelms us. If we are to deal with it successfully, it’s important to develop some understanding of what it is and how it affects us. Moreover, we need to discover and experience the power to control it. Without discounting popular methods of dealing with our anxiety such as...

"HIVE: Battle off the Dog Star" picks up the action generations after the events of the first novella of the series, HIVE: First Contact. In this story: A large Hive fleet is heading towards the Earth Empire, where the Fifth Imperial Fleet is the last bulwark against the insectoids and certain...

The Hive threat reaches deeper into the Earth Empire. Now all that stands in the way is the Space Navy manned by brave but young crews. Will the unlikely combination of an old space marine, tired of living, and a young naval ensign, fearful of dying, find a way to defeat the Hive and save humanity?

Der Vertrag der Black Thorns auf Borghese läuft aus. Jeremiah Rose mußsich nach einem neuen Auftraggeber umsehen. Das Haus Kurita macht ihm ein verlockendes Angebot. Doch der Kontrakt hat einen gewaltigen Haken. Der Garnisonsdienst auf dem Planeten Wolcott ist weitgehend ungefahrlich, auch wenn...

A Movie Length Tale™ from Aisle Seat Books™. The stymied son of a Western movie icon risks Hollywood's ridicule when he assembles an unlikely crew to produce and star in an epic horse opera of his own. As he trips over his father's long shadow, a beautiful director who ties his tongue, two...

Much has been written about the laogai (sometimes likened to the Soviet gulag) in the People's Republic of China. Depending on the source, the prisons are described as nonexistent, enlightened institutions, or hellish places that subject the inmates to degradation and misery. The system is commonly...

Changing trends, ethnic and regional preferences, and a hands-on teaching method make cosmetic surgery uniquely challenging for novice and experienced surgeons alike. Aesthetic Surgery Techniques: A Case-Based Approach offers expert, real-world instruction by presenting chapters and patients in a...

The LEA Guide to Composition is firmly based on research into how people learn to write and draws on the most significant strategies and techniques in composition studies. But this text is not just about the act of writing. It is about using writing as a vehicle for learning--about the world, about...

Over a mere 5 years, neonatal cranial sonography has evolved from an obscure and largely experimental imaging possibility to the modality of preference in the examination of the young brain. The almost immediate acceptance of the ultrasound examination of the neonatal brain was based on a number of...

This manual is written to assist the student of optics or the ophthalmology resi­ dent in reviewing optics. It is particularly suitable as an optics Board review. However, it was not intended to accomplish the far greater task of encompassing the entire field of geometric optics or even of teaching...