Barry: 429 books

Long ago Glooscap promised to return if his people were in need, but it was only when he learned of the destruction of the Atlantic Provinces that he made the journey back to the Minas Basin. There, learning about the mines and clear-cuts, the factory farms and failing fisheries, and woken by the...

This third volume of my Narrative in Tom Waits’ Songs series is an attempt to tell the story of his later period beginning with the dark tapestry of tales and stripped-down guttural roar of blues rock in Bone Machine. Released in 1992, in many ways that album was the hollering inbred cousin who...

From Irv Kupcinet to Carson Wentz, sixty-two quarterbacks played for the Philadelphia Eagles. At least nine more were either part of preseason rosters, practice squads, and/or dressed for games, but never saw action during the regular season. Alphabetically, they range from Rick Arrington to...

Sarah is travelling to rural Maine to visit an old friend, Midge Parker, who disappeared under peculiar circumstances almost a decade earlier. She drives 400 miles only to discover that Midge has moved on again without leaving any forwarding address. But the journey's end offers an unexpected revelation.

What if people simply disappeared from being sad? What would you find if you ventured into your recently-deceased neighbor's apartment? What happens to the ones left behind after a suicide? Stories for Humans will touch your soft spots, prodding the places in your subconscious where terror and sadness...

Three months hard labour in an English prison did not diminish 17 year old Sophia Grantham's desire for wealth. Within two years she was again convicted of larceny and sentenced to seven years transportation to Van Diemens Land. As a Ticket of Leave convict in Hobart she married a seaman known...

It is a titanic story though one rather slow-moving by contemporary standards. In 79, the Temple destroyed, the Jewish rebellion crushed, the Romans enslaved thousands and deported them to Italy or southern France in order to extinguish the Jewish people forever. Yet they did not give up their religion...

Trying to understand why those in the NASA Mars Exploration program are intentionally side-stepping, ignoring and appear to have abandoned the most intriguing set of data about Mars ever obtained is a mystery in light of years of new evidence that seem to support its extraordinary findings – that there...

Fourteen year old Lee Parsons escapes from an English Boarding School in Kent, steals a pushbike and rides down to Dover, and from there decides to keep right on going, all the way home to Australia. It isn't really England nor the school that he is fleeing but his brutal, selfish father Trevor...

A sudden accident and the destinies of three strangers—a young athlete, an immigrant mechanic and a doctor—are profoundly changed. Unaware of one another’s suffering, they struggle for years until their pain reaches a zenith. Then their independent lives are thrust inescapably together once...

The product of his English father and French mother’s ferociously antagonistic genes, François Théodore Thistlethwaite is a traumatized, split-identity ‘Frenglishman’. Any one of his three alter egos – François, the Marxist Frenchman, the ultra-conservative Englishman, Thistlethwaite, or...

21 Years is an episodic crime saga following in the footsteps of Sons of Anarchy, The Blacklist, Narcos, House of Cards, & Breaking Bad. "Nuthin from Nuthin" is Episode 4.

Originally written in screenplay formatting aimed at Netflix, it's been transposed into all digital formatting. As a result, the writing is tight, hard-hitting, and fast-reading. Designed to be visualized on your big-screen at home. Written in episodic format, eighty-nine episodes on the drawing...

"Mr. Jacobson, the old Jewish guy who lives on Bickford street, sniffs little girls' bicycle seats," eight year old Benjamin Carter announced cavalierly as though the topic made for polite dinner conversation. The family had just sat down to the evening meal. Grace Carter poured some gravy on her mash potatoes, cleared her throat and asked, "Where exactly did you learn this?"