Escargot Books: 30 books

The 10 short stories that make up Jog On Fat Barry symbolize the mishmash of difficulty that face people trying to muddle through an increasingly complex world, and each one of them comes entwined with odd and curious characters crossing seamlessly from one story to the next. Cotter’s diction is...

What teenage boy doesn’t want to fit in and have friends? That’s what Argus Dachel, 17, wants more than anything, but because he’s half alien, a New Breed, that’s not as easy as it seems. And it sure doesn’t help that he and his brother, Tai, are being pursued by a secret government agency....

Richard La Plante's acclaimed Fogarty-Tanaka thriller series in one boxed set—includes Mantis, Leopard, Steroid Blues, and Mind Kill

In the second book in the Ramtalan Trilogy, Argus Dachel, a far-from-ordinary half-alien teen, finds himself mixed up in the battle between a hostile faction of Invaders and the peaceful Ramtalans he’s come to know as his friends. With his brother Tai held captive at the Citadel and disturbing news...

Now readers can enjoy all three volumes in one convenient book. Book One, Two Brothers: Origin, follows 17-year-old Argus and Tai Dachel as they transition from sheltered homeschoolers to mainstream high school students, where they begin to discover they are not the ordinary teenagers they thought...

Richard La Plante started riding motorcycles at sixteen, escalating from a Cushman motor scooter to a Norton Electra. An arrest ended his ride at twenty. Eighteen years later, he realized that something was missing from his life. That something was a Harley-Davidson. Middle-aged, but determined,...

In recent weeks, three young women have been brutally assaulted and murdered in the city of Philadelphia. Lt. William Fogarty, a time-toughened cop, hardened by personal tragedy, is shocked by the brutality of the crimes. His only lead comes from medical examiner Josef Tanaka. Half Japanese and half...

With an updated foreword by Peter Mayle, Acquired Tastes (formerly Expensive Habits), originally published in 1993, is a celebration of life's extravagances. Exploring an aspect of human nature that, although lying dormant in hard economic times, is capable of erupting with the hint of good fortune...

Deadman’s Bust takes readers on a wild ride from the laidback pot-growing counterculture of Humboldt County and into the harsh world of drug traffickers, Colombian cartels, and corrupt DEA agents. When Mike and John’s growing operation is violently busted by the Feds, John is hauled away...

Author Richard La Plante had always wanted to ride cross-country to Sturgis, South Dakota—to the famous motorcycle rally that has become the mecca for the American biker. But at the age of 53, still bruised from a divorce, newly remarried, and a father for the first time, he thought the trip would...

Richard La Plante’s engrossing fantasy-fiction saga Tegné: Soul Warrior continues with Book Two, Tegné: The Killing Blow. In the first volume, Tegné, Warlord of Zendow, has successfully faced the test of the heart and slain the Beast—his lover Neeka. Yet, now, Neeka’s spirit has returned...

A collection of song lyrics, poems, prose, and proverbs "wisdomisms" by Grammy award winning songwriter Ric Marlow. "A Taste of Honey" is one of the most commercially successful songs in the history of the music "business." It has been recorded by more than 150...

Saxon, Ming and Heba, glamorous girlfriends of three ruthless power brokers in the international oil industry, become instant friends over a broken zipper in the ladies' room of a five-star Paris hotel during an OPEC conference. They don't realize they've been set up. Nor that they're being stalked...

A story of the living, the undead, magic, betrayal, love, more betrayal, and blueberry pancakes. Gracie Daniels has it all. She’s young, pretty, in love and about to graduate from the University of Southern California, but her world is turned upside down when she wakes up, dead, in the morgue. But...