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Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail.

After leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chicago's notorious...

A middle-aged man, caught up in the doldrums of life, is awakened in mind, body, and spirit, thanks to the highjinks of a group of worm-like creatures who kidnap him and take him on the ride of his life. "In Orville And Erval Bend My Life: The Legends Of Verbal Cartoonery," the protagonist is forced by his peculiar pack of captors to hear them out as they deliver their wacky stories, vignettes, and poetry. The kidnappers have a dark conviviality that is at once confusing, threatening, and entertaining. Why would they need a captive audience for their wit and witticisms? They offer no...

After Napoleon's abandonment of Moscow on 18 October 1812, throughout the subsequent Wars of Liberation that saw most of Europe turn against the French and right up to the capitulation of Paris on 31 March 1814, it was the vast armies of Imperial Russia that bore the brunt of the fighting against forces of France and her dwindling list of allies. The Russian Jaegers - nominally skirmishers, but in reality spearhead troops tasked with a host of different and demanding battlefield roles, from storming villages to defending strongpoints - were a relatively new arm of service that gained...

Everyone in Christina's circle of friends and relatives are surprised when she, a native Texan, marries David, a native Michigander. After he dies in a car accident, she and her three children move back to her hometown in Texas. They are faced with many physical, emotional, and spiritual trials as they adjust to their new life without David. During these trials, she and her family learn to rely not only on their faith, family, and friends, but also realize that people and events are not always what they seem to be. Will Christina find peace and happiness again as she re-acquaints herself...

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A threatening text, an empty bottle of heparin, a sick dog, and missing property all lead Christina and the police chief of Alva, Texas, to conclude that the person they have locked up in Dallas was either working with someone, or another individual is threatening the Sanders family.

As threats escalate, not only toward Christina's family but the residents of Alva, it becomes apparent that there are evil forces, human and spiritual, at work.

When the first explosion rocks the town, the Sanders family and their friends are thrown into a life-and-death situation. As memories...