The analyses and literary portraits in this text elucidate the existing realities of Japan's postwar history. They address, in chronological fashion, major social, environmental, and feminist issues and conflicts that have attended to Japan's postwar economic miracle.

Santa Claus has treated many of the Moores kindly. He inspired Clement Clark Moore into writing one of the most beloved poems in literary history. And now he has asked Joe Moore to write his memoirs about several families who have visited him, the North Pole and its people. 328 pp.

It's all true - the gifts, the reindeer, the elves, the North Pole Village, all of it. It all began in the late 1700's while Kristopher Kringle was delivering presents to children in Europe as his ancestors had done for centuries. Suddenly, he is visited by a rather strange delegation of people of short stature. They weave tales of how they also make toys and deliver them to children, and how they live in a magical place at the top of the world. These folk invite Kris and his wife, Ann Marie for a visit to their highly evolved village. Both Kris and Annie are inclined to doubt these strange...

This changes everything. Rarely will a novel completely change a legend in its time, but that is exactly what Glaciers Melt & Mountains Smoke does. The North Pole is melting. And not from global warming as originally suspected, but from a polar shift which is causing the North and South Poles to trade places. While it will take some 10,000 years to completely change, it is effecting the polar ice in the north now. Santa and the North Pole Village now face becoming the next Atlantis and disappearing into the sea. Somehow the residents and animals of the polar ice cap must relocate before...

OSI special agent Maxine Decker is back in this riveting follow-up to THE BLADE. She is called upon to locate and recover a mysterious artifact stolen from a blacker-than-black government facility. The missing item is a fragment that was found at the crash site of the Roswell UFO incident in 1947. Following the trail, Maxine discovers a sinister plot to use the technological data stored in the artifact to build a device called the Shield. The result will bring the United States and its allies to their knees without ever firing a shot. She soon shifts from being the hunter to the hunted as she...

While investigating the theft of a 4000-year-old biblical artifact, an OSI special agent finds herself confronted with an international fugitive who threatens to destroy Las Vegas with a nuclear device if a multi-million-dollar ransom from the casinos is not paid. Advance praise for THE BLADE: "Sholes & Moore are at the top of their game in this dark, chilling cat-and-mouse race to stop an unimaginable act of terrorism. THE BLADE is full-throttle thriller writing." -- David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of MURDER AS A FINE ART. "Completely kept me guessing. THE BLADE delivers a...

Retired OSI special agent Maxine Decker returns in THE TOMB, her most dangerous mission to date: prevent the assassination of a Supreme Court justice. After capturing the world's most wanted drug lord, Maxine comes across a photo of an object recently found in the Colorado River, an object tied to a WWII plot to send a submarine up the Colorado and destroy the Hoover Dam. Identifying the object as an earthquake machine based on the turn-of-the-century design of Nikola Tesla, Max soon becomes the target of two groups: the designer of a modern version of the device and the Mexican cartel bent...