Victorian scholar and adventurer Richard F. Burton is sought by an unlikely team of time hunters. It is 1868 and Captain Richard F. Burton, intrepid secret agent, undefeated swordsmen, fierce intellectual and famed explorer wastes away as the British Counsel to Sao Paulo Brazil, unlikely to advance in the service of the Queen due to the powerful enemies made by his outspoken opinions on colonial misrule... Removing a man of Burton's stature from the historical time-line before his natural death could cause a deadly ripple in Time. Fortunately Burton is known to have disappeared into the wilds...

Many have been the doomsday cults who have wished for a cleansing of Sinful Man from the face of Garden Earth, so that a righteous world might be born anew. Imagine if such a cult found a way to cull humanity in a day? RetroGenesis: And Morning Came is the story of Mankind's final day, due to an audio plague engineered by a genius think tank employee thought to be hiding in his mother's basement with aluminum foil wrapped around his head. This high action thriller follows individuals into a manmade hell on earth: Donna Herford, office manager, Archie Jones, handicapped janitor, Gordon Stamos,...

Robert Slavie is a sixty-year-old librarian, a life-long bachelor, overqualified for his job, with no place to go but home. Other than the possible achievement of his lifetime goal to read 50,000 books before retirement, Robert does not have a lot to look forward to. But one winter morning, a young woman bypasses his female colleague at the front desk and comes directly to him for assistance. When she immediately concocts a pet name for him and schedules another visit, he feels the silent footfall of doom. Is there any way he can survive the web of seduction he is being drawn into? From the...

This is a book about characters, from the outrageously defiant and the interestingly adrift, to the disgusting and the morbidly debased. The Streets Have Eyes is a tale of postmodern urban anti-wonder.

What would an extraterrestrial zoologist do upon first encountering the inhabitants of planet earth? Within this book the reader will find the 18 letters of Regal M-116-S to the Primates of Blue, and one lone missive to the four-legs.

Welcome to Panhandler Nation, otherwise known as the United States of America, the greatest debtor nation in history, ironically home to the most effective beggars imaginable. Thank you Sir, your guilt is appreciated...

What food handling standards are observed in supermarkets? What does 'clean' mean to a supermarket manager? How might your fresh meat be mishandled? How does shoplifting impact the food retailer and you? What types of crimes occur in supermarkets? How exactly are your tax dollars spent by the starving oppressed who receive WIC vouchers, EBT cash, and food credit?

From drug dealers, dopers, slaves, soldiers, and everyday folks who are simply trying to see tomorrow, or wish to live or die with some sense of clarity, these are real people, historical and contemporary, who have adapted to life in the chinks of the soul eating machine we call civilization.

Who really was the Greatest? This one-of-a-kind survey is rounded out with sections on the history of boxing, the history and use of boxing equipment, the social impact of boxing, its morphology as a modern spectacle, including its relationship to MMA, as well as biographies of some of the earliest and most influential gloved boxers.

This troubling memoir chronicles the aggression of ideas that fuels the violence and inequity that engulfs us. The author recounts tales of prejudice and hatred as he retraces his life from innocent boyhood, through a troubled youth and savage adulthood, and into fatalistic middle-age; a life lived within a violent, fractured, self-hating society at war with its own reason for being.