Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Satire

To casual tourists, armchair travellers, and naive investors, the undercurrents of many foreign countries are invisible. And so it was in the case of this African mining venture.

Corrupt leaders, crooked law officers, guerrillas, unscrupulous financiers, deception, and farce all lie as far below the surface as the mine's ore. And even there lie surprises.

An unscrupulous overseas financier runs into technical problems with the development of a secluded mine. To solve them he hires a brilliant engineer with a questionable past. One surprise after another lead to the engineer's...

The world's wackiest gardening manual returns

"Gloria's gardening will never be the same " -- Endorsement of the original 1988 edition by KENNETH WAPNICK, Ph.D., editor of A Course in Miracles

"I love your book, and have been spreading it around. Keep up the gardening " -- MARIANNE WILLIAMSON,
author of A Return to Love

"I'm sure wherever it goes, this book will continue to plant seeds. He who has two good ears to hear, let him hear "
-- GARY RENARD, author of the Disappearance of the Universe trilogy

Mysteriously...

Kansas City, 1965 -- Y.T. Erp, Jr. can't wait to leave for college at the University of California, Berkeley to escape not only the work, but especially all the phlegm-brained idiots at his father's aerospace company. Leaving behind a pregnant auburn-haired cheerleader, a sensuous red-headed siren plotting to usurp his familial ties, and his two best friends -- one who ends up in Vietnam and the other in the Weather Underground -- his "trip" on the wild side of the Generation Gap takes him from the psychedelic scene of Haight-Ashbury to the F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted list. Meanwhile his...

It has been 105 years since writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name "Mark Twain," took his final breath.

But, nearly identical in appearance, personality, and authentic dress, you would think he was sitting in Tom's living room today-a traveler brought here through some freak accident involving time and space.

You see, Tom has managed to inherit a most unusual houseguest. Not a doting relative or an old friend but a stranger who claims to be Mark Twain himself-a man who looks and acts the part, down to his dry wit and dramatic panache. One whom Tom knows...