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Stephen Elder
Newspaper columnist, author, blogger, cabinetmaker, home inspector, and Certified Old Guy Stephen Elder holds forth on a wide range of topics: education in America, worries about English, rants on Congress…
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A fascinating look at the world through the eyes of various beings. Angels, Love, & Crows has something for everyone, from humorous short stories about creatures, to science fiction, romance…
A look at life through the eyes of Grift and Graft, corvine students of mankind. The Crow Chronicles describes how two crows move from the open countryside into town. The…
Enginewitch is a diatribe masked as a sci-fi novel. It is based on current events that add new fodder daily (and much faster than can be digested). The Enginewitch is…
"Rhymes For Our Times" is a collection of poems (including some that actually rhyme) ranging from prayer for professions to last thoughts of a dying insect, published and unpublished song…
The narrator of The Edenite Case is Ellit2, a detective in the Galactic Union's Division 51. Cephs are loners by temperament. When Ellit2 is assigned a partner, a human no…
College student Sandra Neuermann is abducted and brutally assaulted. She escapes her captors, but cannot escape the depression that follows. An alert counselor figures out what she needs: revenge! He…
At the end of Frank, Saint Francis was released from his centuries-long emissary duty to marry Elaine Azerian, a small-town veterinarian. In The Shining Man’s Wife, the saint is recalled…
Senior citizen Jordan Smith loses his wife to cancer. Devastated and angry, he hunts down the HMO executive who denied their medical claims, but then progresses from revenge to political…
Ye Gods! 1. exclamation of surprise 2. collection of short stories ranging from dark whimsy to scathing satire. Warning: this collection contains occasional wry humor, biting political commentary, social criticism…
County detective Simone Fitzhugh discovers a series of seemingly unrelated deaths that look like heart attacks but are found to be murders. Her husband, retired detective Michael Demidov, realizes the…
Swan Song is the companion volume to Stephen Elder's first collection of essays (Little Book of Essays) published in 2012. Topics range from political satire ("Hurricane Isaac and the Republicans")…
Stephen Elder's first collection of short stories was entitled Ye Gods! because it had several stories involving deities. Ye Gods!2 has only one such tale. Instead, this second collection offers…
When a stranger named Frank shows up at a small housing development, everything seems to take a turn for the better. The new head carpenter soon gains the respect and…
The Shining Man and his wife return on another mission. When Filiae Mundi, a wealthy but secretive organization, nominates Elaine to its governing Council, Frank and Elaine go to Washington…
Stephen M Andres
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
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Stephen F Rutz
Meeting the Needs of the Elder Population: Atlas Planning Manual, explores "counties" and "cities" we may visit in our last life-journey. Whenever this "journey" begins, its success depends on the…
Stephen F Rutz, Sr
Meeting the Needs of the Elder Population: Atlas Planning Manual, explores counties and cities we may visit in our last life-journey. . Whenever this journey begins, its success depends on…
These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved - a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of…
Stephen Hitchins
This book challenges many of the assumptions about Jheronimus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The academic contest to unravel these two has never abated. What exactly is the meaning…
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Proceedings of the Salton Sea Symposium, held in Desert Hot Springs, California, 13-14 January 2000
Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point…
Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage…
