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|  | | Blind Man and the Bimbo
Blind Huntington-Beach detective finds a missing woman
With smell, taste, and sound remaining to guide him, the explosion that strands Paul Anders in a world of silhouette and shadow isn't about to keep him from his twin passions of women and the two-step.
Donna Clark has short hair, slim hips, and a mouth that tastes like peaches. "She says I'm a great dancer, not I dance great for a blind man." But when Paul shows up at her door, the only one home is her thirteen-year old son Tim, all arms and legs and the common sense of a month-old spaniel.
As Paul tries to track down the boy's mother, threats come at him from ever | |  | | I Love You Maggie
a love story set against the backdrop of the integration movement in New Orleans in 1961
John Kennedy was President when five young men, one of them white, sat in at a New Orleans lunch counter. The same five sat in at the Tulane University cafeteria three months later. The University didn't change its "whites only" policy, nor did Woolworth's, but in May 1961, the Parish School Board announced they would open the Orleans public school system "a grade at a time" to children of all races.
Wood came to New Orleans on his motorcycle looking for adventure. The first night, he crashed a hotel wedding reception, hustled a Bourbon Street strip joint, was sw | |  | | In Search of Aimai Cristen
Father and daughter reconcile
She comes of age in the 21st century
He came of age during the Summer of Love.
A year ago, Diana decided to return home, get a teaching credential, and work with kids as mixed up as herself. Going through the boxes in the garage, the stuff her family had been lugging around for as long as she could remember, she found a record of another dropout from another generation. Her father's Berkeley Barb articles were in those boxes, along with some short-story attempts, and the responses to Aimai Cristen's ad in the Barb's personal column. She wanted to discuss them. Her professor father was reluctant, afraid where their discussions might lead.
" Young attractiv | |  | | My War
Canadian pilot oversomes anti-semitism and anti-colonialism in Second World War action at Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, and the Channel Islands.
From 1939 to 1945, Squadron Leader Peter Freygood overcomes anti-Semitism, anti-colonialism, innumerable encounters with the enemy, and the normal problems associated with coming of age. Book 1 describes his training as a navigator, mechanic and pilot, his first encounters with the opposite sex, the initial raids on Germany, and the escape of the Allied armies from Dunkirk. In Book II, a crash landing off the Isle of Guernsey leaves the protagonist with amnesia. He meets the girls he will later marry, recovers his memory and returns to England to help in the Battle of Britain. In Book III, | |  | | Relationships
Thirteen short stories about all aspects of relationships from the first meeting to breaking up
Three homeless women go to a dance, a young girl meets a silkie, and a new divorcee joins the Flying Dutchman on the back of his motorcycle in this set of 13 stimulating short stories about relationships, meeting people, one-night stands, romance, dancing, unusual bedfellows, corporate life, love among the homeless, and breaking up,
| |  | | Sad and Angry Man
Story of racial relations set in a small college in the south. Contemporary.
Divorce and the loss of his job have left Peter at the mercy of a series of psychologists. Teaching at an all-black college in the deep South promises a new beginning. Within hours after pulling off the Interstate, Pete has an apartment, an answering service, and a new girl friend, Peri Mattox.
But the presence of so many blacks makes him nervous. The woman whose job hes taking hasn't left yet and doesn't plan to. Senior faculty resent his existence. And his cover-your-ass boss makes it clear it's to be sink or swim.
Peter agonizes over his relationship with Peri. They | |  | | Side Out For Murder
Death halts a beach-volleyball tournament.
A beautiful day at the beach, and a women's professional volleyball tournament ends with the death of Barbara Dahl the tournament favorite. Fortunately, I have a list of suspects:
--JoAnne Greene, a media personality. JoAnne's female house guests don't approve of me.br />
--Erica Mueller, Barbara's opponent in that final match.br />
--Diana Purdy, the umpire, very attractive and very married. br />
--Sara Newcombe, Erica's partner in the tournament.br />
--Dee-Dee Williams, a | |  | | Soccer Moms
One of the soccer moms was a murderer and two of the soccer moms were already dead. Private detective Phyllis Ludwigsohn not only has a team of sixteen ten-year olds to coach, but two cases to solve plus a full time job. A friend with Asperger' syndrome may or may not prove the ideal helper.
One of the soccer moms was a murderer and two of the soccer moms were already dead. Private detective Phyllis Ludwigsohn not only has a team of sixteen ten-year olds to coach, but two cases to solve plus a full time job. A friend with Asperger' syndrome may or may not prove the ideal helper. | |  | | The Canyon
The Canyon
Luke Jackson (pseud)
western, Arizona Territory, 1842
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div>font size="2" face="Verdana">Accompanied by Champion, his faithful Morgan, Reuben Lee had followed the trail from Louisiana to Santa Fe trusting and being betrayed at each step along the way. The trail led him west into the Arizona Territory and he followed it, not to get somewhere, but to get away. Looking for the lost "Source of All the Waters," he stumbled upon the Grand Canyon. At |
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Zara's Bois
by Gracie McKeever
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 When the powers-that-be make the decision to return a selfish party-girl, Zara, to Earth on three missions of redemption, can romance and mayhem be far behind? One hot and trendy gay nightclub, two bickering angels and three unlikely pairs add up to |
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Look Away Silence
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