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|  | | Art and Beauty [crime]
PI novel set in Manhattan during the 1980s when art galleries and model agencies were the two most glamorous businesses in the world. Dangerously well written.
Read Chapter 1 here: https://www.lit4u.com/art-and-beauty-chapter-1/
Literary Titan says, “The fascinating and complex characters are highly entertaining, especially in the well-drawn and alluring backdrop of New York City’s world of glamour and modeling.”
Kindle Edition on Amazon, $5.75 ebook/dp/B0H2FGNX46
(Web-E-Books has shut down... Editor there gave best review so far: "Bruce Deitrick Price puts a new spin on the all-American, sexy, fast-talking detective story by creating a truly fresh crime-fighter personality and placing his original P.I. character, Jon Dak, among movers and shakers in the NYC art and fashion world."
Mensa Bulletin says: “Art and Beauty follows private detective Jon Dak (Call me Dak.) who becomes embroiled in the domestic and business problems of Elaine and Greg Sutton and their teenage son Jason. What starts out as a messy and vindictive divorce proceeding segues into a series of grisly murders. Dak is dragged into a wheels-within-wheels situation that may kill him if he doesn’t solve the murders.”
Art and Beauty answers the question, what would Raymond Chandler have done with Manhattan
Ebook only. 5.95.
NOTE: web-e-books. no longer exists!...Now, Art & Beauty is: Kindle Edition on Amazon, $5.75 ebook/dp/B0H2FGNX46
div>When PI Jon Dak provides security for a chi-chi art opening, he meets Elaine Sutton, the high-strung owner of the prestigious Pinnacle Gallery. Toward the end of the party, husband Greg Sutton swaggers in with his new girlfriend, a supermodel named Cindi. /div>
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div>As the parents squabble, Dak meets the family’s third member, 16-year-old Jason, a cool and bossy young man. For one embarrassing moment, each parent grabs an arm as if they will rip the child apart./div>
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div> A week later Miss Babbage, the elderly owner of a model age | |  | | Big Dog [detective]
Classic tough-guy detective gets way over his head as he takes on the big shots in Virginia Beach. His best hope is to come out alive.
span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;">Big Dog is a sun-fun-and-crime novel set in Virginia Beach, 1971, with the Vietnam War and a hurricane as backdrops. Ben Morgan, a young PI, likes his cases simple, good guys versus bad guys, so he can help the good guys. But there’s a murky, shades-of-gray war dragging on in Vietnam. Societal change is blowing in the wind. Nothing’s simple anymore. Certainly not the cascade of crimes and mysteries he finds himself in./span>span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; | |  | | Frankie
Cover copy: "Experts baffled as many people die in university town. Cause of death: unknown."
Frankie is a look into the future of AI. The smarter the robots, the more likely that strange, unanticipated things will happen.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">Raymond Mason, AI genius, rarely brings his work home. Then late one afternoon he brings his latest, most humanlike creation. Raymond knows his wife will be charmed. No way! Julia Mason feels competitive and threatened. For one thing, Raymond touches Frankie in a romantic way./span>
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"Saving K-12" is a citizen's guide to improving public education. The experts have made everything so murky, the average citizen cannot understand what is occurring in the classrooms.
"Saving K-12" is a great gift for smart people.
Can be ordered on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million.
This book consists of 65 articles divided into 10 thematic categories, for example: reading; math; common core; weird theories and methods; a hundred years of decline; why don't our community leaders lead; how do we fix this mess; and much else.
I believe we can have better schools at less cost.
This is light reading about heavy topics. Parents should read this book. Anybody who wants to improve school and society should read this book. If you personally don't want to read the book, you certainly know someone who will enjoy it. (i>Savi | |  | | The Boy Who Saves The World [sci-fi]
5-star Review on Amazon: "A terrific read about a very disturbing subject!! The book is exciting and interesting and chilling and alarming! A literary ride that is well worth the time and money."
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Aggressive AI invades young boy. Can he save himself? Can he save the rest of us? A smart, lively thriller for intellectuals.
E-book and paperback.)
The story takes place in Silicon Valley over two days circa 2017. Human intrigue and military action flow into each other.
The White House decides to rein in the world's leading AI pioneer. A small-scale military attack on the man's laboratory triggers an unexpected response: the laboratory seems to defend itself intelligently.
In the confusion, an advanced AI prototype figures out how to escape.
MITCH, the AI, was invented by the famous Dr. Newman. He’s paranoid and competitive, and his progeny is the same. Dr. Newman trained M | |  | | The Education Enigma
Subtitle: What Happened To American Education
Lively explanations of why public schools are mediocre.
Published in 2009, this book is a forerunner to "Saving K-12," just published. There is no overlap in material but both try to answer the question: why have our public schools been dumbed down?
The USA is reported to have 50 million functional illiterates. How could this possibly happen? SAT scores continue to decline, despite ever more massive spending. How can this be? To study American education is to be confronted by what Bruce Price calls “the education enigma.” He has written more than 200 articles trying to explain the mysteries of an educational system that never seems truly committed to education. Here he has assembled the best parts from all these essays to create a unique and lively collection of short pieces. Price writes clearly and decisively. He ex | |  | | The Man Who Falls In Love With His Wife
John Franklin thinks he has a perfect marriage until he looks more closely at it.
What would you do for love? What would you give up?/b>
There is a separate question: can a man love his wife too much?/b>
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div>Elizabeth Franklin, a creative director at an ad agency, is a great mother with lots of friends. She’s such a charmer that nobody minds she’s controlling everything. She leaves little notes, “Back at 10. ETCO., Love, Elizabeth.” ETCO as in “Everything Taken Care of.”/div>
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div>John Franklin, a lawyer, thinks he’s got it made, great career, great marriage for | |  | | Too Easy [romantic/erotic thriller]
Kathy decides that she and Robert should be married. In fact, they are a good match. But Robert already has a wife and she decides to defend what is hers.
Too Easy might be described as the ultimate train and plane book. A fast, hot, intense read.
It can't be described in one category because it's simultaneously romance, suspense, erotic thriller, and crime. It's both commercial and literary.
It was published in US, UK, Germany, Holland, France, and Canada. The first big company that saw it (in each country) bought it.
“Erotic intrigue… Too Easy employs a kind of continuous stream of consciousness in a voice that's snappy and macho.”— Book World
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Anomaly - a novel
by John Owens
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 Strange bones found on a storm-swept Florida beach take a couple into the sub-Atlantic base of a secret government lab. Transgenic global preparation is threatening to erupt in the devil's triangle with supernatural forces. |
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