Kirjahaku

What is the value of truth in a world of want? This question is at the heart of a tightly woven plot, full of imagery and intrigue, that builds to the final pages, to the final word, and perhaps to the answer of "truth vs. want" for the reader.The Austrians takes place twelve years after terrorist attacks have turned the United States into "the country that isn't a country anymore" - twelve years after the United Nations has taken over and given to each state a nation to act as its protectorate, with Austria chosen for Georgia.In a backdrop of an extreme America, one where there are no responsibilities, no consequences, a little girl dies a violent death on the streets of Atlanta and a tangled web of wants begin to spiral out of control. A shattered police officer, in the ranks of the corrupt Georgia Austrian Police Force, sees her as a link to his lost past. The flamboyant singer of the rock band Marmot Crowd sees her as a symbol of love whose death must be vindicated. The head of the S Faith religion sees her as his "Angel of Light," sent down to make the prophecies of his S Faith handbook complete.When the truth of the little girl's death is finally revealed, all that is left to question is, "What is the value of this truth?"

A bug, a boy, and a tree come together in a plan of God's to save mankind...and everything goes wrong from the start. Green is the comedy of a three-foot-tall bug who escapes from his cave, a six-year-old boy who can't figure out why animals keep approaching him, and a redwood tree with an odd fan club base - and all the things that should have happened with them...but didn't

Two men come together, with teddy bears in hand, to play and play again the soap-opera game called Teddy Bear Land, one man insane and the other desperately trying to reverse his own spiral toward insanity.Hoganthor ("Hogi") Splash makes, plays with, and talks to his teddy bears (even though teddy bears can't really talk, of course), every night performing the soap-opera game "Teddy Bear Land" in which Hogi's twenty-five bears come together to act out the latest installment of the drama.Matt Cavanaugh and his fianc e have just moved into the new condo building across from Hogi. Matt's exciting new life is about to hit a snag, though, when a telescope given as a gift finds Hogi at the other end of it and Matt's life begins a downward spiral as he becomes obsessed with Hogi's strange behavior. Matt ends up joining Hogi in the madness, hoping the conclusion of the soap-opera game he's been watching all these nights holds the answer to getting his life back.

When two young boys of the same age die from consecutive home runs hit by the same batter, at the same ballpark, a mother dressed in white shows up for the next game, a Bible in one hand and her small son in the other.Strike is a baseball novel of a different kind, focusing on the tragic anomaly of two young boys killed by the same batter's home runs, a mother with her own notion of fulfilling her calling to God and a cast of characters who all in their own ways and life stories seem mysteriously intertwined in everything happening, all leading up to the biggest game ever played in baseball - the entire world watching to see if God will heed the woman's call and reveal himself.