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Is Goonie's Ghost a study in psychology? A look into anti-war activity? A love story? Yes to all three questions. The time is 1967 and Carl Steadman has returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam.Carl accompanies Rick Chappie, Pam Baker and Angie Boatwright to an antiwar rally in San Francisco. In San Francisco, Morton and Molly provide food and salacious shelter to the group.The next day the group participates in one of the largest anti-war rallies ever. Angie's daylong biting remarks disappear after a few drinks. She and Carl make love in one of the unused after march party bedrooms.Later Carl tells Angie about his experience in Vietnam, especially about the massacre at My Trang and Goonie's death.

Action, adventure, mystery are all part of Peter Monocot and the Sea Devils. The action comes from building and flying model airplanes. The adventure comes from building the biggest model airplanes Peter has ever built. The mystery comes from the nefarious plan of a band of terrorists. Peter Monocot is a 12-year-old whose military pilot father taught him how to build model airplanes. His father's death in an Air Force jet crash left Peter's Uncle Jim as the "man of the family," although Peter's mother, Estelle, wields the real power in the household. Peter and his uncle find themselves entangled in the plot that has layers of intrigue and mystery, which they cannot untangle. All they know is that they will be well paid for building and flying two model airplanes.Amazon Expert Reviewer comments: The plot is interesting and could really grab the attention of the young reader. Peter is a sympathetic character and is a likable kid.This novel has potential as an exciting and thrilling book for the young reader.One of the stronger aspects of the excerpts was the details. I could clearly see Jassim and Hammer, see uncle Jim's face and Peter's unease.Overall I think adventurous young adults will like the novel. It was strong in the details of the plane, and had enough details to paint the picture of the scenery and characters.

Jack Rhodes leads his payroll detail back from Reno, Nevada to the small town of Susanville, California. The time is 1864. The Civil War in the East is as bloody as ever.The detail is nearly wiped out as they near the town of Janesville. Jack Rhodes is the only one left and the killers take him and the gold leaving the bodies of the fallen where they lay.Five years later Jack Rhodes' mother Belle Jean Rhodes hires Peter Dawes to find out what happened to her son and clear her name in the process.

Denise Parker is a successful advertising executive. She has a Porsche, a stock portfolio and an apartment in one of the safe neighborhoods in San Francisco. If it weren't for a recurring nightmare she would look forward to an even better situation. The nightmare leads her to a past lives therapist, a cult leader, an ex-boyfriend and other characters who appear in her past lives. What it all means and who "Algapesh" is requires all of the novel to unravel this psychological Gordian knot.

Two ships. Two captains. One part of a desire to conquer the world. The other with a desire to conquer himself. When the captains and their ships meet it will be a duel at sea of monumental proportions. A female spy has the ability to change the course of the duel between the ships. Which captain will she favor?A bleak, rocky island named Kerguelen will see the emergence of one captain as the victor and the other as his prisoner.

After the terrible experience of surviving the sinking of the ship Pequod, Ishmael goes to sea again in search of Moby Dick.He is Chief Mate aboard Pilgrim, captained by a man who is terrified of small boats and will not emulate Captain Ahab in sinking a harpoon iron into the white whale.Through calms and storms, Ishmael welds the crew into a formidable weapon against what he comes to see as not only an implacable foe but one that may not deserve the fate that he has been tasked to give it.Ishmael finds love from an unusual revelation aboard the ship that also makes the voyage one of intrigue and treachery as well as emotionally fulfilling for this man who has been named after the Biblical son of Abraham.

Jess and his sons Mark and Paul are at war with the people who live in the valley below their cabin. Abner is the leader of the neophytes and is as bent on ruling the valley as Jess is. Abner's friend Caleb is the shaman of the people. Caleb's daughter Ruth is fair skinned and the object of Mark's desire.Abner has a dream in which he sees himself building a machine that will be able to destroy the cabin. He commands the men he leads to build the machine.Abner's machine hurls stones at the cabin as Jess fires bullets as the men who work the machine. Many of them are killed but those who are left persevere.Mark is discovered in the valley and he fears for his life. Abner recruits him to help with the machine as they continue to throw stones at the cabin.As the battle between Abner's forces and Jess and Paul rages, Mark is able to accompany Ruth to try to escape the utter destruction that he thinks has to be the end result of the battle.

Jim Miller arrived at Herlong when he was twelve years old. Jim, his brother Davey, mother and new stepfather moved to the high desert town in northern California in the early summer of 1946. It was hot and dry and a place that Jim hated from the moment they arrived in their very old and tired 1934 Ford sedan. Unlike San Francisco, Dayton, Ohio, and other cities Jim had known, Herlong was a small town filled mostly with people who came from all over the United States to work there during and after World War Two. Herlong Elementary with its eight grades soon became the focus of Jim's early life. At his age girls were important competitors but three boys became his best friends. Steve Whiting, Billy Jewel, Howard Soars and Jim, nicknamed "Brain" for his yearly achievement test scores, hung around together through elementary school, high school and summer vacation work, forging tight emotional bonds that would later become a limiting force in Jim's life. Herlong had no high school so students were bused to Susanville to attend Lassen Union High. Jim excelled in his classes at Lassen while his friends accepted mediocre grades and could hardly wait to get out of school and enter the work force at Sierra Ordnance Depot, the reason for Herlong's existence.After a semester at the University of Santa Clara and a wild Christmas vacation Jim realized that he had to leave Herlong so that his life would mean more than a dead-end job in a dead-end town.

Peter Dawes continues the search for Jack Rhodes by taking stagecoach and steamboat to San Francisco where Rhodes was shanghaied. Even before Dawes returns to San Francisco, Rhodes experiences a shipwreck and rescue by a very literate and murderous captain who commands the Arkadia, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of opium for Oyster Mike, known as an oyster pirate but in reality the man who controls the vice payoffs in the Barbary Coast.One danger that Dawes is unaware of is that the brother of the half-breed he killed in Susanville has returned to the frontier town. When Tug finds out that Dawes killed his brother he sets out for revenge.Dawes uses his skills as a confidential investigator to ferret out information about what happened to Jack Rhodes. In the meantime he is approached by various other San Franciscans, including the notorious Captain Breen, to embark on investigations that are intertwined with his search for Rhodes.Dawes ultimately finds Rhodes and helps him to escape the Arkadia. As Dawes, Rhodes and a policeman enter the New Bella Union, owned by an acquaintance of Rhodes, the Arkadia's crew, Oyster Mike and his men, and Captain Breen converge on the New Bella Union.Tug is gambling at one of the tables in the New Bella Union, but he is unaware that Dawes has entered the establishment.

An original Merry Widow doll, an illegal enterprise, a policewoman and two murders. Will all these threads come together to form a solution?

Eighteen stories to entertain and enlighten.Rider, a rousing tale of a two-wheeler in the dead of winter.The Princess and the Knight, marriage at its best.One Last Chance, a look at compulsive gambling.The Saga of Doggie Zimmerman, an old sea dog who doesn't give a damn.Heartbreaker, a mother has to give up her child.One for my Master, night shift on a rice ship.Casey's Fort Zinderneuf, life mimics art.Columbia Dig, solving an archeological mystery.The Ordeal of Jane Manning, survival at all costs.Raney, occult powers that reshape reality.Kirby, a vacuum cleaner salesman who makes a strange sale.Fighter, jealousy in a high-powered jet airplane.Force of Habit, an almost perfect murder.The Water, a space odyssey with a twist.Kenny's Jump, more courage than good sense.Coming White, conquering an unreasonable fear.The Deadbeat, a strange kind of revenge.Jack Be Quick, the peril of being a published writer.