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The exciting conclusion of the Philosophical Detective Trilogy: The Philosophical Detective's Last Case The fabulist and detective who calls himself Jorge Luis Borges returns to New England for three final adventures, as recollected by his assistant Nick Martin almost fifty years later. Struggling with cognitive issues of his own, Nick recounts Borges's encounter with the conundrums of memory and identity in the amnesia ward of a Boston hospit...

You can get out of jail, but you never get out of parole."Kenny Ruffin, a former gang leader serving hard time in San Quentin, looks forward to his release so he can get his life back and meet his teenage son for the first time. His destiny becomes entangled with that of a redneck career criminal called Cat McGrath when the two of them are sent back to L.A. on the same bus. McGrath warns Ruffin that the gangs will never allow him back on the s...

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Peter Cloud lost his partnership in a top law firm and his license to practice thanks to the machinations of Neil Babylon, its senior partner. When Babylon is murdered, Cloud is the prime suspect. To save his skin he must find the real killer, which means taking on the law firm, the police, the Mafia, a psychopathic skinhead and the large contingent of people who wanted to see Babylon dead. Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead is a lively, funny a...

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An ancient ring stolen from a Holocaust victim. A stuffed raven that once belonged to Charles Dickens. An extra body in the New York City Morgue. Only one man could follow these clues to a solution: the legendary Jorge Luis Borges."... highly recommended for classic detective story enthusiasts who look for complexity and intellectual challenges in their characters and stories." - Midwest Book ReviewTwo years after their collaboration chronicle...

It's way past 1984. Your toothbrush, your coffee pot and your Rice Krispies are running your life. And you can't access your screen unless you declare: I AM NOT A ROBOT !Welcome to Google Earth(R), a dystopia where the all-knowing and all-powerful force of Big Data rules humanity through the Internet of Things and the corporate power of Google Inc.Where English(R) and every possible combination of words has been copyrighted and the only law is...

A quirky comedy about a dysfunctional family in a dysfunctional society... Have you ever wondered why life seems so complicated, so exhausting, so fattening, and yet so pointless and idiotic? It's all part of the Potlatch. To Alice Coggins, the 24-year-old daughter of a South Philadelphia scam artist, everything looks like a racket: endless serflike internships, student loans that can never be repaid, high-minded charities run by swindlers for...

A riveting story that hinges on clues so elusive that the tension is exquisitely drawn." -- Midwest Book Review Disillusioned with her corporate legal career, attorney Charlotte Ambler volunteers to handle the final appeal of Christopher Ritter, a Florida death row inmate whose execution is imminent. Ritter had been a prominent biologist before being convicted ten years earlier for the brutal murder of a prostitute. He denies killing the woman...

A RANDOM ACT OF CHAOS... Spencer Casey is a 20-year-old high school dropout who works in a failing puzzle factory in Philadelphia, chopping up Masterpieces of Western Art into jigsaw puzzles. He is tired of being an effect instead of a cause. On the night before the factory is to close, inspired by the image of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, he scrambles the pieces of a puzzle called "Chaos Scape 19" and sends his own ripples of chao...

Discover a Radical New Way to Bring Jesus to the WorkplaceJesus & Co. presents a radically different way to bring Jesus and the Gospels to our work lives. Learn how to not only survive, but thrive while swimming with sharks that surround us each day in the workplace. A very hopeful and encouraging book written by a former Fortune 500 "C" level executive who completed seven years of theological education to receive a Doctorate degree in Ministr...

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