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"Dark and Violent, Night of the Furies showcases a talented new voice."-Dave Zeltserman, author of The Caretaker of Lorne FieldIn the late 1930s, Rico DiGiacomo ruled all of East Boston until he was brutally murdered by his own lieutenant, Bricks Mancini. That night, Rico's son Giorgio overheard the details as they were reported to the one who ordered it: Rico's wife. Giorgio vowed to avenge his father, no matter how long it took.Now, thirty years later, Giorgio has finally fulfilled that promise. As Mancini's bodyguards pursue him into biker bars and sleazy motels like a pack of vengeful demons, Giorgio recalls a life of humiliation at his mother's hands and the wisdom his father passed on to him. What he doesn't know is that Fate has still more in store for him, and one night can be very long indeed."Taylor delivers a revenge tragedy that reads like a dime novel by Sophocles, at once epic and compact. It's violent, operatic pulp. Badass and bloody good."-Jedidiah Ayres, author of Peckerwood"If Jim Thompson wrote about Boston's mean old days, then you'd have an inkling of the sheer quality of writing and gut-clenching darkness that J.M. Taylor provides in Night of the Furies. An outstanding debut."-Todd Robinson, author of The Big Bounce"[Night of the Furies] is a more than a noir novel. It's a sizzling epic span- ning generations, written by a writer at the top of his game. Scary thing is, you get the sense that Taylor is writing from personal experience." -Vincent Zandri, bestselling author of Murder by Moonlight

Richard Lambert ... the former FBI lead investigator on the anthrax investigation, says the bureau has tried "to railroad the prosecution of Ivins" and that "a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence" regarding Dr. Ivins remains secret.Congressman Rush Holt ... There were no fingerprints, no witness accounts, no physical evidence linking Ivins to the incident. We need a blue-ribbon commission to review the anthrax attack and the FBI's flawed investigation.Senator Patrick Leahy (one of the two Senate targets of the attack) ... does not believe the FBI's case against Ivins.Senator Chuck Grassley ... "There are no more excuses for avoiding an independent review and assessment of how the FBI handled its investigation in the anthrax case.Senator Arlen Specter ... the FBI they could never have obtained a conviction against Ivins in court based on the case they have made public.Does fiction sometimes foretell reality? It certainly seems that way in Lewis M. Weinstein's fictionalized story of an anthrax scare ... a thriller that seems to track closely with real-life events, even as they unfold today. This updated edition of Case Closed follows Weinstein's passion for seeing the truth come out in the FBI's handling of the Amerithrax Case.

At 66 years old, Martha Browne, daughter of a snake handling preacher gone missing, is desperate to find love before her time runs out. Her latest prospect, 43-year-old Arthur Endicott, the new priest at her adopted Episcopal Church, shows great promise, though unbeknownst to her, he's been banished to Amity for engaging in unseemly behavior in a gay cruising park in the city. As Arthur tries to redeem himself and reconstruct his destroyed life, he must contend with narcissistic Martha, who challenges him at every turn. Along the way, he and the other citizens of small-town Amity, Kentucky, seek love for themselves. In this Altman-esque tale told from multiple points of view, a large cast creates an interwoven tapestry wherein each character carries a part of the whole story. The full picture comes into focus in a climax of murder, mayhem, and a little bit of magic.

"These stand-alone stories will both amuse and amaze," says literary maven Hollis George.When he's not making music, Blues Hall of Famer Jersey Slim (A/K/A George Cook) writes world-class short stories, songs, and poetry. This imaginative collection of 8 short stories take you inside a very special world where you'll follow Tommy T. as he seeks to cover his body in tattoos, meet partakers of an elixir known as D-5, watch some cons pull off the Murphy, and share a cell with Butch and Tommy.

Everyone faces grief at one point or another in her or his life. But how to handle it? Here, Elissa Bishop-Becker draws on her own experience to help others with an effective approach known as Transformative Bereavement. Walking the reader through the four stages -- Loss, Return, Reconnection, and Creation -- she draws on stories from her clients, friends, and contacts to explain the process of recovery from grief. ""The Grief Spiral changed the way I think about bereavement. As a professor in the College of William & Mary counseling program, I would recommend this book to all of my students as a supplementary text and to all my friends as a guide to dealing with life's many changes. It is full of wisdom and experience, a must for anyone who is alive!"" -Prof. Charles F. Gressard, Ph.D., Chair Emeritus of the National Board for Certified Counselors

An amazing collection of short stories from Key West writer and musician Hal Howland, you will encounter several popular characters from Howland's previous titles and introduces a world of unforgettable newcomers. The first of two title stories reminisces about a lifetime spent living in and visiting great cities around the globe. And the second title story remembers the women with whom a man came of age, if not into maturity. Also you will find "Evidence," where a middle-aged actor remembers two former girlfriends, opposites in every way, who presumably still own photographs of him naked. "The Grand Tour" follows a small-time nineteen seventies crooner and his disparate bandmates on a hilarious American road trip. "Jocelyn Davies" tells of a lovelorn singer whose sexual awakening dissolves a stalled relationship. "Piano Trio" describes a noisy sex romp taking place upstairs in an old woman's guesthouse. And "The Mansfield Effect" recalls a comic one-night stand with an over-endowed drama student. More than 30 stories in all.

"My old colleague Bill Burkett always knew how to spin a word just right or turn a lovely phrase. And he does that here with an outstanding collection of short stories that take you inside his world as a journalist, hunter, and literary adventurer."- Hollis George, critic and bibliophile"Immolation of someone else's diary was not how I had planned to start my day - it was a mean grey old morning, but I didn't know then that was what to call it ..." From surveillance of a yellow convertible in South Carolina to conversation with a streetwalker on Sunset Boulevard to a visit to Hemingway's grave in Idaho, the writer builds a mural of life in the last half of the twentieth century.

As custodian of a very thick and very old loose-leaf notebook called "The Bowmar Book," Bill Mead and his brother traced the family history back to 1635. But in all of that lineage, the one who stood out most was their grandfather Herman Bowmar -- known as Moo. Here, Bill takes Moo's story, the life of "a good man."

Maggie Malone is a first-class painter who just graduated from art school. But every time she gets a foot in the door in the gallery scene in New York City something goes wrong. She can't figure out if this is normal or if she is actually being targeted by unseen forces. On a tip from a fellow artist, she goes to Fleetwater, a small, thriving artist colony on Long Island. Taken up by gallery owner, Arthur Cotillion, Maggie is finally getting the accolades she deserves. The big shows and big-ticket sales are finally happening. So, what's wrong? And for that matter, what's wrong with the inhabitants of Fleetwater and why are people trying to kill Maggie Malone? The thing is: when someone sends you a gift horse, of course you don't want to turn it down, no matter what the history books say.

From Acrophobia to Oratorio to Public Sex, the themes found in Hal Howland's collection of short stories are eclectic. What do you do when your CIA dad disappears is the question posed in "Dad Fakes His Death and Goes West." The island paradise of Key West gets a new sexual awakening in "The Southernmost Erection." The frustrations of loving a 19-year-old beauty are explored in "The Younger Woman's Wordplay." And international intrigues come to the forefront in the novella "After Jerusalem." Also, folded in among several other stories is the dazzling title piece about one Ike Ireton of Radius Records, "The Jazz Buyer."