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Fortuna at the Rudder
The Curious Adventures of Gaius Obsequens Dolo, Tribune on the Rhine
The rollicking story of a game but inept tribune in the Late Roman Army. Follow Gaius's adventures as he peculates, schemes and tries his best to get out of the army, all the while unwillingly acting as a secret agent for a schemer at the Imperial Court. A comic novel set during the Decline of Rome!
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Available as an e-book, in paperback and hardback.
Looking for Lafitte
Marine archaeologist Marlie Keeler is on the hunt for a shipwreck of the pirate Jean Lafitte. Improbably, she soon finds herself involved with difficult local artist Jack Gamble (a descendant of the pirate), all the while trying to thwart the plans of a menacing developer and his cronies intent on stealing her discoveries to establish a tawdry theme park. Can she stop them? Can she and Jack make their unlikely relationship work? A mix of romance, adventure, humor, art criticism and scuba diving!
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Available as an e-book, in paperback and hardback.
Plan 9 for Murder
English professor Annie Sinclair gives a lecture on document authentication at a UFO conference. What could go wrong? Murder, for one thing. Annie and her music professor husband Charles (and their dog Asta) are drawn into a web of murder, secret documents, UFO enthusiasts, a mysterious government operative, some amateur burglary and a trip to Las Vegas’s fake Venice.
This second edition of Plan 9 for Murder has a bonus at the end, the short story “Meeting with Murder,” which tells how Annie and Charles met. After that, there’s a reprint of “The Dripping Talon,” the pulp detective story that—entirely unexpectedly—got Annie involved in Plan 9 for Murder. Readers will particularly appreciate Annie’s annotations on the text and her commentary—in her own handwriting!
A Little Like Kudzu
by Vivian Scott
Chicago architect Claire McKenna travels to Charleston, South Carolina to restore an antebellum mansion. Her plans are complicated by Stede Torrance, an elegant art dealer with a decaying plantation, a raffish little brother and secrets. Will her relationship with him lead to love or to trouble?
Cento Sonetti
piuttosto zozzetti
di Goffredo Rosati
A collection of sonnets in the Roman dialect of Italian, these poems are ironic, satirical, vivid and risqué. As one Italian reader has written:
"Cento sonetti licenziosi, anzi 107, scritti in dialetto romanesco, ormai un po' datato, da un grande letterato. Per mezzo dell'organo di Priapo vengono aperte tutte le porte e si penetra nel core (hard) dell'animo umano. Forse un pizzico maschilista, ma solo in superficie. Perbenisti, ipocriti, bigotti, alla larga! Warning: può nuocere gravemente alla pruderie."