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Foreward Magazine Review
Emmy Budd and the Hijacked Train. “Tween Detective” Emmy Budd teams up with T.J. Blake in this first installment of a seven volume series. At twelve, Emmy wants T.J. to notice her cute pigtails although she dreads eliciting his worst insult: “FEMALE.” For Emmy, T.J. represents Tom Sawyer, a boy who can fill carefree summer days with adventure and excitement. Like Tom and Huck, T. J. and Emmy build a raft: “We were the African Queen, the first white settlers in hostile Indian territory, Tarzan and Jane, Robinson Crusoe and Friday.” However, their biggest adventure begins when the pair boards an unguarded luggage car on the daily train from their hometown to Pittsburgh, a city to which the children have never been. This is Emmy’s first train ride, and she reasons that “hoboing” is probably not “too illegal.” However, the escapade literally stops in its tracks when the train is hijacked by three armed-men. While the thieves rob the train’s passengers at gunpoint, T.J. pounds nails into the getaway car’s tires. A violent struggle ensues when the police arrive, and when the two stowaways finally melt into the crowd in their hometown, they realize that revealing what they witnessed would involve divulging their own misdeed. Unfortunately, the children soon learn that only two thieves were captured, and that Officer Craig was stabbed, possibly fatally, by the one who escaped. Only T.J. has seen his face, and he is convinced that if he had not punctured the getaway car’s tires, no one would have been injured. As the manhunt continues, Emmy faces new challenges: she must wear skirts to school this year, and a boy-crazed girlfriend asks “how far” she has gone with T.J. sexually. Emmy resents this abrupt return to the strictures of girlhood, never imagining that her starring role in solving the mystery of the missing thief is about to begin. This novel is set in a halcyon era of stay-at-home moms and saleswomen who provide custom alterations on the spot. However, characters who pretend to be “the first white settlers in hostile Indian territory” rarely appear in new children’s books. Instead, stories set in the past are infused with a more contemporary consciousness about race; books such as Paula Fox’s The Slave Dancer and characters in the American Girl books regularly confront racism and render it unpalatable. However, Emmy’s rebellion against femininity will still ring true for many young readers, and T.J.’s single working mom provides a positive example of life as many children know it. Rapidly following Emmy’s just-published second adventure, Don’t Look Now, The Real Dog is Harry comes out in December, 2010. A prolific novelist and playwright, Jean Blasiar won the 2010 Woman of the Year Award from the Women- in-Theatre organization for her distinguished contributions to her craft. (April 2008) Elizabeth Breau Review date: August 2010.
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The Lighthouse Society by Jerry Graffam - "In this promising debut novel by Jerry Graffam, the dark side of Maine shines through - not vacation land at all, but a place of sinister plots and chilling secrets.”
Tess Gerritsen - New York Times Bestselling author of The Bone Garden, Harvest, and the Rizzoli & Isles series of novels.
Parodies of the Fall by Thomas Grissom - "Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor grills the silent Christ in a prison in Seville. Camus, in The Fall, ensnares the reader in a web of second guesses which is shared with his guiltstricken lawyer Clamence. In Parodies of the Fall, Thomas Grissom extends this tradition of painful confession and tragedy. His courteous and rather stuffy narrator invites his nightly guest to take a seat and have a drink with him in a bar somewhere in the American southwest. The mountain air is crisp at dusk, and the view of the setting sun seems to loosen the host’s tongue. But like his masters, Dostoevsky and Camus, Grissom muzzles the guest, gently forcing him to hear his narrator’s story. It’s the tale, told as monologue, of a brilliant young idealist who becomes a prominent scientist in one of the government’s nuclear weapons laboratories. The reader soon finds himself sitting silent in the guest’s chair night after night, by turns in awe of the moral courage of a man who said No! to the criminal enterprise of the nuclear weapons state, exasperated at his stand-pat resignation in the face of relentless media reports of mass human suffering, and, not least, marveling at his rebirth. Parodies of the Fall cuts deep. Its ironies are unclever, for all they do is expose the reader’s numbness at the imminent threat of man-made annihilation."
David Marr - Member of the Faculty Emeritus in the Humanities The Evergreen State College
867-5309 Jenny by Alex Call - "Alex drives his story straight through the heart of rock & roll."
Huey Lewis - Huey Lewis and the News
The Lighthouse Society by Jerry Graffam - "Tightly written and fast paced, Graffam captures the sense of mystery that often surrounds the dark waters of the Maine coast. And don't mind that shadowy figure by the lighthouse. It's probably nothing. Probably."
Angus King - US Senator - Maine
marvel x dc = jonathan womack
martian avengers, a super cheyenne dog soldier and an out-of-body superman
RAM I AM is an exceptionally gripping and imaginative science fiction novel in the tradition of the great A. E. van Vogt. The author Jonathan Womack is a life-long investigator and practitioner of out-of-body OOB experiences. The hero in this great adventure has found a way to take major steps beyond the mental travels described by Robert Monroe in his acclaimed autobiography, Journeys out of the Body. It also builds on the the latest ideas in Quantum physics, and two decades of psychic exploration pursued by the CIA in its operational Star Gate program, which I co-founded. Read this thrilling novel, and you won’t be disappointed.
-Russell Targ, laser physicist and pioneering ESP researcher, (The Reality of ESP).
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Driving cross-country in the same manner as his band tour days with Clover, with his guitar and amplifier in the trunk, Alex Call performed 25 book concerts at Barnes and Noble stores, and the major record stores in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and points in between. Playing solo versions of hits such as The Power of Love and Jenny 867-5309, Alex entertained fans and signed copies of his book.
great escape
Born and raised in the USA by his First-Nation mother and an Arab Christian father, Darius Radmanesh and his family moved from the USA to Iran a year before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Dar tells the harrowing story of excruciating experiences endured by his family under a brutal regime.
The fall
Grissom discusses his moral quandries and attitude adjustments while working in nuclear weapons research for the Military Industrial Complex.
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