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World at War

David T. Maddox

World at War

[b]For readers who love The Last Jihad by Joel C. Rosenberg [/b]THE STAGE IS SET FOR WAR…Highly orchestrated plans are put into motion to inflict terror across the country. Plans to use America’s trucking and shipping infrastructure to destroy the fabric of our society while involving Russia to neutralize America’s nuclear threat are in full motion. Israel is being attacked even as moderate Arab leaders are assassinated to create a fundamentalist Middle East. If the plan succeeds, America...

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David T. Maddox

The Reactive

Masande Ntshanga

The Reactive

*Winner of The Betty Trask Award (2018)* Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Finalist*Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist *One of the Best Books of the Year 2016 — City Press , The Sunday Times , The Star , This is Africa , Africa's a Country , Sunday World Heralded in the author's native South Africa as «the hottest novel of the year,» The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a young HIV+ man grappling with the sudden death of his younger brother,...

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Masande Ntshanga

An Army of Lovers

David Buuck

An Army of Lovers

First book of fiction from acclaimed poet Juliana Spahr. Her previous books have received national review attention from the NY Times, Ms. Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Believer, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Book excerpted last year in BOMB Magazine Characters in this book grapple with the role of an artist in modern culture, and will appeal to readers of Shelia Heti's «How Should a Person Be» and Ben Lerner's «Leaving the Atocha Station,» two very...

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David Buuck

Flashes of War

Katey Schultz

Flashes of War

Illuminating the intimate, human faces of war, this unique series of short stories by award-winning author Katey Schultz questions the stereotypes of modern war by bearing witness to the shared struggles of all who are touched by it. Numerous characters-returning U.S. soldier and pragmatic jihadist, Afghan mother and listless American sister, courageous amputee and a ghost that cannot let go-appear in Flashes of War, which captures personal moments of fear, introspection, confusion, and valor in...

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Katey Schultz

Target in the Night

Ricardo Piglia

Target in the Night

INTERNATIONAL ROMULO GALLEGOS NOVEL PRIZE 2011 (most prestigious prize given to a single novel in the Spanish language) NATIONAL CRITICS PRIZE 2011 (best novel of the year written in Spanish, awarded in Spain) THE BEST NOVEL IN SPANISH OF THE YEAR 2010 (chose by 55 critics & journalists of El País) Author taught at American universities for three decades, including at Princeton, and has deep connections to universities, bookstores, and with American writers First novel published in English...

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Ricardo Piglia

A Zero-Sum Game

Eduardo Rabasa

A Zero-Sum Game

A satirical look at the origins of power, A Zero-Sum Game uses the highly-charged election for the presidency of a residents' committee and the influence of a powerful stranger to both expose those in power and sympathize with the individuals who find themselves caught in the paradox of empowerment and impotence that is modern consumer society and the democratic state.

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Eduardo Rabasa

Direct Action

J D Svenson

Direct Action

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST. SABOTEUR. TERRORIST. Her client took direct action to ‘stop the coal’. When the rich and powerful take an interest, criminal charges may be the least of their worries … Cressida Mitsok is a successful corporate lawyer about to make partner at a large city law firm. The only problem will be the partners taking issue with her father serving time for white-collar crime, though no charges were laid against Cressida. But during her partnership interview, the lights...

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J D Svenson

Acting Badly

Michael Scofield

Acting Badly

As in the lives of people we all know, this story presents a dozen fictional Santa Feans trying to love, yet mistreating, each other the week before US forces invade Iraq. “The aggression that dominates American life today,” says author Michael Scofield, “goads them into brandishing their dark sides.” Married realtor Maxine Morgan, for instance, coaxes conservative mortgage broker Ron Kirkpatrick (and others) into bed. Ron’s not-quite-yet-psychotic wife Lila tries to seduce handyman Victor...

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Michael Scofield

Questioning Return

Beth Kissileff

Questioning Return

Student Wendy Goldberg spends a year in Jerusalem questioning the lives of American Jews who return” both to Israel itself and to traditional religious practices. Are they sincere? Are they happier? The unexpected answers and her experiences (a bus bombing, a funeral, an unexpected suicide, a love affair, a law suit),lead her to reconsider her own true identity.

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Beth Kissileff

'Das Haus' the House and the Son of...

Sean Ryan Stuart

'Das Haus' the House and the Son of the Rabbi

Das Haus, (The House) is a story spanning almost seventy years, and is partially based on TRUE EVENTS as told to the author by our hero Erik Goldmann (Fictitious name) and the author’s father-in-law. At the request of Erik, many of the characters and locations were changed to protect the survivors of that long ago Holocaust known as World War II. It has become a NOVEL partially based on some true events. The setting is modern day, with flashbacks to WWII Germany. This book recounts the story of...

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Sean Ryan Stuart

Death Card

Nick L. Sacco

Death Card

A United States president mad with power declares himself dictator, suspends the Constitution and declares war on the American public. Unleashing a reign of terror, the United States citizens find themselves victims of a tyrannical ruler harsher than Stalin or Hitler. In the Midwest, the general of a nuclear armed Air Force base fights back and members of the DEATH CARD militia rise up to challenge the president’s private army. Read DEATH CARD today before it is banned by the government...

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Nick L. Sacco

Sunshine on an Open Tomb

Tim Kinsella

Sunshine on an Open Tomb

Set in fall 1988, <i>Sunshine On An Open Tomb</i> shuttles between two storylines: the creation of The CIA as a result of the Texas/Kingdom oil connection, and a love triangle involving the moon. Our narrator is the brooding runt of a political dynasty whose father is about to be appointed Prez. He is thoughtful, but has trouble expressing himself due to his many physical defects as a result of inbreeding. Desperate for content at the advent of the 24-hour news cycle, even our...

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Tim Kinsella

Zamachowcy

Krzysztof Jóźwik

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