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Twenty-eight centuries separate the birth of the Roman republic from the United States of America in the twenty-first century. To many it would seem that advances in technology and centuries of human experience would insulate our current society from the mistakes of the past.The Echoes of Babylon examines the historical and social tendencies within the world's three great republics. Perhaps not immediately recognized by many, the three republics have a shared experience, as the United States was a former British colony, and Great Britain was once subordinate to the Roman Empire.Whereas history is sometimes considered a dull, dry affair or as an amalgamation of names and dates, in The Echoes of Babylon, history is presented in the context of sequential events, highlighting similar attempts in the direction of human affairs, which have led to similar fates within the world's three greatest republics.

The Scout's Account tells the story of a young Wampanoag warrior named Squeteague who is sent by his sachem to observe the landing of the Mayflower at Cape Cod in 1620. From the age of 16 until his death, Squeteague takes part in many key events in colonial American history.Paul Brodeur was a staff writer for the New Yorker for nearly forty years.

Tom Carnicelli taught English in various colleges for 53 years, 46 of them at the University of New Hampshire. He retired in 2013. He wrote poetry in his own college days and started writing it again after he retired. He tries to make his poems accessible to everyone, not just English majors.

New York City in 1847 is a boiling stew of ethnic gangs, foul living conditions, and runaway crime. Police Captain Alvord Rawn effectively meets violence with violence until one bloody night he goes too far. Forced to resign, Alvord agrees to help a wealthy society woman locate her missing son, the rising artist Charles Deas, who has been painting and exploring the frontier areas west of St. Louis. Deas has fallen under the spell of the mysterious Count Abendroth, a practitioner of mesmerism. Under the Count's sinister occult guidance, Deas's paintings have grown darker and more intense, verging on madness. When Alvord arrives in St. Louis, he finds that Abendroth is much more than a charlatan, and that he is massing his dark powers for nefarious ends. Abendroth is unwilling to let Deas leave without a fight, which is just fine with former Police Captain Alvord Rawn, because fighting is what he does best. As each side gathers soldiers for a final showdown, author Edward Swanson blends exacting period detail, old time story telling, and non-stop action into a satisfying climax of good versus evil. Thoughtful and action-packed, with a final showdown that is both exciting and gratifying-a fine first novel. History, action, the supernatural and intelligent discourse; this novel holds something for everyone. --Kirkus Reviews

Moon Over Cabarete is a travel memoir of the Dominican Republic and a personal journey of discovery, written with a sense of romance and filled with dramatic incidents, colorful stories, laughter and tears. Julie and Bill Veazey first vacationed in Cabarete, a small fishing village in the Dominican Republic, in 1987. The breathtaking natural beauty of the country and their affection for the people they met there brought them back time and again over the next 20 years, during which Cabarete transitioned from a rural economy into a world-class water sports and vacation destination. This memoir recounts a series of events and adventures that run the gamut from funny to achingly sad and captures the Veazeys' attempts to live harmoniously in a new environment, along with observations of the unpretentious Dominican people and their country.

Amanda Turner has returned to Monticello, FL to visit her three favorite angels who continue to operate the Heavenly Grille Café. She and the angels meet a young man named Tyler Foster who has gone undercover to help bust an illegal dog fighting ring in Thomaston, GA. Tyler helps Spartacus, a black pit who has been a champion fighter for Little John Abbott, escape. Spartacus lost his last fight, and Tyler has been instructed to dispose of the dog. After finding his way to the Heavenly Grille Café, Spartacus' healing begins. He knows that he will have to return to the Abbott ranch to fight one last fight, but he will not be alone. The angels welcome a new addition; his name is Sam, and he is a beautiful black lab-pit mix. Sam was Amanda's faithful and beloved pet for 10 years, and he has been dead for 6 years when he and Amanda are reunited. His assignment is to infiltrate the dog fighting ring and to save the bait and fighter dogs; however, Sam is not convinced that even an angel dog can save them in time. Book 2 in the Heavenly Grille Cafe series.

His name is Mark Allen Royce, but he is known at the Peterson Prison Pychiatric Unit as Guard 978. After returning from a forced leave of absence, 978 begins his night shift to find that everything is not as it seems. There are new people he doesn't recognize, and even the people he thought he knew are acting very, very strangely. What unfolds in a single night is a paranoia fueled action adventure that will remind readers of such classics as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, early Doctor Who, and the novels of Philip K. Dick. Strap in, keep your weapon handy, and trust no one. The madness is just beginning... Michael Jameson was born Mike Bearce in Acton, Massachusetts. He enjoys reading, writing, acting, and music. Most important, however, is caring for his dog, Lady Jane Spitz.

George Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds - musical, industrial, mechanical - of the early 20th century. This minimalist, beautifully designed picture book tells of the premier of one of Antheil's most famous works.Robert Lockwood lives and works in Maine. He studied painting and design at the Philadelphia College of Art, and painting, drawing, and classical guitar in Madrid, Spain. He received a BFA and MFA at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He taught drawing and design at the Philadelphia College of Art and has shown his paintings and drawings at the former Marian Locks Gallery in Philadelphia and the O.K. Harris Hundred Acres Gallery in New York City. His work is in several museum and private collections. In addition, Lockwood has redesigned hundreds of newspapers. He started the first international information graphics news service "News Graphics." He created the information graphics news service for the Associated Press and for 18 years worked as a consultant for AP's executive editor and president. He led a series of seminars for the Centre de Perfectionnement des Journalistes et des Cadres de la Presse in Paris, France. With wife Nancy he operated a news design and editorial consultancy with clients in the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe and Southeast Asia. Lockwood was co-founder and first president of the Society for News Design, an international news organization.

The first thing Claude and Ray tell each other is that they are running away, grown men running away from home. The two New Englanders meet on the Savannah waterfront in 2007. They quickly form a bond of reliance, although neither knows much about the other. Claude, the hitchhiker, doesn't reveal his secret. Since he was a boy, he has known when evil is lurking around the corner. He's caught the glint of sheer malevolence, more than once aimed at him, in the eye of a killer. Ray, the principal of a junior high who's been closeted all his life, starts frequenting rest areas where gay men hang out. His world crashes when he is apprehended in a police sting operation. That very night, he packs his bags and hits the Interstate, leaving career and family behind. Both men are headed south for the winter and when in Savannah a few days before Christmas, they acknowledge their loneliness. They embark on a coalition of purpose, not unlike a set of railroad tracks: parallel, never connecting. In South Florida, their lives become intertwined with panhandlers, drag queens, dumpster divers, church ladies on a mission, and squatters in a hurricane-devastated trailer park. Road Kill is the ultimate trek into the unknown, with several seriously dark twists and scarce amounts of hope and redemption.

The Betrayal brings together the conflicting loyalties, passions and greed of an emerging colonial America. The characters are vividly portrayed and the plot lines follow the course of developments in the infant Republic - its heroes, its villains and its enemies. All come to life in a lively recreation of the age of Benedict Arnold and his contemporaries. The year is 1777. The fighting takes place in the Hudson River Valley - Lake Champlain campaign intended to split the colonies and bring an early end to the War of Independence. The play captures a remarkable time in the nation's history, brought vividly to life in this depiction of those who paid the price to create a new nation. Robert Crotty, a gifted writer and the author of The Teacher (2014), captures the moment. The brutality of the warfare, the everyday lives of soldiers, the jealousy and bitter competition among leaders, the seeming hopelessness of a war fought by conscripts and volunteers, George Washington holed up at Valley Forge, a Congress quarrelsome and bankrupt and a set of independent colonies attempting to band together long enough to support a campaign few understood or appreciated are all in the mix. It makes for rich and dramatic storytelling. The colonials through perseverance and fighting skill would stop the English advance and end the threat. The victory opened the way for the French to enter the conflict, decisively changing the balance of power. The end result would come later at Yorktown with Lord Cornwallis' surrender, the colonials triumphant. A new nation was born. It is all brought together by a creative and skillful author in this insightful and entertaining play capturing a critical period in the birth of America.

Th is volume collects two previously unpublished works by Russell Buker. Both Old Burn, New Burn and Spontaneous Gambol overflow with Buker's love of words and usual connections.

The song and dance of The Sound of Music... seasoned with the terror of war. We Escaped plunges the reader into the extraordinary World War II escapades of an ordinary couple and their children as they first escape from Nazi-occupied Holland; and then deal with the war years by leavening danger and stress with the joy and love of everyday family life. It is the song and dance of The Sound of Music seasoned with the terror of guns and blood. The story begins in the Netherlands, a peaceful nation protected by a treaty of neutrality and kinship with Hitler's Germany. The calm is shattered by the cacophony and confusion of battle as, under the guns of panzers, German troops overrun Holland's lines. The ter Weele family's subsequent exodus from their home is told from the points of view of the father, Lieutenant Carl ter Weele, a Dutch reservist called up to defend the Grebbeberg; his wife Margery, an American citizen raised in Boston, who delivers her third child in a hospital not far from the Grebbeberg as war threatens; their oldest son, six-year-old Jan, whose dark eyes and hair lead Nazis to suspect he is Jewish; and their second son, Alex, a blond and fair-skinned imp, who at the age of two charms a German border guard into allowing the family to cross into Switzerland. Within weeks of Germany's conquest of Holland, the family has to flee the dragnet of the Gestapo, which is arresting all Dutch military officers. As far as Carl can see, the only way out is through Germany, and from there it's a tortuous and terrifying journey through Switzerland, Vichy France, Spain, and Portugal, with the Gestapo a threat at every turn.

A collection of 32 of the best entries to the 2015 RiverRun Bookstore Short Story Contest, these stories represent the wide variety of talented writers on the Seacoast today. This is fiction that takes you in all directions, from a high school prom to the afterlife - even to an unsettling visit from the exterminator.We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed putting this collection together.

Coastal Maine in 1920 is an unusual cross section of artists, bootleggers and fishermen. Traditional landscape artists butt heads and ideologies with the new "Modern" art school (and house of ill repute) run by noted art critic Valentine Meadows. Longtime residents trade in lobstering for smuggling when it becomes clear there is a fortune to be made in booze and drugs. Local law enforcement tries to keep tabs, but doesn't want to become too involved. Into this whirlwind comes Holly, a beautiful young college student working for the summer as an artist's model at Meadows' school. More than a pretty face, Holly soon becomes indispensable to Meadows as his personal assistant, and uses both her looks and her quick wits to navigate the increasingly complicated world she finds herself in.

Amanda Turner is a young woman who has recently lost everything: her parents, her home, and her job. She packs all of her belongings into her old car and drives north from Tampa, FL for several hours until she comes upon an out-of-the-way restaurant, accentuated by a huge golden halo instead of the more well-recognized golden arches. The Heavenly Grille Café is operated by three angels who take Amanda under their wings (no pun intended): Max was once a Roman Gladiator; Bertie was a loud and boisterous housewife who died unexpectedly in 1911, leaving behind a husband and two children; and Doug was a strong, handsome soldier who died serving his country in 1953. Amanda meets another young woman, Kris DeVone, who is completely opposite to herself in character and personality. While Amanda is a happy, secure Christian with tremendous faith, Kris has done everything in her power to be the ultimate "bad" girl, and does not believe in God. Amanda befriends Kris, who is seven months pregnant and has been abandoned by her live-in boyfriend. The women become best friends and move in together so that Amanda can help take care of the baby girl, Charlotte Grace, who is born in September 2011. By the time Christmas rolls around, both of their worlds have been turned upside down with the shocking kidnapping of Charlotte Grace. The next two months provide insight into Kris' eventual relationship with God, the angels' inability to change destiny, and a look into the lives of the kidnappers, Jack and Susan Peterson, and the reason behind why they committed such a horrible crime.

Book 2 of the Southern Spectral Series. In 1979 New Orleans, detective Roy Agnew is thrown into another murder investigation. Re-entering the world of the supernatural, he realizes that he may be the only person able to stop a killer. In order to catch a paranormal murderer, Roy must rely on the one thing he struggles with the most: his faith. The Irises is the exciting sequel to The Feathers. "Taut, atmospheric, and layered with menace, The Irises is a vortex of a book, guaranteed to suck you deeper under its spell with every page. Lott weaves a lush and deadly mystery, complex and enticing, one you won't be able to put it down . . . or forget." - Tina Whittle, author of Deeper Than the Grave "Recommended for mystery and paranormal readers alike. Ms. Lott has crafted an engaging detective story with ghosts, mediums, lost love and New Orleans in the 1970s." -Michael Guillebeau, author of Josh Whoever (Library Journal Mystery Debut of the Month and Silver Falchion Finalist) and A Study in Detail. Cynthia Lott is a professional researcher and writer. She loves hiking, exploring new places, vegetarian cuisine and hearing life stories over a glass of good wine. A member of Sisters in Crime, Inc. and International Thriller Writers, Inc., she also holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from LSU and an MLS from UW-Madison.

There have been three wars in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the last thirty years, but everyone pretends nothing weird has ever happened here. No wars, no "Materialist Magicians" doing evil, and certainly no "elves" working to stop them. Divorced and finally working again after losing his last job, Jerry August just wants to live an ordinary life. He's met a girl named Leda. She's a friend of the elves, but Jerry's willing to overlook that. Why, Jerry wonders, does his wealthy Uncle Quincy want him to visit the powerful beings who rule a world that is not Earth? When Jerry refuses the Old Gods' summons, their Myrmidon warriors kidnap Leda. Who else but Jerry can go to the other world to get her back? Who else but the elves can help him do it? Jerry learns things he would be happier not knowing. How his uncle plans to use his wealth to steal from the poor and give to the rich-- on Earth as in the Other World. How his aunt and uncle plan to use the power of the god and goddess to steal life and youth from Jerry and Leda-- by stealing their bodies. Sometimes war just finds people, especially in Portsmouth where the walls between the worlds are thin. Jerry finds himself caught up in the latest chapter of the secret history of the Earth.

For half a century Paul Bullock and his family have been committed to raising awareness about the Native people of New England. Paul, known as Whirling Thunder, grew up in Bristol, Rhode Island and is of part Wampanoag ancestry. He came into the powwow scene as a boy in the 1940s, performing from the time he was 11 years old. By the late 1960s, when he and his six children had become the Paul Bullock family dancers, teaching dances and songs to others, they had made a decision that they would emphasize Eastern dance steps and etiquette at New England powwows. Paul had that wonderful capacity to understand and utilize the etiquette of the dance, and to show others how to use it. His innate courtesy and that of Native cultural traditions merged into one. He was a dedicated, purposeful individual whose influence during the long, dry period of the mid-twentieth century, before federal recognition of Eastern tribes, helped reinforce the sense of self of Native New Englanders.

New Hampshire is a small state, but it has seven distinct and engaging regions. Colorful Journey includes an illustration and some history about every town from each region by artist Sue Anne Bottomley. From the smallest settlement to the major cities of Concord, Nashua, Manchester, and Portsmouth, follow along on one artist's endeavor to draw New Hampshire.Sue Anne Bottomley is a New Hampshire native. Raised in NH and Massachusetts, and an art major at the University of New Hampshire, she left the area after her college graduation to live in Washington state, Maryland, and England. After many years away from home, she returned to live in New London, NH.With her goal of exploring every corner of the state within two years, she drew all 234 towns on location-with colored pencil, ink and watercolor.

Though it comes to us in the form of a book, this first collection of poems by Padraig Mahou is perhaps best embraced as stone steps on a high mountain. Like a juggling monk climbing each one, Mahou's excitement and handle with language creates a collection of dancing pieces filled with sight, recovery, love, and ecstasy. Look out from these poems and see the black steel of a bicycle flying through the air at night, a beheaded rooster in Maine, a half frozen lake with it's confident fisherman, and an Amtrak train traveling through a California sunset. And with each thing seen, each landscape entered and left, we encounter the multitude of lives we can have in just one lifetime. That is enough to feel infinite with any set of steps we may climb. The great Japanese master, Basho, said that the thing inside him that wrote his poems was "a windswept spirit." He would have recognized the same in Patrick Mahoney's work (albeit with a slight Irish accent). His poetry moves me, with its sense of someone standing perfectly poised at the edge of a great seaside cliff, looking out over vast distances of sea and land, watching with calm clarity the movement of seasons and people, loved ones and strangers alike. --David Rivard

One day the blue lights just appeared. In the sky, in our homes, all around. Nobody knew where they had come from, or what their purpose was. Kate, an energetic young reporter, is planning an in-depth investigation into the strange lights when suddenly the world is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of interstellar visitors. They have come to help humans see the error of their violent ways, and to usher humanity into a new golden age. Jini Mount is an artist, teacher, and award winning sculptor, now pursuing a long-neglected love of writing. She was born in New York state, and holds a BFA from Ithaca College. After a career as a professional ice skater, Jini moved to the south, started a family, and has had a long and successful artistic career. She currently lives in Sarasota, Florida.