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Have you ever been bored and wished something exciting would happen? I bet you have! Hector was too until something magical came crashing through his bedroom window and changed everything!!! Join him in this funny, strange and colourful adventure with the nutty Magic Detector Inspector to discover the magical secrets of The Magic Detector.... 'When life deals an awful blow just lift your leg and let one go!' *With the added potential bonus of being a colouring in book suitable for use with crayons and pencils*

Two characters, a reclusive professor of psychiatry and a brilliant, erratic student, are thrown together by circumstances beyond their control. Each has a theory of mind, gradually revealed and put to the test as a result of their interactions and conversations, as well as their encounters with a number of unusual characters: sideshow performers, an escape artist, three eccentric philosophers, and others. Like "The Plague" by Albert Camus, Heather Folsom's novel explores urgent contemporary themes: the nature of good and evil, truth, and freedom -- using allegory, irony, and Socratic discourse.

Walter Anderson is recognized as one of the major American watercolorists -- a select group that includes John Singer Sergent, Winslow Homer, Arthur Demuth, and John Marin. This book presents 17 of Walter Anderson's pen and ink drawings of pelicans as well as an essay by Anderson on his time spent roughing it on Louisiana's Chandeleur Islands amongst the pelican communities he had come to study and draw. His daughter, Mary Anderson Pickard, adds a felicitous preface about her father's interest in the pelicans as artistic subject and the natural history of the Chandeleur Islands.

The title of the book refers to its content and thrust: relevant moral dilemmas presented as fictional tales. In the title story, the character Philosophie comes down from her mountain retreat to help a city which has gone morally astray. She finds that her innocent nudity is not welcome, and discovers a way to utilize clothing in order to further her task. With a beautifully minimalist prose style, Folsom's writing conveys similarities to Kafka's short stories or Aesop's fables, yet updated for the 21st century. Her engrossing allegories explore contemporary themes such as freedom, privacy, and violence, as well as the enduring problems of obsession, guilt, mortality, and pride. The book contains forty-two utterly original stories, ranging in length from five paragraphs to twenty-three pages.

In a tour de force of literary detection and scholarship, Jeanne Howes has conclusively proven that shortly after Herman Melville's return from the South Pacific in 1844 an anonymous book published in Manhattan, Redburn: or the Schoolmaster of a Morning, is his first book. Early scholars pondered whether this book might have been written by Melville but dismissed it since not enough was then known about Melville's life and writings. Serious scholarship did not begin until the 1920s, as Herman Melville, the great dark god of American letters had fallen into an obscurity so encompassing that at the time of his death in 1891 he was entirely forgotten by the literary community. Howes has spent several decades following the clues contained in the text, assembling proof through massive study of the minutiae of Melville's life and the period. Much has become known about Melville's life since those early scholars begged the question of this book's authorship. Jeanne Howes' quest more closely resembles C. Auguste Dupin's search in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" wherein the clues are in plain view but require acumen and deductive powers of reasoning so as to decrypt them and discover that which has been hidden.

In each of the three novellas an unnamed energy threatens to erupt. In "Gastarbeiter" a young man's honor compels him to take the wheel of a gigantic eighteen-wheeler for the first time in his life. "You can drive unless you don't think you can," are the words of the experienced driver before he hands over and falls asleep, and the young man's spirit is tested to the limit. "Tourist Attraction" is about a Jordanian salesman who sells more onyx eggs and plaster Davids than anyone else in the San Lorenzo market of Florence. It is there that he finds that marriage to an American tourist is not necessarily the best way to get to Los Angeles. Thornley brilliantly conveys the tensions which breed in a French anarchist commune, as natural shocks and human temperaments intrude on the mindless preparations for winter in "Jewels." Richard Thornley maintains a masterful restraint and has a marvelous ear for the odd communications that can take place between people of different cultures. Zig-Zag is filled with a descriptive gift that is startling and a style that makes one want to read more.

One needn't be a soldier to appreciate the sentiments and emotions captured in Charles Fasanaro's work on the Vietnam experience -- only human. In 1968, Charles Fasanaro interrupted his graduate studies in chemistry to work at training dogs to detect trip wires and land mines. His job took him to Fort Gordon, Georgia where he taught these methods to the 25th Infantry Division, 60th Infantry Platoon, Scout Dog. Because of his friendship and concern for the men he was working with he requested to be sent with them to Vietnam where he served with both Army and Marine units from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. The poems in this collection are the fruit of that experience. After his service, Fasanaro earned his doctorate in theology. Currently on the faculty of St. John's College in Santa Fe, the author currently lectures on compassion and military ethics.

By the author of Working Stiff, this collection of eleven short stories rips into Rustbowl Detroit with John Richards' usual switchblade precision, humor and an hallucinatory prose. The stories in The Pigeon Factory are accompanied by fourteen photographs by Ralph Norris which fit the stories and place like a glove.