Meet Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth – a Black twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch having been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Back in New York, hungry for freedom and desperate for companionship, Mouth quickly finds himself haunted by his past. Through a filmic series of flashbacks, we see Mouth's time in prison, his college days and, finally, his earliest high school days. Each street corner, subway ride and run-in w...

The Hidden Classic of mid-20th Century Defensive TacticsOriginally published in 1951, this little known defensive classic is 'the manual' of Wesley Brown's Defensive Combat system as taught to Naval Aviators during World War 2.After a chance encounter at the Chicago World's Fair, he is recruited as a plain clothes officer to a Chicago police department by Col. Isham Randolph (of the crime-fighting Chicago Secret Six). Wesley rose quickly to...

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl - a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, then a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to care for the helpless owlet and give him a permanent home. Wesley is the funny, poignant story of their dramatic two decades together.

Foreword by Ismail MuhammadTragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Brown structures this first-person tale around Ellington's first day on the outside. Although hungry for freedom and desperate for female companionship, Ellington is haunted by a past that drives him to make sen...

George Stuart has returned home to his beloved Sweetwater Plantation from the Mexican American War where he assisted Jefferson Davis in successfully leading the Mississippi Rifles to many victories which allowed America to acquire the vast New Mexico territory. George’s son, Robert, upon learning of his father’s returning to Sweetwater, left the plantation to join and support the cause of slavery against the abolitionists in the bloody Kansas War. Lila, a slave in charge of the Big House a...

Here are some brief descriptions of the four short stories included in this book: The Sanctuary is a story about a twelve year old lad who is hoping to bag a wild turkey for his family’s Thanksgiving, but deep in the woods something goes wrong and suddenly he is in a life or death situation. Top Of The Ninth, a baseball story that begins with a small boy who loves baseball and wishes he had someone to play with. The story opens on a small rural farm in North Florida, but soon the reader is...

Be forewarned, The Lark, because of the explicit sex scenes is classified in the erotica genre and was written to excite the imagination. It is a damn good love story with a sensual sexy romp woven throughout. It is fun to read. It is exhilarating. It is not for children, although there is a child’s story within. The Lark is a light and fun adult love story for men and women. In the beginning the story appears to be about Mr. Joseph E. Jones and his undying hope to once again find love. I ...

Unfortunately, No Purchase On Tomorrow is classified in the romance genre. In this writer’s opinion, romance is fleeting and love is eternal, but my opinion is only that. No Purchase On Tomorrow is a love story involving two sisters. Dr. Deborah Finch is beautiful and perfect in every way and is every man’s dream, but her younger sister, Dr. Elizabeth Calloway, who is beautiful in her own way, is physically challenged and is confined to a wheelchair. Each sister has their doctorate in thei...

Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor—an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists.Knox's shop makes the perfect front for a marijuana operation, but his supplier turns out to be violent and calculating, and Knox ends up under his thumb. It's not long before more than just the pizza sho...

There are five stories within The Lioness, And More Creepy Strange Stories. The Lioness is a story about Lenny and his wife Catherine. Lenny, as a small boy, experienced a couple of situations that had a traumatic effect on his life. Now that his wife is moving up in her career and her life is changing is Lenny capable of handling her new assertiveness and renewed self confidence or has these experiences from his past affecting his behavior? Reading The Stranger one wonders, is he a predat...

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now.” While most conversations on sprawl tend to focus on its restriction, this book presents an overview of current thinking on ways to fix, repair, and retrofit exi...

this book, any book, should be read with an open mind. And yet, no biography can be entirely objective, especially so if the biographer is the son. Jesus said, Judge not, that ye be not judged. In retrospect, looking back to an era we would hope never to experience, its the least we should do. My father was an unusual man, destined it seems, to lead an unusual life in unusual times; a life filled with conviction, courage, insight, compassion, invention, creativity and tragedy. My father, a...