The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK® focuses on acclaimed mystery novelist David Alexander, who also produced a significant body of short fiction. Included in this volume are 20 stories and an essay:COFFEE AND—AND ON THE THIRD DAYTHE OTHER ONESDIE LIKE A DOGFIRST CASEMAMA’S BOYSCARECROWUNCLE TOMSURPRISE! SURPRISE!MAMA’S BOYTHE GENTLEST OF THE BROTHERSRUN FROM THE SNAKESTHE MAN WHO WEN...

Long-listed for the 2006 Re-Lit Award for Best NovelGrant McRae has a loving wife, a healthy son, and a new career with the local police department. Bert Commerford has a pretty good life too, as the proud owner of Commerford & Sons Auto Service. But Bert’s sons are polar opposites: Travis is a budding junior hockey star, and Russell is a thug loaded with resentment for Bert. When tragedy befalls the Commerfords, Bert finds himself too haunted by his murky past to stop his...

Freedom from Discord is Rev. Dr. David Alexander's groundbreaking work examining the spiritual movement he has dedicated his life to. Alexander focuses on creating a New Thought Liberation Theology by examining New Thought's roots, an honest and sometimes raw examination of New Thought today, and a practical, hopeful view of what New Thought can and should be in the world we create for the future. He offers his contributions to the movement for social justice, with a focus on the ...

From seven masters of historical fiction—including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn—comes a richly imagined anthology of stories which bring the epic tale of the Trojan War to life.Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the East, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy’s gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient ...

Fathering Me: A Journey Into Fatherhood takes the reader on a journey through the hills and valleys, feasts and famines, joys and pains of fatherhood. On this journey, experienced via a collection of powerful, thought-provoking poems, readers are invited into one of the most critical familial relationships, i.e., that of a father and his children traveling the rugged path of parenting. Fathering me is also about the multiple roles fathers must play in an effort to properly take care of the...

Book 1 of the Future Boston seriesBoston is slowly sinking into the sea. The citizens of Boston plan a revolution against the governments of Earth. Alien races occupy the city and must decide if the human race deserves full galactic citizenship—or total destruction.Future Boston is the sweeping saga of a handful of dreamers—artists and scientists, scufflers and survivors, revolutionaries and thieves—who dream of a new society as their ancestors did before ...

Frank Bawer has it all, money, looks, success with women. But an ancient curse is about to strip away everything he holds dear one by one.

Donna and Raymond would be the first to admit their 25-year union wasn’t perfect. But despite all its various blemishes, their life together works, or at least it did until one frigid November night, in a field just a few miles from home, one reckless act throws their lives into a tailspin. Donna is willing to follow a winding path to peace, and turns to her friends and community for help. Raymond, on the other hand, takes a more bare-knuckled approach to life, and believes he’ll solve his...

A COP-KILLER WAS LOOSEThe Cop: "Just find Ellison." Inspector Sanson said, "-- and leave me alone with him in a locked room --"The Girl: "He used to make me scream and cry when he tore the wings of butterflies, and now -- and now —-"The Killer: "I have to kill her. I have to kill her now because of you. I’ll have to kill you too, of course."

FROM THREATCON DELTA: ASSAULT ON THE PENTAGON, A TECHNOTHRILLER BY DAVID ALEXANDERWithin a matter of minutes the convoy had turned from Washington Boulevard into the North Parking lot of the Pentagon. Looking northward, the sprawling parking area flanked the Boundary Channel with the Potomac and the Arlington Memorial Bridge connecting Arlington to Metro DC visible in the distance. Looking south, was one of the five sharply angled building corners; in this case the one that divided...

APPLAUSE FOR SNAKE HANDLERS"Alexander once again turns newspaper headlines into riveting high-tech military action fiction with that special combination of cinematic thrills and chills and fly-on-the-wall accounts of back room crisis management in the making ... surely one of the best technothrillers to come along in a great while." -- Salem Record"A must-read from one of America's most original and entertaining authors." -- Bookzon...

Doggie of Side Streets' world is about to change drastically as the lovable pup of #1Corrugated Box sets out on a fantastic and amazing journey down IMAGINATION ROAD which takes him on a journey to the Center of the Earth and back again. In the course of this great adventure, Doggie makes new discoveries and new friends who help him find his way. First, there are the Kangaroo Twins, who've found a big dinosaur egg amid a pile of mysterious things including a big adventurer's hat. Then Bigo...