The first book in the Civilizations Trilogy broke new ground by introducing the protagonists of a civilization like never before. Prepare yourself for a completely new, completely original First Contact. Astronauts Susan and Michael approach an unidentified space object, which developed a close-to-the-Sun trajectory and then moved itself to the far side of our Moon. Upon making contact, Susan goes through a series of relevant events from another planet, crossing from one era to another in ...

Meet Eddie, a smart-ass, overly-educated barkeeper of The Hyde Out Inn and never-to-be courtroom lawyer, as he tries to figure out the connection between John-John, his sorta brother, and a Chicago Capone-era gangster dead for the past forty-five years. Charles, their sorta father and mentor, unalive for three years now, has not really left them. He had taught Eddie a lot and was planning on teaching him a lot more. Instead, he left him a lotta dough, a real lotta dough. He left him John-J...

Be Prepared to enjoy another well-crafted and entertaining novel, Sometimes the Innocent Pay, the third in The Hyde Out Inn Mystery series. Sometimes the Innocent Pay moves the investigation to Lansing, Michigan and introduces a whole new team. Like its predecessors, Sometimes the Innocent Pay will keep you guessing as to where the hell is all of this going? Just as you begin to think that the mystery is solved, it starts all over again until it reaches its surprising conclusion.Dis...

Be Prepared to enjoy this well-crafted and entertaining novel, Felony Murder, the second in The Hyde Out Inn Mystery series. Felony Murder revives a character nobody at The Hyde Out Inn wanted to be revived. Like its predecessor, Hammering Nails, Felony Murder will keep you guessing as to where the hell is all of this going? Just as you begin to think that the mystery is solved, it starts all over again until it reaches its surprising conclusion.Discover how Eddie G., a smart-ass, o...

Capitalism and the corporate form it creates is over-rated and neither are understood. Capitalism and that corporate form restrain your choice. They both present us with either an absence of choice or meaningless ones. Democratic Socialism doesn't do either. Democratic Socialism means more real and freer choices. Ed tells all the why, the what and the who. Economics, politics, and ideology aren't always easy to understand. But, it is necessary that we do so, if we are to be a free people. ...

Meet Ed Weiss, who has written these short stories and the well-crafted and entertaining novels. Begin with several short stories, a few serious, a few comedic, a few true, a few controversial. Then continue with excepts, the first couple of chapters or so, from The Hyde Out Inn Mystery Series: Hammering Nails Can Be Murder, Felony Murder, Sometimes the Innocent Pay, The Droopy-Eyed Bank Robber & Stosh the Cop's First Case. Also included here are excerpts from the stand-alone novel, The Gr...

In this sequel to the best-selling Uncle John’s Presents Book of the Dumb, guest author John Scalzi casts a wide net to bring readers more mind-boggling dumbosities perpetrated by dumb-doers. This time, to prove that dumb-nastics are not a modern phenomenon, Scalzi digs into the past to unearth some of history’s most ill-advised blunders. The lesson: Dumb is as dumb does. And you’ll be smarter for reading it.

Washington, D.C., reporter Sully Carter returns in a thrilling murder mystery of race, wealth, and corruption, by the author of The Ways of the DeadWhen Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious questions—no matter what the consequences. With the police unable to find a lead an...

Book ReviewA born-agains harrowing autobiography retraces his path from an emotionally impoverished childhood, through a successful criminal career and, finally, to the redemption of the confessional. Razo assures his reader that his story will be unembellished, with no false modesty or undue embarrassment, and after the first few pages, its clear he will keep his word. Razo begins his meditation with his earliest memories of growing up working-class in the dusty, sunny atmosphere ...

This is the seventh of nine volumes of the Terry's Joke Collection series. The seven chapters in this volume include : (1) Nurse & Receptionist Jokes, (2) Parent & In-Law Jokes, (3) Poker & Gambling Jokes, (4) Police & Prison Jokes, (5) Political Jokes, (6) Psychiatrist & Asylum Jokes, and (7) Redneck & Hillbilly Jokes.

This is a story of Baltimore's underbelly. Set in the 1990s, a decade of citywide crime, the Army has left veteran Michael Bowers cynical, and unsettled over his future. With a wife, and a newborn on the way, a chance meeting with family friend and sociopathic millionaire Sonny Warner ushers Michael into the hierarchy of illegal gambling, a gray area of the city ripe for exploitation. They control the cities' pendulum of power. This alters Michael's life forever as his decision-making and ...

The experience of a young Black police recruit while in the academy was assigned to undercover vice assignments on weekends. He is taken back by its challenges, exciting and adventurous to say the least. Graduating from the academy he is permanently assigned to the Vice Squad. He describes in vivid detail his experiences in various assignments during his thirty year career from vice to uniform patrol, detective and patrol supervisor. His incidents include two face-to-face gun fights, car c...