The Book of Power: The King is a tale of adventure, mystery, and discovery that takes us on a journey through the eyes of Sergeant John Matthews, a soldier fighting in Afghanistan.
On the surface this book spins a fisherman's tall tale about a ribald angling contest between three middle-aged friends who love (and perhaps hate) each other: a preppy trilingual Machiavelli, an intellectual ghetto pool shark, and a brawny Texan who defies his own macho stereotype.
Mabel and Fred have been married for 50 years and Mabel has finally had enough, Fred's bad habits and sloppiness over the years has brought her to her boiling point and she decides, "e;That man has got to go"e; so she sets out to find ways of offing him and still making it look like an accident.
"e;A Grain of Truth, like every great crime novel, digs up more unsettling questions than it does answers; it also demonstrates the seemingly endless possibilities of the form itself to serve as smart social criticism.
Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy.
Strikers Grove is the setting for a group of six friends, affectionately named the Six-Pack, who go through some difficult twists and turns, ups and downs as they find their way into adulthood.