The Dreams of Mad Dogs


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SURVIVORS OF THE DUMPING GROUNDS After abject suffering, the loss of their family, and the misery of the workhouse, during the Great Hunger, Irish orphans Maeve and Emer Dannaher are sentenced to indentured service to a strange continent on the other side of the world. They live in servitude, as do the continent’s original inhabitants, and survive, despite hardships that would have crushed others. Follow the lives of the brave Dannaher sisters, who find adventure in the colonies of 1850’s Australia; encounters with “The Wild Colonial Boys”: the First Nation Clans of Aboriginal people; the hardy diggers of the gold fields; the unique flora and fauna of the rugged outback, and even love.




They Call Me Mad Dog!


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When Tomato Rodriquez's main squeeze, Hooter Mujer, swagers off the fidelity wagon, Tomato eschews passive new age sentiment and instead plots an operatic revenge. Her cunning plan, involving whipped cream, a Bic pen, and some four-by-two goes awry, surprisingly enough, and Tomato finds herself facing a murder rap. Traumatised by tough B movie one liners and tedious lesbian orgies, Tomato transforms herself into Mad Dog, a bitch to be watched. Illustrated! 'A side-splitting romp through queer and pop culture' - Lambda Book Report




Mad Dogs


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"You gotta have guts to be nuts." In a top-secret asylum for former CIA agents who have lost their grip on reality, five insane spies find their beloved psychiatrist dead, killed by a professional assassin. Sensing an obvious setup, the quintet of crazies concoct an ingenious breakout from their high-security institution and hit the road in search of the Enemy. God help the populace when their meds run out . . . Traumatized by their experiences in the CIA, they operate under somewhat skewed perceptions of reality. Their training, however, has prepared them to survive in a hostile world--even if that world is the Boston-to-Washington corridor as they chase down the assassin. A rousing blend of Ken Kesey's darkly satirical masterwork One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Robert Ludlum's spy fiction classic The Bourne Identity, Mad Dogs is a stunning novel of political commentary and a tour-de-force of literary style.







Sweet Dreams


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Dalton is a straight up kid that finds doing the right thing often gets him into more trouble than he can handle. When he and his best friend Joey, blow the motor on their nitro injected Mustang, they must take a summer job or give up drag racing. It's not long after they start their new job that they find out the manager of the parts store is stealing to support his gambling habit. They find themselves on the bad side of an international car smuggling ring. Dalton and Joey team up together to build the ultimate street racer; a 1967 Shelby Mustang GT-500. Although blowing the doors off their competition seems fun at first, a few local racers take their losing a little too seriously. In the end they must do battle for what might cost them more then just their pink slip and the bragging rights to the fastest car in Marin. On a chance night Dalton meets the girl of his dreams. Amelia is a smart society bombshell to die for. Too bad she's already taken. As it turns out, Amelia's boyfriend Dolf and his gang of rogue jocks might be the deadliest of all Daltons' problems. Sweet Dreams entertains through intense action, heartfelt romance and twisting plots. Underneath the surface however, lies a tapestry woven of the lives, feelings, and emotions that help to weave the characters personalities and pull you into their minds. You won't be able to put this book down, and you will never guess the climactic ending.




Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman


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Polly Evans had a mission: to learn everything possible about the howling, tail-wagging world of sled dogs. Fool’s errand? Or the adventure of a lifetime? The intrepid world traveler was about to find out. In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventured to Canada’s far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus forty and the sun rises for just a few hours each day. But though she was prepared for the cold, she never anticipated how profoundly she’d be affected by that blissful and austere place. In a pristine landscape patrolled by wolves and caribou, the wannabe musher was soon learning the ropes of arctic dogsledding, careening across the silent tundra with her own team of yapping, leaping canines. Shivering but undaunted, Polly follows the tracks of the legendary Yukon Quest, a dogsledding race more arduous than the Iditarod, witnessing a life-and-death spectacle she’ll never forget. Along the way she makes a stop at the Santa Clause house in North Pole, Alaska (where the post office delivers unstamped mail), and witnesses the astonishing northern lights weaving green and red across the sky. And before the snows melt in spring, Polly will have discovered a deep affection for the loving, mischievous huskies whose courage and enthusiasm escort her through the delights and dangers of living life at the extreme—in one of the most forbidding places on earth.




The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars


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When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist’s understanding of the mind – its logic, its nuance, how we think about what makes a person – with a poet’s approach to humanity, that crucial and ever-elusive why. It’s a story that unfolds through the centuries, along the path of humankind’s constant quest to discover what makes us human, and the answers that consistently slip out of our grasp. It’s modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales; history and myth combined; fiction and the stranger truth. But, most importantly, it’s Broks’ story, grounded in his own most fascinating cases as a clinician—patients with brain injuries that revealed something fundamental about the link between the raw stuff of our bodies and brains and the ineffable selves we take for who we are. Tracing a loose arc of loss, acceptance, and renewal, he unfolds striking, imaginative stories of everything from Schopenhauer to the Greek philosophers to jazz guitarist Pat Martino in order to sketch a multifaceted view of humanness that is as heartbreaking at it is affirming.




Multiple Personality


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Sweet Dreams & Night Terrors


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Welcome to Sweet Dreams And Night Terrors. Within these pages you will find a wide variety of dreams, poetry and nightmares. The substance is the reality of what we see when we sleep, when the world around us turns dark and the land of dreams possesses us. There are strange creatures and dreams of romance, the stuff of fantasy and the fears that haunt us all in the waking world, you may find a few to hold on to as you read through the pages or there may be a few that frighten you and arouse the land of bad dreams, enter at your own risk. Pull up the covers and light a candle as you move into the world of elusive images and forgotten dramas, the world of Sweet Dreams and Night Terrors.