The Well-Tanned Professor


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Roman Adrian Cybriwsky narrates his memoirs from soon after birth in Austria in 1945 to the present in Philadelphia, where he has been sheltering from the Covid-19 pandemic. We follow him from Europe to immigration to the United States in 1949, through schooling from kindergarten to Ph.D., and then marriage, family life, a 46-year career as a professor of Geography, and then retirement. We see him as son, student, nerd, and ballplayer, as well as Ukrainian-American, husband, father of three, widower, grandfather, and prolific author of books that are worth reading. He is a traveler too, with long chapters of work and residence in Japan and Ukraine, and visits to famous beaches around the world in search of the perfect tan. The many memoirs that he relates are touching and thought-provoking, or funny and self-deprecating. The book is easy to read and fun. You will like the author and want to hug him.




PROFESSOR TOMOS


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A modern romance set in a small Mid Wales university town during the late 1990's.




The River's Edge


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Anthropologist Carol Iverson travels from Colorado to Chiapas, Mexico to study and live among the Mayan Indians. Her husband, a former Special Forces soldier haunted by memories of the first Gulf War, joins her on the journey along with their 10-year old son Taylor. What started as an opportunity of a lifetime quickly turns to chaos when Zapatista rebels kidnap the family as a way to bring attention to their stuggle against a corrupt national government.




"Leather"


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DRIP


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DRIP follows Buffalo New York Police Inspector Dave “Soop” Alexander as his team works to solve three particularly gruesome and seemingly related copycat murder cases, including the assassination of the mayor of Buffalo, New York. Alexander is assisted by visiting Woman Police Constable (WPC) Janet Angus from Edinburgh, Scotland. Alexander’s team solves each case by using highly focused police work and the practice of medically injecting suspects with a sodium Amytal drip (truth serum). DRIP has it all—forensics, professional descriptions of gruesome crime scenes, international searches, gang murder, dead bodies in the Niagara River, and a highly charged romance for the two lead investigating officers as they work to solve the murders.




Old Haunts


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Alan Shaw is at it again. From homeless urchin to world-class adventurer, Alan has tackled magic, myths and machines, lost love and made one fatal mistake. In an effort to come to terms with what he has done, Alan heads into the East and disappears from the world. His new partner, the loyal and straight-talking pilot, Merry, might just bring him out of his darkness. Or maybe Alan's curse will take them both to places from which they can never return. Ancient dangers return to smother the world in sand, the demonic cult leader Volkert rises again, and Alan's past will come back to deliver a haymaker. But those are the least of his worries because, on the streets of London, Mister Slay is leaving a wake of fear and blood, daring Alan to return home. With his life as a Privateer taking him from China to Chicago, Egypt to the East End, the danger and wry wit keeps coming in this much-anticipated sequel to a Steampunk epic adventure.




Fearless


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Here is a novel that will keep the reader spellbound, as you travel along with Francois Leblanc, a little boy of 12 years of age convicted of a crime of killing his parents (that he did not commit) and then sent to a federal penitentiary for 15 years, the first in Canadian history. The reader can’t but help feel for this little boy whose only crime was in trying to save his mother. His pain and suffering, which very few humans could endure, especially at such a young age of 12, was not something that was going to defeat Francois, for he lived off of it, as if it was food. He feared no one. No guard could defeat him by beatings or by isolation nor could the best convict take him on. His reputation grew as time went on. Convicts decided to change his name to Little Tarzan when he did 42 days in the hole back to back on bread and water. Then when he took a guard’s eye out and another 25 years was added on to his sentence, they called him just Tarzan. Locked up in a segregated wing of the prison called China Town, he spent years in his cell trying to discover himself. Then he met The Professor who sent him on a journey to reach beyond the stars. And he did just that! Six feet 3inches, 275 pounds of muscle he was a walking miracle. They said that just by sheer force alone he could tear open his cell door and no one could stop him. He was becoming one of the strongest men within the walls of the prison that even guards nodded their heads to him in respect at his strength. Yet his violence and hate that he had lived with for so long now turned to humility and muscle. Then the day came when he would show, not just the prison, but also the whole world, just how strong he was.




Harper's Bazaar


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Tracers Work Both Ways


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Kurt Weinstock has it all. Hes had a secure job at the East Florida Shipyard for the past twenty-six years. His wife makes a good living as a real estate agent. His sons are headed off to college, and the mortgage is finally paid off . Its the perfect time for Kurt to think about retiring and relaxing in some Florida beach bungalow. But then, something happens and the world as Kurt knew it is gone. A destructive cosmic event occurs, leaving few survivors in north Florida and possibly world-wide. Kurt has to follow his instincts to survive in this new primitive world, and somehow, his instincts make him into a mythic hero. People call him Captain Kurt, and they come from miles around, begging for his support and knowledge. What was once the life of an average Joe is now something quite different. Its not only the helpless that have come to Kurt for help, though. Along with dodging angry Floridian beasts, he now hides from incoming factions of survivors who do not believe in peace. Instead, they hope to exert their dominance over whats left of humanity, with Captain Kurts help. Now, Kurt has much more to worry about than angry animals; apparently, humanity is no better than the beasts.




Root Cause


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Can you imagine a world without wine? Corvina Guerra is a flying winemaker who dreams of one day settling down in her native Italy on her family’s vineyard. On a visit to a vineyard in Italy, Corvina makes a startling discovery: Phylloxera, a menacing plant louse that devastated vineyards in Europe more than a hundred years ago, has infested the vines. The deeper Corvina and Brian search, the more they become convinced that Universal Wines holds the answer to everything, and the harder they pursue their investigation the more surprises pile up for both of them. In spite of devastating consequences, Corvina and Brian vow to continue their investigation and do what they can to contain the spread of the infestation – but time is running short and they always seem to be a step behind. Unless they can find a way to stop the Philomena – vineyards around the world will be ruined for decades; potentially causing the collapse of the wine industry. Can Corvina and Brian get to the root cause and save the international wine industry from ruin?