The ghastly murders in the Triad area have been happening for some years now until Private Investigator Bill Christian who is a ex retired city detective is hired by the Winston- Salem police department who is stumped by the strange killings with a dead end at every turn in the murder cases. Theres murder on the roadside and the games a foot and Bill starts looking for clues and soon is hot on the trail. Bills next clue leads him to Old Bethabara Park and almost certain death one strange night until his old friends Clara Bell and Wilbur Parker everybodys grandma and grandpa whos wife is Clairvoyant and a sorceress in white magic intervene by foretold chance and change Bills deathly fate. They open up Bills eyes to the forces of darkness hes up against and Bill cant believe his very eyes. They join forces to rid the city of a dark plague that has descended on it and the citizens of the Piedmont Triad who are unknowingly at the mercy of Satanic forces that have cursed the town. www.nickstonesecretagent.com

Nick Stone rocks in this one! The U.S. Government sends Nick Stone, America's new suave secret agent on a mission to capture or eliminate Al-Qaeda's #2 most wanted terrorist in the world. Come along for the explosive ride and you better believe, sparks fly in this one! It is a roller coaster thrill ride from beginning to end. Nick Stone tracks the terrorist, Abdul Mohammed, in the Middle East. Abdul Mohammed's terrorist assassin thugs try to stop Nick at every turn! The terrorist, Abdul Mohammed is a madman bent on destroying Israel and bringing on the start of Armageddon! Join Nick and his comrades as they take you to desolate mountain regions and a lush green oasis in the middle of the desert, as they hunt for a madman! Nick Stone is an ex-navy seal and a gulf war veteran of Desert Storm. Stone is a gambling man and he will do whatever it takes to win. Will Abdul Mohammed carry out his evil plan or will Nick Stone stop him in time?

Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett. Though the cultural revolution of the later 1960s contributed to the demise of traditional Western programs, the Western never actually disappeared from TV. Instead, it took on new forms, such as the highly popular Lonesome Dove and Deadwood, while exploring the lives of characters who never before had a starring role, including anti-heroes, mountain men, farmers, Native and African Americans, Latinos, and women. Shooting Stars of the Small Screen is a comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or played a recurring character role in a TV Western series or a made-for-TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to 2008. Douglas Brode covers the highlights of each actor's career, including Western movie work, if significant, to give a full sense of the actor's screen persona(s). Within the entries are discussions of scores of popular Western TV shows that explore how these programs both reflected and impacted the social world in which they aired. Brode opens the encyclopedia with a fascinating history of the TV Western that traces its roots in B Western movies, while also showing how TV Westerns developed their own unique storytelling conventions.

Nick Stone, America's new suave secret agent is inserted into Kosovo, Yugoslavia by a HALO parachute jump to steal a Russian fabled falcon-mig plane. The mig has nuclear and biological tipped missiles. The Twin Titans, Nikki and Natasha who are Russian KGB double agents, help Nick to try and steal The Doomsday Machine! The U. S. Government is afraid that it will be sold on the black market or worse yet, fall into the hands of evil terrorists who will use it to hold the world hostage and threaten World War III! Nick gets involved in the Baltic War and tries to help the Albanian people. Nick becomes a Freedom Fighter and starts the freedom bell ringing across the land! Nick is captured by the Serbian 4th Army and must face "The Pit Of Death!" Will Nick survive only to be shot at dawn, as a spy or will he live to fight another day and complete his mission? www.nickstonesecretagent.com

Adventure tale of frontier life in Tennessee pitting settlers against the Indians in almost daily battles as Spain and France conspired with the Indians to keep settlers from moving west past the Appalachian mountains.

Poor Folk -- The Double -- The House of the Dead -- Notes from Underground -- Crime and Punishment -- The Idiot -- The Brothers Karamazov -- Appendix I: Selected Film Adaptations of Dostoevsky's Novels -- Appendix II: "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" by David Foster Wallace.

This special issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal: Interview with Larry Niven features an interview with the best-selling science fiction author, Larry Niven, in which he discusses the writing craft, the life of a professional writer, and his unique science fiction style. Niven's Ringworld has won many prestigious international awards, and his newly released collection of short stories, The Draco Tavern is one of the best recent examples of structured, literary science fiction. The issue also includes a short story from the editor, Anna Faktorovich, "Coal and Rice" about a struggling Chinese rice farmer and a wealthy, corrupt Chinese businessman. In addition, the first scholarly essay in the volume is from an NPR employee, who's finishing his PhD at Brown. Byrd McDaniel critically evaluates the modern paintings of Kehinde Wiley, a Yale MFA graduate painter whose work has been displayed at some of the top museums around the world. Wiley's painting is also on this issue's cover.