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A fact based tale about how a village of moral, starving and colorfully-dysfunctional 1930 Ukrainians turned the tables on their Bolshevik captors, disposing of the evidence in ways that set in motion a potential disaster for contemporary Russia, and the world.

A Faustian Western set against the backdrop of the 1926 Yaqui Indian revolt in the rugged and mystical Bacatete mountains of Senora, Mexico.  An American ex-patriot on the run from the law, and his past, does battle with the Devil Incarnate taking the form of an English Captain of Industry in a winner-take-all duel with the last round occurring in the middle of the Yaqui Indian revolt.   

An "All Creatures Great and Small"-like veterinary drama/comedy set in the modern-day Canadian West with a multicultural theme and contemporary edge.  
An old, paternal, sawbones, Redneck veterinarian (Doc Henry 'dinosaur' Steiner) with a mysterious past traps into his practice and very eccentric backwater town,  an independent young First Nations animal doc (Roberta Collineeur, Ph.D., D.V.M), who is both scientifically talented and tied to her cultural roots.  A political and cultural mismatch forms, held together by pioneer grit, love of animals and need for both to redeem themselves for wrongs done in the past that made them loners.   On the tail of Roberta's arrival, an old enemy of Doc Henry and the town, who seeks to destroy them both, and make Doctor Collineur his personal squwa.

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Recipe:
1.        A 23-going-on-80 year old ‘looking for a noble cause’ Greek Canadian geek-philosopher who composes music mathematically but, to his unending frustration, has no musicality in his soul.
2.        A chubby, ‘plain Jane’ 22-year old ‘looking for a loving man’ straight-A linguist woman whose feet and voice channel music too Alive for the ‘cool’ world to handle, or recognize.
3.        A 40-year old, snotty blue-blood once-great film star, on his way down to being a ‘commoner’ who will do anything to rise up to the top again.

Bringing them together, and tearing them apart---a mathematical formula which can be used to compose mind altering lyrics and music that will make ANYone dance, mark or kill to the tune of the person playing it.
Contemporary novel.  For young adults, as well as thinking adults of all ages. 

Bluewater is a small community nestled amoungst the big mountains of modern day British Columbia. Central to its life is "Doc Hans", a reclusive modern day 80 years young mountain main, backwater scientist, outlaw healer, animal protector and very Gernamic philosopher. Secrets are safe and inner agendas not acted upon in Bluewater until a Toronto-raised, hungry for recognition at any cost cop, Carl Stiller comer to town. Brother is pitted against brother in namy families as the Truth about who Han's is and what he really did during the war is discovered and dealt with.

A dashing twenty-something fashionably-libertarian in 1848 Hamburg, is about to enter a privileged life as a brilliant physician-scientist. But his life path takes an unexpected left turn when he is summoned to meet an elderly mental patient, 'Maria 5', who claims to be his mother, informing him that he is non-other than the son of Ludwig von Beethovan. The clearly non-musical Gustav takes it in stride until he finds himself caught up with, then in the middle of, the Revolutions of 1848 sweeping across the German States, then in the crosshairs of a diabolical anti-Revolutionary tyrannt. The battle between good vs. evil, democratic socialism vs. imperialist capitalism, and idealistic fantasy vs. hard reality take place against the backdrop of the turbulent political revolts in Europe and the big wide open spaces of the Texas prairies, the fate of many cultures in the balance.

It's 1905, New Revolutions breaking out or about to do so all over the world. Sasha Barisnki is dedicated to fighting for Workers' rights, a free Poland and the well being of her fellow Jews all over the world. She is more dedicated to finding her father, who was carted away by the Czar�s Army with the help of Polish turncoat Baron Dubrinski. Papa left Sasha the responsibility to carry on his Work as a Polish Democratic-Socialist Revolutionary, and a map of a gold mine in Colorado from which said revolution could be funded. An easy thing for Sasha to retrieve the gold except for Baron Dubrinski having set in motion a manhunt for her hide, a population of rather uncooperative townsfolk around the mine, and her own �duel� identity as being half woman and half man, both in mind AND body, each of those entities fighting against each other. Making matters more �interesting�---Papa may still be alive, but has turned into someone and something Sasha never knew, or expected.

Recently promoted 25 year old Captain Alexi Koriskov heads out to the Wild Wild East of Siberia in the 1840s, taking with him his under-appreciated scientific inventions and his Vision of a Utopian Democratic Society, in service of his family honor, his betrothed Elena back home in Moscow, and of course the Czar. It doesn't take long for Alexi to realize that his 'promotion' was an exile-in-disguise, engineered and perpetuated by all of those back home who he trusted, and loved. His new companions are White Russians who obey NO laws, Yakut Natives who honor codes he cannot understand, and the ghost of his deceased father. Still, Alexi is determined to build his Utopian society, where no one is king, everyone is wealthy, and science forces Mother Nature to serve everyone. At first he is lucky, then learns very quickly that the anatomy of a multicultural Revolution based in scientific theory is far more complex than he can imagine, and far more dangerous than he ever could have envisioned.

 St. Pierre, an  isolated Christian French village in the Dark Ages during the final days of December, 999 AD.   Life is harsh, brutish and short for most everyone except the "Duke" (a collector of books who is secretly illiterate, but who rules everyone's pocket), his flirtatious Pagan wife (who has secretly taken most of the Duke�s serfs and the Monestary's monks to bed)  and Abbott Phillip (corrupt head of the Monestary,  who has convinced the illiterate peasants that the world will come to an end at dawn on Jan 1, 1000 AD, Christ forgiving their sins if they give their wealth, and their children, to the Church).    In the middle of it all is Brother Thomas, a cynical wandering Jew with a secret past who is one of the only monks who can not only transcribe books but actually read them, and who has secretly written his own, which he hopes that, one day, someone will read and appreciate.  

Something or someone is killing off the most powerful Italian-American Mobsters in Brooklyn as new Crime Bosses from the �conquered� former Soviet Union are on their way up in the power structure of America.    Perhaps a coincidence, or perhaps not.   

Nearly half of the Army that fought for King George in the American Revolution were German (Hessian) mercenaries and conscripts who knew no English and nothing about the War they were being ordered to fight.  Hans and Albert are two dirt-poor manure-shoveling German Peasants who enlist in the Hessian Army, encouraged by Maria, rebellious and intelligent daughter of their �Master�, sadistic and manipulative Baron von Edinger.    Maria loves Hans, an introvert of advanced intellect with a tortured and very secret past, but has feelings she cannot define for his bold and very worldly best friend, Albert.   The best of intentions and historical �accidents� pit each member of the trio of twenty-something adventurers in wars against powers bigger than they ever imagined, each other, and themselves, as the War that Revolutionized America spurs on even more radical changes in them.

Color of Revolution is a fact-based fiction about three Slaves on the same South Carolina Plantation who find themselves on different and opposing sides of the War.   It is told from their own evolving perspectives and voices.   As they become "activized" by their assigned, or chosen, Causes, they clash, meeting head on with their shared mysterious past, and that entity most yearned for and feared---Freedom.

 A highly cynical, super-intelligent, hyper-intense, obsessively-political middle-aged female stand up comic (Atti 'the Hun' Nicholoulias) is befriended by a 21 year-old farm boy Bible-thumping New Ager (John Smith) from Iowa who believes, though a series of 'accidents' that Atti is his Spirit Helper, sent from another planet by the Heavenly Father, and that his calling is to be a stand-up comic.  

JFK IS ALIVE!  He's been kidnapped, tortured and he's pissed! He wants justice and revenge! 
Professor Jack-an old coot hiding out in the contemporary New Mexican desert-claims to be John F. Kennedy, kidnapped after a double was assassinated in 1963.  He remembers being given mind-altering drugs, facial surgery and an ultimatum---to NEVER enter ANY political area again, 
or harm will come to those closest to him.  
He knows who did it, and they are in the highest positions of global power.

Some of the ghosts from Dr. John's past are dead, and some very much in the land of the living.  Their arrival and activities are part of a larger 'work in progress' in which John is to be the main player, the fate of the world as he knows it in the balance.

An introspective, intelligent, kind-hearted, but somewhat arrogant New York Times Journalist (Michael Craven) is on a long-needed vacation in the Middle East with his hot, young, optimistic Arkansas wife (Crystal).   Aside from Michael�s reluctance to loosen up, it's a good time for the couple, until Crystal pulls her head-heavy new hubby into a street fair where he sees an ancient vest that he HAS to have with a design that looks familiar to his cynical eye.  Its pocket soon contains a book deposited by an illusive street dancer about the legendary (and probably fictional) Ancient Civilization of Jenada.

The continuing saga of John Baldino, MD, Ph.D. and now an agent working with other officially-dead scientists to get the bottom of a suspicious epidemic of brain tumors on an isolated Apache Indian Reserve, specially chosen for his intellect, moral fiber and neurologically-verified ability to cross the life-death line.

In 1933, Dieter thought that his trench-mate from 1914, Adolf Hitler, would see that reason is the best way to bring Germany to its true potential.  By 1943, Dieter has acquired a medical degree, a prestigious career as a neuroscientist and the realization that the Housepainter  (a once-aspiring artistic painter) must be stopped.   From INSIDE of the collective German mind, a mind that has been perverted into moral �mush� by the most effectively designed propaganda machinery in history.

A rebellious American spy gets into Hitler's bedroom and becomes impregnated with his baby. Stranded on the Russian Front as the German Army, the Red Army and Armies of uncertain alliances converge, the price on Karen�s head and the child/demon seed in her womb escalates, her strength diminishes and she becomes increasingly dependent on her protectors, some assigned by Washington, some by London and some by chance encounters with Red Army and Partisan units.  The only person who, so it seems, has her interest at heart, is the child, so she thinks�and hopes.

It�s Spring,, 1967. Another season for American ex-patriot hippie-classical music composer/conductor Alan Kewalski to wow international audiences with his unique brand of rockingly-rebellions Beethoven et al.   A former American draft resistor who went to jail for his convictions, Alan spends his days working with stuffy classical musicians afflicted with dull out virus, his nights with young revolutionaries-in-training who desperately need his help in areas artistic, political and moral.   In his �spare� time, Alan taunts Captain Spiros, a glory-seeking Fascist whose political views keep him from advancing up the ranks, but whose manipulative and sadistic skills keep him from getting discharged.

Old Man Dan was a decorated Korean War veteran way back in the 1950s, then moved to the booming working-man's-Paradise of Huntingshire, Long Island, then the woods where a man could commune with Nature and become the rugged individualist that he wanted to be.   A well-liked and highly skilled and eccentric handyman, Dan broke no laws for forty years, at least not outside the walls of his own house, a dwelling now in a �living beautification� zone, on a plot of land that someone very powerful wants, at any price, or will obtain by any means.

A Wagon Train of Union-supporting sodbusters led by an ex-slave/self-taught Scholar, Homer, on its way from St Louis to California just after the Civil War has to join forces with Mac McCloud and his all-ex-Confederate free-range cattle outfit in order to survive.   Battling hostile Indians with secret scores to settle and Mother Nature on a PMS rampage is hard enough.   
There's an enemy within the camp, killing cowboys and sodbusters alike in ways that are painful, horrifying and for reasons no one can figure out.   

Albert Einstein and a shipwrecked English Sea captain find themselves stranded on a South Pacific 'paradise' island, Concladia, where the inhabitants know nothing about competition. But the contest between Captain White and Albert will determine fate of the undiscovered Concladians, and the world they know nothing about. so far.

In a futuristic age where Democrats and Republicans have equally screwed up an expanding and corrupt American Empire (the UAU, which now includes Canada and most of Latin America), a popular Native American stand up comic (Whitey Green) runs for President but is in need of publicity.    An intelligent, homeless, burnt out Army veteran sharpshooter (Ivan Schaumburg) is hired to shoot Whitey to give his cause publicity, until something goes wrong with the ‘assassination’ plot, plummeted Ivan into a web of intrigue in which the Presidency becomes even more corrupt than ever, with even more dangerous consequences for the citizens of the UAU unless the real operators behind the scene are found out, and neutralized.

Ashley is an interverted 18 year old classical music performer/composer with enormous amounts of talent,. a big heart, but a severely underdeveloped mind with regard to how people manipulate and hurt each other, still living at home with no plans to leave.  Her mother (Elena)is a failed concert pianist who envies her daughters talents, and looks, who lost her shot at being artistic and recognized when she married Ashley’s father, Steve, a manipulative and abusive mobster.   After finally divorsing Steve, Elena and Ashley are asked to be a ‘Classical Judds’ duo for the big time stage by another mob-connected promoter, a plan which would work for everyone except for the fact that Elena is highly competitive with her daughter and will do anything to win at contests artistic, and romantic.    Ashley and Elena are forced to face the most intense mother-daughter issues imaginable while they attempt to pull themselves out from under the thumb of several men who are using them professionally, and otherwise, for the most evil of purposes.