The giant hydroelectric dam in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River has been controversial since construction began in the early 1990s; but now, as it nears completion some two decades later, a warm winter and a diminished Himalayan snowpack have cut the Great River’s volume by half, bringing all the critics worst fears to realization… German hydrologist Hans Fruehauf is sent to China to assess problems at the dam for one of the project’s big investors. Hans decides to travel the length of the Yangtze to view and analyze the altered watershed. Yet what begins as an engineering study of the serpent-like river rapily becomes a dangerous voyage into the Asian underworld and a dark forbidden romance.

Taming the Dragon

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

ARMSTRONG, DAN

Thrillers & Suspense

iUniverse, Inc.

“Gripping, compelling; this is the populist novel of the 21st century, and this author is the new Upton Sinclair. With the excitement of a James Bond thriller, this novel takes the reader from the wheat fields of Kansas to the bedrooms of those who own the international banking system, meanwhile involving the world’s stock exchanges, the commodities market, the massive world drug trade, the intelligence community, and a presidential campaign. While this novel is as fresh as the morning paper, you will not find it there. This is well informed, deep background set against the objective fact of the rapidly diminishing world grain reserves, climate change, and peak oil.” —Wm. H. Kötke, author of The Final Empire

Prairie Fire

An irreverent seventieth anniversary tribute to the popular canned meat celebrates everything from the SPAM fan club to Monty Python's Broadway production, SPAMalot, in an illustrated volume that describes the product's history, advertising campaigns, and favorite recipes. 30,000 first printing.

The Book of Spam: A Most Glorious and Definitive Compendium of the World's Favorite Canned Meat

Humor & Entertainment

Black, Dustin

Humor

Atria Books

It's the first year of India's independence from England. The creation of two nations, India for the Hindus, Pakistan for the Muslims, has become a nightmare of ethnic clashes and terrorism. Just as the violence is showing signs of easing, Gandhi is assassinated. With the entire subcontinent teetering on the edge of chaos, Roger Taylor, an American working for the British intelligence service, is called on to defuse a series of death fasts protesting the partition of India-something that can only add tension to an already volatile situation. When the hardboiled Taylor arrives in the sacred city of Haridwar to confront the protesters, he encounters a woman who completely disarms him with her goodwill and depth of spirit. What begins as a political mission for Taylor unexpectedly becomes an excursion into Tibetan metaphysics and a life-changing glimpse into the workings of the wheel of life and death.

Chain of Souls

Literature & Fiction

United States

Mud City Press

The winter is unseasonably warm in central Asia. The Himalayan snowpack is diminished by a quarter. The spring run-off is down and the summer rains late. Water shortages stress grain crops across the center of the continent and into China. Concerns for the Asian harvest ripple through the world markets like a twenty-dollar spike in the price of light sweet crude. In America's heartland, ex-Army Colonel Nathaniel Cromwell and his eighteen year-old son farm eight hundred acres of corn and wheat. This year, as he has the last five, Cromwell sold ninety percent of his summer harvest cash advance in January to finance planting in the spring. Now in June, as the price of wheat breaks twelve dollars a bushel, Cromwell curses the day he must harvest his fields at four-twenty-six, because it will be the grain dealers and speculators, not the farmers, who will reap the profits of Asia's grain shortage. Cromwell awakens on the twenty-second of June to broad daylight at two a.m. A wall of fire stretches across the western horizon. His neighbor Tom Foster has torched twelve hundred acres of wheat in protest of the market mechanisms. It is the third field burning in two weeks. But this one is different. Foster stays in his fields after setting them aflame. Three days later, at Foster's funeral, the President of the National Grange approaches Cromwell. The farmers are trying to organize a strike. They need someone to provide leadership. Awarded a Medal of Honor in 2002 and dishonorably discharged in 2004 for speaking out against US military operations in the Central Asia, Cromwell is a man with national recognition to the masses and a rebel hero's spark among the farmers. He accepts the Grange's request to run the strike. A week later, with no warning, the Non-partisan Farmer's Alliance burns a million acres of ripe winter wheat. That evening on nationwide TV, Cromwell tells the grain industry, the government, and the shocked TV audience that the alliance will methodically burn their crops from Ohio to Oregon if there isn't an immediate restructuring of the grain market. The grain industry and the Secretary of Agriculture condemn the burning. The Director of Homeland Security labels the striking farmers domestic terrorists. A federal warrant is put out for Cromwell's arrest.

Puddle of Love

Almost everyone at some time in his or her life has entertained the idea of an encounter with the supernatural. For most, these are just passing fancies—a glance at the astrology column in the local newspaper or an evening of fun with a Ouija board. For myself, it has always been more than that. Since my childhood I have wanted to witness something from beyond the pale—to observe a demonstration of telekinesis or see a UFO—anything that would allow me a peek behind the veil of ordinary reality. And yet, despite my willingness to believe in something more, until I actually had hard evidence of the other side, I could be no more than a hopeful skeptic. And that is what these stories are about, exploring the unexplained, knowing the unknowable...

The Open Secret: And Twelve Other Tales of the Unknown

It’s two hundred and ten years before the birth of Christ. Rome’s second war with Carthage is in its eighth year. Hannibal’s army, yet to know defeat, roams the Italian peninsula ravaging the farmland and pressuring Latin cities to abandon their loyalty to Rome. Marcus Claudius Marcellus, just back from a successful siege of Carthaginian controlled Syracuse, demands that the Roman Senate give him an army to confront the Carthaginian chieftain and finally force him out of Italy. Over the next two years, Marcellus and his two legions pursue Hannibal’s army in a subtle game of cat and mouse—Hannibal seeking perfect ground for battle, Marcellus daring to challenge a man who has tricked one Roman general after another. Three times the two armies clash with no decisive outcome. Facing recall in Rome for his inability to finally defeat Hannibal, Marcellus vows before the People’s Assembly to destroy Hannibal’s army in the coming spring. Despite growing criticism from his enemies in the Senate, Marcellus is given one last chance to achieve what he believes is his destiny. Timon Leonidas, a Greek refugee from the war, travels with Marcellus and his army as a scribe and mapmaker through three tension-filled campaigns. Timon tells the tragic story of one of Rome’s greatest field marshals, detailing Marcellus’ political battles, his strained family life, and his obsessive quest for unparalleled glory on the battlefield.

The Eyes of Archimedes Book II: The Death of Marcellus

Genre Fiction

It’s late in the third century before Christ. Rome’s war with Carthage has gone on far too long. Thirteen years have passed since Hannibal’s invasion of Italy, and he’s still there, plundering the farmland and terrorizing the inhabitants. Publius Cornelius Scipio, recently back from casting the Carthaginians out of Spain, now wants a chance at Hannibal. Fighting strong resistance in the Roman Senate, Scipio demands an opportunity to invade Africa and besiege Carthage, promising this will force Hannibal to leave Italy and come to the rescue of his homeland. Such is Scipio’s popularity and his reputation as an up-and-coming general, the Senate cannot refuse him. He is given the authority to raise an army and sail for Africa. Meanwhile, Timon Leonidas, once Archimedes’ slave, and more recently a scribe for the deceased Marcellus Claudius, has gained attention as a mapmaker. Scipio, desperately needing accurate maps of North Africa, tracks down Timon and asks him to travel to Africa with him. Despite recently reuniting with his mother after six years of separation, Timon gives in to Scipio’s charm and signs onto the campaign. Just as Scipio predicted, his invasion of Africa draws Hannibal back to Carthage. The two generals maneuver across the African plains with armies of forty thousand men, finally confronting each other outside the city of Zama to determine the outcome of the war in a battle that rivals any in history for its impact on the direction of western civilization.

The Eyes of Archimedes Book III: Zama

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Taming the Dragon

Prairie Fire

The Book of Spam: A Most Glorious and Definitive Compendium of the World's Favorite Canned Meat

Chain of Souls

Prairie Fire

Puddle of Love

Taming the Dragon

The Open Secret: And Twelve Other Tales of the Unknown

The Eyes of Archimedes Book II: The Death of Marcellus

The Eyes of Archimedes Book III: Zama