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 Based on Siegfried Kra's own childhood, Twilight in Danzig reveals life as a Jew during the beginning of Hitler's reign. Jonas Kruger's parents are scions of Danzig society, his father a coal merchant, his mother a lovely socialite. But the rise of Hitler forces them to examine their identity and face the most difficult decision of their lives: to stay in Germany in spite of Hitler's atrocities, to try to reform from within? Or to find a means of escape for the entire family, to flee penniless to a country that doesn't want them? 

In this novella by Gil Girion, a married couple living in Los Angeles is suddenly faced with a confusion within their relationship when the wife slips away in the middle of the night without an explanation, taking the dog with her. Her husband is confronted with questions as to where she is going and why she left. 

Mace Caslon is a successful New York attorney and a serious collector of art. So why does he decide to walk into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and spray acid over a $41 million painting by Picasso, in broad daylight, and in front of shocked museum-goers? And how does that act affect the lives of thousands of people, especially those close to him?

This novel is a virtual time machine that takes the reader back to 11th century England - the time of Saxon domination before and after the disastrous Battle of Hastings in 1066. Step directly into the footsteps of Cuthwin of Alnwick. There are few “great men or women” in this historical novel, but instead the story of an ordinary man and his wife who work to survive.

Sugar Mountain is a cautionary tale about an all-too-possible catastrophe: a deadly flu epidemic that starts in China and spreads throughout the world, slowly at first, then unbelievably fast. And there is no cure. People who prepare for such possibilities are variously referred to as “homesteaders”, “preppers”, or “survivalists”.