War Lessons
How I Fought to Be a Hero and Learned That War Is Terror
Written by John Merson
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Military memoirs abound, but few prove to be trustworthy accounts free of spin, bravura, or military glitter. John Merson’s War Lessons takes a rare reflective approach to this pressing issue of our time. In vivid, unadorned prose, he interweaves his own experiences in war with thoughtful assessments of how to prevent...
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The Souvenir
A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
Written by Louise Steinman
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Louise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written...
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Sorcerer's Apprentice
My Life with Carlos Castaneda
Written by Amy Wallace
Price: $18.95
Frog Books
Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed “the Godfather of the...
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Alamut
Written by Vladimir Bartol
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with...
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The Mongoose Deception
Written by Robert Greer
Price: $25.95
Frog Books
When Cornelius McPherson, a former highway maintenance man, finds himself trapped in a tunnel he helped create decades earlier, he’s horrified to discover the well-preserved, frozen arm of a fellow worker. McPherson remembers a secret the man whispered to him—that he knew who assassinated John F. Kennedy. When McPherson also turns...
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The Nail and the Oracle
Volume XI: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Written by Theodore Sturgeon, Annotations by Paul Williams, Foreword by Harlan Ellison
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books
This book contains ten major stories by the master of science fiction, fantasy, and horror written during the 1960s. The controversial “If All Men We re Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?” shows the author’s technique of “ask the next question” used in a way that shatters social conventions...
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The New Jerusalem
A Millennium Poetic/Prophetic Travel Diario 1959-1962
Written by Robert Eisenman
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
This poetic diary documents Robert Eisenman’s life-changing backpacking journey through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in the early 1960s. Eisenman’s search for meaning took him to San Francisco and its Beat culture, to Paris, to Lebanon, Israel, and far beyond. The author's keen eye catches it all: pre-hippie hotels, midnight...
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Old Bears
The Class of 1956 Reaches its Fiftieth Renunion, Reflecting on the Happy Days and the Unhappy Days
Written by Dave Newhouse, Foreword by Darryl Brock
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Feeling a bit guilty about his own high-school experience, author Dave Newhouse searched out classmates from his graduating class, the class of 1956 at Menlo-Atherton High School, to find out what happened to them since high school. The stories run the gamut–some are tragic (three people have died since being interviewed)...
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Resurrecting Langston Blue
Written by Robert Greer
Price: $13.95
Frog Books
The casualties of war take many forms. When Amerasian ER doctor Carmen Nguyen suspects that her father, Langston Blue, who disappeared during the Vietnam War, may be alive, she hires cheroot-smoking, African-American bail bondsman and Vietnam vet CJ Floyd to help her find him. CJ’s discoveries aren’t pretty: Carmen’s father was...
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If I Never Get Back
A Novel
Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and...
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Two in the Field
A Novel
Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
In this sequel to the best-selling If I Never Get Back, Sam Fowler manages to break into the past once again—but this time it’s 1875. Gripped by an economic depression, America is a darker place. Again Sam falls in with ballplayers, but spins off on his own seeking the whereabouts of...
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In Memoriam
Norman O. Brown
Edited by Jerome Neu
Price: $10.00
North Atlantic Books
Norman O. Brown was a scholar, poet and revolutionary who made a lasting impression on the sixties generation. His distinctive fusion of Marxism, psychoanalysis and classical literature inspired students across the United States and in Europe to participate in the political upheaval of that time. His books, including Love’s Body and...
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Westport Poems
Written by Jonathan Towers
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
A beloved, familiar figure known as “Jon the Walker” for his daily appearances traversing the marshes and waterways of various Connecticut towns, Jonathan Towers composed brief, emotionally evocative poems until his suicide in 2005 after years of struggle with mental illness. His work was fueled by reading and a rich inner...
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Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams
Reflections on American Ideals
Written by Don Johnson
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Finding his idealism challenged by the reactionary forces that have proliferated in the post-9/11 world, Don Hanlon Johnson felt a need to recover more sober visions of hope amid the many reasons for despair and cynicism. Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams is a bracing backward turn toward the diverse and often conflicting...
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The Devil's Backbone
A CJ Floyd Mystery
Written by Robert Greer, Foreword by Manuel Ramos
Price: $13.95
Frog Books
When Hambone Dolbey, a rodeo star with a deathly fear of water, turns up in a wet suit, floating in water, and quite dead, his friends know something is fishy. Two of them ask CJ Floyd to find their friend's killer. CJ quickly discovers that the dead man's colorful past encompassed...
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The Fourth Perspective
A CJ Floyd Mystery
Written by Robert Greer
Price: $24.95
Frog Books
CJ Floyd's antique and Western collectibles store is finally open and he's left bail bonding and bounty hunting far behind—or so he thinks. An old book he buys turns out to contain much more than a dry history of 19th-century Montana: tucked inside is a never-before-seen photograph from the Golden Spike...
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Crack City
Written by Renay Jackson
Price: $14.95
Frog Books
Sex, violence, and drugs reign supreme in this engrossing depiction of an urban underworld. Lorraine has it all: a devoted husband, a comfortable home, a secure job, and a hot body. When she and her coworker Allison go out to lunch one day, they bump into Lorraine’s cousin, Dirty Don, and...
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Lessons Out of School
From Detroit Gangs to New Healing Paradigms - Life Stories of Dr. John E. Upledger
Written by John E. Upledger, As told to Barry Kaplan and Charles Stein
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
John Upledger has never avoided risks, whether performing an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane, as he did while on Coast Guard duty in the 1950s, or telling the story of his life. In Lessons Out of School, he doesn't spare himself or others, or gloss over unpleasant bits. Raised...
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I, Stagolee
A Novel
Written by Cecil Brown
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
It's the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee "Stagolee" Shelton, a St. Louis pimp, murders Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Afterwards, Stagolee makes a deal with Judge Murphy to bring order to the underworld. As a member of a group of pimps called the "Stags," Stagolee makes alliances...
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Cutting Remarks
Insights and Recollections of a Surgeon
Written by Sidney Schwab
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
"A surgeon can kill you...and you'll sleep right through it."
The most dramatic—and seemingly glamorous—of medical fields, surgery captivates the public's imagination. Written for inquisitive laymen as well as anyone in the medical profession, this fascinating first-person account documents the career of one of America's top surgeons. Readers accompany Sidney Schwab through...
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Peanut's Revenge
Written by Renay Jackson
Price: $13.95
Frog Books
A blistering follow-up to Turf War, Peanut's Revenge opens with the release of criminal kingpin Big Ed Tatum from jail after the only witness to his crime is murdered. What's his first task as a free man? To track down his rival Silky, who soon turns up dead. Silky's woman, Melody...
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Goodbye
In Search of Gordon Jenkins
Written by Bruce Jenkins
Price: $25.95
Frog Books
Goodbye combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when...
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Primal Tears
Written by Kelpie Wilson
Price: $13.95
Frog Books
A cross between a human and a bonobo? Carl Sagan and others have speculated: Is it possible? What kind of creature would it be? And how might this affect our world? Kelpie Wilson takes the premise and runs with it in this engaging novel. Primal Tears is the story of Sage...
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Resurrecting Langston Blue
Written by Robert Greer
Price: $23.95
Frog Books
Carmen Nguyen never knew her father, Langston Blue, an army sergeant presumably killed in Vietnam. Enlisting the help of Denver's CJ Floyd, a streetwise African American bail bondsman and Vietnam vet, and Flora Jean Benson, CJ's new partner, Carmen charts a course to find her father—a complex, dangerous course that untangles...
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The Devil's Red Nickel
Written by Robert Greer, Foreword by Stephen White
Price: $13.95
Frog Books
When a beautiful woman hires CJ Floyd to look into the death of her famed DJ father, CJ soon discovers that the death of "Daddy Doo-Wop" is part of a bigger story, one that reaches back to Chicago in the fifties when the Mob called the tune. From payola to paychecks...
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