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  • Retreat from the Precipice
    Duke Southard
    On Sunday morning, October 14, 1962, two United States Air Force majors flew their U-2 spy planes over western Cuba and the San Cristobal area on a scheduled surveillance mission where previous intelligence gathering indicated suspicious activity. The results of that mission set in motion two weeks of events which are now commonly called the Cuban Missile Crisis.In Retreat from...
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    15,05 €

  • Tainted Justice
    Duke Southard
    High school senior Torrey Grimes has it all -- All-State athletic honors, early decision college acceptance at the University of Pennsylvania, National Honor Society, and potentially the valedictorian of his class. That is, he had it all until he begins dating the captain of the cheerleading squad. Herb Charbonneau, the girl’s father and a fan of Torrey’s athletic abilities, ta...
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    22,20 €

  • Making Teresa Disappear
    Duke Southard
    When seventeen-year-old Jill Hanson and two of her friends witness a fatal pedestrian accident, Jill sets out to prove that the victim was predestined to suffer that fate.Her belief is based on her classroom reading of Thorton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Several weeks later, she has another opportunity to investigate the same theory. A...
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    24,96 €

  • The Final Tipping Point
    Duke Southard
    Detective Parker Havenot never felt vulnerable as a lone defender of justice. He could handle the bad guys himself. But when he adopts three children and becomes a family man, his life becomes more complicated -- especially when Alex Prohl, a convicted murderer set on revenge, is released after only five years in prison. This story of vengeance takes a dramatic turn when Haveno...
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    16,62 €

  • The Fallacy of Closure
    Duke Southard
    Highly acclaimed for fiction filled with nuanced, believable characters, and suspenseful plots, author Duke Southard combines his stories for the first time alongside his compelling nonfiction essays in The Fallacy of Closure: And Other Award-Winning Short Stories and Essays.This eclectic collection comprises a variety of expertly crafted tales -- from a teacher's scary nig...
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    12,63 €

  • Cracks in the Wall
    Duke Southard
    When Linda Phillips is found brutally murdered in her home, it appears to be an open-and-shut case. However, potential suspects multiply as Detective Parker Havenot digs deeper. He is finally left with only circumstantial evidence in a well-planned and executed crime.However, Detective Havenot isn’t convinced by the circumstantial evidence. He has a hunch that Linda’s tragic de...
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    19,35 €

  • Live Free or Die
    Duke Southard
    Brad Wallace’s obsession with vengeance has cost him his marriage, his career, and his life. When he disappears beneath the surface of Lake Winnipesaukee, his former friends consider it a sad end to a life that went off the rails long ago.But Detective Parker Havenot isn’t convinced that the self-proclaimed agent for justice would give up so easily. He and his wife, Josie Walla...
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    20,69 €

  • Agent for Justice
    Duke Southard
    Bradford Wallace is a respected high school teacher who is sickened by the evils of society. Confronted by injustice at every turn -- assassinations, widespread racial discrimination, the escalation of the Vietnam War, the Kent State shootings -- he grows increasingly frustrated by his inability to make things right. When his wife goes into premature labor and delivers a stillb...
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    26,01 €

  • A Favor Returned
    Duke Southard
    Jennifer Proctor, a wispy yet hauntingly beautiful young girl of ten, already qualified as one of those rare saints on earth. She had developed a sense of compassion far beyond her years and, unlike most children her age, is completely unselfish. When she innocently applies a gift that she neither understands nor wants to save a young boy’s father from certain death in a raceca...
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    23,32 €

  • The Week from Heaven and Hell
    Duke Southard
    From the Author's Note of The Week from Heaven and Hell: I told my family that my goal was to provide a fitting tribute to an exceptional young man who deserved to live out his life, a good person who had much to offer this somewhat warped world...The tribute moves far beyond our beloved son, however, and the effect of the tribute would be diluted if any part of the story of ou...
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    9,57 €