Books

Made in the Bronx: The heist went wrong. The family they found went right.

Sal Bianchi knows how to run a crew.
He knows robberies, bookmakers, protection, and what happens when somebody breaks the rules.
What he doesn’t know is what to do with an alien.
It was supposed to be the score that put Sal and his boys back on the map: a mysterious warehouse, federal-level security, and something inside supposedly worth more than...

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The Continuity Problem: Teleportation was never the problem. Proving it was murder was.

When physicist Archer Bancroft perfects human teleportation, he believes he has changed the world forever.
Then his wife steps into the machine — and never comes out.
The science is undisputed. Bancroft’s invention doesn’t move a person from one place to another. It destroys the original and reconstructs an identical human being somewhere else,...

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Escalation: Every choice demands the next one.

Every choice demands the next one.

Elaine Hargrove thought she was buying her freedom.
After years trapped in a controlling marriage, she hires a professional killer to make her husband disappear. The murder goes exactly as planned.
Then the phone rings.
The killer has recorded everything. Every meeting. Every payment. Every word. And now he has a new assignment.
Kill a complete...

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Cato, A Tragedy: Honor demanded everything.

Rome was dying.
Julius Caesar had crushed every army sent against him, and only one man remained unwilling to kneel.
Within the walls of Utica, Cato gathered the last defenders of the Republic while Caesar’s legions closed in. Around him, loyalty faltered, conspiracies grew, forbidden loves blossomed, and every decision carried the weight of...

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Love & Wreckage: Love can save you. Love can ruin you. Sometimes it’s the same love.

When nineteen-year-old Osana leaves the Bronx with the man she believes will change her life, she thinks she’s finally escaped the poverty and chaos she grew up with. But one reckless decision shatters everything, leaving her stranded in Texas with a newborn daughter, no money, and nowhere to turn.
Back in the Bronx, surrounded by old temptations...

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From Sand to Shadows: They erased the town. They couldn’t erase the names.

A quiet town. A crashed military transport. A secret the government will kill to keep. From Sand to Shadows is a propulsive, deeply human thriller about power, silence, and the cost of a secret hidden beneath the American desert — told through the voices of the people who lived there, the officials who erased them, and the journalist who spent a...

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The Republic of Plato: Full Text of the Ten Books of Benjamin Jowett’s 1888 Translation

The Republic is the second longest of Plato’s works but likely the greatest of them all. It is a collection of ten books each containing dialogues arranged in certain groups representing some of the most important concepts ancient thinkers ever reached. There are many other writings on how these vital truths should be considered, but none of...

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The Republic of Plato: Benjamin Jowett’s ‘Introduction & Analysis’ based on his 1888 Translation

The Republic is the second longest of Plato’s works but likely the greatest of them all. It is a collection of ten books each containing dialogues arranged in certain groups representing some of the most important concepts ancient thinkers ever reached. There are many other writings on how these vital truths should be considered, but none of...

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Garbage Love: “You’re always one decision away from a different life.”

The pursuit of love can be a dangerous dance.
Jimmy is a sanitation worker in New York, with a wife and two young children. The classic image of the American Dream. For Jimmy, his life is monotonous and leaves him wondering if he will ever experience real passion.
Until one day he sees Osana, a beautiful young woman, from the wrong side of town,...

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Cato.: A modernized version of Joseph Addison‘s ‘Cato, a Tragedy’ in a 3 Act Format

The action of the play involves the forces of Cato at Utica, located in the kingdom of Numidia (current day Tunisia/Algeria region of Northern Africa). Cato, a Roman Statesman and follower of the Stoic philosophy, was on the losing side of a civil war against Julius Caesar. Cato sees Caesar as an enemy of the Roman Republic’s history of liberty,...

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Everyman Militant: An Adaptation of Ewing Rafferty’s 1916 Play

This one hour play is a modern English version of Ewing Rafferty’s 1916 play by the same name.
The plot revolves around how Vanity, Conquest, Wealth and the Leader of a people set out to and convince Everyman to carry out a plan for war to enrich themselves and have the common people bear all the pain and suffering for it.
It is (unfortunately) a...

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1787: The Signing: An Abridged Look at the Convention that formed America

The United States of America, after winning a long, expensive war with Great Britain to secure its newly declared freedom was finally on the road to a bright future, right? Not exactly. America’s first government was formed under the Articles of Confederation, but too much power was left with the wary States. This rendered the central government...

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