Author: Alan Grossberg
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: refrain, endless
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2005-09-26
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0595369308
ISBN-13: 9780595369300

Polk is an old semi-literate Greek immigrant and disillusioned Communist who hungers for respect, especially from young Rudy, whom he likes to think of as his son. Rudy, whose father died young, hungers for the life experience of this strangely appealing social misfit. The two spend a day in Coney Island seeking not so much amusement as each other. Polk’s resistance to telling the unpalatable truth about himself is matched by the boy’s insistence on hearing it, as well as by his youthful dream of a perfect revolutionary society, even if that must trample hapless individuals like Polk.

Author: Lono Waiwaiole
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: refrain, wiley
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-11-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312349092
ISBN-13: 9780312349097

Wiley is a professional poker player in Portland who walks the seedy streets of the city+s darker side. He+s no stranger to violence, but he+s got a good heart and a noble streak that his friends and family know is a mile long. When he teams up with his best friend Leon, their enemies often see a streak of a different sort. The two are both beloved and feared among those who know them. The murder of a young musician puts Wiley in a vengeful frame of mind and when the evidence trail points to Hawaii, a place where Wiley has never set foot but which seems lately to be calling him home, he heads