Author: Leonard J. Gill
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: recollections, rollicking
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 1553956559
ISBN-13: 9781553956556

More humorous snapshots of a boy growing up in Kenya, and the people he meets on his way to adulthood form a joyous and often engrossing celebration of life in general. "The book covers the emergence of the young adult years of my life from 1940, the attitudes I adopted, and events I and my family experienced, together with tales about some of the famous and infamous characters we met. My own adventures in which I faced serious injury and even death didn’t make me more circumspect. I walked through life confident in my immortality, like a cat with twenty-nine lives, and with

Author: Scott A Roberts
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Keywords: hare, tam, adventures, rollicking
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1600372899
ISBN-13: 9781600372896

Filled with swashbuckling action, pirates, and high seas battles, this fanciful tale is set against the historic backdrop of 16th-century Ireland, Scotland & England, where the English are foxes, wolves, and hawks, and the Irish and Scots are rabbits, squirrels, badgers, and bears.

Author: Robert San Souci
Publisher: August House
Keywords: clever, females, tales, rollicking, tricksters, sister
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2006-10-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 087483791X
ISBN-13: 9780874837919

We are all very familiar with the classic male trickster characters such as Brer Rabbit, Anansi, and even Bugs Bunny. In this collection, Robert San Souci, the author of many award-winning retellings of legends and folktales for children, teams up with his brother, Daniel, to show us that the fairer sex can be just as clever and resourceful as their male counterparts.

Author: Nile Southern
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: candy, notorious, novel, times, life, men, rollicking
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 155970604x
ISBN-13: 9781559706049

A Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire’s Candide, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg’s Candy became one of the most famous novels of the tumultuous 1960’s. Detailing its humble beginnings in Paris through its agonizing three-year writing gestation (often on paper napkins, lost or destroyed) and the authors’ wily business dealings first with French-based publisher Maurice Girodias, then Putnam is America, this book follows with unblinking scrutiny Candy’s underground (then mainstream) success, its blatant piracy, its legal shenanigans, and its all-star mo