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  • After Oz

    A Novel

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    This gripping and emotionally riveting tale is a dark and timely retelling of The Wizard of Oz, where one little girl is forced to face head on the prejudices of the Midwest in the late nineteenth century.Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. As the days pass, the Gales are increasingly terrified the worst has happened. But when the girl ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Joy In Mudville

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    A blend of history, myth, and magic, JOY IN MUDVILLE offers a strikingly original vision of America--as familiar as our fondest memories, as wondrous as our wildest dreams.Set in the 1930s, JOY IN MUDVILLE is the story of three Chicagoans whose weary lives are changed forever by a vision in the sky. Something wonderful. Filled with hope and fear, each leaves home to pursue a glowing star that will ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tell-Tale Start

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    Illustrated by Sam Zuppardi ...
    Series Book 1 - The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe
    Meet Edgar and Allan Poe -- twelve-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe. They look and act so much alike that they're almost one mischievous, prank-playing boy in two bodies. When their beloved black cat, Roderick Usher, is kidnapped and transported to the Midwest, Edgar and Allan convince their guardians that it's time for a road trip. Along the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Woman with a Blue Pencil

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    “Woman with a Blue Pencil is a brilliantly structured labyrinth of a novel—something of an enigma wrapped in a mystery, postmodernist in its experimental bravado and yet satisfyingly well-grounded in the Los Angeles of its World War II era. Gordon McAlpine has imagined a totally unique work of ‘mystery’ fiction—one that Kafka, Borges, and Nabokov, as well as Dashiell Hammett, would have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Holmes Entangled

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    From the Edgar®-nominated author of Hammett Unwritten and Woman with a Blue Pencil comes a startling meta-fiction tale told in the voice of Sherlock Holmes. Set in 1920s' London, Cambridge, and Paris, Holmes's final adventure leads him through labyrinths of crime and espionage in a mortally dangerous inquiry into the unseen nature of existence itself. Sherlock Holmes, now in his seventies, retired ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Way of Baseball

    Finding Stillness at 95 mph

    by Shawn Green ...
    Shawn Green’s career statistics can be found on the backs of baseball cards in shoe boxes across America: 328 home runs, 1,071 RBIs, .282 career batting average, All-Star, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger. . . . But numbers tell only part of the story.His path to success was as grounded in philosophical study as in ballpark wisdom. Striving to find stillness within the rip-roaring scene of Major League ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hammett Unwritten

    by Gordon McAlpine, Owen Fitzstephen ...
    A worthless bird statuette -- the focus of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. And much more. As Dashiell Hammett closes his final case as a private eye, the details of which will later inspire his most famous book, he acquires at a police auction the bogus object of that case, an obsidian falcon statuette. He casually sets the memento on his desk, where for a decade it bears witness to his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Once Upon a Midnight Eerie

    Book #2

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    Illustrated by Sam Zuppardi ...
    Series Book 2 - The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe
    A perfect choice for smart, funny tweens who love Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket.In The Tell-Tale Start, Edgar and Allan Poe (great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe) managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who was (and is) determined to kill just one of them, in order to prove a mad scientific theory. Now the boys are in New Orleans, about to play ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Pet and the Pendulum

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    Illustrated by Sam Zuppardi ...
    Series Book 3 - The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe
    In The Tell-Tale Start, twins Edgar and Allan Poe foiled the nefarious Professor Perry, who wanted to use them in his deadly quantum entanglement experiment. In Once Upon a Midnight Eerie, they took on his equally evil mother and daughter. Now, in The Pet and the Pendulum, it's time for the real showdown, which takes place in an old mansion right outside Baltimore. As with the first two books, The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Seconds from Winning

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    Narrated by Highlights for Children ...
    Series series Read With Highlight

    Unabridged

    4 min

    Paxton won't be satisfied with second place in the go-kart race today...but can he beat Mark who has more sponsors and a better kart? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    After Oz

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    Narrated by Maria Ru-Djen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 43 min

    This gripping and emotionally riveting tale is a dark and timely retelling of The Wizard of Oz, where one little girl is forced to face head-on the prejudices of the Midwest in the late nineteenth century.Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. As the days pass, the Gales are increasingly terrified the worst has happened. But when the girl ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Scale Up Millionaire

    How To Sell Your Way To A Fast Growth, High Value Enterprise

    by Gordon McAlpine ...
    Narrated by Gordon McAlpine ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 40 min

    HOW WOULD IT FEEL TO MASTER SELLING, TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR BUSINESS GROWTH AND BECOME A SCALE UP MILLIONAIRE? Gordon McAlpine is a self-made, successful entrepreneur who has been there and done it. By starting up, growing and exiting a highly successful global technology company without any funding from investors or the bank, he has personally proved that the organic Scale Up of a business really ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus