Herder Publishing

By Tim Robinson

This was war. Real war.

This was Man (and Buddy) vs Armadillo.

In Gone with the Woof (A Bad Dog Book), historical fiction writer Tim Robinson, author of A Tropical Frontier series, takes us on a diversion from business-as-usual in the Series to his South Florida acreage, The Last Resort, with his best friend Buddy (who’s not really a bad dog at all), Grandma and the kids, Kitty (the cat), Cock-a-doodle-done-did (the rooster), Shawn O’Shady (a fox), Okee-Donkey, and the resident mockingbirds, squirrels, possums, and even an armadillo named Harlan through a highly entertaining romp that culminates (almost) in The Battle of Icky Springs against the evil and ominous “Sinister Six” from the property next door. It’s guaranteed to make you wish a three-hour drive lasted an extra hour and a half!!!

If you haven’t experienced Tim’s A Tropical Frontier series, time’s a wastin’. It begins with the Tales of Old Florida at the turn of the 18th century with the MacLeods, Dawsons, and Hackensaws settling the challenging but as yet unspoiled Biscayne Bay and progressing through the Civil War and into current times in South Florida. It’s truly compelling reading! Gone With the Woof is #22 in this outstanding series of novels and is followed by another “Bad Dog Book,” The Puppy That Cried Woof, #24 in the series.

By Tim Robinson

Buddy ain’t getting no younger…

In The Puppy That Cried Woof (A Bad Dog Book), another joyful diversion from business-as-usual in Tim Robinson‘s outstanding A Tropical Frontier series, Buddy, the hero of Gone with the Woof (A Bad Dog Book), gains an understudy! Although Grandpappy (and Buddy) isn’t (aren’t) all that excited about it, Grandma loads Annie, Jack, and Paul into the car for the trip to Uncle Joe’s to pick out a brand-new puppy for Buddy to train for life at The Last Resort.

“Mm-mm,” Uncle Joe mumbled, obviously pleased. “Now this here, kids, is a gooood dog. This here is the best dog of the lot, in my opinion. This one here’s got spunk.” He looked at the kids. “You kids know what spunk is?”

The new puppy, Uncle Joe’s pick of the litter, IS all that excited about her new home, fitting into the menagerie of critters on this South Florida acreage. It’s business as usual… …that is, until Carl the coyote begins a rampage that will require a heroic response. Spud Grant/Daisy Lou Tucker is up to the challenge, with the help of the same crew we met and loved in Gone with the Woof! Stand by and enjoy the ride.

Another one that’s perfect for the family on that five-hour trip in the car,

By Ashraf Elghandour

As you begin Ashraf Elghandour’s Tip of the Needle, you are introduced to two compelling widowers and fathers in the City of Hebron in Palestine’s Israeli-occupied West Bank: Rabbi Moshe Ackerman, a child of the concentration camps of Auschwitz who leads a congregation of Orthodox Jews, and his good friend, Imam Mohdi el-Shafique, who leads a nearby Islamic congregation. The heroes of TOTN are their sons, Addis Ackerman and Nader el-Shafique, brilliant high school students who attend the International School for the Gifted. After a life-altering event that changed the trajectory of their futures, both sons emigrate west to pursue their studies, setting the pieces of this compelling chess match in place.

The other two principal characters of TOTN are Sacha Zimmerman, Nader’s beautiful and gifted MIT classmate, and her father, American billionaire tech mogul, Zach Zimmerman. As Mr. Zimmerman pushes dangerous and profitable artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to a naïve international community, ignoring potential unintended consequences, he pursues a momentous campaign for the Presidency of the United States. Meanwhile, Dr. el Shafique, who teaches introductory physics and a class investigating Evidence of Science in Scripture at MIT, is appointed Science Advisor to the General Council of the United Nations. Dr. Ackerman, a professor of astrophysics, leads a research laboratory in Geneva, whose investigations include particle acceleration and the phenomena of black holes. Dr. Zimmerman has published a book based upon her doctoral dissertation entitled Tip of the Needle, which attempts to use electrochemical physiological markers to quantify forces of good and evil and the precarious balance between them.

While interpersonal relationships between the protagonists are enthralling, the danger and intrigue emanating from manipulation by the powerful antagonists drives the voracious page turning. The author deftly and creatively intersperses the story with scriptural quotes, largely conveyed in text messages to Nader from his father, the Imam, and revealed to be both omniscient and prophetic. As I neared the book’s unpredictable and thought-provoking conclusion, I was drawn to it overwhelmingly, as if by the irresistible forces of gravity. So much about the book provokes reflection on where, when, and how we live in the twenty-first century. How far are we from a tipping point?

By Dan Russell

In The Drug Propaganda Volume 1 Prohibition, “Dan Russell goes to the heart of the so-called ‘drug-problem’, really a ‘prohibition-problem’: extra-curricular drug- and gun-running by numerous governments, with that of the United States at the head of the list, its cynical and duplicitous ‘war on drugs’ notwithstanding – nought but a racist war on the poor and disenfranchised, both nationally and internationally, and withal a ‘war on the drug competition’; nor ought we to forget who invented modern money laundering shell-games, nor who profits the most from them. I urge you to read Dan Russell‘s shocking exposé – may it serve as a much-needed wake-up call!” Jonathan Ott, author/co-author of Pharmacophilia, or, The Natural Paradises, Pharmacotheon, Persephone’s Quest, The Road To Eleusis, Hallucinogenic Plants of North America, The Age of Entheogens, etc.

This scholarly work was painstakingly referenced and provided jaw-dropping details about names familiar to those of us who grew up in the time of the Kennedy assassination, the Viet Nam War, and conflicts in the Middle East. It is an historical work of art.