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Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Maryis $26.95 in hardcover with dustjacket from Lulu.com. is $14.95 in trade paper format. Click on the cover image to buy a copy from Amazon.com, where qualifying orders over $25 get free shipping. is $2.99 as an eBook in Kindle format. |
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Berlin in Early Cold-War Army Booklets: 1946-1958is $14.95 in trade paper format. Click on the cover image to go to Amazon.com and buy a copy. |
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The Day Before the Berlin Wall: Could We Have Stopped It? -- An Alternate History of Cold War Espionageis $9.95 in trade paper format. Click on the cover image to go to Amazon.com and buy a copy. is $2.99 as an eBook in Kindle format. |
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Once More Upon a Time
was a prize winner at the 2006 Hollywood Book Festival, which celebrates books that deserve greater recognition from the entertainment media.
It is a collection of contemporary fairy tales for young and old, from not so long ago, and not so very far away. Beware of trolls and computer malfunctions, goblins and swimming pools, gremlins and washing machines, winter sprites and refrigerators. These modern tales explain why the mouse ran up the clock at the Hickory, Dickory Dock, and why the cow jumped over the moon. Having read them, you will never look at birthdays or Halloween the same way again. These tales will take you to the Bounding Main and the Deep, Dark Forest, where you will learn if dead men really tell no tales. Go back to school with sorcerer's apprentices who have not mastered reading, with trolls who cannot spell, and lettered dragons. Those with a taste for the macabre can learn what happens to recycled vampire teeth and why the Grim Reaper uses modern technology.
Judge's comments:
"I found the concept of Once More Upon a Time intriguing. I was pleasantly surprised to find refreshingly new twists on plots of old fairy tales, with characters who were charming and spontaneous. Each story has its own plot, with new twists and turns that caught me off guard. Throughout the book, the characters seem compelling and interesting. The dialogue appears natural and not forced. Each story starts like a fairy tale beginning, and each ending has a take-away message. The storytelling is consistent throughout all the stories in the book. I found myself smiling at various points all the way through."
Read one of the stories here.
To buy a copy, click on the cover image. This will take you to the book's page on Amazon.com.




