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George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen—that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his friends should he send up the river? Told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of lowlifes and detectives, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the greatest crime novels ever written.

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Time Pilgrims is unique in the time travel genre. It features a blend of fantasy, action, humor, and romance. Time Pilgrim, Katya is a strong, independent young woman plagued with a condition known as temporal amnesia. She can’t remember which year she is from and is desperately trying to locate her family. Because of Katya’s time displacement and amnesia, she has not matured beyond the age of twenty-two. She becomes a sponge in every time period she visits, soaking up the culture and instantly becoming one with the period. Beautiful Time Pilgrim, Cathy Callahan found love at the most ...

Dancer, Travis Blaszkiewicz (AKA SWAY) had two passions in his life: his childhood friend and dance partner, Katy, and dancing with the legendary Ginger Rogers. The problem was that Ginger Rogers died before Sway was even born. However, strong passions can lead to amazing things, and Sway finds himself face-to-face with the object of his dreams, Ginger Rogers, in front of the old RKO Picture Studio actor’s entrance. Sway and Ginger quickly become close friends as he gets a job as a stagehand for one of her and Fred Astaire’s pictures. Meanwhile, Sway still has business in his own time, ...

Have you ever been scammed? I am not an internet scammer. I only play one in this book. To research my character, Larry Daniels, I infiltrated the seedy underworld of the scammer and allowed myself to be scammed over and over again. This book is a result of my social media experiment. It is also a romance… if one can believe a book about scammers can cut through the internet fakeness and involve true love. My hope is that this book helps people to avoid losing their hearts and their money.

The Adventures of Black Lace (A Steampunk Alice Book) Lacey Straight was just a boring, 9 to 5 type woman. Her freshwater fish was the most exciting thing in her tedious life. That all changed the day her twin sister, Alice, brought her to Mindbender for the adventure of a lifetime. When Alice's steampunk past comes calling, Lacey becomes Black Lace and is left to fend for herself in this world from a pseudo time. Undaunted, she takes to her new and magical surroundings as a Siamese fighting fish takes to water, leaving outlaws, air pirates, and a host of unique individuals in her wake. She...

The Old Scrapbook is real. The characters within its pages were real as well. This story is an attempt to fill in the blanks of their actual relationship. Bet and Ray met, fell in love, and got engaged until a war separated them, World War II. Seventy years later, the old scrapbook was found, and the mysteries involved rediscovered. I became obsessed with the scrapbook and what could have become of the young woman, Bet, who created it. I felt that woman was somehow guiding me as I wrote the story. That’s how I felt from the beginning, like I was led to that war-time scrapbook by an ...

Touched: an Angel StoryThis stand-alone sequel to Guardian: An Angel Story is heavily influenced by the popular CBS television series Touched by an Angel. This story finds Monika, Raphael, and former guardian angel, Charmeine, doing case work. Monika is Charmeine’s supervisor, and Raphael has been reassigned as an angel of death. Their first assignment is to care for a young girl who is sold into the seedy world of human trafficking. The angels also appear in their old supervisor’s red Cadillac Eldorado convertible in other assignments where people need angelic help. Touched: an Angel ...

A third-year nursing student, Emma Wilson was excellent in her field. Working rotations in the Chicago Southside hospital, she became fascinated with eight student nurses of the past whose black and white photos were on display in the hospital’s cafeteria. She cared too much for her patients, however, and passion overtook her when she lost one of them. As tears and distress overwhelmed her emotions, she gazed at the photos on the wall and lost consciousness. When she came to, she was looking up at the faces of two of the nurses from the wall. She had somehow entered the body of a ...

“She hugged Vee, as both Autobots cried out genuine feelings with synthetic tears.”The Automated Wife is a Controversial science fiction, love story about Mark, a freelance journalist for The New Mexico Journal of Science, who falls in love with a fully conscious female Autobot. The story’s backdrop is a future reality that is 100% matriarchal. Mark is part of that existence. AI technology had become a reality, but when a fully aware, sentient Autobot came into existence, the science world was shaken to its core. Mark had become a living part of that world. He grappled with two ...

“Suddenly she felt something like a beckoning to the inner pantry door within the den. It was as if it called to her.” Indie author Maren Brown is overjoyed when she receives a letter from her literary idol inviting her to meet with him to discuss a collaboration. Jack R. Croft has made millions from his time-travel novels and Maren is amazed at how realistic his books are. However, the truth is stranger than fiction, and there is a LOT more to Jack’s proposition than it initially seems. Who is Jack Croft and what is his connection to Maren? Why is his housekeeper so frosty towards ...

Frank Capra’s, It’s a Wonderful Life was the ultimate parallel universe story. George Bailey was shown by an angel a world in which he had never been born. A world where the cute little town of Bedford Falls no longer existed and in its place was the seedy town of Pottersville. But imagine if Pottersville still existed in the current age, along another path of existence. Welcome to Pottersville, a town owned and operated by Peter F. Potter. A sleazy, corrupt town where Christmas was discouraged and people were miserable. What if Potter was taken to this town, in a world in which he had ...

STEAMPUNK ALICE By Dennis Higgins Light, fun Steampunk adventure, loosely based on another classic Alice in a land of wonder. Wild West and pseudo~Victorian fantasy fun for all who enter these pages. Fully illustrated in LIVING COLOR from multiple sources, including renowned multi-genre author, Virginia Wright.

Wind your way through this fun, often humorous, satirical romp of various all-inclusive holidays – a full year’s worth, often breaking the 4th wall with loads of Hollywood-type “Easter Eggs.” Each tale is interconnected, reading as one single cohesive story. Read it and review it with one star, if you wish. Also, back by popular demand: Includes brand new Time Pilgrims’ adventures.

Time Travel the Mother Road. When the spring of 1946 comes, Katherine Callahan decides to leave her loving husband and newborn baby so that she may embark upon an unknowingly tragic journey across the famous American highway from Chicago to her sister’s home in Burbank. She never does arrive. Fast forward into the present, Kevin Callahan, Katherine’s grandson, along with his best friend Cheryl Bachman, traces his grandmother’s steps along the now decommissioned road to uncover the mystery surrounding her disappearance. They are armed with only a handful of postcards from Katherine and...

Charley Huxley had two mysteries in his life that have never been solved. The first one was about his sister, Linda, who died when they were both children. The only thing his parents would reveal was that she succumbed to a horrific accident. Charley and Linda had been close siblings, and he desperately needed to find the answers. Charley’s second mystery concerned the true love of his life. Back in 1969, a young hip girl stepped out of the Meeman-Shelby Forest in Memphis, Tennessee, and into his heart. She called herself Moon Beam. After a long, wonderful conversation, she faded back ...

A heart-pounding time-travel, romance mystery. Ian had reached a higher level of love for Eunice, a love that was pure. His feelings for her were beyond that of a friend, sister, or lover. It was a love, devoid of the labels most people need to put to their feelings. That’s what he told her the last time he saw her back in 2019 or was it 1984 since Ian believed Eunice was a time-traveler. She came to him when he was eight years old in a vacant lot near his house, and when she left, he spent the rest of his days searching for her. He solicited the help of a friend, Jill, a fragrance expert...

Eleven amazing stories of intrigue for the eleventh release of Author Dennis Higgins. Wonderfully crafted stories, which include: Time Travel, Paranormal Romance, Ghost/Horror Stories, Historical, and True Stories. Experiences include a time-traveling room, Chicago Gangsters, a famous rock star that never was, an actual angel encounter, email romance across time, spine-tingling horror, a ghost story from the phantasm’s point of view…and more. Your amazement is guaranteed.

Robby’s guardian angel, Charmeine was born in Heaven just prior to her charge. His special Angel of Harmony came to the earthly plane to watch over him all the days of his centenarian life—and beyond. From childhood through the Great Depression and as a soldier during World War II, to his life as a St. Louis police officer, Charmeine was by his side. She guided him against a temptress demon and was with him through two remarkable women during his long life.

Retrofuturism is the past's vision of the future. It's what the people of yesterday thought today would look like. The Chicago Cultural Center building was once the main branch of the Chicago Public Library. During major renovations, eight mysterious books were found behind a wall on the lower level. Nobody took much interest in the old books until they ended up on the desk of Dorothy Burnett, the Center’s main historian. She discovered that the books were written in the 1930s by an unfamiliar author named Jack Eldridge who penned detailed, retrofuturistic visions of what life would be ...