Book Review
The Teacher
by Todd Mercer
The people on the beach when the great tsunami surged ashore in Banda Aceh Indonesia no longer need lessons on navigating through life. The rest of us who were at a safe distance or had a solid tree to cling to filed away a new piece of...
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The 31st Man
by Todd Mercer
Korea in 1936 was an annexed and occupied land and had been since 1910 when Japan expanded and solidified their regional position in relation to rivals Russia and China. A group of thirty-one men attempted to declare Korea’s national...
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Righting Time
by Todd Mercer
The eventful third book in the Honor Bound series "Righting Time" extends the adventures of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers into a future both strange and familiar. Time travel is controlled by refined psychically able people from...
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Destination
by Todd Mercer
The Deutsche Democratic Republic during the Warsaw Pact era was a grey country steeped in mutual suspicion. As this book’s protagonist views it “East Germany seemed to stay stopped in time—her guess 1949.” A mind-boggling...
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The Odyssey of Danny Helm
by Todd Mercer
It is the eve of the Civil War and Danny Helm’s life is pretty miserable. He slops pigs seven days a week on his father’s failing farm in the Ozarks between humiliating beatings from a sadistic older brother. His mother is dead from...
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The End of America
by Todd Mercer
Suppose one individual had the power to make any citizen disappear indefinitely, could keep them from challenging their accusers, warehouse them without charges, torture or even kill them without repercussions. Then imagine that by...
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Meditations of an Imperfect Mind
by Todd Mercer
This offering consists of thirteen poems two of them prose-shorts and six stories with floss-thin connections between them. Most poems are in the form of rhymed and near-rhymed couplets. The subjects are couplehood and the reflective...
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Arnie Carver and the Plague of Demeverde
by Todd Mercer
The richest and possibly brightest teen alive in the year 2024 Thayne Davidson Miller III has only the butler for a friend the “gentlemen’s gentleman” who raised him. The family’s business empire makes tight security necessary...