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They Call Me the Night Howler!

R. L. Stine
"Mason Brady loves comics! He knows every hero, villain, and sidekick. He even draws his own characters. On a trip to his favorite place, the Comic Book Characters Hall of Fame Museum, Mason explores every exhibit. He even comes across the very real Night Howler. But when villains start terrorizing the town, Mason realizes that his whole life is about to change. Will Mason be a superhero or will he just be a superzero?"--Back cover.
Scholastic, Incorporated 2020-07-07 160 pages

Three Faces of Me

R. L. Stine
When Ira Fishman wins a prize in the machine outside a candy store, he's disappointed it's not the squirt gun he had his eye on. The little black plastic box looks like a camera, but when Ira presses the green button on top, nothing happens. After dinner that night, Ira can't believe what he sees in his room: a boy with the same clothes--and face--as Ira! He tries to get this second Ira to leave, but it's no use. Deciding to have a little fun, Ira makes the boy go to school in his place--but it's a disaster. The new Ira isn't good at math like the real Ira, and he's horrible at softball. Worst of all, he plays with the girls during recess! Ira's clone is ruining his rep--fast. And when a third Ira shows up, Ira number one has to find a way to make the others disappear for good before his whole world is turned upside down. But how do you get rid of yourself ?
Amazon Publishing 2012-04-13 86 pages

Welcome to Beast Island

R. L. Stine
"Karla and her little brother Benny accompany their Uncle Bill on a scientific expedition to study unidentified species on the remote island but after a little 'bad luck' they soon discover something terrifying and deadly living in the river swamp... With nowhere to run, will Karla, Benny, and Uncle Bill survive the unimaginable and harrowing horrors of the place aptly nicknamed Beast Island?"--Provided by the publisher.
Penworthy Company, LLC 2021-03 138 pages

The New 60 Outliving Yourself and Reinventing a Future

Robert Levithan
The New 60 is an exploration of approaching (and, eventually, arriving at) 60-an age that had once seemed beyond my reach. Aging in the 21st Century is an exciting new frontier. We are redefining its meaning as we live it. This is that journey-much of it a surprise even to me. Tracey Jackson on THE NEW 60: Robert Levithan writes with the wisdom of a sage, the enthusiasm of a kid, the depth of someone who has seen the world from all sides and the humor of someone who always knows where the joke is hiding. While he is often classified as a gay writer, or writer of subjects pertaining to the gay experience, he manages to take all of his topics and somehow turn them into universal stories. I have never read one of Robert's pieces and not walked away with a great life lesson. In all of his work one sees oneself, one's friends, one's lovers, and one's life. He is sometimes the benevolent father, sometimes the naughty, yet learned instructor, often the whimsical brother or sister you wish you had and he can even be the gossipy neighbor upstairs. But while he is able to pull off all these various personas he is always without hesitation, or question dealing up heavy doses of the truth; his own and thus ours. For me that is what makes him not only a wonderful writer, but a writer who transcends race, gender, and sexual identity. He writes about the human condition in all its various incarnations and while forcing us to think, he ultimately always reminds us how lucky we are to be alive and to relish every thing that comes our way. - Tracey Jackson, Screenwriter Author of Between A Rock and a Hot Place, and blogger
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012-03-16 148 pages

The Blue Angel

Robert Liebmann,Josef Von Sternberg
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Simon and Schuster 1968 111 pages

Comrade Koba: a novel

Littell, Robert
A tight, captivating story of a naive child's encounters with a Soviet dictator, the 20th novel by Robert Littell After the sudden death of his nuclear physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors, young Leon Rozental--intellectually precocious and possessing a disarming candor--is hiding from the NKVD in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment, a large building in Moscow where many Soviet officials and apparatchiks live and work. One day after following a passageway, Leon meets Koba, an old man whose apartment is protected by several guards. Koba is a high-ranking Soviet officer with troubling insight into the thoughts and machinations of Comrade Stalin. Through encounters between a naive boy and a paranoid tyrant, Robert Littell creates in Comrade Koba a nuanced portrayal of the Soviet dictator, showing his human side and his simultaneous total disregard for and ignorance of the suffering he inflicted on the Russian people. The charm and spontaneity of young Leon make him an irresistible character--and not unlike Holden Caulfield, whom he admits to identifying with--caught in the spider's web of the story woven by this enigmatic old man.
The Overlook Press 2020 166 pages

The Defection of A. J. Lewinter

Robert Littell
A. J. Lewinter, an MIT defense scientist, has defected to the Russinas. The Americans want to know what secrets he has taken. The Russians want to know if the secrets are real. The Amercians want to convince the Russinas that Lewinter is a plant--or do they assume it? What follows is a human chess game of awesome complexity and grueling tension-- a quadruple-cross battle of wits for a prize no one can guage.
Popular Library 1973 224 pages