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Mark Crislip's alternative history novel explores what the present day might look like if the purveyors of patent medicines had managed to suppress the germ theory. Conflicting models of disease and cure, ranging from balancing humors to homeopathy, form the basis of powerful guilds that control public discourse and stifle discovery. Cholera breaks out in 2017 Portland, Oregon, and all of the medical guilds rush to own a piece of the cure. But an unlikely team of skeptics have heard rumors from Europe that disease is caused by animalcules invisible to the naked eye. With a smuggled microscope and a gradually evolving hypothesis, the skeptics take histories, sample, and examine whatever they can. When the guild leaders find out, the skeptics must race against time and the vagaries of the cholera bacillus itself to keep the outbreak from decimating the city.

This is a mystical novel about one man's journey to find himself as he travels with the famous Canadian-Ojibwe artist, Norval Morrisseau. As Morrisseau's secretary and traveling companion, the main character, Gilbert Petén (a.k.a., Little Eagle) takes a spiritual journey of awakening throughout parts of western Canada where he experiences bouts of alcoholism and drug addiction, art forgery, harassment from the Canadian mob, and ancient Ojibwe spiritualism. At the end of the novel the reader is left wondering whether Petén will ever accept the spirituality he discovered on his travels with Morrisseau and his spiritual guide, the Native American mystic and shaman, Many Tongues. As the novel nears its conclusion, Petén ultimately rejects his newly discovered spirituality and link with Many Tongues in favor of a typically traditional life with a good job, a decent income, a nice home, and a loving husband. However, the lingering spirit of Many Tongues continues to haunt Petén when all is quiet and he is alone to remember.

Fiction. Women's Studies. With more of her life behind her than ahead, Margaret Braverman, a physicist teaching at a small college, cannot help but regret the things she never quite got right. Most important among them was the tragic ending of her romance with her brilliant colleague Frank, something she has never gotten over. And, of course, it would be glorious to get even with that mean-spirited, conceited, womanizing Caleb Winter. After years of experimentation in the back room of her lab, Margaret has finally built a time machine. The key, she discovered, is in teleporting not the body but the mind. And so, at 5:03 p.m. on May 3, 2012, Margaret teleports her mind to her 1987 self. She is able to see and hear but cannot move a muscle. Will she be able to change the future?

His mom disappeared without a trace. Believing his mom abandoned the family, Steve Best can barely function. School is a failure. Home is a disaster. Even his attempt to save a duck from the school bullies led to the nickname he''s dying to forget. When he''s sent to his Great Aunt Shannon''s house for the holidays, he encounters a curious power that lets him travel and transform the world. He might be able to use it to save his mom-but only if the thugs or the police don''t stop him first.Visit Bill Bunn''s blog at: http://authors.bitingduckpress.com