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10 best books like Journal of a UFO Investigator (David Halperin): Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal, Death by Zamboni, Grace Hammer : a Novel of the Victorian Underworld, Flirt Club, Up Against It, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, The Paperbark Shoe, In Blackness (Book 1), Black Swan, Stellarnet Rebel

Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal
AuthorJoe R. Lansdale
ISBN1616960027
What do the disembodied head of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, the Flying Dutchman, and the inestimable Ned the Seal have in common? Find out as they embark upon a spectacular set of nonstop steampunk adventures. For the first time, two epic chronicles, Zeppelins...
Death by Zamboni
AuthorDavid David Katzman
ISBN0615113575
A sweeping American romance spanning five American generations in America.

Oh, wait, that's some other crappy novel. In Death by Zamboni, you'll follow our anti-hero Satan Donut through a world of mimes, TV stars, zombies, blockheads, mad scientists, riot girls, and werewolves. This genre-busting...
Grace Hammer : a Novel of the Victorian Underworld
AuthorSara Stockbridge
ISBN0393067181
Whitechapel, 1888. Grace Hammer and her children live comfortably in Bell Lane, their home a little oasis in the squalor of London’s East End. They make their living picking the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. But Grace’s history is about to catch up with her. Out in...
Flirt Club
AuthorCathleen Daly
ISBN1596435720

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Isabelle (Cisco) & Annie (The Bean) need help. They can't seem to get boys interested in them. They don't know how to flirt, so they form The Flirt Club.

The Flirt Club is founded with the...
Up Against It
AuthorM.J. Locke
ISBN0765315157
Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes...
Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
AuthorJim Steinmeyer
ISBN1585426407
The seminal biography of the twentieth century’s premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Fort—a man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean, to describe the unexplained.

By the early 1920s, Americans were discovering that the world was a strange place.

Charles...
The Paperbark Shoe
AuthorGoldie Goldbloom
ISBN0312674503
Set in 1940s Australia, The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far-reaching repercussions of war, the subtle violence of displacement, and what it means to live as a captive - in enemy country, and in one's own skin.

From 1941 to 1947, eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were...
In Blackness (Book 1)
AuthorU.L. Harper
ISBN1614344388
The truth of our bloody future will reveal itself…in blackness.

Lenny and Saline are merely kids when their parents move them in with, Busek, an old family friend they’ve never met. A few months later their parents are dead and they’re left alone to cope in the small town of San Pedro. It...
Black Swan
AuthorChris Knopf
Sailing back from Maine, Sam Acquillo, the hero of four Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mysteries from The Permanent Press, his girlfriend Amanda Anselma and screwball mutt Eddie Van Halen get blown off course by a dangerous gale. With damaged boat and frayed nerves, they limp into the closest harbor, which...
Stellarnet Rebel
AuthorJ.L. Hilton
Welcome to Asteria, a corporate-owned, deep-space colony populated with refugees, criminals and obsessive online gamers. Genny O'Riordan has shifted in from Earth determined to find a story that will break her blog into the Stellarnet Top 100, and even better—expose the degradation of the colony's...
The Miracles of Ordinary Men
AuthorAmanda Leduc
ISBN1770411119
A haunting story about rapture and grace Amanda Leduc’s stunning novel is the tale of two unlikely dreamers: Sam, a man who wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, a woman who has lost her brother to the streets of Vancouver. As Sam finds himself falling away from the world as he grows...
Forest of Secrets
AuthorLinda DeMeulemeester
ISBN1926909879
After nearly losing Sookie to a coven of witches during their student exchange to Sweden, Cat Peters has vowed to keep her sister as far from magic as possible. But when Cat and her friends are taken hostage and find themselves stranded in Headless Valley, it's clear they will need a miracle to get back...
The Shocks of Adversity
AuthorWilliam Leisner
ISBN1476722420
Located far beyond the boundaries of explored space, the Goeg Domain is a political union of dozens of planets and races. When the U.S.S. Enterprise arrives in its territory to investigate an interstellar phenomenon, Commander Laspas of the Domain Defense Corps is at first guarded, then fascinated...
Promises to Keep
AuthorCharles de Lint
After Widdershins, I thought I wouldn't write at length about Jilly again. I'd promised one more short story about her for Bill at Subterranean Press, but that would be it. Having left her in a good place at the end of Widdershins, I didn't want to complicate her life yet again, so I planned to set the story...
The Officers' Club
AuthorRalph Peters
ISBN0765326809
Spring, 1981.  Vietnam is over, but the repercussions linger.  The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the 1970s…

A sinister beauty and a dutiful soldier… a Hollywood lawyer running from a dirty past and a cast-off vet who seems to have no future…  dueling...
I Toss Till Dawn
AuthorBen Hewitt
ISBN1616630566
Alone and adrift in the world, Chase Pollard wakes up one morning and makes the decision to abandon it all, leaving behind his family, friends, and everything he's ever known. Thus begins Ben Hewitt's debut novel, I Toss Till Dawn, the episodic road adventure of one teen seeking meaning and purpose for...
An African Affair
AuthorNina Darnton
ISBN0670022888
An international thriller shot through with journalistic intrigue, political corruption, and romance that may not be what it seems.

After the assassination of a prominent Nigerian politician, New York journalist Lindsay Cameron moves to Lagos to follow a trail of corruption, drug smuggling...
Amateur Barbarians
AuthorRobert Cohen
ISBN0743230361
Acclaimed, award-winning novelist Robert Cohen delivers a bold, provocative exploration of the panic of midlife, follow- ing two men plateaued on either side of their forties and the unexpected consequences of changing course.Teddy Hastings is a New England middle school principal  desperate ...
Limos, Lattes & My Life on the Fringe
AuthorNancy N. Rue
ISBN0310714877
From bestselling author Nancy Rue comes a YA contemporary novel where prom season takes on a deeper meaning, as a girl nominated for prom queen as a joke decides to use the opportunity as a way to empower her fellow classmates. And ends up questioning her self-perceptions in the process.

For...
Hubble: Imaging Space and Time
AuthorDavid Devorkin
ISBN1426203225
In the spirit of National Geographic’s top-selling Orbit, this large-format, full-color volume stands alone in revealing more than 200 of the most spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope during its lifetime, to the very eve of the 2008 final shuttle mission to the telescope. Written...
Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster
AuthorAllan Combs
ISBN1569248451
Carl Jung coined the term 'synchronicity' to describe meaningful concidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with the great quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Jung sought to reveal these coincidences as phenomena that involve mind and matter, science and...
Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles
AuthorTony Macaulay
ISBN0007449232
It’s Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he’s got a new job. He’s going to be a paperboy. And come rain or shine – or bombs and mortar – he will deliver…


Paperboy lives...
Midnight Movie
AuthorTobe Hooper
ISBN0307717011
The good news: Director Tobe Hooper has been invited to speak at a screening of Destiny Express, a movie he wrote and directed as a teenager, but that hasn’t seen the light of day in decades. And Hooper’s fans are ecstatic.
 
The bad news: Destiny Express proves to be a killer . . . literally....
Pigboy
AuthorVicki Grant
ISBN1551436434
Dan is not sure he'll survive the boring field trip to a remote heritage farm. How could a place with no running water, telephone or electricity be anything but dull? The farmer knows nothing about farming and is angry about having to conduct the tour. And what's with his tattoo? The teacher requests a...
Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of Our Universe
AuthorBrian Clegg
ISBN0312385471
According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don’t know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In Before the Big Bang, Brian Clegg...
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