Bitingduck Press: 130 books

“Back when I was a kid growing up in South Chicago, I never dreamed that having a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother would turn out to be an asset. But my ancestry paid off big-time when I sat down across from Timothy Fisher at a San Francisco sidewalk cafe on that warm September morning. He bought...

Jose Louzeiro's blunt rendering—a legacy of his years as a journalist—brings to the foreground the repetitive nature of Dito's life and obsessions. Louzeiro's rigorous focus on Dito's point of view alone makes the reader trace the decision-making process that gradually leads to Dito's criminalization....

Fort Larned is the first of three historical novels depicting the life of fictional adventurer, Lane Collier. From his beginnings as a Civil War army scout and later as a celebrated buffalo hunter, lawman, and rancher Lane Collier symbolizes the tenacity and resourcefulness of the North American plains...

The trail of vengeance had lasted two long years, forcing Quantro to use his guns on four men. Now it was over. With no plans for the future, he decided to try his hand in Mexico. The sands of the Arizona desert were hot after the cool mountains of Colorado but things were to grow even hotter. On the...

Twenty-four-year-old Jane Marshall is unattractive, poor, struggling to educate herself, and living in a deteriorating city with her hopelessly alcoholic mother. Despite Janes circumstances, she has goals that she refuses to give up, even if normalcy and happiness seem ridiculously impossible. Working...

The docks of seventeenth century London and Bristol funneled yeomen, thieves, whores, and stolen children by the thousands onto tiny, crowded ships bound for Virginia. For decades, second sons of lesser nobility, merchants factors, and land speculators herded sickly throngs aboard, betting that the purchase...

Young Cooper Cain is driven from his home and his country by a nefarious cousin. Little does he expect the life that awaits him... On his way to Antigua from his native England, Cooper finds himself captured by pirates and eventually signs on to be a member of their crew. Follow Cooper...

August 1813 - The Red Sticks, under the encouragement of England and Spain, have attacked peaceful Fort Mims. Hundreds are killed: men, women, children, and babies. Only eighteen people escape. Secretary of War John Armstrong calls for an all out war against the Red Stick nation. Major General Andrew...

Cooper Cain was driven from his home in England in Book 1 and found his calling as a pirate captain in the Caribbean. Now an adopted son of the newly formed United States, Cain leaves piracy to become a privateer, raiding British vessels attempting to supply troops at the start of the war of 1812. Follow Cooper Cain's adventures in Letter of Marque, the second book in The Pyrate series.

The snake, half a meter long, was twisted around the handle of the pail from which I had just dumped 10 liters of swamp water and peat moss, as we worked to release a fuselage. I looked at it for a while and then grabbed it by one end and removed it from the bucket. "Guys, look! Arent these the intestines...

The third and final volume of the War of 1812 trilogy from Michael Aye. Following the tips from Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson?s network of spies, Jonah Lee and his adopted brother Moses travel to the southern states to search for Anastasia. The bugles then ring, and Jonah once again answers...

Action, humor, and adventure rule as Ranger Black Jack Ransom accepts a special assignment from Sam Houston outgoing President of the Texas Republic. In Ransoms own words all he has to do is: "Kill Rafael, steal the gold from armed vaqueros in a foreign country and get it back to Texas through Comanche...

What do we know? Read at will. Out of many winds, each poem has some clues and hints to a story. And if your questions narrow down to one: from where does In The Open Wind come? I tell you it is unlikely that this question will ever be fully resolved. What do we know? Robert Graves once pointed out “the...

When Steve Best was 12, his mom disappeared--literally vanishing from her armchair in the sitting room. A terror-stricken scream for help, a blinding flash of light, and she was gone. Only a puddle of coffee and a stained notebook remained. Now, on the second Christmas since her disappearance,...