Over 2 million copies sold in print, and now available in digital format for the first time!

At their big prom, Ed Japhet scares the wits out of the attendees with his fantastic and dangerous feats of magic. Then when the young man and his girlfriend leave, they see four figures sitting inside his father's car, one with a chain around his fist.  That's only the beginning of this story of a screwed-up justice system and a high-school student who decides to use his magic tricks to stop a tough gang of extortionists from bothering him and his girl.  

The New York Times says, "I cannot recall a gripping novel of this type with greater pleasure." 

The Library Journal declares, "A shark-like bite that won't be easily forgotten. Fast moving, incisive, angry, fine, and dramatic!"

First published in 1971, this literary thriller shows off the masterful storytelling skills of its legendary author, Sol Stein.

About Author Sol Stein:

Sol Stein edited and published some of the outstanding writers of the 20th century, including James Baldwin, David Frost, Jack Higgins, Elia Kazan, Dylan Thomas, Lionel Trilling, W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and three heads of state. He is a prize-winning playwright produced on Broadway, an anthologized poet, the author of nine novels, plus nonfiction books, screenplays, and TV dramas. His novel The Magician sold over one million copies. His book Stein on Writing is now in trade paperback, and on tape, CD, and MP3. A more advanced writing book, How to Grow a Novel, has been selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Stein’s work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finish, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Japanese, and Russian.

Stein has lectured on creative writing at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, and the University of California at Irvine, which presented him with the Distinguished Instructor Award in 1993 for his courses on dialogue and advanced fiction writing. Columbia University has established an archive for more than 1600 books published by Stein and Day, and an archive of Stein’s own manuscripts and his editorial work on the manuscripts of successful authors. In 1999, a distinguished panel selected by the Modern Library chose two nonfiction books edited by Stein in the top half of “the 100 best nonfiction works of the century,” James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son and George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Native Sons (8/2/04) contains the correspondence that produced Notes of a Native Son, as well as newly-discovered photographs and their two collaborations, "Dark Runner" and the television play Equal in Paris.



Stein's play "Napoleon" won the Dramatists Alliance Prize for "the best full-length play of 1953" and was performed both in New York and California. With Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Robert Anderson, he was a founding member of the Playwrights Group at the Actors Studio.

How to Purchase The Magician:

The Magician is $5.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in Kindle, EPUB and PDF formats. Through June 30th, 2013, this title is 30% off. Readers who purchase through The Untreed Reads Store have the option of sending the title directly to their Nook or Kindle, or even giving the title as a gift to someone else. You can also read an excerpt from the title in our store. Our authors make more in royalties when purchasing directly from Untreed Reads, so we appreciate the support.

Of course, the title is available at virtually 200+ ebook retailers around the world including Amazon, B&N, Sony, Kobo, DriveThruFiction.com and Apple’s iBookstore.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through Overdrive, Baker and Taylor, Gardners, Freading, Wheelers and directly from Untreed Reads. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know or have them contact jhartman@untreedreads.com .

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .

It all seemed so straightforward at first…

Quantity surveying in the rain drenched swamps of Venus. How hard could it be? Endure a bit of rain, dig about where directed and Bob’s your uncle. To be sure, there were the local carnivorous lizards the size of houses, occasionally hostile natives and the local German colony, which had never proved particularly reasonable when it came to servants of the Crown digging about in what they clearly felt was their back garden. But by now, that sort of thing was barely more troublesome than setting out an afternoon tea for the good crew of the Esmeralda II.

True, some might call a plan a touch problematic if it requires bailing out of an airship in a single-seat experimental glider while a Venusian storm rages. If said plan also involves landing in German-controlled territory in order to meet a marginally sane geologist named Jungle Ned, one might even call the whole affair tricky.

But things go from tricky to worse when they arrive at Ned’s hideout and find it ransacked and covered with indecipherable symbols. Of Ned there is no sign other than a single hidden note: The gods brought themselves down. Before they discover its meaning, our heroes will find there is more to Venus than just peat bogs and hungry fauna. Forgotten secrets linger in the mists. And sometimes what is forgotten is still very much alive…

How to Purchase Leviathans in the Clouds:

Leviathans in the Clouds is $2.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in Kindle, EPUB and PDF formats. Through June 30th, 2013, this title is 30% off. Readers who purchase through The Untreed Reads Store have the option of sending the title directly to their Nook or Kindle, or even giving the title as a gift to someone else. You can also read an excerpt from the title in our store. Our authors make more in royalties when purchasing directly from Untreed Reads, so we appreciate the support.

Of course, the title is available at virtually 200+ ebook retailers around the world including Amazon, B&N, Sony, Kobo, DriveThruFiction.com and Apple’s iBookstore.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through Overdrive, Baker and Taylor, Gardners, Freading, Wheelers and directly from Untreed Reads. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know or have them contact jhartman@untreedreads.com .

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .

Frank had it all figured out: a few under-the-the table money transfers, a new identity, and a plan to live out his retirement years a self-made man. He would have succeeded too, if it weren’t for an untimely surprise. Instead, he wakes up in a hospital to find that a couple of his coworkers have their own plan.

About Author S. Furlong-Bolliger:

Susan writes mysteries from her rural Midwest home as a way to escape the demands of having four kids, two cats, one dog, several chickens … and one husband.

Besides writing mysteries, Susan also works as a freelance academic writer for various research publications, medical dictionaries, and encyclopedias.  She also has several articles published in national magazines.

In 2010, Susan joined Untreed Reads with the short stories Death by Jello and Christmas in Killarney, following up in 2011 with the humorous mystery short Paddy Whacked and the short crime Dead Giveaway. She now has six titles with Untreed Reads and has also appeared in Woman's World Magazine.

How to Purchase Surprise Larceny:

Surprise Larceny is $0.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in Kindle, EPUB and PDF formats. Through May 31st, 2013, this title is 30% off. Readers who purchase through The Untreed Reads Store have the option of sending the title directly to their Nook or Kindle, or even giving the title as a gift to someone else. You can also read an excerpt from the title in our store. Our authors make more in royalties when purchasing directly from Untreed Reads, so we appreciate the support.

Of course, the title is available at virtually 200+ ebook retailers around the world including Amazon, B&N, Sony, Kobo and Apple’s iBookstore.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through Overdrive, Baker and Taylor, Gardners, Freading, Wheelers and directly from Untreed Reads. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know or have them contact jhartman@untreedreads.com .

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .

Rebellious teen Robin "Robbie" Willette thinks her life sucks. 


Her grades aren't the greatest. Her dad hates her "older" boyfriend. And her mom keeps Robbie on a short leash after her straight A, perfect, older sister gets pregnant and has a baby. As the tension builds in her family, Robbie runs away with her boyfriend Lane only to wind up sleeping on the sofa of her ostracized sister. 


But it's not all that bad. Robbie has a taste of independence. She's working on getting her diploma through night school. She has a job–not a great one but it's legit. And she's finally beginning to figure out that her relationship with Lane is a dead end. For the first time in a long time, Robbie Willette is getting her life together.


Just as her life is improving, the world around her begins to crumble. Literally. A plague crawls over the planet, mutating humans into blood-lusting zombies that help spread a deadly fungus. It isn't long before society collapses. In fact, in less than a year, all of society’s norms are gone. Robbie quickly finds herself separated not only from her family, but from all humanity. Hoping to reunite with her sister and niece, Robbie sets off with the most loyal companion she's ever had: a yellow Labrador she names Yuki. 


The road she travels is not easy. She must confront personal fears, untrustworthy humans, and aggressive mutants. Will Robbie fulfill her dream of finding her family, or is the world just too dangerous a place to discover what she needs most–hope?

About Author Jack Bates:

Jack Bates writes crime fiction from the confines of his loft office. He runs an experimental writing site called Flash Jab Fiction (http://flashjab.blogspot.com/)  In the spring of 2011, his short story, “Broken Down on the Bonneville Flats,” was nominated for a Derringer Award by the Short Mystery Fiction Society. He previously appeared in the Untreed Reads humorous mystery anthology The Killer Wore Cranberry with his short story “Ambrosia” as well as the flash fiction anthology Discount Noir.

How to Purchase Running Red:

Running Red is $4.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in Kindle, EPUB and PDF formats. Through May 31st, 2013, this title is 30% off. Readers who purchase through The Untreed Reads Store have the option of sending the title directly to their Nook or Kindle, or even giving the title as a gift to someone else. You can also read an excerpt from the title in our store. Our authors make more in royalties when purchasing directly from Untreed Reads, so we appreciate the support.

Of course, the title is available at virtually 200+ ebook retailers around the world including Amazon, B&N, Sony, Kobo and Apple’s iBookstore.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through Overdrive, Baker and Taylor, Gardners, Freading, Wheelers and directly from Untreed Reads. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know or have them contact jhartman@untreedreads.com .

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .

Now that Mother’s Day has passed, we’re focusing our eye on titles having to do with the military and military history.

We’ve updated our store so that now you can purchase titles and send them directly to your Kindle or Nook. Full instructions are listed HERE. You can also purchase a title and gift it to someone else, and you’ll find those instructions HERE.

The short stories listed below are on sale exclusively at The Untreed Reads Store. The full-lengths are also on sale in Apple’s iBookstore, Amazon and Barnes and Noble. However, we hope you’ll choose to buy directly from our store, as this results in much better royalties for our authors when you do.

Here are the titles that are 40% off through May 31st:

A World Ago: A Navy Man’s Letters Home (1954-1956) by Dorien Grey
Autobiography
$4.99, on sale for $2.99
It’s not often one has the chance to become 20 again…

A World Ago chronicles, through one young man’s journal and vivid letters to his parents, his life, adventures, and experiences at a magical time. It follows him from being a Naval Aviation Cadet to becoming a “regular” sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga on an eight-month tour of duty in the politically tense Mediterranean Sea.

Learn to fly a plane, to soar, alone, through a valley of clouds, experience a narrow escape from death on a night training flight, and receive the continent of Europe as a 21st birthday gift. Climb down into the crater of Mt. Vesuvius, visit Paris, Cannes, Athens, Beirut, Valencia, Istanbul and places in-between; wander the streets of Pompeii, have your picture taken on a fallen column on the Acropolis, ride bicycles on the Island of Rhodes, experience daily life aboard an aircraft carrier during the height of the cold war—all in the company and through the eyes of a young will-be-writer coming of age with the help of the United States Navy.

A World Ago is a rare glimpse into the personal and private world of a young man on the verge of experiencing everything the world has to offer—and discovering a lot about himself in the process.

Due to Enemy Action by Stephen Puleo
History
$6.99, on sale for $4.19
Due to Enemy Action tells for the first time a World War II story that spans generations and straddles two centuries, a story that begins with the dramatic Battle of the Atlantic in the 1940s and doesn’t conclude until an emotional Purple Heart ceremony in 2002. Based on previously classified government documents, military records, personal interviews, and letters between crew members and their families, this is the saga of the courageous survival of ordinary sailors when their ship was torpedoed and their shipmates were killed on April 23, 1945, and the memories that haunted them after the U.S. Navy buried the truth at war’s end. It is the story of a small subchaser, the Eagle 56, caught in the crosshairs of a German U-boat, the U-853, whose brazen commander doomed his own crew in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to record final kills before his country’s imminent defeat. And it is the account of how one man, Paul M. Lawton, embarked on an unrelenting quest for the truth and changed naval history.

Author Stephen Puleo draws from extensive personal interviews with all the major players, including the three living survivors (and a fourth who emerged as the book went to press); a senior U.S. naval archivist who worked with German historians after the war to catalog U-boat movements; and the son of the man who commanded America’s sub-tracking “Secret Room” during the war. Due to Enemy Action also describes the final chapter in the Battle of the Atlantic, tracing the epic struggle that began with shocking U-boat attacks against hundreds of defenseless merchant ships off American shores in 1942 and ended with the sinking of the Eagle 56, the last American warship sunk by a German U-boat.

William B. Travis (The Lone Star Legends Series) by Robert E. Hollmann
Young Readers/History
$2.99, on sale for $1.79
William Barrett Travis was the commanding officer of the troops who defended the Alamo in 1836. He is best known for drawing a line in the sand and asking the men to cross the line and fight with him for Texas independence. Now you can hear the story of Colonel Travis told by the other member of that famous moment in Texas history, Trusty, the sword that drew the line in the sand. Join Trusty and Colonel Travis as they come to Texas and become involved in the exciting events leading to the Texas Revolution.

Ride with them to San Antonio as they join the small band of brave men defending a run-down old mission called the Alamo. Stand with them for thirteen days as they defend the Alamo from the attacks of Santa Anna’s army. Fight with them during the final assault when the men of the Alamo passed from history into legend.

This book is part of The Lone Star Legends, a series of historical fiction aimed at younger readers.

The O’Quinn Fights: Basement Brawl by Robert Evans
The O’Quinn Fights: Foul Fight with a Pit Viper by Robert Evans
Military Fiction/MMA Fiction
$.99 each, on sale for $0.59 each

Basement Brawl: In this first outing of a new short story series by Staff Sergeant Robert Evans, Sergeant O’Quinn finds himself battling in an underground mixed martial arts fight in Iraq. Is the fight really just two men battling, or is it a setup for something far more dangerous for the American soldiers involved?

Foul Fight with a Pit Viper: Things go awry from the moment Staff Sergeant Mickey O’Quinn arrives in Qatar. SSG O’Quinn, the brawling mixed martial arts fighter from the 4th Infantry Division, finds himself going from rescuing a frightened young American woman to landing in the middle of the toughest and deadliest underground MMA bout of his life. Will O’Quinn win the fight and the girl? Or has he finally taken on too much?

About 

When two young men get lost in Alaska’s mountainous wilderness, they slowly begin to die of exposure. As their senses become numb, they become aware of a third man traveling with them at times, and are too disoriented to make contact. When the two young men collapse in exhaustion and give themselves over to death, the mysterious third man appears again. Is he there to help, hinder…or is he even there at all?

Based on a phenomenon experienced in the real world by various adventurers including mountaineers on Everest and by the Shackleton survivors in the Antarctic, The Third Man redefines the modern ghost story.

About Author Malachi King:

Malachi King is an English teacher, Mensa member, and holds a Language Arts degree from Grand Valley State University. His writing centers on the extreme emotion, survival, and courage. Malachi has work published in various markets including Mensa Bulletin, Orion’s Child Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, Indigo Rising Magazine,Liars’ League and The Corner Club Press among others. His other short story credits with Untreed Reads include Apartment Building E and The Knackerman.

How to Purchase The Third Man:

The Third Man is $0.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in EPUB  and PDF formats. Through April 30th, 2013, this title is 30% off. Readers can save 50% off any other title from Malachi King when both titles are added to their shopping cart. Discount is taken during checkout.

You’ll also find the title at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N and Apple’s iBookstore. You’ll find links to the book’s listing at these retailers, plus an excerpt, on the description page in The Untreed Reads Store. Just follow the link above.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .

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Travis Coble didn’t kill and eat his family. At least that’s what a jury decided twenty years ago. But like Lizzie Borden, Travis Coble was branded guilty by an angry public and consigned to a life of suspicious whispers and sidelong stares. Now, Professor Dick Myers wants to clear Travis’s name once and for all. An interview with the reclusive mountain man would not only bring Myers fame—it could save his job.

But Myers will find more than a good story in Coble’s isolated shack in the Smoky Mountains. He will find the truth about what happened twenty years ago…and the true meaning of horror.

A new work of terror from the author of the worldwide bestseller Old Order.

How to Purchase The Clearing of Travis Coble:

The Clearing of Travis Coble is $1.50 from The Untreed Reads Store in EPUB  and PDF formats. Through April 30th, 2013, this title is 30% off. Readers can save 50% off Old Order when both titles are added to their shopping cart. Discount is taken during checkout.

You’ll also find the title at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N and Apple’s iBookstore. You’ll find links to the book’s listing at these retailers, plus an excerpt, on the description page in The Untreed Reads Store. Just follow the link above.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .

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All over the world, 8-foot-by-12-foot sections of brick wall appear out of nowhere and zoom along, striking things in their paths. Cars are wrecked, property is damaged, and many people are killed. What is causing this strange phenomenon? Who is behind it? Can the madman be stopped? Maybe Uncle Bert’s Preposterous Number Theory can explain some things.

If that isn’t enough, some people have to contend with mysterious trails of blood, or something that looks like blood, that lead down into their basements. What is at the end of these trails? Should they even look? People try to remember what their mothers said about following mysterious trails of blood into the dark. What did your mother say?

And no matter what, no one should answer calls from the Death Number on the T-Ville telephone exchange.

Another hilarious Uncle Bert Story from the author of Out of Order Murder Mystery and The Plaid Memorandum.

About Author Bert Paul (in his own words):

I grew up in and around Titusville, PA. I graduated Titusville High School as valedictorian in 1977. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA, 1981, with a double major in math and computer science. Worked for a large computer company for 24 years as software developer, software tester, and information developer (technical writer). I was laid off and am now working as a technical writer for another company.

I like to claim that my short stories are the result of exposing my brain for too long to corporate America. I started writing the stories for my sister’s kids when they were little so they’d have something different from Uncle Bert. Then I decided to start writing again after a long hiatus (due to hectic work schedule and other issues). A former co-worker suggested I see if I could get any of them published.

I have lived in Raleigh, NC since 1983, when the company I worked for transferred me here. I visit my home town occasionally, but consider Raleigh “home” now. I hate cold weather, snow, and ice.

I spend my spare time reading, writing, watching old movies, hunting for my reading glasses  or car keys, and taking the occasional out-of-town trip for fun. I am blessed with some good friends, but never met my “Mr. Right”. (Had some fun with some of the Mr. Wrongs, though.) I have lived in the same house for 26 years (all paid for now!) and own too many cars. (Love the ’77 Monte Carlo….looks like new.)

How to Purchase The Marauding Walls of Doom:

The Marauding Walls of Doom is $1.50 from The Untreed Reads Store in EPUB  and PDF formats. Through April 30th, 2013, this title is 30% off.

You’ll also find the title at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N and Apple’s iBookstore. You’ll find links to the book’s listing at these retailers, plus an excerpt, on the description page in The Untreed Reads Store. Just follow the link above.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .

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Lucia is a voluptuous beauty, so who could imagine she would fall for Happy Jack, a middle-aged gambler and racketeer, with a wife and children? But fall she does, into a relationship going nowhere. After 20 years, his wife has died, and Jack is free to marry again. Surely now, Lucia can expect to be his new bride? Alas, she is to be sadly disappointed. A short story.

About Author Jacquelynn Luben:

Jacquelynn Luben lives in England, in the house which she and her husband built, in a pretty village in rural Surrey, which she describes in her autobiography, The Fruit of the Tree. Her son and daughter have now fled the nest. She is the author of two non-fiction books, many short stories, articles, poetry and two novels.

She has written for various magazines, and also gives occasional talks to Surrey groups on self-publishing and publicity. Her story, Damaged Goods was broadcast on Radio Southern Counties, and many of her other short stories have met with success – at the Guildford Book Festival, locally – and at competitions throughout the UK.

Jacquelynn’s work Tainted Tree, placed second in the Winchester Writers’ Conference novel competition, 2007, prior to publication by Goldenford Publishers, and was featured in Family Tree Magazine in December 2009. She published her first short with Untreed Reads, Maggies Plot, in 2010 and followed that up with An Affair of the Mind and The Obsession in 2011.

How to Purchase A Gift of Gold:

A Gift of Gold is $0.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in EPUB  and PDF formats. Through April 30th, 2013, this title is 30% off.

You’ll also find the title at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N and Apple’s iBookstore. You’ll find links to the book’s listing at these retailers, plus an excerpt, on the description page in The Untreed Reads Store. Just follow the link above.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .

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Changing racial perceptions in the tumultuous 1960s brings conflict to a rural Southern family. A short story.

About Author Augusta Trobaugh:

Augusta Trobaugh is a native Southerner who received the Master of Arts degree from the University of Georgia. Her work has been funded through the Georgia Council for the Arts. Praise Jerusalem was a semi-finalist in the 1993 Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Competition.

How to Purchase Jesus Is Already Here:

Jesus Is Already Here is $0.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in EPUB  and PDF formats. Through April 30th, 2013, this title is 30% off.

You’ll also find the title at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N and Apple’s iBookstore. You’ll find links to the book’s listing at these retailers, plus an excerpt, on the description page in The Untreed Reads Store. Just follow the link above.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

If you are a reviewer and would like a copy, please contact Brendan Seibel at brendan@untreedreads.com .