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Books with author Richard Mason

  • How Me and John Clayton Saved the World

    Richard Mason

    Paperback (Gibraltar Press, June 15, 2013)
    The 8th in the Richard, the Paperboy series. Another wild tale about Richard and his best friend John Clayton. This time the boys get tangled up with a wild snake filled wedding. Of course, it's the space creatures who are the big problem, but the Norphlet Cornbread Festival has to happen, and the boys are determined to win---any way they can.
  • It'll End In Tears: A Pseudomemoir

    Marc Richard

    eBook
    A therapist on the brink of divorce. An idiot patient. A bucketful of crazy.Doc is a psychologist struggling with mental illness. After eight years, his wife Elisa has finally reached her breaking point and they separate.Bryan is Doc’s new client. He comes into the office with a crippling caffeine addiction and a severe case of schizophrenia. Or maybe he’s just a weirdo.Doc really likes Bryan at first. Till he suspects Elisa may be sleeping with him. In the office, he tries to help him. Outside the office, however, is a whole other story. Revenge is on Doc’s mind. It starts off harmless at first, with childish pranks. Soon these high jinks turn into something more sinister.Will Doc and Elisa reconcile? Will Bryan survive? Will he at least switch to decaf?It'll End in Tears is a novel written by a group of Italian teenagers on an eye-opening Segway tour through Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Part memoir. Part fiction. You ain’t never read nothing like it.Buy now and enter Marc Richard's mad world. It's a trip.The memoir portion focuses on the author's struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder. To learn more about BPD visitwww.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com
  • SIX OUT OF FIVE: THE MARC RICHARD BOX SET

    Marc Richard

    eBook
    A Twisted Anthology…“Reading this made me glad I’m illiterate” -David Duchovny’s catHorror. Romance. Sci-Fi. Memoir.All twisted up and shot out like a human cannonball at a Mardi Gras festival.Six novels you’ll feel compelled to read…And then wonder why you did.~A tale of reincarnation gone terribly wrong~A horror parody starring a killer with an unmatched sense of humor~A book about aliens, the apocalypse, and celebrity presidents~A memoir on the lighter side of mental illness~A sci-fi action thriller horror comedy short story novel~And a bathroom reader you'll have to hide when your guests arriveYou’ll laugh with every turn of the page, and then....Shame.A must-read for the demented. Go on. Make your friends hate you. Get your copy today.
  • Runaways!

    Richard Mason

    Paperback (Gibraltar Press, May 1, 2014)
    A coming of age story is featured as the 10th novel in the Richard, the Norphlet Paperboy Series. Richard and John Clayton encounter unusual family problems and they decided to spend a few days with Uncle Swamp hoping that their family problems will work out while they are gone. However, rain and more rain floods the area and they are swept down the river on an epic flood. After days on the Ouachita, Black, Red, and finally the Mississippi they manage to swim ashore near New Orleans. Penniless, wearing only cutoff shorts they, they struggle to survive in the French Quarter. After a week of living in the Quarter by eating out of garbage cans and sleeping in a drainage culvert they are picked up and sent to a repressive Louisiana Reform School. The breakout and struggle to return home tests every fiber of the boys emotions. It's a true test of the boys resolve and determination to survive.
  • American Negro Folktales

    Richard M. Dorson

    Paperback (Dover Publications, July 15, 2015)
    A preacher battles a bear, a mother returns from the dead, and a clever servant conducts a Big Feet Contest in this rich anthology of African-American folklore. Scores of humorous and harrowing stories, collected during the mid-twentieth century, tell of talking animals, ghosts, devils, and saints.The first part of the book provides a setting for the fables, in which folklorist Richard M. Dorson discusses their origins and the artistry of storytellers. The second part consists of the tales, which include the adventures of Old Marster and John, supernatural episodes, and comical and satirical anecdotes as well as more realistic accounts of racial injustice. Recounted in the actual words of the narrators, the folktales abound in bold language, memorable imagery, and bittersweet humor that reflect the essence of African-American storytelling traditions.
  • Boonie

    Richard Masson

    language (Hot Key Books, Jan. 3, 2013)
    Orphaned and abandoned, JD's only hope is a man with his mouth sewn shut.JD's father has been burnt alive by the Silver Men. His mother has run away. Lost in the desert without water, JD meets a strange old man whose mouth has been sewn shut. That man's secret will save his life. The search for his mother leads JD to the City, where he must face the true horrors of life under the Silver Men. Trapped inside the Pits of enslaved children scraping for water, he must risk everything and everyone he has ever loved in order to survive. BOONIE is a story of bravery, friendship, loss and hope that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.
  • DAVE!

    Marc Richard

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 12, 2016)
    Aliens.Armageddon.And President Mel Gibson?America is in trouble, dudes.The country is in ruins after the president walls it up, sealing it like a giant prison. The rich get richer and the poor starve to death in the streets. Enter the Invaders, a secret society led by a charismatic and flawlessly handsome dude named Dave. Their mission: Destroy the forces in D.C. and take back the U.S.A.!Starlet Richter is your typical transgender American woman. After years of watching the place fall apart, she’s gonna do something about it. Eric Tisdsale is Starlet’s long-lost love. He’s making a pretty mundane living as a pool shark, until one phone call changes everything. Will they save each other? Themselves? The world? How about when they discover the president is not actually human, and there may be more of his kind hiding among us?"The worst thing you'll read all year!" raves the general population. "Fake News!" cries D.T. DAVE! is a science fiction comedy that features fast-paced action, pie-throwing clowns, nudists, and lots and lots of aliens. Equal parts Hitchhiker’s Guide and Coen Brothers, download now and laugh your way through the apocalypse!
  • E is for Eyeball: An Alphabet Book for Grown-Ups!

    Marc Richard

    eBook
    Like reading Poe on nitrous oxide.Have you ever wanted to escape? Ever wished you were a character in a story?Be careful what you wish for.I wanted that once, too.And now here I am. And it sucks.How did I get here?What did I do to deserve this?Trapped in the nightmarish world of Edgar Allan PoeSort of.Why are these tales so much worse than the originals?Why is everyone I meet so annoying? And what’s the deal with their wonky eyeballs?E is for Eyeball is what happens when you put works of public domain into the hands of an incompetent lunatic.Horrific. Hilarious. Ridiculous.You'll laugh till your eyes pop out.“A real mustn’t read.” -Every Critic EverGet your copy today!These books do not need to be read in alphabetical order. Mix and match! Trade with friends!
  • Tale of a Baboon from Botswana: rom

    Richard Marsh

    language (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Feb. 27, 2013)
    To be published under Folklore and Juvenile Fairy Tales, code JUV012020 (per recommendation by your Editorial Evaluation person). An animal story for children about manners and respecting others. An African animal folklore story about manners and respecting others. In the Tale of a Baboon from Bostswana an unmannerly baboon does not honor his promise to the tortoise, leaving the tortoise alone in the jungle late at night to find his way home. The tortoise then plans a party with his many animal friends for the baboon to teach the baboon manners.Watch for the honey badgers, scary and fun.
  • The Danged Swamp!

    Richard Mason

    Paperback (Gibraltar Press, June 15, 2012)
    As a young boy, Richard Mason lived the life of the paperboy, ‘Richard, in the novel. His interactions with the people in the small town of Norphlet, Arkansas, and the surrounding woods and swamps, form the basis of his seven-book Richard, the Paperboy series. It was a time of brown, sunburned feet and shirtless summers, when a boy’s only entertainment was his imagination. Richard Mason has written seven books in the Richard, the Paperboy series: The Red Scarf, Lyin’ Like a Dog, The Yankee Doctor, The Danged Swamp! “I will drink your blood” The Vampire-Werewolf of Flat Creek Swamp, The Mystery of the Canebrake, The River Rat, and a Catahoula Hog Dog, all part of the series inspired by his early years in Arkansas.
  • The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok: A Novel

    Richard Matheson

    eBook (Forge Books, Aug. 4, 2009)
    Wild Bill Hickok was a celebrity before there ever was a Hollywood. And he was dead before he was forty.Now Richard Matheson, Spur Award-winning author of Journal of the Gun Years, delves into the life and times of James Butler Hickok . . . gunfighter, U.S. marshal, legend. The cruelty that turned him violent. The fears that drove him. And the historic events that cause his name to live on more than century later.A compelling vision of the man behind the myth--and an unforgettable journey into the American frontier.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
  • Sniffer

    Richard Mason

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 29, 2017)
    Richard the Paperboy's dog: Not just any hound, but the hero dog of Norphlet! A paperboy’s dog who everyone in the little village adored. It’s a Tom Sawyer like tale of a remarkable dog who stayed in trouble, because he couldn’t resist trying to be a “good dog.” A nip at a bully’s seat, being the only dog ever baptized, and being dognapped could only happen to one remarkable dog, Sniffer.
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