Joseph Robert Cowles

Anthony Pignataro

Charley Ridgway is a former US Army officer turned resort bartender on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Ridgway is bored by the seeming lack of intellectual and creative pursuits in the dream vacation community. One night at the bar, he and fellow bartender Bill Hersey meet Clarissa Daniels. As Ridgway flirts with the former B-Movie actress, a young thief attempts to rob the bar's cash register. Ridgway chases him across the resort and fights him, holding his own because of his army training, but the hoodlum is similarly skilled and escapes. The next day Ridgway learns Hersey was jumped by several men after his shift ended, and is in bad shape. After visiting Bill in his hospital room, Ridgway meets up with Clarissa. They spend the night together and Ridgway learns she is the kept girlfriend of rich real estate developer Jack Rhodes. Ridgway discovers Hersey was complicit in the robbery at the bar, trying to pay off gambling debts owed to a syndicate of crooked Maui cops. Finding evidence that one of the cops is a muscle for Rhodes as well as an investment partner in a new luxury development, Ridgway begins a delicate and dangerous balancing act, trying to seduce Clarissa away from Rhodes. The bad cops become violent when Ridgway gets too close in his attempt to shut them down. They beat him up and leave him for dead in a sugar cane field set on fire. Everything rings true in this tightly crafted and highly believable narrative. SMALL ISLAND is a suspenseful fast-moving page-turner of steamy sex and urban criminal violence played out against the backdrop of a beautiful tropical island. The author of this finely crafted novel, Anthony Pignataro, speaks of Hawaiian culture without being patronizing, and discloses some of the traps of living in Paradise that are seldom seen by visiting vacationers.

Small Island

Carl Barks

Didier Ghez

Barbora Holan Cowles

Ed Bergen

The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial is a quarterly publication of the international Carl Barks Fan Club, featuring pictorial articles regarding the amazing worldwide influence of Carl's stories and artwork on literature, the arts, education and literacy. For seven decades the work of Carl Barks has been translated into every major language, published by the millions, and enjoyed by billions of adults and children of all cultures. The characters he created have become household names, his stories treasured works of literature. Yet it was not until his retirement in the 1960s that Carl's name was made known to the public, for during the twenty-three years of his comic book cartooning career, his work was presented to the public as that of Walt Disney-specifically, that of The Walt Disney Company. An American of humble beginnings from rural Oregon, Carl Barks became the single most prolific, most published, most read author and most viewed artist in history. This series of pictorial books explores every aspect of his work and its ongoing global impact.Today Carl's oil paintings of scenes featuring the characters he created and wrote about are eminently collectible, selling at auction for very high prices.

Our Gold Strike Issue

The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial

Nancy Cain

Barbora Cowles

Nancy Cain began playing with video as a member of Videofreex, the radical video collective in New York City that shot footage of Woodstock and the Chicago Eight. She worked on the first video pilot ever shot for network television with the Videofreex at CBS in 1969, and ran an offbeat video show at the Videofreex loft in Soho. She cofounded Lanesville TV--known as "Probably America's Smallest TV Station." The pirate broadcasts were made possible by a transmitter donated by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman. Along with TVTV, she defined the video documentary movement of the 70s, known as "guerilla television." Cain was a co-creator and producer of The '90s, a weekly hour-long alternative show for PBS, which the New York Post called "refreshingly irreverent, opinionated and outlandish." She was the co-creator and producer of CamNet The Camcorder Network, America's first all-camcorder station. Rolling Stone designated CamNet second only to HBO in their list of "the ten things in 1993 that didn't suck," and heralded CamNet as "a brilliant and democratic vision...a people's CNN," and "the inevitable next stop in the liberation of television from network owners and broadcasters." -- taken from back cover.

And What We Saw Through the Viewfinder

Video Days

Sheila Farrell Murray

Authorized biography of Jeraldine Saunders, author of the book Love Boats and creator of The Love Boat television series.

The Authorized Real Life Story of Jeraldine Saunders

The Love Boat Lady

Joseph Robert Cowles

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