Dan's Books

BOOKS by Dan Schwartz
(available in print at AMAZON and on eBook at Barnes & Noble)

No Cure for Nature

Haiku
Man Against Nature
Man is Friends with Bowling Ball
The World is at Risk

Summary
In a world where the environment was being ravaged by humans, Mother Nature decided to take matters into her own hands and declared war on the humans.  After the war has ended, where nature triumphed over the humans, the surviving humans are being carted off to prisons, including Guy, a low key individual who seemed uninspired and not concerned about the war.  While in prison, Guy befriends a group of individuals including a dog, a bowling ball, an ear of corn, a bee, and a gopher named Abner.  In a short time Guy becomes close with his new friends and is heartbroken to hear that each one of them has been imprisoned under contrived pretenses under the power corrupt Mother Nature.  Guy decides that he will break them out of prison and try to set things right for each of his friends.

Guy embarks on a tale of travels across the lands and is faced with his share of hardships, including a barnyard battle, a ferocious bear, a know-it-all river, two intellectual chimps, and a city built by machines. To overcome the various challenges Guy and his friends must use physical prowess, mental ability, wit, and aid from many new friends.  Through his journey, Guy realizes that the world had become a horrid place under the cruel reign of Mother Nature and Guy vows to stand up to her.

Superhero's Welcome

Haiku
Superheroes Die
Who is Behind the Bloodshed
Can't Hide Behind Mask

Summary
At one point the streets of Utopolis were not safe to walk down, but that was a long time ago, before the superheroes came.  With crime fighters with extraordinary powers patrolling the city was left in peace, or so everyone thought.  When guards were down, tragedy struck in the form of a murdered boy, a boy who had just developed his super powers.  With no clear motives and no suspects, the superhero group, The Seven Deadlies, attempt to get to the bottom of the case, but at what cost?  It appears like the deeper they dig to unearth the truth, the deeper they find themselves in the dangers way, and they soon suspect that they may be the true target of the criminal force behind the disruption.

Join The Seven Deadlies for the humorous thrill ride in this comical mystery adventure, as we learn of their sorted pasts, and hope for their fated futures.  Superhero’s Welcome is a witty journey into the thin line known as good versus evil.  With an assortment of characters that enjoy clever banter as much as fighting crime, this tale is a cross blend of Superfriends meets Seinfeld. 


Adventure, Sorrow, and Humor

A collection of three novellas specifically designed to pull at three distinct emotions.  First get your heart pumping with the excitement of a catastrophe, then let the tears stream with a tragedy, and finish it all off with some laughs.

RAMBLINGS OF A LOVE SICK MASOCHIST
A lonely, yet content middle aged mall security guard is about to have his life turned upside down. He never anticipated finding a soul mate, and in a short period of time learns the joy and pain that love brings. He recounts his tale in a series of journal entries, in this modern day tragedy.

Haiku
A Man Falls in Love
Some People are Meant to Suffer
Life if Never Fair

VENGEFUL WORLD: A TALE OF GLOBAL WARMING
Temperatures around the world are increasing at intense rates never before seen, hurricanes are washing entire cities off the globe, earthquakes are swallow up once peaceful homes, and Abigail Winthrop, a leading climate change researcher is in the heart of it all.  Abigail follows a bread crumb trail of clues for an environmental adventure like no other to unearth the true nature about the global phenomenon.  She was always a level headed thinker, but the truth she is about to uncover will make her question her sanity.

Haiku
World is Heating Up
Must Fight Global Climate Change
The Truth is Deadly

THE MANY MINI ADVENTURES OF ABNER THE GOPHER
Abner, the old fashion and adventuring gopher, travels the world looking for excitement. Abner decided to scribe his accounts so that he can share his travels in a fantastic collection of short stories. Join the celebrated rodent for a comical adventure as he bumps elbows with pirates, becomes a veggetable, finds love, gets eaten, and so many more.

Haiku
Traveling Gopher
Has Fun Wacky Adventures
A Rodent of Class

The Living Puppets

Haiku
Everyone Dies
Souls Live On but Amid War
Afterlife Chaos

Summary
What happens when we die? Is it all peaches and cream if you lived a noble life and fire and brimstone otherwise? Nobody alive can be certain, but what is our final destination is nothing like anyone expected? What if what happens next is less like a pleasant dream and more like a nightmare? A small group of newly deceased find themselves in a mysterious afterlife with nothing but confusion and questions. Soon after, they are greeted by a more experienced spirit who informs them that there is a power struggle against a corrupt and power hungry soul. The group is taken in by the resistance forces who promise to end the evil reign of the man manipulating the living for his own personal gain and they discover that their own deaths may have been a little more than fate.

Terminal Vampire

Haiku
A Vampire Gets AIDS
Heads to Alaska to Pass
Fears Dying Alone   

Summary
What if you found out you were dying? What if you felt your life was a waste and you longed for companionship? What if you were a vampire? What if you contracted AIDS after feeding on a prostitute and not only had weeks to live? Any of these things could happen to anybody, but all of them happened to Evander Graft. Trying to escape his woes in his last few weeks of life, Evander relocates himself to the sunless town of Pleasant Valley, Alaska, where he hopes to find some meaning in his life. In his expedited soul searching expedition Evander find much more than he expected in the form of a love. Now he is faced with the torture of deciding to die alone, or hurt the only person he has had feelings for in over a century all while trying to defend himself against the locals who suspect him of the mysterious murders that began as soon as Evander Graft showed his face in thei dark romantic comedy.

 


Haikus and Cartoos

Summary
When the art and grace of the haiku is joined forces with the clever playfulness of the cartoon, the team is almost unstoppable. Featuring 100 hilarious, tongue-in-cheek, and pun-filled poems accompanied by drawings that hold their own in the comedy department, what is not to love? Great as a gift, stocking stuffer, coaster, toaster, boaster, or defensive weapon; although it will not make toast nor will it boast.










The Gopher Chronicles

Haiku
Traveling Gopher
Has Fun Wacky Adventures
A Rodent of Class

Summary
Following a war where Mother Nature rid the world of the humans, Abner the Gopher starts to feel the itch that perhaps he had not lived his life to the fullest and vows to make the most out of his time left.  Although Abner is small in stature, stricken with terrible eyesight, and aged in years, his heart, courage, and general willingness to help out those in need allow him to overcome any and all obstacles thrown his way along his quest for purpose.  Much to Abner's pleasure, his tale is filled with a plentiful bounty of quirky and remarkable characters including a cast of pirates, a sadistic baker, a love or two, some numbers he could count on, and many other animals of all shapes and sizes.  With each individual Abner aids, and with each barrier he overcomes, he learns a little bit more about life, and more importantly a whole lot more about himself.

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