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2000s

The Falcons Of Malta (2009) - A lonely widower goes to Newark, New Jersey for his 70th year high school reunion and strikes up a friendship with the only other survivor in his class.

President Harding's Secrets Of Love (2009) - A lonely presidential historian tries to find love amongst the Princeton library stacks where she discovers a very powerful secret.

Galapaghosts (2009) - Giant turtles haunt the dreams of lonely, sexy paleontologist Becky Morris as she looks for love in modern day Houston, Texas.

Carrier Pigeons (2008) - A lonely bachelor in Alberta, Canada corresponds with a lonely Chilean woman via carrier pigeon. [Made into the Manka Bros. Films movie "December Spring" in 2008".]

My Last Adam Sandler Movie (2008) - A lonely, intelligent single woman vows never to go to another Adam Sandler movie after a string of horrible first dates.

The Cookie Quarantine (2008) - (Book Three of author Brandon Morris' Nathan Gerlach series) - No one in Accounting can access their user IDs or passwords, and our hero Nathan Gerlach is not about to let his painful carpal tunnel syndrome get in the way of addressing the issue. [Optioned by Manka Bros. Films for release in 2009.]

Eating Mussels In Brussels (2007) - A young woman leaves college early after the horrific death of her entire family and learns how to live and love again in Brussels.

The Light Of Skagen (2007) - A lonely, socially dysfunctional travel insurance underwriter from Las Vegas tries to find new love on a dairy farm in northern Denmark. [Made into the 2009 Manka Highbrow film Drawn To The Yellow Light.]

Flights Of Nancy: Alone And... Happy (2007) - Third in the series of "Nancy" books finds Nancy alone again after breaking up with "Prince Harming".

A Snowy Autumn Spring (2006) - A lonely older woman moves back to the house she grew up in with the hope of rekindling a relationship with the boy next door.

Runtime Error (2006) - (Book Two of author Brandon Morris' Nathan Gerlach series) - When a bead of sweat from Corporate IT expert Nathan Gerlach's brow fries the "Ctrl" button on a junior executive's keyboard, he races against the clock to repair it so the executive can copy and paste some text. [Made into the Manka Bros. Films movie "Runtime Error" in 2008.]

Monkeys Of Shark Bay (2005) - A despondent, workaholic zoo worker in Shark Bay looks for love by placing a personal ad. She has no idea what she's getting into.

Tight Ass Female Seeks Italian Love (2005) - A lonely food and wine editor for the Washington Post leaves her high pressure life and moves to Viareggio, Italy. [To be made into the Manka Bros. Film "Bella Sangiovese" in 2009.]

Cubism In A Round Room (2005) - A twice divorced, mother of two picks up and moves to Greece to learn about sculpture and love.

Fatal Exception (2004) - The first of Brandon Morris' techno-thriller novels comes to the big screen. Corporate I.T. expert Nathan Gerlach has to get past a firewall and proxy settings to save an analyst's PC from crashing. [Made into the Manka Bros. Films movie "Fatal Exception" - released in 2007.]

Burial Clothes (2004) - An antique dealer reexamines her life after she is asked to pick out the clothes a dead friend will be buried in.

Rampage Of The Stegosaur (2003) - Cormac McCarthy's haunting tale of bloodthirsty Stegosaurs as they rampage across the planet - terrorizing a peace loving pack of velociraptors. [Made into the Manka Bros. Films movie of the same name. Also to be made into the Broadway Manka musical of the same name.]

Flights Of Nancy: Prince Charming Exists... FOR ME! (2003) - Second in the series of "Nancy" books. Nancy finally finds love and realizes it's exactly all it's cut out to be!

The Laughter Of Gina (2002) - A child's laughter haunts Molly, a successful children's book publisher, as she returns home to attend her 25 year college reunion.

Appalachian Spring (2001) - After the death of his wife, a brokenhearted music composer moves to the Appalachian mountains to piece his life back together.

Flights Of Nancy (2001) - Nancy Smith is a single woman who loves her food but loves her men more. All of Boston is rooting for this mysterious young woman as she blogs about her everyday life.

The Man In The Breadcrumb Fedora (2000) - A recently windowed woman returns to Italy in search of the man that once made her feel young.

1990s

The South Shall Rise Again (1999) - A lonely civil war enthusiast uses his time machine to bring back General Robert E. Lee to ask him some questions.

Sallinger's Ghost (1999) - A lonely young woman opens a bookstore in J.D. Sallinger's home town, hoping that eventually they will strike a friendship or love affair.

Stone Pillows (1998) - A lonely librarian moves to China to live in a cave.

Archer's Way (1998) - The lonely business editor for the New York Times falls for an archer in the back woods of Arkansas. [Made into the 2004 Manka Bros. Film "In The Arms Of An Archer".]

Just Hyde (1998) - Eliminates the non-scary parts of the classic novel Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. (This was the first book of the Manka Goth line of graphic novels aimed at teenage boys.)

Jew's Harp (1997) - An antique Jew's Harp found in an attic brings back memories to a lonely aging widower.

Keats & Shelly (1996) - The dead poet helps Shelly, a lonely modern day college freshman, with her relationship problems.

The Flying Fish Of Rae Dawn Chong (1995) - Award-winning Southern writer Gene Maunam sets this coming of age story in his native central Alabama. The title refers to the young narrator who always mispronounced the name of the local lake. [Made in the Manka Bros. Film of the same name in 1997.]

Cutie Cat's Pop-Up Mysteries (1990) - The last volume of a very popular series of baby lit books ends tragically with Cutie Cat having sex with Mousy Mouse and the two of them running off together to Mexico.

1980s

Committed (1989) - Love flourishes in a psychiatric hospital between two lonely mental patients.

Even Wilder (1989) - Alexandra Ripley (Scarlett) continues with the further adventures of Laura Ingals Wilder.

I, Amphibian (1988) - One man's diary documenting a nightmarish journey from cold to warm blooded. [Made into a Manka Bros. Television mini-series in 1991.]

Coq A Vin (1988) - A burned-out, lonely, corporate attorney from New York learns the true meaning of life during her Summer visit to Provence, France. [Made into the Manka Highbrow film "Wine Chicken".]

The Granddaughter Also Rises (1987) - Short stories and poems from Margeaux Hemingway.

Another Christmas In Jail (1985) - Short stories from the inmates at Riker's Island Prison.

In The Shadow of Mary Wollenstonecraft (1984) - A lonely modern-day feminist searches for the truth and love amongst the Republicans of Orange County, California..

1970s

You Got My Goat (1976) - Newberry Prize winning pop-up book with real goat hair for children to touch.

Country Cat (1970s) - Acclaimed series of children's books about Country Cat, who saw Morris on TV and leaves the farm to become a celebrity cat. The naive cat finds herself in a seedy world of cat-tle calls and litter box auditions.

1960s

A Stitch In Time (1969 - MB Sci-Fi) - When a madman takes them to another dimension, Black Mac Macintyre must utilize a wormhole in space to retrieve Presidents Washington through Harrison.

Exhibit Bee (1963) - The timeless thriller from children's crime author Edgar Hedrick. A frightened young bumble bee finds himself the sole witness to a grisly murder. [Manka Bros. produced a film version in 1966.]

1950s

Trails Of Triumph (1953) - William Tingemore's bestseller about pioneers settling the old West. [Adapted into the Manka Bros. Films movie "Please Baby, Hold Me Tight" featuring blind rockabilly sensation Carl Henky in his first screen role.]

1940s

Meet Me In Casarobles (1943) - Set against World War II, a couple decides that if they truly love each other, they will meet on April 1st in Casarobles. Will these war torn lovers still find each other even though Casarobles doesn't exist?

Mr. Lovely's House Of Lovenians (1940) - Classic E.A. Thornton novel concerns Mr. Lovely's gentle world and how it is shattered with the news that World War 1 has broken out in Europe. [Made into the Manka Highbrow film of the same name in 2005.]

1930s

A Crack In The Grass (1937) - Classic novel by Herman Ramsey. An American Medic in the Spanish Civil War goes AWOL and rambles aimlessly through Spain.

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