Starr Cyberbooks

Starr Cyberbooks is an introduction to the fiction and non-fiction works of published author William Starr Moake.

"His short stories are a little strange and off-beat, but they are well written and they keep you engaged -- you don't want to stop reading. A lot of his material is dark and edgy and makes you think . . . fun to read." -- Bill Taylor, book reviewer for the Hawaii Island Journal.

	This book tells the story of a man who is lost before he journeys into the strange world of a Hawaiian shaman who is also a quantum physicist. Nicholas Donahue gains the occult powers of levitation and astral projection and learns how to see through matter into the core of inner spiritual reality. After his mentor vanishes mysteriously, Donahue's external reality begins to crumble until he risks death to enter an infinitesimal universe.
	After putting his ex-wife in prison for murdering his best friend, Dex Hamilton has moved to the city of Honolulu to begin his private investigator career in earnest. His first big case is the missing husband of a rich and beautiful woman. After Hamilton finds him with a gay lover, the husband is shot to death and police suspect the widow. Hamilton struggles to fight his attraction to her when he realizes she has lied to him repeatedly. Hamilton finds the truth on a yacht named Luck during a sultry night of Kona winds in this sequel to the PI mystery novel "The Paradise Connection."
	"Faraway Places" is a memoir of travel that took the author through half of the world over a period of nearly three decades. Beginning with his honeymoon in Jamaica, he offers engrossing perceptions and personal insights as he journeys to the Mexican Riviera, Alaska, Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and three of the most beautiful places on the U.S. mainland.
	In the screenplay "Stranger In Time" Si Morley, a young computer programmer, is recruited into a secret government project to go back in time to 1880s New York City ostensibly to solve a mystery. But the project managers have a hidden agenda to change history. Morley falls in love with the beautiful daughter of an apartment house owner and brings her back to his time with terrifying results. Morley makes a fateful decision to alter history in a surprising way. Adapted from the 1970 novel "Time And Again" by Jack Finney.

Paperback Books

TERPSICHORE'S CHILDREN is a novel about a man, his two closest friends and their relationships with women from youth in the tumultuous 1960s to middle age. Along the way he explores the beatnik lifestyle of San Francisco, endures military service during the Vietnam war and seeks refuge in a Hawaiian rainforest.

TIME IS BUT A STREAM:Twelve short stories about discontented people trying to understand the engimatic nature of time and how it affects their lives. The American owner of a small hotel in Mexico goes loco coping with strange guests, suicidal frogs, a gangster who wants to kill him and the ghost of his wife.

THE PARADISE CONNECTION: Dex Hamilton is a fired journalist playing at being a private investigator to keep himself in beer. After a letter from his ex-wife, he stumbles across a billion-dollar resort swindle involving her new husband. As the bodies pile up, he must learn to be a real PI in order to survive.