Recommended Books

Bopper's Progress was the Winner of Wundor’s 2017 International Short Fiction Contest.

*Now available as an e-book! Bopper's Progress has a new book cover with artwork by artist Nan Novara.
"I love this book and the cover!" - Marie Pike

A holiday book that will be joyful pulled out year after year to be read.

This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise.

"The H-Bomb and the Jesus Rock came out of a whole big bag of things from my grade school years—the fear of sudden nuclear annihilation, the equation of the Red Scare with the Red Devil, coldblooded nuns, a fat kid in the neighbourhood with a vast collection of baseball cards and a perfect capitalist mentality..."  John Manderino

Crying at Movies is at once a love-letter to an art form and a humorous appreciation of the distinctions between movie scenes and life’s realities.

Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year - Bronze Award Winner 2001 for Humor

"A fine read for baseball fans everywhere..." Roger Kahn

This is the funny, poignant story of two brothers growing up in the early '60s. Manderino lightly approaches the underside of the middle American family in a tumultuous period of history.