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The Hero of Barryton$15.00 The Hero of Barryton is a heart-warming family saga depicting the strength and integrity of a bigger-than-life Irishman who brings his family to America in the early 1900s and discovers he must struggle against overwhelming adversity, political corruption, and satanic evilness. *Customer Rating for this product is 5 out of 5 ' Tis a Grand Family A reviewer, a writer, with Irish roots. "Aye, if you feel a wee bit o’ kinship to the Irish, you’ll enjoy meeting the O’Connor family. The patriarch, Patrick “Dada” O’Conner, sets the pace for this saga that takes place in a Pennsylvania mining area. A cave-in, during which Dada saves several miners, earns him the title “The Hero of Barryton.” Although severely injured in the accident, his courage and optimistic attitude sustain his family and friends. Dada and Maggie O'Conner endure setbacks, including the supposedly accidental death of their oldest son, and gossip about another son, as well as the youngest daughter. When Dada is talked into running for mayor in an effort to unseat the unscrupulous Mayor Scanlon and his cronies, all hell breaks loose. The mud-slinging begins and a host of secrets are revealed. Through it all, "The grandest family in Barryton" hold their heads high and maintain their dignity." [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
1959-In Search of Eldorado$18.00 Picture "Catcher In The Rye" meeting "American Graffiti." Spiced with laughter and tears, 1959 is a coming of age tale of young prep student's mental and physical anguish as he enters manhood and searches desperately for love, and for a true understanding and acceptance of his fate. *Customer Rating for this product is 5 out of 5 A reviewer, a writer and an avid reader. "One of the marks of a good novel is a distinctive voice. If the author gets that right on the first few pages, he's got my attention. E. P. Burke's protagonist, Jerry Killian, had my interest from the first sentence. He's an adult when the book opens, looking back on one year as a teenager, but the voice slipped easily into the past and took me with him. If you were a teenager during the 50s, you'll identify with this nostalgic, coming-of-age novel. The era is authenticated through language, movies, music, clothing and hairstyles. Despite Jerry's problems, some of them ordinary teenage angst, others serious, there's a lot of fun and some laugh-out-loud scenes. I'm looking forward to Burke's next book." [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Naked Lies$18.00 After the breakup of his marriage and plagued by severe depression, Amos Grant loses his job as an award-winning reporter on a large metropolitan newspaper and is forced to return to Taterville, the small Florida cowboy town of his birth. He consents to his dying father's wish and takes over the family weekly newspaper and stays to care for his ailing mother. After ten years, he feels shackled. He hates his dull, unsophisticated life and dreams of the day when he can escape Taterville. But everything changes when Randy, his gay employee, is charged with the mysterious deaths of two teenage boys. In order to prove Randy's innocence, Amos must battle Carlton Potter, one of the richest ranchers in the state. In addition, he is threatened by Taterville's bigoted secret society. In the end, Amos realizes he must uncover the naked lies lurking behind the closed doors of Carlton Potter's mansion, even if it means discovering the stark truth about himself. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Dead Man's Hand$18.00 In this newest Amos Grant mystery, Amos says that in the ten years since he began his detective agency with his wife Holly, he never once had a client quite like Marvin M. Maxwell. The twitchy, middle-aged guy has bad luck written all over him. First, a tornado partially destroys Amos’s home and then it levels the local high school, killing the wife of Amos’s best friend, Sheriff Buford Billings. Next, Marvin’s former girlfriend and her new boyfriend are found chopped to death. All clues point to Amos’s old nemesis, Lester Dowd, the Fireman, who is rumored to be back in town with an ax to grind. When Amos finds five playing cards shoved under his office door, he knows the Dead Man’s Hand is a not-so subtle warning that he may be the Fireman’s next victim. However, Dowd has waited a decade for his revenge and isn’t about to put all his cards on the table yet. But even the psychotic Fireman is unprepared for what little Marvin has hidden up his sleeve. *"Dead Man’s Hand is an ace of a mystery in which the pace is brisk, the chapters short, and where there’s more than one joker in the deck." [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |