Longtime friends and associates of Charlie Parker, Louis and Angel, travel to Europe following the brutal murder of a friend at the hands of a pair of ruthless Serbian brothers, The Vuksans. Not content to return home until all those who are responsible for his friend’s murder meet their maker, Louis seemingly has to overturn…
After nearly ten years of daily comics, Bill Watterson hung up his pencil in 1995 and capped off his critically acclaimed strip, Calvin & Hobbes. Ten years later, Watterson worked with Andrews McNeel Publishing to put out a complete box set (three volumes in hardback / four in paperback). The result is a gorgeous collection…
In the offices of The Daily Times, Atlanta’s premier black newspaper, Tommy Smith, former police officer turned journalist, is asleep at his desk when a gunshot jerks him awake. He runs to find the body of the paper’s publisher, Arthur Bishop, dead on the floor. He makes a call to his old precinct to report…
In MURDER ON THE INSIDE, author Catherine Fogarty looks at the deadly riot that took place at Kingston Penitentiary. On April 14, 1971, inmate Billy Knight led what was to be a peaceful protest against the horrendous living conditions at Kingston Penitentiary. Fed up with the dehumanizing conditions inside the prison and the rumors of…
Pure Dynamite is the memoir of professional wrestler Tom “The Dynamite Kid” Billington. In the years following the 1999 release of Mick Foley’s Have A Nice Day, the marketplace for wrestler memoirs and biographies exploded. While many of those books aren’t worth reading, Tom Billington’s memoir – originally released in 2001 – has long been…
After an accident leaves him bedridden, author Gerry Andersen begins receiving letters, phone calls and visits from a woman claiming to be Audrey – the central character from his most successful novel DREAM GIRL. With a history of mental illness in his family, is Gerry beginning to lose his mind or is someone from his…
I’ve been wanting to read Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove for a while now. Over the years I’ve read many positive reviews from those I trust on Goodreads, so I had a feeling I wouldn’t be disappointed but with Stephen King’s Dark Tower series being as close as I’ve come to reading a western, I found…
COACH is the story of the three time NHL coach of the year award winner, Pat Burns. In 1992, when I was 8 years old, I came home from hanging out with my friends and proudly proclaimed that I liked hockey and that I was now a Montreal Canadiens fan. My Uncle got wind of…
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