Amazon.com: Never Come Back eBook: David Bell: Kindle Store: Elizabeth Hampton is consumed by grief when her mother dies unexpectedly. Leslie Hampton cared for Elizabeth’s troubled brother Ronnie’s special needs, assuming Elizabeth would take him in when the time came. But Leslie’s sudden death propels Elizabeth into a world of danger and double lives that undoes everything she thought she knew....
When police discover that Leslie was strangled, they immediately suspect that one of Ronnie’s outbursts took a tragic turn. Elizabeth can’t believe that her brother is capable of murder, but who else could have had a motive to kill their quiet, retired mother?
More questions arise when a stranger is named in Leslie’s will: a woman also named Elizabeth. As the family’s secrets unravel, a man from Leslie’s past who claims to have all the answers shows up, but those answers might put Elizabeth and those she loves the most in mortal danger.
Amazon.com: Fight Card: Front Page Palooka eBook: Jack Tunney, Anthony Venutolo, Paul Bishop: Kindle Store: Newark, New Jersey, 1954
Years of fight halls and newsrooms have East Coast sportswriter Nick Moretti looking for a change. When a sloppy hustle goes bad, and Nick takes a bullet in the shoulder, it’s time to go west. Hired by Pinnacle Pictures to write a boxing movie about troubled heavyweight champ Jericho ‘Rattlesnake’ McNeal, Nick joins forces with sexy public relations gal, Dillian Dawson, for a cross-country tour to give an everyman boxer an unlikely shot at the world title – what could go wrong?
From the crackling neon of Hollywood and Sin City, through the steamy Delta, and on to Chi-Town, the glitzy dream becomes a noir nightmare, and newshound Nick Moretti is about to commit a reporter’s greatest sin – becoming a Front Page Palooka ...
The Raw Story: People who read literary fiction are better than readers of popular fiction or nonfiction at figuring out the emotions of others, according to a US study out Thursday.
The Raw Story: An Italian weekly said in its Friday edition that a new painting by Leonardo da Vinci of Renaissance noblewoman Isabella d’Este has been reliably authenticated with carbon dating.
William M. James (Terry Harknett), The Naked and the Savage (Apache #9), Pinnacle, 1978
My9 New Jersey: School officials in northern New Jersey are urging parents to talk to their kids after the children flocked around a man who showed up in a red Lamborghini dressed as Moses.
Mail Online: Groom forgot to book wedding venue - then staged bomb scare on the big day so his bride wouldn't find out
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
UPI.com: Texas highway backed up due to spilled limes
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Richard Hull, The Murder of my Aunt, Pocket Books, 1946
The Raw Story: Blackened Roman skulls, possibly victims of Boudicca’s revolution which scorched the foundations of the Roman empire in Britain, have come tumbling out of a Crossrail tunnel in the heart of London.
I'm the target audience for this book, which contains autobiographical essays by the SF writers I grew up reading: Robert Silverberg, Damon Knight, Fredrik Pohl, Alfred Bester, Brian W. Aldiss, and Harry Harrison. Aside from the personal stuff about their lives, the authors also give us some wonderful insights into the history of SF as they experienced it. Not only that, there's a section at the end called "How We Work" that gives each of the writers a chance to describe his working methods. For me, that section alone is worth the price of the book.
The book, by the way, was published in 1975, and when you read the essay by Robert Silverberg and marvel at his productivity and awards and marvel at the wonderful books he wrote, just think of this: He's continued to produce fine work for all the years since then. And then think about this: He doesn't even mention that he was writing two books a month for the soft porn market during some of the time he talks about. He didn't come out about that until a good many years later.
For someone of my age who loved SF as a youngster, this book is fascinating reading. Highly recommended.
Update: Todd Mason has some excellent comments on this book here.
Buried in Bargains (Good Buy Girls): Josie Belle: 9780425252307: Amazon.com: Books Maggie Gerber and those discount divas, the Good Buy Girls, are gearing up for their first big holiday thrift shop sale. But one of the Girls—Joanne Claramotta, pregnant with her first child—is acting less than festive. It could be hormones. Or it could be Diane Jenkins, the young knockout her husband, Michael, hired as his new deli assistant.
Calming Joanne’s nerves proves impossible when Maggie finds Michael unconscious on his deli floor—and with Diane next to him, strangled to death with her apron strings. Then Maggie discovers something even more disturbing.
Paris Hilton treats fans to teaser of music video for comeback single Good Time: In the video, Paris parades around in a series of tiny bikinis and a skimpy one piece as she sings about being drunk.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Noypistuff: Tom Clancy has died in a Maryland hospital at the age of 66, according to the New York Times.
Tom Clancy dead at 66
Via her Twitter account, NY Times reporter Julie Bosman said the best-selling author died Tuesday night in a hospital in Baltimore.
Charles Williams, Go Home, Stranger, Gold Medal, 1954
Great cover gallery of books from one of my favorites. Killer Covers: Remembering a “Master Storyteller”
Bigfoot is real, research teams claim | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth: A team of Sasquatch researchers screened what it called "never before seen HD video" of Bigfoot on Tuesday.
During a news conference, they played several short clips that purported to show various human-like, hairy figures moving about in wooded areas in Kentucky.
HD video at the link.
Caught on cam: 'Process server' urinates on driveway: "I had to watch it over and over again and I just couldn't believe it."
NYTimes.com: Patricia Blair, an actress who played resourceful women in 1960s television westerns like “Daniel Boone” and “The Rifleman,” died on Sept. 9 at her home in North Wildwood, N.J. She was 80.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
I've read this one. It's a potent concoction that turns on itself and pulls a big surprise. It's all about strangeness and identity, and it's different from anything else you'll read this year.
Amazon.com: Corrosion eBook: Jon Bassoff: Kindle Store: A mysterious Iraq war veteran with a horribly scarred face…A disturbed young man in a strange mountain town…A masked preacher with a terrible secret…
Amidst a firestorm of violence, betrayal and horror, their three worlds will eventually collide in an old mining shack buried deep in the mountains. CORROSION, the shattering debut novel by Jon Bassoff, is equal parts Jim Thompson, Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, and an unforgettable journey into the underbelly of crime and passion. Drawn from the darkest corners of the human experience, it is sure to haunt readers for years to come.
Amazon.com: Down the Hatch: One Man's One Year Odyssey Through Classic Cocktail Recipes and Lore eBook: Vince Keenan: Kindle Store The acclaimed essays featured in Slate and USAToday.com collected for the first time
The product of a teetotaling home, Vince Keenan didn’t have his first serious drink until he was in his thirties. But when he fell, he fell hard. And started writing about it. The result is a love letter to libations and a celebration of the joys of a good barroom.
In bright and entertaining style, Keenan chronicles a year’s worth of cocktails. Each week brings a new beverage, prepared at home in a modestly stocked bar. He makes mistakes, finds concoctions he doesn’t care for, perfects his technique. Above all, he keeps experimenting.
While telling the story of how discovering cocktails broadened his world, Keenan also delves into the stories behind each drink, introducing a host of characters from bartenders past and present to a lazy lightweight boxer, a two-fisted screenwriter, and a suicidal Olympic swordsman.
Written with passion and curiosity, Down the Hatch is a book for the cocktail enthusiast and amateur alike.
With over 50 recipes
Only 99 cents! You can't go wrong!
Amazon.com: The Shamus Sampler eBook: Sean Dexter, Reed Farrel Coleman, Keith Dixon, J.L. Abramo, Bill Crider, Jochem Vandersteen: Kindle Store: An anthology full of exciting PI fiction and an essay written by popular names like Reed Farrel Coleman, Bill Crider, James Winter, Fred Zackel, J.L. Abramo, Keith Dixon, Jochem Vandersteen, Sean Dexter and some newer names like Kit Rohrbacher, Peter DiChellis and others.
This is the perfect anthology to pick up if you want to get introduced to all the great PI writers out there, all recommended by Sons of Spade (http://sonsofspade.blogspot.com) blogger and author Jochem Vandersteen.
Ghost Gone Wild (A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel): Carolyn Hart: 9780425260753: Amazon.com: Books: Carolyn Hart’s “irresistible cozy sleuth”* is back—good-hearted ghost Bailey Ruth Raeburn just can’t say no to an earthly rescue, even when maybe she should…
Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Doctor Fu-Manchu, Pyramid, 1963
Amazon.com: Among the Anthropophagai! A Story of Gorillas and Gasbags eBook: Bill Crider: Kindle Store: A fast-paced pulp adventure novella (about 9500 words) of exploring an impenetrable forest and the horrors that exist there. Zeppelins! Gorillas! Anthropophagai!
For some reason, maybe the current zombie craze, I was thinking about this movie the other day. I knew how bad it was when I saw it in the theater back in the late '50s, but then nearly all the movies like this were bad back in those days. If you have one little theater in town, though, and if you're a teenager, you go to the movie on the weekend, no matter what. So I wound up seeing many, many bad movies of this sort.
The plot is simple. There's a sunken ship with treasure aboard. A group tries to salvage it, and they discover that the ship is cursed and that a zombie crew guards the treasure. Undersea zombies? Wasn't that in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie? Maybe it was a tip of the hat to this one.
You should watch the trailer if you haven't already seen it. That way you'll get an idea of the quality of the whole thing. Some of the actors did a lot of B-movies and TV, but their names are pretty much unknown now. Ray "Crash" Corrigan is in it, way down on the cast list. If this one wasn't on MSTK, it should've been, but I still have a soft spot for it.
Aside: Nostalgia is a terrible thing. Let me tell you one of the things I remember most clearly about going to these movies. It's the sound of plastic earpieces clicking as every girl in the theater who wore glasses took them off and put them away at the end of the movie before the house lights went up.
QB James Street, who was national champ at Texas, dies: Former Texas quarterback James Street, who took over the Longhorns' wishbone offense and led them to the 1969 national championship, has died. He was 65.
The Chocolate Book Bandit: A Chocoholic Mystery: JoAnna Carl: 9780451239549: Amazon.com: Books: When it turns out a member of Warner Pier’s library board has been living on borrowed time, Lee is determined to discover who wrote the victim’s final chapter…
Okay, so it's an annoying slideshow. However, some of my favorites are on here, and since I think they deserve better, I'm linking to it. Anytime somebody has something good to say about Cutthroat Island and Joe vs. the Volcano, (not to mention about a dozen others) I'm willing to listen.
Writing Competitions: First Crime Novel Competition **The 2014 competition is now open!**
If you like YA novels, give it a try. Hey, it's free.
Amazon.com: The Girl Who Has Everything eBook: Jennifer J. Stewart: Kindle Store: Phoebe Marchant isn’t your average poor little orphan. In fact, as heiress to her father’s fortune, she may be the richest twelve-year-old in America.
But life isn’t always easy for Phoebe. Along with Poppy’s fortune, she’s inherited a big problem, Vicki-with-two-i’s, the last and luckiest in her long string of stepmothers.
Luckily, Phoebe’s a professional when it comes to getting rid of unwanted stepmothers. She’s also used to getting her own way. But Vicki comes equipped with her own set of tricks and has a different idea about what it means to be “The Girl Who Has Everything.” Do this wicked stepmother and her conniving orphan charge have more to learn from each other than they realize?
Vintage Pop up Books - Children's Bookstore: Vintage Pop up Books
Welcome to our video library of vintage pop up books. This library contains pop up and moveable books from the second-half of the 19th century to the late 20th century. We have these beautiful titles in our collection at the store and decided that they don’t do the world a lot of good stored in a safe.
So, we pulled them out and carefully filmed each one.
Each book has been carefully documented in both its description and its video. Each video includes embed links so that you may select those videos of highest interest and embed it directly on another web page. We encourage you to embed these videos and share these beautiful works of art with the world.
Tarzan's fight with the giant croc is highly recommended!
Sax Rohmer, The Fire Goddess, Gold Medal, 1952
Cap'n Bob is back in the blogging game. Take a look at The Cap'n's Blog.
Sure, Kasey Lansdale has a great new CD out (Restless), but she's also carving out her own place in the Lansdale publishing empire. She writes short stories, as you might know already, and now she has an anthology to her credit. It's a good one, too. The title gives you the theme. These are monsters you haven't seen before, or, if you have, they've been "stepped up a notch," as the editor puts it.
Neal Barrett, Jr., is as hilarious and inventive as ever with "Bloaters," which is sort of vampires in reverse. David Schow's "Blue Amber" begins with a human skin hanging on a fence. The Border Patrol has never before dealt with aliens like the ones in this story. Neil Gaiman's "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" is a short and expert chiller. Joe Lansdale's "The Case of the Angry Traveler" is in the classical adventurer's tale vein, with the kind of underground scenes I can't resist. Selena Rosen's "Nathan" is as blood-spattered a tale as anybody could ask for. There are a lot more stories here, by Big Names, that I haven't gotten to yet, but you can bet I will. This is a fine anthology, and a great start for another Lansdale's literary journey. Check it out.
Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room: Jessy asks Charlie Stella rude and inappropriate questions
William Arnold, Sheila's Daughter, Original Novels, 1952
Amazon.com: Never Come Back eBook: David Bell: Kindle Store: Elizabeth Hampton is consumed by grief when her mother dies unexpectedly. Leslie Hampton cared for Elizabeth’s troubled brother Ronnie’s special needs, assuming Elizabeth would take him in when the time came. But Leslie’s sudden death propels Elizabeth into a world of danger and double lives that undoes everything she thought she knew....
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