A Vietnam veteran and trained killer, Vincent Majestyk finds peace as a farmer, growing melons, until the Mob, seeing him as an easy mark, tries to make him a victim in an extortion plot.
Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating 40 men in 60 days as research for a radio talk show host’s upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado – a state-run mental hospital – and is taken hostage by a charismatic “doctor” who is on the run from the Mob.
A Tale from the Care Bears - Your Best Wishes Can Come True
Because his name and size are similar, second-grader Jimmy Little has to contend with the teasing of his classmates until Wish Bear helps him realize his dearest wish.
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting its history from Roman times, to the Wars of the Roses, the chaos of the Civil War, the fall of Charles I and Cromwell's emergence as Lord Protector – all the way up until the Victorian era when Britain’s monarchs came face-to-face with modernity.