Product Description: When faced with a major terrorist threat, states seem to reach instinctively for the coercive tools in their policy toolkits, thereby exacerbating the security situation by sanctioning the abuse of human rights, polarizing society, and undermining the positive values of their own systems...read more

Product Description: The fifteen short stories in BLUE ELEPHANTS AND OTHER STORIES deal with souls caught on the jagged edge.

Unmistakably autobiographical, this book is a moving account of a man coming to terms with his own myth, his own talent and his uncontrollable, unrelenting, self-destructive life. Now approaching middle-age, Jack Duluoz retreats to California to escape the pressures of his fame.

Product Description: An exile is a pilgrim banished or expelled from birthright or home. Exiles: Short Stories by Tom Parker, deals with those souls beyond the pale of the familiar, how they came so far, and the ingenuity they must summon to survive.

This is the MP3CD audiobook format. The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness, and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. The era is the 1970s; the setting, Southern California. Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home in Santa Teresa. It is the portrait of an unknown woman. Suddenly, Lew finds himself drawn into a web of family complications and masked brutalities stretching back fifty years, through a world where money talks or buys silence, where social prominence is a murderous weapon, where, behind the plausible facade of homes not quite broken but badly bent, a heritage of lies and evasions pushes troubled men and women deeper into trouble. And as he pursues the Chantry portrait, and the larger mystery of Richard Chantry, Archer himself is shaken as never before--by a woman.

More than one thousand pieces of wisdom and advice from farmers, financiers, philosophers, teachers, salesmen, and people in all walks of life are illustrated by numerous line drawings

Product Description: Richard Foster points the way to a new level of spiritual maturity through a rediscovery of the time-honored disciplines of Christian devotion, demonstrating how they can help us toward inner transformation.

Product Description: An AudioFile Earphones Award Winner *Read by Tom Parker [aka-Grover Gardner]* One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around--fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week...read more

Product Description: Not since the novels of Nathaniel West has the theme of American innocence grinding to a stop at the polluted waters of the Pacific so consistently reverberated through a body of writing.""-Detroit News

It's the near future, and frustration and rage sweep through the alienated American middle class. All signs point to what's being called "The Second American Revolution," as "Middies," incensed by what they see to be a hopelessly corrupt, elitist, and self-perpetuating government, form a secret militia and prepare to oust the "Leets"--as did their forbears at Lexington and Concord more than two centuries ago. Amidst this upheaval, Matt Cooper, investigative reporter for a Florida daily, single-mindedly probes the murder of his father, a successful novelist with mysterious ties to World War II Nazi Germany. His obsessive search takes him halfway around the globe, turning deadly when it leads him to the core of an international conspiracy that uses the incipient citizens' rebellion as a screen for its own efforts to usurp the faltering US government.

Recreates the glory and atmosphere of the great baseball season of 1941, when DiMaggio had his record fifty-six game hitting streak, Williams batted .406, and America went to war.

Product Description: Fans feel they know Jimmy Stewart--the charismatic boy next door filled with righteous conviction, the American ideal. But Jimmy Stewart the image often eclipsed James Stewart the actor and the man. In this penetrating in-depth biography, Donald Dewey delves beneath the earnest Capraesque persona and into the usually unremarked turmoil of the actor's private life...read more

Product Description: Golf hero Ben Hogan bore a mystique that captivates golfers still. In this extraordinary book, Curt Sampson explores the milestones of Hogan's life: his father's suicide, his miraculous comeback after his brush with death, and his many triumphs on the Tour, to reveal the Hogan no one knew...read more

Lew Archer becomes involved with a beautiful blonde and a case of murder after he discovers a man dying of a bullet wound along a southern California highway.

A breathtaking re-creation of the events leading up to and culminating in the battle of Antietam in 1862 presents Lee, McClellan, Longstreet, and Jackson in all their full military glory, as they fight in the Civil War's bloodiest battle, which followed McClellan's discovery of Lee's plans to invade the North. Read by Tom Parker. Book available.

In the spring of 1942, Joe DiMaggio’s enjoying a much better season than either General MacArthur in Corregidor or private eye Toby Peters in Hollywood. Blond bombshell Mae West has just finished her book, a sensational tell-all life story that could turn Tinsel Town into scandal city. When the screed’s stolen from under her generous form by a mysterious psychopath, Peters comes up to see her and agrees to take the case. Before he can tell his famously curvilinear client who’s done her wrong, he finds himself the target of a cross-dressing killer, captive of a methodically mad doctor, and the preview audience for a big-screen plot that threatens not only Mae but also master of spectacle Cecil B. DeMille.

Product Description: [MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.]''He was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime...read more

Product Description: [This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CD Library Edition - in Vinyl case.][Part 1 has ISBN: 9780786181773] ''He was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime...read more

Provides fictional accounts of criminal hacking techniques, demonstrating how and why such attacks could occur.

Product Description: Toby Peters guards a horror icon against a gang of crazed vampire enthusiasts. Coffins fill the basement of a crumbling Los Angeles movie theater. Five vampires crowd around fading horror idol Bela Lugosi, peppering him with questions...read more

Product Description: Ex-urbanite Tom Parker's award-winning weekly newspaper column, The Way Home, explores the natural world and rural Kansas and his place in it-an evolving process involving hit bugs, prescient store clerks, daredevil rodents, divine beetles, malevolent weather, failed quests, and the tribulations of living in a century-old house...read more