in Memoriam

 When a Mafia don is gunned down in New York, his  wife forms a gang of Mafia females to avenge his death. This story  contains violence, revenge, greed, rape, lust, nudity, love,  heterosexual and bisexual sex scenes, sensual love scenes, but no vulgar  four-letter words.  

  Giuseppe Fiorentino, the capo di tutti capi of  the New York syndicate, convinces the godfathers of the five boroughs to  invest in a new enterprise--an opulent hotel for the ultra-rich to be  built at the Henderson Executive Airport.  Hangar #3 is a mob story, a love story, a "could only  happen in Vegas" story. 

  Roger, the invisible dog is an imaginary friend  the author created for his grandchildren/great-grandchildren. He teaches  them many things they will need to know growing up. He talks to them,  giving them advice about what to do, how to behave as they transition  from childhood to adolescence. 

The autobiography focuses on Lawrence Montaigne’s acting career. "Every actor should have a Great Escape,” he wrote in this book. He was referring to his role in the highly acclaimed film, The Great Escape (1963). This was his self-declared favorite and career-defining part. Lawrence starred or co-starred in twenty-five films in the U.S. and Europe. Among them were The Great Escape, Tobruk, The Power, Damon & Pythias, The Mongols, and Escape to Witch Mountain. He also appeared in more than two hundred television series episodes, including Batman, Perry Mason, The Fugitive, Hogan’s Heroes, and Star Trek, the Original Series.

  Motorcycle racing is the rage in 1920s America.WWI vet, Eddy  Pearson thinks his luck is changing when he wins a big race in Dayton,  Ohio, but when he goes to collect his winnings, he has a run-in with the  race promoter, who accuses him of cheating. He's banned from major  races in the North, so he heads south.In New Orleans, Eddy spots a  poster in a shop window advertising "The Barrel of Death" - a carnival  attraction at the local fairgrounds. Standing on the spectators'  platform, Eddy witnesses the spectacular crash of the daredevil  motorcycle stunt driver and at that moment, realizes that opportunity  has come knocking. Maybe my luck's changing after all. 

  The Guardian List is a scheme we all dream of - sweet revenge for  criminals who deserve punishment, but never receive it. John Brown,  whose real identity is never revealed to his closest allies, makes our  dream come true when he compiles The Guardian List and his fellow  Guardians, mostly retired police officers, are devoted to bringing  criminals to the Guardians' type of justice. The most dedicated Guardian  is Father Ignatius, whose faith is tested when a nun, Mother Theresa,  is savagely killed by a demented, hateful, and cruel Klansman. When John  Brown faces his own mortality, he must decide who will take his place. 

   This memoir portrays Sachi, a  “Sansei" or 3rd generation Japanese American, born after World War II as  she struggles to live within American culture but finds herself to be  bi-cultural. Using her middle name, June, she grows up with  "Kibei-Nisei" parents (born in America and raised in Japan) and draws  closer to her Japanese roots. However, she finds astounding differences  after marrying a Japanese national. The memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into two distinctive cultures and what it means to be Japanese American in the post-WWII era. 

 My Kind of Town chronicles the real life experiences of a Chicago cop  during the early 1960s. Anthony Sabatello's brief career with the  Chicago Police Department was spent in the Patrol Division and in the  Traffic Division, which enables him to provide different perspectives on  being a "copper" in the Windy City. Some of the events he describes are  interesting, some are entertaining (what ordinary citizens might call  "bizarre"), but none depict violence and all are true accounts. Beware,  there is some strong language. 

  James has recurring dreams of women being kidnapped, raped, and  murdered, unaware that his premonitions begin to materialize. A retired  widower, James sells his house and begins traveling in his RV when he  meets Hillary in a very unusual manner.

An FBI special agent  discovers similarities of interest in James’ knowledge of one of his  cold cases, so he invites James and Hillary to do undercover stakeout  work for him in James’ RV. Case after case, they begin catching some bad  guys, who are either captured or killed, although some do escape. The  agent is totally amazed at how precise James’ premonitions are and how  James and Hillary are almost always present where and when the action  occurs. It’s hard to put this one down.