Orange Grove Goes to War is a vivid account of a little boy’s experiences growing up in Los Angeles on the eve of World War II. As the book opens, young Gary introduces the reader to the colorful neighbors and relatives who form a motley but loving extended family at his small apartment complex on Orange Grove. Although his mother and father and absent, leading Gary to wonder if he’s an orphan, his multiple surrogate parents – including a Hollywood director and his alcoholic brother, a B-m...

Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring vitality of classic books and by articulating the theoretical and practical flaws of relativism and historicism, the contributors argue that Strauss and the Straussians have identified fund...

In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went off to to pick up a new milk cow. Young Dooley never came home. Now, nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend, managing to plant a bullet in the chest of a dangerous outlaw. All Dooley really wants is to claim his reward at a bank in Phoenix and make his way north to a gold strike he read about in a newspaper. But fate has other plans. It starts with a family slaughtered by Apaches, a dog smart...

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier.Russian EmigrE Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take hi...

WHERE THE LIVING IS HARD AND THE KILLING IS EASY...It's in the lawless Indian Territory that Daniel Strange meets his demise. Riding his chestnut mare to Texas to buy himself some cattle, the best gunsmith in St. Joseph, Missouri, gets waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws. His lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope -- robbing his family of a loving husband and father....DEATH CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWNNow, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance tra...

Matt Hurst seeks justice when a sheriff's posse kills his father and brothers.

About the fascinating Mrs. King, young Rosalia Dures and the strong, silent Tom Folliard. A story in which bullets supply the answer after all other ways fail.

Tom Dallas has changed his way of living. All the shootings in which he was involved were justified, but there are many who want his scalp which prompts him to make a vow that he will not pack bullets in his .45 for a year. Then a situation develops that can only result in breaking his vow.

The news is bad. The stage driver's wife who is expecting a child has taken a serious fall and now needs her husband. Dave Judd will take his place driving the stagecoach filled with passengers who want to get through before the bitter cold that is lifting becomes a blizzard.

Matt North's secret plan to force an entire range to reverse its decision to raise sheep.

An unplanned murder during a bank robbery has another sheriff on the trail of those on the lam.

Now a deputy US Marshal, Chet Byrnes hunts down the baddest hombres the west can throw at him. Chet and his crew must travel to New Mexico to free his cousin J.D. from a corrupt sheriff and his band of deputies. New allies will emerge to help Chet as he squares off with his greatest challenge yet; stopping bandits along the Arizona-Mexico border. Friendship will carry Chet across the Mexican border into a land where the only justice is found at the end of a six-gun.