A picture of life in the boxing ring“Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in the metaphor of the pure, fatalistic, and merciless community of bruising.”—from the ForewordWhen The Bruiser was first published in 1936, almost every reviewer praised Jim Tully’s gritty boxing novel for its authenticity—a hard-earned attribute. Twenty-eight years before the appearance of The Bruiser, Tully began a car...

Tully’s breakthrough novel about life on the roadJim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass—espec...

Memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio“Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an American obsession, people who had to create their own dreams, invent their own stories, and find escape from hopeless lives in hard liquor or the cold comfort of a promised Hereafter.”—from the foreword by John SaylesJim Tully was an Ameri...

A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life“Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories are, readers accept them as nonfiction. Tully makes the improbable seem true.”—from the foreword by Harvey PekarJim Tully was an American writer who enjoy...

It's all about the search for love and life purpose…Blue Lady's MISSION under FIRE is Book 3 in The Angelica Mason Series (There are four books in this series). Book 5, Blue Lady's SEARCH for LOVE will be available in the Spring of 2023). The books revolve around a common theme—the search for love and life purpose.Which is more important or are they interrelated?She's already sacrificed her career… must she now sacrifice her life?

"Oh my god, it's happening again."These were author Byron Tully's words as he watched the global economy implode as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the early months of 2020.It was a startling, surreal sequel to the 2007 Financial Crisis. It left millions of Americans not only facing a deadly health crisis, but also unemployment, eviction or foreclosure, and the loss of any savings they might have had.The 2007 devastation had inspired Byron to write The Old ...

Alana loves her job as the reporter for the local newspaper and she's made a life for herself despite big odds. The last thing she expects when she walks into the newspaper office one rainy afternoon is to find her nomadic ex-boyfriend Kyle in the head photographer's chair. Kyle has never forgotten the girl he left behind when he started working as a freelance photographer. Now he is ready to settle down and reconnect with his family—and to see if there's still a spark between him and Alan...

A brilliant Boomer detective and her ambitious Gen Z assistant try to get along in this delightful feel-good mystery.Olivia Blunt is thrilled to be hired as assistant to the nationally renowned investigator Aubrey Merritt. She longs to become a valued contributor to the great detective’s work, but Merritt is a difficult, exacting boss, and the learning curve is steeper than she expected.After weeks of boring computer work, Olivia is finally invited to join ...

Emma Hazelton is torn between her growing desire for the vampire and her fear of what he could do to her. Now she needs his help and must put her trust in him to take her sisters away from her uncle’s increasing cruelty.When he returns for her he refuses to take her away until she gives him her body and her soul.She must decide how much she wants to help her sisters, destroy her uncle, and give in to her feelings, so she can survive his request.

Emma Hazelton must save herself and her sisters from her uncle’s tyrannical rule. He has vowed to destroy all living relatives so he can remain in control of the family fortune and manor house.Silas Nathanial needs blood to survive. Feeding is the only thing that makes sense in his dark and dangerous world.When their two lives entwine it becomes clear that neither will be able to survive without the other. Silas needs Emma so he can heal his tortured dreams, and Emma needs ...

When the World’s Greatest Detective reunites with her college friends, she discovers that time doesn’t heal all wounds.It's been four decades since the women of Sigma Delta Tau were last together. The passing years, growing families, and maturing careers may have strained the bonds of sisterhood, but now a reunion at the Western ranch of one member offers an opportunity to renew acquaintances…and at least one long-standing grudge.Still, this weeken...