The country singer, politician, columnist & mystery novelist shares essays on a variety of topics, featuring his special brand of Texas wit & wisdom."Free-flowing and free associative, occasionally punctuating with puns, he targets topics from Jack Ruby and Michael Chabon to Texas etiquette and politics. Kinky's writing here is funny, focused and hugely entertaining." — Publishers WeeklyKinky Friedman, who would be...

AN UNFORESEEN INCIDENT CAN HAPPEN AT ANY TIME. IT CAN CAUSE DRAMATIC LIFESTYLE CHANGES AND IS DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT FOR THE PERSON IT AFFECTS THE MOST. JJ returned from LSU to Walnut Cove. The place he was born and raised. Unsure of his life’s plans he sought the counsel of his father. Shortly thereafter his parents were killed in a tragic accident. In his grief, JJ chose to leave his beloved home in the middle of the night without telling his high school friends he was leaving. Many decades...

AN UNFORESEEN INCIDENT CAN HAPPEN AT ANY TIME. IT CAN CAUSE DRAMATIC LIFESTYLE CHANGES AND IS DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT FOR THE PERSON IT AFFECTS THE MOST. LIFE CAN BE UNPREDICTABLE, FULL OF CHALLENGES, FRAUGHT WITH DANGER, AND EVER-CHANGING. HOW COULD A PERSON PREPARE FOR AN UNSTABLE TOMORROW IF IT SHOULD OCCUR? MOST OF US EXPECT TOMORROW TO BE MUCH LIKE TODAY, BUT WHAT IF IT ISN’T? UNFORESEEN…is all about Jim Turner, who is traveling to his Grandfather’s cabin in the North woods. Without warni...

LOVE affects the mind as well as the heart. Some couples are able to find a way to experience this phenomenon without heartbreak, but others don’t have the ability to capture its elusive ways. Youth plays a large role in early encounters of love. Most couples seek love in their late teens or early twenties, but circumstances beyond their control will not allow them to follow their intentions. ELUSIVE LOVE is about such as couple. This couple cannot find a way to put aside their life’s ambi...

Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a bird of flaming gold'Ranging from the Jim Crow South to a Harlem bingo parlour, from the hobo jungles of the Great Depression to Wales during the Second World War, they all display the musically layered voices, soaring language and sheer ebullience that made Ellison a ...

Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity.'Words are your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are everything''Tell me what happened while there's still time,' demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate black baptist minister he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young orphan, Sunraider was taken in and raised by Hickman, before reinventing himself as a racist politici...

The memoir of legendary cartoonist John Callahan, now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara.Featuring more than 60 of Callahan's original cartoonsIn 1972, at the age of twenty-one, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that made him a quadriplegic. A heavy drinker since the age of twelve (alcohol had played a role in his crash), the accident could have...

A wayward yacht came crashing into his secluded dock. Thomas Griffin, a retired tough and gritty New York City Homicide Detective, is faced with a challenging new mystery. His chosen new life is cast aside to prevent a local sheriff from arresting the wrong person. Many entanglements along the way make this case far more engaging than Thomas could expect. Throughout his search for the killer Thomas moves forward in many directions before he is able to identify the motive for the murders.

Reed, an aging Navy Seal, returns home to care for his father who is dying from ALS. At seventeen, when he enlisted into the Navy program his father labeled him a failurea name tag he would carry in his heart and mind all the time he served. When he joined the Navy Seal program he vowed not to quit the rugged training and duty to prove to his father that he wasnt a failure as he predicted, but a brave combatant. His training as a Navy Seal toughened his muscles and sense of urgencies to de...

VALIANT JOURNEY .. AN ACTION PACKED DRAMA, CRAMMED WITH CONSPIRACY, DANGER, AND SUSPENSE. THIS ENERGY- FILLED PLOT WILL DRAW YOU INTO THE ACTION. Brian, a brilliant scientist, is run off the road, badly injured, and taken to a nearby hospital only to be operated on by a naturalized Iranian brain surgeon who inserts a chip into his brain to steal the secrets about the laser project he has been working on at the Livermore Laboratories. Realizing something sinister was happening to him, Brian...

'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison...

'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison...