Where is Jimmy Dutton, Jr.? The infant child was snatched from a shopping cart while in his father's care and hasn't been seen since. Now Jim Dutton is on a journey to find his son. It's a journey that will teach him what it means to be a father and a son and why they need each other. "Superb. A beautiful, heartwarming tale." – Jennie Louwes, 5-star, Reedsy Discovery review of Second Chances "A great novel." – Reitumetse Mokoena, Reedsy Discovery review

"Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read ... a must for any fan of good music writing and great storytelling." --William Michael Smith, Houston Press "He dances off the page, improvises, hits all the grace notes. He knows the turfspeak of both showbiz and quality li...

An American couple drives from Paris to Rome in a hearse. A baker in Paris chases a tourist with a breadknife. A shoe wanders from hotel to hotel. And a landlady shows her lodger with pride how she torments her pets. In the Sistine Chapel in Rome, a wife discovers to her horror that her blind husband can actually see Michelangelo’s frescoes.

Hanna, 18, wants to take care of Harold, but Harold, 44, wants her mother to take her home, but Hanna stays with him, but she joins the Army to escape from him, but they eat pizza and get married, but twelve years of trying pass before Hanna gets pregnant, but Harold worries hell die during surgery for prostate cancer, but happily, he lives, but Hanna is not happy taking care of their baby alone while Harold writes poetry in the attic, but Harold takes care of his mother, 89, who has Alzheime...

The Cannibal painter, famous for chewing her canvases and leaving lovebites in the paint, recalls the comic years before dementia. When little Coco accidentally sliced the tip of her baby brothers pinky, she tasted it. When she saw Michelangelos DAVID naked on a calendar, she ate him. When she attended art school, she discovered her talent for eating boyfriends. When she went to Italy to see the original DAVID, she may have knifed and eaten small parts of a young sculptor. When she hid in Par...

Isabel Archer, an insurance investigator in San Francisco, investigates her mothers death at Lockleigh Castle. Isabel suspects murder. Her mother offered to sell one kidney to Isabels anglophile uncle, a shady billionaire dying of kidney disease. Her uncle purchased Lockleigh Castle from Lord Warburton. Isabel meets the castles snarky residents. Each one seems capable of murder. She questions genial Lord Warburton. He finds the American girl cheeky, but attractive. Isabel finds herself wonder...

In Forms of Modern British Fiction six individualistic and strongminded critics delineate the "age of modernism" in British fiction. Dating the age and the movement from later Hardy works through the deaths of Joyce and Woolf, they present British fiction as a cohesive, self-contained unit of literary history.Hardy appears as the first of the modern British novelists, Lawrence as the central, and Joyce and Woolf as the last. The writers and the modern movement are framed b...

This book is the first to introduce empirically informed yet empathically framed language for MMPI-3 users communicating findings to clients. It integrates interpretive guidance with evidence-based therapeutic strategies and structured self-help recommendations, thereby enriching the clinical utility of the instrument in therapeutic assessment.Therapeutic Feedback and Treatment Planning with the MMPI-3 provides a clear set of guidelines for using this comprehensive persona...

Lawrence M. Friedman is Professor of Law at Stanford University and author of 23 books about law and legal history. Hailed as American law's greatest living historian, Friedman traces the evolution of America's legal system from the colonial period to the present. A Modern Library Chronicle, this book is concise, insightful, and graced with wit.

Where and what is the place of the wild? Is the goal of preserving biodiversity across the landscape of North America compatible with contemporary Western culture?Place of the Wild brings together original essays from an exceptional array of contemporary writers and activists to present in a single volume the most current thinking on the relationship between humans and wilderness. A common thread running through the volume is the conviction that everyone concerned with the...

“Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the porn palaces with live sex shows, and the men and women who perform in them, prostitutes and their pimps, the runaways who will likely be the next decade's prostitutes, the clergymen who fight the smut merchants and the cops who feel impotent in the face of the judiciary.”—Publishers WeeklyThis classic account of the ultra-sleazy, pre-Disneyfied era of Times Square is now the...

South School, 1962: The last segregated school in New York. Their teacher moonlights on "Lawrence Welk," the lady principal wears boxing gloves, and the student body is all-Negro . . . except for first grader Josh Friedman. He's white, but he's working on it. The acclaimed author of TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE returns with a one-of-a-kind autobiographical novel - "a memoir you can't accuse of lies." Center stage in the unflinching and frequently hilarious funh...