In I'll Be Damned if I'll Die in Oakland, popular Los Angeles Times columnist and world traveler Al Martinez takes us on a funny, crazy, surprising, and sometimes poignant ride around the globe with his wife, the ebullient Cinelli, and then with his children, his grandchildren and, once, his perplexing dog Barney, scattering love, laughter, and memories all along the way.We journey with them from Africa to China, Greece to Italy, Spain to Austria and beyond, and ac...

Planning your retirement is similar to preventing a forest fire. Forest fires can quickly get out of control and burn through acres of precious land, leaving a path of desolation and mournful memories.Al Martinez was a career forest firefighter. He battled the blazes and became a Fire Safety Officer responsible for protecting some of our nation's most valuable assets. Today, Al helps people protect their financial assets, preserve their desired future, and provide for their family ...

Set in San Francisco in the 1960s, The Last City Room chronicles the conflict that erupts, ideologically and physically, between the old guard of an aging city newspaper and the ascendant Berkeley radicals determined to be heard at any cost.It's almost a tradition in the city room of The Herald for journalists to collapse at their desks, having worked, imbibed, and smoked themselves into the grave. On these occasions the behavior required by the de...

As a 21-year-old Marine sent to the front lines of the Korean War, Al Martinez dispatched letters almost daily to his young bride, Joanne. In battle, he experienced the worst that war can bring, and then he served as a combat correspondent and as writer and editor of his regimental newsletter, the Ridgerunner. After the war, he entered a career in journalism, becoming a featured columnist for the Los Angeles Times where he would earn three shared Pulitzer Prizes.W...

In this captivating collection of short nonfiction works, renowned figures such as John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X share their profound insights and eloquent prose. From Kennedy's stirring speeches to King's powerful sermons and Malcolm X's incisive essays, this volume offers a glimpse into the minds of some of history's most influential leaders. Prepare to be inspired, challenged, and enlightened as you delve into these timeless pieces that continue to resonate with...

"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York TimesDennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of A...

Jason Justice is living life the only way he knows; his way. A successful Palm Beach lawyer, he can be picky not just about his clients, but whom he chooses to bed.That all changes one stormy night when he reluctantly agrees to look into the affairs of a young woman who needs assistance in locating her missing step father, who by all indications may have not only staged her mother's suicide but may have also made off with the family's sizable fortune.With little to go on ex...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Prey series comes a crime novel of “classic stings” (Booklist).With the same sharp human insight he brings to the murderers and manhunters of his bestselling Prey novels, Sanford takes us into the minds of two irresistible con artists. Kidd and LuEllen are a winning pair of lovers and liars plotting the ultimate sting. Their target is the wealthy (and corrupt) mayor of a small Mississippi river ...

A Rhode Island reporter's investigation of a series of arsons leads him down a deadly path in this Edgar Award–winning noir debut novel."A tense, terrific thriller and a remarkably assured debut from . . . an author to watch." —Dennis Lehane, New York Times –bestselling author of The Given Day and Shutter IslandLiam Mulligan i...

A presidential candidate is unaware he holds a secret that could endanger him and his country in this explosive political novel."Great reading. . . . Uris mixes politics, history, love and people's passions into yet another bestseller. . . . Compelling." — Tulsa WorldSpanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled...

Sex changed everything…After marrying off her sisters, Ruby Lockhart could finally concentrate on her career. After all, love wasn't in the cards for the pragmatic Ruby. Only she could wake up the morning after her sister's wedding with a gorgeous, sexy man in her bed and have him be her best friend!Mr. Sexy–aka Luther Biggens, ex-navy SEAL–had always been Ruby's rock. Now he was her problem. She couldn't look at him without remembering the ways he'd pleasu...

Racism never got off the bus . . . On a rainy night in Houston, in a ratty apartment as dark as his dreams, retired bus driver Frank Granger wakes in a cold sweat convinced a stranger with a gun lurks at the foot of his bed.And he's right.In this riveting tale of suspense and revenge, Carter offers a vivid look back at one of the darkest times in our nation's history.BONUS STORY: Road Gamble"Whipping around sharp bends, tires squealing on wet asphalt . . . "...