All the characters in the Stanley Bentworth Mysteries series are gathered together in a three-book collection, the first three volumes of the series offered at less than the price of a single volume in the series.On the Street Where You Die introduces Stan and his contingent of characters—Willa, Rodney, Amanda, Sanford—as they set about to shut down a blackmail operation and clear the client of a murder charge they believe and hope is a frame-up. You’ll meet Sammy too, the bartende...

The bodies are piling up. Sanford, freelance consultant, assassin, and doer of odd jobs, contracts his deadly skills through a Darknet brokerage service known to underworld insiders as Bugsy's List.Sanford's assignments pit him against cops, other assassins, and the syndicate. The only likely winners in this bloody charade are two young Darknet entrepreneurs actively exploiting a wave of crime warfare as it spreads like wildfire across the City of Brotherly Love.

teach yourself... Jazz Piano Comping guides you as you learn basic accompaniment chording.This book is for entry-level and experienced pianists who want to move into the realm of jazz and standards accompaniment and big band playing.With the knowledge you learn in this book and a disciplined regimen of practice, you will be equipped with skills and tools that not only allow you to sit in at informal jam sessions but to expand your experience into the more advanced ...

Rural southern America in the 1950s, a great time for a boy to grow up. Joey, eleven years old, begins the summer of '51 with a new best friend, Tommy, the new kid next door. Tommy is thirteen, with a down-to-earth country attitude, and wise to the ways of the world with much for Joey to learn.Boys that age could roam, explore, and experiment with their environments without supervision and with the only curfew being, get home in time for supper.Wander along with Tommy and J...

Travel with Al from his childhood when he discovered ventriloquists on television in its own infancy, through his development as a child performer and his rediscovery of the engrossing art when he retired after forty years as a computer programmer, writer and musician.Follow Al's workshop skills, as he builds and repairs ventriloquist dummies and renovates the time-worn works of the old masters.And stay with him in a lifelong search for the one dummy that will define his ro...

teach yourself... Rhythm Jazz Guitar guides you as you learn the basics of playing jazz chords.This book is for student and experienced guitarists who want to move into the realm of jazz accompaniment. You learn a basic repertoire of chord sequences that employ colorful, or hip, voicings. The sequences use chord fingerings that are easy to play, with each chord in comfortable proximity on the fretboard to the previous and next ones.You learn to translate those cryp...

The computer-governed Singularity to the north and the female-dominated Amazonia to the south are about to clash in a war in which neither side knows of the other. The Singularity’s mainframe launches an invasion to confiscate electricity-generating resources, and Amazonia is unprepared.Slaves of both civilizations, androids and clones, are caught in the middle. Rebellion arises when Verdun, an enslaved laborer, and JCNSA-27, a condemned android, form an alliance. The outcome can o...

Their planet in total collapse, 500 of the best and brightest launch into space to find a new home, Earth being their chosen destination. Annie embarks on an advance expedition, but her craft is forced down outside a small Iowa town. With the help of three teenagers, she tries to gain acceptance for her people. Frightened citizens, hostile military forces, the media, and the President of the United States, treat the gentle colonists and their advanced technology as a threatening alien inva...

Are the conspiracy theorists right? Were there multiple assassins at Dealey Plaza on that fateful day in 1963?The 1950s. A bright young boy is raised in a state welfare system and struggles with an internal rage that marks him as a sociopath. A team of CIA field agents work covert ops in Soviet-occupied East Berlin. Their specialty: assassinations.The lives and destinies of these people converge when the boy grows up to become a CIA-trained agent, mentored by the old spies ...

Chance Weston and John Hall arrive in Beaver Gulch, almost a ghost town, in the fall of 1875, both looking for work. What they find is trouble. A powerful rancher and his hired guns have run off many of the prominent citizens. The newcomers accept jobs as sheriff and preacher.The Mason sisters, April and May, are as different inside as they are alike in appearance, and the sheriff fancies the demure April while the preacher is drawn to anything in a skirt. And when he cozies up to ...

A collection of heretofore unpublished short stories from my archives, some going back three decades, most dealing with computer technology of that era.The stories range from a cozy mystery involving department store Santa Clauses to a dark group therapy session dealing with post traumatic stress disorders from the Vietnam war.

There's nothing funny about diabetes. But from the mind of Al Stevens, long-time columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal, stand-up comedian, and author of "Politically Incorrect Scripts for Comedy Ventriloquists," the lighter side of the disease can make you laugh while it scares the crap out of you with its potential for ruining and shortening your life.From his first diagnosis, which he blames on a topless bar, to memory losses and hallucinations, to getting thrown out of a pharmacy, St...