Billy Boyd Newton is a passionate author exploring the intricate dynamics of family and the depths of love and romance. With a keen eye for detail and a heartfelt approach, he delves into the complexities of relationships, offering readers insights that resonate deeply. His work reflects a blend of personal experience and universal themes, making his stories relatable and poignant. When not writing, Billy enjoys connecting with others, drawing inspiration from the world around him.

Billy Newton Boyd is a passionate author of juvenile fiction and chapter books, captivating young readers with imaginative tales and relatable characters. With a knack for storytelling, Billy weaves adventures that inspire curiosity and creativity. Drawing from his own childhood experiences, he crafts narratives that resonate with kids and encourage a love for reading.

Most families have their share of stories and folklore. In the case of author Billy Boyd Lavender, one of the most intriguing of these stories revolves around a murder mystery from 1905the deaths of two of his ancestors and the mob lynching that soon followed those deaths.Told from information provided by Lavenders mother, Ruby Neal Hardigree Lavender, and with support from historical documentation, Honorable Heritage recalls events that occurred on a forty-one-acre tract of land i...

The Legend of Mordekai Hagg is a wonderful tale for children and adults to share and enjoy, A fantastic tale of ogres and dwarves, witches, Kelpies and Sylkies and all the mythical creatures of Scotland. Told in verse with a stunning soundtrack, narrated by Billy Boyd (Pippen in Lord of the Rings) and featuring the voices of Jimmy Chisholm #Braveheart and Jimmy Comso, #GameofThrones.Leaving his home in Crooked Spyre, Mordekai Hagg takes a secret pathway through Hackenbark Forest se...

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently novels.In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved i...

Whether it’s vintage Hollywood, the Florida everglades, the Atlantic City boardwalk, or a farmhouse in Western Canada, the twenty authors represented in this collection of mystery and suspense interpret the overarching theme of “moonlight and misadventure” in their own inimitable style where only one thing is assured: Waxing, waning, gibbous, or full, the moon is always there, illuminating things better left in the dark.Featuring stories by K.L. Abrahamson, Sharon Hart Addy, C.W. B...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s BazaarJoan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interv...

In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called the father of our country for leading America through its early years. Washington also served in two major wars during his lifetime: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. With over 100 black-and-white illustrations, Washington's fascinating story comes to life - revealing the real man, not just the face on the dollar bill!

A treasury of historical hilarity from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of America's Dumbest Criminals!Why exactly is Paul Revere revered when it was Samuel Prescott who made the famous ride? Was the lightbulb really Thomas Edison's bright idea? Bestselling author and former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory employs his masterful wit to expose historical myths, faux "facts," strange events, and tales of human stupidity thro...

In the vein of Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gulley (Front Porch Tales, Home to Harmony) tells of his coming of age in small-town Indiana.It was a time of questionable role models, half-baked schemes, and unrelieved and happy chaos.Small Town Indiana: From aggravating the police dog at the county jail t...

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Alan Lightman’s grandfather M.A. was the family’s undisputed patriarch. It was his movie theater empire that catapulted the Lightmans, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant family, to prominence in the South; his triumphs that would both galvanize and paralyze his descendants.In this evocative personal history, the author chronicles his return to Memphis and the stifling home he had been so eager to flee forty years earl...

In June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10,000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus workers had raped a white teenage girl—charges that would later be proven false. Three men were dragged from their cells and lynched in front of the cheering crowd.More than eighty years later, Warren Read—a fourth-grade teacher, devoted partner, and father to three boys—plugged his mother's maiden name into a computer search engine, then clicked on a l...