All The Brittle Pieces


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All The Brittle Pieces is a work of fiction inspired by real events. It is the first in a noir thriller series that follows Caleb, a troubled, albeit well intentioned anti-hero who has made it his life’s work to save abused children who fall through the cracks of society. As the FBI pursues an investigation into his crimes, Caleb travels the nation to get these at-risk children into safe hands and has taken on a personal mission to punish the abusers with extreme prejudice. Once Caleb meets a young boy named Luke, however, his life begins to change. This once solitary and sullen man with a dark past is forced to begin confronting his demons while struggling with the biggest questions of his life: Can he forgo a life’s mission steeped in violence and carve out a better future? Are we all victims to the traumas of our past, or can we heal, persevere, and overcome beyond the expectations of our abusers? All The Brittle Pieces is the first book in The Forgotten Children series.




Brittle Karma


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Richard Helms' Derringer Award-winning (The Gospel According to Gordon Black) and Shamus Award-nominated (Cordite Wine) San Francisco private eye Eamon Gold returns in Brittle Karma, a tale cast in molds forged by Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Robert B. Parker. In Brittle Karma, Eamon Gold turns away a potential client named Abner Carlisle, a recently paroled armored car robber. Carlisle is looking for heist crew member Eddie Rice, who disappeared with the money and Carlisle's daughter Lydia a quarter century earlier. When Carlisle is murdered, Gold discovers the insurance company will pay ten percent of whatever heist money he recovers. Gold is temporarily bucks-up, but with no paying client on the horizon, so he dives in on spec, trying to make a little quick bank on the coldest of cold cases ever. As usual, things become complicated...




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Some vols., 1920-1949, contain collections of papers according to subject.







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Java Lost, a Child Imprisoned


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JAVA LOST, A Child Imprisoned, Part II, Eighteen Inches on a Mattress: As a tomboy and daughter of Lady Emilie, life growing up on the coffee and rubber plantation was heaven for Jannie. She had many adventures that she relished. But there was unrest spreading around the world that would soon land on her doorstep, changing her tropical paradise into a dark world where her family is torn apart. World War II was well under way, yet life on Java, Indonesia remained isolated and separate. Until, that is, the Japanese military invaded the island. Quickly life changed, never to return to its previous tranquility. Here the Dutch who once owned and managed plantations and ran local governments suddenly became the oppressed and were mercilessly imprisoned. Not even their Nobility could spare them now.Be sure to read Book 1, JAVA LOST, A Child Imprisoned, Part I, The Belt of Emeralds, setting the stage of this amazing trilogy.And don't miss the third and final book coming in 2012! JAVA LOST, A Child Imprisoned, containing Part III, The Aftermath, and Part IV, On to a New Country.