Reynolds: 2056 books

When the mask breaks, what lies beneath? When you're a young mother living in a small town miles away from friends and family, boredom and loneliness are part of the job description. So when Tracy receives an unexpected call from the beautiful and elegant Kate Hensley, she jumps at the chance...

Albert Anastasia is perhaps best known for having been murdered while he was sitting in a barber's chair. Many are unaware of his early years as a Mafia operative on the Brooklyn waterfront. In the early 1940s he established himself as an extortionist who seized $35,000-$40,000 at a time from...

A one teacher school, a dusty paddock for a sports/rodeo ground, an artesian borehead, a collection of close knit families whose kids love thrashing through the scrub on BMX bikes. And that is West Siding, a small settlement in the dusty outback of Australia. Join Rodney, Scott, Kevin, Christine,...

Estelle Carey was a photographer's model and dice girl in a Rush Street nightclub. Her boyfriend, Nick Circella, alias Nick Dean, owned the club. Carey was employed to entice customers who played low stakes legal gambling games to try the more expensive high stakes games offered on the club's...

Wiliiam J. "Wild Bill" Lovett was an Irish gangster whose pursuit of Al Capone led to Scarface exiting New York City for Chicago. A deal was worked out by Chicago mobster Johnny Torrio to move Capone after Wild Bill pursued him for killing an underling. Bill Lovett was chief of the White Hand Gang,...

In the year 2000 acclaimed author Reynolds Price became honorary godfather to Harper Peck Voll. As a christening gift, Price composed a letter to the child, one intended as a brief guide for Harper's spiritual future. The letter sketched the crucial roles which faith had played in Price's own life...

Does God Exist and Does He Care? In April 1997 Reynolds Price received an eloquent letter from a reader of his cancer memoir, A Whole New Life. The correspondent, a young medical student diagnosed with cancer himself and facing his own mortality, asked these difficultQuestions. The two began...

Beginning with the arrests of two Washington, DC photographers for explicit photos of underage women my e-book looks at a variety of controversial photographs. Among these was a Victorian era image of a matronly woman of 50+ years. She permitted photographers to take a nude photo of her in her boudoir....

The 1940s was probably the most dramatic and decisive decade of the 20th century. This volume explores the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War from the vantage point of two of the great powers of that era, Britain and the USA, and of their wartime leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt. It...

Annie Smith who is friends with the Garland Roses rock stars is forced into protective custody to keep her safe from a chillingly cold-blooded killer who is responsible for the deaths of a state trooper and several undercover agents. Sheriff Andrew C. Blackner is assigned to be her primary bodyguard;...

“In the pages of Reclaiming the Wild Soul, the forests and mountains, the deserts and the oceans, the rivers and the grasslands find their voice. Once heard, we can never forget what they have to say. Nor do we want to. May we all follow the summons and embark on such a journey.  Thompson’s...

All he wants is a cold drink on a hot day. Fate, however, has other ideas… Darryl is a young man with dreams of a career in music, but life isn't matching his expectations. Angry, bitter, and lonely, he finds it easier to relate to animals than people. After a frustrating morning follows...

A collection of near-future, optimistic SF stories where some of the genre's brightest stars and most exciting new talents portray the possible roads to a better tomorrow. Featuring orginal stoires by Alastair Reynolds, Kay Kenyon, Lavie Tidhar, Jason Andrew Madeline Ashby, Jacques Barcia, Eva Maria...

In this latest Mike Malone Mystery, Mike has two cases to solve. Firstly, the Blob is still roaming the riverbanks in the midnight hours. Who is he/she? Secondly, and much more serious, sixth-formers from the local Academy are going missing. Is there a serial killer at loose in Mike's little town?