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To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos. Years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent to Libya to covertly assist a rebel army. When the plan turned sour, Chase reacted according to his own ideas of right and wrong, triggering consequences he could never have anticipated. And someone still wants him dead because of them.

Just Joe: Baseball’s Natural, as told by his wife highlights the extraordinary career of South Carolina’s Joseph Jefferson Jackson, more well-known as “Shoeless Joe.” Related from the imagined perspective of his wife Katie, Just Joe examines the life of a couple devoted to baseball, and more importantly, to each other. Jackson’s career, especially his batting prowess and his involvement in the 1919 World Series “Black Sox” scandal, are well known. However, what’s largely unknown is how Joe and Katie Jackson gracefully weathered the criticism and condemnation from fans and ...

Historian Thomas D. Perry, Founder of the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace, edits the first of a projected three volume series of the papers of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart.

Historian Thomas D. Perry tells the story of the Mount Airy and Eastern Railway, a narrow gauge "Dinky" railway that ran from Mount Airy, North Carolina, to Kibler Valley, Patrick County, Virginia, from 1899 until 1924.

Published in September 2010 and revised in 2013, Historian Thomas D. Perry tells the history of the town he was born in through two hundred images. Chapters on Andy Griffith, Donna Fargo, "Dinky" Railroad, and the many people of Mount Airy along with chapters on granite and the author's family give a snapshot view of the town so associated with Mayberry.

Thomas D. "Tom" Perry, author of Beyond Mayberry: A Memoir of Andy Griffith and Mount Airy North Carolina, tells the fictional tale of The Battle of Mount Pilot. This book is Mayberry Fan Fiction, based on the real life story of George Stoneman's 1865 Raid at the end of the American Civil War through Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina, Andy Griffith's real life family in the War Between The States, and some characters and stories familiar to those who watch The Andy Griffith Show. This book tells the fictional story of how Pilot Mountain once had two knobs before a ...

Thomas D. Perry tells a story about a mythical monster that lives in Lynch Hollow in Ararat, Virginia, where he grew up. Told to Perry as a teenager, he weaves a story that is part myth and part based on a real life murder and vigilante death of the accused murderer.

Historian Thomas D. Perry tells the story of George Stoneman's Raid Through Patrick, Henry, and Surry Counties in North Carolina and Viginia in April 1865 at the end of the American Civil War.

James I. Robertson Jr. of Virginia Tech calls Tom Perry's The Free State Of Patrick a "masterful job" in telling the story of Patrick County Virginia in the American Civil War. Perry, a graduate of Virginia Tech in nearly 400 pages tells the story of his home county in the War Between The States.

Author Thomas D. "Tom" Perry writes in his first book about a murder in the fictional town of Moonlight, Virginia, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In a tale about friendship and greed, the narrator has to come face to face with the drug trade and the cost to his hometown due to crime.

Murder has always been easy for the Butcher's Boy—it's what he does best and what they pay him for. But after the successful assassination of a senator, he arrives in Las Vegas to collect his fee only to discover he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His survival at stake, he needs to kill them before they kill him. As the Butcher's Boy goes to work, the police realize something has gone very wrong for the mafia. In the race to discover just what that something is, Elizabeth Waring is the best chance they have. But is she good enough to catch the Butcher's Boy?

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

Advent and Christmas are my favorite times of the year, with the coming celebration of the birth of Christ. However, the older I get, the more I have come to realize that Christ has been relegated to third or perhaps fourth place behind toys, decorations, and commercialism. I wanted to create a series of stories that might bring the true reason for the season back to its place of importance. These whimsical, multicultural tales evoke the timeless human needs of love, companionship, and purpose in life that are promised in the birth of a baby at Christmas.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, both from Patrick County, Virginia, and the controversy in 2015 when the portrait of Stuart was taken down from the Patrick County Courthouse. The ensuing controversy brought media attention and a discussion of the history relating to Confederate History and the Civil War. The portrait eventually found its way to the Wall of Honor in the Patrick County Administration Building in Stuart, Virginia. This book continues with the controversies surrounding J. E. B. Stuart High School in Fairfax, Virginia, and the ...

Twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. A search ensues, but the twelve get away. After two years, all efforts by police have been in vain. The mayor and city attorney meet, and Leah Hawkins, former star basketball player and resident good cop, is placed on sabbatical so that she can tour the country learning advanced police procedures. The sabbatical is merely a ruse, however, as her real job is to track the infamous twelve. And kill them.

Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den—the States—to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to stop them. Will he be able to escape this new wave of young contract killers, or will the years finally catch up to him?

A chance meeting between a young white boy and an African American community mentor leads to an altruistic obsession in this one-of-a-kind biography. Willie Lee Buffington (1908-1988), even as a young lad, never understood the Jim Crow mentality of Deep South America in the first half of the twentieth century. As a dirt poor textile mill worker, he secures a dime to purchase five stamps, sending letters off requesting books for uneducated African Americans. Buffington also works hard to become highly educated himself, parlaying his studies into a professorship. Buffington’s work ethic and...

After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on a job that took a dangerous turn for the worse, Jane McKinnon, nee Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York—or so she thinks. One morning as she comes back from a long run, Jane is met by an unusual sight: all eight clan mothers, the female leaders of the Seneca clans, parked in her driveway in two black cars.

A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences—half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds. The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Having just returned from a grueling job in Mexico, Stahl is reluctant to accept the offer, but senior technicians he had trained were among those killed.

Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief—with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. This is how Elle has always gotten by—she is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from the home of a wealthy art dealer, Elle discovers that she is no longer the only one sneaking around. Somebody is searching for her.