Orphaned Julia never expected to be sent away, especially not to the ill-named House of Mercy. But adventure awaits her in this historical journey, based on a true story.“Go home,” eleven-year-old orphan Julia Delaney is told, but home for her is gone. Spirited and strong, Julia faces a cruel life at an orphanage—the House of Mercy—blistering cold winters, and countless disappointments. But not even hopeful Julia can imagine what awaits her in Montana—and with the help of a miracle or two, she sets the sun a-sailing. Like the heroines of the beloved American Girls series, Julia’s journey paints a vivid picture of United States history. Based on the true story of a real girl, with additional details explained in an Author’s Note, The Year We Sailed the Sun is historical fiction at its best.

Detective Matthew Sikes and his Newcomer partner George Francisco must track down a missing human journalist, named Micky Cass, who has gone undercover as a Newcomer to expose racism and discrimination against the Tenctonese. From the beginning, the journalist's articles about his experiences ignited fierce controversy. When Micky Cass disappears, the controversy explodes and violence wracks the city. It is now up to Sikes and Francisco to solve a case that has the entire city caught in a grip of hate. Finally, as the city burns, Matt Sikes must go undercover as a Newcomer and place himself at the center of the worst violence Los Angeles has ever known . . .

Estranged from his politically powerful father, Carroll Dorsey is an ex-college basketball star now working as a private detective. While investigating insurance and disability fraud he uncovers an unlikely, but dangerous, ring of schemers with ties to a political and social movement that his father opposes.Carroll Dorsey's the genuine article and so is his world.Drood Review of Mystery —Ted FizgeraldLipinski does everything right.Drood Review of Mystery —Ted FizgeraldLipinski excels at creating memorable characters.Pittsburgh Tribune —Rege BeheAmazon.com ReviewCarroll Dorsey was on his way to becoming a basketball star when an injury ended that dream. Now--in Thomas Lipinski's sharply underplayed first mystery--he's a private detective in Pittsburgh, working insurance fraud cases that seem to stand as metaphors for the way we live. Lipinski doesn't bang away at the symbolism--it just hangs there in the air like industrial smog as Dorsey tries to find a little truth and justice in a story that involves local militants who will do anything to save the steel industry. From Publishers WeeklyLipinski debuts with a downbeat, droll tale which, marked by several wily and congenial turns, cannily mines the Pittsburgh area. Carroll Dorsey, 30-ish and the son of a rich and powerful politician, is a classic underachiever: an ex-college basketball star, ex-Army MP and ex-investigator for the county DA's office, he's now romancing a nurse, drinking a lot of Rolling Rock and investigating suspect cases for an insurance company. Meanwhile his father, intent on importing high technology to the area, is driving what's left of the city's old metal industry under in the process. Largely by accident, Carroll discovers some of his dad's moves; several of his latest assignments involve men injured just moments before factory closings, all of whom managed to hire cars from the same place and showed up on the podium of Movement Together, a militant organization intent on saving the factories. Dorsey is a classic hangdog shamus, but he is also, in his dogged way, a moralist, a fighter and maybe even a survivor. Pittsburgh and the Allegheny region offer rich veins of grubby politics and street-level sleuthing. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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A deadly explosion set by train robbers blows Longarm and his fellow passengers clear off the tracks. When Longarm sets out to find the culprits, his investigation leads to the death of a lowlife with friends in high places. Now Longarm is being given another chance to die.

Beverley Hansford delivers his third romantic novel, shot through with suspense and intrigue. The Golden Anklet is full of dark secrets and suspense that will keep readers enthralled until the last page. Orphan Jane Carroll has always wanted to know more about her parents and who they were, but when she starts to look deeper into her family background, she receives a disturbing revelation. Things are not quite as she had always believed them to be... Desperate to find out the truth about her past, she sets out to delve deeper into the mystery, but as the answers to her questions begin to emerge, she discovers that she has become innocently embroiled in a web of mystery and intrigue. When she eventually discovers who she really is, she finds herself in a situation which is completely unfamiliar. Her new identity places her very existence under threat and it seems as if only a miracle can save her from an unknown fate... The Golden Anklet will keep readers guessing until the very end.

With his classic Immigrant Chronicle, Peter Skrzynecki harnessed the universal language of poetry. Now, in his powerful memoir The Sparrow Garden, he travels from the Displaced Persons camps of Germany to the suburban battlegrounds of outer Sydney and taunts of "reffo" and "dago". In unforgettable style, he leads us on a bracing rollercoaster of emotions and boyhood adventures. The Sparrow Garden is also the deeply personal story of one man's complex, loving relationship with his parents.

Girls, jazz, politics, the golden dreams and black comedy of youth--these are the compelling ingredients of The Cowards.May 1945, a small town in Czechoslovakia. The Germans are withdrawing. The Red Army is advancing. And Danny Smiricky is being forced to grow up fast. Observing with contempt the antics of the town's citizens playing it safe, he adopts the role first of reluctant conscript, then of dashing partisan.The Cowards is the story of an uncomplicated, talented youth caught up in momentous historic events who refuses to be bored to death by politics--or to lie down and die without a fight.--