Wright Brothers, Wrong Story
This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright Brothers’ myth. They were not — as we have all come to...
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Shots Fired in Terminal 2
On January 6, 2017, a lone gunman took five lives and wounded eight people at Fort Lauderdale Airport. This book is about the...
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Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a…
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He was born a city boy in Manhattan; but it wasn’t until he lived as a cattle rancher and deputy sheriff in the wild country of...
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The Story of the First Woman President Edith Bolling Wilson who took over the White House in 1919 after Woodrow Wilson had a...
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There are two groups of people in the world. Really only two groups. The people who loved high school and the people who hated high...
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A literary-thriller penned in the motif of a Raymond Chandler mystery. This rollercoaster ride of a novel is centered on cop/author...
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Ricky Hernandez is now a senior and all seems to be going well until a new pitcher moves into town from Texas who can pitch almost a...
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Real Santa is a funny poignant novel that shows us what one man will do to keep his daughters innocence intact by preserving her...
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The Pitcher
Contemporary: Sometimes a dream is all you have. The story of a World Series pitcher at the end of his dream and a boy whose dream is...
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Contemporary: Rocket Man is a very funny and poignant comment on our times, when an upside down middle class is barely hanging onto...
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Southern Mystery / Mockingbird Tale: A courtroom drama set in the pre-Civil Rights era of the South, novel has echoes of To Kill A...
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Southern mystery: A murder in the Old South on the day Martin Luther King is assassinated. This mystery conjures up Darkness in the...
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Surviving as a Writer
A survival guide for writers from bestselling novelist William Elliot Hazelgrove. The novelist in Ernest Hemingways’ attic...
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William Hazelgrove is the National Bestselling author of ten novels and three nonfiction titles. Ripples, Tobacco Sticks Mica Highways Rocket Man, The Pitcher, Real Santa, Jackpine, The Bad Author, My Best Year, The Pitcher 2, and Madam President The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson, Forging A President How the Wild West Created Teddy Roosevelt and Al Capone and the Worlds Fair of 1933. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly and Booklist, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards Junior Library Guild Selections Literary Guild Selections, and sold to the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications and has been featured on NPR All Things Considered. The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today have all covered his books with features. He runs a cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic. He lives in Chicago.
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