The Cinderella Caper is a fiction based on reality. As the lives of three people thrown together by circumstance progress, the main character decides to commit a never-before attempted million-dollar robbery of a major theme park. His plan is flawed and rejected by his lover who, in a turn of events, betrays him with her own plan, which succeeds in what can only be described as a misadventure with unexpected consequences that no one could possibly have foretold.

The free-standing radios of the middle decades of the 20th century were invitingly rotund and proudly displayed--nothing like today's skinny televisions hidden inside "entertainment centers." Radios were the hub of the family's after-dinner activities, and children and adults gorged themselves on western-adventure series like "The Lone Ranger," police dramas such as "Calling All Cars," and the varied offerings of "The Cavalcade of America." Shows often aired two or three times a week, and many programs were broadcast for more than a decade, comprising hundreds of episodes. This book includes more than 300 program logs (many appearing in print for the first time) drawn from newspapers, script files in broadcast museums, records from NBC, ABC and CBS, and the personal records of series directors. Each entry contains a short broadcast history that includes directors, writers, and actors, and the broadcast dates and airtimes. A comprehensive index rounds out the work.

Nathaniel P. Osgood III, Nurseryland’s one and only private eye, makes his living by investigating and solving nursery rhyme and fairy tale mysteries as only he can do. Get the story behind the terrible fall of Humpty Dumpty, the brutal murder of Cock Robin, the attack of the blackbirds, and other mysteries surrounding Nurseryland. This collection contains: A Sheep’s Tale The Birds The Porridge Incident Who’s There? The Humpty Dumpty Tragedy Mystery at Pumpkin House The Cock Robin Conspiracy The Shady Snow White

THE DEADWOOD BOYS are two brothers who have a colorful life back in the 1850’s. Education was not as an important part of life as you will realize as you read about the adventures, the fears and the funny things that just seem to happen. . There are twists and turns that keep you, the reader, waiting to see what will happen next. From the mundane everyday life of high plains cowboys to the mishaps and the accidental occurrences that set their lives apart from everyone else.

Nothing appeals to Annie Sullivan's sense of romance like hunting for a missing heirloom. She can't get enough of the stories surrounding Sinclair Drummond's Scottish ancestors. But when they search his mansion together, she can't get enough of her boss--and they make love. Simply shocking. For a divorc determined to stay single, Sinclair is on thin ice...with his housekeeper, no less. And when he takes Annie to a gala on his neighbor's Long Island estate, the Cinderella song and dance becomes the real deal. But will major family drama stop this fantasy fling dead in its tracks?

Diane Garner considers herself a small town Texas Anglo girl with an astonishingly successful single mom. She experiences a dramatic transition from desperate poverty that resulted when her father abandoned the family. The family finds prosperity in a small Texas town when her mother becomes a hospital executivea very unusual career for a woman in the fifties. Diane grows up in the nurturing community where she enjoys various adventures and mischievous pranks with friends. One day at the age of twenty-two she learns a startling secret about her mothers hidden past, then embarks on a journey to restore the lost legacy of her family.

In As the Wolf Howls at My Door, Brossard takes on the '70s: a time of despair as the dreams and ideals of the '60s were cashed in for political opportunism and crass materialism. America's inglorious exit from Vietnam, the increasingly desperate actions of counterculture protest groups, the rise of repressive CIA operations, the commodification of the American wayall this and more is captured here in Brossard's inimitable style. That style discards realism in favor of a free-form fiction that mixes French surrealism and theatrical absurdity with Beat improvisation and performance art confrontation. Brossard's avalanche of language is outrageous. A kind of verbal delirium possesses the text, which on one level may be the collective fantasy lives of a countercultural group in Paris; on another, the psychotic outpourings of a woman named Decca Aldridge; on yet another, a script by impresario Socks Peelmunder for a guerrilla theater performance; and on the final level, the gamy underside of America's subconsciousa terrifying lava flow of provincial prejudices, racial fears, political paranoia, and sexist attitudes all speaking in tongues in a desperate attempt to bolt the door against the return of the repressed. Not since Naked Lunch has the American dream been assaulted with such ferocious verbal energy.