C. R. Webster saw many forms of substance abuse as a nurse, but when addictions threatened her own son, it was no longer a job; she was his mother. After a shoulder injury dashed his dreams of playing college baseball, Randy lost his desire to live, seeking refuge in all the wrong places. His mother had to sit in the bleachers and watch as he went from job to job, court date to court date, and eventually, freedom to incarceration. From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence tells a tragic story about a mother's struggle to save her son and her eventual decision to turn it over to God. A well written, frank, eye opener To The carnage wreaked by substance abuse in her family. If you have dealt first hand with drug or alcohol abuse in your family then From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence will certainly strike a raw chord with you. If you haven't, it will make you kiss your family and thank the Good Lord for sparing you from this horrific war zone. -R.Groves, stewardship team, Independent Bible Church From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence leads you through years of the nightmare darkness that engulfs a family when fighting to save a child from his world of addiction. It is a heart-wrenching story of a mother struggling desperately to hold onto her family, her faith, and her sanity. There is hope in God, The rock that holds in the midst of life's worse storms. From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence is a must read for anyone who has been forced down this path. -B. Evans, MITI leader for ten years, member of Long View Baptist Church C. R. Webster is a retired nurse and mother of two. She used her writing to deal with the rage, anger, and guilt she felt when, despite all her efforts, she was unable to save her son from the dark world. The light is there; will he see it?

Fast-talking, hard-living politicians, priests, smugglers and thieves play the game of the Boston streets in George V. Higgins’ The Patriot Game. Federal agent Pete Riordan is as tough as they come; he’s six-foot-four with a bad knee and a mean temper, but his commitment to his job is beyond exemplary. When he is called upon to find the man delivering arms to the I.R.A. he takes to with gusto. Little did he know it’d be such a guessing game; bar proprietor Digger Doherty is rumored to have leads, and convicted killer Mikey-Magro serving time in Walpole certainly knows more than he lets on. But no one is coming forward and time is running out, and why is Mikey-Magro being released from jail prematurely anyway? Teeming with unlikely characters and fiery dialogue that propel the plot to break-neck speed, The Patriot Game is nothing short of a George V. Higgins masterpiece.

Vols. 5- include the monthly rotogravure supplement "Uncle Sam's news reel" (issued as section 2 from May 24, 1937, to Dec. 11, 1939) 30-54 cm.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society. As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.

Author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem is one of the most celebrated and significant American writers working today. This new scholarly study draws on a deep knowledge of all Lethem's work to explore the range of his writing, from his award-winning fiction to his work in comics and criticism. Reading Lethem in relation to five themes crucial to his work, Joseph Brooker considers influence and intertextuality; the role of genres such as crime, science fiction and the Western; the imaginative production of worlds; superheroes and comic book traditions; and the representation of New York City. Close readings of Lethem's fiction are contextualized by reference to broader conceptual and comparative frames, as well as to Lethem's own voluminous non-fictional writing and his adaptation of precursors from Franz Kafka to Raymond Chandler. Rich in critical insight, Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing demonstrates how an understanding of this author illuminates contemporary literature and culture at large.