The author of Blood Orchid and Blue Desert presents a biography on his friend, the writer and environmentalist, Edward Abbey. A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up “what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.” The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically “launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground” that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey’s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking “anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck.” Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of “the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration.” “An unflinchingly honest writer addresses the death of his friend and kindred spirit Edward Abbey. . . . This belated publication should not only send readers back to Abbey, but also back to Bowden’s work. A memoir about an American original by an American original, a literary journalist who merits more than a regional readership.” —Kirkus Reviews “Bowden, a journalist and author who died in 2014, knew Abbey better than most, perhaps, and attempts to paint a picture of the southwestern iconoclast in The Red Caddy. Discovered on his computer after his death, it’s a fascinating artifact that’s by turns charming and maddening—just like Abbey himself.” —NPR “With its elegant prose and uncompromising vision, this is vintage Bowden.” —Arizona Daily Star,Southwest Books of the Year

A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up “what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.” The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically “launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground” that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey’s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking “anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck.” Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of “the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration.”

Douglas Caddy was the attorney for E. Howard Hunt, one of the key persons involved in both the JFK assassination and Watergate. Being There: Eye Witness to History is his autobiographical account of these events by accidentally being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time. Episodes include being with Lee Harvey Oswald and Guy Banister in New Orleans, investigating the founding of the modern conservative movement and where it went wrong, looking inside the JFK assassination and the Watergate Conspiracy, uncovering JFK's secret son and why he came to fear for his life, analyzing LBJ's murder victims and his rise to the presidency, interpreting the Moody Foundation Scandal, Russia's involvement in Trump's election, and more.

From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy Casson. This colourful and hilarious series will make you wish you were part of the family! Best friends, boyfriends, problem parents, pink hair. Brothers, sisters, fireworks and unexpected babies. Welcome to Caddy's World. Travel back to when Caddy was a young girl and Rose had not been born, in this moving and comical prequel to the award-winning Saffy's Angel. 'Full of warmth, vitality and irrepressible good humour' Guardian Saffy's Angel won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and book 3, Permanent Rose, was shortlisted for the same award, celebrating McKay's talent for conveying the anarchic bedlam of family life.

The official tie-in book to the wildly popular Facebook page, featuring brand-new crazy, off-the-wall, outrageously funny, and downright “awesome” pearls of wisdom from real-life drill sergeants and instructors from all branches of the military. Sweat dries. Blood clots. Bones heal. Suck it up, buttercup. After his deployment in Afghanistan, Dan Caddy began swapping great drill sergeant stories by e-mail with other combat veterans—an exchange with friends that would grow into the dedicated Facebook page, “Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said.” But what began as a comedic outlet has evolved into a robust online community and support network that conducts fundraisers for and donates to military charities, has helped veterans struggling with PTSD and other issues, and on numerous occasions, literally saved lives. Now, Caddy shares more great DS stories—most never before seen—in this humorous collection. Often profane, sometimes profound, yet always entertaining, these rants from real life soldiers are interspersed with lively sidebars, Top 10 lists, stories from fans, one-liners, and more. For anyone who has suffered a hard-ass manager (in uniform or not), Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said will add a much needed dose of humor to the day.

The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) used his keen storyteller’s eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. In America’s Most Alarming Writer, key figures in his life—including his editors, collaborators, and other writers—deliver a literary wake for the man who inspired them throughout his forty-year career. Part revelation, part critical assessment, the fifty essays in this collection span the decades from Bowden’s rise as an investigative journalist through his years as a singular voice of unflinching honesty about natural history, climate change, globalization, drugs, and violence. As the Chicago Tribune noted, “Bowden wrote with the intensity of Joan Didion, the voracious hunger of Henry Miller, the feral intelligence and irony of Hunter Thompson, and the wit and outrage of Edward Abbey.” An evocative complement to The Charles Bowden Reader, the essays and photographs in this homage brilliantly capture the spirit of a great writer with a quintessentially American vision. Bowden is the best writer you’ve (n)ever read.

DETROITLate September, 1952 Mechanically, stylistically, there was nothing distinctive about the '53 Caddy four-door sedan when it came rolling off the assembly line. It was no different from scores of others emerging that day from the womb of the world's largest automobile manufacturing company. Its wheels were enhanced with shiny chrome covers, in the center of which glistened a bright round red and gold Cadillac emblem. A gold Cadillac V emblem adorned both the nose of the hood and the center of the trunk lid. Alas, some majestic birds fly higher, some mountains, some stars, some rainbows, loom larger, brighter, more regal, more imposing than others. And so it was for the '53 Caddy four-door sedan. For in the rarified air of automobile aristocracy it occupied, both in prestige and in price, the bottom of the top of the line below the two-door 62 series coup, the Coupe DeVille the 62 series convertible, Coupe DeVille convertible , and far, far below the gem of all 1953 crown-jewel models, the revolutionary, limited-edition, wrap-around-windshield El Dorado convertible. And so, as familiarity sometimes breeds contempt, so it was for the relative snob-appeal stature of the '53 Caddy four-door sedan. It wwas destined to be looked up to by some, down on by others. What follows is the partially, or possibly, or at least every 50 pages or so, true story of one of them, a meandering madcap journey that began in Detroit, proceeded at one time or another to such well known places as Toledo, Ohio, Orlando, Fla., Mobile, Ala., Kansas City, Mo., Lexington, Ky. and Denver, Colorado as well as intermittent stops in such lesser and little-known spots as Otterville, Ohio; Carey, Ohio; Findlay, Ohio; Possum Hollow, Ky.; Sandy Hook, Ky.; Wakefield, Ohio; Portsmouth ,Ohio; Liberty, Ky.; Corbin, Ky.; Hamilton, Ohio; Harlan County, Ky.; Calvary, Ga.; Crescent City, Fla.; Two Egg, Fla.; Hot Coffee, Miss.; Pine Ridge, Ark,, Peculiar, Mo.; Oakley, Kan ; Burlington, Colo.; Red Feather Lakes, Colo. and Wellington, Colo. But '53 Caddy isn't so much the story about the car as it is that of those who adored, deplored, sold, purchased, pampered, traded, stole, wrecked, dismantled, repaired and ultimately tried to save it from the crusher; a tale of survival as well as a moveable smorgasbord of slapstick human passions, prejudices, beliefs, blunders, fears, fantasies follies, and foibles. And if that '53 Caddy could talk perhaps this is the story, or one reasonably similar, it would tell.