Books with author Patrick M. Reynolds

Bring the classroom home with Step Ahead workbooks from Golden Books! This teacher-approved guide to addition is perfect for K-1st graders—with 29 colorful stickers! Carefully planned by teachers to complement the school curriculum, every Step Ahead workbook provides positive learning experiences through a variety of interactive, kid-friendly activities. In I Can Add, children will learn about: •Counting objects •Adding sets •Practicing addition

Following his Vision Quest in A Scattering of Crows, Hidden Spirit continues the journey after an unsettling vision of his sister, Chasing Rabbit, in danger. He races against the clock to find the boarding school where Preacher Jim continues to indoctrinate the Sioux children. He fears he will be too late and wonders about the fate of his beloved, Morning Star. Surviving insurmountable odds, Hidden Spirit rises to the harrowing challenge. Quelling his anger, his inner warrior and magical powers begin to surface and develop in ways he never thought possible. Along the way, he meets some unsuspecting friends and allies that help forge this epic journey.

Incredible stories about the Keystone State from the syndicated illustrated feature Pennsylvania Profiles. The Swedes first settled Pennsylvania and our first citizens were convicts. This book has extensive coverage of the French and Indian War in central PA. Other topics include: Asa Packer, the coal baron; the Great Goose Fly scam that hoodwinked Pittsburghers in 1848; the first women's medical college; the Seven Mountains and the last buffalo herd in PA; the steel and concrete ship/hotel on Allegheny Mountain; Judy Johnson and the Negro Baseball League; and so much more.

21 Beacon Street (Circa 1971)“21 Beacon Street” is K. Patrick Reynolds foray into the genre of Crime fiction. Pimps, drug dealers, street walkers, and sundry other miscreants, lurk about the infamous Boston Combat zone, with impunity. Enter the zone at your peril. A wayward priest succumbs to his carnal desires. A wide – eyed, twenty-two-year-old law student, Owen O’Rourke enters Boston’s den of iniquity, to retrieve the conflicted clergyman. A jaw-dropping dalliance with a knockout stripper, in the crowded aisles of Filene’s basement, lands Owen O’Rourke in the cross hairs of Mafioso thug, Jimmy “the Mule” Salvucci’s .357 Magnum. A serendipitous shooting at the Boston Police pistol range, introduces an apprehensive Owen O’Rourke, to a Good Samaritan, named Markey. Markey secures a safe house for Owen in Scituate, Massachusetts. The south shore community, known as “The Irish Riviera.”With Markey as his mentor, a relieved Owen O’Rourke manages to weave his unscathed, way through the treacherous realm of the Boston underworld. A reckoning occurs at 21 Beacon Street. Owen O’Rourke and Jimmy “the Mule” Salvucci are face-to-face. Shots are fired…

Boston, Massachusetts: September 1971 The stubborn resolve of the leaders of the United State of America, to halt the proliferation of Communism in Vietnam is causing considerable unrest throughout the country. Walter Cronkite, the Dean of American Broadcasters, fans the flames of discontent, with his nightly report that detail the latest American casualties of the war. Owen O'Rourke arrives in Boston, Massachusetts, anxious to begin law school. The recent college graduate has been spared a trip to the debacle in Vietnam, as the result of a fortuitous roll of a draft lottery ping-pong ball. Unfortunately, Owen's best friend P.F.C. John Declan Gallagher has not been so lucky.The soldier is M.I.A., in the sultry jungles of Vietnam, presumed to be captured by the Viet Cong. In a strange turn of events, Owen O'Rourke finds himself immersed in his own war, with key members of the Boston underworld. A series of chance encounters, results in Owen O'Rourke matching wits, with a mob hitman, drug dealers, kidnappers, pimps, dirty cops, crooked politicians, and a seductive stripper from Vietnam. Owen is tutored and trained, by two experienced crime fighters, who are more than familiar with the local crime scene. Owen O'Rourke proves to be a natural, for undercover work. As Owen O'Rourke starts to gain knowledge and understanding of the ruthless Boston criminal element, he begins to concentrate on the differences in the minds of the criminal sociopaths. O'Rourke draws the conclusion that most sociopaths are similar, in their lack of concern for others; yet, they employ different methods of implementing their private plan, to achieve their own selfish success. Owen O'Rourke's mature realization of the dichotomy that permeates the sick mind of the sociopath, may prove to keep the fledgling crime fighter above ground and upright for his law school graduation. One mistake in judgment could prove fatal for Owen O'Rourke.

A complex tale of magical realism and adventure brings the children’s voice of the Lakota Sioux, to life — taken from their homes and sent hundreds of miles away to a boarding school out east.A charismatic Preacher, named James Crumm, heard the calling and came forthwith. His mission was to save the children from a life of barbaric savagery and sin— lead them to a life of eternal salvation. The teachers are committed to the Preacher’s vision and set about removing their culture, language and sins. This where the Preacher’s spiral into madness begins.One young Sioux warrior takes it upon himself to act. His name is Hidden Spirit. He sets out on his mystical steed, guided by his grandfather’s spirit, and undertakes a magical journey to return the children to their rightful home. But this journey will take him to a stranger and more perilous place than he could’ve ever imagined.

Incredible stories about the Keystone State from the syndicated illustrated feature Pennsylvania Profiles. You will be surprised at how many everyday things started in the Commonwealth and this books gives the amusing details on several: root beer; Planters Peanuts; toilet paper; nursing schools; professional baseball; iron bridges; the first labor strike; and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the first of its kind in the U.S. Amusing stories include the "Dragon Lady" of Pennsylvania and the odd-ball meanings of certain towns around the state, and so much more.

A complex tale of magical realism and adventure brings the children’s voice of the Lakota Sioux, to life — taken from their homes and sent hundreds of miles away to a boarding school out east. A charismatic Preacher, named James Crumm, heard the calling and came forthwith. His mission was to save the children from a life of barbaric savagery and sin— lead them to a life of eternal salvation. The teachers are committed to the Preacher’s vision and set about removing their culture, language and sins. This where the Preacher’s spiral into madness begins.One young Sioux warrior takes it upon himself to act. His name is Hidden Spirit. He sets out on his mystical steed, guided by his grandfather’s spirit, and undertakes a magical journey to return the children to their rightful home. But this journey will take him to a stranger and more perilous place than he could’ve ever imagined.