Books with author R. J. MacDonald

On the home front, two wartime lovers reunite under a cloud of paranoia in this thriller from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ross Macdonald In 1937 Munich, an American must be careful when he smokes his pipe. Robert Branch, a careless academic, makes the mistake of lighting up when the Führer is about to begin a procession, and nearly gets pummeled for his mistake. Only the timely intervention of Ruth Esch, a flame-haired actress, saves him. So begins a month-long romance between East and West—a torrid affair that ends when the lovers make the mistake of defending a Jew, earning Branch a beating and Esch a trip to a concentration camp. Six years later, Esch escapes to Vichy and makes her way to Detroit. To her surprise, Branch is waiting for her. He is a professor, working for the war effort, and his paranoia about a spy inside the Motor City war board sours their reunion. Once again, a dangerous net is encircling these lovers—a reminder that, in this war, love always comes second to death.

Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He’s also a knight-errant who’s wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he’ll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.“The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.” —Jonathan KellermanMcGee isn’t particularly strapped for cash, but how can anyone say no to Cathy, a sweet backwoods girl who’s been tortured repeatedly by her manipulative ex-boyfriend Junior Allen? What Travis isn’t anticipating is just how many women Junior has torn apart and left in his wake. Enter Junior’s latest victim, Lois Atkinson.Frail and broken, Lois can barely get out of bed when Travis finds her, let alone keep herself alive. But Travis turns into Mother McGee, giving Lois new life as he looks for the ruthless man who steals women’s spirits and livelihoods. But he can’t guess how violent his quest is soon to become. He’ll learn the hard way that there must be casualties in this game of cat and mouse.“John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about the best.” —Mary Higgins Clark

"McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERA lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain, the intrepid Travis McGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. And he can't help but ask himself, is this what they call southern hospitality...?From the Paperback edition.

TRAVIS McGEEHe's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half....With an introduction by CARL HIAASENJOHN D. MACDONALD"....the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." --STEPHEN KING"....a master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer."--MARY HIGGINS CLARK"....a dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character."--SUE GRAFTON"....my favorite novelist of all time."--DEAN KOONTZ"...the consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer."--JONATHAN KELLERMAN"...remains one of my idols."--DONALD WESTLAKETHE TRAVIS McGEE SERIES"...one of the great sagas in American fiction."--ROBERT B. PARKER"...what a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again."--ED McBAIN

Starlight. Steel. Ahryn and Ezai must unite.Ten years ago, the Starsingers--tyrannical magicians who draw their power from the stars--suffered a brutal defeat at the hands of an ancient order of magic-resistant peacekeepers.Their rebellion quelled, their magic controlled, the five families of starlight magicians have been forced to live in a fragile truce with the starless commoners...until now.When an assassin begins killing Starsingers, the defiant peacekeepers are blamed, for who else could slay a magician?EZAI is a storied peacekeeper. He has been tasked with finding the true killer, and he must do so before the balance of power is disrupted. But the Starsingers plot against him.AHRYN is the eldest child of an Astral House, and she alone survives the murder of her family. She seeks justice, but the other families wish to use her fury, and her family's legacy.As another war approaches, Ezai and Ahryn form an unlikely alliance. Together, they must unlock a secret of the past and find the assassin before it's too late, for a greater evil looms.REMEMBER THE DAWN is the first book of the STARSINGERS, a sword and sorcery saga that takes place in a world with a distinct magic system and an elaborate and expansive history.

This intriguing book is a study of the rise and fall of an American genre of entertainment and communication whose symbols and rhetoric helped define American society for decades. Flourishing in the 1950s and 1960s, the television Western has deteriorated to the point where it is now irrelevant and meaningless. Tracing the evolution of the Western from the late 1940s to the 1980s, the author ties the genre to the political innocence and confidence of the Cold War years and suggests that the social reevaluations that began in the 1960s undermined the believability of Westerns and their entertainment value. Seeking to understand the demise of the TV Western, the book offers an analysis of the interrelationships between popular culture, television, and sociopolitical development in the United States during the past four decades.

It's no secret that most of us get flabbier the older we get, and it's no surprise that the biggest spike in weight happens in the early stages of parenthood. Mark Macdonald knows the struggle himself, having gained thirty-five pounds after the birth of his son. It happened to him even as a nutritionist and former fitness model, so he knew he wasn't alone in the struggle. Along with his wife, Abbi, Mark has created this proven eight-week program specifically geared toward parents to help them shed the weight, discover new amounts of energy, and most importantly, create new sustainable habits to keep it from coming back.

Welcome to MOUTHPIECE, BOOK FOUR of the MY CRIME SERIESGo to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COMto listen to FREE INTERVIEWS with the subjects of the MY CRIME SERIESThe MY CRIME SERIES presents to the world books written on inmates by inmates.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES was written in 2018 by the presently incarcerated about the presently incarcerated.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES has been dictated, read, and reviewed by the subject.Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COMto listen to interviews recorded off of the prison phones.Buy the paperback for someone else and receive the eBook free for yourself.The books of the MY CRIME SERIES grant citizens insight into the lives of unknown felons in the California prison system. YOU become the judge. YOU will read about each subject’s interactions with family. YOU will get a sense of the subject’s neighborhood and school. YOU will come to know each subject’s motivations. YOU will move from childhood, youth, and adulthood with each subject. YOU will get a sense of the why’s and how’s of what makes someone choose crime. The MY CRIME SERIES books have been produced so we better know each other, including the felon. The ultimate goal is to create a better system, a system that lives up to our own standards of justice. All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BOOK FOUR of the MY CRIME SERIES. MOUTHPIECE grants an understanding into inner city life. Understand the motivations and the temptations experienced by a youth who leans toward wrong doing, despite the best intentions of his family. Understand how crime is chosen as the best alternative from bad options. Witness, how the young subject fully dedicates himself to criminal enterprising. Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COMto hear a portion of the audiobook plus extensive phone interviews with the subject.All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BOOK FOUR of the MY CRIME SERIES: MOUTHPIECEMouthpiece is a brutally told biographical sketch of an incarcerated pimp, in prison for human trafficking. Raw boasts and brazen inner-city tales litter the story’s violent, unrepentant landscape.Like a marked man, Mouthpiece keeps after the reader with a cold perspective. Money is the aim and young women are the product.Bullets fly, tears drop, and children watch, Mouthpiece communicates the pride and prejudices of a warrior-pimp seizing plunder, camaraderie, and a demigod sense of self, through violence, street credentials, and psychological manipulation.Thank you for taking time out of your day to read and learn about MOUTHPIECE and the MY CRIME SERIES Content Includes:Family Life - Neighborhood Life – Gang Life - Drug Use – Youth/Adult Incarceration – Murder – Beatings – Property Theft - California Culture – Youth/Adult Sexuality – Prostitution - Profanity

On the home front, two wartime lovers reunite under a cloud of paranoia in this thriller from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ross Macdonald In 1937 Munich, an American must be careful when he smokes his pipe. Robert Branch, a careless academic, makes the mistake of lighting up when the Führer is about to begin a procession, and nearly gets pummeled for his mistake. Only the timely intervention of Ruth Esch, a flame-haired actress, saves him. So begins a month-long romance between East and West—a torrid affair that ends when the lovers make the mistake of defending a Jew, earning Branch a beating and Esch a trip to a concentration camp. Six years later, Esch escapes to Vichy and makes her way to Detroit. To her surprise, Branch is waiting for her. He is a professor, working for the war effort, and his paranoia about a spy inside the Motor City war board sours their reunion. Once again, a dangerous net is encircling these lovers—a reminder that, in this war, love always comes second to death.

Welcome to FIVE TRUE CRIME STORIES from CALIFORNIA INMATES, BUNDLE ONE of the MY CRIME SERIES – INCLUDES THE FIRST FIVE AUDIOBOOKS OF THE MY CRIME SERIES: SPINNERS STORY, HOLLER AT YOUR GIRL, HOOD TO HEELS, MOUTHPIECE, AND 38 YEARS LATER. Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to listen to FREE INTERVIEWS with the subjects of the MY CRIME SERIESThe MY CRIME SERIES presents to the world books written on inmates by inmates.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES was written in 2018 by the presently incarcerated about the presently incarcerated.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES has been dictated, read, and reviewed by the subject.Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to listen to interviews recorded off of the prison phones.Buy the paperback for someone else and receive the eBook free for yourself.The books of the MY CRIME SERIES grant citizens insight into the lives of unknown felons in the California prison system. YOU become the judge. YOU will read about each subject’s interactions with family. YOU will get a sense of the subject’s neighborhood and school. YOU will come to know each subject’s motivations. YOU will move from childhood, youth, and adulthood with each subject. YOU will get a sense of the why’s and how’s of what makes someone choose crime. The MY CRIME SERIES books have been produced so we better know each other, including the felon. The ultimate goal is to create a better system, a system that lives up to our own standards of justice. All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BUNDLE ONE of the MY CRIME SERIES. Non-fiction biographies that read like fiction, that have life circumstances most people never considered, that present options most people would flee from, that bring consequences most people could never adjust to are the essence of the My Crime Series and the content of, “The First Offense: Five True Crime Stories from California Inmates.”Follow to prison a pimp, a transgender prostitute, a methamphetamine cook, an L.A. gangbanger, and the criminally minded boy next door. Place yourself in the debate as to whether nature versus nurture causes crime while you gain an understanding of the life circumstances, pressures, and motivations that compel unlawful conduct.Then with a better understanding of the criminally minded, create a justice system that better represents your values as a citizen.All stories enclosed are true as dictated by each subject to an inmate writer. Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to hear extensive phone interviews with the subjects.All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BUNDLE ONE of the MY CRIME SERIES: FIVE TRUE CRIME STORIES from CALIFORNIA INMATESThank you for taking time out of your day to read and learn about FIVE TRUE CRIME STORIES from CALIFORNIA INMATES and the MY CRIME SERIES Content Includes:Family Life - Neighborhood Life - Sibling Relations - Drug Use – Youth/Adult Incarceration – Kidnapping – Burglary – Property Theft - Criminality - Romance - Gang Life - Philosophy - – Racism – California Culture – Youth/Adult Sexuality – Church/Religion/Spirituality – Transgender Themes – LGBTQ Themes