Books with author Richard Brown

He wasn’t very old. A couple of days. But he was restless, feeling he needed to do something. Anything. He had so many brothers and sisters, he lost count. Plus, they were always in the way. Stealing bites off the pink blob as it moved by. Stumblebum barely got a nibble. There were a lot of blobs. A lot of brothers and sisters. And just one Stumblebum.If that wasn’t bad enough, much of his day was spent buzzing away from sloppy Toadies and their whip like tongues always trying to turn him into lunch. Some fun? They would thunder/burp at him and slap him with that quick wet thing as they slurped. So far, they had missed. But they were always there.

The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like "The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett" and "The Andy Griffith Show" mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, Az. But the sunbaked desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath names Charles Schmid, later nicknamed the "Pied Piper of Tucson" by Life Magazine, would steal that innocence away, along with the lives of three beautiful teenage girls.In this firsthand account written in 1967, Richard Bruns shares the evolution of his friendship with Schmid, the details of getting involved way in over his head, and how he finally summoned the courage to blow the whistle to end the deadly rampage that shocked the nation and changed the city of Tucson forever.

Lucky, lucky you to find a four-leaf clover, to wish on a star, to see the new moon over your shoulder, to have the first robin of spring fly up, up into the sky. But no walking under a ladder or stepping on a spider: that's bad. Stir up some good fortune and good times with this attractively illustrated and lighthearted look at popular superstitions.

AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER in Blues Books!AMAZON BESTSELLER in Historical Thrillers and Historical Fiction!A fast and powerful historical thriller about the birth of the Delta blues.“...this is storytelling at its best...” -- Fortean Times Magazine“...poignant...heartening...insightful...” -- Kirkus ReviewsIn 1915, in a moonlit room in a boarding house in Texas, Charlie Patton -- the enigmatic inventor of blues music -- founds a shadowy alliance with Huddie ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter and Blind Lemon Jefferson. A pact is made, and the seeds of revolution are sown. Back at the Dockery Plantation in the Mississippi Delta, with the help of the likes of Son House, Howlin‘ Wolf, Robert Johnson, and others, Charlie’s plan spreads across the South, and then across the country. But these bluesmen have no way of knowing where this dangerous road will lead. Nor do they know the Ku Klux Klan is watching.In 2002, Franklyn O’Connor -- an adventurous and penniless youth -- sits at a lonely bar in the train station of his small upstate New York hometown holding a one-way ticket to the Crossroads in the Mississippi Delta. There he hopes to track down his deadbeat father, who walked out on his family when Frank was five. With nothing but his rucksack and the unsolicited assistance of a little old man called Furry Jenkins, Frank soon unwittingly drifts into the middle of a combustible racial feud at the intersection of a still divided society. A shocking truth waiting down the line.With the rambling pioneers of blues music leading an unforgettable cast of characters, this raw, rousing and adventurous debut novel delivers a breathtaking view of life, livin’, love and hate in America in the 20th century, and the mysterious beginnings of the music that provided the soundtrack for it all...THE BLUES.(Amazon #1 Best Seller in Blues Books, Amazon 2016)

“How tall is this hill? How many leaves are on that tree? Who made this path? Are there bears in this forest? Have you ever slept on a bed of moss? Are ground pines baby trees? What kinds of fish are in that creek? Are there any caves in this valley? Which do you like best, teaberries or huckleberries? Are those mushrooms good to eat? Why do raspberry and blackberry bushes have thorns? How long did it take those ants to make that anthill? How many bees are in that honey tree? Are groundhogs furry little pigs? Why do squirrels like acorns so much when they taste so bad? Is fog really just clouds coming down to the ground for a rest?”Zoe questions her grandfather about everything she sees, hears and even smells. She will ask her grandfather an amazing question this afternoon, beginning a conversation that will change her life forever.

Now that the dwarves have been freed from the hands of Dommeran, Lee travels to Spellion to form an alliance with King Ordeth. Dommeran is already well ahead of him and has great influence in the King’s court. With only the King’s daughter, Kayla, on Lee’s side, can he convince the stubborn King that Dommeran is his true enemy?Grenlow is frustrated at his failure to stop Lee. As his god’s anger grows, he becomes ever more desperate to take down his enemy. With Ravner and Pelen already in Spellion, Lee and his friends will be riding into danger.

He wasn’t very old. A couple of days. But he was restless, feeling he needed to do something. Anything. He had so many brothers and sisters, he lost count. Plus, they were always in the way. Stealing bites off the pink blob as it moved by. Stumblebum barely got a nibble. There were a lot of blobs. A lot of brothers and sisters. And just one Stumblebum.If that wasn’t bad enough, much of his day was spent buzzing away from sloppy Toadies and their whip like tongues always trying to turn him into lunch. Some fun? They would thunder/burp at him and slap him with that quick wet thing as they slurped. So far, they had missed. But they were always there.

The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like “The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett” and “The Andy Griffith Show” mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, Az. But the sunbaked desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath names Charles Schmid, later nicknamed the “Pied Piper of Tucson” by Life Magazine, would steal that innocence away, along with the lives of three beautiful teenage girls.In this firsthand account written in 1967, Richard Bruns shares the evolution of his friendship with Schmid, the details of getting involved way in over his head, and how he finally summoned the courage to blow the whistle to end the deadly rampage that shocked the nation and changed the city of Tucson forever.