Books with author Richard Keith Taylor

Keith's grandfather, Theodore Augustus Dupree lived near Seven Sisters Road, in a house filled with instruments and cakes. A nostalgic look back at happy childhood days as the Rolling Stone star remembers his grandfather - a former big band player who encouraged his grandson to take up the guitar, in this charming picture book whimsically illustrated by Keith Richards' daughter.

Great year-round birding, grand scenery, and a birdlist that includes some of the most sought-after and beautiful birds in all of North America make A Birder's Guide to Southeastern Arizona the essential guidebook for residents and visitors to this area. This fifth edition includes expanded bar graphs keyed to habitats, with seasonal and abundance information for 514 species. In addition, there is an annotated Specialties section which provides information on the best places to find over 240 of the most interesting birds of Southeastern Arizona. Also included are maps, directions, and birding tips for the newest birding hotspots. The author, Rick Taylor, brings a wealth of field experience and boundless enthusiasm to this guide. His attention to detail provides a complete picture of the opportunities awaiting birders in Southeastern Arizona.

Twenty-one-year-old Cooper Galt – “Coop” – is adrift. College? ...sorta. Job? ...kinda. Romance? ...nope.Coop works as a tech in his father’s defense research company. An accident leaves Coop with the ability to run — to REALLY run — so fast he can approach the speed of light. So fast his street clothes burn off his body. So fast he can vibrate through walls. What does his old high school chum Malorie think he should do with this new-found ability? She thinks he should become the famous comic book character The Streak and serve Mankind. Coop would rather enter the Olympics and sign endorsement deals. But The Ghost has ideas of his own, and he can run pretty fast himself. And steal. And murder. Can Coop finally commit to doing something, or will The Ghost triumph over The Streak?

Boy has no idea what to expect when in 1956 the Royal Canadian Air Force has his family transferred from Winnipeg, Manitoba to No. 1 Fighter Wing, Marville, France, It is a remote North Atlantic Treaty Organization air force base in bombed-out fields from both World War 1 and WW 2, not far from Belgium. Rickey's father is a flying officer who moves the family into C-block, which is a small four-story high apartment for flying officers and flight-lieutenants. It is near other apartment blocks, which house other families according to rank. The higher the rank, the smaller the block and less-commissioned ranks share apartment blocks, which have many more units than the five in C-block. Rickey is adopted by fellows who are several years older and will soon be teenagers.They call themselves AIR FORCE BRATS and say that C-block needs a gang to fend off gangs materializing in the basements of other blocks. The Private Married Quarters have no phones, TVs or Military Police to keep the peace. The BRATS added Rickey to the gang to make it six-strong and more formidable. But the considerably smaller and more unaware he is about things like sex, profanity and what is cool, the more Rickey becomes the butt of jokes to amuse the other BRATS. He is also used as a "gofer" to fetch things for the other gang members. They all go to the Department of National Defense, (DND), school where kids, aged five go to kindergarten and pupils aged six to twelve are taught up to the eighth grade. High-school students are taken weekdays by bus to the base and returned to the PMQs at four o.clock in the afternoon.In desperation, Rickey shines up to Kenny, a tough guy in B-block, to protect him from the BRATS constantly teasing him or sending him on goose-chases. In July 1958, Rickey's family drives down to Calais to cross the English Channel and go camping in England and Scotland. Upon returning to the PMQs, Rickey goes to Kenny's B-block apartment and is startled to find a young couple with infants living there now. They didn't know who or where the previous tenants were. Rickey searches in a nearby granite canyon and the PMQs to no avail. He decides to ask his father Don for help and Don said the best thing to do is to find out something about where Kenny and his father, Herb, had disappeared. Then go to the MPs at the base with evidence that might indicate foul play had taken place. Kenny and his dad shared their apartment without a mother and wife. No neighbor was available to say that Kenny and Herb left the PMQs in their big Hudson car recently, Then Rickey discovers a footprint, which he is convinced belongs to Kenny's huge running shoes.Further investigation leads Rickey and Don to high barbed wire around a bunker or pillbox--left as it was after being hit by a grenade or tear gas thrown by German troops.Kenny told Rickey he has to get back to Canada to get away from a "beercolic" father who, while inebriated, was getting too intimate with Kenny. What the MPs, Rickey and his dad found in the bunker a sight too shocking to describe.Not long after, Rickey and his family were posted back to Canada. The 10-yeae-old boy finds himself involved with other traumas he kept to himself. More traumatic than the horror he saw in France..

A story of the predicaments a boy has in the mid-1950's on an isolated N.A.T.O air force base in France. He has to contend with bully after bully, freaky suicide, maybe murder. Boy returns with family to Canada only to have other nightmares. The sad life of an innocent boy who has to find out about unexpected plights that only he has to contend with. He tries but cannot relate to his father or mother how his life is spiraling nowhere Friends are especially hard to open his heart to and they seem to disappear just when they are needed the most..