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In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy launched the U.S. effort to put rockets into space, high school senior Max King became interested in the space race, honoring JFK's presidency and lofty goals.Max enters junior college but struggles at the beginning. He meets Jan Rosing in his zoology class, and it's love at "fifth" sight. She dumps her fianc for Max, and they become study buddies. One thing leads to another and the two transfer to UCLA in 1963. Max decides to join Jan as a pre-med zoology major.On November 22, 1963, they hear of JFK's assassination on the radio at school and are heartbroken. Like all of America, they spend the weekend watching TV, and witness Lee Harvey Oswald's murder in real time. They connected their youthful idealism to Kennedy's promising Camelot presidency but move on with their studies. The next year they are both accepted to medical school at UC-CCM in downtown L.A.At the start of med school, they move into a cottage in El Sereno, which is where the author's previous book The Bookmen begins.The 1960s was an idealistic time for America. It also ushered in a profound loss of innocence for that generation.(About the Author)Henry Rex Greene grew up in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys of Southern California. The semi-retired physician specializes in hematology, oncology, and hospice/palliative care. He has had "strong involvement in shaping the hospice movement and medical ethics." Dr. Greene is the author of numerous books, and resides with his wife in Henderson, Nevada. He credits his far-flung interests to great teachers who knew how to nurture their students.

Teenager Marlene Vaughan's mother Gertrude was murdered in 1953. They lived in Baldwin Park, in the central San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. Gertrude was abducted from a bar in El Monte and found dead in Azusa. The case was never solved.Four years later, Marlene obtains a lead on the killers, learning that they have returned to Los Angeles. She reconnects with her old friend Robby, and asks him to help her solve the crime because "he's the smartest boy she ever knew."Robby recruits a team to work on the crime, including his stepmother, Clara, and his youngest uncle, Melvin. They form a picture of two itinerant salesmen who periodically visit L.A. and frequent the Silver Dollar Saloon in El Monte, where Gertrude disappeared.The amateur detectives put the clues together and suspect that there are two killers, both World War II veterans, one with anger issues caused by a war injury, and the other a passive sidekick.This complex murder mystery is a sequel to the author's book Life Could Be a Dream, and provides an intimate glimpse into life in Southern California in the 1950s.(About the Author)Henry Rex Greene grew up in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys of Southern California. The semi-retired physician specializes in hematology, oncology, and hospice/palliative care. He has had "strong involvement in shaping the hospice movement and medical ethics." Dr. Greene is the author of numerous books, and resides with his wife in Henderson, Nevada. He credits his far-flung interests to great teachers who knew how to nurture their students.

Who better to write a medical drama than a physician? Semi-retired doctor and author Henry Rex Greene once again delves into the medical world in his latest novel The Drug Dealer.After leaving a wonderful career in California, Dr. Max King undergoes quite an odyssey, leading to a job in Ohio with Dr. Kumar, an oncologist who is secretly selling drugs to local high school students. Max's poignant new experiences include creating a palliative care program. Providing this end-of-life care to patients motivates him to obtain board certification in his great passion, hospice and palliative medicine.Max's new employer ends up losing his medical license and blames Max. After firing Max, Dr. Kumar then rehires him out of desperation. Max and another physician try to help Dr. Kumar with his rehabilitation, but he remains in denial and ends up an alcoholic.This timely story about drug use, greed, and their connection to healthcare makes for an exciting read.(About the Author)Henry Rex Greene grew up in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys of Southern California. The semi-retired physician specializes in hematology, oncology, and hospice/palliative care. He has had "strong involvement in shaping the hospice movement and medical ethics." Dr. Greene is the author of numerous books, and resides with his wife in Henderson, Nevada. He credits his far-flung interests to great teachers who knew how to nurture their students.

New Year's 1984 brings big changes for 40-year-old Jerry O'Donnell. After a messy divorce, he quits his job as a teacher at Muir High School in Pasadena, California, to become a stockbroker. When he leases a car, he meets his fianc e, Kate Cleary. The two buy a small home and have ambitious plans for the future. It is then that the AIDS epidemic raises its ugly head. After a gay friend dies of AIDS, his lover, a retired doctor, asks Jerry, the fledgling stockbroker, to help earn money for AIDS victims, but they experience strong resistance. The Best and Worst of Times The remaking of Los Angeles for the Summer Olympics is a high point of the year. Jerry's favorite baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, comes painfully close to making the World Series. At the same time, President Ronald Reagan remains silent in the face of the AIDS epidemic. He cuts taxes on the rich, causing the federal debt to soar. Kate worries about the collapse of the savings and loan industry. Jerry becomes disillusioned with his company's economic philosophy of "churn and burn," selling marginal equities. When President Reagan wins an electoral landslide, it sets America's course for the next four decades. His neglect of the AIDS epidemic motivates Jerry to apply to grad school in Public Policy.(About the Author)Says author Henry Rex Greene: "My sixth novel, Life Could be a Dream, is a fictional version of my childhood in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles. I now live in Henderson, Nevada, after an exciting coast-to-coast journey through America. I'm a practicing physician, specializing in hematology and oncology. I had strong involvement in shaping the hospice movement and medical ethics."

Mike Francis took a weekend bike ride in Topanga Canyon and never returned.In 1971, Max King is the new president of the Intern-Resident Association at LA County Hospital. A nurse there, Mary Francis, asks for his help following the mysterious disappearance of her husband, Mike, an infectious disease fellow and prot g of Franklin Delano Rousseau (FDR), a famous faculty member at USC who specializes in venomous snakes. Max agrees to help.Mike had previously accompanied FDR on trips to Southeast Asia to collect snake venom for manufacturing antivenom. Now he is missing.When asked to supervise the drug overdose service at his hospital, Max learns about heroin production in Thailand's Golden Triangle. Wondering if this could be related to Mike's disappearance, Max contacts his former mentor on a summer project that researched heroin rehab.This leads Max to believe that Mike's fate has something to do with the drug business in Southeast Asia. He takes a photo of Mike to the VA hospital, where he encounters a vet who saw Mike working in a heroin distribution network in Vietnam.Who would be powerful enough to arrange for Mike's disappearance?The idea for Venoms is loosely based on a surgery resident who disappeared in Topanga Canyon. (About the Author) Henry Rex Greene grew up in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys of Southern California. The semi-retired physician specializes in hematology, oncology, and hospice/palliative care. He was strongly involved "in shaping the hospice movement and medical ethics." Dr. Greene is the author of numerous books, and resides with his wife in Henderson, Nevada. He credits his far-flung interests to great teachers who knew how to nurture their students.