Kirjahaku

When Virginia Wheeler's early-morning run through the Stanford Hills is interrupted by the discovery of the body of a young Chinese woman, her modern high-tech world is shattered by the emergence of a ghost from the past-the often-inept terrorist Yerky, who was responsible for the death of her brother during the 1960s, is back in her life, whether he knows it or not. Little by little, and then faster and faster, Virginia is sucked into a rapidly evolving plot by Yerky to re-establish his shaky reputation within the world-wide terrorist network. All clues to Yerky's next terror target lead to San Francisco's Chinatown, where Virginia encounters Ah Fook, master of a shadow society within the heart of the city, and where Yerky's trail leads to a standoff inside the peak of the famed Transamerica Pyramid. Always a step ahead of justice, Yerky attempts to fulfill his terrorist plot by bringing it home to Virginia's quiet neighborhood in Palo Alto.

Jim Thorpe never slept in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the town formerly known as Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. But through a combination of ambition, necessity, and sheer luck, these small towns became the final resting place of the great American Indian Olympic champion, and in 1954 they legally changed their name to permanently commemorate his burial. "Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here", a treasury of tales from a 1950s boyhood in a town surrounded by the mountains of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal region, is a passport to a lost land of childhood adventure, featuring an ancient river, old mine shafts, canal locks, hobo camps, the remains of millionaires' mansions - and the hilarious antics of Richard Benyo and his buddies in the South Street Gang.This memoir brings the 1950s alive - just as "Our Gang" did for the Depression - with its renderings of afternoons spent with baseball cards, cardboard forts, BB guns, playground bullying, and that first illicit sip of beer. "Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here" is a memorable, nostalgic account of all the trials, tribulations, and the rites of passage of growing up in postwar America.

When Bob Capek's mother is killed in a hit-and-run accident in 1956, his father moves the family from Virginia back to his hometown of Mauch Chunk, a small town in the middle of the eastern Pennsylvania anthracite coal region. From the moment Bob boards the northbound train, the life he knew before comes to an end - and another, more harrowing one begins. Soon after arriving in Mauch Chunk, Bob is threatened by a notorious cross-town gang, the Center Street Scorpions. As if that's not enough, Bob also initiates a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the cruelest, most diabolical man in town, the Cyclops - a greedy mine owner who will stop at nothing, including murder, to own every coal mine in the county. But Bob is determined to put a stop to the Cyclops' sinister schemes - and the results are explosive. From the author of "Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here" and "Leap of Faith", "The South Street Gang vs. the Coalcracker Cyclops" is an exciting tale that brings the powers of good and evil to the streets of small-town America.