Get Out Of The Left Lane

This is a book written to remind today's drivers of how careless we have become while driving our vehicles and the pitfalls many of us have fallen into. Lack of courtesy, basic driving knowledge, and common sense are some of the issues that contribute to the frustrations of driving on the road today. The author has used interesting personal examples, wit and humor to illustrate some of the traits we exhibit, both good and bad, while driving a vehicle. He then makes bold recommendations on how to apply common sense in making our driving experiences safer, more efficient and more fun. Numerous pictures and illustrations help the reader to visualize scenes from their own driving experiences to which they can relate. Cool Tips for Better Driving and a fictitious The Perfect Drive round out the excellent reading. �A must read for all drivers from 16 to 96 years old.�

Life in the Left Lane is a short and lively nonfiction book about what its really like for expatriates to live in a tropical island paradise. Written by a journalist who has lived in the islands for more than thirty-five years, it is an honest, affectionate and humorous report on all aspects of the adventure, from adjusting to island time to making a living, building a dream house and coping with hurricanes. Her vivid descriptions of carnival, the Creole language, gardening and island food, and her insightful observations about minority status, politics, religion and crime, are enlightening reading for anyone curious about life in the Caribbean. The author writes about the islands in general, but specifically her island of St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands, where driving in the left lane in cars designed to drive on the right is but one of the idiosyncrasies of quirky island style.

Cars are the stars of this unique new film that chronicles the speed bumps that a hot-shot athlete encounters on his journey to the winner’s circle. This retelling of the film features kids’ favorite characters and lots of action-packed activities.

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.

A look back on 2005 through the writings of some loser from New Mexico.

Will Settles is an aerospace scientist who finds himself in such a situation, that he has to ask himself, How on earth did I get myself here? By here he means literally on the moon. His story begins with Will on his knees in full space gear with the second love of his life P.J. in his arms. P.J. is badly injured. He asked himself this question and begins to flash back on the events that took place on earth that truly got him on the moon with the woman of his dreams, who herself, is a world renowned astrophysicist .

Denver private eye Johnny Lane is so busy he has to contract out his overflow cases. When a young woman approaches him to find her birth parents, he's willing to take the case for almost nothing. Almost. It would be a breath of fresh air after all the lowlife cases he's now stuck with . . . and there is something about the woman. the last thing Johnny expects is the path the case leads him down. As the chasm between words and reality grows wider, past and present deeds start unraveling with deadly force. "For those of us who believed Jim Thompson would never be equaled, great tidings, he's back in the form of Dave Zeltserman. Hilarious in the darkest fashion, violent, bitter, psychotic and unputdownable... FAST LANE left me bruised, battered and exhilarated." KEN BRUEN

Fast Lane continues the saga of Willy Hanson, that publisher with a heart of gold who threw it all away for a life of adventure and a woman. Willy`s now a gentleman detective: an amateur Sam Spade who would love to solve a riddle like the Maltese Falcon but winds up with matrimonial work. When the pregnant wife of a philandering executive asks Willy to get the dirt on her husband, he reluctantly takes the case. But the man has been doing more than leading a double life, and his actions have started a chain of events that will end in an encounter with a psychopath of sickening proportions. And in which a little boy`s life hangs in the balance.