Red Car And Roscoe

Red Car and Roscoe is a colorful story of adoption. Paying forward and how random acts of kindness can change a person’s life and also their heart. This is told by The Red Car and his best friend, Roscoe the dog.

Michael Beaumont and his wife Jaida witnessed the murder of a senator and his two aides. The murderers caught them and left them for dead, but two priests found them and took them to their convent hospital. With Jaida in a coma for months, Michael swore revenge and began tracking down the murderers, but not to kill them.

“Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter” (The New Yorker), Roscoe is an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed It's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past—to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond. William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle of novels reflect what he once described as the fusion of his imagination with a single place. A native and longtime resident of Albany, New York, his work moves from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, chronicling family life, the city’s netherworld, and its spheres of power—financial, ethnic, political—often among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, Legs, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinn’s Book, Very Old Bones, The Flaming Corsage, and Roscoe.

This is the story of charles candy a mislabelled ‘prodigy’ who suffers the agonies of rejction for being tagged ‘different’ but is saved by the loving intervention of an angel incarnate. Later, on getting lost he finds himself and abandons the security of his well planned life to experience the ups and downs of the real world, alone. Along the way he is helped by a variety of souls both living and dead, each on their own unique journey to find meaning in the spiritual wasterland of modern society and reconnect with love and life. He encounters the bliss of heaven and the heat of hell, life death and resurection but is saved from the abyss by the mediation of a compassionate doctor who finally persuades him that in order to be free of all that holds him back spiritually he must return and relive it. Due to the brutal conditions prevelant on earth many fall by the wayside, overpowerd by the daily struggle to survive while others end it by their own hand, yet despite the dispair a new light dawning as humanity, no longer satisfied with the distractions of bread and circuses and crass materialism, searchs for a more spiritually fulfilling existance, seek and ye shall find.

In the small California town of Raincroft, the bonds of love and family are stronger than the influence of all outsiders. Past hurts are healed and new connections formed on Mystery Mountain as Beth, fleeing her domineering stepfather, is welcomed to Raincroft and Laura seeks to overcome her abusive marriage and befriend Missy, a timid three-year-old. As Laura gains Missy's trust, she bandies with Dr. Grant, whose methods differ from her own. But when Missy goes missing in a canyon, will Laura's fear of men turn out to be justified? Can Laura's tenuous friendship with Dr. Grant survive the ordeal? Will Beth adapt to her life in Raincroft, or will her crimes divide the family? Discover the hard and passionate life of mountain living that goes from deep canyons to mountaintop adventures, from wrestling wild animals to cradling a disfigured stroke victim. Mountain people take care of their own and do what needs to be done, as you will learn when you follow the excitement in the saga of Mystery Mountain, an inspiring tale by Marie Grace, and uncover the heart of Raincroft, a true mountain town.

Childhood is a magical time of life. It is filled with mystery, exploration, and all kinds of wonder. The big red car takes children on a journey where he happens to be in the right place at the right time to help those in need. By doing so he finds that he provides happiness to others, all by just being himself.

Murder Steals the Spotlight. When Myrtle Clover and her friend Miles attend a play in their small town, there’s a full house on opening night. It’s clear to Myrtle that one of the actresses is a stage hog who loves stealing the spotlight. Nandina Marshall certainly does upstage everyone—when her murder forces an unexpected intermission. Can Myrtle and Miles discover who was behind her final curtain call….before murder makes an encore?