Jeff Smith

"The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one. In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith goes to prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there and the things he learned: how to escape the attentions...

When Billy Batson follows a mysterious stranger onto the subway, he never imagines he's entering a strange world of powerful wizards, talking tigers, kid-eating monsters, political intrigue and mysterious villains. But Billy encounters all that and more when the wizard gives him a magic word that transforms him into the World's Mightiest Mortal. Now he must use his extraordinary new abilities to face an incoming invasion of alien creatures and to...

1962. Spring, summer, and fall. The bay area and the Sacramento Valley beyond. The Giants and the Dodgers go to the wire for the National League pennant and a chance to play the New York Yankees. Five years previous, their hated American League next-door neighbor. Salvage work and farming are dirty and "get poor quick" occupations. Jim, John, and Frenchy weather accidents, prop up their aspirations, and wreak revenge, heading into an uncertain...

Little Mouse gets dressed to go to the barn with his mother, brothers, and sisters.