For dog lovers who cherish the bond with their furry friends, Stories of My Four-Legged Friends is a heartwarming and positive collection of stories by Robert Parker lovingly illustrated by Carol James. Celebrating the joy, loyalty, and adventures of canine companionship, this book is a must-read for anyone who knows that dogs aren’t just pets—they’re family.A Perfect Christmas Gift for the dog lover in your life.

The New York Times bestselling Western from Robert B. ParkerEverett Hitch and Virgil Cole are lawmen and friends who share the brutal hardships of an emerging West. But the courage that has defined them is challenged by a man without conscience or remorse. Now, Hitch and Cole have followed him to the small town of Appaloosa.What follows is a dance of wills where villains are cast in shades of grey, where heroes hide in the blackest shadows, where w...

A typical* family with typical* problems must come to terms with the arrival of neighbours from a different culture. To add to their troubles, their family transport is damaged, their living home and that of their neighbours compete for food, and the extremely exotic members of the local police-force hound them to simultaneously spy and befriend the new residents.*Note: Typical in this case applies to the sea urchins of the planet Blue.

Robert B. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series—a New York Times bestseller.After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start...

New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers—Book 1 in the series“The toughest, funniest, wisest, private eye in the field these days.”—Houston ChronicleSpenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.

When Sunny Randall helps a young woman locate her birth parents, she uncovers the dark truth about her own past.

This "beyond prewrath" premillennial view is based on there being three chronologically different "whole" dispensational raptures, which are associated with three theophanies: Revelation 8:5 (elect), 11:19 (Jewish people), and 16:18 ("sheep"). This dispensational view has elements of existing well-established premillennial views.First, midtribulation - Jesus returns, from heaven to earth, at the midpoint with a resurrection of the saints, day of the Lord, gathering then fleeing of ...

The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.

In the wild and untamed West, two honorable gunfighters find themselves caught in a gritty battle that threatens the peaceful town of Resolution.After relocating to an Old-West saloon town after the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch is relieved by the arrival of his friend, Virgil Cole. In a place where law and order don’t exist, Hitch and Cole find themselves at the center of a make-shift war against Eamon O’Malley, a greedy mine owner, and his men ...

For more than half a century New York Times bestselling author Robert B. Parker’s inimitable private investigator Spenser has been solving cases and selling millions of books worldwide. Now, for the first time, Robert B. Parker gives us a glimpse into the formative years of his most iconic character.“A clean, sharp jab of a read.”—BooklistYoung Spenser is tough. After all, he’s being raised by his father and uncles—three o...

The Boston PI gets tangled in Cape Cod's criminal underworld in this Edgar Award–winning mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author.Cape Cod businessman Harvey Shepard is in over his head. He lost a quarter million on a shady real estate deal, the loan shark is circling, and now he needs a private investigator to find out where his wife, Pam, disappeared to. Spencer takes the case, but finding Pam isn't the hard part—the hard part is finding out sh...

From "the reigning champion of the American tough-guy detective novel" (Entertainment Weekly), four novels featuring Jesse Stone, ex-LAPD, now the police chief in Paradise, Massachusetts. Don't miss these mysteries from the New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series.Includes:High ProfileStranger in ParadiseNight and DaySplit Image