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...

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.

“[Robert B.] Parker's brilliance is in his simple dialogue, and in Spenser.”—The Philadelphia InquirerA bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course ...

The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape.The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon.But getting back the tape of the lady's X-rated indiscretion is a nonstop...

“[Parker's found] the pitch-perfect voice for a guy who is straining every muscle to cut down on the booze, hang on to his new job as police chief, and not get rattled by the body of a teenage girl”(The New York Times) in this bestselling mystery in the Jesse Stone series.Robert B. Parker takes readers back in Paradise, where Detective Jesse Stone is looking for two things: the killer of a teenage girl—and someone, anyone, who is willing to claim the body....

Boston P.I. Spenser returns—heading west to the rich man’s haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the pressures of their high-flying lifestyles.Potshot overcame its rough reputation as a rendezvous for old-time mountain men who lived off the land, thanks to a healthy infusion of new blood and even newer money. But when this western idyll is threatened by a local gang—a twenty-f...

Sunny Randall, "Boston's leading lady gumshoe" (New York Daily News), returns as hired bodyguard for the spoiled, and possibly dangerous, prize female client of a sleazy producer. This time, she gets a little help from Parker's popular character Jesse Stone, making a guest appearance here

**A special gift for the holiday season—a rumination on Christmas as conceived by Robert B. Parker.“Brann does a seamless job…Diehard Parker fans will be delighted.” —Publishers Weekly**It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he’s confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities f...

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.

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 ...