Cheat River" is set along the Cheat in northeastern West Virginia, not that far from the mean streets of the D.C./Baltimore/Philadelphia urban sprawl. At the source of the Cheat a couple of nefarious characters have set up a processing plant to accommodate the hit men operating in the northeast and that's not all. The wife of an ex-CIA operative is engaged in a game of her own.
Two killers meet on a bus and travel to a strange retirement community in the middle of nowhere. Gibtown is a place where various people have gone to retire... and disappear. Gibtown is populated with with ex-carneys, mafia dons, world leaders, politicians an spies... or so it seems. But then, nothing is as it seems in West Virginia. From the book: Swaypole, a perfect metaphor for you. When you were on top, you were way up, manic as hell, swaying back and forth from delusion to delusion. When you got down, there you were trying to figure some way to put yourself out of your misery.
Grave Creek Conspiracy" is the sequel to Morris' first book "Grave Creek Connections," a mystery set in the tri-county region of Greene/Washington County, in Pennsylvania, and in Marshall County, West Virginia. The story ties up some loose ends of a police investigation of the disappearance of college co-eds whose bodies are found in the nearby game hunting lands. But it leaves the reader with enough mystery to stir his/her imagination and perhaps, a Grave Creek franchise.
1906 was a different time and cooking wasn't nearly as simple. Prepared food and even cooking and baking products were made at home. This book allows readers to return to that (simpler?) time when cooking began with building a fire in the stove.
Cheat River" is set along the Cheat in northeastern West Virginia, not that far from the mean streets of the D.C./Baltimore/Philadelphia urban sprawl. At the source of the Cheat a couple of nefarious characters have set up a processing plant to accommodate the hit men operating in the northeast and that's not all. The wife of an ex-CIA operative is engaged in a game of her own.
Grave Creek Conspiracy" is the sequel to Morris' first book "Grave Creek Connections," a mystery set in the tri-county region of Greene/Washington County, in Pennsylvania, and in Marshall County, West Virginia. The story ties up some loose ends of a police investigation of the disappearance of college co-eds whose bodies are found in the nearby game hunting lands. But it leaves the reader with enough mystery to stir his/her imagination and perhaps, a Grave Creek franchise.
Allegheny City, known today as Pittsburgh's North Side, was the third-largest city in Pennsylvania when it was controversially annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1907. Founded in 1787 as a reserve land tract for Revolutionary War veterans in compensation for their service, it quickly evolved into a thriving urban center with its own character, industry, and accomplished residents. Among those to inhabit the area, which came to be known affectionately as "The Ward," were Andrew Carnegie, Mary Cassatt, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Foster, and Martha Graham. Once a station along the underground railroad, home to the first wire suspension bridge, and host to the first World Series, the North Side is now the site of Heinz Field, PNC Park, the Andy Warhol Museum, the National Aviary, and world headquarters for corporations such as Alcoa and the H. J. Heinz Company. Dan Rooney, longtime North Side resident, joins local historian Carol Peterson in creating this highly engaging history of the cultural, industrial, and architectural achievements of Allegheny City from its humble beginnings until the present day. The authors cover the history of the city from its origins as a simple colonial outpost and agricultural center to its rapid emergence alongside Pittsburgh as one of the most important industrial cities in the world and an engine of the American economy. They explore the life of its people in this journey as they experienced war and peace, economic boom and bust, great poverty and wealth—the challenges and opportunities that fused them into a strong and durable community, ready for whatever the future holds. Supplemented by historic and contemporary photos, the authors take the reader on a fascinating and often surprising street-level tour of this colorful, vibrant, and proud place.
Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan’s lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Dan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of that fateful moment. He’s certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since. Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. Over the next eight months, inexplicable encounters make him fall in love with the New Mexico desert and the wiggy place that embraces him.
Investigators are baffled by what seem to be psychic forces in a veritable Bermuda Triangle of ancient, mythic connections in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1906 was a different time and cooking wasn't nearly as simple. Prepared food and even cooking and baking products were made at home. This book allows readers to return to that (simpler?) time when cooking began with building a fire in the stove.
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