Bestselling novelists are being murdered and the authors' first edition books are selling at astronomical prices on online auction sights, garnering a fortune for some lucky individuals. Palm Springs rare book dealer Xanthe Anthony watches the events with interest until he becomes the prime suspect. When Anthony is jailed on suspicion of murder, he asks an Internet hacker to help track down the real murderer. But as the body count continues to rise, Anthony has to act fast if he's to escape the net of justice slowly closing around him. Set in 1995, when the internet was new and the book world was only beginning to transform into the online mega-industry it is today, this novel captures a time of techno cowboys and literary intrigue like no other. Biblio-Mystery: a traditional murder mystery with a book or author as a key component to it's core dilemma.

Roberta Linn tells her life story of growing up as a singer and actress in the Golden Days of Hollywood: sharing a changing room with Shirley Temple, singing for Disney, joining the military at 14, getting the top position for Lawrence Welk and then headlining Las Vegas, falling in love and getting married. But all does not glitter behind the silver scene. She also tells of life's foibles and pitfalls. Read this spectacular biography about how a young girl in her mid-twenties scaled the heights of Tinsel town to win the 1955 Emmy for Best Female Entertainer only to later discover the road of hard knocks and had to to take on a second career selling timeshare for the same person she used to sing for to make a living and how a woman of high moral standards could date a mob connected hotel owner from Palm Springs who was married to another woman only to lose him in a card game gone wrong.

600+ Palm Springs Celebrity Homes, including: Lucille Ball, Johnny Bench, Ray Bradbury, Sonny Bono, Cher, Tony Curtis, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Walt Disney, Kirk Douglas, Errol Flynn, Gerald Ford, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Goldie Hawn, Katherine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Howard Hughes, John F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis, Liberace, Barry Manilow, Dean Martin, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne, Elvis Presley, Harold Robbins, Edward G. Robinson, Kurt Russell, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Suzanne Somers, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Darryl F. Zanuck, and many more Complete with maps to get you there, photos of the homes, pictures of the stars never seen before, and biographies of the celebrities detailing what was going on in their lives while they lived in their desert properties. There has never been another book like this and some of the homes which claim a celebrity history will not pleased. Others who did not know of their celebrity lineage will be surprised. Rumors are either verified or debunked. This is a must have for fans of Hollywood and Palm Springs history.

WHEN I WAS young, my mother told me a ghost story to scare me home before dark. It was about a witch-shadow in Tahquitz canyon that would swoop down on bad children, taking them away from their parents, never to be seen again. I thought it just a campfire tale used by adults to scare kids - at least, I thought so until Papa passed away. Papa (pronounced Powpow), my great-grandfather, died in 1992. In his Last Will and Testament he left me a tattered old leather saddlebag containing four items: an old Rochester camera, some undeveloped slide plates, a relic of a flintlock pistol which still functions, and his Constables log. In the log, he revealed a secret history of my family kept from me my whole life. He was the second constable in the Village of Palm Springs. The following story was the greatest case he ever cracked.

I grew up in a time that Blacks, Hispanics, Women and Gays were being given rights and opportunities through affirmative action that were denied white people. This was done to try and balance the injustices of the past and create a sort of social equality. But in my case, these same minorities went further and mistreated me in numerous ways. Black kids picking on the short white kid in school, college Deans denying services to the Caucasian because his parents were perceived well off; and later in life these experiences and the desire to parent children who looked as much like me as possible affected my choices while adopting. These are the tales of a short white boy from Southern California and how he saw the world change from his fathers generation witness adult black men step into the muddy street before they would share a sidewalk with a white child into a land where gay men can force themselves onto other men without fear of reprisal.

One of Lawrence Welk's most beloved entertainers, an Emmy Award winner and a Vegas headliner, Roberta Linn captured the hearts of fans nationwide. Her inspiring story unfolds in the pages of "Champagne Lady."

Born in a small Iowa town to a farmer's daughter and a minor league baseball player, Roberta discovered her talent for performing at a young age. She played in film productions and worked with big name stars like Shirley Temple, Cary Grant, and Clark Gable. At the age of thirteen, she fabricated her true age and enlisted in the Women's Army Corps, entertaining the troops of World War II.

From 1950 to 1955, Roberta became Lawrence Welk's first television "Champagne Lady," and she was displayed on magazine covers around the country. But the harshness of celebrity life finally took it's toll, and Roberta's ill health led to a medicine-induced coma in 1958. Her amazing recovery reinforced her faith, and she continued to find success in her career. Both moving and uplifting, "Champagne Lady," showcases the triumph of one of the most popular entertainers of Hollywood's golden Age.