A young girl learns the importance of honesty after lying to her teacher about her homework. The little girl's lie unleashes an awful Lie Monster that only comes out when you tell a lie. To save herself from the Lie Monster, the little girl must learn to tell the truth. Carty Tales are based on childhood experiences of the author and the important moral lessons she learned. A great teaching tool for children 5 to 12.

Meet Samuel James Rufus, the son of a Shoshone Indian mother and an Italian career-military-turned-lawman father. From his begin ning on a Nevada Indian reservation, Sam was physically and mentally agile, but as a teenager in New York, he got in trouble with the law and was forced to decide his own fate-jail or the army. After six years in the United States Army that included an unprecedented rise to service as a Green Beret, Sam returned to New York to help his ailing father and joined forces with the detective squad in New York City. Just when Sam thought his days of fi ghting were over, he is called upon to help out an old friend from his youth. Dire circumstances in the family of one of New York's fi nest forces him to return to the fi erceness he once knew in the Army-an eye for an eye, a life for a life. This is the case that earned Sam the nickname, "Hurricane."