Carroll Books

How J Edagar Hoover was allowed to be in charge of the FBI for as long as he did and under many presidents is astonshing. This book explores one part of the terror Hoover unleashed during his reign. The author notes,"although Bureau agents in the 1930s walked through submachine gun firestorms when going after John Dillinger,agents in the 1960s wouldn't take a baseball bat from a Klansman,even as the bat turned red with the blood of the person(black or a sympathizer)being beaten".FBI started the 60s passivly observing racist violence and ending by egging on racists.
The book documents the FBI's war on civil right well and I highly recommend.

Consistent high quality poetry which is tightly edited and features award winning fine arts and illustration work. Editor, ave jeanne always outdoes the last issue.

My interest was stoked when an article was printed in the Washington Post regarding this topic. What an eye-opener! Current-day Georgetown is bleach-white but this book tells the whole story. I gave one as a gift. Highly recomended!

James Sallis is simply one of our best, living writers. And this slender book is a delight to read. Once again, Lew Griffin is plunged into the criminal world, this time murders in 1960s New Orleans. White people are being picked off by a sniper including a beautiful reporter whom Griffin has just gotten to know. With racial tensions at the burning point, and with suspicions that the sniper is an African-American, Griffin finds himself walking a tightrope between a radical Black organization and white police officers. Drenched in booze and books, Griffin is at times lost, at times securely in control. The dialogue is crisp, the characters real. Bravo!

A young John B. Holway saw his first NLB game in 1943. And years later, Holway the writer & researcher brought the game back to life in a series of articles and books.

Originally published in 1988, Blackball Stars is a biography of 27 of the greatest players & executives in the history of baseball. It is rich in photographs and statistics, while setting the record straight on the talents of such stars as Bullet Joe Rogan, Chino Smith, Cristobal Torriente, Joe Mendez and Dobie Moore.

Included is a statistical index of all-star teams, Cuban & Mexican league champions, NLB statistical leaders by season and NLB all-time statistical leaders in numerous categories.

Over the years, Holway has personally interviewed more than 70 former players and - with the help of the Society of American Baseball Research - reconstructed batting & pitching stats through a variety of media sources. His outstanding oral history, Voices From the Great Black Baseball Leagues, was published in 1975.

And I need to give a shout to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. It is well worth planning a trip around visiting the facility a couple times.

There is a growing awareness on NLB (and the Cuban and Mexican leagues) & the rich heritage it proudly carried when faced with white hatred. It is authors like Holway who set the foundation for the great books that are now being published.

This is not a typical how to book in the sense that it is too wooden and practical, but for a book that is readable in two days it is filled with helpful information on how to draw your relationship with the Lord back up to heaven where it belongs. This book does not help you to bring God down here to you, it lifts your heart up to Him in true Worphip.

Terry Carroll has a remarkable talent for bringing a story to life through its characters. The dialog in BODY CONTACT is flawless, each character's voice authentic and unique. The book is a solid mystery, dark at times, but always real. Surprisingly and frighteningly real. No more so than at the end, when the reader sees beyond the facade of a small town only to discover the vast underbelly thwarting the positive forces within. This is the second book of his I've read, both very compelling. Carroll is quickly becoming the new master of mystery in Canada.

V.C. King, Author of "Titanic: Relative Fate" (October 2007) and "Seven Sexy Tales of Terror"

No Blood Relative (Midnight Original Murder Mystery)
Seven Sexy Tales of Terror

This book is more what a fantasy-reader friend of mine called "literary fantasy" dismissively, but I think it's a wonderful collection - all over the map in terms of stories, global in scope and style, and just great reading overall.

Jim Carroll should win The Nobel Prize for christ's sakes. The Book of Nods definitely prooves that. Jim Carroll his a poet no one else could ever be, lets say he's a Ted Berrigan mixed with a Allen Ginsberg. Nods refer to him and his drug induced states which he wrote most of these in. This is a creative and largely intensive book! READ IT!

To bad it's out of print because it is a great book about old fort TICONDEROGA. The story of two teenagers who get caught up in the Revolutionary war is one of the very best historical fiction books I've seen in a long time.

I hear it is being made into a movie. Great! I can't wait to see it.