A true story of determination, courage & love; by Rod Lewin. Set in the rugged beauty of Australia, beginning in Sydney & traveling north with vivid descriptions of the incredible Great Barrier Reef, this book has something for everyone; inspiration, adventure, aviation & romance, as the author battles paralysis after barely surviving a terrible plane crash. Rod Lewin, born in Brisbane, Australia has been, at various stages of his life, a police officer, flight attendant, seaplane charter pilot & finally, airline Captain. Flying has always been his greatest passion. The incidents referred to in this book occurred after he had resigned from his position as a flight attendant with Australia's international airline QANTAS, to begin his commercial flying studies. While in the final stages of training for his Commercial Pilot's License, the aircraft he was flying had an engine failure. During the emergency descent, the aircraft struck unseen power lines, broke up & crashed. The near-fatal wreck resulted in the author suffering dreadful injuries, including a severely crushed & broken spine, causing total paralysis from his waist down. This is the story of his long, hard journey from wheelchair to wings. To Order Contact: Boomerang Books, P.O. Box, 280781, Dallas, TX 75228. Phone: 214-328-9856.

Steel Spine, Iron Will

Lewin, Rod

Boomerang Books

He's tough and smart. She's tough, smart, and 12.Houston, 1961. Texas' slickest politician has lost his presidential bid to a good-looking naval hero from Massachusetts but gained the Senate gavel. And if President Kennedy wants to put a man on the moon, LBJ wants to put Houston at the center of the moon mission. Sleepy backwater Houston finds itself short on air conditioning just when things are heating up.In a seedy downtown office, a well-dressed out-of-towner hires P.I. Harry Lark to tail two D.C. visitors looking to build NASA a space center, but his client turns up dead in Harry's office. Meanwhile, Harry's twelve-year-old daughter Dizzy is running a lost-and-found out of a suburban garage when she's hired to find a missing father who's supposed to be dead and buried.Find out why Jani Brooks of Romance Reviews Today calls Bayou City Burning "a terrific mystery loaded with humor, lots of excitement, and fascinating, well written characters" and rates it "a Perfect 10 book."

Bayou City Burning (Harry and Dizzy Lark)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Borton, D. B.

Mystery

"Suspicion is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids."After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban is looking for a new career. Raising three kids has given her years of investigative experience, so she determines to become a private investigator and get paid for tracking down lost objects and identifying culprits. She sells her suburban house, buys an apartment building in a "transitional" neighborhood, and begins training to be a detective, only to discover a corpse in an upstairs apartment.As Cat investigates, she is introduced to the dead woman's cohort among the homeless population of the city and, with their help, uncovers secrets that the woman has kept well hidden - dangerous secrets, as it turns out, with a killer on the loose. In the end, Cat's inquiry leads her not only to the habitues of soup kitchens and their activist supporters but also to luminaries from the Golden Age of Hollywood silent movies.In this first book of the popular Cat Caliban series, Cat assembles her colorful cast of helpers and neighborhood hangers-on, including her tenants, a neighborhood teen business entrepreneur, and three cats. The police only get in the way.

One for the Money (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

"Me, I want it on the record now that I do not want to die hot and sweaty on a gym floor, surrounded by the smell of gym socks and sneakers." Sequel to One for the Money, #1 Best Seller in the Kindle Store's list of Top 100 Free Books, January 2021. After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban has become Cincinnati's newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. Since no challenge is too insignificant for a trainee detective, Cat takes on a lost kitten case for the neighborhood's preeminent teen entrepreneur. But that leads to a more prominent case: who murdered local high school basketball hero Julius "Juky" Kay, star forward of the Oscar Robertson Rattlesnakes? Soon Cat is crutch-deep in corruption, having sustained her first sports injury while investigating Juky's death. Who better than a woman detective to walk the hormone-heavy halls of high school and force teenagers to tell uncomfortable truths? But can Cat survive a murderous attack by a ruthless killer and a night at the senior prom?

Two-Shot Foul (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

Four Elements of Murder (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

The Cat Caliban Mysteries: Books 1-4

"Are you the person who normally checks the kiln?"I started. He'd pronounced it "kill," like a lot of people do. Normally, we didn't have a kill to check. Crabby is how detective-in-training Cat Caliban has felt ever since menopause hit. Her friends think she can work off her aggression pounding clay in a beginners' pottery class. But someone has used Cat's pot for a blunt instrument and they're firing something besides clay in the art center kiln. Now that things are really heating up, Cat's murder investigation leads to a legendary lost collection of vases once owned by an equally legendary madam from Cincinnati's bygone red-light district. Does the exquisite vase left behind at the scene of the crime prove that the Justice Collection of Rookwood Pottery still exists and if so, is the crime connected to it? Can Cat catch a killer before the past goes up in flames?

Five-Alarm Fire (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

Six Feet Under (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

Take it from me, Cat Caliban: if someone who looks and sounds like me, with or without picklocks, ever shows up in answer to your prayers, you'd better have a serious heart-to-heart with your maker. High school sophomore Peter Baer had everything going for him before ending up in the river with a rope around his neck. Hired to find his killer, detective-in-training Cat Caliban begins digging for Peter's secrets and finds them in an evangelical ministry, where the star attraction is a chimpanzee named Evie. Can Cat crack the case before a killer strikes again? Will Evie find a way to tell what she knows? Seventh Deadly Sin is the seventh mystery in the Cat Caliban series, featuring Cincinnati's newest, oldest, funniest detective. Cat Caliban is a good match for fans of women detectives like Miss Marple and Mrs. Pollifax, as well as Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series.

Seventh Deadly Sin (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

Review\n"Cat and her friend Moses go on what's arguably their biggest and most dangerous adventure yet! It made for a suspenseful page-turner . . . . I devoured this book in one sitting in my excitement!" -- Mint, Mint Loves Books"What's not to love about a colorful sixty-something widow who wants a shot at a second career? . . . Author D. B. Borton has expertly woven the Women Airforce Service Pilots history into the eighth book of Cat's escapades. One of the features of her writing style that I especially admire is the authenticity of her character's voices." -- Sandra Hardy, Read My Lips\nMaybe you think I was replaying this conversation in my head after I yanked the ripcord. Maybe you think that after the parachute jerked me up and after the pain in my near-dislocated shoulders subsided into a steady ache, I applied my investigative faculties to the case at hand while drifting earthward like a fallen leaf, thinking, "This is quite a two-pipe problem." 
World War II veteran pilot Toots Magruder survived sabotage, criminal negligence, slander, and friendly fire during the war before crash landing her plane in the middle of a suburban Fourth of July picnic. But two of her former WASP cohorts have recently died and now she appears to be next on the killer's hit list. Can detective Cat Caliban and her partner Moses Fogg catch the murderer before another plane goes down? Can Cat survive two plane rides, a parachute jump, and a round of golf?

Eight Miles High (The Cat Caliban Mysteries)

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