Maria, Peter, and Brian are drawn into a mystery surrounding the 1940 shooting and disappearance of a gangster on the farm they've just moved to in Connecticut.

Sylvia, Sandra's mother is talking while driving and runs into a purple Corvette. The young hoodlum, in the horrible Corvette, as she calls him, turns out to be

This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Purple Jeep is a riveting, heartwarming story of a couple embroiled in the everyday ups and downs of life, when one partner is struck down with not one but

"PG-rated autobiography of a young man's coming-of-age in a black Baltimore ghetto. Journalist Wickham (USA Today, Gannett News Service) was orphaned in 1954 at