#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.

A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip...

10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets excited about a new invention - television.

Joe Di Capra enters his senior year of high school determined to break out of his predictable life and expand his world, as he prepares for the future. His neighborhood on the East Side of Genesee, New York has seen better days. The recession and social upheaval of the late 1970's hit Upstate hard, leaving Joe's East Side in turmoil. With a job at the neighborhood grocery store, a championship run with his CYO basketball team, and success...

Get the Summary of Charles Brandt's I Heard You Paint Houses in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Sheeran learned to kill in the US Army, where he saw an astonishing 411-days of active combat duty in Italy during World War II. After returning home he became a hustler and hit man, working for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino. Eventually Sheeran would rise to a position of such prominence...

An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...

Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying house painting business from your home.

What could possibly go wrong when three intrepid mice decide to go into business painting houses? Find out in this colorful, hilarious storybook that boys and girls will want to read again and again. Hickory, Dickory and Doc are three brothers who just happen to be mice. They decide to go into business painting houses and launch The Hickory Dickory Doc House Painting Company! It was a brilliant plan! Hickory was a good salesperson. His job was to...