Who Killed the Fonz?

Who Killed the Fonz?
Author: James Boice
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501196898

The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty, “shamelessly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) 1980s noir. Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. And Richard Cunningham? Well, Richard Cunningham is having a really bad Sunday. First, there’s the meeting with his agent. A decade ago, the forty-something Cunningham was one of Hollywood’s hottest screenwriters. But now Tinseltown is no longer interested in his artsy, introspective scripts. They want Terminator cyborgs and exploding Stay Puft Marshmallow men. Then later that same day Richard gets a phone call with even worse news: His best friend from childhood back in Milwaukee is dead. Arthur Fonzarelli. The Fonz. He lost control of his motorcycle while crossing a bridge and plummeted into the water below. Two days of searching and still no body, no trace of his trademark leather jacket, and Richard suspects murder. With the help of his old pals Ralph Malph and Potsie Weber, he sets out to catch the killer. “Readers yearning for simpler times will enjoy this trip down memory lane, which is as comforting as an episode of Happy Days” (Publishers Weekly). Who Killed the Fonz? imagines what happened to the characters of the legendary TV show Happy Days twenty years after the series left off. And while much has changed in the interim—goodbye drive-in movie theaters, hello VCRs—the story centers around the same timeless themes as the show: The meaning of family. The significance of friendship. The importance of community. “Wildly inventive and entertaining” (Booklist), Who Killed the Fonz? is an “irresistible” (New York Newsday) twist on a beloved classic that proves sometimes you can go home again. TM & © 2018 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved

Hounded to Death

Hounded to Death
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345512375

“Sister” Jane Arnold, esteemed master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, has traveled to Kentucky for one of the biggest events of the season: the Mid-America Hound Show, where foxhounds, bassets, and beagles gather to strut their champion bloodline stuff. But the fun is squelched when immediately after the competition a contestant turns up dead–stripped to the waist and peppered with birdshot. Two weeks later, back in Virginia, a popular veterinarian dies from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sister refuses to believe that her friend killed herself and vows to sniff out the truth. But before she can make real headway, a wealthy pet food manufacturer vanishes during the granddaddy of all canine exhibitions, the Virginia Hound Show. Ever reliant on her “horse sense,” Sister can’t help but connect the three incidents, and what she uncovers will make her blood run colder than the bodies that keep turning up in unexpected places.

The Good and the Ghastly

The Good and the Ghastly
Author: James Boice
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416584307

It’s the thirty-fourth century and the nuclear apocalypse has come and gone. Civilization has rebuilt itself, and the results are eerily similar to the early part of the twenty-first century. But there are a few notable differences. Visa owns everything. Deer are the most common domesticated animal. And misinterpretations of preapocalyptic history run amuck (e.g., Sarah Palin established the theory of natural selection). But what hasn’t changed is the nature of good and evil. The Good and the Ghastly centers on two people linked through violence. Mobster Junior Alvarez has risen from street thug to criminal overlord. He will go to incredible lengths to get what he wants—and he desires to live however he pleases, without compromise. The intensity of his quest is matched only by that of the mother of one of Alvarez’s first victims. She has gone vigilante and is hunting down mobsters. The two are prepared to go to the ends of the earth to manifest their wills—one good, one ghastly, both ruthless. A wild satire of our own society, The Good and the Ghastly is a visceral novel informed by Boice’s unnerving sense of reality and pathology. It is also an honest, old-fashioned good-versus-evil story—with a twist of modern-day madness.

The Ballad of Sidney Hill 2

The Ballad of Sidney Hill 2
Author: Khali Raymond
Publisher: YTER/x Surreal Dreamz Inc.
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2015-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1329597591

After the events of The Ballad of Sidney Hill, the responsibility of cleaning up a mess left by Sidney's enemies now rests on his shoulders. As Sidney embarks on a journey to save his loved ones and repair a city devastated from rioting and destruction, he will be faced with challenges along the way. Sidney looks to transform himself and regain his humanity. Could Sidney be able to slay his personal demons? Will he succeed in getting his life together or will he succumb to the obstacles around him?

My Mother was Nuts

My Mother was Nuts
Author: Penny Marshall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0547892624

From her humble roots in the Bronx to Laverne and Shirley and her unlikely ascent in Hollywood, the beloved actor and director tells the story of her incredible life.

The Ghost of Chicken Liver Hill

The Ghost of Chicken Liver Hill
Author: J. R. Black
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780679850076

Toby is a plain old sith-grade dweeb, until the day an obnoxious teenage ghost named Buddy turnas up in his bedroom.

You Killed Wesley Payne

You Killed Wesley Payne
Author: Sean Beaudoin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 031612222X

A smart, slick, and hilarious detective novel for fans of Dashiell Hammett, Mean Girls, and Heathers He's come to do a job. A job that involves a body. A body wrapped in duct tape found hanging from the goal posts at the end of the football field. You Killed Wesley Payne is a truly original and darkly hilarious update of classic pulp-noir, in which hard-boiled seventeen year-old Dalton Rev transfers to the mean hallways of Salt River High to take on the toughest case of his life. The question isn't whether Dalton's going to get paid. He always gets paid. Or whether he's gonna get the girl. He always (sometimes) gets the girl. The real question is whether Dalton Rev can outwit crooked cops and killer cliques in time to solve the mystery of "The Body" before it solves him. Sean Beaudoin (Going Nowhere Faster, Fade to Blue) evokes the distinctive voices of legendary crime/noir authors Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thompson with a little bit of Mean Girls and Heathers thrown in for good measure. It'll tease you, please you, and never ever leave you. Actually, that's not true. It's only a book. One that's going to suck you in, spit you out, and make you shake hands with the devil. Probably.

Two to Go

Two to Go
Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312284725

A funny and moving novel about fried chicken, friendship, and big dreams of leaving the minimum-wage, fast-food grind far, far behind.

Slob

Slob
Author: Ellen Potter
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780399247057

Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.