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A short-ish Christmas story for the young and the young-at-heart. Aspiring detective Wenlock Holmes dreams of following in his famous father's footsteps, but is on the verge of giving up until Scotland Yard come calling one snowy Christmas Eve. With the assistance of his uncle, an eccentric time traveller and a famous visitor, can he solve the mystery and save the human race from an unearthly threat? A fast moving and thoroughly implausible seasonal adventure, from lawyer and occasional writer Bill Chandler, all royalties from this book will support the valuable work of the Crosby Area...

It must be wonderful to see the future before it happens, mustn't it? Just think what you could achieve with a gift like that. 'In your dreams', the debut novel by Bill Chandler, tells the tale of Jimmy McLoughlin, a boy from the suburbs of Liverpool who can see the future in his dreams. In a heart-warming story about the value of family and friends, Jimmy soon discovers that being special is not always easy. All royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to the Crosby Area Foodbank.

When Charlotte Chandler called Groucho Marx for an interview, he answered the phone himself. Declining to be interviewed, he invited her over to his house so he could tell her no in person. After talking with her for hours, Groucho asked, "Why aren't you writing?"

Hello, I Must Be Going is the story of Groucho and the Marx Brothers, told through Groucho's everyday conversations with Charlotte Chandler and his friends. And what a group of friends they were Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson, Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Marvin Hamlisch, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Sidney Sheldon, and dozens...

Kapaa, like most rural towns on Kauai and many in Hawaii, got its start in the 19th century as a sugar town. But, within five years, Kapaas sugar mill was gone; the little village almost disappeared. By the early 20th century, Kapaa was once again a thriving community. Self-reliant merchants and shopkeepers, first mostly Chinese and then Japanese, competed with the neighboring plantation store. Homesteaders populated the hills behind Kapaa, and two pineapple canneries offered employment. Several movie theaters provided alternatives to the bars and taxi-dance halls. By the 1970s, pineapple,...