This rough and tumble story concerns the quest for love in a four generational family hell bent on securing that response. It's a humorous take on a serious subject centered around the unique relationship of the Hart family, a pack of loners that would definitely define the word. When a ninetieth birthday celebration and an art respective of the Patriarch's work collide on the same weekend, Jonathan Hart's whole family sets about to return to the spacious ranch and attend his event with enough personal agendas to fill the heated pool. Willy Hart, the angry prodigal son (and one time only...

A sudden crack of thunder, the kind that shatters moral resolve, rumbles across the barren Mojave mimicking the robust peal of a disgruntled burrito. Bony Jo Sapp, nosing somewhere in his early forties, stands with a cowboy boot firmly planted on the rusted bumper of his faded powder-blue '85 pickup tinkering with a polished .45. Growing weary and impatient and downright pissed, Sapp cools his heels for an undercover drug buy that he knows, down deep in his own rusted gut is about to go terribly wrong. His experience in wrongness is vast and he still can't dial it right. His estranged son...

Author, Don Barnhart was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley where this novel takes place, so he knows the subject well. During the late 1950's, smack dab in the golden age of Rock 'n Roll, and way before the current flux of modern day gangs, there were an abundance of car clubs. No club was more respected and feared than a Southern California group known as the Jacks, in which, for a short period of time, Mr. Barnhart was a member. This, his third novel, is a compelling story of the Jacks and their Jills, a funny, balls-out, coming of age yarn punctuated by hot rods and the music that...

Creating The Life Your Desire will teach you the simple yet powerful techniques of how you can create the life you've longed for by taking control of your thoughts, patterns and habits at the inner subconscious level. By applying these formulas, you will soon find yourself living the life you've always dreamed of, achieving your goals with relative ease and breaking bad habits and negative thought patterns. The techniques you will learn in this book can guide you to higher level of both personal and professional satisfaction. I have used and studied the majority of healing arts; theology,...

I vainly tried to 'sweet talk' my entire radio career (10 years, almost to the day) unaware I was simply gathering material for this novel like a farmer thrashing acres of raw wheat, or likened to a Veterinarian picking fleas out of a stray mutt. Before embarking on a forty-four year run as a successful television Director, I was a radio gypsy, sans headscarf and gaudy trinkets, of course, blissfully roaming the land from station to station on a nebulous journey to eventually wallow in the big time. Sadly, I never did. My first break as a deejay materialized at a small station in Santa Rosa,...