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Growing Up Nerd is a collection of memories about a childhood that was spent in both the New York City suburb of Westchester County and at the New Jersey shore. It covers from about age 6 through the author's high school graduation in 1965. The stories range from lighthearted topics like collecting baseball cards, early TV, and sports to more serious ones such as how to make a way through the complexities of friendships and school while trying...

This is the fourth of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old long time retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer who is compiling them into book form. They deal with his most notable cases and the famous people who crossed his path. Parker is asked by an old friend to accompany him to Georgia to take care of the effects of...

This is the sixth in a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old long time retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. It's 1952 and Parker has retired. He and his new bride, Doris, move from Manhattan for part of the year to LA where she's working as a novelist and a scriptwriter. The easy life they'd planned together, however, doesn't last long. A movie star's husband talks Parker out of retirement...

This is the seventh of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old long time retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer who is compiling them into book form. They deal with his most notable cases and the famous people who crossed his path. In Out Of His Past, Parker continues to fail retirement. This time he's hired by his best ...

This is the eighth of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old long time retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. With Doris involved with out of town previews for a new play she's written JP reopens his detective business, much to his wife's disapproval, and gets his first paying client in 18 months. The case to find a woman's missing finance quickly veers into something much more complicat...

This is the second of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old long time retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer who is compiling them into book form. They deal with his most notable cases and the famous people who crossed his path. In this case, what was supposed to be a routine investigation for an insurance company duri...

This is the third of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old long time retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer who is compiling them into book form. They deal with his most notable cases and the famous people who crossed his path. This time the detective's client is a millionaire business man who hires Parker to investiga...

This is the first in a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker, a 100 year old long time retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer who is compiling them into book form. They deal with his most notable cases and the famous people who crossed his path. In the first of the series Parker is hired by a has been movie actress to find her estrange...

RANDOM STORIES Apparently unable to stop writing about himself, the memoir Random Stories follows Bob's childhood tales in Growing Up Nerd, his career in broadcasting in Radio Daze, experiences in theater, teaching, and music in Leftovers, and two books about travel with You Can Get There From Here and More Travels With Susie. These stories range widely from his first plane flight, to Chicken Pox, to buying a house, to insurance company drama...

This is the 17th in a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer who is compiling them into book form. They deal with his most notable cases and the famous people who crossed his path. In another manuscript written by his late wife, Doris, Parker is hired in 1955 to investigate a busines...

This is the sixteenth of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer who is compiling them into book form. They deal with his most notable cases and the famous people who crossed his path.In JAZZ DOESN'T RESOLVE, Parker is hired by a musician friend to find his missing girlfriend. Thing...

This sequel to The Other Cheek is a previously unknown book narrated by ParkerÕs wife, Doris. In it Parker is hired by a woman to find her kidnapped son. Realizing that his new client is misleading him Parker tries to find out why and this sends him back to a case that involved a potentially valuable missing artifact. Suddenly having to again deal with Neo-Nazis, Parker is also dragged into a cold case murder, mysterious groups of changing all...

This is the fourteenth of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer who is compiling them into book form. They deal with his most notable cases and the famous people who crossed his path. This time Parker is hired by an old friend to act as a body guard when he picks up some top secre...

I'd always wanted to travel, except that I didn't know it. After graduating from college, getting a job, and setting out on my own, I made some sporadic attempts to see some of the world. It took a while to figure out how and it was only after I got married that the two of us came upon a strategy that worked for us. This book is a collection of stories about my mostly modest opportunities to travel. This is not a how-to book. There will be no ...

This is the thirteenth of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. In a story narrated by his wife, Doris, Parker is hired by a high school boy to look into the sudden mysterious disappearance of his older sister. With the investigation yielding very little about the college girl, Parker and his wife instead become intrigued about the childrensÕ odd pare...

According to Wikipedia a mid life crisis effects about 10% of the population and occurs at approximately the age of 46. It's supposedly caused by a realization of one's mortality, dissatisfaction with a career, maturation of children, or some regret over a life situation. For men it can last from 3 to 10 years and the American stereotype is that the afflicted buys a sports car. Radio Daze is a description of what might have been Bob's mid-life...

In ÒGrowing Up NerdÓ Bob wrote about his childhood through high school and in ÒRadio DazeÓ he covered his career in broadcasting. Having enjoyed those books several folks asked for more. Their comments led to ÒLeftoversÓ. These remaining stories deal with BobÕs career in teaching, his years making music with his guitar, and his theater experiences. With regard to teaching he talks about funny students and amusing colleagues. In music youÕll he...

This is the eleventh of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The novels are his first person recollections as told to a young writer. Parker is hired by his

This is the twelfth of a series of novels that revolve around JP Parker a 100 year old retired New York City private detective from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. This time, after surprisingly getting a second chance to play Minor League baseball in 1954, ParkerÕs opportunity is interrupted by a murder and he is immediately drawn into the case. Meanwhile, his biographer, Freddy, is surprisingly pulled into a contemporary mystery of his own. The young ...