A. E. Hotchner

Chronicles the author's long-standing friendship with the late Paul Newman, documenting their numerous travels and cocreation of the Newman's Own enterprise.

""Acclaimed author and feisty nonagenarian Hotchner's witty ruminations about the art of living well into old age...with brio and a touch of his trademark sass, Hotchner writes about rediscovering love after 75, finding joy in a scrappy African gray parrot he named after his longtime friend, Ernest Hemingway, and going on his very first safari at age 88." - Kirkus Reviews When youngsters in their seventies and eighties, nervously lurching toward the...

"Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewelery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a traveling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Despite seeing the real killer flee the scene, Aaron can't do much to help in the moment--no one will take a kid's word for it. Undaunted, Aaron enlists...

On the run from ruthless smugglers and the police, Arno, a world-weary scavenger, is hired as a courier for a rich tycoon. When the tycoon's luxury yacht goes down in a violent storm, Arno is forced to partner with a local crook, and the race is on to salvage the bounty.

In Depression-era St. Louis, a resourceful adolescent survives on his own in a run-down hotel during his father's long business trips, after his sick mother has been sent to a sanatorium.

A coming of age story that chronicles a young man's experiences growing up in the North Woods in the early 20th century, leaving home, and serving in the Red Cross during World War I.