ROBERT WARD

Two people are inextricably bound together by something neither of them can understand or explain. At times it seems elemental and destructive but at others it appears to be a cause for hope and fulfilment. Though their lives follow very different paths they can never fully break free from each other, the consequences of which prove devastating for them both.The Manner of The Mourning is a novel about fear and disappointment, fate and longing and ultimately, the nature of what we call love.Biographical Note:Robert Ward was born in Liverpool and read Philosophy at the University of Sussex.

Smart, tough Los Angeles FBI agents Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo breathe sighs of relief after violent diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach is finally arrested in a complex sting. Vowing vengeance on the agents who brought him down, Steinbach is imprisoned - only to be offered a release with total immunity in a dodgy deal with Homeland Security.As Jack and Oscars team of agents start to die, it becomes clear that Steinbachs is no idle threat. But when the pair investigate their slain comrades lives, they discover that what looked like retribution is actually tied to a web of deceit that stretches to the highest echelons of the FBI. Navigating car chases, shootouts, and even venomous reptiles, Jack and Oscar furiously pursue clues scattered throughout the underbelly of Los Angeles, in a desperate attempt to find the killer - before he finds them.With a storyline crackling with action, a dazzling cast of thugs, traitors, killers and creeps, and a cinematic portrait of a seamy Los Angeles clogged with corruption and greed, Robert Wards turbulent new thriller is clever, contemporary and cool as ice.

Based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntlines stories and left their homes to join them.The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by the aging Bill Doolin. Annie shames, and inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister Jenny finds a father figure in Doolin, who calls her Little Britches. Doolins efforts to live up to the girls vision of him lead him to be carted off in a cage to an Oklahoma jail where he waits to be hanged.

Broke, recently divorced, and a total deadbeat, Bob Wells has spent his life as a psychiatrist only doing good in the world. When one of his patients with clear paranoid delusions starts to lose a grip, Bob has no choice but to intervene. Emile Bardan is haunted by demons, and he believes that someone is trying to steal his most prized possesion, the legendeary Mask of Utu. Bob thinks its all part of Emiles imagination until he discovers that Emile is telling the truth and that the mask is worth millions. Its Bob who may actually be the one losing his grip. Hes tired of helping people for nothing, tired of being treated like dirtand while he may have met the girl of his dreams, he doesnt want to lose her because he cant take care of her. There is only one thing to do: Bob is going to steal the mask himself: But doing so may mean making the biggest mistake of allas he proceeds down a path into a dark abyss from which there is no return.

Daredevil DEA agent Jack Walker cruised down Hollywood Boulevard into the best unscheduled party of his career: a car-jacking featuring a .38 semiautomatic and his own movieland heroics. In any other city, the pretty woman he saved would be a star. Here she was Charlotte Rae, a former B-movie bombshell waving a lottery ticket straight from hell a chance to get inside her husbands drug-smuggling empire. Charlotte Rae and Buddy Wingate were one of Californias self-made platinum couples: the high-rolling discount furniture king and his bottle-blond trophy. It was Jacks job to penetrate Buddys drug operation and his marriage and suddenly Jacks doing a better job than he ever dreamed.

When Red Baker, a Larmel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Reds angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his basketball-star son, Ace; his lifelong friend Dog, a casualty of the layoff; and Crystal, the go-go dancer at Lilys bar who embodies Reds fantasies of escape. Red Baker is a classic American novel about a man with no identity who tries to replace the one hes lost.

From the bestsellnig author of Shedding Skin, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, and Red Baker comesThe Sandman. In this thrilling medical drama, anesthesiologist Dr. Cross job is to alleviate pain . . . but someone is now accusing him of murder.

A tour of the 1950s and 1960s recounts the authors coming-of-age experiences in a period torn between idealism and despair, chronicling his journey between Baltimore and Haight-Ashbury and his witness to the historical events of the time.This classic novel, the 1972 winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, turns, providing an essential companion piece to The King of Cards. Illuminated by the authors personal experiences, this authentic coming-of-age novel presents a cavalcade of memorable characters and adventures.

Ward once again explores the alchemy of stubborn yearnings and unrealized dreams amidst the well-tended rowhouses of his native city. Theres a mounting fury in Tommy Fallons heart in the fall of 1965. Hes finally found his lifes calling thanks to the inspiration of Professor Extraordinaire Sylvester Spaulding. Young Tom wants to be lifted on the wings of genius, to ascend to a clean, well-lighted place where cultured people talk about deep things. But how can this college boy learn anything about life or art while living in his familys house of pain? Pop Fallons youthful dreams of becoming a painter were dashed by the Depression and his own internal demons; he rarely comes out of the inner sanctum of His Holy Toilet, where hes long been lost to the rituals of obsessive/compulsive behavior. Mom Fallon beaten down by the vast resentment her husband harbors against her and all the other Baltimorons is so starved for love that she enters the Miss Kissable Lips contest at the local radio station. Tom realizes he needs a refuge: a quiet, modest room of his own. There he wont have to see the defeat in his parents eyes. There hell follow Dr. Spauldings lead by living inside the books that seem to be keeping his spirit alive. The King of Cards is the story of how Tom is saved from becoming a myopic, dispassionate snob when he answers an ad for off-campus housing. In the remarkable person of Jeremy Raines World-Class Confidence Man with a Streak of Idealism, and Pied Piper to a ragtag band of followers Tom finds a sense of adventure that is positively euphoric.

A fictional memoir about the writers grandmother, a Civil Rights activist in Baltimore.

Stock market is where millions of pounds are made and lost in a year. I am sure you would have heard stories of people making a killing at the stock market and be tempted to invest in the UK stock market.I am an investor based out of London and have invested and made money in the share market. I cannot say that I have not lost in shares however I have done reasonably well on the London Stock Exchange. Of course there was no one to help me out so trial and error was my best friend initially.This book is an honest attempt at putting the stock market basics together so that beginners in the UK stock market know what they are doing and have the basic know how to understand the UK stock market.The topics that I cover are1) Saving and Investing2) Understanding The Stock Market For Beginners UK3) How Does The Stock Market Work in UK? How does a stock Exchange work in UK?4) What Are Stock Market Indices in UK?5) How To Buy Stocks in UK?6) Types Of Stocks UK in Stock Market7) Long Term Investment Strategies vs Short Term InvestmentStrategies8) ETFs for long term investing