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5 reviews
Thomas Amherst Perry

Pentland Press (NC), 1996

Meanings
The meanings keep popping up and jumping into awareness. The line from "Genesis" -- "Into the barrenness the vibrancy and growth of life" -- is reflective of celebration out of chaos. The more I read and re-read it, I am tempted to add, "It's prophetically global." -- Gilbert E. Fleer, Professor/Counselor, Social Science, Wester Texas College

Textile League Baseball: South Carolina's Mill Teams 1880-1955

1 review
Thomas K. Perry

McFarland & Company, 1993

A Great Volume for Textile Baseball Buffs
Tom Perry is to be commended for performing so well with an arduous task. His book provides much information about teams and players in the South Carolina Upstate during the days of Textile League baseball. Without the research Tom has done, this generation and those to come would know less and less about this era of mill baseball that produced so many great teams and players in addition to ...

The Butcher's Boy

27 reviews
Thomas Perry

ACE Charter, 1983

One of my all time favorite books
The Butcher's Boy is not lyrical or beautifully written, it gets straight to the point--action and suspense. It is dark but lightened with sarcastic humor, and it is an intense, page turning thriller: a Female detective desperate to catch the killer, and a killer so well defined that you keep finding yourself rooting for him too. This book has a very satisfying ending no matter which one you were ...

Street People

1 review
Paul Perry

Pocol Pr, 2000

Poignant 'Street People' Tugs at the Heart
'Street People,' comprising Paul Perry's award-winning short stories in an arresting collection, is a poignant look at folks whose homes are wherever they are. The stories are not maudlin or oversympathetic, nor are they unnecessarily aesthetic. They are simply presented. And they are teeming with life. People blessed with four walls and a roof, count your blessings. Perry brings to absolute ...

Island

5 reviews
Thomas Perry

Putnam Adult, 1988

Hard to find, worth the search
Much as I enjoy Perry's Jane Whitfield tales, I regret that his wonderful pre-Jane novels are almost all out of print: Butcher's Boy, Big Fish, Metzger's Dog, and especially Island. These books all side with hard-boiled yet intrepid, dryly humorous (sometimes hilarious) bands of petty larcenists stealing from even worse characters than themselves. Island has a married couple absconding with the ...

Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage

1 review
Troy D. Perry, Thomas L. P. Swicegood

Palgrave Macmillan, 1991

Unforgettable & Inspiring
"Eight biographies of unforgettable and inspiring people who epitomized bravery, dignity, and true courage in the face of adversity. Includes the stories of Harvey Milk, Elaine Noble, Gilberto Gerald, Jean O'Leary, Leonard Matlovich, Barbara Gittings, Harry Hay, and Ivy Bottini."--© zebraz

Shadow Woman

20 reviews
Thomas Perry

Ballantine Books, 1998

A Blown Cover puts Jane Back on the Job
Native American (she's part Seneca) Jane Whitefield has stopped guiding people in danger to safe locations because of a promise she made her husband Dr. Carey McKinnon, who thinks what she does is much too dangerous. But Pete Hatcher, a Las Vegas casino executive she helped disappear because his bosses thought he was about to blow the whistle on their illegal activities, calls for help. His ...

Metzger's Dog

11 reviews
Thomas Perry

Thorndike Pr, 1983

Savage and funny
I have a taste for books that are both funny and intense, and for that reason this is perhaps my favorite of all Perry's books. Years ago, I read sections of it (the parts about Chinese Gordon, his friends, and their adventures) out loud to my then ten year old son. (I thought the other sections weren't suitable for a child, so I censored them.) He howled with laughter, and both of us were ...

Don't Be Afraid Anymore: The Story of Reverend Troy Perry and the Metropolitan Community Churches

4 reviews
Troy D. Perry, Thomas L. P. Swicegood

St Martins Pr, 1990

An Amazing Man, A Remarkable Church, And A Powerful Witness
In 1968, a full year before the Stonewall Riots that began the historic start of the gay liberation movement in the United States, a young gay minister started a church that would change the lives of countless gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and straight people throughout the world. Meeting with just 12 people in his living room, Reverend Troy Perry began a ministry of hope and healing ...

The face changers: A Jane Whitefield novel

28 reviews
Thomas Perry

Ballantine Pub. Group, 1999

Jane Whitefield is Back on the Job
Native American (she's part Seneca) Jane Whitefield has stopped guiding people in danger to safe locations because of a promise she made her new husband Dr. Carey McKinnon. She'd spent the better part of a decade helping those in danger disappear and take on new lives, getting them new papers and teaching them how to stay hidden, now she's finished with that. Or is she? Now it's her husband of ...

Sleeping Dogs

19 reviews
Thomas Perry

Random House Value Publishing, 1993

Flawless
Sleeping Dogs, I admit, was the first book I read by Thomas Perry. I have since read and enjoyed, to varying degrees, all his other works. I always come back to Sleeping Dogs though. It is definitely my favorite book, and when ever I read it, it's as if I've come home again. I realize it's almost scary to have a person sympathize with the Butcher's Boy as much as I do, but I constantly admire, ...

Dance for the Dead

19 reviews
Thomas Perry

Random House Value Publishing, 1998

Go Jane!
I'm not a big fan of mystery/suspense novels, but one dull Sunday afternoon I saw this book sitting on my parents' coffee table, and began flipping through it. The concept hooked me almost at once -- there's something enormously appealing about Jane Whitefield and her endless supply of ingenuity as she helps people create new identities. I read my way through the series and strongly recommend the ...

Vanishing Act

33 reviews
Thomas Perry

Random House Value Publishing, 1997

Thomas Perry does it again
Perry manages to continiue to surprise you in the different ways he has Jane do some very tricky things to keep her friend and herself alive. Jane uses all her innate wisdom and makes use of most of her contacts to make everything turn out for the best.

Big Fish

2 reviews
Thomas Perry

Scribner Book Company, 1985

Publisher! Reprint this book!
The best summer reading imaginable. Buy an old copy now and don't wait for the silly publishers to get off their butts and reissue it. This is classic Thomas Perry -- odd, violent characters that you come to care about, tight plotting touched with wit and irony that make it more believable not less, and scenes you'll remember. I have to say it; Thomas Perry has this trick about writing about ...

Silence

25 reviews
Thomas Perry

Harvest Books, 2008

Page-Turners
Retired LAPD Detective, Private Investigator Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear six years ago after being brutally beaten and almost killed. Now her ex-boyfriend is charged with her murder so Jack must find Wendy so an innocent man doesn't pay for a crime he didn't commit. There are two big problems. One is that Jack doesn't know where Wendy is after teaching her how to disappear. Problem ...

The Southern Textile Basketball Tournament : A History, 1921-1996

1 review
Mac C. Kirkpatrick, Thomas K. Perry

McFarland & Company, 1997

Can't find a better book on this subject!
"The Southern League Textile Tournament" is an amazing piece of research into this South Carolina basketball tournament that has been held annually since 1921. After the 98-page summary of the tournament's 70-odd years follows the known rosters of all the teams who participated, the members of the all-tournament teams, and interviews with 17 participants. If there's a scrap of information ...

Strivers Row CD

10 reviews
Kevin Baker

HarperAudio, 2006

A thought-provoking historical fiction novel about 1940s Harlem
STRIVERS ROW is the third book in Kevin Baker's trilogy of historical novels about New York City. His ambition for these books is enormous, and it is the reader's good fortune that he has fulfilled, and then surpassed, the trilogy's huge potential. As DREAMLAND, the first book, took readers to Coney Island at the turn of the century, and the second, PARADISE ALLEY, took us to the Lower East ...

Pursuit

48 reviews
Thomas Perry

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006

Just what I wanted.
This book was mailed promptly and received very quickly. It was exactly as specified and I am completely satisfied.

Blood Money

29 reviews
Thomas Perry

Audio Literature, 2000

Fun, Fun, Fun
Jane Whitefield returns in what may be her last adventure. I will be sorry to see her go but I can understand what the author wants to accomplish. In this latest adventure, Jane is retired from the guide business and just wants to be a happy housewife with her husband, Dr. Carey McKinnon. She is a one-woman witness protection program who knows how to hide people permanently and lead them to work ...

Death Benefits

51 reviews
Thomas Perry

Ballantine Books, 2001

Shockingly good
I have been gobbling up Thomas Perry novels ever since discovering his Jane Whitfield series, so I only glanced at the cover when I picked this one up from the bin. I have to confess I was let down when I saw that it was about the insurance industry--what could be more boring? But "boring" is exactly the wrong word to use to describe this wonderfully exciting novel. I was hooked from the first ...

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