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Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge...

Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi", is the Princess Diana of 19th-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman in England. He is also impoverished, with no hope of buying the horse needed to win the Grand National....

Living A Meaningful Life is a series for adults and teens of all ages. Book 11 of the series, "The Graduate," is a very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment, which moves the series deeper into allowing the listener to experience the very deep, complex, and meaningful relationship between father and son. In this installment, we watch Rudy reach new heights of success career wise, and as a person.

Living A Meaningful Life is a series for adults and teens of all ages. Book 10 of the series, "The Substitute," is a very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment which moves the series deeper into allowing the listener to experience the very deep, complex, and meaningful relationship between father and son. The themes are still very much about sacrificing to do what is right, but also shows us what a loving parent and child relationship can look like. This is a particularly fun and amusing installment, and Rudy does not disappoint.

The real-life Harold Ober founded Harold Ober Associates, the oldest literary agency in the country, in 1929, and over the years the agency built an impressive client list. In J. D. West's new mystery, The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary, we learn that Harold Ober is also an amateur detective, using the skills he's honed reading and editing manuscripts to solve baffling crimes. Along with his assistant, he delves into the question of what happened to the secretary who accompanied her boss, H. A. Swenson, a film agent from Hollywood on his visit to editors and agents in New York City.

In this very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment of the series, our favorite couple finally ties the knot, but this is by no means a spoiler, because there is a twist or two. Meanwhile, our favorite young star manages to increase his star-rating even higher. The hilarious antics come toward the end of the book when father and son must have the “father and son talk.”

It was a beautiful spring day in 1836, and Texas had just won its independence from Mexico. Across the wild frontier, Texans—including the Parker family—were celebrating in grand fashion. The Parkers had traveled 1,000 miles from Illinois to Central Texas, quickly building a strong fort to protect themselves from the feared Comanche. Yet, on this day, for some reason, they did the unthinkable and left the main gate wide open.