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Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, both from Patrick County, Virginia, and the controversy in 2015 when the portrait of Stuart was taken down from the Patrick County Courthouse. The ensuing controversy brought media attention and a discussion of the history relating to Confederate History and the Civil War. The portrait eventually found its way to the Wall of Honor in the Patrick County Administration Building in Stuart, Virginia. This book continues with the controversies surrounding J. E. B. Stuart High School in Fairfax, Virginia, and the ...

To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most 60-year-old widowers don't have multiple driver's licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.

Historian Thomas D. Perry tells the story of the Mount Airy and Eastern Railway, a narrow gauge "Dinky" railway that ran from Mount Airy, North Carolina, to Kibler Valley, Patrick County, Virginia, from 1899 until 1924.

James I. Robertson Jr. of Virginia Tech calls Tom Perry's The Free State Of Patrick a "masterful job" in telling the story of Patrick County Virginia in the American Civil War. Perry, a graduate of Virginia Tech in nearly 400 pages tells the story of his home county in the War Between The States.

The Graham Mansion in Wythe County Virginia is the site of over two hundred years of history stretching back to the American Revolution through the Civil War including the iron forges of Southwest Virginia.

The Graham Mansion in Wythe County Virginia is one of Virginia's most haunted houses. Located in Southwest Virginia, paranormal experiences stretch back to the beginning of this country. iHistorian Thomas D. Perry tells the history and the tales of the paranormal from multiple investigations and first person accounts of experiences at the Graham Mansion.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells stories about Mount Airy North Carolina in the Civil War. Chapters include J. E. B. Stuart, Stoneman's Raid, J. H. Carter, and the sons of the Siamese Twins in the War Between the States.

Historian Tom Perry tells the story of the Lester Family of Henry County Virginia focusing on the life George "Captain Till" Lester. This is story of Civil War and the lumber company that morphs into development and family triumphs and tragedy. The family home known as the "Wedding Cake" house is still a landmark in Martinsville, Virginia.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry completes his Graham Mansion Trilogy that contains a history and ghost book about the Wythe County Mansion. In this book, Perry tells the story of Reid Stanger Fulton, an economics professor and book dealer known for his eccentric lifestyle and extensive mythology mostly invented by Fulton himself.

Based on over two decades of research Historian Thomas D. Perry tells the story of Civil War General J. E. B. Stuart and his family in North America. This book is also a guide book to the Laurel Hill Farm, Stuart's Birthplace in Ararat, Virginia, which the author led the effort to preserve in 1990.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry shares his journeys through African-American history in his thirty year career of studying history along the Virginia and North Carolina border between Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina, and Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia. Subjects include Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, John Hope Franklin, and the slaves that lived in the ironically named Free State of Patrick.

In March 1944, eleven young men lost their lives in a plane crash on Patrick County Virginia's Bull Mountain on a training mission. Educator Clarence Hall spent many years researching the crash. He and others put up two memorials to the men who lost their lives on the mountain and at the county courthouse in Stuart, Virginia. Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of the men, their mission and the memorials to their sacrifice.

Charles Warren, Los Angeles attorney, has dedicated his career to aiding people in financial straits. He is particularly skilled at the art of recovering assets that have been embezzled or hidden. In his newest case, helping a beautiful young widow find the money missing from her late husband's investment accounts, Charlie recognizes a familiar scheme—one that echoes the con job that targeted his own widowed mother many years before, and that led him, as a teenager, to commit a crime of retribution that still weighs on his conscience.

He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price on his head. Now, after a decade, they've found him.

Married and living in England under the name Michael Schaeffer, the assassin known as the Butcher's Boy is the target of a Mafia hit team sent to exact revenge for his deadly campaign against the Balacontano family years earlier. Schaeffer kills all three attackers, but he knows more will come and needs to find whoever sent them to end it once and for all.

Thirteen bodies are found in a Louisville restaurant. When the police can find no suspect or motive, the family of one of the victims seeks the services of the enigmatic and solitary specialist Roy Prescott, known for his ability to find people who don't want to be found.

A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California insurance company, John Walker knows when people will marry, at what age they will most likely have children, and when they will die. All signs point to a long successful career---until Max Stillman, a gruff security consultant, appears without warning at the office. It seems a colleague with whom Walker once had an affair has disappeared after paying a very large death benefit to an impostor.

Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads solitary outcasts through hostile territory to escape the vengeance of their enemies. But the shaded forest paths her Seneca ancestors might have followed on such missions have all been converted to superhighways, and now the safest way stations are crowded urban buildings that offer the camouflage of anonymity. Still, the supply of runaways - and the need for a woman who will take great risks to save them - have never been greater.

When eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers weren't the intended victims: Timothy's own room---ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated---is the shocking evidence. Timothy's nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing. Timmy needs to disappear, fast. Only Jane Whitefield, a Native American "guide" who specializes in making victims vanish, can lead him to safety.