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|  | | ARROW Flies Over Kansas
Lary Rochelle's new book of poetry, ARROW, says goodbye to Kansas and hello to North Carolina.
Larry Rochelle returns to the plains of Kansas for his new book of poetry, ARROW. The themes of love, relationships, work and nature's constant changeability echo throughout the poetry. | |  | | Back to the Rat
Dance therapy leads to murder in Back to the Rat.
| |  | | BLUE ICE: Chills at Thanksgiving
The beautiful holiday boulevards of Kansas City, Missouri, provide a backdrop for mayhem in Larry Rochelle's BLUE ICE, as Palmer Morel skates on the thin ice of filmic horror in the middle of a violent Midwestern winter.
In Larry Rochelle's eighth Palmer Morel Mystery, BLUE ICE,Palmer Morel awaits the birth of his first baby but can’t avoid an explosive situation in Kansas City.
Searching his heart and his conscience, he purchases an old theater, The Ibis, hoping for a secure future away from professional tennis.
Instead, he buys into the mob and discovers the holiday season might have more surprises than a cherry at the bottom of his martini. | |  | | Bonaventure, a Savannah Thriller
Palmer Morel hides out in Savannah but the assassination teams are tracking him.
BONAVENTURE, a Thriller by Larry Rochelle
Black ops and assassination teams visit the lush paradise of Savannah. Hiding from Fort Bragg’s special forces in Bonaventure Cemetery, tennis pro Palmer Morel, is looking for love in all the wrong places. Hooking up with Andi York, his dark-haired, trendy physical therapist, Morel tries to escape. Problem is, he’s too trusting, too impatient and too obvious.
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Get BURNT COFFEE at Amazon or at LuLu.com
JUST PUBLISHED
BURNT COFFEE
By Fearrington Village’s Larry Rochelle
At Amazon.com and McIntyre Books
Heat in Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill summers are fraught with heat and angst. The ambiance of Franklin Street with its trendy shops and casual summer school students lulls the senses and slows the pace.
But in its coffee shops there is more than mocha and espresso shots, more than college students getting a buzz for their 8 o’clock classes. Yes, here the denizens of the town can gather in quiet splendor until the return of the fall semester students, and here | |  | | Chilly Dogs
Mobsters plot to get government money to build a prison for immigrants in Chapel Hill.
New Thriller: CHILLY DOGS by Larry Rochelle
Author Larry Rochelle’s father, Palmer Sheldon Rochelle, was a union steward for the AFL-CIO at the Plaskon chemical factory in Toledo, Ohio. During the 1940s and 1950s, Plaskon and other union shops were fighting for the 40-hr week, for better wages, working conditions and respect for all workers.
Strikes happened, and when Plaskon was on strike, Palmer Rochelle took his son to walk the picket lines and eat the hot roast beef sandwiches that held the men together. It was common then and now for the owners of those factories to hire anti-un | |  | | CRAZY LIL' MEDIA on Sale at Amazon
Follow Larry Rochelle in Kansas City as he searches for cool stories to tell in CRAZY LIL' MEDIA.
CRAZY LIL' MEDIA
Kansas City has many media outlets, but Larry Rochelle chose KCPT public television and The Pitch alternative newspaper for his internships. What developed was a witty, critical memoir of his time volunteering at those media sources during the terror time of autumn 2001.
"Rochelle uses first-hand accounts, interviews, emails and his own colorful remarks to enlighten the time of stress in Kansas City immediately before and after the terror attacks in New York."
"Readers will catch a glimpse at the inner workings at KCPT-TV and shadow Larry Rochelle as | |  | | Dust Devils: KANSAS WINNER 2005
A Whirling Wind … We take cover in our lives, hope for protection against nature. Wind, rain and snow assault us, drive us inside where we gather our courage, noses pressed against windows, waiting for the wind to wane. Somehow we keep our sense of humor, bonding with our families and friends until the next storm approaches. The poetry in Dust Devils thrusts nature into our psyches. We are buffeted by the elements and we react, remembering the distant days of childhood while we explore the mature paths of parenting and the dangers of miscommunication. Larry Rochelle takes us by the hand, shows the hurt inside, and then lets us feel the glory in a sunrise, the cool wetness of sand on a beach.
Dust Devils
Brick wall dims
at twilight,
yet the ball comes back,
a yellow blaze,
faster than it’s hit.
Overhead, lights
snap, their eerie
orange fights
with yellow.
A breeze stirs,
trajectory at first
enhanced, but shifting currents
raise the dust
to devil’s work.
My stroke is warped,
the yellow
ball-blaze disappears.
I swat but miss,
dust in eyes,
torture in soul.
Left alone,
my spirit rises,
yellow ball a dusty portal.
Racket poised,
a slam,
the devil dance | |  | | Ghostly Embers: Visions of Toledo
West Toledo inspired these poems by Larry Rochelle, "Ghostly Embers," and each poem is a vision, often accurate, yet sometimes skewed, of life during the decade of the 1950s. Factory workers come home tired after a long day, yet still find energy to play fast-pitch softball. Teenagers do their homework, while chatting with friends and drinking a chocolate Coke at the corner drug store. Political threats of the McCarthy Era dominate conversation, yet the dark clouds signal only a storm, not nuclear holocaust.
The Blue Streak Edition ... At 5:15 each day in the 1950s, newsboys awaited the delivery of The Toledo Blade in front of Fairmont Pharmacy. When the bundle hit the sidewalk, newsboys steadied their bikes, ready to deliver the "Blue Streak." The poetry in "Ghostly Embers" serves as a vision of the West Side of Toledo, Ohio, complete with tennis matches, gutter tag and the aroma of boiled dinners wafting into the late afternoon sunshine. Larry Rochelle explores his 1950s West Toledo neighborhood, offering glimpses of atom bomb paranoia, duck and cover practices and a community cohesiveness not f | |  | | Home Schooled" Due in October
"Home Schooled," Larry Rochelle's seventh book of poetry, will be published in October. Poetry includes the aura of the Kansas plains, small town life and difficult relationships.
Flint Hills
not as desolate at mid-morning,
not as bleak as on TV, the miles
of slanted rock slake-off
beauty like some documentary
on bobcats.
they roam, too, through the creek beds
angling north to south,
some magnet pulling them toward
creation.
slicked streets tumble the miles away
while towns seen in the distance
night-flicker with coziness.
few walk down those gullies,
the cattle spread out for miles,
and most face the wind, searching
bovine brains for quiet musings.
it’ll get cold tonight, the n | |  | | HOME SCHOOLED: Kansas Winner in 2007
Larry Rochelle wins the 2007 KANSAS NELSON AWARD FOR POETRY for his book, HOME SCHOOLED.
HOME SCHOOLED
By Larry Rochelle
$13.99 Amazon.com
Rainy Day Books
ISBN 1-4196-4866-7
HOME SCHOOLED
A Shift in the Wind---
One of the trends in Kansas is toward homeschooling, a separation from the noisome public schools that so often breed loneliness and defeat. This new approach is typical of Kansas, where new discussions of evolution, vouchers and stem cell research crackle like thunderstorms over the Flint Hills. EPPIE-WINNER author, Larry Rochelle, brings these issues to the small towns of Paola and Osawatomie, sparking debate, drama and rel | |  | | I Got Da Ever Lovin' KC Blues--FIVE STAR RATING
Larry Rochelle's new book of poetry has barbecue, the blues, the burbs and the bible.
Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (January 2007)
I Got Da Ever Lovin’ KC Blues (5 Stars)
By Larry Rochelle
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BookSurge (2005) $13.99 at Amazon.com and Rainy Day Books
ISBN 141960936X
When I hear the name Kansas City I think of good barbecue. Through Larry Rochelle’s poetry I can almost taste that sweet spicy sauce. I can almost smell the scents waffling through the air. I can almost feel the sauce running down my hand. My mouth waters at the thought of barbecue ribs. I can almost hear the blues rolling off the tongu | |  | | Killing Karaoke
Palmer Morel is caught in a cult searching for revenge against those who imploded the Twin Towers on 9/11. The cult forces Morel to join the group.
| | | | MOODY BLUE Published Soon
. Elvis Presley and the Wizard of Oz strike up a friendship in the Flint Hills of Kansas, admiring each other's zoot suits, trading barbs about the weather and the economy, and ultimately deciding that Kansas could never support anything fun and frivolous like the famous 1939 movie.
Bringing Elvis to Kansas
Placing Elvis Presley in Kansas seems absurd. His rich lifestyle and flamboyant clothing would be sinful in Kansas’ small towns and small town thinking would keep him so oppressed. He’d have to escape to avoid being stunted and runted.
But Kansas still dreams about Elvis, longs to hear his voice, longs to touch him and hug him.
In spite of this longing, the myth of Kansas being the home of the Wizard of Oz also seems mistaken.
The Wizard’s home, so glorious and shining, can’t be here. Such magic belongs elsewhere. One real-life attempt | |  | | MOODY BLUE: Elvis Visits Kansas
Wearing his White "Memphis" Jumpsuit, Elvis Presley touches down at the Topeka, Kansas, airport, looking to find him some fun. The danger he finds there almost blinds him in its turbulent intensity.
MOODY BLUE
by Larry Rochelle
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
ISBN: 1-4196-2953-0
Binding: Trade Paper
110 pages $10.99
Description:
Wearing his White "Memphis" Jumpsuit, Elvis Presley touches down at the Topeka, Kansas, airport, looking to find him some fun. The danger he finds there almost blinds him in its turbulent intensity.
| |  | | MURDER ON 15/501 Due in Spring 2008
Larry Rochelle's latest Palmer Morel mystery set near Chapel Hill in North Carolina, MURDER ON 15/501, will make its debut in the spring of 2008.
Chapel Hill, NC is the setting for Larry Rochelle's new murder mystery, MURDER ON 15/501. After a young female is found burned to death in her own kiln, Palmer Morel is distraught.
A promising tennis pupil, the young woman was a talented potter, often teaching young kids to throw their first pots. How Morel reacts is astonishing, but his life is in for major change when his girl, Cat Gallaher, hooks up with a stranger.
Don't miss this exciting highway drama, COMING THIS SPRING! | |  | | MURDER on 15/501 For Sale on AMAZON.com.
Former Toledo Author Larry Rochelle’s Murder On 15/501 sets his latest Palmer Morel thriller in the bucolic, rolling hills near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Former Toledo Author Larry Rochelle’s Murder On 15/501 sets his latest Palmer Morel thriller in the bucolic, rolling hills near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Here the winding highway 15/501 provides entrance into the villages of Fearrington and Deerington, two communities with opposing viewpoints on life. Fearrington is a quiet, up-scale older community of forests, deer and croquet. Deerington presents a huge contrast with up-scale condos built with Route 66 motels in mind: each “motel” ha | |  | | Occupy Fearrington
During this election year, Palmer Morel joins the Occupy movement, but then his close friend ends up dead in the turtle pond in Fearrington Village.
I found a dark-haired tennis pro from Charleston who had played college tennis at Duke. She responded to my plea in Tennis Magazine with a cute, semi-whimsical letter fitted with cut out cartoons from The New Yorker. Each cartoon exhibited one of her many positive qualities, like cooking or self-effacing put-downs. I knew I’d like her.
I especially grew closer to Anna Ventura during her interview at the tennis club when she got up from her seat and closed my office door. I had been goung over her letter and resume' with her when I asked her about one specific New Yorker cartoon, a men’s c | |  | | Outlaw
The Citrus Bowl Parade in Orlando is the site of a right-wing assassination plot during the Christmas holiday season.
| |  | | Pistol Whipped at BookSurge.com
PISTOL WHIPPED AND OTHER SUBURBAN DELIGHTS shows the denizens of suburbia looking for freedom from fear, as they hide in their homes, watch the news and hope their trip to the neighborhood convenience store doesn't end in death or disfigurement.
A BLINDING LIGHT ... Our backyards are flooded with hellish light. We try to see the stars but fail. The moon appears dimly, a memory from childhood, while shotguns are aimed at innocent noises of nocturnal creatures. The poetry in PISTOL WHIPPED exposes the fears of suburban families, buffeted by low SAT scores, football defeats and lawnmowers corroding in the bushes. Rushing to golf courses to soothe nervous cravings, they confront stalking geese littering the fairways with green/gray pestilence. Larry Rochelle confronts these fears, offers the silence of a cool summer morn, the deep darknes | |  | | Punk'd
A secret Army base called "The Big Hole" is the site of a sex trafficking operation involving little boys and right-wing corporations in North Carolina.
| |  | | Siren Sorcery: EPPIE FINALIST 2004
Larry Rochelle's second book of poetry, Siren Sorcery: Magic in the Night, is available now at Booksurge.com.
Silent Star
She sat by herself, front row center,
Zydeco blaring, dance floor packed,
Music so loud ears popped,
Chest thumped, rhythms rumbled.
She sat by herself, we all noticed,
Balanced or perched, chain smoking,
Aroma and smoke oozing round her head,
One foot tapping, eyes closed, no one
Asking her to dance.
She sat by herself,
three strands of blinking beads
Round her neck, slight smile on her face,
Gray head tilted, listening to inner tunes,
Faraway attitude, like she wasn’t even there.
She sat by herself, | |  | | Southport Sisters
The Witness Protection program seems corrupt as Palmer Morel searches for safety in Southport, NC, for his mom and son.
| |  | | TEN MILE CREEK: The Toledo Purple Gang
TEN MILE CREEK by Larry Rochelle, a thriller set in his hometown Toledo, Ohio, was published in May 2007, available from Amazon.com.
Blond tennis pro Palmer Morel takes a summer coaching job in Toledo, the unsuspected lair of the infamous Purple Gang.
After an encounter with his boss's voluptuous, artistic daughter, Christie, he finds more wild life than he first imagined.
Skinheads, corrupt cops and drug dealers stalk nearby Ottawa Park, and Morel comes face to face with murder on the banks of the tumultuous Ten Mile Creek. Risking his life and reputation, he searches for clues to the inner workings of the Purple Gang, a murderous group of criminals reportedly destroyed during the 1930s.
Wha | |  | | Toledo's Exciting TEN MILE CREEK
Go to Amazon.com to order the latest Palmer Morel thriller, TEN MILE CREEK.
Arriving at his new coaching job in Toledo, tennis pro Palmer Morel sees great opportunities for love and excitement. His room is next to a beautiful woman, his boss seems friendly and wise, and his pupil is a young man with confidence and power on the court. But after one night of horror, Morel learns beauty can be vicious, bosses can have violent secrets, and a nice young man can be threatened by forces from the past. How he copes with these revelations turns his life into a manic ride down the treacherous and bloody Ten Mile Creek. And when the secret escapes from its hiding place, the real |
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Counting Coup
by Susan Smith
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 Book 2 of The Commander and the Chief series finds the Chief "on the warpath" and "counting coup" with her enemies on both sides of the ocean. Meanwhile, she fights an indictment and risks losing her latest love, the Commander, as well as unleashing |
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