Thomas M Mcdade: 35 books

A short story revolving around a photographer's obsession with a thoroughbred jockey and a horse he rides named Prism. Bianca treats Jerry to adventures beyond his wildest imaginings. Join them for coffee at the Spoon Click Breakfast & Lunch and a cocktail at the Shanty Bright Lounge.

An ex-convict uses running and spirituality to remain on the "straight and narrow."

A housepainter is confronted by the sister of his deceased best friend.

Fifty-seven poems reflecting my interest in baseball and those who played the game, major, minor and sandlot.

Chet has trouble with mom & her boyfriend as well as with kids in the Housing Project where he lives. Things aren't any easier at school. He's devised two plans of escape but just one will work.

Man working in the flat roofing trade picks up a most alluring woman in Rip's Lounge.

Twenty-Seven hard-hitting poems. Some "Morally objectionable in part" for all.

A most unusual event in a West Virginia tavern as well as country songs, patriotism and young love.

Poems regarding ups and downs of growing up in a Federal Housing Project.

Eighty-Five poems about work: bookstore, supermarket, restaurant, house painting, landscaping, warehouse and factory labor as well as asphalting, school bus and truck piloting. Observations on the toil of others are also included, boxers and circus performers, for example.

Twenty-five poems about thoroughbreds, racetracks, jockeys, trainers and gamblers.

Former dishwasher Jeff Gardener is confined to the one-star rated Crestwood House nursing home after suffering a paralyzing stroke. A nurse's aide named Diane is the one bright spot in his existence. Events in her life, combined with a pastime of his, impact his being and fate in eerie and fantastical ways hard to imagined.

Odd relationship between divorced textile worker and his precocious daughter.

Bill Dean, a sailor on the USS Ramply DD-810 strikes up a friendship with an oddball shipmate working in the scullery. Through the streets of Catania, Sicily, mysteries unravel and tangle for both men. This is not your typical drunken liberty port gob tale but there are of course, women, beautiful...