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The Silver Baron's Wife Donna Baier Stein The Silver Baron's Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado's Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie). This fascinating heroine worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages, one to a philandering opium addict and one to a Senator and silver... |
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L'héritage des Lumières Les Lumières sont souvent invoquées dans l'espace public comme un combat contre l'obscurantisme, combat qu'il s'agirait seulement de réactualiser. Des lectures, totalisantes et souvent caricaturales, les associent au culte du Progrès, au libéralisme politique et à un... |
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The Comfort of Distance Ryburn Dobbs Forensic science meets literary fiction in this captivating police procedural. Deep in the forests of the Black Hills, human remains are being discovered – one bit at a time. Rumors of a rogue man-eating mountain lion are spreading through the county and panic is starting to swell. Sgt. Hank LeGris of the... |
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Gunslingers: A Story of the Old West John Layne Gunslingers: A Story of the Old West is John Layne's inaugural novel set in the Old West packed with family drama, action, and adventure. In this, Book One of the Luxton Danner Series, author John Layne tells the story of Joel Thornton and his daughter Elizabeth, as they seek frontier justice with... |
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A Story of Bad Edward M. Krauss The relationship between the police and the media has always been a strange one; adding romance creates serious complications. A Story of Bad is the tale of a cop and reporter entering into a controversial romance, where they both try to stay loyal to their employers' rules and ethics, while... |
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The Colour of the Sun Gillian Thorp One hot June afternoon in Durban, South Africa, a child is born. Doctors and nurses marvel because the birth is one of the rarest in the world. The child, Gillian August, is born still shrouded in her amniotic sac. She is a caul baby, and in 1970s South Africa, this heralds greatness. Or it might have, had August's caul not been stolen within... |
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Mrs. Alworth Tim Castano Mrs. Alworth envelops the reader, like a blanket. Tim Castano does an amazing job of pulling the reader inside the characters' heads, and navigating their layers, from their appearances to their inner, vulnerable selves, to how they receive and perceive one another, and ultimately, to how they love. The central relationship is so pure... |
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The Juju Girl Nikki Marsh The Great Storm of 1893 evicts 15-year-old Gabbie from her small-town home near the banks of the Mississippi and thrusts her into the world of New Orleans’ Creole High Society. It's a world of debutantes, extravagant balls, and handsome young men in uniforms. Steeped in superstition, spells, mystery, and magic, it counts conjurers, holy... |
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The Palm Reader Antoinette Zam When someone from a friend group dies, the secrets do not die with her. Four women — Casey, Elle, Kathy, and Lauren — were barely adults when they met and became friends at Northwestern University. Their friendship grew over the four years they spent at college, and when their time together came to an end, they held on tight to their... |
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Anoroc Bryan M. Kuderna From the author of Millennial Millionaire, comes Bryan M. Kuderna's fiction debut, a coming-of-age fantasy novel you won’t be able to put down! Beeker is trying to find his way in life, no longer a kid, but not yet an adult, when his single mother decides it is time for a change. He and his little brother, Dak, leave the comfort of their home... |
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After Effects Andrea Gilats To grieve after a profound loss is perfectly natural and healthy. To be debilitated by grief for more than a decade, as Andrea Gilats was, is something else. In her candid, deeply moving, and ultimately helpful memoir of breaking free of death’s relentless grip on her life, Gilats tells her story of living with prolonged, or "complicated," grief... |
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Crossing Over Paul Clayton Crossing Over by Paul Clayton tells the story of an American family trying to survive the beginnings of the second civil war. Set some time in the not-too-distant future, the existence of two simultaneous presidents has split the country along ideological lines. The protests are becoming violent... |
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Hermit Jeffrey H. Ryan When Jim Whyte settled outside the slate mining town of Monson, Maine in 1895, people hardly knew what to make of him. And almost 130 years later, we still don't. A world traveler that spoke six languages fluently, Whyte came to town with sacks full of money and a fierce desire to keep to... |
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The Mermaid Mahjong Circle: A Fairy Tale for Women Claudia Grossman A fairy tale for women, The Mermaid Mahjong Circle follows two lifelong friends and artists, Evie and Hannah, as they embark on an adventure that takes them from the present to the past and back again, thanks to a tale about a mysterious mahjong tile crafted a... |
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Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter Lynn Walker Lynn Walker watched her dad, John, deteriorate from Miami undercover narcotics agent to drug smuggler, from protective father to monster—a very charming monster. By the time she was in high school, her dad was in prison for smuggling 12,000 pounds of marijuana. There... |
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The Sicilian Woman's Daughter Most victims of the mafia are the Sicilians themselves. The role of women both as perpetrators and victims has been grossly overlooked. Until now. As the daughter of Sicilian immigrants, in her teens Maria turns her back on her origins and fully embraces the... |
