The Samaritan Stephen Besecker After a youth marked by the death of his parents and a childhood spent with his shaman grandfather on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Kevin “Hatch” Easter has found a job he believes in—tracker for the CIA—and a wife, Karen, he cherishes. But his life is shattered on a hot August night… Continue reading The Samaritan
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Mia the Magnificent
Mia the Magnificent Eileen Boggess Mia Fullerton has entered her freshman year at St. Hilary’s with a goal: to lose her nickname, “Mia the Meek,” and soar into a confident high school career. Unfortunately, her transformation is made harder by her English-teacher mom, bratty little brother, already popular nemesis, and new neighbor. Although she’s prepared… Continue reading Mia the Magnificent
The Atomic Weight of Secrets
The Atomic Weight of Secrets Or the Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black Eden Unger Bowditch In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world’s most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from… Continue reading The Atomic Weight of Secrets
Purple Jesus
Purple Jesus Ron Cooper Purvis Driggers is a South Carolina Low Country loser. With little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents’ house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, he’s sure he’s figured a way out: Rob an old man of the rumored millions hidden in… Continue reading Purple Jesus
As Dog is My Witness
As Dog is My Witness Jeffrey Cohen Another Aaron Tucker Mystery In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to “take meetings” on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking… Continue reading As Dog is My Witness
Hank
The First Novel of the Gunpowder Trilogy The First Novel of the Gunpowder Trilogy Arch Montgomery Meet Hank Collins, an astute, gutsy, and funny 13-year-old who’s just finished the seventh grade at a public school in Baltimore’s affluent suburbs. But all is not trouble-free for Hank. He must contend with a troubled family, an alien… Continue reading Hank
Trembling in the Ivory Tower
Trembling in the Ivory Tower Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure Kenneth Lasson She’s never known her mother. Her father seems to hate her. She has only one true friend, who’s a boy. A mediocre student and a social misfit, she’s downright miserable. This is the life of Taylor Dresden, a freshman in… Continue reading Trembling in the Ivory Tower
Mia the Meek
Mia the Meek Eileen Boggess Mia Fullerton has entered her freshman year at St. Hilary’s with a goal: to lose her nickname, “Mia the Meek,” and soar into a confident high school career. Unfortunately, her transformation is made harder by her English-teacher mom, bratty little brother, already popular nemesis, and new neighbor. Although she’s prepared… Continue reading Mia the Meek
Like We Care
Like We Care Tom Matthews What if they just stopped? What if in a grand, scruffy stab at corporate disobedience, teenagers en masse simply stopped spending their money on the cynical crap that’s relentlessly mainlined to them: the addictive and deadly cigarettes, the hateful music, the crude and desensitizing videos and movies?What if they stopped… Continue reading Like We Care
The Deadly Trade
The Deadly Trade Ken Morris Tim Mack is a financial analyst running from a past full of death and drink. But when he leaves the Wall Street rat race hoping to slow down his life in San Diego, he finds that a calm and peaceful existence is just not in the cards. While researching a… Continue reading The Deadly Trade