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Award winner author in both fiction and non-fiction, Virgil Alexander writes about the people and places of his beloved Southwest with realism and enjoyment of the eccentricities and oddities that are part of the landscape and culture. In this 6th book of the Deputy Allred & Apache Officer Victor series, a terrifying and deadly home invasion sets a financial fraud investigator on a quest of vengeance, and Bren into a cat and mouse game to figure out what is going on. Al Victor is frustrated in his efforts to find the missing daughter of a close friend, and his investigation points at a secretive criminal family at San Carlos. Organized crime takes a new twist on old west cattle rustling in Arizona and New Mexico, and Graham County sheriff and San Carlos police join in an interstate joint task force. A new mine opens in Manny Sanchez' territory and brings a shooting, violent protest, and new opportunities for Manny. A long suspected artifact thief finds a legitimate treasure, and puts Graham County deputies into an armed confrontation with federal officers. Fast paced and surprising turns keep the tension high.Award winner author in both fiction and non-fiction, Virgil Alexander writes about the people and places of his beloved Southwest with realism and enjoyment of the eccentricities and oddities that are part of the landscape and culture.

Set in the one-horse, out-of-the-way southern Oregon railroad town of Gold Hill in the 1950s, this poignant but uproarious coming-of-age memoir offers a compelling portrait of what life was like growing up without a father, without indoor plumbing, and with barely enough money coming into the household each month to buy pinto beans and a sack of potatoes. Dealing with humbling poverty, hateful relatives, and grade school bullies on a daily basis, the author's portrayal of the often implausible antics of the Mays family and their relatives and friends are sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes hilarious, but always entertaining. In the Kingdom of Rattlesnakes will keep you in stitches, or tears, or both, from cover to cover.

Hinton, a professor of economics and energy expert at the University of Oklahoma is recruited by the CIA to help find his colleague Doug Ross who is suspected of the murder of an energy analyst in the DC area. The CIA thinks Hinton could find his colleague quicker than they could. Hinton, who had once worked for the CIA, reluctantly agrees. The CIA thinks Ross is in London where two other energy analysts have disappeared. Hinton's involvement in the case takes him to CIA headquarters in Langley, London, Paris, Vienna, and Riyadh. Along the way he encounters fascinating characters, scary adventures, and additional murders. There is no shortage of suspects, including his old Saudi friend from graduate school, Mohammed Rabbani, nicknamed The Rabbi. The oil and gas industry, the energy transition, and oil price volatility play prominent roles in the story. Ultimately, the mysteries are resolved in Hinton's favorite part of the world, West Texas.

Who's poisoning Passover guests in Crestfall, Illinois? When Julia Donnelly brought chopped liver to her Torah group friend Devorah's seder, she had no idea it would result in mass poisoning, murder and a connection to past arson. Julia, wife of Crestfall's mayor, and Rabbi Fine, Torah study group leader, become involved in a mystery surrounding Sophie's Kosher Deli. Someone is trying to put her out of business. Is it Lester Pintner a developer who wants to buy Sophie's book to put up a building, or is it her good-for-nothing son Milton who wants to transform the store into a pool parlor? Could it be Sweet Cheeks a mysterious woman who has attached herself to Mlton, or perhaps, Nate, another deli owner who wants to buy Sophie's store. At the same time, Julia's son Sammy refuses to attend school anymore. How do Julia and her husband Harold cope with such a challenge. Julia, her sons, and Rabbi use their powers of observation and logic from Jewish tradition to solve a confusing puzzle of danger and greed.Heady stuff for a cozy, but humor takes the sting out. The Donnelly family goes at 90 miles an hour, hollering, hugging, and loving. It all works out in the end. Remember, we all have our own michegas. As we say in Yiddish, Plotsn zolstu-fun nachos - May you explode from pleasure...after reading this book. Enjoy.

Product tester and gadget geek Zapporah Leverne shares her home with couch-surfing buddy Sloth and pet cat Rookie. Her big heart gets her into trouble because she's violated her apartment's lease agreement. When her landlady gives her an eviction notice, Zapporah can't believe her eyes since she and the landlady were on good terms, and she's always been on time with her rent. That very night, Rookie displays an unbelievable skill; she's able to set up a chessboard and move chess pieces. Zapporah believes Rookie's skill could help her score the fast money she needs to get new digs.Zapporah re-connects with Kenny, her ex-boyfriend. Although she's forgiven him for catching him getting a lap dance from his boss, Gloria Stravos, Zapporah will not go beyond anything other than getting his help with securing a talent agent for Rookie.Rookie is hired for a commercial, and just as things are about to look up for Zapporah, her intelligent cat is stolen. Sloth and Kenny attempt to outdo each other as they come to her aid to find Rookie.When she gets a strange voice message from Gloria, Zapporah goes to find out what's going on. She finds Gloria murdered. Previous opposition with Gloria implicates her as a suspect. Zapporah's intuition about that strange phone call tells her that whoever stole her cat also murdered Gloria.Zapporah and Sloth are up against a cunning murderer, white supremacists, and an inept cop to find her intelligent cat. Will gadgets, and a strong intuition be enough to help Zapporah find her cat and the murderer?

D. H. Lawrence wrote of the winter on Taos Mountain, "In a cold like this, the stars snap like distant coyotes." In this fifth Pot Thief story, Hubie's official reason for visiting the Lawrence Ranch high on that Mountain is to entertain donors with a presentation about ancient pottery. But his real goal is to find the pot Fidelio Duran presented to D. H. Lawrence as a welcoming gift. Then a snowstorm strands Hubie at the Lawrence Ranch Conference Center, and his new goal becomes survival. Are the guests dying of accidents or is there a murderer among them?

By the onset of her fifties, Patricia Smith Wood, author of the Harriet McKinsey murder mysteries, began to think about the amazing life of her mother, Ruby Ellen Scott Smith. Ruby had overcome a great deal of trauma and unhappiness in her early years. She worked hard to create a good life for herself. She loved to read, and had a vast library to prove it. Music warmed her soul. She was a prolific gardener. She also had a love of birds and maintained feeding stations for all of them well into her 90s.One of her favorite birds was the Cardinal. She'd seen them all her life in Texas and Maryland. When she moved to an area of New Mexico that didn't have cardinals, she started receiving Cardinal-themed gifts from her friends. They gave her refrigerator magnets, coasters, napkins, earrings-all featuring Cardinals.Not long after she died, her daughter Patricia began to received mental "suggestions" to write a book about her mother's life. At first, she dismissed the idea. Then one day my mind started exploring the possibility. I'm a fiction writer, she told herself. And she was very good at that, having won many awards, her favorite probably being the New Mexico Book of the Year Award.But the thought of a biography would not go away, and she began to realize that a book about Ruby's life and the historic events happening in those years might help 21st century people understand what 19th and 20th century people endured all those many years ago.When she finally began writing the biography, she started catalogs containing Cardinal-themed items. Coincidence?She didn't think so. During the years before her mother died, Pat was a catalog junkie, but she never received any with cardinal themes.But after her mother passed, an eruption of catalogs appeared in Pat's mailbox. Almost every other page featured clothing, towels, pillows, and decorative items with Cardinals on them. There was, jewelry, tablecloths, Christmas tree ornaments. It became a running joke every mail delivery.One day, her husband Don said, "Your mother is sending you a message to get back to work on her book." So she took his advice and went back to work.The catalogues still come. Pat feels sure her mother is gleefully laughing. Now that Raising Ruby is finished, she prays the catalog onslaught will stop.

From the dawn of recorded history, poets have sought to distinguish themselves by creating large works of outstanding merit. Matt Flumerfelt labored for 26 years to bring Hercules' story back to life, assembling the relevant material and combining it in an entertaining verse narrative. Students of ancient culture will know what really happened in the original tales, while those looking for a rollicking good read will find plenty to engage their minds and senses. Henry Adams in his autobiography called America "A Hercules in the cradle," and Hercules' tale contains many parallels with modern American culture. All the great cultures have had their national epics and Flumerfelt has poured his considerable verbal resources into making his Hercules epic something that can stand alongside Homer, Virgil, Dante and others and not suffer by comparison. Flumerfelt notes that "Humorous works seem to fare best in the long run with posterity." "H-A Picaresque Novel in Verse," has been called a satire and is the furthest thing imaginable from a dry-as-dust epic. Told in modern idiom, it's a tongue-in-cheek retelling that still captures much of the excitement and bravado that has made Hercules such an enduring fictional character.

A memoir of a survivor of a violent childhood, teen pregnancy, and being a single mother of five children. Determined to get an education, she studied Kant, Hegel, Sartre and, Simone de Beauvoir, became a social worker and the author of five acclaimed novels.

Rodger Madden is immersed in his work when he learns of the Indonesian tsunami. Not realizing a disaster halfway around the world will change his world forever, he shrugs his shoulders and turns back . to the merger that has his full attention. But when an associate tells him the Benson family who owns this business maybe victims of the storm, Rodger realizes he must try to find any surviving family members. Without a living member to preserve the company, he would see his life's work sold to the highest bidder and the funds distributed to charity.His rescue mission is a stern teacher, and he learns just how much he doesn't know about life, compassion, communication, reason, and compromise. He must discover who to trust, and he must do it fast. His world is crumbling, and unlikely sources hold his future . The problem is not merely a natural disaster; its human facets have followed him home.Rodger has been existing, now he must learn to live.

When Bethany Crutchfield failed to show for Sunday brunch and her father's phone calls remained unanswered, concern was warranted. Police officers from "America's Safest City," Irvine, California, discovered a gruesome homicide scene which established Bethany as the first in a series of murders that would ultimately span over two decades. Lincoln 9 takes place in a city whose reputation for safety and affluence overshadows the fact that the relatively few homicides are among the most vicious and complex cases. Lincoln 9 follows the career of Lieutenant Scott Hunter, the consummate cop who leads a team of detectives on a mission aimed at connecting the clues and solving these crimes. The story conveys the pressures of working in an organization whose efforts result in perennial accolades for achieving the lowest numbers of violent crime. In addition, it introduces a look behind the curtain of secrecy shielding the role played by Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Teams in the development of leaders.

Fun. Games. Food. Murder.... Corrie Black, owner of the Black Horse Campground in Bonney County, New Mexico, has her hands full. She has offered to host the annual San Ignacio church fiesta at the campground, she's helping her best friend Shelli deal with a missing ex-husband and troubled teenager, and she's trying to keep the peace between the parish's two most vocal members. When the high school principal is found dead in the church cemetery, Corrie needs answers: Who are the 'ghost girls'? What is causing Shelli's son to get into so much trouble? What is causing the tension between the church secretary and the church treasurer? Are these connected to the murder? And most importantly to Corrie, what is the secret her coworker and friend, RaeLynn Shaffer, is hiding? With the help of Bonney County sheriff, Rick Sutton, and Bonney Detective J.D. Wilder, Corrie tries to unravel the threads. that connect all the mysteries to the fiesta and the Black Horse Campground. But the threads turn into a net that could snare Corrie and her friends in a deadly trap!

Margaret B. Long was arguably the most influential woman in the history of Jacksonville, Florida. A home economist, she supervised the Duval County Schools home economics department for forty three years. More importantly, she wrote daily columns about food and family for the Florida Times Union. During World War II, her columns helped people deal with the war as she shared her wit and knowledge and ended each article with a recipe that dealt with food shortages and rationing. She was a member of the National Defense Council. Everything she did was with poise and grace, and always included a smile and a laugh. Not only was she the life of the party, she knew how to throw one. From a simple barbeque to a formal gathering, she was a master at making people feel welcome.

TAKEN. The timber wolves of Fallston, South Dakota fall prey to an international ring of fur trappers. Unfortunately, timber wolves are not all they capture. Taken by a savage group of criminals and transported half a world away to Denmark, two young boys must set aside their sibling rivalry to survive the violence that surrounds them. HAUNTED. Julie Walker is haunted by the loss of her sons and haunted by the reappearance of the one man she never wanted to see again in her lifetime, Hayden Kolding. He has an agenda, and a surprising ally, forcing Julie to confront a side of herself that she has fought long and hard to deny. HUNTED. But life is seldom simply a matter of black and white. As victim becomes victor and hunter becomes hunted, there is a world of gray. And Gray Walker is out for blood.

Corrie Black, owner of the Black Horse Campground, hopes for a successful start to her summer season but the discovery of Marvin Landry, a long-time guest, shot dead in his own RV, along with $50,000 in cash missing, does not herald a good beginning… especially since the victim's handicapped wife and angry stepson seem to have little interest in discovering who murdered him. Was Marvin's murder planned or just convenient? And is the appearance of a mysterious biker with a shadowy past that includes a recently deceased wife merely a coincidence? Despite opposition from former flame, Sheriff Rick Sutton, Corrie is determined to find out who murdered her guest. But will she find out who is friend or foe before the murderer decides it's the end of the road for Corrie?