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Santa Fe Sacrifice (a.k.a. Sacrifice)Adam Rance, a.k.a. Rance Colby, acquires a driver's license for the first time to please his wife and is promptly summoned for jury duty. Unknown to Rance, both the presiding judge and his old friend General Rubin Brock are responsible for his selection. Their intent is to use the trial of murdered Santa Fe socialite Lillian Saunders as a pretense for enlisting Rance and his unique talents. A major threat to America is eminent. Rance is the logical operative to prevent a disaster of monumental proportions.Against his better judgment and in disguise, he agrees to meet in private with Judge Jaquez. Still unaware of the general's involvement but recognizing the threat to America that the judge had explained, Rance is again forced out of retirement. He now faces the responsibility of saving the life of an innocent man while derailing several foreign governments from stealing plans for a revolutionary biological-bomb. Illegally developed at the U.S. Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, the weapon is in danger of falling into the hands of our enemies-who seek to conquer the United States and bring it to its knees.A murdered woman's heart is missing. A timeworn shrub guards an ancient secret. A long-dead Indian shaman and a mystical giant Blue Rabbit guide Rance through a New Mexican subterranean passage. Unknown to anyone-is who authorized the illegal weapon?"W.R. Park's Santa Fe Sacrifice is a blusteringly original effort that's as timely as it is cautionary. Rich in the kind of detail, plotting, and color akin to the best high action work of Stephen Hunter, David Morrell, and, here anyway, the late great Tony Hillerman, Here is a tale wonderfully plotted and brilliantly told." -USA TODAY'S bestselling author Jon Land

As Jared Delaney rides home from a cattle drive to Colorado, he is haunted by a nightmare of menace and impending change, signified by the moon encircled by a hazy band of light . . . a halo moon. When he arrives in Cimarrón, he is shocked to discover that his friend and mentor, Sheriff Nathan Averill, has been murdered. Against his wife's wishes, he agrees to seek vigilante justice to avenge Nathan's death. Estranged from his family and friends, Jared travels the perilous trail to vengeance, unaware that a truly evil man is stalking him and his family at the same time. Refusing to accept the counsel of those close to him, he finds moral guidance from an unlikely source-a young man with a checkered past on the run from the law. Will the end justify the means? How many people will die along the way?

DANGER IN SPACE!Separated by country and culture, will danger unite Elliot, a young astronaut, and Vincent, a Maasai herder?When NASA selected Elliot to be the first teen in space, he eagerly anticipated the day he would board the space shuttle Endeavour. After intense preparations, Elliot never expected anything to go wrong on his voyage, but when danger threatens, the only contact he has, via shortwave radio, is with Vincent, a Maasai boy in Kenya. The two can't agree on anything. When the Endeavour makes an emergency landing on the coast of West Africa and Elliot's life is hanging in the balance, can he and Vincent reconcile their cultural differences and become friends?"Mikaelsen weaves a provocative message through his novel and blends two fast-paced stories into a single, powerful whole." -Booklist (starred review)

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant,comrades in arms in the Mexican-American War 1846-1848. President Polk, desiring to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean, orders General Winfield Scott to invade Mexico at Veracruz and march inland and capture Mexico City. Mexico controlled much of what is now the southwestern part of the United States and California.Scott arrives at Veracruz with 100 ships crowded with 9,000 soldiers and the tools of war, cannon, muskets and cavalry mounts. Among the soldiers are Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant and Captain Robert E. Lee. Grant, 24 years old, is a hardened combat veteran from fighting with General Taylor in northern Mexico. Lee, 40 years old, is untested in battle. Both men desire grade and glory and it is during war that these can be won if a man acted bravely.General Scott lands his army upon the hostile Mexican shore. After a heavy bombardment of Veracruz, the Americans capture the city. Scott waits for the reinforcements that President Polk had promised. When they do not arrive and his men begin to die from yellow fever, Scott severs his link with the States and his supply base at Veracruz and marches his small army into the mountains. He must capture Mexico City lying in the center of the nation of seven million inhabitants. He will lead his men to victory or death. General Santa Anna is waiting with an army of 30,000 soldiers to annihilate the small force of invading Americans.

Spring 1876 . . . .When a bomb explodes and destroys a sawmill in Glenbrook Harbor, the residents and businessmen on the shores of Lake Tahoe are left reeling. Will Toal and his wife, Beth, are caught in the deadly, fiery fragments of the devastating explosion, and Beth is severely injured.Will gets Beth to the doctor and sets out to find those responsible. Once again, he is drawn back into the crosshairs of business barons clashing among themselves while competing for economic and political clout amid the sliver riches of the West. Will's been in this position before in earlier days, but this time, the big company money is out to get him-and the things just got personal.Will just wants those who hurt Beth brought to justice, but he must find out who's responsible for setting that blast-the first of many to come, if he figures right. With the timber business leveling the forests around Lake Tahoe, and the silver mines clamoring for the necessary wood, the arsonists could be working for anyone. Those who don't believe in the deforestation process will go to any length to save the woodlands, but those who need the jobs lumbering provides are just as determined.Ina race against time, Will is forced to work with an old nemesis, private investigator Dale Paris, to try to stop the arsonists and save the sawmills from disaster. Can they stop the bloodshed? At any price, Will is determined to have CLEAR CUT JUSTICE . . . .

OUTLAWMAN: The Life and Times of Matt WarnerMatt Warner was an outlaw. And a lawman. In a word, an outlawman.Once among the most notorious bandits in the Old West, riding with Butch Cassidy and other famous outlaws, Warner was wanted for crimes across the Southwest, the Northwest, and the Mountain West. After serving time on overblown charges following a shootout, Warner changed his prison stripes for a badge and served as a town marshal, justice of the peace, and deputy sheriff. Whether wearing a black hat, a white hat, or some shade of gray, Warner outlived the Old West but never abandoned its wild and wooly ways.Follow the trail through Brown's Hole, Robbers Roost, and other outlaw enclaves as a mysterious old man tells the outlawman's story in a rundown barroom once owned by Matt Warner himself.

After Dean Martin saves Eddie G. from being hit by a car, Eddie's torpedo buddy Jerry arrives from Brooklyn with the news: somebody's put an open contract out on him. As anybody can cash it in, pros and amateurs alike are coming out of the woodwork to have a shot. So when Eddie is asked by Frank Sinatra to go to LA to help his friend Judy Garland with a problem she's having, Eddie and Jerry seize the opportunity to leave Vegas.Unfortunately the contract follows Eddie there. While doing his best to stay alive long enough to find out who hates him so much they want him dead, Eddie must also solve Judy Garland's problem of a possible stalker and blackmailer.PRAISE FOR RAT PACK MYSTERY NOVELS"Entertaining . . . A breezy period romp" -Publishers Weekly on The Way You Die Tonight"An engaging mix of humor and Vegas history. Randisi's light touch and sense of nice-and easy swingkeeps the plot moving in sprightly four-four time" -Booklist on The Way You Die Tonight"Randisi's eighth Rat Pack mystery delivers a tasty slice of nostalgia with healthy dollop of crime and humor" -Publishers Weekly on You Make Me Feel So Dead"The light, breezy style delivers its own brand of Nelson Riddle, toe-tapping pleasure." -Booklist on It Was a Very Bad Year"Offers plenty of Hollywood glamour." -Publishers Weekly on Fly Me to the Morgue"If you remember the Rat Pack era fondly . . . then you won't stop smiling." -Booklist on I'm A Fool To Kill You"Randisi gives a lively sense of Vegas's glitz and the glittering, feckless people who flourished in the spotlight." -Publishers Weekly on I'm A Fool To Kill You

Las Vegas, 1964: Edward G. Robinson is in town to research his role in the upcoming poker movie The Cincinnati Kid, in which he will star with Steve McQueen. His friend, Frank Sinatra, puts him in touch with Eddie G., Sands Casino pit boss and general 'go to' man in Las Vegas.It turns out that Howard Hughes is also in town, and looking to buy a casino. He's interested in the Sands, and HH usually gets what he wants. Jack Entratter, the owner of the Sands and Eddie's boss, calls on Eddie to deal with the problem.Then, when Entratter's secretary goes missing, Eddie G. needs to turn to his friends the 'Rat Pack' for some much-needed help . . .PRAISE FOR RAT PACK MYSTERY NOVELS"Randisi's eighth Rat Pack mystery delivers a tasty slice of nostalgia with healthy dollop of crime and humor"-Publishers Weekly on You Make Me Feel So Dead"The light, breezy style delivers its own brand of Nelson Riddle, toe-tapping pleasure."-Booklist on It Was a Very Bad Year"Offers plenty of Hollywood glamour."-Publishers Weekly on Fly Me to the Morgue"If you remember the Rat Pack era fondly . . . then you won't stop smiling."-Booklist on I'm A Fool To Kill You"Randisi gives a lively sense of Vegas's glitz and the glittering, feckless people who flourished in the spotlight."-Publishers Weekly on I'm A Fool To Kill You

A fun adventure novel for middle-grade kids 8-14-and young-at-heart adultsAn elderly zookeeper who can converse with animals, a pretty young veterinarian, a fugitive African teen, zoo animals, and kids from the American town of Lincoln join forces in a rousing rebellion to defend zoo animals' rights when a corrupt mayor and his cronies greedily attempt to turn the zoo into an amusement park.The Lincoln Zoo Rebellion deals with animal rights and preservation in an entertaining and humorous way, making it an engaging read for kids from 8 to 14-and young-at-heart adults. It connects with today's kids, who are more aware than previous generations because of the internet and faster moving times. It makes learning more exciting and fun.PRAISE FOR THE LINCOLN ZOO REBELLION"The Lincoln Zoo Rebellion is amazing! The characters are well-developed, the storyline will draw you in, and the fantasy to real life connection is amazing. One of the best books I have read." -Owen, age 10 (6th grade)"I loved this wonderful tale. The hero, Reggie, is a positive Pied Piper. This exciting story helps to foster children's ability to handle tough competition and greed and learn about standing up for one's beliefs with grit, generosity, humor, and love. I recommend it highly and enjoyed it enormously." -Judith Warren, PhD., Psychologist"It's a terrific book! It will have broad appeal to both boys and girls, especially animal lovers (most kids like animals). It's a fast-paced story-very humorous with witty and wonderfully colorful descriptions. I loved Abby Sweet going into the lion's cage, Reggie learning animal languages, and the animals escaping from their cages." I had some good laughs in between holding my breath as the action accelerated." -Alice Kaplan, Librarian"The Lincoln Zoo Rebellion was really creative with the animal voices and was cool that the kids wanted to help make a rebellion. Also, you feel a line of suspense growing and thickening, then it pauses, and a new suspense starts. I learned a lot about animals and especially liked Reggie the Zoo Keeper, Teeny Tiny, and Little Max, and the zoo animals-the Penguins, Rambo the Hippo, Leslie the Ring-tailed Lemur, and the Spotted Hyenas." -Sophia, age 11 (5th grade)

Award-winning writer of Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an "Editor's Choice" by The Historical Novel SocietyThis modern-day, comic farce follows the convoluted paths of an ensemble cast of characters, who coincidentally converge on a small mountain town in north Georgia. There, in historic Lumpkin County, where gold was discovered more than a century and a half ago, a part-Cherokee curmudgeon named Hoke Limberlost has undertaken a mission to right the wrongs of the white man's blight on the once pristine land.

Suburban homemaker Allison Embry believes she has gotten away with killing her young boyfriend... until she gets a call from his drug supplier with a proposition that threatens to destroy her family and the comfortable life she has built.Atlanta Police Lieutenant Paxton Davis, nearing retirement, must find the Midtown Murderer before he strikes again. For Davis, this case is all too reminiscent of the 1979-1980 child murders that marked the beginning of his career.Widowed newspaper writer Tom Williams plans to pursue his lifelong dream, to travel the US and chronicle his experiences. Then Tom receives word that an unknown assailant has killed a third lawyer nearby. As he ponders what else can go wrong, his daughter, a criminal defense attorney, calls to say she's leaving her husband and moving home with her two sons.For Parker, storytelling is all about the characters. Here we meet an assortment of eccentric people, from the affluent to the destitute, the good, the bad, the unforgettable.Pronounced Ponce, Book Three in The Tom Williams Saga, takes us on a high-speed chase through some of Atlanta's most colorful neighborhoods.

Farewell to South Shore taps into and articulates a woman's emotions related to dealing with a changing society, particularly its expectations of women. Farewell to South Shore creates an instant rapport between the main character and the reader who has experienced change in her own life. It explores the sadness of dealing with divorce, single motherhood, a friend's abortion, a beloved cousin suffering from AIDS, changing mores, and the joys resulting from a loving family, rewarding career, finding new love in middle age, and making the world a better place. The book inspires perseverance and determination to help take charge of one's own life in a rapidly changing world-a world vastly different than the idyllic South Shore of the main character's youth.

Cara Knight attends a party in historic Georgetown that turns deadly when she discovers the hostess conked on the head. Can Cara solve the crime, or will it be a case of the housekeeper did it?A mother working toward tenure in academic social work, Cara already juggles enough but can't let an innocent woman go to jail with her children in foster care. Pushing her way into the intrigue, Cara's visiting mother-in-law might end up in the Potomac if Cara can't keep her in check. She'll need to sort through suspects going all the way to Congress and solve the case before Cara's own family lands in danger.Murder in Georgetown is the thrilling book one in The Academic Mom Mysteries. If you like amateur female sleuths in academia, moms struggling with work-life balance, and the backdrop of the nation's Capital, then you will love Jacque Rosman's cleverly constructed new mystery.

Clint's sitting in a chair in front of a hotel in the town of Firecreek, Wyoming. Just sitting there observing the townspeople, he can tell there is much turmoil beneath the surface. Curious, he begins to ask questions, and finds that a swamper in the saloon knows everything because people ignore him. He cleans several of the saloons, and quite a few of the stores, and therefore knows everything that's going on. As a result, Clint gets involved in several disputes which result in lead flying.

Wrong Place...Right TimeFollow Hollywood sensation Al Ferrari on a true-crime odyssey as he navigates the tough urban environment of Greater Boston in the late 1980s. Meet Lonely Larry, Crazy Louie, Jumbo Zal, Pete Pistol and The Plum Girl as they help Al along the way to stardom.In this book, you will learn:- How not to burn a car- How to turn a Celica into a Rolls-Royce- How not to rip off Sears- How to really piss off the Mob. . . and more!Recommended for aspiring celebrities everywhere.Soon to be a motion picture.

Federal Judge Adam Willow, a former Marine commando, demands perfect justice. Some defendants are acquitted by juries in his Chicago courtroom, but none survive. Set in Chicago in the late 1980's and early '90s, the commando Judge takes matters into his own hands. He starts when he is left alone with a defendant who has escaped justice, and in a moment of pure impulse, he kills the man. Emboldened by the experience, he goes on to murder more defendants. But when he kills a corrupt Supreme Court Justice, and an innocent man is put on trial for the murder, Judge Willow faces a crisis of conscience. He tries to save the defendant, but he fails. His law clerk, a beautiful Asian woman with whom he is having an affair, tries to soothe him. But in the end, the Judge must sit in trial on himself in the Court of Last Resort.

A Special Christmas Edition Roxy Doyle and the Christmas GiftRoxy Doyle meets Sam Dunham and becomes more smitten with him than she ever has another man. In fact, she thinks she's in love with him. So when he asks her for a favor, she doesn't see any reason to turn him down. He asks her if she will go to Lincoln, Nebraska and deliver his daughter a special gift for Christmas. He tells her his ex-wife hates him so much she won't let him see the little girl.Roxy rides to Lincoln and finds a town deep in the throes of Christmas. The entire town is decorated, and there's a party in the park. She meets the little girl, and her mother, who turns out to be married to the sheriff. She also hears horrible things about Sam that cause her to think he might not be the man she thinks he is. When there's a bank robbery and a murder, Roxy finds herself on the trail of the culprits, partnered with her most unusual sidekick-Santa Claus!

When thirteen-year-old Ricky Diaz discovers that his mother was murdered by drug dealers, he's desperate for revenge. But his father, a former drug enforcement agent, refuses the mission the DEA now offers: to steal an airplane with an American-made radar detector that the cartel uses to smuggle drugs from Mexico.Angry with his father for throwing away to avenge his mother's death, Ricky decides to take matters into his own hands-he will steal the plane. He runs away to Mexico, disguising himself as one of the many rateros, or homeless children. Life on the streets proves extremely hard and dangerous, and he's barely surviving when he meets Soledad, a crafty but kindhearted ratera. With her help, he must find a way to get into the drug cartel's compound and take the plane-or end up as yet another casualty in the raging drug war.In this thrilling novel, author Ben Mikaelsen sheds light on America's war on drugs and the grittiness of street life while exploring an unexpected friendship and the healing power of family."Readers who require a fast-paced plot with lots of action, tension, and danger will find everything they want in Mikaelsen's latest novel....A dynamite story." -Booklist (starred review)A California Young Readers' Medal WinnerA Pacific Northwest Library Association Readers' Choice

Trouble's brewing.Big trouble.A couple of the big ranchers in the area have been pushing around the smaller ones, bullying them, and a few of the smaller ranchers aren't going to take it anymore. Tom Fielding runs a string of packhorses and works for the big outfits, but that doesn't mean he's ready to stand by and do nothing. Lots of folks have warned him not to take sides, not to make powerful enemies. But Tom knows when something is just plain wrong, you have to stand up against it ... even if that means putting yourself in the middle of an all-out war."Spur-winner Nesbitt doesn't write traditional novels or routine shoot-em-ups. Gather My Horses is an emotional story, full of believable people with rich detail and a sense of purpose. Nesbitt breathes life, rich in characterization, to this beautifully written novel." -Roundup Magazine

AWARD-WINNING AUTHORAmerica's History is His Story, is a daily devotional of history and patriotism. If you embrace the power of the Christian faith, if you love the United States of America, if you cherish your family, and if you respect the contributions of our brave military personnel, then you should love this book. Each daily reading is brimming with the qualities of faith, family and freedom.

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR - ROD MILLEROn a lonely road in a remote desert stands a roadhouse. Formerly a home station on a now abandoned stagecoach route, it is the only source of water and supplies for miles. Accommodations are crude and coarse, the hospitality rough and raw, the proprietor boorish and vulgar. Travelers are few and far between, and almost all must stop for water-which comes at a price. A mounted mail carrier who visits the roadhouse with some regularity suspects there is more to the place than meets the eye, and he comes to believe that for some travelers the roadhouse is the end of the road...All My Sins Remembered is destined to join the ranks of the frontier classic. Here is suspense as taut as freshly strung barbed wire, rock-solid period detail, and an emotional roller-coaster ride set against a West that is both historically accurate and stunningly immediate. Rod Miller does what only a handful of writers have ever done: make you care about (and even perhaps root for) an astonishingly evil man. -Loren D. Estleman Western Writers Hall of Fame authorOne of the more powerfully haunting novels to come along in years, Miller's All My Sins Remembered stands shoulder to shoulder with such literary classics as Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. A brutal, beautifully rendered masterpiece, guaranteed to stay with you long after the last page is turned. -Michael Zimmer Winner of the Spur Award and Western Heritage Wrangler AwardIt is not by chance that Rod Miller has taken his title, All My Sins Remembered, from Shakespeare's Hamlet for this novel. Comparable to the Bard, his book is about madness-with Biblical dimensions. -True West magazine

When Sheriff Heath Royal seeks relief for his tormented conscience by attending church services for the first time since his youth, he is beckoned to an empty seat by the wealthy, recently widowed Rebekka Korhenen Brando, and both are immediately, although unwittingly, stirred by an unintentional rekindling of the feelings that almost led to a marriage between them twenty-five years earlier.Gossipy church members and malicious tongue waggers from the small community of Shady Spring, Texas, watch in amusement and sometimes in horror as the former lovers struggle through a series of challenges and near-death experiences to determine whether the forces of evil or the roundabout intervention of God Himself will allow them a life together.Standing in their way is a demented ranch foreman convinced that he and Rebekka are destined for each other. Heath's dubious future as a lawman, and grudge-bearing outlaws who want to put the sheriff into his grave. The solutions may be divined under the sheltering limbs of a magnificent old oak tree where Heath and Rebekka seek solace and open their hearts to each other.

CALIFORNIA YOUNG READERS' MEDAL WINNER A DARING RESCUE-or a deadly risk?Ever since Josh's older brother died, his father has been drinking too much and taking his anger out on Josh. But when he orphans a bear cub, it's more than Josh can stand. Josh insists on rescuing the bear cub-only to find that he must surrender it to game officials.Knowing the cub will be sent to a research labo­ratory, Josh makes a defiant choice. Taking only his brother's motorcycle, the cub, and his dog, Josh runs away to the mountains, vowing to stay until the hunting laws are changed. But the mountains hold unexpected menace, and Josh's bid for justice soon becomes a battle to survive."A fast and suspenseful survival story."-Bulletin, Center for Children's Books¿ International Reading Association Award Winner¿ Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner¿ California Young Readers' Medal Winner¿ Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Book Award Winner¿ CBC/IRA Favorite Paperback for 1994

Award-Winning author James DuermeyerBones Don't Lie, Book Four, in the Nathan Wolf series: When U.S. Marshal Nathan Wolf is contacted by a rancher regarding the disappearance of horses, he soon finds that there is far more at stake than a few head of livestock. He comes face to face with a bullying outlaw named Ivan Malone who intends to steal the third-generation ranch from its rightful owners through guile, theft, threats, extortion, and ultimately murder of the ranch owners. To further complicate the situation, the list of characters who wish to seek revenge and kill the outlaw continues to grow and includes a nearby Comanche Chief, a prospector's young son, and the outlaw's own mother. With the help of his Texas Ranger friend Ben Steele, it is all Marshal Wolf can do to keep the revenge-minded folks from taking the law into their own hands before the outlaw is brought to justice. But, the road to justice and revenge can take many dangerous and dramatic turns as Marshal Wolf discovers.

And the Wind Whispered, the tale of three teenaged budding reporters who stumble onto a murder, which is only the beginning of the mystery. With visits from a virtual who's who of the Wild West, the boom town of Hot Springs, South Dakota will not soon forget 1894.Praise for And the Wind Whispered"It's rare to find a work that is a real delight in its uniformly feisty, believable protagonists who work within a plot that holds no boundaries. And the Wind Whispered is a remarkable achievement" ¿Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review"...the book begins as any good murder mystery should, with a body. Throw in a dark cave and three snoopy kids, and you've a good story - if you know how to write it...Dan Jorgensen knows how" ¿Kevin Woster, KELO TV"And the Wind Whispered . . . contains several scenes that are so exciting they become almost impossible to put down. ... Jorgensen keeps his characters in plenty of danger throughout, making it easy for readers to keep turning the pages." ¿Paul F. Murray (Reader's Favorite)

Heart of Gold, this historical novel is Book Two, in Under the Canyon Sky: about the early Grand Canyon pioneers. It is the story of gold discovery, copper mines, rockslides, outlaws, beer-drinking burros, a railway on the brink, conflicting federal regulations, and badgering by a flourishing commercial tourist industry that fiercely opposes independents.Monte Bridgestone - miner, trail-builder, guide, hotel manager, and homesteader on the South Rim. He becomes emotionally attached to the Grand Canyon and advocates its protection for future generations to behold, experience and cherish.Kirby and Sabrina O'Brien - their romance springs from below the rim and their life together evolves from prospecting to ranching. They work to preserve the legacy of the canyon pioneers by planning and financing a Canyon Pioneers Museum.Clint McCarty - Monte's mining partner until a falling out over his rampant abuse of mining laws. He opposes making the Canyon a national park and wants it all for himself. His proliferation of mining claims hinders administrative control of the Canyon.Teddy Roosevelt - in his notorious address on the South Rim, he asks that the Canyon remain void of anything manmade. He establishes Grand Canyon National Monument, and twice returns for adventurous canyon mule trips."Follow the twists and turns of mining, politics and romance in Heart of Gold, Dick Brown's well-written continuing saga of pioneer life at the Grand Canyon. A definite page turner!" -Dr. Gary Fogel, Author and Adjunct Professor at San Diego State UniversityThe Grand Canyon's long journey from unexplored wilderness to a great American national park involves tangled bureaucracy, greedy schemes, fraudulent mining claims, and competition between favored commercial operators and private entrepreneurs. The government's rough start in managing this natural wonder and the pioneers conducting their own tourism enterprises create bitter conflicts that last for decades.

2023 FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD OF WESTERN FICTIONEERS2023 FINALIST, WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARDIt's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den.Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his adult sister, Mary, who teaches in the Esperanza school. As Jack assimilates to life in Esperanza, the threat of Rangers looms large. Eventually a day of reckoning descends, and it envelops Jack and Mary and the entire village.This novel is based on what actually happened at Porvenir, Texas, on January 28, 1918-the darkest moment in Texas Rangers history.

Water...Every man needs it; one cannot live without it!A loving mother and her son, a malevolent husband, a gambler, a band of outlaws, a fierce Apache brave, and two determined lawmen are ALL in need of water. Their desperate pursuit of water eventually leads their individual paths to converge, ultimately culminating in multiple acts of conflict and violence.Who among them will live?Who will Die?Who will find water?

When Tip Creston comes to the town of Greenwood, he learns of the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old Romanian girl ten years earlier. Before long, a neighboring wheat farmer is found dead. Suspicion falls on a rancher who has been carrying on with the farmer's wife, but there is no compelling motive. Then Tip learns that the wheat farmer was in collusion with the owner of the grain elevator to embezzle wheat.The disconsolate boyfriend of the missing girl is obsessed with the case and begins to meddle. Not much later, the housekeeper for the grain merchant's mother is found dead on the open range.In town, Tip follows the crowd to the grain elevator, where the disconsolate boyfriend has gone after the grain dealer in the offices on the second story. He pursues the grain dealer out onto the roof and has a confrontation.Many of the townspeople are reluctant to take the initiative to know more, but Tip feels a need to continue to push for the truth about what happened to Rosina Petrescu, the rose of Greenwood.

Spur Award-Winning Author Patrick DearenSTARFLIGHT TO ETERNITY(a.k.a. Starflight to Faroul)"I held the secret of creation in my hands, but I lost it and can never have it again!"Starflight to Eternity, a wizened old man named Kasterfayette has returned from deep space, bearing a strange tale of the planet Faroul. This legendary world is said to be a place where time began and ends, and where a man may gain the power to create. But Faroul is much more, for it holds the destiny of the universe.Alan Burke, a young officer assigned to a starship, deserts when superiors hurl missiles against his home planet. Turning to space piracy, he takes vengeance by preying on government ships. During an attack on a transport, Burke rescues Kasterfayette, a top-secret prisoner who whispers in his dying breaths the location of Faroul.Along with a vicious conspirator called Poteet, a prostitute named Davon, and a young man he loves as a son, Burke sets out on a perilous interstellar journey for Faroul and the deepest secrets of the cosmos.