Souvenir
Everyone has at least one souvenir sitting on a shelf or hanging on a wall. Why do we buy them? What do they represent? How did the practice start? All these questions and more are answered in this cute little information-packed book. There are three types of souvenirs discussed inContinue Reading
Great Alone
“In Alaska you can make one mistake. One. The second one will kill you.” It’s 1974 and the world is imploding. Watergate. Vietnam. Black panthers. Gas shortages. Protests. Revolutionaries. Kidnappings. Serial Killers. After receiving an unexpected inheritance, thirteen year old Leni and her parents, Cora and Ernt, move toContinue Reading
Curses, Boiled Again!
Curses, Boiled Again! is a great old fashioned small town cozy mystery. Allie is a ballerina in Boston who recently broke her foot. While recuperating, she is helping her Aunt Gully with her lobster shack in New England. As the book opens, Aunt Gully is appearing on a YUM networkContinue Reading
Anatomy of a Scandal
In Anatomy of a Scandal, a plodding pace and unsympathetic characters ruin a timely high-concept plot. Anatomy of a Scandal details what happens to supporting players when someone is accused of a sexual assault that may or may not be consensual. It is set in the British government. The bookContinue Reading
Need to Know
While doing your job as a CIA Analyst, you find something that will rip your family apart. Do you reveal it to your superiors? Vivian is a counterintelligence agent with the CIA. While employed, she developed a new program to find Russian sleeper cells inside the United States. She isContinue Reading
Watch Me
When does love and attraction turn into obsession? Sam Grist is a college student in Kate Youngblood’s writing workshop. Kate is impressed with his writing style. She is also feeling a “strong river current” pulling her towards him. However, Kate is hoping to get tenure. Starting an affair with aContinue Reading
Smoke City
Have you ever thought, “Every plot has already been used so what’s the point in reading (or writing) another”? If so, Smoke City is going to surprise you. No book or movie is anywhere near its plot for imagination and creativity. Smoke City is a captivating genre-smashing novel. Here areContinue Reading
Lee Hammond’s All New Big Book of Drawing
Really two books in one, this book includes a full book on graphite pencil drawing and a second on drawing using colored pencils. Only requiring pencils, paper, erasers, blending tortillions and stumps plus spray fixative, the author’s technique creates well shaped images that appear 3-D. The book begins simply withContinue Reading
A Treacherous Curse
Veronica and Stoker are back! The Tiverton Egyptian Expedition digs up a cache of Eighteenth Dynasty goods including a sarcophagus. A series of misfortunes make the public assume the Expedition is cursed. When a former friend of Stoker disappears along with the diadem, or jeweled crown, of the dead EgyptianContinue Reading
City of Endless Night (Pendergast #17)
When the first decapitated corpse was found in a Queens garage, it seemed like just a “routine” murder in New York City. However, when the next victim was found, the press is convinced someone is targeting the ultra-rich. Pendergast is pulled into the case by his NYPD friend, Vincent D’Agosta.Continue Reading
Satania
Unique adults-only graphic novel. Young Charlotte is looking for her older brother, Christopher, who was lost in underground tunnels. Christopher was looking to prove his theory that demons are really just another evolutionary chain from monkeys rather than hellish monsters. Charlotte and her team of five are lost in theContinue Reading
The Chalk Man
Perfect paranormal suspense for fans of early Stephen King like Stand by Me. Eddie, Fat Gav, Metal Mickey, Hoppo and Nicki are 12 year old friends in an English market town one summer in 1986. At the suggestion of their school’s new art teacher, Mr. Halloran, they use different coloredContinue Reading
The Wife Between Us
The Wife Between Us is the whiplash-inducing thrill ride of 2018! Nellie is about to marry the man of her dreams, Richard a hedge fund manager in New York City. Vanessa is jealous of her ex-husband Richard’s new fiancée and attempts to stop the wedding. The Wife Between Us startsContinue Reading
Pre-meditated Murder
Good solid cozy with authentic characters. Kate owns a yoga studio. Michael, her live-in boyfriend, owns a pet store. Together they are renovating the house they live in that Kate inherited in Seattle. After not getting the engagement ring she was expecting, Kate asks Michael why they aren’t moving forwardContinue Reading
The Bomb Maker
A deadly cat and mouse game between a bomber and the LAPD Bomb Squad. Dick Stahl is the owner of a security company. He is famous for doing whatever it takes to rescue American business people from kidnappers in foreign lands. Dick was also a former head of the LAPDContinue Reading
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie highlights female writers of crime fiction from 1850-1917. These writers opened the door for the golden age, 1920-1939, of detective fiction led by many female authors like Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The introduction gives a comprehensive history of pre-goldenContinue Reading