<p>A stolen ruby from India, a "talking" cat named Dao, gypsies, drug runners, and a smart and plucky young heroine named Brooke: Jerry Craven's new novel Searching for Rama's Spear has all the ingredients of a first-rate mystery. And the deft plot-twist at the end will surprise and delight even the most experienced whodunnit buffs. With its lush setting in the Big Thicket of East Texas, its gorgeous illustrations by artist Amy Ness, and its beautifully photographed essays on the Big Thicket ecosystem and Indian gemstones, Searching for Rama's Spear has something for readers of all ages to savor.</p>

Searching for Rama's Spear

Jerry, Craven

Slough Press

In 1952, in a botched attempt to hitch a ride to a nearby village, Rosita and Don become lost in a Venezuelan river jungle. The children steal a canoe from a gang of murderous bandits only to float deeper into a world inhabited by vampire bats, Jesus frogs, anacondas, and killer crocodilians. While they find much in the jungle to fill them with wonder and delight, Rosita and Don fast realize that even some of the outrageously funny adults along the river might harm or even kill them. The Wild Part shows readers a world of comedy, beauty, and danger through young, unjaded eyes and reminds us all of times when rules were merely guidelines, when the chaos of the present hour offered limitless possibilities, both dangerous and beautiful

The Wild Part

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Angelina River Press

<p>This barnburner novel gets underway with parallel catastrophes: the murderous Russian invasion of Baku in 1990 and the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan that destroyed the city in 1221. Thus begins a fascinating tale of alternating time planes when a misstep in either might alter--or abolish--history in both. The authors tease us with classic time-travel paradoxes--the butterfly effect, the predestination paradox, the nature of time, and above all, the moral choice Tejmur must make to kill or spare the life of Genghis Khan. But while these alternatives enrich the narrative and open up possibilities undreamed of in our supposedly linear time, they do not supplant the prevailing human qualities of love and loyalty. The possibility of time travel remains unsettled, but there is no doubt about its grip on our imagination. 'Parallel Hours' is one of the most skillfully crafted work in the genre.</p>

Parallel Hours

This volume consists of twenty-five stories, five each by five Texas writers. Except for the five points of the Texas Lone Star, there’s nothing particularly Texan about the number five―nor the number twenty-five―yet the stories whole-heartedly represent many facets of Texas. In fact, it doesn’t get more Texas than this. Or more fittingly, I might say it don’t get more Texas.The stories in Texas 5X5 offer both traditional themes and ideas and subjects that are pure Texan. These stories accomplish what solid fiction should in offering thoughts about the more profound ideas we ponder: love, life, death―all told among cowboy-boot kickers and topped with a Stetson.

Texas 5X5: Twenty-Five Stories from Texas

Andrew Geyer

Terry Dalrymple

United States

Stephen F. Austin University Press

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Searching for Rama's Spear

The Wild Part

Parallel Hours

Texas 5X5: Twenty-Five Stories from Texas