International cable TV journalist Charlotte Ansari and her Asperger’s son are caught literally in the crossfire of history when terrorists, the CIA, Mossad (Israeli intelligence) and the Vatican all converge in a pulse-pounding search for two relics that could eviscerate Christianity and forever change the balance of power in the world.Three decades ago, Charlotte’s mother suddenly vanished with no trace. The mystery was never solved. Then suddenly, on the same day that Charlotte’s home is attacked by terrorists, her son receives an email from the grandmother that he has never known. The coded message catapults Charlotte and her son on a dangerous mission to India and Kashmir to find the only objects that can save the old woman’s life. Unfortunately, Charlotte and her autistic son don’t know what they are looking for.The Shekinah Legacy is a thriller in the tradition of Dan Brown, Steve Berry and James Rollins. In this provocative novel, author Gary Lindberg uses the form of the thriller to explore the limits and perils of belief.

The Shekinah Legacy (A Charlotte Ansari Thriller)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Lindberg, Gary

Thrillers & Suspense

Calumet Editions

After weeks of self-exile on Tortola, day-sail skipper Captain Brian returns to St. Judas, home to pirates, fairy dust, and little boys who never grow up. Girded for the final showdown with his wife, Billie, and the man who has been monopolizing her time, he finds a disgruntled heir, Spanish gangsters, and a dead tourist, whose murder the police in two countries are trying to pin on him. Trying to pin him down is a Lufthansa flight attendant, as aggressive as his adversaries. Betrayed by friends and spouse, his baker’s dozen of foes, including an obeahmon, torment and befuddle him. He gets little help in turning his life right side up except from Elroy, his Flamingo Bay irregular.

Low Jinks on the High Seas

Literature & Fiction

Charles Locks

Literary

★★★★★ "I loved this book! Why? Because Bruce Rubenstein got it. He got it! He got the voice and he held it, faultlessly. He got the vocabulary of the time, the place, the story, the characters." ★★★★★        HannaJeane (Amazon review)★★★★★ "I have to say I could not get Mike Hammer out of my mind during this book. PI Martin McDonough is written with some similarities to Mike. This is a fast read and I liked it very much." ★★★★★       Dorothy "DottieH", Jersey City (Amazon review)★★★★★ "If you like Humphrey Bogart, murder mysteries, snappy dialogue and great characters, you will love this book." ★★★★★       BEC (Amazon review) It's 1934, the depth of the Great Depression, but business is good for Martin McDonough, a private eye who is in the right place at the right time. There are plenty of unsolved murders in St. Paul, a city with such a corrupt police force that it has become a haven for trigger-happy gangsters. McDonough is used to solving crimes the easy way, by persuading his copper pals to give him the low down. But when a newspaperman becomes the victim of a gang hit, and his pretty widow wants to know why, things get complicated. McDonough might end up dead, or worse yet, married. ★★★★★ "Smoke is set in 1934, the year Samuel Dashiell Hammett wrote his final novel, "The Thin Man." Why make this connection? Well...Hammett is hard-boiled detective fiction, and gumshoe Martin McDonough IS St. Paul's version of Sam Spade. Even without the cameos by John Dillinger, Bugsy Siegel, and Baby Face Nelson, there is such attention to detail and such authenticity -- albeit politically and socially incorrect -- to Rubenstein's tale that I couldn't put it down and pushed straight through to the nd." ★★★★★       Charles Locks       Award-winning author of Low Jinks on the High Seas

Smoke

Rubenstein, Bruce

Mystery

★★★★★ The world is again the stage for Gary Lindberg's latest thriller, "Sons of Zadok," a sequel to The Shekinah Legacy, peopled with prophets and pariahs, geeks and gunmen, families and family trees more twisted than ancient bristlecone pines. Lindberg's masterful melding of fact and fiction makes suspension of disbelief a non-factor, always a requisite for the reader's complete enjoyment--not a mark every writer of thrillers reaches. ★★★★★ Charles Locks, author, Low Jinks on the High Seas.The Mother of All ConspiraciesCharlotte Ansari, international correspondent for CCN, has a problem. Her investigation into a clandestine society of assassins has made them very angry. And that's not the most frightening part. Her Asperger's son, who is now the leader of this global, murder-for-hire organization, has assigned its top-ranked assassin to take care of the problem.This second book in the exciting CHARLOTTE ANSARI THRILLER series takes readers far beyond the boundaries of the first book. This wild ride moves from New York, to Ireland and the Turkish desert as Charlotte and her unwitting companions attempt to penetrate the greatest conspiracy in history. To solve the mystery, Charlotte and her companions must use super-fast quantum computers, decipher the ancient text of the Book of Enoch, trace the bloodlines of Jewish priests back thousands of years, and explore the buried ruins of the oldest temple on earth. The conspiracy they discover, however, is as modern as today's headlines. And even more frightening.

Sons of Zadok

This book is a historical overview of the life and coaching career of Roy Griak, who served as Track & Field coach as well as cross country coach for the University of Minnesota Gophers, and the St. Louis Park High School Orioles.

Ten Yards Beond the Finish Line Coach Roy Griak A Journey in Marron and Gold

Don Timm with Lindsay Nielsen

It is 1993 and Ashley Cooper, in his fiftieth year, loves his work at a prestigious law firm, dealing with post-perestroika Russia. He has it all: a 5th Avenue penthouse overlooking New York’s Central Park, membership in all the right clubs, fast cars, and an even faster mistress. But people start dying, including his wife and some close family and friends. With the help of his beloved teenaged daughter, Annie, he begins studying diaries written by his real father and grandfather, which expose the World War Two atrocity of Iron Cage” and the presence of supernatural forces working to hide him from those who would assassinate him. He is the hidden prince, destined to lead the Iskandarov clan into the 21st century, and he must be severely tested by the formidable forces of the Polinkov—the deadly rivals of the Iskanderov for millennia. This is the first novel in a series called People of the Blood.

The Hidden One

Mitchell, Norm

The Lion of Tupungato

Children's Books

Benson, Leanne M.

Animals

In this heartwarming tale, Kai the Minnesota-born yellow Labrador retriever recounts how she and her two dads adopted her human brothers. With her unique canine voice, Kai narrates the arrival of Isaac in 1999, then Jason in 2002. Through her stories, Kai delivers a gift that will lead to both laughter and tears as you follow this dog’s amazing journey to create her own pack.

Retrieving Isaac and Jason

Humor & Entertainment

Foster, Elliott

Fliés, Ken

Humor

"Letters from Elvis" may be the most important and revealing book ever written about ‘The King.’ It is based on a cache of 265 handwritten and authenticated letters by Elvis Presley and a small circle of close friends to a secret spiritual guide. Never has such a candid and intimately revealing collection of letters surfaced about such a well-known celebrity. “Letters from Elvis” is a mind-blowing revelation of Elvis’s inner life, an exposé of heinous Hollywood crimes, a touching tale of friendship, a haunting ghost story, and… a series of new Elvis mysteries. Taken together with the story of one man’s struggle to publish this material, these elements go a long way to explain Elvis Presley’s tragic decline.

Letters from Elvis: Shocking Revelations to His Secret Confidante

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The extraordinary life of Marilène Phipps began in Haiti—the magical island of African Vodou gods who followed their devotees on the slave ships, and the world’s first black republic—the singular cultural context and exotic milieu of the Caribbean, where hell and paradise can transfix us daily. In this powerful memoir, we enter the lives of a family who are both descendants of European aristocrats and African slaves. We meet Phipps’s godfather, the rebel leader Guslé Villedrouin, and we relive her experiences with Vodou priests and spirits, a cold-eyed pope, a charismatic Muslim astrologer, Catholic monks and exorcists, American Mormon bishops, scholars and missionaries. Through it all, we are stirred by the antithetical feel of entitlement and destitution, barbarism and lyricism, infinity and insanity. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti brings a collapse to Phipps’s world, but is also the start for her to find modern answers to the ancient questions, “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?”

Unseen Worlds: Adventures at the Crossroads of Vodou Spirits and Latter-Day Saints

Phipps, Marilène

Community & Culture

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