Nestled in the remote Rocky Mountains of Montana resides the Thief Creek Inn, a rustic bed and breakfast where this fast-paced thriller takes hold. A place to relax and enjoy the peaceful and wildly beautiful surroundings, the inn captivates two Ohio newlyweds on their honeymoon. The innkeeper is a peaceful man who, with his wife, a nurse, bought the inn as a retreat from their stressful lives in Seattle. Life suddenly changes for them all when the violent Toomey brothers, on the run after their escape from prison, seek out a secluded hideaway. Butch, the lumbering tattooed murderer; Jesse James, the cruel gang leader; and JP are desperately trying to save the life of their younger brother, Tommy, when an accident brings them into the Thief Creek Inn and the lives of its residents.

Thief Creek

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Soldevilla, Jeremy J.

Thrillers & Suspense

Christopher Matthews Publishing

A tragic and honest musical, this drama is centered on the life of Father Christopher Joyce, a middle-aged pastor searching for the Divine while struggling with love in a crisis of intimacy. The story follows Christopher from his youth—purging sins in confession and vomiting his First Communion to learning about passion in a steamed-over Ford—to his adult life where he is tapped to become bishop while loving two women at the same time: the beautiful Angela and Holy Mother the Church. The lifting and magical score of master composer Eric Funk adds drama and pathos to this plays that deals with Father Christopher's dilemma, and full musical scores of each song are also included.

The Collar: A Musical

Literature & Fiction

Funk, Eric

Seitz, Frank C.

Dramas & Plays

The story of a vaccine to save over 500,000 of the worlds children each year from the deadly virus rotavirus. Raised on a Montana ranch, Dick Ward was an unlikely candidate to become an eminent virologist. Yet, despite a less than stellar early academic career, the authors innate competitive spirit helped him redirect what he learned through life to accomplish something deeply important. The myriad mishaps encountered during his search for a meaningful personal, religious and scientific life provide familiar, often funny, if not uncomfortable, touchstones to which each of us can relate. - See more at: http://christophermatthewspub.com/dead-ends-to-somewhere/#sthash.NTc7N8TR.dpuf

Dead Ends to Somewhere

Biographies & Memoirs

Ward, Richard L.

Historical

The first book in an exciting adventure series—the Temple Buck Quartet—that chronicles the rise and fall of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade, this volume is a coming-of-age story set in the first two years of the fur trade, 1822–24. Temple Buck is a young man whose rollicking tale begins with growing up in the Ohio wilderness before he is kidnapped by an evil keelboat captain. After his rescue by a beautiful St. Louis madam, he finally enlists in the first expedition up the Missouri River to the beaver-rich Rockies for a wealth of adventure and new experiences. This painstakingly researched tale blends historical and fictional characters into a colorful tapestry of actual events spiced with bloody battles, Indian customs, homespun humor, and earthy romance.

Backbone of the World: A Personal Account of the American Rocky Mountain Fur Trade 1822 1824 (Temple Buck Quartet)

Henry, Edward Louis

Genre Fiction

The story of the death and resurrection of a man's soul. Carlton Book is an accountant. He conducts his life as he does the spreadsheets he works on; with careful review of all the variables. His philosophy serves him well in his other profession: an assassin. When he goes to his next 'assignment' he finds his target has already been murdered by a serial killer known as 'The 3-Monkey Killer'. Book must now find the killer before the killer finds him, and before he is arrested for the psychopath's crimes. And before his own crimes are revealed.

Reflection from the Abyss

Gibbs, Bertram

Mystery

In this third volume of the Temple Buck Quartet, Temple returns to the Rockies in 1828, rejoins his trapping group, and resumes the carefree life of the American fur trapper where he left two years earlier. Temple and his companions explore uncharted, beaver-rich country, gaining valuable experience in a changing and expanding fur trade. Their personal lives change as well, taking on new responsibilities while enjoying the freedom of the Rocky Mountains. The rich flavors of this life are much improved by the group’s now wider knowledge, deeper experience, and greater appreciation of everything that living in the American wilderness offers to bold men.

Shinin' Times!: One Trapper's Personal Chronicle of the American Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, 1828 1833 (Temple Buck Quartet)

In this captivating young adult novel, Ashlyn McVean is thrown into the crosshairs of grudges her grandmother created long ago when she finds out she is one of two people able to cross between faerie realms. Never having believed in fairy tales, Ashlyn is faced with trying to understand her abilities, while navigating a new relationship with her boyfriend, Liam. As if being on a centuries old hit list and dealing with crazed pixies isn’t enough, her new abilities mean danger for Liam and everyone else she loves. Ashlyn must decide what’s more important to her—her regular life with friends and family or her life within the faerie realms.

Bridger

Children's Books

Curd, Megan

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The second novel of the Temple Buck Quartet, this volume chronicles the exploits of Temple Buck and his rowdy trapper companions in the American Mountain fur trade from 1824 to 1826. The group push even farther west in their quest for beaver pelts, exploring new country and encountering fresh adventures, with some of them welcome and others not at all. The heavily researched tale, told in Temple’s own words, blends historical and fictional characters against a colorful backdrop of actual events flavored with gory battles against hostile Indians, humor, and romance, culminating in his disappointing return to his Ohio birthplace.

Free Men: One Trapper's Personal Account of Two More Years in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade 1824 1826 (Temple Buck Quartet)

United States

Shinin' Times! (Temple Buck Quartet Book 3)

Publishing, First Steps

Poredevil's Beaver Tales by Edward Louis Henry is a collection of 24 humorous mountain man tall stories narrated in a loose sort of verse in the voice of a tough, experienced, early-19th Century Rocky Mountain Fur Trapper. These stories are mainly addressed to greenhorns newly come to the mountains, but they are also intended to mystify and amuse veteran companions starved for entertainment. A few of the tales are a re-telling of the whoppers of Jim Bridger and Black Harris, such as Bitter Crick and The Peetrified Mountain. Most are original outrageous lies of Henry's own, related in the mountaineer tradition. All of the stories contain glimpses of the difficult, dangerous life of that rowdy breed of men who challenged America's unchartered wilderness and who survived and triumphed because of their courage, fortitude and unquenchable laughter in the face of hardship and peril. Come along and sprawl beside a beaver camp cookfire and hear how it was-and wasn't-in the Rocky Mountain fur trade.ALSO BY EDWARD LOUIS HENRYThe TEMPLE BUCK QUARTET A Rocky Mountain OdysseyVolume 1: Backbone of the World (1822-1824) Volume 2: Free Men (1824-1826) Volume 3: Shinin' Times (1828-1833) Volume 4: Glory Days Gone Under (1833-1837)

Poredevil's Beaver Tales: A Double Dozen Mountain Man Tales Told in Hip-Sprung Verse

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