Boothenay Irons possesses a mysterious power that allows her to go back in time and experience the history held within an antique gun. This time it's a 1911 Colt .45 Automatic and it has a mysterious power of its own. When Boothenay's fiance, Caleb, picked up the gun he immediately vanished and found himself in the midst of World War I. His only chance to return to the modern world is through Boothenay's extraordinary power. She must go back to 1911, find Caleb and bring him back. Boothenay is escorted back to 1911 by a mysterious old man whose power is equal to her own, but she is suspicious of the man and tries to solve the mystery about him while looking for Caleb.

Shadow Soldier (The Gunsmith)

Literature & Fiction

Crigger, C.K.

Genre Fiction

City Lights Press

The gay 1890s aren’t always. Gay, that is. Sometimes life is dangerous. In 1896, there aren’t many career choices for a young lady. China Bohannon has fled one bad situation and is looking to start her life over as a strong, independent woman in the wild and woolly town of Spokane, Washington. The trouble is, convincing Gratton Doyle to take her seriously as a bookkeeper is hard enough, and when it comes to working as an investigator in the Doyle &amp; Howe Detective Agency, it’s well-nigh impossible. But what if China is able to solve a murder case no one else wants to take on, that of a young girl found dead, her body tossed in the river? If she can avoid being the next murder victim, will Gratton hire her then? There’s only one way to find out.

One Foot On The Edge (A China Bohannon Novel)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

In 2005, Jeff Bailey, 42, is called to Las Vegas by his best friend, Homicide Detective Danny O’Brien, to identify a Jane Doe at the coroner’s office. Twenty years before as a young aspiring writer from Ohio, Jeff came to town looking for a story worth writing about. And now that search has come back to haunt him. On the Vegas Strip in 1985, Jeff met an escort who called herself Angelique, but her real name was Mindy Spires, a young hustler who was touched enough by Jeff’s curiosity and innocence that she gives him her real name and number. Jeff’s sincerity (“I’m a writer”) also wins over Guy Reinhart, Mindy’s morbidly-obese, gangster-wannabe pimp who believes that Jeff could write their life story, making them all rich and famous. Over the next two years, Jeff is welcomed into Mindy and Guy’s underworld of sex and money, when Sin City and the Mob were losing out to the FBI, AIDS, and corporations. But the most devastating turn in Guy’s “success story” was the blizzard of cocaine that looked like their actual big pay-off. Guy and Mindy’s move into coke distribution—along with snorting massive amounts themselves—kills the narrative of Mindy riding off for a legitimate life with Jeff far away from the Vegas Strip. Instead, Jeff has to flee from his Vegas friends—but not before they involve him in a drug deal gone wrong that results in several casualties, leaving him with a story he can never tell. Now that Mindy’s body has been discovered, Jeff must help his friend identify her and possibly help piece together the sad end of her life—hopefully without implicating himself in the process. VEGAS WORKING GIRL isn’t just a misguided love story of two young people looking for luck and redemption in an absurd neon fantasy; it’s also a love story for the craziest, most surreal place on earth: Fabulous Las Vegas!

Vegas Working Girl

Kestner, John

Jeff Bailey is turning 40. Settled and happily married, he spends his nights writing unsold screenplays while working security at a remote desert nuclear power plant after 9/11. Surfing the web one night, he sees the name of his first love, Shelley Dawson, pop up on a high school website. Bailey offers to dig out his journals and take them both back to the summer of 1981 in Ohio. She never knew he kept a detailed journal about his time with her so, uneasy but curious, she allows him into a past she can’t remember to see what he finds.Surprised by how much he’d forgotten, Bailey returns to the single summer that first broke his heart and made him a stranger to his own life and to the only world he’d ever known. The end of his childhood and the beginning of what his young parents always warned him about: dreaded adulthood. Transcribing his journals to a distant lost love, the adult Bailey follows his doomed teenage self, reliving the discovery and pain as he retraces his first feelings for Shelley, unearthing and unleashing emotions that hold consequences for them both all these years later.

Yesterday Rules

Humor & Satire

Expectations: A Sequel Inspired by Pride and Prejudice

Romance

Adkins, Samantha

Collections & Anthologies

How is pregnancy at all fair? All that men contribute to the process is to have an orgasm? Seriously? Women have to go through nine of the all time worst months of our entire life – and then childbirth – and then breastfeeding. We kind of hate men for this. About That Pregnancy Glow is a laugh out loud journey through the joys and pains of pregnancy and early motherhood. It is a fun, crass, and heartfelt look at the greatest year of a woman’s life. You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, and you’ll remember just why every bit of annoying, overwhelming, painful suffering is worth it.

About That Pregnancy Glow

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Righter, Twyla

Women's Health

Either they're living their own adolescent adventurous fantasy or witnessing the dawn of a supernatural invasion. Whatever it is, college student Patrick Buchanan and his friends unwittingly fall to the core of a rogue geneticist's plan to reshape the world. Once they're framed for an esteemed philanthropist's murder, they must work together to uncover the man's end game while digging into their own unpleasant pasts. But what's the point of adventure if you don't make friends? Whether human or not.

The Raven Gang (Noble Animals)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Walsh, Brendan

Fantasy

A collection of humorous essays spanning parenting, adulting and life in general from a woman who is just trying to figure it all out and help you along the way. Twyla Righter is a wife, mother of three and comic relief when life is a little too serious. In these laugh out loud essays, Twyla Righter takes us through her holiday disasters, mental health, the importance of parenting, the lessons she’s learned and the struggles she’s still enduring. After all, there’s no manual when you’re always on the job.

On The Job Training

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Former soldier Frankie McGill has returned home from Afghanistan minus half of her right foot, a plate in her head, and PTSD. After some months in medical care, she's ready to take on the new battle of finding and holding a job. But not just any job. Frankie is a combat-trained paramedic. When all she can find is a position in the small, mostly volunteer fire department of her old hometown, she's immediately plunged into much more than dealing with her own trauma. She moves into a duplex the previous tenant abruptly abandoned and soon discovers someone has dark secrets to hide and they don't care who they have to kill to keep them hidden. Will Frankie's military training and experience be enough to save her life? Fans of Margaret Mizushima and Barbara Nickless are sure to love this mysterious page turner by award-winning author C.K. Crigger.

Hometown Homicide

Six Dancing Damsels (China Bohannon)

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