New York critic R. Rabinowitz called this lyrical novel of misplaced desire and ambition, thwarted passion, and enduring love, “Beautiful, wondrous, and wise.” Coleman, who lived on a small Italian island for almost a year, an island that could have been one of Homer’s mythic places, has woven family legend into a story of tragedy, triumph, and the healing power of art and music. Hollywood agent Bettye McCartt has called “The Italian Quartet”…”A classic that will still be in print in two hundred and fifty years,” and film-maker and producer Ismail Merchant captivated by Coleman’s depiction of island life contrasted with the magical allure of Venice had it in his sights for another of his enchanting productions at the time of his death.. “The Italian Quartet” weaves a never-to-be-forgotten spell.

Mountain Time: A Western Memoir (Five Star Western) (Five Star Western) (Five Star Westerns)

Literature & Fiction

Jane Candia Coleman

Genre Fiction

Five Star Trade

Brandt is a down-and-out guitarist and vocalist who believes his life has hit rock bottom. He can barely make the rent on his apartment, he drinks so much he can barely make it to the crappy gig that keeps his band afloat, let alone play when he gets there. When he leaves the bar one dark night with a bottle of Jose Cuervo in one hand and his guitar case in the other, he finds he's locked out of his apartment with nowhere to go. As he stands alone in the dark and feeling sorry for himself, he hears a lone harmonica being played in the distance. The sound is deep and powerful, and something in the music draws him away from his doorway and into an old alley where the homeless gather around garbage-can fires. What he finds there is the harmonica player -- an old black man who can play the blues like Brandt dreams of doing himself. When he begs the old man to teach him, Brandt finds that he has been both gifted and cursed. 
 David Niall Wilson lives in North Carolina.

Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy - Deep Blue

David Niall Wilson

High-spirited horse trainer Jessica Stanson stumbles into the perfect job on one of the most elite ranches in Montana. Or at least it would be if her boss, ex-detective Michael Carven, stopped acting like he didn't want her there. Jessica has to prove herself to him on the ranch, and also try to penetrate his armor to get to the man inside. Michael Carven is a man who has left a difficult past behind him, and now works at his dream job raising horses under the Montana sky. But he knows that the past has a way of coming back to him, and soon enough, it does. A wave of violence hits the nearby small town of Riverside, nestled deep in the mountains, as a cunning serial killer preys on the population. Against his will, Michael finds himself both drawn into the case and coming to care for his independent new trainer. And if having a killer on the loose wasn't enough, his two worlds collide when Jessica becomes the only material witness in the case. Before it is over, Michael and Jessica will put everything they know and hold dear on the line to catch a vicious, cunning killer - and to protect each other as well.
 Aris Whittier is a freelance writer who lives in northern California.

Five Star Expressions - Fatal Embrace

Romance

Aris Whittier

Contemporary

Amish woman Sara Lapp is shunned for studying to become a midwife. Her first call to tend a birth comes from Mad Adam Zuckerman. But Adam's wife has already died, and Sara learns that Adam called her only to take his children. Adam is afraid he will hurt his children in the way his father hurt him. Without his wife to protect them, Adam must find someone else, and he can think of only one woman brave enough, Sara, whose passion for things beyond her control is greater than is good for her. When Adam is hurt, Sara and his girls move in. When the Bishop insists that they marry or be shunned Sara and Adam face the greatest challenge of their lives. 
 Annette Blair is the Development Director and Journalism Advisor at a private New England prep school. Always happy crafting a new romance, Annette loves hearing from her readers, antiquing and collecting glass slippers. The Butterfly Garden is her second Amish historical Romance.

The Butterfly Garden (Five Star Expressions)

Religion & Spirituality

Annette Blair

Christian Books & Bibles

Historical cozy mystery set in Los Angeles, CA, in 1926. Mercy Allcutt, Boston Brahmin, wants to experience life in all its grittiness. How better than by working for a down-on-his luck PI in Hollywood? Once she discovers what PI actually stands for, she knows Mr. Ernest Templeton is the boss for her. Raised in the ivory tower of proper Boston, when well-bred Mercy gets a job with Ernest Templeton, Private Investigator, she's ecstatic. Ernie, a jaded ex-cop, is incredulous. Together, they must cope with a stray child, kidnapping, blackmail, murder, a toy poodle, a vamp, a stalker, Mercy's overactive imagination and Ernie's strong protective streak. Throw in a speakeasy, Chinatown, and a couple of down-and-dirty criminals, and Mercy and Ernie are in for a drama that will put the motion picture industry to shame . . . if they can survive long enough to tell the story.

Lost Among the Angels (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Duncan, Alice

Mystery

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