EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*NEW YORK TIMES\* BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES LEE BURKE \*\*THE NEON RAIN\*\* Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted so

Novella from the Bottom Drawer Publications 2013 Valentine's Day collection. 15,000 words A split-second of time and Walts dreams of Olympic gold were crushed along with his right leg when he was involved in a serious accident on the ski-fields during the preliminary trials. Now hes teaching begin

Clear and simple teachings on voidness and living an ethical life. In *Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree*, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu presents in simple language the philosophy of voidness, or sunnata, that lies at the heart of the Buddhism. By carefully tying voidness to ethical discipline, Buddhadasa prov

Before Belle went to the enchanted castle and met the beast, she was a young girl, and this is her story. At age 7, Belle is happy living at home with her father. But at school she feels like an outsider. Then one day she discovers a run-down bookshop. Determined to bring the store back to life, Bel

Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug bar

Depuis le détournement d'énergie effectué par la Pataméricaine, les habitants de la province de Patagonie meurent de froid et de faim par milliers. Une nouvelle fois Lien Rag entre en dissidence contre la Compagnie de Lady Diana. A l'est, le Gnome halluciné, devenu le Kid, poursuit son rêve de pui

Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return. She immediately launched into her sa

Odessa, Odessa follows the families of two sons from a proud lineage of rabbis and cantors in a shtetl near Odessa in western Russia. It begins as Henya, wife of Rabbi Mendel Kolopsky, considers an unexpected pregnancy and the hardships ahead for the children she already has. Soon after the child is

Aǫ 1914. Acaba de estallar la Gran Guerra y Julieta Carrin̤ de la Vega llega con 16 aǫs a Bolivia procedente de Espaą, para reencontrarse con su padre, don Gonzalo Carrin̤, que dirige una mina de estaǫ en la ciudad de Potos.̕ Huřfana de madre, Julieta adora a su padre, o al menos la imagen idl̕ica q

Mack Crane’s kept his life simple since losing his truck in a catastrophic crash. Sing at his favorite country bars around Austin, support himself with odd jobs until he gets his big break. No attachments to keep him from chasing his dream. Just the stage, the road, and his guitar. Then Sue Ellen st

### From School Library Journal Grade 6-9–Years have passed since the events of _The Hollow Kingdom_ (Holt, 2003), and Kate is happily married to the Goblin King, Marak. As a human who has always thought of goblins as exciting and exotic creatures, her younger sister, Emily, enjoys spending her day

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz! A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. D

Running from 1957 to modern day to 100 years in the future, the first three books of the SODIUM series takes humanity on a wild ride from our first contact with an alien species to all-out war. Do Humans have what it takes to survive? Will we fight back or will we be crushed? Find out in the first t