In the second book of B-4: Special Agent, Bonnie is assigned to the San Francisco office, so she can escape the enemies she made in Vegas as a rookie. But there’s no shortage of excitement in her new surroundings, as she and her partner, Schietz, try to locate a shipment of Hitler’s Gold, experiencing Bay Area culture and meeting a cast of interesting characters along the way. Meanwhile, Angelanne, the daughter of an underworld chief who was killed along with her mother and brother by Bonn...

Nicknamed B-4 – Big Boobs Bonnie Brown – by her childhood friends, she is the daughter of legendary San Francisco cop Bobby Brown and was raised in Battle Mountain, Nevada after her mother was bussed out of The City to avoid her demise. B-4 grew up in her mother’s foul-mouthed, rowdy, rough, and colorful image. After her mother’s murder, Bobby Brown came to the self-proclaimed armpit or America to see her into adulthood. Her father produced a second daughter unknown to B-4. JJ Wellington i...

The "entrancing" National Book Award finalist tells the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello ( The New York Times Book Review ).For over half a century, it was his consuming passion, his most serious amusement. With a sure command of sources and skilled intuitive understanding of Jefferson, McLaughlin crafts an uncommon portrait of builder and building alike. En route he tel...

Ask anyone: Jim Sain is a pompous, naked, free thinker. Hes also the mayor of Berkeley.One of his high school chums has moved back to renovate Hamilton House, one wacky adventure at a time, and who knows whats coming next? The mayor has been dubbed mR. bERZERKELEY by a cartoonist who is determined to embarrass him (and undermine his bid for reelection). His personal life is as colorful as his political life. He gives his detractors plenty of fodder to fuel his demise (but in his ey...

For Jim Sain, the eccentric, controversial, and frequently naked mayor of Berkeley, California, life is never dulland thats just the way he likes it. In this, the final installment of his mR. bERZERKELEY trilogy, Jack McLaughlin wraps up his love song to the other city by the bay.Mayor Sain has a lot on his mind these days. Hes in Virginia City, involved in a murder trial; the accused is Asia, his half-sister, and she has been charged with their fathers murder. Jims an up-and-comin...

Jim Sains star is rising! Life in Berkeley is as colorful as ever, and now, his life is even more bizarre than before just like he likes it.Despite his madness, buff oonery, and lefty leanings, Berkeleys zany mayor continues to be a media darling. Back for more, Jack McLaughlins love song for Berkeley continues in mR. bERZERKELEY II.Jims trying his best to navigate the waters, but Big Game antics and even bigger lies spun by his enemies are making it a rough crossi...

When nature exudes in a swamp in Louisiana it is rich, tropical, juicy, dark, verminy, repellant and lovely all in one," wrote Catharine Cole in 1889. "It is like a coffin crowned with flowers; a death trap baited with roses."Writing under the pseudonym Catharine Cole, Martha R. Field (1855-1898) became the first full-time newswoman for the New Orleans Daily Picayune in 1881. For more than a decade she was the woman's page editor and wrote a Sunday column, "Catharine Cole'...

* Indie Next List Pick * Indie Bestseller *Sixteen bloodless bodies. Two teenagers. One impossible explanation. In this edge-of-your-seat mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, the truth is as hard to believe as it is to find.Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood.Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist whose father happens t...

He falls for her…literally.Since her husband’s murder, Ada Buckingham’s life has comprised one calamity after another, and the hits keep coming, yet each day, she picks herself up and begins again.Military man Matt Townsend, AKA Frog, expects a challenging assignment when he agrees to train soldiers in tough country terrain. The rules: stay away from the old lady’s flowers and notify her of days or nights with flash-bang.Easy, right?On arriv...

Solid, cautious Roger Sansarc and flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge are second cousins who become lifelong friends when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. Their lives constantly intersect at crucial moments in their personal histories as each discovers his own unique — and uniquely gay — identity. Their complex, tumultuous, and madcap relationship endures against 40 years of history and their involvement with the handsome model, poet, and decorated Vietnam vet Matt Loguidice...

“Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” —The New York Times#1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them.#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSOMETIMES GROWING UPMEANS FACING YOUR DEMONSThe son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just want...

When secrets are forced into the light, will the bonds between Claire, Lizzy, and Matt be enough to keep everything from falling apart?Life changes for Lizzy Swift when Claire Reynolds transfers to the Argyll School in their senior year. Claire is all Lizzy is not—reckless, independent, effortlessly cool. Claire introduces Lizzy to downtown Philadelphia—its clubs, parties, and vibrant art scene, and helps her get together with Matt, who Lizzy’s been crushing on for...