Frank Justice, a hardened cop from Oakland, California, is now, and for the last 14 years lived on his acreage near the sleepy border town of Elgin, Arizona, just a few miles from Nogales. He works as a detective for the Nogales police department.Seems he's been observed by some state officials, and when he comes to work one morning, he is abruptly fired -- without ceremony. His boss tells him . . . on the Q.T. . . . that he's to go home and wait for a phon...

Jose Nodar-World Book Reviews: I must say this is a finely written novel for both young adults and others.The novel 'The Blacksmith and the Sheepherder's Daughter' by Myron Ferdig is set in the early 1850s before statehood in the New Mexico territory.The story's central characters are the young Molly Broderick and Buzz Calder, the town blacksmith.Back in 1845, the Brodericks', a sheepherding family from Utah, had just purchased land near the small village of Warm Sp...

A potpourri of short stories including topics of humor or adventure, romantic poetry. Thus the name, Poetpourri. The author has divided the book into eight[8] major sections --fifty-seven stories or poems. Headings of the sections as follows: INTO THE LABYRINTH; JUST FOR KIDS; THE OLD WEST; BIRTHDAYS; RIDICULOUS; HAIKU; JUST MUSING; and THE SUBLIME

A Lad From Sardinia The Adventures of Morgan Harmony (YA) The year is 1622. Morgan Harmony, along with his young brother and their Aunt Harmy, boards a square-rigged warship, captained by his great uncle Willum. The ship is commissioned by the high courts of Spain to rid the Mediterranean Sea of pirates, to make the Med safe for commercial trade, and to give aid to any in need on the waters.The Age of Sail comes alive as every day brings new adventures, dan...

Alan Garrett comes home to California after a twenty-year career as an Air Force Special Investigator. He sets up shop in Manhattan Beach as a newly-licensed Private Eye.He receives an invitation, and decides to attend his high school twenty-year reunion -- even though he remembers almost none of his fellow graduates."Might be a blast" he thinks -- renew old friendships, have a few laughs, exchange some war stories, might even be go...

Before 1820 most of what is now known as Texas was part of Spain. A fellow by the name of Moses Austin had secured approval from Spain to settle a massive land area in what was then called Tejas. (Teh´hass) His goal was to bring in three hundred immigrant families [history calls them "the old 300" ] to settle area around the Brazos, San Bernard and Colorado Rivers.But Moses Austin died in 1821; Mexico won independence from Spain, and Steven Austin inherited...

Alan Garrett comes home to California after a twenty-year career as an Air Force Special Investigator. He sets up shop in Manhattan Beach as a newly-licensed Private Eye.His old Air Force boss needs someone to find his derelict son under the Q.T. He commissions Alan to find him and bring him home. [when Alan takes on an assignment, he carries it through to completion -- wherever the trail leads] Being busy on another case, Alan sends his sidekick, Fox, to f...

In a previous book, Cowboy Justice On The Border, Frank Justice was introduced as a tough ex-cop from Oakland, California. Now in his early forties, Frank owns a small ranch in the rural, wine growing country on the outskirts of Elgin, Arizona, very close to the Mexican border.Living on the edge of the border, Frank witnesses firsthand the violence, the traffickers, the smuggling of drugs and illegals coming across the border along the Babocomari River, the...

This is a "Read a Book to a Kid" book. By that I mean we, as adults have a responsibility to teach our children the importance of reading • When you read to your children regularly during their first five years, you may be giving them more than a one-million-word advantage over other little ones, whose parents neglect several important elements of parent-child togetherness:Exposure to 300,000 more words than kids their age who aren't read to regularly...

Alan Garrett comes home to California after a twenty-year career as an Air Force Special Investigator. He sets up shop in Manhattan Beach as a newly-licensed Private Eye. Inspector Morris - Hermosa Beach P.D. Chief once again calls upon Alan to help him solve yet another case.Digging into the issues at hand, Alan uncovers an insidious plot affecting State and Federal civil authority along the California coast from Santa Barbara to Tijuana, ...

From the world's most celebrated author, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are ready to escape New York for a vacation in Maine—but a shocking scene deep in the woods reveals a dark world of drugs and murder.Haunted by guilt and shame, Michael Bennett is living with a father's worst nightmare. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy lesser families, the Bennetts escape New York for a much-needed vacation. But it turns out the brochures don't tell the full s...

Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more!Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious ...