**In this “**excellent book for people who like to start sentences with ‘Did you know that…’” (The New York Times), discover the most bizarre ways you might become a federal criminal in America—from mailing a mongoose to selling Swiss cheese without enough holes—written and illustrated by the creator of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account.Have you ever clogged a toilet in a national forest? That could get you six months in federal prison. Written...

Captain James OMalley is the fearless leader of the Kansas City Police Department in 1940. Organized crime is doing its best to run the city, under the watchful eye of mob boss Vincentiso Gargotta. OMalley and his boys keep the gangsters in check, but soon, they realize the mafi a is the least of their worries.A cold-blooded killer is on the loose in Kansas City. OMalley suspects this murderer is working for organized crime on a nationwide basis, but suspicions dont collar criminal...

Kansas City in the 1940s is full of corruption and danger. As the city moves from home rule to state control, law enforcement agencies struggle to overcome the criminal element on the street. But when a young Kansas City socialite, Leigh St. Marie, is found murdered in her bed, Detective Sergeant John Walker and his partner, Detective Lieutenant James R. O'Malley, become part of an elite task force of incorruptible police officers assigned to the grisly investigation.Spurred by the...

Shadow Chase is a journey-of-discovery novel in which Ryan Garland travels to Java to unravel the mystery of what happened there to his late father as a young soldier following WWII. Ryan must also confront here-and-now issues, as he learns more about the people of Java... and himself.

See Critical Role’s Mighty Nein through the eyes of nine of their friends and foes in this new anthology, with a foreword by Taliesin Jaffe.In these nine stories, the legend of the mighty adventuring party grows with tales from some of the most memorable characters who fought with—and against—the Mighty Nein!Within its pages:• Essek Thelyss grapples with the choices of his past and the potential of his future, as told by Dani...

YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and woman. Queer and straight.What if it's not true that you only live once? In this genre-transcending book, trans writer and media artist Chase Joynt and HIV-positive movie artis...

Winner of the 2009 ReLit Award! He saw it. Like one dead eye filmed over. Like a tunnel that would kill you. Like a star coming to explode you. He saw it. Closer and closer. It was morning. It was daylight. He shouldn't be thinking this. This was a nighttime thing. Stop. Stop. Stop thinking. He felt it. Like black oil on his spine. Like night inside of him. Chase and Haven only have each other. Their mother is mostly absent; she's tired from working too hard at her motel cleaning job and a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Officer Ben Wilde is married to his work, and he wants a divorce.A third generation cop, Ben knows the price his career demands, but he still hopes for more out of life than taking down criminals and sharing cheeseburgers with his canine partner, Chase.Kelly Towers is a vet - which means she loves all animals, but she has a special place in her heart for Chase and his handsome human. When a break-in at her clini...

See Critical Role’s Mighty Nein through the eyes of nine of their friends and foes in this new anthology, with a foreword by Taliesin Jaffe.In these nine stories, the legend of the mighty adventuring party grows with tales from some of the most memorable characters who fought with—and against—the Mighty Nein!Within its pages:• Essek Thelyss grapples with the choices of his past and the potential of his future, as told by Dani...

In 1960, acclaimed American author John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men) embarked on a three-month road trip around the United States with his wife’s gentleman poodle, Charley, in tow. Steinbeck’s aim was to rediscover the country he had last roamed as a young man. Ultimately, the journey would be as much about self-discovery. The resulting book, Travels with Charley, was a bestseller and is now counted among the classic American road novels. In 2003, writer Mike Lauterborn set...

For over four decades Mike has been shooting and chasing the elusive Wild Goose; mainly the Pink-footed Goose. He certainly knows the meaning of the saying, 'A Wild Goose Chase and Goose Fever' as he has experienced it many times throughout his lifetime. Now in his mid-sixties he has probably seen and been involved in areas of shooting that will never be witnessed or ever re-lived again. But local reports show that now even after many, many years geese are still on a 20% yearly increase. I...

Winner of the 2023 New Mexico-Arizona Book AwardLonglisted for the Reading the West Book AwardNo animal shakes the human consciousness quite like a bear, and few compare to the giant short-faced bears that stalked North America during the Pleistocene. Even among the mammoths and saber-toothed cats, they were a staggering sight: on all fours, the biggest would stare a six-foot person in the face and weigh close to a ton. On hind legs they tow...