Now that Tommy knows the full impact of the cursed Gasparilla coin, he plans to return it and end the curse forever. But he soon realizes that the coin is missing, and his troubles begin anew! In Bruce Rougraff's third young adult novel, the finale of the Gasparilla Curse Trilogy, it takes the help of his brothers, his sister, and their neighbor Ed to try to recover it. Finding the coin becomes more of an adventure than Tommy or his family anticipates. They encounter ruthless criminals, mo...

2020 Honorable Mention under Best Cover Design and Best Chapter Book categories: Purple Dragonfly Awards:2020 Winner in the New York City Big Book Awards:"…. An endearing and poignant vacation read for young readers."—Kirkus Review, April 16, 2020Chasing their fantasy of finding buried treasure on their first beach vacation, nine-year old Tommy and his older brother Auggie unearth a two-hundred-year-old mystery. After a series of strange mishaps begin to haun...

Tarpon! Book 2 in The Gasparilla Curse Series is a 2021 NYC Big Book Award Winner for best chapter book!Adventure, danger, loss, and forgiveness are at the heart of Bruce Rougraff 's latest young adult novel. In the sequel to his first novel, Doubloon!, Tommy and his family return to southwest Florida to continue the fun, and this time they'll try a little tarpon fishing. The trip is great fun until in the blink of an eye, Tommy finds himself propelled into a strange and terrifying...

A floating corpse. A county on the verge of chaos. One man's race against corruption.When Fen Maguire handed over his badge nine months ago, Newman County was clean and safe—a legacy he thought would endure. But the drug dealer's corpse drifting down the Brazos tells a different story.With the victim's house torched and evidence implicating the new sheriff's father, Fen's artistic retirement is cut short. His discovery of a hidden drug cache and coded noteb...

Three Texas river murders. One former sheriff seeking justice. Clean mysteries in the classic tradition.This collection includes the prequel plus books 1-2, following Fen Maguire's transition from Newman County Sheriff to private investigator as he solves his most challenging cases along Texas waterways.Murder On Shinbone CreekWith ten days left as sheriff, Fen Maguire faces an impossible murder: a hunter shot throu...

He has one shot at justice…For sixteen years, Texas State Trooper David Harper has buried the truth—that his father was convicted of murdering his mother. Having fled his old life and changed his name, David has earned the respect of his colleagues and built a promising future with his new wife. No one knows his shameful past, and he intends to keep it that way.But when DNA evidence overturns his father's conviction, David's carefully constructed life begin...

He thought his detecting days were over—until murder surfaced.When Steve Smiley's friend is found dead at the bottom of his exercise pool, police quickly rule it an accident. But something doesn't add up, and Smiley's instincts are screaming murder.There are a lot of things a blind man can do, but solve a murder alone isn’t one of them. He needs a partner… one who knows their way around a crime scene. Enter Heather McBlythe, a rookie homicide detective with...

In his letter to the Galatians, Paul sets out an astute vision of what God has done in Christ against the backdrop of a world out-of-joint, a world engulfed in identity-distorting domination systems. Theologically profound and prophetically challenging, Galatians showcases God's initiative to empower liberation from those systems and their relational toxicity. For Paul, the union of Christ with his followers fosters flourishing forms of relational life that testify to the sovereign power o...

'Tis the season for miracles... and murder.A rifle crack shatters the holiday bustle. Christmas shoppers scatter as a renowned big-game hunter drops to the sidewalk. Blind detective Steve Smiley and his partner Heather McBlythe rush to the scene—and to the teen who'd been locked in a heated argument with her adoptive father moments before.The teen's first plea isn't to find the killer—it's to find her birth parents. What begins as a straightforward adoption...

The Cure gives the diagnosis of this century’s religious obsession with sin-management. It has poisoned the Church, obscuring the Original Good News and sending millions away-wounded, angry and cynical, from nearly any organized expression of faith. The Cure offers an authentic experience in Christ that frees some from a self-rewarded righteousness, and others from a beaten down striving for a righteousness they can never seem to attain. The Cure infuses a relational theology of grace and ...

Three murders. One blind detective who sees what others miss. One rookie partner who becomes his eyes in the field. Smiley and McBlythe crack impossible cases in this professional PI mystery collection.Exercise Is MurderWhen Steve Smiley's friend drowns in his exercise pool, police call it an accident—but Smiley's instincts scream murder. Teaming up with rookie detective Heather McBlythe, the blind former homicide detective pieces together ...

Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,” body po...