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A woman appears, coming over the mountain with her seven children and one lone mule.  She seeks a land grant in Yell County, Arkansas.  So this tale was recounted to the author by an old-timer living in the locale of another Yell county novel, True Grit by Charles Portis. This story’s...

Review from The Hamilton Spectator by Don Graves. Ian Stout's debut novel, Necessary Larceny, should be on your reading list if a "feel-good-with-a-sharp-shot-of-reality"story appeals to you. It grabbed my interest and didn't let go. This story is easy to fall into, a bit...

The surprise death of Marija and Gus, Tony Duggan's maternal grandparents, brings Tony to a moment of personal introspection. "This last week's been pure hell," he laments. Tony, a flawed man, grew up in the shadow of a rock-solid triangle of steel---the Leonard Mine. Beneath...

After twenty years in the army, John Williams is trying to live a normal civilian life. But the face of a young Afghani girl continues to haunt him; and the dark secret that he’s kept for over a year has led him to believe that his wife and daughter are better off without him. So, using a yearly...

Yeoman First Class Cameron Leasig is a man of many parts; a dedicated Navy man, a devoted boyfriend, a committed drug dealer. With a laser focus and unbendable will, Cameron succeeds at whatever venture he undertakes. That focus is now set on getting out. Out of the Navy and out of the drug game....

No one truly knows what goes on throughout the streets of Baltimore City; no one that is, except the victims of the night and the police officers that work hard to protect them. Ken Warzyniak spent 11 years in the underbelly of the darkness of evil. He experienced unspeakable things as he fought for...

Clinton Windell is brutally murdered in his Southwest Hills mansion and robbed of twenty million dollars in uncut gems. An anonymous client hires ex-DEA agent turned private investigator, C. J. Cavanaugh and his junior partner, Renita Harris, to root out the Windell murderers. There’s only one catch....

UFOs and God is not single-themed but a medley of characters kayaking their way through the erratic channels of life. Some of these stories are sharp edged and made to cut you emotionally to the quick. Others are inviting like a warm cozy room on a bitter cold day. A couple – it is hoped – will...

Alice and Don Harriman are the owners of Blue Sun, the largest residential real estate and construction service in the Pacific northwest. When a house cleaner stumbles upon two masked men holding Don Harriman at gunpoint in his own bedroom, she is able to flee the scene before being captured. Outside,...

Before the supermarket boom, there were neighborhood markets where most people did their grocery shopping. They served as a junction for the exchange of ideas and gossip in much the same way as barbershops and beauty salons still do today. It was typical for owners of these markets to live in the...

C. J. Cavanaugh is working a routine Lunsford Insurance undercover investigation accompanied by his Homicide Detective girlfriend Destini Pendleton. At the same time, Kylie Preston is out for a night of fun with The Liberated Wives Club, a group of close friends who have not only survived divorce...

This book is a collection of 24 TRUE stories that the author compiled, that the author himself and family members have experience, and stories of which were experienced and related to the author by friends and associates. To the best of the author's knowledge the stories related to the author by these...

Titles for The Ice Cream Man Cometh And Other Stories include: White Cadillac, The Ballad of the Sad Hotel, The Actor, Tenacity, The Hold Up, The Absolute, A Shooting on Plymouth Street, The Ice Cream Man Cometh, Girl on a Pedestal, So This Nun Walks Into a Bar, Flying Down to Rio, Anthony, The Boy Who Quoted Nietzsche, Up From Chastity, and O Death!

Trouble is brewing in Durthia and things are about to come to a boil. For years the thane Jergle has rallied troops to fight the corruption seen in the noble courts. He has been garnering support from lesser lords and farming villages, and now he is ready to act. In order to overthrow the king he...