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A flying saucer crashes in the meadow of Joe Lucky's ranch. Joe hauls the UFO into his barn with his trusty tractor to launch a wild and wacky World War III. Everyone wants the UFO. The Air Force, the Army and the CIA come to the Hispanic San Miguel Valley. Joe can see the people are barely getting along. Times are bad. The country is morally dead. And with the paranoid San Miguel citizens yelping at his heels to give up the UFO, he wants to believe...

Hank Denton, former private investigator and now ex-pat charter boat captain in Mazatlan, Mexico, returns to Los Angeles at the behest of his ex-wife. Their teen-aged daughter is going off track, and both ex-wife and daughter need his help. Hearing of his plans to head to LA, some local Mexican friends ask the former P.I. to look into the murders of two young relatives of theirs a couple of years earlier. Once in LA, Denton tends to his family and...

BAD BEAT is the third book in a cozy mystery series featuring Martha Johnson, a recent widow, who lives in a small town in southern Colorado. Martha is unaware that Trinidad was the sex-change capital of the world until a new friend is found murdered. Martha becomes immersed in the world of transsexuals when a young man comes to town looking for the murder victim who had promised him help in becoming a "tranny" as the locals call those who have gone...

The name "Trinidad" is the Spanish word for "Trinity" as submitted by an early resident Gabriel Gutierrez. Trinidad became a stopover on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail bearing a reminder of the gently curving ruts of mule and oxen wagons drawn by travelers. Eventually, the town of Trinidad was populated by early pioneers on the banks of the Purgatoire River circa 1861. Trinidad, incorporated as a city in 1876, witnessed people of various...

Glendo Penny is man on the edge... of oblivion. A string of bad luck has culminated in the deaths of his wife and unborn child, this in a truck accident with Penny at the wheel. Consigning himself to damnation, he takes the express lane of alcoholism and social isolation. But fate has other plans for him. Reeled back into the human fold by a collection of locals sharing the common bond of loss, he finds new purpose in life and a shot at redemption.Meanwhile,...

Cam Moody, a junior at Florida State in Tallahassee, is on his way to Austin on summer break to visit his brother and work a summer job. His project muscle car breaks down in a small Louisiana town, however, and the verdict is bad. The car needs repairs which he can't afford. A kindly older gentleman, Len Baxter, takes pity on the young Floridian, offering him work and digs at his filling station/convenience store. With overtime and minimal expenses...

Raymond Chance expatriates himself to Mexico after his marriage fails, he does eighteen months for Assault and Battery, and he's run over by a car in a Safeway parking lot. Ten years later he returns at the news of his ex-wife's death, hoping to rekindle something of a relationship with his one and only child, daughter Jen, now grown and living in Eugene, Oregon. But Jen, poisoned with hatred by her mother, she blows him off in no uncertain terms....

An enigmatic jewelry case, holding human remains, arrives at the cottage of Sherlock Holmes, enticing him from his retirement refuge in the Sussex Downs. Holmes sets out on the trail of the murderer taunting him, joining forces with one of his former Baker Street irregulars, Tessa Wiggins. The two find themselves battling forces arising from a time before England was a country--when the Celts were fighting for survival.Though set in 1919, The Celtic...

When Larada Horner-Millers father died in 1996, her mother told her, "Everyone grieves in their own way."Horner-Miller took these words to heart when her mother passed away in 2013. She discovered that writing poetry was the best way of working through her fresh grief. Eventually she penned dozens of intimate, heartfelt poems about her parents lives and legacies and her deep sorrow and gradual recovery. Now she has gathered those verses into her first...

"This work offers a history of the Dakota people and is largely based on eyewitness accounts from the Dakota themselves, including legends, traditions, and winter counts. Topics include the Dakotas' early government, the role of women within the Dakota tribes, the rituals and rites of Dakota people, and the influence of the white man in destroying Dakotan culture"--Provided by publisher.