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Dana Wildsmith's Jumping portrays with great skill and finesse the collision of the two worlds of a Georgia school teacher and a small charming Mexican boy. To read Jumping is to experience a remarkable work of fiction with, in the best sense of the phrase, the ring of truth

Dan Williams, following the success of his first novel, 'The Lords of Leftovers, ' offers the world a new, first-rate story in 'The Lords of Absence, ' an adventure tale of the near future. In a broken world struggling to put itself back together after the Fires, the two main characters, Trader and Joe Cruz, set off looking for two small boys who suddenly disappeared one morning. In their search to find the lost boys, they encounter murderous raiders, splintered towns, and a strange cast of characters who claim to be redeemers of society.

This book will fill the gaps left by the other poker books for people who are interested in 3-6 or 4-8 limit Texas Hold'em. Being able to assess your starting hand is critical to playing Texas Hold'em. The author has listed all possible starting hands with examples of hands he has actually played.

Part family memoir and part history of Swedes coming to America, this genealogical study focuses on the branch of the Carlson family that moved to Texas from Sweden in the nineteenth century. It includes histories of the Engblom and Westling families as they intermarry with the Carlsons. The book contains many nineteenth and twentieth-century photographs of members of all three families as well as color photographs taken more recently. It also includes anecdotes and descriptions of the characters of numerous members of the families.

David Bowles' words are fresh and mythical, with voices of Old Mexico and Samurai and ancient Greece that often declare death to be just another stepping stone in life's journey. "When wounds are healed by love," he says, "The scars are beautiful." These are powerful poems to haunt and enthrall, connecting us beyond time. Prepare for a new voice. Prepare to be left wanting more.

After the electricity went off in the United States, the country suffered a great fire, and survivors found themselves with no workable economy or unified government, some few enterprising merchants traveled about scavenging and trading for leftovers from the time before the great catastrophes. Master story teller Dan Williams tells about two such merchants as they struggle with bandits, religious zealots, and armed militias who proclaim their own law. This thoughtful and engaging story of the near future is not one you will want to miss.

This intriguing and often raucously funny collection by Brett Riley marries ingenious plots, innovative forms, and a definite narrative voice, but there's something bigger than all that here, too: the attempt to understand how our own lives repeatedly fall so far short of that perfect choreography promised by the technology that tries to shape them.

As with the poems of Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins, the artistic meditations in this collection are first and foremost outstanding poems; next they are lyrical and religious-and much else as well. Some are humorous in a quiet ways, others illustrate connections between people and among living creatures. These are poems that will touch you, instruct you without being didactic, charm you into reading the rest of them, and leave you knowing you will return to this volume to read again and again for the wonder and the magic of the words.

Greenfield Jones, influenced by Peter DeVries and Flannery O'Connor, writes of people uncomfortable in a Secular world-that is, one that Practices the Absence of God-be they a woman who changes her horoscopic sign (and her personality) every few months, or a blue-eyed blond who wants to be an American Indian, or a sixth grade teacher who every few years falls in love with a different one of her boys, or a fellow with no sense of the absurd who thinks after his silicone job goes awry that he's through as a topless go-go dancer.

You don't have to love or even like cats to treasure this amazing book. Nothing quite like it has ever been pawed down on paper. Chuck Taylor's One True Cat is an exciting roller coaster ride through a life spent around cats inside categories that's both catastrophic and cathartic. It is a myriad look at cat behavior as well as an exploration of how humans and cats acquire skills and learn how to interact and love.

Few words evoke a more chilling response than "human trafficking," yet slavery persists. But what is it really like to be sold? Zara knows. As a six-year-old, she was sold to a factory owner and put to work. Fifteen years later, she was sold again -- this time to a brothel in Bombay. But it is one thing to be sold, and another to be owned. When Zara and her fellow prostitutes resort to blackmail to get justice, their cell phone-and the incriminating photos it contains-are taken by a police commissioner. And when he is murdered, and Zara framed for the crime, she must team up with one of India's few female police officers to recover the phone, prove her innocence, and obtain her freedom. Zara is a fast-moving novel based on the true-life account of a victim of human trafficking. It criss-crosses Bombay as few books can, drawing intersecting lines from the mansions of the power brokers to the gritty streets of the pavement dwellers, and all points in between. It is the rare book that manages to explore a complex social issue while telling a gripping and very human story.

The scene is Houston in the early 70's, and driving the night shift till dawn a young cabby has abandoned a professional career and all the education behind it in search of life in the raw, which he discovers aplenty over the course of these fifteen stories, encountering a degree of suffering and pain, barbarity and beauty, and wisdom, in the people and situations he meets, that far exceeds anything he has ever experienced.

Jan Seale's poetry is both beautifully witty and serious, often ingeniously weaving contemporary life with the mythical, the eternal with the transient, joy with an awareness of loss. These poems are documentations honoring the earth and family in memory and moment. Each poem at the heart is of the heart, its attachments and joys, its griefs and serenities.

Nearer James Lee Burke than Joe Lansdale, Sanderson's Dolph's Team is part border-town mystery and part road trip, reminiscent of Lonesome Dove. Dolph's crew doesn't always follow the letter of the law in a world where pre-paid funerals are no joke. As Dolph says, "once you give up decency and honesty," you're on your own, and all of the beer-guzzling and bull-shooting won't protect his team from the harsh reality of modern Texas.

Agave offers a mixture of graphic art, essays, short stories, poems, songs, and recipes that focus in some way on tequila. The writing ranges from the comical to the touchingly serious, and contributors include several nationally-known figures. The book is designed to be a conversational piece at parties and a coffee-table showpiece for anyone interested in both tequila and art.

In this work you'll find the past and the present, the grumpy and the funny, the family and the country, and the political and the personal-all tied together by a search for the heart in the heart, the mystical center that binds us to the sacred in each other and the sacred above and around. Like the work of Jack Kerouac, Taylor's book moves beyond the grand secular tradition of modern writing into the unknowable landscapes of the spiritual.

In a manner reminiscent of Boyle and DeLillo, Andrew Geyer's Dixie Fish is a tale of bliss gone awry. Walt Whitman Woodcock's part-time job in a fried fish restaurant devolves into a personal descent into hell-one brimming with deceit, betrayal, and a host of unrepentant sinners. Geyer documents it like a modern Vergil passing through the Inferno.

In their own ways, the stories in TexasSoundtrack are as musical as the songs thatinspired them, each with its own rhythm, itsown beat, its own insights into Texas peopleand Texas places. They resonate in the mindlong after you read them.

Dave Kuhne's The Road to Roma and Other Stories takes you into the gritty, often poignant worlds of a Fort Worth car wash owner, a pair of college students hitching their way to Mexico, and a young man who lets his misplaced love and ambition pull him into the drug culture of post-Vietnam-era Austin. These award-winning stories showcase the talent and wit of a consummate Texas writer whose fiction reflects an intimate sense of character and place.

This is a collection of tales that will appeal to both general readers and to gambling enthusiasts. The stories deal with the most profound of human passions stirred by the compulsion for taking chances. These are not stories about the mechanics of gambling, but instead, as Doyle Brunson notes in the introduction, these are tales that both engage the reader with lively writing and deal with fundamental human concerns: relationships, self esteem, love, hate. The contributors to the volume are experienced writers who are dedicated to telling good yarns and who know about gambling.

In Into the Thicket, H. Palmer Hall, reminds us that an East Texas pine tree blown over by a storm simply clears the land for seedlings that follow, that the crunch of Gulf oyster shells under your boots beckons you back to the ocean, that sometimes you have to rub the bark of an oak tree to get under someone's skin. From the Neches to the Rio Grande to Tigris River, Hall's stories confirm the collective identity between man and woman and beast and soil, blurring time and space and life and death with his poetic pen.

Jim McGarrah's The End of An Era is an insightful, heartbreaking and, at times, hilarious account of his struggles as a veteran in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. In his extraordinary wounding, healing blues song, this combat veteran sings for family, for lovers, for friends, and, always, in each line, for the soldiers gone in another era and the ones now dying in our own.

In this memoir Dr. Charles Taylor chronicles with painful frankness his son's spiral downward into drug and alcohol abuse as well as Sebastian's recovery, though it was a long and difficult one. Dr. Taylor also examines with almost brutal honesty his own role in his son's self-destructive behavior. This is a book that parents of drug abusing children will find both touching and helpful.