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Award-winning novelist Rodman Philbrick challenges the boundaries of time and place in this exciting fantasy. "Harry Potter fans will recognize the misfit hero in a strange, new world." - BooklistWhere anything is real, and everything is about to disappear . . .Arthur's mom tried hard, but sometimes she had no idea what her son was thinking, or why the only thing that made him happy was food, more food. Endless supplies of food, glorious food. "Did you have a nice birthday, dear?" she asked. "Was the cake big enough?"But Arthur didn't answer because he wasn't listening. He was thinking about his new miracle weight-loss device. If only it would work! If only he really could go to sleep fat and wake up thin! On the way out of the kitchen, Arthur snagged eleven Oreo cookies and slipped them into his oversized pockets. Just for luck. Then he headed down the cellar stairs into the deep, dark basement. And his life, and the world, and the universe would never be the same again., br/>Rodman Philbrick's children's book Freak the Mighty was the basis of a Golden Globe-nominated Sharon Stone movie titled simply The Mighty.

Winner of the 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award The Lily of the West, winner of the 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best First Western Novel is the story of Mary Katherine Haroney, known as the notorious "Big Nose Kate." In the American West of the 1800s, women had few choices, but Kate made her own way. A Hungarian immigrant, Kate forged her way across the American frontier, an orphaned stowaway on a Mississippi riverboat who became the belle of the Dodge City music halls, known for her outspoken manner and her alluring appearance. Classically educated, she spoke four languages, finding love and much in common with a charming but volatile dentist from Atlanta, Dr. John Henry (Doc) Holliday. She was a trusted friend of the Earps and Bat Masterson, an adventurous woman who witnessed the violent lawlessness that preceded the end of an era.I was moved to tears many times by the story of Kate's love for Doc Holliday and impressed by the vivid detail with which the author painted the story of star-crossed lovers. A new take on the O.K. Corral, from a woman's point of view. -Roundup Magazine, Western Writers of America Writing in first person, Morris gives the woman's struggle an immediacy and poignancy not usually found in a traditional western. A good companion for Mary Doria Russell's Doc (2011), this compelling debut will appeal to readers of any gender. -Booklist

It's 1965 and the Rat Pack isn't drawing at the Sands like they used to. Now Dino's playing golf, and Frank is playing the Sahara. And the marquee at the Sands advertises SAMMY DAVIS JR. & JERRY LEWIS.Eddie G. never got Jerry Lewis. Didn't think he was funny, didn't think Dean needed him. So he had no intention of seeing the show, or of meeting Dean's ex-partner. But Sammy comes to Eddie and asks him to help Jerry with a problem-one that might lead to murder. Because he likes Sammy, he agrees.At the same time Eddie's P.I. friend, Danny Bardini, comes to Eddie looking for a pretty girl to use as bait in a case he's working on. He ends up getting Eddie's blessing to recruit Gina, a waitress at the Sands who is waiting for a spot to open up on the line at the Riviera. Only when the spot finally becomes available, Gina's gone missing. Eddie, Danny and Jerry Epstein, Eddie's Brooklyn mob connection, end up working together to hopefully find Gina alive, and keep Jerry Lewis from committing murder.

Graham, a functioning alcoholic and Harvard medical student and the protagonist of Into the Rabbit Hole, stumbles across a puzzling communication from his deceased Navy Seal brother. Graham must work to unravel a litany of secrets sobering in their implications not only for himself, but for the past twelve-thousand years of human history and the secrets of the universe. Had he not, in his hungover state, opened the email, Graham could have continued on his predetermined successful, if dysfunctional, path and never embarked on the paradigm-shifting journey that so loosens his grasp on reality and obliterates not only what he chooses to believe but what he trusts as fact.

Frank Sinatra invites Eddie G. to Miami Beach, where he'll be performing at the Fontainebleau Hotel. Dino and Sammy will also be there, supporting Frank Sammy will be playing The Eden Roc Hotel, and Dean Martin is appearing on The Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine. And because Jackie Gleason was a mentor to Frank, he introduces him to Eddie. As a result, Gleason asks Eddie for his help. Somebody is following his lady friend, Marilyn Taylor, sister of the famous June Taylor (of the June Taylor Dancers). Before long, Eddie's up to his neck in murder, and may come to regret having ever met "The Great One."

HE WAS HAIR-TRIGGERED FOR TROUBLE IN A LAND WHERE YOU LIVED OR DIED BY YOUR GUNS JUDGE AND EXECUTIONER-HARD MAN IN A HARD LAND In a trackless territory where a man had to be as hard as cold-forged steel to survive, Luke Coldiron was harder than any man who tried to stand in his path. His strength, nerve, and guns had carved him a sprawling horse-breeding ranch out of the wilderness, and made him master of all he surveyed. But now from south of the border came a Mexican leading a private army of hand-picked killers to loot Coldiron's kingdom. And out of Coldiron's past came a beautiful woman with a blood score to settle. It had been a long time since Coldiron had to kill to live-but some things a man doesn't forget...

"Another great storyteller is emerging."-Tony Hillerman Award-winning authorMardi Oakley Medawar In 1866 the Kiowas return to their traditional winter camp at Palo Duro Canyon for the first time in two years. But when a powerful healer winds up missing and two horses are found killed, the camp is convinced it is the work of a shapeshifter...While the camp searches for the witch among them, Tay-bodal begins his own investigation. Anxious to find his missing friend and sure that there is no supernatural cause behind these events, Tay-bodal must uncover the truth before fear destroys the bonds that unite the Kiowa Band.... "Medawar really captives the personalitiesof the individuals in her story, as wellas the culture itself, with understanding andlow-key Indian humor. She does for the Kiowa culturewhat Tony Hillerman has done for the Navaho."-Don Coldsmith, author of Tallgrass and the Spanish Bit saga"Medawar, a Cherokee, reveals legendaryNative Americans as believable peopleand offers her readers a comprehensive lookat historical Kiowa life and values."-Publishers Weekly