Romance
Season of Revenge
By Renee Kumor
This holiday season in River Bend includes family gatherings, snowmobile races, and a little romance. And murder. Lynn Powers and her family begin celebrations for Christmas with the first big party, Dusty's birthday. However, on Christmas Day Dusty is called to a murder scene where a young man is found dead in his bathtub. And returning from a school administrators Christmas gathering Pam finds a hit-and-run victim in the icy road. Is she under suspicion of the crime? $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
Mystery
A Narcotic Conspiracy
By David and Nancy Beckwith
In this latest adventure Will and Betsy Black, those crime-solving financial whizzes, find themselves curious when Geoffrey Oliver Watson III is found dead on his boat near Key West. Then a 50-foot go-fast cigarette boat nearly rams a Coast Guard cutter, raising more questions. The answer is drug smuggling. Can the husband-and-wife sleuths thwart the local drug lords? $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
How-To
Basics of ... Pottery
By George J. Cox
This latest entry in the Basics of . . . series offers an excellent introduction to pottery, from clays and pastes to molds, casts, and pressings, from turning to firing, drying to decorating. You'll learn how to throw a pot, fire a biscuit, and mix a glaze. What's more, there are equipment lists, an expanded glossary, and instructions for selecting a kiln. Before you know it, you'll become a potter of impressive skill.
Prizewinner
Square Grouper
By Lewis C. Haskell
Key West now has its own Travis McGee, a ne'er do well Navy SEAL dropout, Ernesto 'Finn' Pilar. If you love John D McDonald and Carl Hiassen mysteries you are going to love Square Grouper. For fans of Key West murder mysteries, laugh out loud funny storytelling and great characters, this book delivers. Authentic locations, great humor and compelling action, Key West author Lewis C. Haskell has captured the traditions of South Florida writers with a first novel that was a finalist for the Key West Mystery Writers 'Jeremiah Healy' Award. $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
Humor
The Mortician's Road Trip
By James D. Loy
Upstate New Yorker Baz Rathbone makes ends meet by selling human skulls. His little business comes to the attention of the FBI when a woman spots her late husband's skull being used as a candlestand by a skinhead (she recognizes the skull from a distinctive Texas-shaped bone flap). The feds' investigation ultimately takes them to Moose Wallow, Maine, where they interview an assistant mortician and his taxidermist friend, two loveable potheads. When they head to the Carolinas to pick up the carcass of an orangutan, Baz Rathbone hires an inexpensive-but-stupid hood to steal the ape, whose skull would bring in serious money, but the heist goes wrong. Justice is eventually served, but only after a hilarious set of misadventures. $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
Thriller
A Gathering of the Damned
By Kerry Gene Martin
In an attempt to escape from his past, Louisiana architect Christopher Kelly accepts a position at an exclusive design firm in Key West, Florida. However, his new job is not as he expected, and he realizes that no one else on the island would work for his sadistic employer. He soon learns that Mile Marker Zero is indeed the end of the line and there is nowhere else for him to run. And he begins to suspect that his boss is hiding a damning secret. Planning to uncover the mystery and use it as a weapon against the cruel, self-important man, Christopher's quest leads him into the underground of the Florida Keys. There he finds hustlers, drag queens, and victims of the sex trade, who all seem to hold a piece to the puzzle. Meanwhile the body count is rising. $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
Historical Novel
Etched in Stone Where the Buffalo Roam
By James R. Fox
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the West was the new frontier. But Native American tribes were not about to relinquish their sacred land without a fight. After the final Battle of the Little Big Horn an orphan Indian boy meets his father at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and at last discovers his true name, Little Bear. He is torn between trying to live in the white man's world or embracing his heritage as a Lakota Sioux. This epic novel touches historical events and famous people -- from Wyatt Earp to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Collins to Sen. Joe McCarthy, John Ford to Howard Hughes. $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
Music
Greatest Hits of ... The 1990's
By Albert L. Kelley
This is the fifth indispensible cross-reference manual in this series, a listing to the music of the 1990's. This era created what some have called the best decade in music. That might be pushing it a little far, but the decade did have a lot of great songs and styles. In the rock arena, grunge came to the forefront with Nirvana leading the way, while in the urban styles, rap and hip-hop really took off and found their voice. Many singers started going by a single name and often you could not tell by the name whether it was a solo artist or a group. Collaboration became the name of the game, with many singers and groups working together. This book is not a history of music, but a reference manual. It lists the top 100 songs for each year in the 1990's. $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
Science Fiction
A Footnote to History
By William R. Burkett, Jr.
If the armadillo hadn't crossed the moonlit road at that specific moment in 1967, the newlywed couple would not have died in a car crash. The 3092 search algorithm would not have substituted a perfect clone for the husband in the moment of his fiery death. He would not have been taken out of Time to be trained for a lethal mission by the last, best leader of the Terran Service. But the rule of unintended consequences governs. Cascading anomalies proliferated around that moment on the moonlit highway and the orderly flow of Time would never be the same ... if it ever was to start with. $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
Science / Facts
Sea Monsters Unmasked (Illustrated)
By Henry Lee
Is the Loch Ness Monster real? What about those sea serpents sighted by countless sailors over the ages? How about mermaids? Naturalist Henry Lee gives you the history, the recorded sightings, and the likely explanations. Meet the fearsome creatures of the deep that qualify as sea monsters. And see rare photographs of the oarfish, a true-life sea serpent encountered by seafarers, curious scientists, and hapless beachcombers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts, etchings, and modern-day photographs. $3.99 for ebook, $14.95 for 6" x 9" trade paperback.
Photography / Picture Books
Zoo in a Book
Edited by George Davidson
A wonderful gift, here are more than 100 pages of photographs of animals, wild and domestic, each accompanied by quotations by insightful observers ranging from Mahatma Gandhi to Stephen King, Fyodor Dostoyevsky to William Shatner, Isaac Bashevas Singer to Farley Mowat. Rather than viewing animals through the bars of a zoo, you will delight in these magnificent photos of lions and tigers and bears, oh my! All in full color. $3.99 for ebook, $24.95 for 8.5" x 8.5" coffee table paperback.
Entertainment
Top Ten Movie Lists
By Shirrel Rhoades
Film Critic, Cook Communications
Your favorite movies and stars ranked by a movie maestro. Best in a genre? Biggest flubs? Worst performances? Nothing about the cinema escapes this fascinating collection of Top Tens. Hours of entertainment for less than the cost of a pack of gum. Only 99-cents for ebook.
