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Title: | The Severance |
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| Author: | Elliott Sawyer | |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9816175-3-4 | |
| Category: | Novel | |
| Pages: | 248 | |
| Size: | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | |
| Price: | $23.95 Hardcover | |
| Coming November 1, 2010 | ||
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The Severance Description: Action, adventure and intrigue intersect amid the war in Afghanistan in The Severance, a novel whose authenticity springs from author Elliott Sawyer’s two combat tours as a decorated captain in Iraq and Afghanistan. (See www.ElliottSawyer.com) The Severance is the story of a “rehabilitation platoon,” made up of bitter, unruly troublemakers and misfits whose past disciplinary sins have led the Army to put them into this unit, a unit assigned the dirty missions no one else wants. They are 21st Century counterparts of the World War II rogue soldiers in The Dirty Dozen, the 1965 bestseller made into the classic movie of that name. The platoon’s leader is Captain Jake Roberts, picked as punishment for past lapses of his own. He and his men, fighting and patrolling in the Afghan mountains, discover a large cache of American dollars hidden by a corrupt contractor. They devise a plan to hide it and later smuggle it out of the country when they are sent home for discharge. They call it their “Severance pay package.” Soon the men discover the Taliban insurgents aren’t the only enemy they must confront and defeat on and off the battlefield. Someone has found out about The Severance and wants to highjack it. Is this second enemy one of them, another soldier at their base, or even Jake’s girlfriend, a nurse? The mystery builds to a climax as their unknown adversary tries to kill Jake and some of his men while they seek to safeguard The Severance and determine the identity of their deadly stalker. | ||
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Title: | Chest Pains |
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| Author: | Janet Nichols Lynch | |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9816175-0-3 | |
| Category: | Novel | |
| Pages: | 288 | |
| Size: | 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 | |
| Price: | $23.95 Hardcover | |
Description: Californian Gordon Clay, a failed musician turned community college music instructor, overcomes a midlife crisis, helped by unlikely characters who include a marathon-running ex-nun, a small boy and the child’s unwed Polynesian mother. The author, whose work has been published in the New Yorker, examines with wit and whimsy Gordon’s discovery of a path back from his loneliness and disappointments and with it a restoration of his religious faith. |
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Title: | The Polish Woman |
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| Author: | Eva Mekler | |
| ISBN: | 978-1-882593-99-6 | |
| Category: | Novel | |
| Pages: | 256 | |
| Size: | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | |
| Price: | $21.95 Hardcover | |
| Description: Set in New York and Poland, this is a gripping Holocaust story with a fresh, highly suspenseful mystery twist. It begins when an attractive 29-year-old Polish woman suddenly appears before a New York Jewish family in 1967, claiming to be the long-lost daughter of a recently deceased family member. He was a Holocaust survivor who had hid a daughter with a Catholic farm family in Poland to try to save her from the Nazis. Is the woman who she claims to be, or a scam artist intent on inheriting the dead man’s fortune, or something else? The search for the woman’s true identity takes a young male member of the family across the ocean with her in a detective-story-like search to movingly uncover her past. “Meticulous, raw…coolly composed….By the time the ending veers into John Grisham territory, Mekler has already transcended plot in favor of uncompromising examination.” - The New York Times Book Review “Stunning…Not to be missed by anyone who loves a tale well told.” - Library Journal “Vividly drawn characters….The tale itself is compelling, combining romance and mystery and reminding us of the difficulty of unearthing personal truths when one of history’s great cataclysms has buried them.” - The Wall Street Journal |
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Title: | Mineral Spirits |
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| Author: | Heather Sharfeddin | |
| ISBN: | 978-1-882593-98-9 | |
| Category: | Novel | |
| Pages: | 260 | |
| Size: | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | |
| Price: | $21.95 Hardcover | |
| Description: A contemporary Western whose murder mystery is matched by insights into human entanglements and the many forms love can take. The author, who was raised in Montana and Idaho, takes Kip Edelson, the new sheriff of Montana’s Mineral County, on an odyssey through the onetime mining town of Magda, now a near-ghost town, and the wild and remote countryside along the Montana-Idaho border. He faces a series of difficult decisions as an officer of the law and as a man, before finally solving the crime. Paperback reprint rights sold to Bantam. |
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Title: | Blackbelly |
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| Author: | Heather Sharfeddin | |
| ISBN: | 978-1-882593-97-2 | |
| Category: | Novel | |
| Pages: | 240 | |
| Size: | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | |
| Price: | $21.95 | |
Description: This novel appeals on three levels: It is a suspenseful crime story centering on an act of bigotry against the lone Muslim family in a remote Idaho town. It is at the same time a sensitive novel of family dynamics—of a complex father-son relationship and of the evolving personal attractions and repulsions between the crusty rancher unjustly accused of the hate crime and the nurse who comes to care for his father. And third, it is a novel of the contemporary West whose settings and characters are authentically drawn from her own experience by an author who, as a forester’s daughter, was raised in remote Riggins, Idaho, and in Montana. |
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