Burritos & Bullets

Burritos & Bullets
Author: Eric Beetner
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

“He knows. And he said he’s gonna kill you.” Jealous husbands are like that—likely to kill the other man. He needed to protect himself. She told him so. So he bought a gun. A gun he didn’t want. A gun he didn’t even want to touch. But when it came to it, would he be able to use it to save his own life? He found himself tangled in a web he couldn’t escape and his only hope of freedom is to shoot his way out. The gun weighed heavy in his hand and heavier on his conscience.

Guns + Tacos Vol. 3

Guns + Tacos Vol. 3
Author: Eric Beetner
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

There’s a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn’t the food selection that attracts customers, it’s the illegal weapons available with the special order. Each episode of Guns & Tacos features the story of one Chicagoland resident who visits the taco truck seeking a solution to life’s problems, a solution that always comes in a to-go bag. Episode 7: Burritos & Bullets by Eric Beetner Episode 8: Jalapeño Poppers and a Flare Gun by Michael Bracken & Trey R. Barker Episode 9: Four Shrimp Tacos and a Walther P38 by Alec Cizak Episodes 10-12 of Season Two are featured in Guns + Tacos Vol. 4.

Guns + Tacos Vol. 4

Guns + Tacos Vol. 4
Author: Ann Aptaker
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

There’s a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn’t the food selection that attracts customers, it’s the illegal weapons available with the special order. Each episode of Guns & Tacos features the story of one Chicagoland resident who visits the taco truck seeking a solution to life’s problems, a solution that always comes in a to-go bag. Episode 10: A Taco, a T-Bird, a Beretta and One Furious Night by Ann Aptaker Episode 11: Sopa and a Streetsweeper by Ryan Sayles Episode 12: Dos Tacos Guatemaltecos y Una Pistola Casera by Mark Troy Episodes 7-9 of Season Two are featured in Guns + Tacos Vol. 3.

Paper Bullets

Paper Bullets
Author: Kip Fulbeck
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295801441

Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of high comedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets, his first novel, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh heritage, weaving a fictional autobiography from 27 closely linked stories, essays, and confessions. By turns sensitive and forceful, passionate and callous, Fulbeck confronts the politics of race, sex, and Asian American masculinity head-on without apology, constantly questioning where Hapas fit in a country that ignores multiracial identity. Raised in southern California by a Chinese-born mother and a Caucasian father, Fulbeck pushes the conventions of literary form as he simultaneously draws from, recreates, and fabricates his own life history. His range of experiences--from college professor to youth outreach volunteer, blues player to surfer and lifeguard--informs his witty and humane writing. Like himself, his protagonist is a young man shaped by the conflicting mores, stigmas, desires, and codes of male conduct in America. He searches for and mismanages love and independence, continually experimenting with sex along the way. Sometimes hilarious, always heartfelt, surfing the trivia of pop culture and sound bits, his inner voice shifts continually among the real, the perceived, and the imagined.

Vigilance's Gauntlet

Vigilance's Gauntlet
Author: Jeremy Michelson
Publisher: Jeremy Michelson
Total Pages: 821
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A nightmare villain stalks the heroes of New Bedlam. The vigilante heroes of New Bedlam face their more dire challenge yet. When a–Burke! What are you do– Hey there, Burke Hale taking over again. Let me tell you, dropping a flaming dude through my roof was not subtle. I mean, yeah, it got my attention. Not to mention burning down the former motel-converted-to-crummy-apartments place where I lived. Not cool. Sure, lots of people think I should be dead. A few have made semi-serious attempts to make that happen. But this guy… He’s got issues. And the more the vigilante heroes and I figure out about this master villain, the more issues he has. The biggest issue being, he seems more than capable of destroying not just me, but the entire city. But first, he wants me to suffer. He wants all of us to suffer. He’s making the city tear itself apart. Somehow he’s made everyone lose their minds. People have gone crazy, turning on each other like animals. The vigilante family are counting on me to solve the mystery of this villain’s grudge against me. The trouble is, I have no idea who this dude is. It’s not like I keep a master list of people I’ve ticked off. I mean, that would be a big list. Like famous horror writer novel pages of thickness big. The vigilante heroes and I (and my super awesome ninja ferret, Binky) have to figure out who this guy is. But if we can’t, we might have to give him what he wants. My head on a platter. Sure would be nice to avoid that. Can we save the city and my precious neck, too? The next action-packed, twisting and turning adventure in the Bedlam’s Heroes series.

A Bullet From Dominic

A Bullet From Dominic
Author: Giacomo Giammatteo
Publisher: Inferno Publishing Company
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1940313066

Gun Guys

Gun Guys
Author: Dan Baum
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307962210

Dan Baum is a gun fanatic. He is also Jewish Democrat who grew up in suburban New Jersey. In Gun Guys, he takes us on a guided tour of gun stores and gun shows, shooting ranges and festivals, contests and auctions, trying to figure out what draws so many of us to guns in the first place. Is it just part of being American? Introducing a wide cast of characters, Baum shows both sides of the gun culture in America, bringing an entire world vividly to life, and in doing so helping to find a middle ground in the gun debate, where actual conversation can take place.

THE OLD COP

THE OLD COP
Author: Richard L. Cañas
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The book follows the exploits of an octogenarian, Agustín Lara Camelia, a retired law enforcement executive living as a widowed recluse in the Pennsylvania countryside. An ill-advised response to an “escort” ad, ends tragically, and he finds himself facing a prison term for manslaughter. Because of his unique international background he is recruited as an unofficial infiltrator within Mexico by Agents of the US Department of Homeland Security Investigations who are investigating a sex trade organization with connection with a Mexican cartel controlling human trafficking between northern Mexico and the US. The old man finds himself conflicted while trying to atone for his crime and also follow the strict rules of HSI. Camelia relies on his experiences as a rookie police officer on the streets of Salinas, California. It was there that he last felt self-assured and learned that humanitarianism is the cornerstone of law enforcement, the part that gives purpose throughout a policeman’s life.

Dirty Harriet

Dirty Harriet
Author: Miriam Auerbach
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1552544389

SOMETIMES, A WOMAN'S GOT TO GET DIRTY TO GET THINGS CLEAN… Leaving the glamorous Boca Raton lifestyle behind wasn't easy for Boca-born Harriet Horowitz. But when she'd asked her physically abusive husband to make her day— he'd agreed (in front of 500 people)— and Harriet became single (a widow). Though it had been a clear-cut case of self-defense, she lost everything…yet wound up finding more. Her crash from the heights of society led her to a home in the desolate, haunting Everglades, a job as a private investigator and a new identity as tough cookie Dirty Harriet. It was a new world for Harriet. Until a murder case involving vulnerable migrant women brought her back to Boca Raton and forced her to face a past she'd thought she'd left in the dust.…

Time Burrito

Time Burrito
Author: Aaron Frale
Publisher: Aaron Frale
Total Pages: 162
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

With great burrito comes great responsibility. Pete’s food truck at the University of New Mexico isn’t going well. Seniors dare freshman to eat his burritos. Frats use them for pledges and pranks. Rumors fly around campus that they are chupacabra ground up with rat. Pete needs a change, and it comes in the form of a physics experiment gone awry. After being sucked into the past, he stumbles across an ingredient that goes great in one of his creations. First, there was Marty McFly. Then there was Bill and Ted. And now Pete—