Hangdog III: The Absolution

Hangdog III: The Absolution
Author: Tylie Vaughan Eaves
Publisher: Vertu Publishing
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0578590883

Book Three in the Hangdog Trilogy. "This is one of the best series I have ever read. I read the first two books and was waiting for the release of this book." Things have come to a tipping point. Something has to give. The McKnight family story continues in this final book of the Hangdog trilogy. Will Beau survive? Will Julia leave? Will Eli confront Mark? Is Ivy gone for good? Can Joe and Valerie continue to stand strong under the weight of it all? Join the fight for victory while the McKnight family learns what faith is really all about, as their saga finally comes to a powerful, life-altering conclusion.

Absolution

Absolution
Author: Susan Fleet
Publisher: Susan Fleet
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2008-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1435708415

New Orleans homicide detective Frank Renzi teams up with journalist Rona Jefferson to solve a series of murders where women's tongues are taken as trophies by the killer. A tip leads them to suspect a young priest, which angers the Catholic community. As the police get close to solving the crimes, the murderer persuades a young teenager to run away with him forcing the police to chase after them.

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0385283865

“Richly and often pertinently funny [with] a sure instinct for the carefully considered irrelevance . . . a great deal of incidental hilarity [and] inspired idiocy.”—The New York Times Happy Birthday Wanda June was Kurt Vonnegut’s first play, which premiered in New York in 1970 and was then adapted into a film in 1971. It is a darkly humorous and searing examination of the excesses of capitalism, patriotism, toxic masculinity, and American culture in the post-Vietnam War era. Featuring behind-the-scenes photographs from the original stage production, this play captures Vonnegut’s brilliantly distinct perspective unlike we have ever seen it before. “A great artist.”—The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Leopold and Loeb Files

The Leopold and Loeb Files
Author: Nina Barrett
Publisher: Agate Midway
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781572842403

A history of Chicago's infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, told chiefly through a rare collection of carefully arranged primary source material, including confessions, court transcripts, psychological reports, evidence photos, and more.

City of Fortune

City of Fortune
Author: Roger Crowley
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2012-01-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0679644261

“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. “[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page.”—The New York Times “Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice’s past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.”—The Wall Street Journal

Love in Reverse/Scarred for Life

Love in Reverse/Scarred for Life
Author: Garland Ladd
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2008-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462839754

Why do love relationships fail? A more appropriate question is why do many succeed? Finding answers to both questions is analogous to defining infinity impossible because the unknowns are infinite and this author will not go there. However, two aspects of lasting love loom extremely important, namely, the origin of love that indefinable spark of attraction that unites people and the admirable quality of ingenuity that is required for relationships to survive. Love In Reverse and Scarred For Life are fictional attempts to highlight those aspects of lasting love.

The Noir West

The Noir West
Author: Christopher G. Willhoite
Publisher: ZenPistol Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

“Laugh at its darkness…or be consumed by it.” Enter Rex Rygaard, private detective, public dick. While his partner is on vacation, Rex accepts a case from the big bad Yaponcha Company. Paired with Yaponcha’s liaison, the two are tasked with retrieving a stolen mystery item. But Rex is less of a traditional detective and more like a mental detective. “Jus’ another way o’ sayin’ philosopher or psychologist,” Rex arrogantly sniffs. Yet his qualifications…don’t go beyond the armchair! Led by the Y-agent, he travels across a fantastical alternate West where “equality for all ethnicities, genders, and sexualities has long-been common sense. 19th-century tech is more widespread, and then-ancient technologies have resurfaced. ‘Tis a more progressive past, but even its pretty promises are imperfect. …[It is] here lunacy pushes and pulls the temporal tides. … The lines of history distort and diverge…" Quixotic, existential… Journey into a troubled psyche and drink deep its dark waters. Explore an alternate history and witness a world familiar, beautiful, and bizarre. “This here is the Noir West, a bittersweet blend of doubt, surrealism, discrepancy, and Fate, all stirred by six-guns and swords."

Star Trek Adventures - Beta Quadrant

Star Trek Adventures - Beta Quadrant
Author: Modiphius Entertainment
Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781910132913

YOU JUDGE YOURSELVES AGAINST THE PITIFUL ADVERSARIES YOU'VE ENCOUNTERED SO FAR: THE ROMULANS, THE KLINGONS... THEY'RE NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT'S WAITING.

The Complete Beer Course

The Complete Beer Course
Author: Joshua M. Bernstein
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1454906871

“A wide-ranging volume that is sure to appeal to beer enthusiasts and casual consumers alike. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW) Go on a fun, flavorful tour through the world of craft brews with one of the most unique and fascinating voices in beer today. It's a great time to be a beer drinker, but also the most confusing, thanks to the dizzying array of available draft beers. Expert Joshua Bernstein comes to the rescue with The Complete Beer Course, demystifying the sudsy stuff and breaking down the elements that make a beer's flavor spin into distinctively different and delicious directions. Structured around a series of easy-to-follow classes, his course hops from lagers and pilsners to hazy wheat beers, Belgian-style abbey and Trappist ales, aromatic pale ales and bitter IPAs, roasty stouts, barrel-aged brews, belly-warming barley wines, and mouth-puckering sour ales. There is even a class on international beer styles and another on pairing beer with food and starting your own beer cellar. Through suggested, targeted tastings, you'll learn when to drink down-and when to dump those suds down a drain.

The Oakland Quartet

The Oakland Quartet
Author: Abby Mendelson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781475948998

From the award-winning author of Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, Ghost Dancer, and End of the Road, comes the startling, visionary The Oakland Quartet. Set in Oakland, a working-class American-Irish neighborhood of steel mills and saloons, the novel, set in 1958, chronicles four teenaged baseball players -- Stash and Nig, Mongol and Whitey, the slickest-fielding infield the city had ever seen -- who, on a hot, sulfurous night, commit an unspeakable crime -- and must live with its consequences. Supported by a stellar cast of barkeeps, city councilmen, neighborhood enforcers, and Catholic priests -- as well as such historic figures as Mayor David Lawrence, baseball Hall of Famer Pie Traynor, and many more -- the Oakland Quartet make a decision that will ultimately ruin their lives. Narrated by Beef, their former teammate and catcher, The Oakland Quartet closely examines these small, stunted lives -- while their priest, Father David Reddy, searches to save those who have who have lost their way.