Little Cicero Duane Schwartz Take a police chief who has never before served in law enforcement, push a reluctant but more convenient than qualified doctor into the job of coroner, insert a mayor in his first few weeks holding any office, and show them a water filled mine pit with bodies dressed in costumes of the roaring twenties popping to its surface, and what you get is a fiasco of epic proportions. Add to that a ninety-six-year-old former Catholic nun who knows the story but will only dish it out in portions to a team of amateurs who are unsure she will live to tell, and an eccentric mining company employee who has everything to lose should the truth be told, and you have what should be the unsolvable crime. True enough for most, but this team of no-nothings will surprise. And their journey to the bottom of the truth is the journey found within the pages of Little Cicero. Little Cicero is the nickname given a small town on Minnesota’s picturesque Mesabi Iron Range for its similarity to the Cicero, Illinois of Capone days, the streets of both having been honeycombed with tunnels for ease of travel from speakeasy to speakeasy during prohibition. The story surrounding the town explores the happenings of an earlier time through the ongoing investigation of an old woman who lived it, and the relationship that develops between her and the novice police chief as she relives those early memories reveals two things: the new chief is capable of getting to the truth, and his inexperience hinders him from taking action, even when that truth might involve murder. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-031-0 ISBN-10: 1-60830-031-5 Cover Price: U.S.$14.95 Honest Faces Steven Donkin During the autumn of 2008, Frank Allerton, lifelong resident of the small eastern Ohio town of Vernen, is visited by a brother whom he has not seen or heard from in forty-seven years. This bittersweet reunion, however, has a pall cast over it: Frank can’t help being reminded of the family tragedy that originally drove the brothers apart. Meanwhile, several of Frank’s neighbors and friends are struggling to cope with their own pasts and uncertain futures. These include crusty retired Army colonel Conrad Haygood; his mentally challenged yet curiously perceptive middle-aged daughter Ruth; devout but suffering waitress Cora Roeder; Cora’s adoptive niece Gretchen, an aspiring poet and elementary school teacher wavering between idealism and cynicism; and Malcolm Peters, himself a retired teacher recently transplanted from Washington, D.C. and the town’s only black resident. When violent death suddenly intervenes in Vernen’s quietly conservative community life, it sends the residents into confusion as they try to make sense of an apparent suicide that actually may have been something more. Taking it upon himself to find the truth behind the tragedy, Malcolm discovers that some people may not be as they appear, for, as Gretchen observes in one of her poems, sometimes “craft and guile…sport honest faces.” Malcolm’s investigation leads him to some unsettling revelations as he encounters Frank’s manipulative sister-in-law in New Jersey and a shadowy drifter of undefined identity and motivation who may be the key to the puzzle. A tense drama of deceit, disillusionment and hope, Honest Faces examines the age-old dilemma of maintaining a moral center in an amoral universe, and the challenge of reconciling one’s closely held principles with outward action. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-035-8 ISBN-10: 1-60830-035-8 Cover Price: U.S.$14.95 Flying Fish Vern Hobbs Fishing is suddenly banned, but the hard scrabble fishing village of Juniper Key, Florida refuses to die quietly... As hope fades, “Smiley” Randolph, editor of the town’s weekly newspaper, finds himself face to face with the ghost of a long dead community icon! The ghost insists that Smiley must steer the locals away from deep-seated prejudices and convince them to embrace the teachings of two unorthodox strangers. Will quiet and shy Smiley find the courage to become a leader? Only the ghost knows for sure! Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-032-7 ISBN-10: 1-60830-032-3 Cover Price: U.S.$15.95 Red Flag Warning Kurt Kamm Los Angeles County is burning! A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fire. Plunge into the infernos, and face the heat, smoke and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Arson Unit struggles to find the fire setter and stop the devastation. Follow Fire Captain Jim Kendall as he tries to find NiteHeat before the City of Malibu burns down. A Red Flag Warning is a National Weather Service forecast alerting firefighting agencies that conditions are ideal for wildland fire. In California, such warnings often bring 60 mile per hour winds and arson fires destroying thousands of acres. Did you ever wonder what goes through the mind of a wildland fire setter? Did you ever wonder how a wildland fire arson investigation works? Read RED FLAG WARNING by Kurt Kamm. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-029-7 ISBN-10: 1-60830-029-3 Cover Price: U.S.$15.95 You Will Never Dance Alone Ross Murphy Danny Byrne is a toddler when he immigrates to America with his single-parent father soon after the conclusion of World War II. He grows up in Alexandria, Virginia where he develops a surprising interest in the sport of boxing. You will follow Danny’s career from its humble beginning until Danny attains his goal of super-stardom. Along the way you will meet Daniel: Danny’s country philosopher father, Mary Worth: Danny’s friend and mentor, Kathy Wiley: Danny’s true love and Sol Rosenberg: Danny’s bitter, belligerent, profane manager/trainer. Danny seems blessed by life. He seems to have everything: fame, wealth, wonderful friends and a lovely family. He is America’s ‘golden boy’ until fate tragically strikes his life a mortal blow and tests his faith and his sanity to their limits. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-025-9 ISBN-10: 1-60830-025-0 Cover Price: U.S.$21.95 Southern Kingdom’s Harvest Don Stanford Set in south Louisiana shortly after the Civil War, Southern Kingdom’s Harvest takes you back to a time of intrigue and upheaval. Opportunities abound for the man who has the ambition, foresight and temerity to make the most of the turbulent times. Adam Blythington is sure that he is that man. He relocated from London to Opelousas, LA with the dream of purchasing land and living as a country squire. In only a short while he is successful beyond his expectations, but his success is quickly overshadowed by his lust for even more. He amasses land, power, riches and beautiful women, becoming one of the most powerful and envied men in Louisiana, but nothing will satisfy his desires. Only a few brave men dare to stand in his way. Murder and mayhem are his allies as he strives to eliminate all obstacles in his quest to build his empire. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-030-3 ISBN-10: 1-60830-030-7 Cover Price: U.S.$19.95 Flint Bob Maninger In the small Oklahoma community of Flint, Dr. Bill Spence pursues a ruthless serial killer. The murderer is determined to make these crimes appear as though the Cheyenne are responsible. Diamond Oil Company refinery workers have gone out on strike and the tension is mounting. The evidence at the crime scene is a graphic replication of Native American battlefield mutilations. Bill Spence’s area of expertise leads him to uncover the killer’s intended scenario replicating the Greasy Grass battlefield. Bill receives assistance from his good friend and Cheyenne insider, Ben Freeman, as he navigates each terrifying crime collecting clues to help the local police solve these grisly murders. Ben is implicated even though he appears to be above such a crime spree, because he keeps showing up at the scene at the wrong time. The Cheyenne decide it is time to step outside the law and perform the Sun Dance to purify their people. Bill relies on his friend Kristine to keep him focused on the terrible discoveries he makes as the killer seems to be focusing on Bill and intending to clue him in on the next move. Bill Spence starts to put the elements of the crimes together when he runs into an old high school sweetheart who has mysteriously moved back to Flint to date a man that suddenly becomes a person of interest in Bill’s mind. Bill swings by Kristine’s place to see her and discovers that she is missing. The police chase that ensues takes them to Tommy Nash and the Diamond Oil museum housed in the old family mansion. Can Bill make it to the serial killer before he ends Kristine’s life or will she be his latest victim? Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-027-3 ISBN-10: 1-60830-027-7 Cover Price: U.S.$12.95 Old Memories and Me Charlie Craig Old Memories and Me is an autobiography by legendary songwriter Charlie Craig that takes you from his humble beginnings on a small cotton mill village in South Carolina to the streets of music row in Nashville, Tennessee where his life and music career come in daily contact with some of the biggest names in the history of country music. In this nothing held back story of failures, success, tears, laughter, romance, heartbreak and sometimes humorous candor, Charlie Craig takes you on a personal journey with him that leads down pathways he walked with such stars as Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, Aaron Tippin, Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith and many others. Charlie’s life and career are filled with stories you have never heard or read before. You will learn what it was like writing songs with Alan Jackson and watching him go from a mailroom clerk in 1987 to the mega star he is today. Charlie talks about writing for Dolly Parton’s publishing company and spending memorable moments with her and Porter Wagoner. This well known songwriter’s personal life and career is written in great detail as Charlie shares his experiences with the world, both the highlights and the low points, the awards won and the dreams lost. This book isn’t just about a songwriter and his music; it is about love and life as well. From beginning to end you feel as though you are sitting in your living room or den listening to this man tell you stories you could listen to all day long. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, but every line will make you feel you are there. From a Carolina cotton field to a little cemetery in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, you can’t help but become a part of Old Memories and Me…. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-019-8 ISBN-10: 1-60830-019-6 Cover Price: U.S.$21.95 Standing in Two Places: A New Landscape of Motherhood Ashley Dyson Standing in Two Places is a moving memoir that tells the story of a journey through the controversial practice of surrogacy. Ashley Dyson is the intended mother who, after enthusiastically entering a surrogacy arrangement with Norah, suddenly finds herself stuck in a sort of motherhood purgatory: she is a mother of a three-year-old daughter and an unpregnant mother-to-be of a baby growing inside the womb of another woman four states away; she and Norah have formed a close friendship, but they are also business partners, the ‘business’ being carrying Ashley’s baby; there is the traditional role of ‘mother’ and there is this new, ambiguous role of ‘intended mother,’ which for Ashley feels more like the father’s role, the man who goes about his business for nine months then—Voila! a baby appears in his arms. Ashley finds herself in the middle of what she calls “an actual transition in human evolution,” where she’s in the passenger seat of a car, driven by a friend who also happens to be five months pregnant with her baby. This is motherhood with a twist, and it is complicated. With honesty, humor, and heartbreaking insight Ashley shares her experience of navigating through this new landscape with no guidebook, no map. “My generation and our children are the subjects of this reproductive revolution, how we live through it must be figured out on a trial and error basis,” Ashley writes. And like motherhood, which demands responsibility and love, Ashley is determined to figure it out, thereby shedding light and possibility on an uncharted place. In the end, Standing in Two Places is a memoir about love. If not for love, what other reason is there to willingly throw oneself headlong into the unknown? Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-014-3 ISBN-10: 1-60830-014-5 Cover Price: U.S.$14.95 Balkan Caesar Peter Lucas Balkan Caesar is the compelling, previously untold story of a small band of American soldiers of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) who fought the Nazis behind enemy lines in World War II Albania. The story is based on fact. At the outbreak of the war, the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, scours the United States for young men willing to return secretly to the countries of their European ancestors to help resistance fighters sabotage the Nazi war machine. In Boston they find a group of first generation Americans of Albanian descent who volunteer to join the OSS and help liberate Albania from the Nazi Occupation. The story centers around one of the men, Tom Stevens, a rugged, idealistic young Boston high school football star who is fluent in Albanian. Stevens tends bar at the Arch Street Tavern, a newspaperman’s hangout, while he attends college at night. Stevens recruits fellow Bostonians – some of Albanian descent, others not - to join the OSS with him. One unlikely volunteer is handsome actor Sterling Hayden, who worked as a seaman on the Boston waterfront before he was discovered by Hollywood. Their assignment: gather intelligence useful to the OSS for its wartime – and post-war – needs, and to bond with Enver Hoxha, the handsome, charismatic, ruthless, Paris-educated Albanian Communist Partisan leader. This they do. Together, Stevens, Hayden, and their men make the dangerous nighttime crossing of Adriatic Sea from Allied-occupied Italy to join Hoxha’s Partisans and help them fight the Nazis in the rugged mountains and seaside caves of southern Albania.... The outcome of this extraordinary saga is to influence Albanian and Balkan history, and the lives of its protagonists, for decades to come. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-011-2 ISBN-10: 1-60830-011-0 Cover Price: U.S.$15.95 Southern Kingdom Don Stanford The setting for Southern Kingdom is the nineteenth century; however, its theme is as ageless as the rising and setting of the sun. Ambition, anger, bravery, cowardice, greed, hate, love, lust, selfishness, and the struggle to survive are timeless. This novel chronicles the life – and the lives of the people his life affects – of a man who allows those forces to blacken his heart and empty his soul. Adam Blythington relocates to America with the ambition of buying cheap land in the defeated south and living the life of a country squire. In only a few years, with the aid of a corrupt land speculator, he finds himself the owner of two vast plantations. When he acquires his first plantation, Hannah LeBlanc, the beautiful and sensuous housekeeper, offers herself as his mistress. Although he marries the beautiful daughter of a wealthy landowner for convention’s sake, and has an affair with his brother-in-law’s wife, Hannah remains steadfastly loyal to him. Together they forge the future of his empire, Southern Kingdom. They ruthlessly battle anyone, even resorting to murder, who threatens their dream of wealth and power. Although he amasses land, riches, and power, the gratification he desired remains elusive. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-008-2 ISBN-10: 1-60830-008-0 Cover Price: U.S.$17.95 Falling Clint Pearson & Ursula Pearson At 18 years of age, Clint Pearson was a rock climber and local track star, and despite his long hair and carefree dress, he was maniacally driven. Even after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), he continued to climb mountains and take risks, unmindful of the dangers. He shunned commitment and saw women as trophies, that is, until he met Ursula. A South African of East Indian descent, Ursula had grown up under the shroud of apartheid and had nurtured a healthy supply of caution in the process. At first she sought to maintain her distance from the brash and disheveled American, but after Clint and Ursula found themselves in a car, at night, inside a redwood forest, nuptials were soon to follow. Their differences were extreme but so too were their feelings for each other, and as Clint plodded through medical school, becoming emotionally entangled in the poignant dramas of his patients, the marriage remained strong. Then during residency training, financial pressures intensified, leisure time vanished, and Clint’s MS progressed despite several medicines. On one occasion, MS medication even precipitated a high fever, and Clint’s body had to be packed in ice. The marriage ultimately survived both Clint’s declining health and his residency, but the MS continued to progress, making Clint’s mountain-climbing ambitions increasingly unrealistic. Yet he remained an adventurer, a climber at heart. Would he push ahead only to stumble and fall or could Ursula and his patients somehow teach him to climb mountains of a different kind? Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-012-9 ISBN-10: 1-60830-012-9 Cover Price: U.S.$15.00 Death of a Perfect Man M. M. Gornell Jada Beaudine has lost her husband Terry in a tragic and mysterious boating accident--and she badly needs a change. She leaves her home in Puget Sound to get away from the horror, the memories, and the relentless glare of publicity that surrounded her husband’s death. Alone, she drives south and by the second evening finds herself taking a wrong turn in the stark Mojave high desert of interior Southern California. While mesmerized by the bigger-than-life beauty of a desert sunset, she nearly runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Amid mounting apprehension, she manages to find the odd “Red Rock Inn & Café,” a lost, creepy old resort from some other place and time--where, Irina, a strange emerald-eyed woman materializes and convinces her to stay the night. She’ll check out early in the morning and be on her way, right? But by morning, events unravel quickly and Jada finds herself pulled straight into the scene of a bizarre murder. As she reluctantly tries to make sense of this murder, it’s soon followed by yet another. And all the while, Jada is being followed by people with varied, surprising and even sinister agendas of their own. Yes, she may have a knack for solving murders—as psychic Irina seems to know—but in this off-kilter scenario, Jada has her own powerful hunch that the next victim will be her. And every time she tries to leave this otherworldly place, she finds that somehow she can’t… Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-007-5 ISBN-10: 1-60830-007-2 Cover Price: U.S.$15.00 Fame and Deceit Patti Brooks It’s all about the power of a dream. Driven by his Olympian goal of achieving world class recognition, Ike Cherny blocks out the world. Except for an occasional pretty woman or two, he tries to turn a blind eye to the evil swirling around him. Ike is a full-fledged horse-profiler whose innate talent to “read a horse” has never been proven. In spite of the lack of a track record, in spite of the absence of a mentor to turn to for advice, Ike believes in his ability to pluck a wild filly from the back woods of Maine and bring Aristooke Annie along so she has the polish to become the next World Champion. Someone is secretly dumping toxic waste. Has Ike’s boss, Agosto Benalli cooked up a scheme to profit by burying toxic waste at Crowne Stable with Ike’s girl friend, Eugenia Jordan, (CT’s Commissioner of the Dept. of Environmental Protection) as Benalli’s cohort? Someone is secretly killing Connecticut clergymen. Who is terrorizing Connecticut’s clergymen? Is Eugenia is carrying out a sick vendetta because she believes her sister was raped and murdered at the hands of their minister? Or what about Harriet Stilton with an embedded hatred of clergymen for what one did to her son? Ike’s Stable of Conniving Women. Ike moves from the arms of cuddly Lisa Danzig after she is caught poisoning Ike’s horses, to sexually abused Eugenia Jordan, but backs away from the relationship when she confesses to bribery. Ike discovers Eugenia’s body, two month’s pregnant floating in the river. Did Ike’s boss order her death because of the hazardous waste scheme? Or was Eugenia overly distraught because he dumped her and decided to take her own life? Ike’s attraction to Veronica Rouseau ends when he discovers she brokered the sale of Aristooke Annie. Set in New England’s horse world, Fame & Deceit is is a tangle of sex, murder and blue blooded horses. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-006-8 ISBN-10: 1-60830-006-4 Cover Price: U.S.$15.00 The Little Town That Did: Springport Builds The Arches Jill Cline This is the inspiring story of the building of “The Arches”, a community building/gym in the small town of Springport, Michigan. The process took approximately two years (1947-1949) and was done almost entirely with volunteer labor and monetary contributions from the townspeople. Farmers worked side by side with doctors. Teachers cut wood and laid cement block with car dealers. High school students , male and female, put in the basketball floor under the direction of their talented shop teacher. And the women brought the food-huge potluck style meals to feed the crews of up to seventy men who showed up on Sundays to do whatever needed to be done. The local pastor often came to say grace and then after the meal, he picked up a shovel or a hammer and got down to business. This story is one of neighborliness, sacrifice, and believing in the common good. Today, the “Arches” is used as an elementary gymnasium and its history is not widely known by the generation of Springport kids who followed. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-003-7 ISBN-10: 1-60830-003-X Cover Price: U.S.$10.00 The Tides of Men Niall P MacAllister The Tides of Men is an epic account of the deception of Global Power from a broad perspective. It is a story of commitment, hopes and dreams of real people, comprising a complex scope of characters, plots and locations. From a funeral in an Irish country churchyard the characters retrace their steps, from ‘mercenary wars’ in Nicaragua to a terrifying flight from China, a return from Southeast Asia and from America. Among them is Terry Sai, a fugitive from the student revolt in Beijing. The tragic departure of Aija Tsi compels Terry to carry her beloved friend’s exceptional philosophies through the sordid world of the opium and weapons markets to Anna Yao in Northern Laos. Terry hears Anna’s story of the keys, of Paddy Finucane, a survivor of the Vietnam War and agent for British MI5. During her friendship with Anna Yao, Terri is exposed to terrors of unspeakable magnitude. Terri is again a fugitive, under the watchful eye of An Luc, a Hmong tribesman. Paddy Finucane attends a meeting at the British Embassy with Michael Weatherby and others from MI6. The world of Admiral Mahan’s Middle East emerges, the ‘world dominion’ of an arrogant, corrupt, corporate plutocracy with their covert Imperial agenda. The legend of Alexander’s ‘world of conquest’ is reborn, people once again victims of ‘men in private clubs drawing lines on a map of the world’. Under growing world tensions, threat of a nuclear Armageddon emerges. Jack Edwards returns to Belfast, Northern Ireland from America to lecture on “Alternatives to Violence”, becoming dramatically drawn into the ongoing conflict. Worldwide attention focuses on this longest enduring Colonial war. Ensuing events coincidentally bring Paddy’s former Vietnam comrades together, following the trail of the seven keys, the path of the mysterious Braderakan. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-005-1 ISBN-10: 1-60830-005-6 Cover Price: U.S.$15.95 Running Through a Koga Field Jerry Lee Davis In Running Through a Koga Field, Stroud McCray, a 28 year-old certified public accountant in Atlanta, Georgia, who moonlights as a singer-songwriter, uncovers the suspicious and possibly illegal activities of one of his employer’s most important clients, Raines Beverage, a beverage distributor and one of Georgia’s largest privately owned corporations. At the same time as Stroud is contending with the repercussions of questioning the potential wrongdoings of the client, he is experiencing dreams and visions of a terrified and sought after teenage Cherokee Indian boy who lives near a koga field in Blue Mountain, Georgia, a scantily inhabited, passive, and fictional Georgia town with a multitude of rich, peculiar residents. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-000-6 ISBN-10: 1-60830-000-5 Cover Price: U.S.$15.95 The Dead Guy Doug Hewitt Jack Thigpen works in Detroit, nicknamed The Motor City, the perfect place for a fraud investigator who specializes in car insurance scams. He is on a case he believes is a typical, low-level crime, but it quickly turns into a situation with ominous international consequences. Ironically, as he is targeted for death because of his investigation, Jack is diagnosed with a fatal disease that is untreatable, a disease that will end his life within months. And instead of killing Jack, the hit man shoots Jack’s best friend. Struggling to come to terms with his impending death, Jack vows to track down his friend’s killer. It’s a race against time before the neurodegenerative disorder can take root and limit his ability to think and act. And so Jack enlists the aid of his brother, Tom, a taxidermist with a den full of dead animals, which Jack now sees in a new light. Tom jokes that he and Jack can be a superhero team fighting evil. Jack doesn’t want to endanger Tom, and so he directs his brother to do background investigations while Jack injects himself into the physical one-on-ones necessary to dig deeper into the case. Jack plunges into the world of corrupt car dealerships, chop shops, and fraudulent auto repair shops. He is soon swept into the darkness of Detroit’s criminal underbelly to uncover the truth about power struggles within organized crime rings. Death is staring him in the face, but Jack doesn’t back down. He pushes ahead, plowing through perilous roadblocks planted by his enemies, propelling himself toward the finish line and a teeth-gritting, heart-pounding conclusion. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-0-9814725-7-7 ISBN-10: 0-9814725-7-5 Cover Price: U.S.$15.00 Uncle Si's Secret M. M. Gornell Belinda “Bella” Jones and her brother Bernard, owners of the Cedar Valley Residence, have put their hearts, souls, and a ton of cash into this dream endeavor. Now, after five years of hard work, their charming home is almost full of a lovable cast of residents and there’s just one more building addition they want to do. But then Lana Norris, a beautiful area resident is brutally murdered on Cedar Valley Trail just a few feet from their property line, and their world turns upside down. Things like this don’t happen in Cedar Valley, and their residents are shocked—and afraid. Overnight their happy place has turned into a jumbled, unfamiliar world. Indeed, residents are checking out, belongings are mysteriously disappearing, the county government is on their back about raspberries of all things, and it seems that nothing will be right again until this homicidal maniac is captured. Quickly, and to everyone’s relief, the police arrest and charge Kirby Norris, Lana’s husband. He has an alibi, but all the physical evidence points his way; and for motive, there’s a million dollar life insurance policy. It’s enough for the DA to indict, arraign, and bring to trial. But Kirby swears he’s innocent, and so does his mother, the eerily persistent Olive Norris. She engages a slick defense lawyer, but she also calls in Belinda, a past part-time investigator to find the real killer. Belinda has had several modest successes in the crime arena, and her possibly psychic chef-brother thinks Kirby is innocent, and worse yet, the real killer is still loose and she should take the job. But once Belinda begins, she enters a turning labyrinth that not even she could foresee. Suddenly there’s another gruesome murder, and some sudden surprises, and Belinda knows that she must solve this one fast—before she, or someone dear to her, becomes the next victim. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-0-9814725-5-3 ISBN-10: 0-9814725-5-9 Cover Price: U.S.$15.00 When Summer was in the Meadow Betsy Hamlet Nichols When Summer was in the Meadow records and preserves a time that is receding all too quickly into the lost pages of the last century. Based on actual events of the 20's and early 30's, the work is the real-life story of Evelyn Johnson, a child who in her own voice draws us into a magical world of backyard circuses, church picnics, and friendly neighbors. As she matures, her narration reveals with poignancy and humor life as it was lived by ordinary people during a critical period in American history. The story has historical appeal in its evocation of life in the South and in its recall of actual places, events, and persons of the time–from the talkies and Lindbergh to FDR and the Great Depression. In a larger sense, however, this is a story about ourselves and the power of remembrance to shape our lives and the lives of those who follow us. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-0-9814725-3-9 ISBN-10: 0-9814725-3-2 Cover Price: U.S.$15.95 Memories of an Eastern Sky Andy Zhang Memories of an Eastern Sky is an intriguing original fiction based on a true story that chronicles the extraordinary and disturbing life experiences of the main character. Born into a loving family in the freezing, lawless, and foreboding part of the Communist China, the main character quickly learns of the crushing power the government wielded. His father is suspected of being counterrevolutionary, and the family makes the courageous decision not to succumb to the nefarious will of the ten-year Cultural Revolution that will eventually claim over thirty million innocent lives. Publisher: Aberdeen Bay ISBN-13: 978-0981472508 ISBN-10: 0981472508 Cover Price: U.S.$14.95