I'd wondered about my mother all my life -- what she looked like, how she smelled and sounded and acted. Lately this wondering had grown to encompass a curiosity about the kind of people she herself came from, because they were my family, too, after all, even though I knew nothing about them. I'd no idea whether they were loud or soft-spoken, funny or boring, preferred chocolate to vanilla, if they liked movies over books or the other way around. I wondered whether any of them had ever done anything magnificent in their lives, or if they were the kind of folks who were satisfied with just getting by. These things were important -- knowing them would help me to know myself, and the only way that would happen was if I went and looked for her. With all his possessions on his motorcycle, Billy Mann sets off on a cross-country odyssey from New York to Santa Fe in search of a mother who deserted him long ago. What Billy discovers, however, is a life rich with possibility -- the chance for love, friendship, and, finally, a family to call his own.

Just to see Bart leaning against the doorway — on his feet, but relaxed in a way no white boy could stand, a guitar in his hand, perhaps — had a way of filling his father with a revulsion that Bob had to take out to the mesa to quiet. It was as if the man saw the face of his boy under a high-tinted sombrero (instead of the cast-off cavalryman’s campaign hat with a Copley peak) as if a sash of seda were thrust back over the shoulder. Bob didn’t quite know it, but it was because he was seeing Bart with the eyes of the other miners at these times — that he was stung so. The town had put a secret fear on him that his boy was not showing up white...FROM THE BOOK.

After a harrowing trip trying to bring his 1958 Burger Motor yacht half way around the world to his little harbor in Sausalito California, Craig "Kaz" Kazynski and his crew find themselves traveling to South America at the demand of the FBI to locate the sunken yacht and find a briefcase hidden on board with valuable information inside. Join Kaz and his crazy crew as the adventure continues to find his seemingly cursed yacht and locate its priceless cargo in Part Two of this series

For the hundreds of thousands of followers of the Bangor, Maine, Police Department on social media, the "Got Warrants?" feature brings a regular dose of levity. Pulled straight from daily reports, these short interludes provide a welcome spin on the standard police log. Collected here is a fresh batch of all-true police-related hijinks. Poking fun at human nature and turning ne'er-do-wells into sages of silliness, Got Warrants? reminds us all to step back, take a deep breath, and try not to take things so seriously.

Seven years ago Simon Rabin came back from the dead; no small event, but still just the precursor to something infinitely more extreme. Seven years later Greencoat is employed by a provocatively beautiful witch to find a missing researcher, who in turn believes he can prove there is no longer any such thing as a random number. In this dangerous hybrid reality though, nothing is what it seems. Other forces are at work, symbolic, fundamental and totally without mercy. As Greencoat begins to uncover the truth behind the Alternation, the world splitting cataclysm which created the Alter-Earths, he is caught in the middle as those forces begin to gather, preparing for an apocalyptic confrontation with men of incomparable power and unsurpassed evil - the Ascendancy.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Lee Sowell and his posse chase bootleggers, killers, and robbers across Indian Territory in the 1880s. Sometimes their methods are a little shady, if not downright illegal, but they get their man. In far western I.T., they avoid massacre by Comanche Indians by fighting fire with fire(water). Two of Lee's posse go out on their own to capture bootleggers and their whiskey still, deep in the Unassigned Lands. Bass Reeves, Lee's mentor, is accused of murder and it is left up to Lee to find and bring in the witnesses that would save Bass from conviction. In the process, Lee is shot and his life saved by a woman with an old Kentucky long rifle. Later, they corner a killer at Robbers' Roost.