A collection of fast-paced stories that highlight the spooks and crooks, the dark and brooding, the exciting and mysterious Ozarks. Written by nineteen authors from the Ozarks, this is the fifth edition with all new stories.
American Book Fest Award Winner for Fiction Anthologies in 2018.
Jane is a native of Buffalo, Missouri, where she still lives and works. When her children were small. she started selling fireworks out of a roadside stand. The business was very successful for her and today they have over 350 red and yellow tents across 5 states. They have 200 wholesale customers and employ fourteen family members. She and four sons are all active in the family fireworks business in five states: Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. These businesses go under the names of DBA Rocket City Fireworks, Central Mississippi Importers, Star World Fireworks, Hale Fireworks and Rainbow Fireworks. Jane's family is very important to her. Besides her immediate family, her extended family plays a big role in her life They serve as inspiration to her in her writing and the children have been the source of her children's holiday "Land" series book plots.
Binding | EAN | ISBN-10 | Pub Date | PAGES | Language | Size | Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paperback | 9781946504494 | 1946504491 | 2017-10-10 | 170 | 0.00 x 8.00 x 5.25 in | $14.99 |
On the Banks of River Sarayu is a compilation of nineteen stories reflecting the lives of hidden individuals, particularly women, living in the lower strata of Indian society. Each story introduces characters who are seemingly ordinary, but test the complex realities of identity, class, gender, and reveal a candid picture of humanity...
read moreContemporary fiction to Western, Sci Fi to nonfiction, in the form of short stories, poetry, nonfiction, a screen play, a memoir, and a novella, the anthology Eclectia, offers a variety of genres for adult and YA readers. Laugh with some pieces, fight tears with others, and be transported by creative storytellers in this unparalleled collection of writings.
read moreWhen random killings start happening around Centerville, Marvin (Marv) Henderson, Centerville's retired large-animal vet, now cowboy coroner, begins to see links that point to a serial killer with an unknown motive...
read moreSylvester (Sly) Jones is a lawyer who moved to Centerville to get away from the corruption and injustice he saw running rampant in Chicago. It didn't take him long to find out that for all its placid facade, his new town could be just as troubling. A former client of his is found dead, and it appears as if the only person in the town who cares at all is Sly...
read moreSome towns aren't meant to have their curses broken. Naomi and Penelope, the Dotson twins, don't believe in curses, particularly when they involve entire towns rather than individuals, but apparently most of the residents of Centerville feel otherwise. The latest in a string of what the twins call horrific coincidences is the murder of Joe Harbaugh, town councilman and business paragon...
read moreNattie Ryan's bookstore, Mystery, Ink, is dying right before her eyes, and her beloved son, Jeffrey, is in prison for drug trafficking, a crime he didn't commit. Yet nothing compares to the complications in her life when she discovers her friend, Clyde Hamilton, sitting on a park bench, strangled in the same manner as the unsolved murder, 30 years before, of Doctor Adams...
read moreWhen A.J. Zilchrest, one of Centerville's most prominent philanthropists, dies in a tragic car wreck, lawyer Sylvester (Sly) Jones is assigned to represent the other driver, Jorge Casa, a teenager who is accused of texting while driving. As Sly investigates, it appears that other elements may have caused the "so called" accident...
read moreAs a coroner, Dr. Marv Henderson is more comfortable around corpses than with the living, especially his adult daughter, Mary, who refuses to speak to him. But when members of his book club are murdered the same way as characters in the mystery novel they're reading, he unwittingly leads the killer to his daughter's doorstep...
read moreThis is the story of the travels of Antonio Beltrán, a migrant farm worker from Mexico. The descriptions of landscapes are as accurate as the characters in the story, and here is an opportunity to look at what may be a different side to immigration for some, because the author has met many of what American politicians are prone to label "illegal aliens...
read moreJuliana Birdsong is your typical eight-year-old with an obsessive-compulsive mother who's too paranoid to leave the house. Making double-lined, black-out drapes to protect their home from the outside world, her mother only looks up from her sewing machine when Perry Mason comes on TV - the type of successful man Juliana should marry if she wants to get anywhere in life...
read moreWho has not been thrilled and not a little frightened by tales of ghosts, spirits, hauntings, and monsters? Some of the most fascinating accounts come from the dark hollows of the Ozark Mountains. For generations, these scary, mystifying legends have been told around campfires and family gatherings and handed down through the generations...
read moreKah-nung-da-tla-geh-the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge-was born with one foot in each of the two worlds. The first was that of his ancestors, the great Cherokee Nation, who once settled across the lower plains, their culture flourishing, their position secure...
read moreTwenty-five-year-old fraternal twins, Naomi and Penelope Dotson, discover the dead bodies of their parents in the lake house on the edge of Centerville. While still in shock, the twins strive to discover the murderer and are drawn into two other related investigations-the kidnapping of nine-year-old Jamie Reed and the disappearance of Keith Evans, a deadbeat dad...
read moreA collection of fast-paced stories that highlight the spooks and crooks, the dark and brooding, the exciting and mysterious Ozarks. Written by nineteen authors from the Ozarks, this is the fifth edition with all new stories.American Book Fest Award Winner for Fiction Anthologies in 2018.
read moreMOON OF MADNESS is the latest edition of the continuing Spanish Bit Saga, where the People gather to listen to a story by one of their young men, Badger, who, originally thought to be foolish and mischievous, tells a gripping tale of a great shaking of the earth, where the Big River, the Miss-iss-ippi, flows backwards, and chaos erupts among the tribes and white settlers of that region...
read moreSixteen-year-old Lorena is a science nerd at a time when girls don’t do science. It’s 1962 and the message from President Kennedy’s Committee on the Status of Women isn’t well received in her conservative community. Lorena plays the roles expected of a good girl. She’s Lorena to her teachers, Lor to her friends, and Reenie to her Dad...
read moreFolk wisdom varies from region to region, and the Ozark Mountain variety was, and still is, peculiar and very special to the residents of this grand range. For the most part, early Ozarkers, though scattered, were bound together by common geography, religion, ethnic background, language, customs, dress, architecture, and even hardship...
read moreA collection of romance stories including New York Times Best-seller Kat Martin.
read moreOverview Ellen: A Collection of Stories and Essays by Johnny D. Boggs, Robert Vaughan, Steven Law A SPECIAL TRIBUTE All of the contributors to this book were friends and family of Ellen Gray Massey, and all of them considered her a model of a strong woman. There was a consensus among contributors that proceeds from the sale of this book be donated to charities that helped women...
read moreIn August 1876, Jack Jones, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is assigned to write about the doings of Deadwood, Dakota Territory—an illegal gold camp that knows no law. The lure of gold in the Lakota’s Black Hills draws prospectors and many colorful characters, such as Al Swearengen, Calamity Jane, Colorado Charlie Utter, Seth Bullock, Madame Mustache, and Sol Star, and it also lures...
read moreEsta es la historia de los viajes de Antonio BeltrAn, un trabajador agrIcola migrante de MExico...
read more
Midpoint Trade Books is a division of IPG: Independent Publishers Group, a full service sales and distribution company that represents independent book publishers. Our main offices are located in Chicago, New York City, and Berkeley.
© 2019 Chicago Review Press, Inc. All Rights Reserved.