In the aftermath of the Civil War, anaging itinerant news reader agrees totransport a young captive ofthe Kiowa back to her people in thisexquisitely rendered, morallycomplex, multilayerednovel of historical fiction fromthe author of Enemy Women thatexplores the boundaries of family,responsibility, honor, and trust.

Soon to be a feature film starringTom Hanks.

News of the Worldby Paulette Jiles

Fiction JILES

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WESTERNSWINTER/SPRING 2020

After fastball phenom ProsperoStark's baseball career craters in aMexican jail, he retreats to a trailerpark in the scorching Arizona desert.He lives in peaceful anonymity with acollection of colorful outcasts untilsomeone leaves his former catcher'ssevered hand on his doorstep.Beautiful, hard-living reporterRoxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a.380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in hercar, joins Stark to help him uncoverhis friend's fate, a dangerous pursuitthat pits them against a ruthlessgang of drug-dealing killers.

Double Wideby Leo W. Banks

Mystery BANKS

Joe Pickett's old friend NateRomanowski is off the grid,recuperating from wounds and lyinglow while the FBI search for him. Butthey are not the only ones looking forhim and Nate finds himselfconfronting an elite team of specialforces soldiers. They say they're thereto make a deal. They need his helpdestroying a domestic terror cell inWyoming's Red Desert, and in returnthey'll make Nate's criminal recorddisappear. But they have a verydifferent plan in mind, and it just maybe something that takes them alldown.

Off the Gridby C.J. Box

Mystery BOX

As the electric cables are laid for anew telegraph system that willconnect the settlers of the ArizonaTerritory to the rest of the country,rancher Chet Byrnes squares off witha gang of hired henchmen who wouldkill to sabotage the project, all whilehe deals with cutthroat rustlers onthe Mexican border.

Valley of Bonesby Dusty Richards

FIC PBK RICHAR

Matthew Garth was orphaned in asavage wagon train ambush andadopted by Red River hero ThomasDunson. Twenty years later Matt hastwo strapping sons of his own and isundertaking a desperate cattle drivefrom Texas to Dodge City, the newqueen of frontier cattle towns. Whilethe deadly dangers of storms andrustlers gather around them, an act ofpassion and violence from within thedrive leaves Matt fighting for his life.

Return to Red Riverby Johnny D. Boggs

FIC PBK BOGGS

It is 1880 and Gracy Brookensis the only midwife in a smallColorado mining town where she hasdelivered hundreds, maybethousands, of babies in her lifetime.She is a gifted and importantresource for the women of herhardscrabble community, a positionearned through wisdom and trust.Most women in Swandyke couldn'teven imagine getting through theirpregnancy and labor without Gracyby their sides. But everythingchanges when a baby is founddead...and the evidence points toGracy as the killer. Gracy knows shedidn't commit the crime. But herinnocence isn't quite that simple,either. She knows things and that'sdangerous.

The Last Midwifeby Sandra Dallas

Fiction DALLAS