Fiction

Another Kind of Eden James Lee Burke

ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN is James Lee Burke’s most ambitious work. This page-turning masterpiece finds an aspiring novelist drawn into the investigation of grotesque murders.
 
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Every Cloak Rolled in Blood James Lee Burke

EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD is based on James Lee Burke’s own life experiences. The reader will see how love and family deal with good and evil.
 
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Flags on the Bayou James Lee Burke

FLAGS ON THE BAYOU is set in Civil War Louisiana and follows a slave on the run with an abolitionist school teacher. James Lee Burke exhibits his masterful ability to render the landscape through the tree-lined bayous with its cottonmouths to the sunsets on the Mississippi River.
 
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Harbor Lights James Lee Burke

HARBOR LIGHTS is a powerful collection of great fiction set from the Gulf of Mexico to Colorado, with inbetween stops in prisons, saloons and trailor parks across the South. One mesmerizing tale captures a young boy watching a German submarine sink an oil tanker. James Lee Burke is a his best with this giant canvass to...

Wayfaring Stranger James Lee Burke

WAYFARING STRANGER takes the reader through generations and includes a run-in with the famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde; escape from certain death in the Battle of the Bulge; a rescue from a German extermination camp and a young couple attempting to seek their fortune against evil forces that lurk in peacetime America...

House of the Rising Sun James Lee Burke

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN opens in 1918 during the Mexican Revolution and follows a father and estranged son attempting to reconcile. Along the way, the reader meets three extraordinary women.

 

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The Star of Istanbul Robert Olen Butler

STAR OF ISTANBUL is another in the Christopher Marlow Cobb  exciting adventures of a newspaperman turned spy who in this story is aboard the ill fated Lusitania following a German agent during World War I.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best...

Perfume River Robert Olen Butler

PERFUME RIVER examines family ties with flashbacks from the Viet Nam War. The author's experience as an Army intelligence agent during that period gives him a great advantage in creating what many critics say is best novel yet by the Pulitzer Prize winner.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless...

The Empire of Night Robert Olen Butler

THE EMPIRE OF NIGHT is another in the Christopher Marlow Cobb exciting adventures of  a newspaperman turned spy who this time is thrown together with another secret agent - his own mother. Kit Cobb and his mother risk all in Berlin during World War I.

 

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Once Upon a Wardrobe Patti Callahan

ONCE UPON A WARDROBE has been given the honor of being the first title published by Harper Muse, an exciting new imprint of Harpercollins, one of the world's largest publishing houses. The powerful story features a brilliant scientist who always searches out the facts except: when it comes to her younger brother who...