The Bagman!
In the mid 1930s, Chicago was one of the fastest growing metropolises in the country. Situated on mighty Lake Michigan, it was the home to millions of hard working Americans looking to a better themselves. The Windy City was also shackled by its bootleg history, a time of violent gang wars that had permanently established a brutal underworld empire second to none. Corruption was the order of the day and both the police and government were in the pocket of the mob bosses.
Frank “Mac” McCullough was a foot-soldier in one of the city’s toughest crime families until he was ordered to rough up his uncle; a decent man with a gambling problem. The innate decency in Mac rebelled and suddenly he found himself up against the very men he had once admired and followed. Determined to put an end to their lawlessness, he put a bag over his head as a crude disguise only to become labeled the Bagman by the press.
Writer B.C. Bells tells the amazing stories of old Chicago’s most unique hero. Aided by solely by a tough, black WW I veteran named Crankshaft, the Mac wages war against the mobs in fast paced, non-stop action tales pulp fans will cheer. Featuring nine illustrations by Kelly Evereart and a cover by Laura Givens. Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to present pulpdom’s newest avenger, THE BAGMAN. Views: 614
A marriage of convenience could solve both their problems if they keep it strictly business butconvincing everyone else that this is true love while trying to convince themselves that it isn’t is asure recipe for trouble. A little bit like a cross between Grease and The Proposal, Any Way You Slice It is sure to captivatereaders who love romantic comedy and chicklit.Piper Adams has one month to find a husband, and get a green card, or be kicked out of the countryjust when her chain of Aussie Pie trucks is about to start making some serious money.Aaron is an ambitious lawyer keen to make partner but his Boston law firm only promotes lawyerswho are married.A marriage of convenience could solve both their problems if they keep it strictly business butconvincing everyone else that this is true love while trying to convince themselves that it isn’t is asure recipe for trouble. All the kissing and touching to prove that this is a true love sets the heatrising faster than the pies in Piper’s kitchen.While Aaron is happy to be friends with benefits, Piper knows better than to mix business withpleasure, despite the undeniable chemistry. Getting married to save her business is one thing, butfalling in love would mean risking her heart. Any way you slice it she’s getting more than shebargained for.A little bit like a cross between Grease and The Proposal, Any Way You Slice It is sure to captivatereaders who love romantic comedy and chicklit.This is the first book in The Upper Crust Series Views: 614
"I will annihilate your world. As you destroyed mine." For over a decade Nicandro Santos, heir to a legendary diamond legacy, has lived with one unrelenting purpose: to infiltrate the ultraprestigious Q Virtus gentleman's club and bring it, and its leader, Zeus, down. What he doesn't know is that Olympia Merisi, the daughter of his enemy, is now in charge. Olympia has her own reasons for wanting to keep Nicandro close, and she will stop at nothing to protect what's hers. But what happens when the battle lines between them blur and they enter more dangerous—sensual—territory? Views: 614
When will it rain again? It is very hot and the river had dried up. There is only a little bit of water left in the last of the water-holes. Steenbok, a tiny antelope, is sent by the Animals to find the rain. Will she find it? Can she save Monkey who is dying of thirst? Will she be able to find the rain?The Petun nation has been destroyed by the Iroquois and the Huron and their Algonquian allies are nervous. Etienne, Sieur de Berignac, and his young cousin and protégé Pierre, have tools, kettles and blankets to trade, but it is the guns that are the most sought-after. A little brandy and some diplomacy will take them a long ways, but as Pierre discovers, the language barrier is a killer. A short story of Canada’s colourful and romantic past. Views: 614
The Rock of Ages casino promises to fulfill the lucky gambler’s dreams. But when Matt Cahill stops by one winter night hoping to win enough for a hotel room, he discovers that Mr. Dark has a special game designed just for him. As a mad bomber with a taste for blood pulls off the heist of a lifetime, Matt has to choose between the lives of hundreds of people against a reunion with a resurrected Janey. For the man who lost everything, Matt will have to risk it all to survive “Hell’s Casino.” Views: 614
When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident.
The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn’t the crash that killed these people.
While Lindsay starts to piece this case together, she gets a call she wasn’t expecting. Sightings of her ex-colleague-turned-ruthless-killer Mackie Morales have been reported.
Wanted for three murders, Mackie has been in hiding since she escaped from custody. But now she’s ready to return to San Francisco and pay a visit to some old friends Views: 614
To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius' Claudia RankineJericho Brown's The New Testament is a devastating meditation on race, sexuality and contemporary American society by one of the most important new voices in US poetry. In poems of immense clarity, lyricism and skill, Brown shows us a world where disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighbourhood, and trauma runs through generations. Here Brown makes brilliant and subversive use of Bible stories to address the gay experience from both a personal and a political perspective. By refusing to sacrifice nuance, no matter how charged and urgent his subject, Brown is one of the handful of contemporary poets who have found a speech adequate to the complex times in which we live, and a way to express an equivocal hope for the future. The New Testament was winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence,... Views: 614
Thrust into a loveless marriage of state, Queen Joanna discovers her new palace is home to many dark secrets. When a face in the mirror confronts her with a dire warning, she realizes her life is at risk. Has she awakened a curse—or been struck by madness?Queen Joanna presents a haunting twist on the ghost story legend of Bloody Mary. Views: 614
Life can change in a split second. Addie hardly recognizes her life since her parents divorced. Her boyfriend used her. Her best friend betrayed her. She can’t believe this is the future she chose. On top of that, her ability is acting up. She’s always been able to Search the future when presented with a choice. Now she can manipulate and slow down time, too . . . but not without a price. When Addie’s dad invites her to spend her winter break with him, she jumps at the chance to escape into the Norm world of Dallas, Texas. There she meets the handsome and achingly familiar Trevor. He’s a virtual stranger to her, so why does her heart do a funny flip every time she sees him? But after witnessing secrets that were supposed to stay hidden, Trevor quickly seems more suspicious of Addie than interested in her. And she has an inexplicable desire to change that. Meanwhile, her best friend, Laila, has a secret of her own: she can restore Addie’s memories . . . once she learns how. But there are powerful people who don’t want to see this happen. Desperate, Laila tries to manipulate Connor, a brooding bad boy from school—but he seems to be the only boy in the Compound immune to her charms. And the only one who can help her. As Addie and Laila frantically attempt to retrieve the lost memories, Addie must piece together a world she thought she knew before she loses the love she nearly forgot . . . and a future that could change everything. Views: 613
In search of a kidnapped boy, a gunslinger takes a young girl along for the rideRain looms over the prairie when Matt Holiday sees a gang of horsemen abduct the boy. The only man who could have kidnapped young Will Waverly is his father, an outlaw who rightfully belongs in prison. Holiday agrees to rescue Will, but the family demands he take something along: Will's spirited sister Serenity, whose beauty disguises one of the fastest guns in the west.Although the girl's presence irritates him, Matt cannot deny she's a crack shot. But can he trust her? The boy isn't the only thing missing: $20,000 in gold is gone, too, and there is no telling what the outlaw's daughter will do to get her hands on it. Views: 613
'Lord of the Rings for the Call of Duty Generation'A young adult fantasy adventure in a world similar to our own...'Lord of the Rings for the Call of Duty Generation'At the age of fifteen, genius Benjamin Knight had developed a technology that would change the world. But when the project is sabotaged, Ben wakes to find himself in a mysterious and unfamiliar land where an uneasy peace hangs in the balance. Saved from near death by a band of traders, he joins them on their journey north as he struggles to understand the world he's in and how it happened. However, Ben soon realises that everyone has their secrets and that no one is safe, especially when one man has the power to realise his ambitions. Ben wants answers, but with war looming, he may not survive long enough to find them in this series that breaks the barrier between science fiction and fantasy! (Now fully re-edited by Hercules Editing and Consulting Services) IndieReader Approved 2014 Views: 613
This you should know: Gray squirrels are almost always larger, faster, and more aggressive than reds. They out-eat the reds and out-breed them. Science says the grays will eventually win.
Nutley is a young red squirrel. For most of his life, he's been content to live on local seeds and the cautious wisdom of his parents. But like so many young squirrels before him, he feels the call of the wild (and the hazelnuts) beyond the safety of his family's own tree. Nutley wonders what it would be like to be Dangerous, like the growing band of gray squirrels that roam his neighborhood.
Nature, which is truly red in tooth and claw, forces Nutley to find out if he's cut out for a life of danger. He must flee his familiar tree for the smelly shelter of the local landfill. There, with the help of some unlikely allies, he might just be able to make a stand against the grays.
*This you should know: * No matter what scientists say is almost always true, the exceptions are almost always the best stories. Views: 613
After his father mysteriously vanishes from his truck one night, fifteen-year-old Tristan is left trying to hold his family together. His mother is falling apart, and his little sister is haunted by a strange black shadow with glowing eyes.Tristan knows his father's disappearance has something to do with the new bypass being built through the centre of town, cutting in half the old Settlers' Gardens. Legend tells of the fey that followed the town's original settlers from their homelands and now reside in the Garden, trapped behind the high iron fence. But now the Garden is too small to hold all the faeries, and they are spilling out into the human world.Tristan's quest to save his father and heal his broken family will take him deep into the world of the fey, where dueling courts wage a cruel war for control of the Garden, and no faerie can be trusted.Court of the Litterfey is a short faerie novella (20,000 words) by S. C. Green, author of... Views: 613
