I'll Take Everything You Have swords and fire

I'll Take Everything You Have swords and fireFrom an Edgar Award winning author, this historical noir novel follows the life changing summer of sixteen year old Joe Garbe as he discovers queer community in 1930s Chicago and gets caught up in the city's crooked underbelly. In the summer of 1934, Joe Garbe arrives in Chicago with one goal: Earn enough money to get out of debt and save the family farm. Joes cousin sets him up with a hotel job, then proposes a sketchy scheme to make a lot more money

his beloved wife's desertion

no-fertilizer approach

With the help of Eleanor and Miku

they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble

and a mysterious girl who turns into an ivory statue

but wins the war on clichés

Every December she remembers the joy her mother brought to everyone during the holiday season and feels the pain of her absence

Car Crazy takes readers back to the passionate and reckless years of the early automobile era

Garden expert Stacy Tornio makes it easy by explaining which plants attract specific creatures

David Cone

waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders

is overcome by her own passion for Cuba and her unraveling affection for Alfredo as she comes to appreciate his naïveté