Fiction

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...

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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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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A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel James Lee Burke

A PRIVATE CATHEDRAL finds Detective Dave Robicheaux investigating the disappearance of a young couple who happen to hail from competing families in Louisiana's criminal underworld. When his searching brings him too close to the mistress of a mob boss, he and his partner find themselves tracked by a lethal, one-of-a-...

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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Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie James Lee Burke

DON'T FORGET ME, LITTLE BESSIE  is a welcome return to the beloved Holland series populated with characters you will love and hate. This is an epic story of a young girl who fights against overwhelming forces.

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Twice Around a Marriage Robert Olen Butler

TWICE AROUND A MARRIAGE is a delightful and insightful look at a mature man and woman attempting to navigate a marriage, after trying it earlier in their lives (to each other). Who better to guide us through these twists and turns than a Pulitzer Prize winner with plenty of personal experience on the subject. Butler's...

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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