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A valuable heirloom has been stolen from a member of Julia Donnelly's Torah study group. Grievous sins of the past have pushed their way into the present. Murder, distrust, and ill-gotten gains from World War II Bohemia threaten the peaceful Jewish community of Crestfall, Illinois. Julia, wife of this small town's mayor and mother of two young adopted sons, is pressed into service to find the bejeweled heirloom which is called a yad, a Hebrew word which means 'hand' in English. It is a rod-shaped item with a bulb on the top and a hand with a pointing finger at the bottom that helps keep one's place when reading the Torah. This particular yad is covered with a fortune's worth of jewels. With no experience except watching TV detective shows, Julia and Torah group leader Rabbi Fine attempt to solve the mystery and address the misery it causes. After finding the yad, another mystery, much deeper, explores good and evil in the character of the man who brought the yad to America and escaped punishment for his crimes after the war by posing as a Jewish immigrant. Heady stuff for a cozy, but humor takes the sting out. The Donnelly family goes at 90 miles an hour, hollering, hugging, and loving. It all works out in the end. Remember, we all have our own michegas. As we say in Yiddish, Plotsn zolstu-fun nachos - May you explode from pleasure...after reading this book. Enjoy.

In this lovingly-told story, Denise Solters relates the happiness and sorrow she and her dogs experience as she and longtime service dog Jetta train his replacement, the unruly puppy named Bud, knowing that each step forward for Bud is a step closer to the end of Jetta's assistance and also a step closer to Jetta's death. A dog-lovers delight.

Intrigue and murder along the US/Mexico Border. Seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos' mystic gift creates a sensation in northern Mexico as hundreds of people undergo a personal religious epiphany. Even gangsters reject crime. Seeing revenues tumble in the drug trade, the Liones cartel issues a hit order on the girl. The Mexican police hide Mariana in the Gila Valley of Arizona while they work with a defector and international law enforcement to dismantle the gang. Graham County Deputies Bren Allred and Manny Sanchez join forces with San Carlos Apache Tribal Policeman Al Victor to identify assassins and protect Mariana. It's a race against time for agents of the DEA, ICE, Spanish Policia National, and the Mexican Policia Judicial. Can they bring the Liones cartel to justice before the girl is harmed?

The Beck House tells the story of Rena Beck, a twice-widowed woman who is looking for the means to care for her family of six daughters born to her and her first husband, three are still at home, and must be fed and cared for. How Rena transforms their home into a boarding house where guests are fed sumptuously and treated like family is another Southern story worth telling. In fact, this one has details that resonate across the generations, for Rena Beck is a woman for the generations. She is a mother hen who protects her daughters without smothering them; she is an entrepreneur who takes advantage of every opportunity that comes her way - and some that she invents - to keep her business going and growing. And she is a sympathetic, caring, land-lady who takes on the woes of the world through her colorful boarders. The story encompasses the World War II years. As her daughters' husbands go away and return; she lives to see them all settled in more comfort than she ever dreamed. And then she faces the fight of her life: she comes to court in Sumter County to face the big city lawyers who have come to represent the county in its efforts to take her land through the law of eminent domain. They're also demanding that she pay to have the house torn down and removed. Rena is a just woman. She has always treated others justly and cannot believe that someone would treat her otherwise. How she faces this final battle is characteristic of her life's story, a story you do not want to miss. In Rena Beck, author Janie Hopwood has created an unforgettable character from the annals of her own family history - a character you'll be telling friends about, and thinking about long after you have put the book aside with a smile, and perhaps a tear.

When Denise Solters suffered a cardiac arrest and brain injury, the result of anorexia, her husband left, talking their son and their dog. Denise gravitated to the beach to rehabilitate herself. Walking on the sand, she admired dogs happily playing with their loved ones and started praying for a miracle. That miracle turned out to be a service dog named Jetta who gave Denise a full life again. In this book, Jetta shares her stories of a working dog's life.

A Southern California landmark primarily known to law enforcement has earned a reputation for crime scenes of the most unspeakable homicides. Infamous serial killers have chosen this location to discard and display their victims as trophies of their horrific deeds. Lieutenant Scott Hunter must lead a team of detectives to identify and capture a new perpetrator who's targeting young women.This story is a work of fiction, but the location is real. So notorious that officers working the graveyard shift need only radio a location bearing two words, and they are immediately dispatched a back-up officer to the "Pepper Tree."

A collection or articles published in the Waycross Journal-Herald by "Uncle Dave" Griffin, songwriter, author, and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

Rabbi Aviva Cohen is a 50-something, twice-divorced rabbi living a fairly uneventful life in South Jersey. True, she has a family that is rather unconventional. And her first ex-husband is moving to her town. But her life takes a truly interesting -and sinister - turn when she agrees to officiate at the funeral of an unpopular land developer. She doesn't expect to be told by two different people that he had been murdered. Nor does she expect that the first funeral will result in a suicide. Her search for the story behind the suicide (or was it murder?) will lead her to discover the truism "appearances can be deceiving" is accurate, while putting her life in jeopardy.

International intrigue, an enigmatic murder, substance abuse, vengeful stalking, undercover police work, and their effect on families, are all woven through this story set in the American Southwest. Sergeant Allred must deal with all this while keeping it from Monica who is having a troubled pregnancy. Deputies Sanchez and Haley are undercover investigating copper theft, and unknowingly espionage. Apache police Sergeant Victor is plagued by his own devil's as he deals with his rage over murder by a diplomat, and the ever present problem of alcohol on the reservation.

Two members of Rabbi Aviva Cohen's congregation are found dead, victims, they say, of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. But Aviva has info that leads her to doubt it was an accident. Then, police suspect Aviva's niece's partner in a hit-and-run death. Aviva is sure the woman is innocent, even though her SUV has a body-sized dent on the hood. As she looks into the two disparate cases, Aviva discovers they may be connected, and her amateur sleuthing takes a sinister turn that involves sexual abuse, money laundering, stolen identities, and an FBI investigation. Once again, her curiosity has put her life in jeopardy.

An inexplicable murder of a young Apache boy draws Deputy Bren Allred and Apache Tribal Policeman Victor into a mystery that can only be solved when they tie the murder to a century old robbery of Army Paymaster Major Wham. Set in both the old West and today's ranch country, the story explores the natural and cultural history, and people of the contemporary rural southwest.