Hat of the Hunter
Raul Roqué
Authorhouse
ISBN  1-4259-2301-1

Second in the Rickie Ciprian mystery series.  Rickie, former Miami Beach police detective, Cuban-American, and marginally competent human being, gets a second chance to capture a miscreant who tortures women, The Chameleon, who can change color and disappear in plain sight. Now a civilian, Rickie can make his own rules, but with his automatic finally nestled behind the man's ear, will he be able to pull the trigger?

LIFE'S A BITCH
AND THEN YOU CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE
By Jan Northup
Feb. 2006 - Booksurge - paperback
Non-fiction

Dr. Jan Northup has been observing the factors that make the difference in the lives of successful people and organizations for more than 25 years. One commonality is that they all had resilience. Individuals may have called it bounce=back, surviving or hitting a brick wall and not giving up. Whatever they called it, those who mastered the art of resilience embraced change and moved forward in a positive direction in jobs, careers, relationships and life.
Join Jan as she guides you through the 5 secrets to Taming Life's Roller Coaster and Building Resilience. This book is meant to be a workshop, so roll up your sleeves and get ready to take notes, complete activities, highlight passages and turn down page corners.

Herr Schnoodle and McBee
P.K. Paranya
Five Stars Mysteries
September 2006

What do you get when you mix a beautiful gossip reporter, a bag lady with a dangerously mysterious past, a cranky, bumbling private investigator with phobias for germs, animals and most people and an abandoned, rescued dog who ends up solving most of McBee's cases for him? You get a whimsical, fun to read mystery the whole family can enjoy.

Ten Commitments
of Networking
by Larry James
ISBN 1-931741-70-0
Robert D. Reed Publishers
April, 2006 - $12.95

Larry's book reveals the single most important ingredient for successful
networking.  It can help you increase your personal effectiveness by
developing a network that supports you and your goals no matter what they
are.  The success strategies in this book will increase your productivity,
profitability and personal prosperity.  Larry's take on business networking
will certainly get your attention.  It is now being published in the U.S.,
India, Korea, Poland, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, Indonesia,
Philippines & Vietnam
www.TenCommitmentsofNetworking.com

THE MASK of TAMIRELLA
by Dana Davis
iUniverse - August 2006

The Holding Pen
A collection of Unusual Love Prose
Barbara Kennedy
AuthorHouse ISBN 1420865668
Madison Avenue Publishers LLC

Ms. Kennedy is an intellect, a free-thinking individual, an artist who uses both words and pictures as her voice, and—above all—she is a unique storyteller. These stories are passionate, sensual, intriguing, and mysterious but, in my opinion, the author saved the best for last. The Holding Pen, a story from which the title of this book evolved, is definitely a modern-day story; however, the messages conveyed are eternal—ones that have spanned generations.

Beyond Peleliu
by Peter Baird
Hardcover 268 pages
Ravenhawk Books
ISBN 1893660125

This Magic Moment
Triskelion Publishing anthology
E-book November 2006
Contains a novella by
Vijaya Schartz
Titled: Coyote Gorgeous

Rookie Border Patrol Agent Kaitlin Harrington hates Christmas. But on this magic night watch, no amount of training prepared her to arrest the gorgeous coyote who challenges her. His name is Miguel, and on this breathless adventure through the Arizona desert, dangers lurk and miracles do happen...Other stories feature a smart-aleck matchmaker fae named Maurice, a ghost on the front lawn, a telepathic hero, a spirit lover from the Ivory Coast, and much sizzling romance.

More at www.vijayaschartz.com

ANAZ-VOOHRI
by Vijaya Schartz
Triskelion Publishing
e-book September 2006
Futuristic Romantic Suspense

Since he witnessed the abduction of his baby sister by an alien creature, Zack will stop at nothing to rescue her, even if it means joining the Special Forces. But Tia Vargas, the reckless Amazon training the secret unit for a highly classified mission, has no use for this handsome, rebellious recruit, at least not on the battlefield. When Zack's farfetched stories prove to be true and tragedy strikes, they must face their differences and fight back. Great sacrifices must be made, as the survival of the human race is at stake. But Tia's childhood secret might jeopardize humanity's future. The fight against the alien warrior race called the Anaz-voohri, has just begun. more at:
www.vijayaschartz.com

Operation: Pleiades RELICS
Vijaya Schartz
Triskelion Publishing
Paperback ISBN 1-933471-54-9

In a dangerous future threatened by aliens and infiltrated by hybrids, archeologist Celene Dupres witnesses her father's murder. Vowing to avenge him and retrieve his precious alien relics, she finds the perfect ally and protector. But the man she trusts, the man with whom she is falling in love, is the secret agent sent to kill her.
Kin, however is more than a killing machine. Despite his love for Celene, can he accomplish his gruesome mission, and save humanity from the threat embedded in her DNA?
more at www.vijayaschartz.com

Desert Run
by Betty Webb
Poisoned Pen Press

Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Siswan, is leaving for an upscale wife and a job at Sun Microsystems. Her old Captain at the Scottsdale PD is off home to Brooklyn. She's doing security for Warren Quinn, director of a documentary being shot at Papago Park about the German POW camp and the "great escape" of Christmas Eve, 1944, when some prisoners tunneled out and fled. And one surviving escapee, Kapitan zur Zee Erik Ernst, a man in his nineties confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident, has just been murdered. Worse, his Ethiopian care giver begs Lena to clear him. Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life—who is she?—learns that Ernst and two other POWs hid out in the rugged Superstitions. Nearby, on Christmas night, a whole farm family, the Bollingers, was slaughtered. A jury didn't convict the only survivor, the teenage son. What might Chess Bollinger know about Ernst—and vice versa? And how much can Lena trust Quinn, either as a client, a witness, or a lover? A complex, stunning case based on real Arizona history, journalist Betty Webb, author of Desert Noir, Desert Wives, and Desert Run, spins an evocative, haunting story.
more at:
www.bettywebb-mystery.com

Nile Cruise
and Beyond
Brigitte
PublishAmerica

In 1996 the well traveled German-American businesswoman Brigitte embarks on a vacation Nile cruise. Drawn into a tortuous long-distance love relationship with the enigmatic Nubian archaeologist-turned-tour-guide Abdul, her compassion and desire to help the desperate man evolves into passion. When she  becomes involved with a powerful Egyptian mafia who has a hold over Abdul, the ensuing mystery will turn her life into an emotional nightmare.

OUTLAW TALES
of Arizona
Jan Cleere

After too many whiskeys, Buckskin Frank Leslie would stand his wife against a wall and shoot around her silhouette.  Few jails could hold Augustine Chacon, who boasted of killing more than fifty men. This book uncovers eleven true stories of the state's most notorious outlaws and events from the late 1800s. Massacres, mayhem, and mischief lurk between these pages, bringing back wild times when the law and the lawless were often in cahoots and no one was safe from the whim of a gunslinging desperado.

This delightful and informative book stars Thundercloud, a brave young Native American Warrior, and Dancing Star, a lovely young maiden, and the adventures they share. The original stories were created through the imagination of an innovative and gifted New York Cop, Johannes Spreen, to amuse, enchant, and entertain his young daughter. The stories were enhanced by the research and writing of Cherie Lee, Associate Editor of Sun Life Magazine, and powerfully portrayed by the illustrations of Justin Rose.

Quadalajara
The Utopia That Once Was
by Jack Tumidajski

A number of brave veterans, paralyzed survivors shunned by society, ventured into uncharted territory, leaving behind family, friends, and the safe confines of institutions, in search of a second chance at life. They discovered paradise South of the Border, in Quadalajara. The author is one of them.

Treasure of the Amazon
by Pinkie Paranya
Five Star Publishing
April 2006

Combine a sensually exotic, unpredictable setting, a wealthy businessman posing as an adventurous pilot down on his luck, a heroine searching for her roots, and a hidden fortune — and you have Treasure of the Amazon.
Marisa Elliott is a calm, conservative teacher of learning disabled children. For as long as she can remember her father, professor of history . . .

Many Faces to
MANY PLACES
Judy Azar LeBlanc
Xulon Press/Spoken Books Publishing

Happiness, fear, loneliness and love are all parts of a state of being that every person experiences in their lifetime.  Many Faces to Many Places is a spell-binding three-part animated story of a courageous spirit who, with her unique gift of communicating with nature, takes an extraordinary journey through a world of timeless knowledge.Guided by a pair of "flying eyes", the reader is led through one soul's journey and is allowed to witness its transitions as Many Faces travels through a land that reveals a succession of hidden mysteries of the soul.  When she thinks that she has completed her journey, she loses her faith.  Now alone, Many Faces finds herself in a land that is designed to satisfy the subtle but powerful passions of the flesh, and she then discovers that she had missed the ultimate truth.

BELONGING
Nancy Minnis Damato
Wings E-Press

Taylor Broderick’s only family is the mother she loves and adores.  When she learns their lifelong dream of finding the father she has never met is possible, Taylor scales the steepest side of Bisbee’s canyon to tell her mother the good news. Instead, she discovers the dream is a lie. Taylor vows to never see her mother again and sets out alone to find someone she can trust.
 Starting in 1892, Taylor leads us on a twelve year trail of tears, love and betrayal thru Arizona, Missouri, and Illinois.  
BELONGING is the second book in the legendary Taylor family trilogy.

Jack's World
Mabel R. Leo

Mabel Leo's book, The Saga of Jack Durant, a biography of the original owner of Phoenix's famous Durant's Restaurant, was the basis of the hit play, "In My Humble Opinion." While signing books after each performance Mabel heard more stories of Jack; thus her new book, "Jack's World" including ghost sightings of Jack at the restaurant and photos not included in the first book. For more info, contact her at mibbles1274@msn.com.

Mortoise, a box-turtle, survives a horrific forest fire only to be washed away in floods caused by summer rains. The little turtle's instinct helps his amazing return to the pond he claimed as his home.

A DIGNIFIED PARADOX
D.J. Garza Chavez
iUniverse - August 2006
$13.95 - Paperback
ISBN: 0-595-37437-9

Put together a bag lady, a bunch of deadly herbs, and a dysfunctional social worker and there is bound to be trouble in the end. Of course, endings are Fringe’s specialty. She comes from a long line of midwives. This lineage is not known for midwifery during birth, however. It is known for midwifery in death.Vivien Feryn has no way of knowing that her career in social work will lead her to the door of an eccentric herbalist. Actually, it is probably a good thing, as she needs some healing herself. She can’t quite handle the “social” aspect of her work…or private life for that matter. A childhood trauma haunts her. Her emotional distance from the world will be short lived though, as Fringe needs to find a replacement fast, and she decides on Vivien. Can the unsuspecting Vivien handle endings as well as Fringe, or will there be a midwife crisis in the community?

The Cul-lud Sch-oool Teach-ur
Sandra E. Bowen
ISBN: 1592320082
Seaburn Publishing Group
October 2006 - $14.95

There was a time when colored school teachers were revered by practically everybody in their communities, both white and colored. Being a colored teacher in the South was a kind of a status. That day extended from its post-slavery beginning to World War I, for a period afterwards, certainly to World War II, and is said to exist in some remote places till today. These respected mentors were predominantly female and taught in public elementary schools where the bulk of southern colored school attendance was concentrated.

DAWN  of  EMPIRE
Sam Barone
Harper Collins
August 29, 2006

For untold generations, fierce barbarian horse warriors have ruled the land, killing or enslaving the small farming communities. Dawn Of Empire is the story of how the peaceful village of Orak resolves to stand against the invincible horsemen, determined to maintain their way of life. To survive, Orak must do something never done before: build a wall strong enough to withstand the horsemen. But a wall requires resolute men to defend it, and the village leaders ask Eskkar, an experienced fighter, to lead them.

THE PERFECT SCREENPLAY
Writing & Selling It
Katherine Atwell Herbert

Buckskin Bessie
Historical biography by
Monica James
Buckskin Press

Buckskin Bessie was her show name. She performed in the 101 Wild West Show in the early 1900's, but documentation proves that she was also the fifteen year lover of the powerful owner of the 101 Wild West Show, Joe Miller. This rare, historical biography is based upon the forty-eight hand-written letters that were rescued from the dust of an estate sale.  Add to these rare letters the seventy-four amazing pictures and copies of the letterheads and stationery that many of them were penned on from exclusive hotels across the continents, and you will have history as it should be, through the experience the one that lived it! Bessie was a beautiful woman whose captivating pictures graced the billboards and drew the crowds, but these intimate letters reveal she was also a woman of great strength and endurance. These are the attributes that carried her through a life full of twists and turns with mysteries yet to be solved, including the fire of questionable origin that took her life.

Wolfcub
BetteLou Tobin
BookSurge
ISBN 1-4196-1562-9
$15.95

Wolfcub is an action/adventure novel for all ages, about wolves and boys set in the mountain wilderness of the Southwest. There is high adventure, intrigue, humor, pathos and violence in this story. The wolves are portrayed in their natural state, shy, yet fierce predators with close-knit pack loyalties. This book is a great gift for animal lovers and nature enthusiasts as well as mystery and adventure readers. The subtitle is KGUEE-SHAN (Wolfcub in Kiowan) because there is also a Kiowan Indian who helps the boys and teaches them some of the Kiowan language and culture.