Author:
Steve Laird

Title:
'On the Little Crazy

Genre:
Historical Fiction
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Description:
It’s 1865, and a group of seven Swedish miners find placer gold in a small stream in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. Danger lurks though, because the land is also the hunting grounds of the Sioux tribe, and their warriors bring swift death to all who dare enter. Their trespass discovered by a Sioux hunting party, the miners prepare to leave, but their greed keeps them just one day too long.
Twenty-five years later, Pennsylvania lawyer Luke Walker is found face down in a muddy street. The untimely death of his wife has driven him to find solace in whiskey, and now he prefers death to life. Nursed back to sobriety by an old friend, he embarks on a quest to recover his health, and perhaps, to find a reason to live.
Luke’s travels take him from the verdant hills of Pennsylvania to the grassland prairies of Wyoming. During his journey, he incurs the wrath of Ben Santelli, an evil man whose obsession is to find the treasure hidden by the Swedish miners decades earlier. He befriends Jesse McGill and her brother Travis, helping them escape certain death at the hands of Santelli. And, in the new State of Wyoming, he finds a home and reasons to keep on living.
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Author:
Ralph Bland

Title:
'Route Delivery'

Genre:
Literary Fiction
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Description:
John Clark Hayes, age 52, failed novelist, eclectic collector, former teacher and retail clerk, and at last stop route delivery salesman for Tasty Snacks on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, doesn’t much and never has been a card-carrying member of the world around him. He’s a loner, a dropout, and a divorced father of three whose children have yet to be impressed by his fatherly skills. His oldest son David categorizes him as distant, his daughter Linda considers him altogether AWOL from her life, and his youngest son Franklin thinks he is weird beyond words and is deathly afraid it may be hereditary.
When John Clark unexpectedly dies on his route of gunshot wounds from a botched robbery, he suddenly in his new form as someone not living anymore begins to question and learn that the world he’s inhabited for so long is going to continue to go on without him, so he decides to revisit all the aspects of his life, his idyllic romance, his ex-wife, his children and pets, his former stops on his route, and all the other puzzle pieces of his existence he fancied and fretted over all his life, and attempt to make everything as right as possible before taking off for the hereafter or wherever it is his soul may be heading. This is not as easy as he initially thinks, for soon he finds his life’s aftermath to be changing with his departure, and John Clark is determined to have his former realm in good working condition before the time comes for him to move on. Route Delivery is an ambitious, celebratory trip through one man’s vision of life. Its themes of Idealism, Romanticism, and the realities of a fleeting life one cannot hold for eternity make for a story that lingers after its unfolding.
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