Equipped with a damaged brain, a propensity for violence, and a quarter of a million in ill-gotten gains, Thomas Sparrow sets out to find new pleasures and winds up in a hazy world of drugs and perversion.
T.K. O'Neill received national recognition from the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards for Jackpine Savages—hard-boiled detective fiction in the tradition of Ross MacDonald and Robert B. Parker, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior. Carter Brown always wanted to be a private eye. Thanks to an inheritance from a well-to-do uncle and a mail order P.I. diploma, he realized the dream. When word spread of a homegrown P.I. in the backwoods of northern Minnesota and Carter landed his first case, Brown Investigations was born. Before he could cash his first check for services rendered, Brown found himself locked up on a murder charge, wondering what the hell happened. And that was just the beginning.
It's March of 1978 and a battered, steaming wreck lays at the bottom of a 50-foot cliff. Former boxing champion and football star Johnny Beam is found crumpled and broken behind the steering wheel. Beam was a gambler, in trouble with the law--and now dead. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? How did the former hero end up like this? In the lily-white northern town of Zenith, Minnesota, only one thing was certain: Johnny Beam stood out like a fly in a bottle of milk. Fly in the Milk is a work of crime fiction, a provocative tale of death, betrayal and hypocrisy spanning three generations.
The St. Croix River, the free-flowing boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota, is a federally protected National Scenic Riverway. The area’s first recorded human inhabitants were the Dakota Indians, whose lands were transformed by fur trade empires and the loggers who called it the “river of pine.” A patchwork of farms, cultivated by immigrants from many countries, followed the cutover forests. Today, the St. Croix River Valley is a tourist haven in the land of sky-blue waters and a peaceful escape for residents of the bustling Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan region. North Woods River is a thoughtful biography of the river over the course of more than three hundred years. Eileen McMahon and Theodore Karamanski track the river’s social and environmental transformation as newcomers changed the river basin and, in turn, were changed by it. The history of the St. Croix revealed here offers larger lessons about the future management of beautiful and fragile wild waters.
If youre looking for something different in fantasy, then your search is over because its right here. And, there is no other book like it . . . anywhere! Take a trip into the beyond and back when you read Spirit Of The North Woods, a fantasy adventure set deep in the wilderness. Go back in time and take the journey of a lifetime. A journey into differing worlds filled with good and evil. An adventure you will never forget. One you will want to take time and again. Spirit Of The North Woods is a blend of fantasy, adventure, magic, humor and a little horror that will keep you turning the pages and want to read over and again. Two seventeen year old boys, Marty and Zach along with a third friend Tommy, set out on a wilderness adventure in the BWCA in northern Minnesota. Early on in their journey they experience some strange and frightening occurrences. It is the month of June and the weather is unusually cold and stormy. One morning Marty and Zach awake to find that Tommy went missing from the island where they are camping. During Marty and Zachs search for Tommy, they encounter an evil she-demon then a demi-god. Along with the demi-god, Marty and Zach go back in time into a primordial parallel world. This takes them on a perilous journey into the netherworld where they encounter malevolent creatures and death defying scenarios. After they leave the dark world, their adventure becomes a carefree but yet whimsical one. The deeper the reader goes, the more engrossed they will become and they will not want to put the book down. It is a powerful, inspiring, thought provoking book. Young people, as well as adults, will enjoy this book because it is a unique story that is ingrained in folklore all topped off with subtle humor. It is truly a one of a kind book. Great escapism! Dont miss out. Scroll up and grab your copy today:
The mile-high peaks of New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest are a mecca for hikers in the eastern United States, but sometimes you'd rather get away from crowds and enjoy a hike on a less-traveled route. That's where this guide begins, where the heavily used trails end, north of the White Mountains.