SEARCHING FOR A GHOST, A LEGEND, AND A DREAM ... Descended from a long line of ramblers and rogues, Jack Picaro came to America to seek his fortune. But, after killing his best friend in a drunken duel, the apprentice gunsmith flees westward, leaving behind children he does not know, Gus and April. As Jack ventures up the Missouri River, he finds an unspoiled land where a man can live free, and also be attacked by an Arikara war party. His rifle...

"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...

Dev Sinclair is the happy new owner of an old-fashioned shop in her small Missouri town. But if she doesn't focus on finding the killer of her ex's fiance, this five-and-dime owner may find herself serving 25-to-life.

As winter approaches, small-town issues become big trouble. Maddie Langston and her group of post-apocalyptic survivors are stretched thin. Without support, as supplies dwindle, citizens are forced to take matters into their own hands. Mounting tensions and soaring risks begin to topple traditional priorities.

Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time, surviving her husband's death in World War II and raising their young son alone. Now she's at a loss as to how to handle the defiant teenager he has become, even as she struggles to keep her family financially afloat. Drake McCoy lives for putting his drag racing skills to the test. One night in this quiet town is all he needs to win big and be on his way...until he meets Clara. Drawn...

Battered, bruised, and bloodied by the economic collapse, Clyde Twitty has all but given up hope for the future ... Enter Jay Smalls, a charismatic martial artist who exerts an intense magnetic pull. Under Jay's brutal instruction, Clyde begins a series of increasingly frightening tests that draw him into a seedy underworld of bare-knuckle fighting, brazen criminal acts, homemade drugs, and homegrown extremism. Jay reshapes Clyde into a fearless fighter--and...

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a rich boy. Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...