Gypsy Boy : My Life In the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies
Dwight Garner …brash and frightening and funny—tonally, think of Frank McCourt meeting Axl Rose…This memoir can be grim…But Gypsy Boy is more buoyant than you might expect. The author is proud of his Gypsy heritage, and he is an unsentimental but affectionate observer of his people's ways. —The New York Times
Fireworks Over Toccoa
Publishers Weekly Veteran television writer Stepakoff breathes new life into a familiar plot and setting in his debut novel. Lily Davis Woodward, once a headstrong, independent dreamer, acquiesced at age 17 to her wealthy parents' wishes and married Paul Woodward, the perfect high society Atlanta husband. Two weeks later, Paul ships out to serve on […]
Crashing the Party : Taking On the Corporate Government In an Age of Surrender
The Sweet and the Dead
Publisher Weekly Review: Imagine the classic heist movie The Asphalt Jungle moved to 1970 Biloxi, Miss., and you get the feel for Burton's steamy, low-down second novel (after The Rogues' Game). Former Dallas deputy sheriff Manfred Eugene "Tush Hog" Webern goes undercover to help fellow lawmen break up a loose gang of Southern thugs dubbed […]
The Rogues' Game
"It's 1947. An enigmatic man driving a fine new Lincoln convertible and accompanied by a beautiful blonde comes to a small West Texas city. Ostensibly, his purpose is to get into a poker game that has been going on every weekend for over half a century at the ancient Weilbach Hotel, the area's premier hostelry. […]