Product Description: Exiled to the city's tough North Side, disgraced St. Louis Police Lieutenant Carlo Gabriel wants nothing more than to return to the headquarters hierarchy. To get his wish, all he has to do is track down the missing husband of the mayor's press secretary...read more

After learning that his father's layoff at a steel mill threatens their country home on a fateful Christmas Eve in 1953, a six-year-old boy works frantically to save it in this poignant memoir that depicts a simpler, more innocent, and, in some ways, more free America. Part true novel, part social history, this book is a paean to a lost world, depicting with detail a shy yet curious child's world of freedom and discovery. A rich, sensory, and aesthetic journey through frozen lakes, frosted fields, squawking jays, and the muted palette of gray Illinois winter afternoons, the tale takes readers back to an era of coal stoves, hand pumps, and fragrant markets. Chronicling the family's loss of their bucolic paradise, this work foreshadows a nation's loss of innocence and serves as a microcosm of America's postwar migration from rural life to urban homesteads.--Publisher description.

Product Description: Certain to become an instant Christmas Classic along side Capote and Dickens, Winter at Long Lake is more than a memoir of a season fifty years ago, it is a return to a time when America, and the world, had not yet realized its limitations...read more

Product Description: When the gringo Jake Hart meets the seductive Marta Martinez in a dark cantina, she tells him of discovering her fiance's body decomposing in his own bath. While some in the Mexican pueblito believe it was she who did him in, suspicion soon falls on Jake - and even on his mad artist friend, Jordan, and a host of others who might have wanted to see the handsome sculptor dead...read more

Product Description: Signed by author. Hardcover with dust jacket. Easton Street Press, Inc. Rick Skwiot, Author. Total 216 pages. Winner of the Hemingway First Novel Award. Originally sold for $22.95. Printed in the USA. Boards are black with gilt lettering on the spine ...read more