We are always trying to find new and upcoming authors, so why not look in our own backyard, or neighborhood at least. We are so lucky to live in a culturally rich, beautiful, and inspiring city with such talented people telling amazing and unique stories. We are always preaching to support local businesses, let's support local artists as well.
John Dillinger and Geronimo by James John Magner: It’s 1953 in Tucson. Tom Sullivan’s thoughts are drifting more and more to the distant past, reliving the adventures he set out to find when he walked away from his home in Boston in 1894…just a kid. Finally, he is compelled to write them down and the roughest. toughest hombres of the Old West, warriors and scouts, ride again to reclaim their rightful territories. When a skeleton is dug up by the rowdy neighborhood kids, the legendary gangster John Dillinger joins the adventure.
The Dead Man on the Corner by James John Magner: March, 1953. A good time to be a kid in Tucson, Arizona. It’s the windy month and the afternoons are for kites—kite fighting—a rough, take-no-prisoners war in the sky. When the air is still, the Sky Pirates, six boys and a girl, take to their “desert islands” to hide treasure and fight other marauding bands in often-bloody battles for dominance. Another wind, a dark storm, blows through the neighborhood leaving some people dead and others missing. The Sky Pirates fight for their lives against local gangsters. An old Apache doesn’t believe his father, the son of Chief Cochise, died of “pneumonia” in Washington, DC in 1876. Was he murdered? He needs to find out. Maggie O’Brien watches and waits. She has the story of a lifetime. She just needs proof.
The Brigade in Review: A Year at the U.S. Naval Academy by Robert Stewart and William Lawrence: This beautiful photographic journal of a year at the U.S. Naval Academy captures the demanding yet rewarding life of midshipmen. Keep an eye out for Robert Stewart's new book coming out in June 2022, No Greater Duty.
