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Retired businessman Worthy McGuire knows he cannot put it off any longer. Time is not on the side of the gruff World War II veteran racing to fulfill a promise he made amid the horrors of the D-Day invasion. As he plans a pilgrimage from Michigan to the site of both his best and worst day, Worthy now must rely on the those he trusts the least-his family. With no one else to help him meet the physical demands of the trip, Worthy grudgingly includes his two grandchildren, David and Shannon, who are each battling their own insecurities. As his controlling son, Ted, and his manipulative daughter-in-law, Angela, follow Worthy and his grandkids to France, they have one goal: to drag the aging man home where they hope to take command of his finances and place him in a nursing home. As Worthy searches for a family from his past, only time will tell if he can patch the crumbling relationships with his family before it is too late. In this historical tale, a World War II veteran takes a journey of honor and courage as he sets off to complete the most important mission of his long life.

Mystery: Detecting Truth in the Darkness A good mystery brings the reader into the mind of the detective: searching for clues, questioning suspects, and coming to conclusions. We like to play along, hoping to crack the case before the ultimate reveal. In a way, it feels like our real lives as we try to piece together the parts of our existence and discover what they mean. That is why mysteries are the perfect playground for the cultural apologist who seeks to explain what the facts about our world actually mean. Contributors “The Gospel of Murder” by Annie Nardone on Human Darkness “Serial, Healing and the Silence of God: The Hunger for Order and Truth in a Postmodern Mystery” by Erica Milecki McMillan on Seeking Truth “Light for the Seekers” by Sojourner Howfree on the Inquisitive Mind “An Elementary History of Deduction” by Seth Myers on the History of the Genre “The Secret of Father Brown” by G.K. Chesterton on Detective Methodology “The Inheritance of Hiram Percy Maxim” by Brian Melton on Consequences “Rationalism, Meaning, & Love: Sherlock’s Ethos as a Key to Unlock All Mysteries” by Jasmin Biggs on the Pursuit of Truth “What Mean These Stones? Archaeology, Poetry & Mystery” by Ted W. Wright on Excavating Humanity “Gizem Dagl” by Karise Gilliland on the Mountain of Mystery “Agatha Christie and Worshiping False Gods” by Jacqueline Wilson on Self-Examination “God as Revealer of Mysteries and Fountain of Love” by Jesse W. Baker on Divine Revelation “The Mystery of Our History: How Knowledge of the Church Fathers Can Strengthen the Church” by Kimberly Hyland on the Importance of the Past “The Mystery of Love” by Donald Catchings on Defining Love “Time Warping With God” by Tim Mcguire on Dreaming “Mystery and Meaning in the Multiverse: Everything Everywhere All at Once” by Seth Myers on Searching Through the Chaos “Book Review: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series by Alexander McCall Smith” by Rebekah Valerius on a Wise Lady Detective Volume 6, Issue 1, Spring 2023 240 pages Cover illustration by Virginia de la Lastra

In the search for his elusive fortune, Rance finds himself in Denver searching for gold. But when he gets an urgent wire asking him to help spring his friend, Jody Barnes, out of jail, the riverboat gambler heads to the queen of the Kansas cow towns—Abilene. When he gets there, Rance realizes much has changed in this once quaint “city of the plains.” The railroad has brought prosperity to the town, but the smell of money has attracted an invasion of Texas Cowboys and their cattle, along with the likes of Jesse James and John Wesley Hardin. Everyone wants to take the law into their own hands, but the legendary Marshal Bill Hickok isn’t used to taking orders—from anybody. With trouble brewing between “Wild Bill” and the unruly Texans, Rance is determined to set his friend Jody free, even if the powderkeg of town politics explodes in all out warfare...

The newest title from a Western fiction star introduces gambler Rance Cash, who knows that the West has a way of wearing a good man down. Luckily for Cash, he's on the safe side of bad and knows just how to beat the odds--in games of chance, women, and hot lead. Original.

This biography brings you straight into the world of a small-town coach coming into his own during the Great Depression and building a family during the Second World War. James "Mick" McGuire was both ordinary and extraordinary: his life illuminates the ways that a man could become a larger than life figure for his athletes, his children, and the people in the sports-crazed towns of Wisconsin in the first half of the 20th century. Yet his story is also a window into the ways that men coped with the complex demands of economic difficulties and wartime uncertainties. Ultimately, his story is the story of his family, tracing its roots back to immigration in the 19th century and its branches into the present. Using wartime letters, yearbooks, small-town newspapers, school records, interviews with family and his athletes, community members, sports reports, photos, census documents and local archives stretching across a dozen little communities, one of his star athletes and his own son set out to find the man behind the myth that they remember. The result is lively descriptions of sporting competition, realistic tales of life in the Pacific Fleet and under the command of General George S. Patton in North Africa and Italy, a portrait of romance and the tragedy of widowhood that befell so many women after the war. This is not only a book about a man and a myth, but also about the ways his family picked up the pieces after his untimely death. It's a story of one family, but also a story of the American family writ large, with tragedies, victories, illnesses mental and physical, complex relationships, and the thread of the legacy "Mick" left behind. --

Clay Cole is on the run for a crime he didn't commit. But it's getting harder to run when it seems like everywhere he goes people have heard of the man known as the Rainmaker. When a young boy saves Clay's life, Clay figures the only honorable thing to do is help the boy's mother in the vicious land battle she's part of--even if that means staying put for a while. But if he stops running long enough for the past to catch up to him, the Rainmaker may not have much of a future.

In a brilliant collaboration by New York Times and critically acclaimed coauthors Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, Jonathan Maberry, Kat Richardson, Seanan McGuire, Tim Lebbon, Cherie Priest, James A. Moore, and Mark Morris join forces to bring you a crime-solving novel like you’ve never read before. Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she’s become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member. But in the aftermath of a bloody battle, a dying cultist makes claims that cause Indigo to question her own origin and memories. Nora’s parents were killed when she was nineteen years old. She took the life insurance money and went off to explore the world, leading to her becoming a student of meditation and strange magic in a mountaintop monastery in Nepal...a history that many would realize sounds suspiciously like the origins of several comic book characters. As Nora starts to pick apart her memory, it begins to unravel. Her parents are dead, but the rest is a series of lies. Where did she get the power inside her?

Lizzie must tutor Ethan when Gordo decides that he can't.

LIZZIE AND HER LITTLE BROTHER, MATT, HAVE SUDDENLY SWITCHED BODIES.