Kirjahaku

When Mazie Goforth's lost love appears unexpectedly, soon followed by her prodigal family, she is forced to face who she has become and what might have been. Narrated by the frank and feisty Mazie, Water Flow Down follows her struggle to make sense of her past and an ever-changing present that is complicated by an orphaned teenager who asks for Mazie's help in finding the truth about her mother's death. As she treks across Texas with her nephew and the girl in a search for answers, Mazie encounters a slew of odd characters and stark locales. Ricocheting between past and present, the story culminates in a confrontation on a remote ranch, leading Mazie to realize what truly matters.

"...very much recommended reading." -Midwest Book ReviewWhen Noll Spencer leaves college to support his ailing mother, he has no idea of the world he is about to enter or the events soon to unfold. Set along coastal Texas and peopled with odd but memorable characters, the story follows Noll as he struggles to find his way in a changing world. Accompanied by ineffable and enigmatic Hen Feathers and beautiful Maya Cruz, Noll searches for a way beyond the prejudice of his past and the challenge of an uncertain future.

Theo Persons has lost his way. Unemployed and separated, he impulsively takes custody of his teenaged niece, Katie, and soon finds himself on a search for his long-missing brother. Part mystery, part odyssey, the story follows Theo and Katie as they search the back roads of south Texas using clues left in a set of cryptic journals. In starting a new life together, Katie and Theo struggle to forge a relationship and come to terms with their family history. Interrupted by a devastating hurricane, a budding romantic interest and a violent confrontation, the story comes to a surprising end in a south Texas colonia.

When Limerick Specter's uncle Luster reappears, years after his father's suicide and his mother's unexplained disappearance, he has little idea the turn his life is about to take. Having lost his job, his home and his girlfriend, Lim is enlisted by his uncle to help a young Romanian woman search for her kidnapped sister, the victim of forced prostitution. Exploring the intersection of magic and science, reason and intuition, the miraculous and the everyday, the novel follows their search amid Lim's struggle to forge a new life.

"A playfully surreal but enthralling story of society's castoffs." - Kirkus ReviewThirteen year old Nicolai Tate is tired of running. Homeless and pursued by the authorities, he is befriended by an old man seemingly able to see into the future and soon finds himself living in a boarding house full of misfits. There he encounters an unemployed drifter, Truman Birdsong, also without a home. Together, they forge an unlikely partnership. Dodging children's services and thugs hired by two wealthy brothers intent on owning the county, they join with the boarding house residents in trying to unravel the truth behind an antigovernment militia's plot. They have little idea the danger they will face. Punctuated by a budding romance, a violent storm and the old man's belief in the spirit world, the story follows Truman and Nicolai as they struggle to forge a new life out of their fractured pasts.

Two friends, one white, the other black, discover a solid silver lock-box hidden in an antique desk and, on impulse, one of them decides to steal it. Inside is a sheaf of papers bound with twine. Assuming the papers to be nothing more than a worthless diary, they toss them aside but soon discover their mistake. The manuscript is in fact a previously unknown sequel to Mark Twain's novel, Huckleberry Finn. When the box is stolen, the men set out to find it and redeem themselves, encountering prejudice and bigotry along the way that parallels Twain's story, and leads them to a shocking truth about their own shared past.