An antique blue Cadillac… What could it mean? What relevance could it have to this dystopian crime story? The sequel to Purple Kitty continues Serena's courageous story in Blue Cadillac. You will NOT enjoy this story unless you have read the first book, Purple Kitty. This series is not for everyone. As one 5 Star reviewer said, "Chilling as an ice bath! "When I reviewed the first book of the series, I said I wanted resolution. I found it in this book. Serena McKay has gone into hermit mode after the events of the other book, drinking and not allowing anyone inside her door. Her foster father Henry has finally had enough and goes to Serena's sixth-floor apartment and kept knocking for hours until she finally reacted and let him in. The two of them talked as they never had before. They talked about the erosion of rights for the illusion of safety. Serena asked the questions and Henry answered. The destruction of society, the ceding of rights without realizing it, the utter lack of privacy, all the things our current society is facing right now, and Henry had answers for Serena. By the next morning, they both had renewed purpose and were determined to catch the Cellophane Killer. This was every bit the resolution I needed. Thanks, Ms. Walker!" Serena McKay, P.I., lives in a post-apocalyptic time where the rich get richer and the poor become destitute. In August City, you are either rich or poor. Existence there is nightmarish and chilling for most of its residents. Fans of Jessica Jones and post-apocalyptic fiction will love Serena McKay's Crime Novels! Serena has suffered from devastating emotional and physical abuse – first as a child and then during her career with the Police Department. You'd think it would have made her bitter, but it didn't. Instead, it made her a little crazy in relatable ways and, despite that flaw and others, she continues to do her job with bravery. Serena McKay caught The Cellophane Killer in Purple Kitty, Book 1; however, she gets a freaky message that blows her mind. He's coming for you! It could have only come from one person. Did this notorious serial killer escape from the Supermax Prison? Is he really back? If he is back, can Serena finally put him away for good this time? Author warning: Emotional triggers of all kinds. Language. Alcohol and drug use. Physical and emotional abuse.

Twelve short stories of all the wrong women.

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. A drive South becomes dangerous for ‘lois and her family. 'Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural South, there are no admiring glances for the shiny new car; only suspicion and anger for the black man behind the wheel. For the first time in their lives, Lois and her sister know what it's like to feel scared because of the color of their skin. "A personal, poignant look at a black child's first experience with institutional racism."--The New York Times

The daughter of Cary Grant--who was 63 when she was born--writes of her enchanted but very real life with her father, playing, laughing, dining, and dancing together, including a look at his work, his travels, his friendships with old Hollywood royalty," and the lessons he taught her.

Lucy Fooshee lives a charmed life--a local beauty queen who snared farmer Bob and became his beautiful young bride. But when sexy Billy Lee lopes into town, Lucy embarks on a scandalous affair, triggering a series of events which force the town to reveal its bigotry--and compels Lucy to confront the true meaning of happiness, sexuality, and freedom.

Reading Abilio Estevez's Thine Is the Kingdom is a little like attending a cocktail party blindfolded: a million conversations are all happening at the same time and you have to work to figure out just who's talking. But this remarkable novel out of Cuba is worth the extra effort. Set in a run-down enclave of pre-Castro Havana known as the Island, the story follows the fortunes of its residents through a magical realist dreamscape of fantasy, history, life, death, love, and the weather. There is the crazy Barefoot Countess; the pastry vendor, Merengue; and the bookstore owner Rolo. There is Miss Berta who lives with her always sleeping 90-year-old mother, Dona Juana, and Irene who lives with her not-yet-out-of-the-closet gay son, Lucio. Professor Kingston, the Jamaican English teacher; Casta Diva, a would-be opera singer; Chavito, the carver of poor imitations of classical statues; Vido, the adolescent voyeur; Mercedes and her blind sister Marta who dreams of Florence--the cast is enormous and cacophonous. The book hopscotches among characters, tenses, first-, second-, and third-person narratives--often within the same paragraph--as Estevez plunges us headlong into the inner thoughts, dreams, and fears of his multitude of dramatis personae:On this page it is best to use the future tense, a generally inadvisable practice. It has already been written that Chacho had gotten back from Headquarters just past four in the afternoon, and that he was the first to notice the coming storm.... The following day, after the events that will soon be narrated had taken place, Chacho will begin to talk less, and less, and less, until he decides to take to bed.... And, as it is best not to abuse this generally inadvisable tense, it is just and proper that we leave Chacho to his silence until such a time as he should reappear, as God wills it, in this narration.In less accomplished hands this hodgepodge of voices, narrative threads, and personalities might have added up to literary bedlam. But there is method in Estevez's madness as the story gradually emerges; in the meantime the sheer force of his prose and sly commentary on his own inventions carry the reader through this brilliant debut by one of Cuba's best and brightest new voices. --Alix Wilber Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Court of Appeal Case(s): B035694

Part 41, focuses on Navy fuel purchase contracts for Saudi Arabian oil and businesses' use of institutional advertising for tax exemptions during and after the war.