Yuma Public Library

"Keynote From the critically acclaimed author of The Baker's Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption-a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician wife, he spends his postwar life seeking redemption-and they find it together. Internal Description...

In the midst of a backyard campout, ten-year-old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.

In the year 1777, a group of Quakers and a party of Indians have a memorable meeting.

"James Jesus Angleton was the master - a legend in the time of spies, the founder of U.S. counterintelligence, and a ruthless hunter of America's enemies. Spytime is a fictional account of Angleton's life, from his involvement behind the lines in World War II to the waning days of the Cold War. A stunning re-creation of perilous times, it is also a masterful revelation of an obsessed man whose name became synonymous with skullduggery and subterfuge."...

May 1893. The residents continue to pool their knowledge and strengths to endure through difficult times. To that end Mrs. Mattie Case hones her amateur sleuthing skills when the new police chief rebuffs her insights into mysterious disappearances.

1893. As evidence mounts against Henry Case’s character, Mattie is pulled into a mystery that has its beginnings in Henry’s past. Though repeatedly warned by the current police chief that her involvement could prove dangerous, Mattie is compelled to offer her assistance. In the meantime, help finding the long-lost journal comes from an unexpected source--

1893. Mattie Case finds her limits tested when yet another accusation is thrown at Henry’s feet. Though her husband is beyond suffering the attacks on his character, the pain caused to her son is more than she will tolerate. As a result, she is compelled to uncover a truth that the new police chief has chosen to ignore--

Charles Wolfe Collins has been investigating various clandestine matters for influential Washington politicians since 1865, having been a confidential operative for General Grant during the War of the Rebellion. In late summer of 1879, he is sent upon a mission into Colorado to assess the disintegrating state of affairs between the mercenary ambitions of white men and the treaty prerogatives of Ute Indian peoples. Drawn into a quagmire of hired provocateurs,...

Fleeing a crumbling marriage in New York for rural New Mexico, Eleanor falls in love with the disoriented, ill man she rescues, unaware that he is Leo Kavan, a troubled scientist who has gone AWOL from the Los Alamos atomic bomb project.