In the far southwest corner of Riverside County, a center of commerce grew in the 19th century near the junction of the Temecula and Murrieta Creeks. A stop along the Southern Emigrant Trail and Butterfield Stage route brought a few travelers to Temecula who liked the place and stayed. A cattle baron grazed his stock in the rich pastureland and dominated the economy until the mid-1960s, when an investor bought the land to build a planned community. Today Temecula is the home of over 90,000 people. Old Town Temecula celebrates its frontier past, and the Temecula Wine Country entices visitors to take a taste. The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians operates a casino and resort near Rancho del Paisano, the former home of the author who created Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner.

The i Tetralogy -- i, I Am Gunther, Gunther's Lament, Gunther Redux -- is the gut-wrenching epic depiction of the dehumanization of man through an incisive observation of three pivotal characters. Each of them, victim, perpetrator, and murderer's son, is inextricably linked by the varying dimensions of their moral nature. Assaying the monumental impact of the Holocaust, this species-shattering event, the tetralogy elucidates a truth about humanity: the Holocaust has forever defined the species as indelibly damaged, capable on a molecular level of killing and consuming its own. The reader experiences this unvarnishedÂ--perhaps axiomaticÂ--truth about humanity, which no revisionist can deny. The reader also ponders the risk in forgetting, in sanitizing, in "sweetening" the Holocaust.

Legal Suspense Murder Mystery Attorney Sabre Brown is having a great time geocaching, the Internet’s version of a treasure hunt. The fun ceases when she “caches” a container with an official death certificate citing “Murder by Poison” as the cause of death. Even more disturbing is that the date of death is ten days in the future. Sabre is forced to search cache after cache, each revealing more clues, until they take an unexpected twist and shockingly point to one of her court cases. Is the murderer a rejected child, a well-known plastic surgeon, a scorned ex, a crooked lab technician, or a politician in line for the highest office in the land? Or is someone playing Sabre in an ugly geocache of life and death?

Blast to the Past Book 8 Get ready for a Stars and Stripes surprise! When Mr. C tells the class they’ll be learning about Betsy Ross, Abigail is confused. What could the “what-if” question be? Turns out that no one knows for sure if Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag! But whether she did or not, the kids have a job to do—Babs Magee is up to her old tricks and plans to take credit for sewing the flag. Abigail and the boys see this as their chance not only to stop Babs, but also to set history straight. But once they start trying to figure out the truth, what they discover surprises them all...

When Steven Ray Thomas was only fourteen years old a violent argument with his father forced him to leave home. After a short period of homelessness the family of his best friend opened their home and hearts to the angry young man. He dropped out of high school to work fulltime in order to pay his own way. As the years passed he grew content in spite of the reality that he was not living up to his own expectations. Then, as his eighteenth birthday approached, his adopted family relocated to Northern California leaving him without a place to live once again. Searching for temporary lodging he returned to his parents’ home only have another intense argument with his father. Pained and angry he left limping, hitchhiked out of desperation, and was given a ride by Briseidia Gabriela Santilláñes, an altruistic young woman with her own scars to bear.

Blast to the Past Book 7 Keep history on track—that’s an order! Abigail and her friends have an important job today: They must convince George Washington to stay in Valley Forge and continue to fight the Revolutionary War. The future of America depends on him! Turns out, General Washington is superstubborn. No matter what the kids say, or where they take him, they can’t get him to change his mind. Will Abigail and the boys succeed, or will the father of our country become just a blip in history?

Gaspar is a lonely, little ghost who is lactose intolerant and his favorite thing in the whole world is ice cream. The other ghosts tease him and call him names. Gaspar lives in a vacant house. When the house is sold and Mr. and Mrs. Stone move in, with their two young boys, he is thrilled to have a new family, until he discovers no one can see him. After several attempts to get their attention, he finally gives up and goes to bed only to discover that sometimes wishes come true.

In I Truly Lament , Mathias Freese has gathered together twenty-seven stories, all of them (in essence) meditations on the holocaust. Freese's collection is about obsessions, mainly Jewish obsessions: the death camps, the unimaginable cruelties, bottomless terror, senseless torture, humans rendered into ashes and smoke, miraculous survivors who are little more than walking dead men and women for the rest of their lives. As Freese says in a brief prelude to one of the stories, "To survive the camp is to live a lifelong suicide, for how can one live in this hell and return whole to the world?"