San Antonio College Library

Two novels by masterful storyteller Lauran Paine. In Odd Partnership, gunfighter Lewis Morgan, sheltering from a snowstorm, overhears two assassins plotting to shoot a U.S. Marshall. The Marshall's reaction to this news presents a mystery, since he doesn't react with any alarm. Gunman's Moon opens with gunman Ralph Bolley being killed by a shotgun blast at the Rocking W Ranch. The arrest of the widowed owner of the ranch, and the trial that follows,...

Yvonne, Hugh, and Stephen, the widow and surviving brothers of assassinated right-wing politco Andrew Petrie are left to determine the facts of Petrie's death and to find another buffer for their empty, isolated lives.

Told through the eyes of fictional character, Jason Otis, this book presents a fictionized account of the people and events surrounding the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero as he attempts to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, he's put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm where he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist.

Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.

A presidential candidate's motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists that everyone believes are connected to al-Qaeda. Two weeks later, he is elected President by a sympathy vote. Then classified intelligence is uncovered that indicates the terrorists were connected to some of the most powerful players in Washington. Mitch Rapp is the one man who is reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion.

In Poland of 1963, a teenager named Jerzyk becomes involved in a scheme concocted by his father, a retired postal administrator, and his father's best friend, a failed Lutheran clergyman and aspiring insurrectionist, to assassinate the de facto Polish head of state, W?ladys?aw Gomu?lka.

In this striking novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who believes he is carrying out God's will when he assassinates Augustus Voorhees, an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children who are scarred and embittered...