Featuring the legendary saxophonist George Coleman, this is a Brazilian jazz album showcasing Juno Award winner Brandi Disterheft's inventive writing, power-socket bass playing, and sweet ethereal vocals. Alongside Portinho on drums, this trio shines with slick vignette arrangements paying homage to composers from Carlos Jobim to bassist Sam Jones.

"During the Great Depression, people lost more than their life savings. They lost hope: hope in government, hope in industry, even hope in God. Betrayed by their faith, they romanticized the rebel outlaws who roamed the countryside: John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson. In 'The Second Coming of Jesse James, ' the common people hail Jack Carpenter - moonshiner, hell raiser, and third-rate bank robber - as a latter-day Jesse James sent...

A collection of stories inspired by Sherlock Holmes includes the previously unpublished novella, "Sons of Moriarty."

Tenaya has never left Yosemite Valley. He was born in a car by the Merced River, and grew up in a hidden camp with his parents, surviving on fish, acorns, and unfinished food thrown away by the park's millions of tourists. But despite its splendor, Tenaya's Yosemite is a visceral place of opposites, at once beautiful, dangerous, and violent. When he meets Lucy, a young woman from the south side of the park, Tenaya must choose between this new relationship...

"Punching Nazis used to be more than a meme. In 1944, it was a vocation. And no one put his gloved fist in the faces of more fascists than the Man of Fate, the Algerian Operative, our man in Occupied France -- Kismet. Then, he disappeared. Gone without a trace ... until now. Back from beyond, Kismet finds a new world of gay rights, quantum physics, and computer technology along with the old evils of bigotry, greed, and ignorance at a crossroads. Twenty-first-century...