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James Lee Burke, author of Harbor Lights: Stories

These eight stories from James Lee Burke moves from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her university-professor father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose “Western hero” façade hides darkness. An oil rig worker witnesses a horrific attack on a local village while on a job in South America and seeks justice through one final act of bravery.

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Weeks of December 16 and 23, 2024

Paperback releases for the weeks of December 16th and 23rd include IT HAD TO BE YOU, the latest thrilling entry in the Under Suspicion series by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, which finds television producer Laurie Moran investigating the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons; HARBOR LIGHTS, a dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, James Lee Burke, featuring a never-before-published novella; COLD VICTORY by Karl Marlantes, a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship and love are put to the ultimate test; and WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IN VEGAS, a dazzling journey in which James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal show the real Vegas, transporting readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of A-list celebrity and entertainment.

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