It’s the 1930s in Texas when Charlie Bader comes of age with urges he has struggled with since childhood and does not understand. After his new bride finds him wearing her own sexy lingerie and leaves him in disgust, he tries to move on. His efforts lead him to Chicago, where he stumbles on a community of cross-dressers and begins to attend their secret soirees. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, he volunteers for the army, serving as a dentist and trying once again to leave his obsession with soft clothes behind. Instead, his wartime experiences combined with the army's faulty record-keeping lead to his reappearance in the small town of Heaven, Indiana, as Charlene. There, Charlene opens a beauty shop where Heaven’s women safely share their stories and secrets as she shampoos, clips, curls, and combs their hair. Charlene deftly manages to keep her own story hidden and her sexual desires quiet until she falls in love with a female customer and her life begins to change.

Earth As It Is (Break Away Books)

LGBTQ+ Books

Adams, Steve

Weston, Julie

Maher, Jan

Koppelman, Susan

Tracy, Ann

Literature & Fiction

Break Away Book Club Edition

After moving to Ketchum, Idaho, photographer Nellie Burns takes pictures of a dead body she discovers, but after the body disappears and her negatives are stolen, she finds evidence of opium addiction, obssession, and plans for revenge among the town's residents.

Moonshadows (Nellie Burns and Moonshine)

Literary

Five Star

Nellie Burns, photographer, and her Labrador dog, Moonshine, travel with sheep rancher Gwynn Campbell and his Basque sheepherder to the Stanley Basin of central Idaho. Nellie plans to photograph scenes for a railroad’s brochures to lure tourists to the West. When they arrive at the sheep camp, they discover the current herder is dead. Nellie’s curiosity and photography lead her to a moonshine still and then a dash up a forested mountain. Nellie and Moonshine confront the greatest challenges yet to their courage and ingenuity when they face a range war and a ruthless killer. Basque Moon is an exciting and authentic story of western conflicts in the 1920s. Nellie must dig deep to restore her faith in herself and her chosen profession.

Basque Moon: A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery

United States

Five Star Publishing

Moonshadows (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery)

Thorndike Press Large Print

Basque Moon (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery)

"
The reader walks effortlessly into a West long behind us, in this gorgeously written, taut mystery. Secrets are the fuel of all fiction--prepare for Moonshadows to burn brightly.--Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of The Red Room Once again, Nellie Burns and Moonshine leap into trouble--this time in Craters of the Moon in southwest Idaho. Nellie accompanies Sheriff Asteguigoiri to the lava fields as his photographer. Three people are missing there, doing "God's work," according to Mayor Tom of a nearby town. Marked on maps as "unexplored" and "unknown," the miles of lava resist easy navigation and Nell's photography. Rosy Kipling, the one-eyed miner and Nell's friend, is recruited with Mayor Tom and Moonshine to assist in the search amidst concerns about a religious cult and money related to the missing. Physical obstacles as well as secrets and lies and consuming greed endanger all. And alone, Nell faces an attempt on her sanity and her life in this remote and almost inaccessible natural phenomenon."

Moonscape (Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery)

Genre Fiction

The reader walks effortlessly into a West long behind us, in this gorgeously written, taut mystery. Secrets are the fuel of all fiction�prepare for Moonshadows to burn brightly.� �Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of The Red Room.Once again, Nellie Burns and Moonshine leap into trouble�this time in Craters of the Moon in southwest Idaho. Nellie accompanies Sheriff Asteguigoiri to the lava fields as his photographer. Three people are missing there, doing �God�s work,� according to Mayor Tom of a nearby town. Marked on maps as �unexplored� and �unknown,� the miles of lava resist easy navigation and Nell�s photography. Rosy Kipling, the one-eyed miner and Nell�s friend, is recruited with Mayor Tom and Moonshine to assist in the search amidst concerns about a religious cult and money related to the missing. Physical obstacles as well as secrets and lies and consuming greed endanger all. And alone, Nell faces an attempt on her sanity and her life in this remote and almost inaccessible natural phenomenon.

Moonscape (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery, 3)

"Crime photographer Nellie Burns and Basque Sheriff Charlie Asteguigoiri travel from central to northern Idaho to investigate bootlegging and possible complicit town officials. A suspicious mine explosion pulls them into a second investigation. They wireretired miner Rosy Kipling to join them. He brings Nell's black Lab, Moonshine. While Charlie roams the backcountry in search of illegal stills, Nell questions survivors of the explosion. Rosy descends the principal mine to listen and pry. The two investigations lead all three to discover secrets and lies-from "soda drink" parlors, local brothels, worker hints deep in the mine shafts-that have deadly consequences. A town dance lures Rosy, Charlie, and Nellie to play and shades of romance, until a fire blows up a town. Predictably, Nellie gets in over her head. A rock burst seals off Charlie and Rosy in a mine collapse. Will Moonshine come to the rescue? All four of them long for their high desert home but cannot return until they expose the secrets and lay bare the criminals before their luck runs out"--

Miners' Moon (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery, 4)

In the early 1920s, photographer Nellie Burns leaves Chicago to find adventure and a career in the West. She lands in Ketchum, Idaho. Out one night photographing moonshadows on snow, she discovers and photographs a dead body. When the body disappears and her negatives are stolen, she joins the chase to solve the mystery and find her negatives. But the Basque sheriff does not welcome her help, and the Chinese residents in town suspect Nellie herself of murder. As Nellie unravels the mystery of the missing body, she encounters a tangled web of revenge, opium addiction, obsessive love and loss, and a haunting story of devotion.

Encircle Publications

Review\nPraise for Basque Moon: 2017 Winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction "Cowboys, sheepherders, and moonshiners form a volatile mix in 1920s Idaho. When Nell iskidnapped, she has to depend on Pearl to help her escape. The pair have some wild adventures while Nell tries to untangle a knotty puzzle and stay alive. Weston's second is a rip-roaring yarn that enchants with beguiling descriptions of the beauty of the Idaho wilderness."-Kirkus Reviews"Weston does a good job evoking the wild beauty of Idaho's Sawtooth Range, and Nellie is a likable protagonist... the ending offers a promising direction for subsequent installments."-Publishers Weekly"Basque Moon has pretty much everything I want in an historical mystery: gun fights and knife fights; cattlemen vs. sheepmen vs. moonshiners; a gallant dog; a handsome Basque sheriff; secrets, lies and murder; and Nellie Burns, a woman absolutely alive on the page, and a heroine of extraordinary curiosity and courage. All of this set down in the 1920s in the mountains of Idaho. Perfect."-Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses"Weston explores a more personal kind of borderland with her character Nellie Burns, a professional photographer who survives and thrives in a world of rough, violent men who cannot comprehend new technologies, new economies, and a happily emancipated woman."-John Rember, author of Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley\nPhotographer Nellie Burns and her faithful Labrador retriever, Moonshine, travel to the Stanley Basin of central Idaho with sheep rancher, Gwynn Campbell, and his Basque sheepherder, Alphonso. Nellie plans to spend several weeks in the mountains around the basin at a sheep camp, photographing scenes for a railroad company’s travel brochures. When their group arrives at the camp, however, they discover the current shepherd is dead. 
Basque sheriff Asteguigoiri arrives to seek the murderer and reluctantly accepts Nellie’s help in the investigation. But when hapless tourists, lawless moonshiners, and hell-bent cowboys enter the picture, Nellie and Moonshine confront some of the greatest challenges yet to their courage and ingenuity.

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Earth As It Is (Break Away Books)

Moonshadows (Nellie Burns and Moonshine)

Basque Moon: A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery

Moonshadows (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery)

Basque Moon (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery)

Moonscape (Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery)

Moonscape (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery, 3)

Miners' Moon (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery, 4)

Moonshadows (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery)

Basque Moon (A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery)