Meet volunteer sheriff's deputy Paul "Fly" Moscone and his buddy Jinx--a recovering journalist. When Hurricane Charley whacks Punta Gorda upside the head and wealthy John Catlett is found dead in his penthouse condo, it looks like an accident. But Fly isn't so sure. The guy was an art collector and an original Picasso is missing from this wall. Did someone use the hurricane as cover to off Catlett? Meanwhile, who the heck is shooting at all the insurance adjusters swarming through town? And whatever happened to the free chips and salsa at Dean's? With Fly and Jinx busting each other's chops and battling it out to narrate the story, Fly has an existential crisis. Turns out life is made up of shades of gray...even when driving a black-and-white. With a jigger of Carl Hiaasen, a snort of Robert Crais, and perhaps a shot or two of Jimmy Buffett, Fly on the Wall is a fun Florida mystery. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll run to make sure your homeowner's insurance premium is paid.

Fly on the Wall: A Fly Moscone Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hirsh, Mike

Mystery

Antenna Books

“The rebel in spring is a sometime thing, but beware the rebel in autumn…” states the epigraph to Michael Shaara’s great unpublished novel, The Rebel in Autumn. Shaara wrote Rebel immediately before The Killer Angels (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), in the late 1960s while teaching creative writing at Florida State University. Loosely based on his years as a professor on the then-small Southern college campus, Rebel is perhaps Shaara’s most fully realized novel. The year is 1969. Unrest on college campuses is peaking, students tune in, drop out and protest everything from the Vietnam War to racism and police brutality while old guard conservatives push back. And at one small southern university, a story censored from the college literary magazine is the match that sets the tinder box ablaze. There’s a simple solution, argues history prof Max Rainer—just publish the damn story and move on. Rainer has more important things on his mind, like his weekend getaway planned with Rona Jackson, the cute sorority girl who sits in the first row. But university president Harry Locke feels that now is the time to draw his line in the sand. He’s read about what’s been going on up at Columbia, and he’ll be damned if anything like that will happen on his watch, no sir. Locke—an undistinguished administrator at the end of his career—has misread the mood of the students, where the seeds of unrest lie just below the surface of a genteel Southern campus. Rainer leads the faculty’s vocal opposition to the story’s censorship, students begin to skip class to protest, and Locke’s closest advisor tells him now is no time to rebel against forces beyond his control. But the battle lines are drawn and neither side can give in. When the administration building is taken over and the students begin a sit-in, that’s when the fires start. And that’s when the police are called in. Rainer tries to keep the peace. But with the agitation of a Vietnam vet-turned-hippie and a recently politicized black music student with a rifle, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Written just before the fatal shootings of four students at Kent State in Ohio, and then forgotten in a drawer for nearly 45 years, The Rebel in Autumn is now published for the first time anywhere, ready to take its place as one of the great works of American fiction from a time when words mattered. With an introduction by the author's son, New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff Shaara.

The Rebel in Autumn

Literature & Fiction

Shaara, Michael

Literary

Rebel Without A Suit: The Not-So-Casual Road to Casual Friday

Business & Money

Cosgriff, Joseph

PRESS, RICHARD

Business Culture

A CATCH ME IF YOU CAN TALE FOR TODAY Bent is the story of John J. Boseak's phenomenal life of crime. Inked from head to toe, addicted to strippers and fast Cadillacs, Boseak was not your typical computer geek. One of the most cunning scammers, counterfeiters, identity thieves and escape artists alive-Boseak was a major thorn in the side of the U.S. Secret Service as they fought a war on cybercrime. With a savant-like ability to circumvent banking security and stay one step ahead of the law, Boseak made millions in the international cyber underworld, aided by the Chinese and the Russians. Then, leaving nothing but a John Doe warrant and a cleaned-out bank account in his wake, he vanished. Along the way Boseak became a rock star-a counterfeit one, anyway-partying hard with jet-set Eurotrash and C-List celebrities from South Beach to Vegas. Despite living his dream life, Boseak was still the scared little boy inside, abandoned by his father, ignored by his mother, choosing to live on the streets and survive by his wits. Boseak's stranger-than-fiction tale of ingenious scams and impossible escapes, of brazen run-ins with the law and secret desire to straighten out and settle down, makes Bent a true crime con game that will keep you guessing.

Bent: How a Homeless Teen Became one of the Cybercrime Industry’s Most Prolific Counterfeiters

Biographies & Memoirs

Boseak, John J.

Cox, Matthew B.

True Crime

These Are Our Failures

Chensvold, Christian

Humor & Satire

"This is a perfect book: engrossingly entertaining and telling at the same time. You think you know how the courts and the justice system works? Take a walk through the halls of justice with Judge Mader and you will see the unvarnished truth, both good and bad. This book literally held me hostage until the very last page."-Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning "Wow, so unique to have a former criminal court judge, from large urban county, bare it all As a long-time criminal defense lawyer, prosecutor, and felony court judge, Judge Mader's book shall surprise and inform you about the need of reforming critical aspects of the criminal justice system."-Gil Garcetti, former L.A. County District Attorney "Not often do you find an author who has worked every role in the criminal justice system at the highest level. Judge Mader has been a fearless defender, relentless prosecutor, and outspoken bench officer. More importantly for the reader of Inside the Robe, she is a master truth and storyteller. This book is not just at times captivating and riveting but also in turns infuriating-not unlike the justice system itself. What a read "-Mark Geragos, well-known trial lawyer COURTHOUSE CONFIDENTIAL To most people, judges are mysterious creatures. As Anthony Bourdain invited readers to follow him behind the scenes of the restaurant business in his bestseller, Kitchen Confidential, and Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes was a revealing peak into the mysteries of what happens after death inside a mortuary, Inside the Robe shines a bright spotlight into the hidden folds of the judging world. Despite the old saw that judges should merely "follow the law," Inside the Robe lays bare how following the law can produce wildly different results depending upon the background, politics, and life experiences of each judge. Even the floor of the courthouse can mean the difference between prison and freedom. Judge Katherine Mader spent decades as a judge in a criminal court, was the LAPD's first inspector general, a prosecutor in two murder-for-hire trials, and a defense attorney who successfully argued to spare the life of the Hillside Strangler. From her perch behind the bench, Judge Mader witnesses a parade of drug addicts, gang members, mentally ill defendants, pricey private attorneys ranging from brilliant to incompetent, jaded prosecutors, and starry-eyed true believer public defenders. Never before has the judging profession been laid bare for all to see.

Inside the Robe: A Judge's Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America

Mader, Katherine

Professionals & Academics

This landmark first biography of Rod Serling offers fascinating insights into his life, from the nearly idyllic childhood that he could never recapture to the haunting World War II experiences that informed his imagination and his sudden emergence as one of television’s Golden Age luminaries, responsible for shaping the medium itself.Last Stop, The Twilight Zone paints a startling picture of the complex, unhappy man beneath Serling’s gregarious yet suave public persona. Despite receiving critical and popular acclaim, Serling was doubtful of his own talent, compulsively accepting nearly any job offered, from writing to pitching products. Prolific by any measure, he felt imprisoned by his most famous creation, The Twilight Zone. Here is the Rod Serling we never knew, the man whose success overshadowed his ambitions and, eventually, his life—a life that ended long before it should have.

Last Stop, the Twilight Zone: The Biography of Rod Serling

ENGEL, Joel

Arts & Literature

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