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A touching and nostalgic look at a childhoodin Toronto's Beach District... The world of young people growing up in Toronto in the 1950's and 60's was certainly different from the world we live in today. In this memoir, a companion to his book, Toronto Island Summers, lifelong Toronto resident Jim Sanderson takes readers through the adventures and discoveries of a boy growing up in Toronto's east end. Some of his experiences were simple: shinny...

IN THE 1980s WEST-TEXAS OIL PATCH, WHEN THE POLICE REFUSE TO GET INVOLVED, A LOW-LEVEL CRIMINAL WITH FAMILY PROBLEMS, COLTON PARKER, AND FELLOW LOW-LIFERS ARE HIRED TO FIND TWO MURDERERS.Gamblers, cons, and whores inhabit the night-time bar world of the early 1980s Odessa, Texas oil boom. Colton Parker-with a wife, two young boys, and a father-in-law-is a bouncer for a gambler and loan shark in this dark hidden world. Danny Fowler cruises this...

A wonderful and unique mixture of smart crime novel, a classy love story, . and a hard vision of the Southwest. I loved it from beginning to end." James CrumleyJerri Johnson is a P.I. in San Antonio Texas, tracking down bail jumpers and serving subpoenas, when her old lover Vincent Fuentes is released from prison and tries to draft her into a plot to smuggle guns over the border. Her friend Joe Parr, an aging Texas Ranger haunted by the ghost ...

There's Death on Both Sides of the Razor's Edge Dolph Martinez leads a U.S. Border Patrol task force battling crime and corruption in the empty desert borderlands of Texas and Mexico where la mordida, the payoff, is a way of life. He's a walking embodiment of the violent, cross-cultural clash, his soul torn between the two cultures that make him a very special lawman in an unforgiving place. But now he's become an unwitting pawn in a dark cons...

A richly imagined and terrifically realized novel...it rings as true as the winter light across the southern desert." James CrumleyCircling buzzards lead U.S. Border Patrol agent Dolph Martinez to the corpse of a man executed in the desert...a murder that shatters the fragile calm in a dusty, Texas town. His investigation pits him against the Mexican Army, the DEA, big-money Houston real estate interests, a Catholic nun who practices voodoo, a...

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Nearer James Lee Burke than Joe Lansdale, Sanderson's Dolph's Team is part border-town mystery and part road trip, reminiscent of Lonesome Dove. Dolph's crew doesn't always follow the letter of the law in a world where pre-paid funerals are no joke. As Dolph says, "once you give up decency and honesty, " you're on your own, and all of the beer-guzzling and bull-shooting won't protect his team from the harsh reality of modern Texas.

Whether sprawled on barstools or preaching from pulpits, people need to make sense of their world, and in Jim Sanderson's world of West Texas, pulpits and barstools are where many of them do so. Sanderson himself stood for many years at a podium, teaching at a community college in Odessa, Texas. There, tired of academic papers and sometimes losing the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, he turned to the world around him to figure out t...

Roger Jackson is a grouch. He drinks too much with the wrong sorts of people. He dislikes where he lives—Beaumont, Texas, a small, humid southeast Texas town caught between a marsh and an impenetrable forest, between racial and social strife, between rival versions of Jesus. He dislikes his job—taking photos of cheating spouses. He dislikes his past. (He could have been a lawyer.) And now, he finds himself entangled in a crime.

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Hard living, missed opportunities, and dogged persistence in the pursuit of impossible dreams are themes that help unite the linked stories in Jim Sanderson's fine new story cycle Faded Love. The characters Sanderson weaves in and out of these sometimes side-splitting, sometimes gut-wrenching stories are people whose poignantly-rendered lives resonate long after the last page has been turned.

The turbulent lower Rio Grande valley of the 1870s is the backdrop of this epic historical novel of romance, violence, and the struggle for civilization on the frontier. Against that backdrop protagonist Andrew Nevin, newspaper reporter, Civil War draft dodger, informer, and self-professed coward, tells a story of three legendary figures: Texas Rangers John "Rip" Ford and Lee H. McNelly and the bandit mayor of Matamoros, Juan Cortina. In 1875,...