History Corner: It's a Summer Beach Read Frenzy Thanks to JKS Communications!

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JKS has some great new titles for some great Summer reading- the kids can't have all the fun this Summer, can they? Read on for some great "A Journey to the Past List" titles to pick up!

Steven W. Kohlhagen - Where They Bury You

In August 1863, during Kit Carson’s roundup of the Navajo, Santa Fe’s Marshal is found dead in an arroyo near what is now the Hubbel Trading Post. The murder, and the roughly million of today’s dollars in cash and belongings in his saddlebags, is historically factual. Carson’s actual explanation is implausible.

Who did kill Carson’s “brave and lamented” Major? The answer is revealed in this tale of a group of con artists operating in 1861-1863 in the New Mexico and Arizona Territories.

Author Website: http://stevenwkohlhagen.com/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17720136-where-they-bury-you
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Steven-W-Kohlhagen-SWK-Artists-LLC/456853987730144?fref=ts
Twitter: @StevenKohlhagen
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Where-They-Bury-You-Novel/dp/0865349363/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370993776&sr=1-1&keywords=Where+they+bury+you

Pepperland on the beach in NC!

Barry Wightman - Pepperland

She asks him—do you want to play your little rock 'n roll songs or change the world? He says—both.

The recessionary days of 1974. Chicago. Pepper Porter is on his improbable way to rock ‘n roll stardom when his long-gone girlfriend reappears. Sooz, a subversively brilliant computer wizard, has come up with the algorithm that will forever change the direction of computer communications, fuel the birth of the personal computer and the Internet. Trouble is—she’s on the lam from the FBI—she’s ex-Weather Underground, radical and revolutionary. She wants to change the world, and deal with her past. So does Pepper.

Author Website: http://www.barrywightman.com
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17256802-pepperland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorBarryWightman?fref=ts
Twitter: @bwightmanwriter
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Pepperland-Barry-Wightman/dp/0984786031/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370993785&sr=1-1&keywords=Pepperland

Chris Ross - Born & Raised

Chris Ross's work is both insightful and big-hearted, and he opens the door to his beloved Indiana like a gracious host who knows the skeletons have already tumbled out of the closet, but he's throwing the party anyway. Ross illuminates the lives of his characters with a vision and voice guided by empathy and humor. He captures the poignant resiliency and spirit found in Indiana's small towns where the factories have closed, yet the people still play baseball in the industry league, even though the industry no longer exists.

Parked in a small southern Indiana town, Born & Raised is set where hope and defeat stain two sides of the same coin – a coin tossed to the kid working the night games at the men’s industrial softball league even though all industry moved on years ago.