Central Kansas Library System

As the horses on their ranch mysteriously go missing, two siblings struggling to run their father's ranch and business outside of L.A. need to discover what's happening or forfeit their legacy. As they observe phenomena that defy explanation, they involve an esoteric filmmaker and their sometimes-business-partner, the child-star turned owner of the theme park down the road.

Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...