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  • Hetty

    by Claire Gathercole
    What will the outcome be?

  • Invisible Sun

    by Andrew H. Housley
    Bent to the point of breaking, Ian stands at Lake Pontchartrain's edge in New Orleans, spiraling after his brother Hugo's suicide. Everything sinks around him—the city, his faith, and perhaps his life—as he untangles the reason behind Hugo's fatal decision. In Invisible Sun, Andrew H. Housley probes mental illness and the painful consequences of choice. He questions brotherly bonds, belief systems, and interconnectedness with profound intricacy, immersing readers in a world where reality blu... more

  • First Sons and Last Daughters

    by Samar Reine
    Peyton Chase’s marriage, motherhood, and artistic legacy are threatened by her brilliant, cruel son who constantly makes her feel like a failure. Hell-bent on winning at all costs, what won’t he do to tear down everything she’s built? How far will she go to show him love while protecting her family? Years later, Peyton's life takes a dramatic turn. Amid a tumultuous family dynamic, her two biological children are locked in a bitter rivalry. An old flame resurfaces, offering a different life,... more

  • The Last Person In The World

    by Matthew Tree
    In the 1970s, Europe is awash with armed left-wing organisations: Action Directe in France, the RAF in Germany, and so on.. Then a new one pops up in England, called The Vanguard. Its targets are highly unusual. As are its members. As you will see.

  • Mirrors & Smoke

    by Adrienne Stevenson

    "Mirrors & Smoke" is a story of one woman’s courage and perseverance to save her family when the United States invades Canada in the War of 1812. Rebecca Plummer is a herbalist and midwife in Niagara, Upper Canada. Her situation both before and during the War of 1812 is complicated by her feminist attitude and activities to help other women, both of which run counter to the colonial establishment. She negotiates colonial life and turbulent times in the years leading up to and ... more

  • Daughter's Fortune: Not a Pirate Book

    by Cheryl L-G Trent
    1688. Jeaneau, The Lady Captain, finds herself unknowingly assisting in a royal coup. To make matters worse she then sails the exiled King James to France to kick off the Nine Years war and Jacobean Rebellion. All the while trying to avoid arranged marriage she ends up in the arms of an abuser while crushing on a British Naval Officer. Official Blurb: It's got action, adventure, sword fighting, sailing, true love, intrigue, betrayal, murder, and yes, it's a kissing book. Jeaneau, The Lad... more

  • Shit That We Should Never Pass Along, and All That We Can Not Leave Behind

    by M.J. Boin De
    A boomer and her Xer daughter’s propensities towards calling each other’s generational bullshit out in front of a rural town in the late 1980’s, proves that the worst of us can still move the best of us forward in time.

  • Darkness Beyond the Window,

    by Alexander Elbert
    A story from Ukraine that connects the past and the present times.

  • Illuminating Darwin: Arabella's Light

    by Jill George
    Young Arabella Buckley secures a coveted role as a literary assistant to the renowned geologist Sir Charles Lyell. As Arabella's scientific prowess grows, she captures the attention of the influential minds of her time, including the enigmatic Charles Darwin himself. Despite prevailing notions of female inferiority, Arabella's talents transcend gender barriers, forging a unique friendship and collaboration with Darwin. Together, they revolutionized the scientific world by translating Darwin's ... more

  • Echolocation And Other Stories

    by Sarah Cimarusti
    Echolocation And Other Stories, is a collection of literary fiction featuring a female narrator who moves various times and has to reinvent herself in every location. She struggles with a chaotic home life and identity issues. Readers experience the various stages of her life and find themselves in different places across the Midwest and briefly in Cali, where her family loses their home in a wildfire. Echolocation explores various topics around identity: spiritual evaluation, sexual orientation... more

  • Distortion

    by Sierra Ernesto Xavier

    "Distortion could be the most daringly original and breathtakingly powerful work of literary fiction to emerge in recent years.Highly recommended."
    Chris Riches - Daily Express

    “A literary masterpiece of restraint and intimacy that breaks down barriers to reconnect readers with the vulnerablemind and beating heart of humanity." Richard Moriarty - The Sun

    “Let's face it, literary fiction can be pretentio... more

  • Elly Robin : Bird in a Gilded Cage (The Ordeals of Elly Robin)

    by PD Quaver
    While studying piano with a famous Italian virtuoso, fifteen-year old prodigy Elly Robin at first considers the patronage of the immensely wealthy LaSalle family a stroke of good fortune. But her social ineptness makes her a laughing stock to the LaSalle children. And Elly soon realizes the ostensibly respectable family harbors terrible secrets.

  • Elly Robin in the Big Easy (The Ordeals of Elly Robin)

    by PD Quaver
    Still traumatized by her experiences upriver, Elly is just another penniless street urchin in the teeming city--until a ragged troupe of barefoot boys, who call themselves the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band, discover the secret of her colossal talent. With their help, Elly is soon playing nightly at one of the elegant bordellos in the city's notorious Storyville district. She becomes privy to the fascinating--and disturbing--secrets of the women who work there, and befriends such musical luminaries as ... more

  • Altered Estates

    by Chris Mathison
    English manor mystery meets magic mushrooms Kris Robinson, a scenarist with temporary drug-induced amnesia, enters a live-action manor mystery as a character in order to test his game, unaware that he wrote it. In the scenario, Kris learns his long-lost uncle left him a fabulous English estate. When he arrives there, he finds the butler trying to steal his inheritance, the caretaker’s precocious grandson expounding on Jungian synchronicity, the chef spouting palindromes, and a cast of other mad... more

  • Elly Robin On the Road (The Ordeals of Elly Robin)

    by PD Quaver
    While rambling through Kansas in the year 1912 in her Model T Roadster, Elly Robin and her pal Jimmy McGann, along with Jimmy's young wife Sara and her little brother Jonah, fall in with a troupe of down-at-heel actors. Thirteen-year-old Elly's sensational ragtime playing revives the troupe's fortunes, and both Sara and Jonah discover talents that help keep the troupe afloat. But a brutal murder and a flash flood lead to Elly's dependence on a remote community of ex-slaves and their descendants ... more

  • The Fallible

    by David Ewald
    A teen discovers a gun in the trunk of his car. A spider exposes a weakness a son has never seen. A young woman reaches a breaking point with her partner while traveling in Egypt. A serial philanderer uses the personal tragedy of September 11th to his advantage. In these stories and more, the author of He Who Shall Remain Shameless takes readers down paths punctuated by the mistakes of parents and children, teachers and students, spouses and significant others--imperfect people driven by love, y... more
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