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Ernie's Bleachers

by Tim Pareti

Eddy Pareti lives under the shadow of his older brother and sister, straight A students who are the apple of their parent’s eye. He’s the black sheep of the family who dodges duties at his family’s tavern, Ernie’s Bleachers (now Murphy’s Bleachers), ditches school and fails seventh grade. The Cubs in 1945 are heading to the World Series, and Eddy sneaks into games and brushes up against baseball legends, including stars of the Negro League. But he runs into trouble with a bookie who wants him... more

Becoming Buddha

by Corey Croft

Most self-help books will describe remedies and issue lessons to escape the perverted spiral of depression and anxiety. They will aim at improving the quality of one's life and inform choices and states of mind that nurture a healthy and productive psyche. Not this book. Things can always get worse, and baby, they probably will. My life was, is and will probably always be painfully average. I am the glistening standard of what it means to be normal. My grades, my looks, my jobs, my partner... more

Scumbag Rehab

by Corey Croft

You hear all kinds of stories in a bar. All kinds of characters with all kinds of experiences. Booze is a mighty fuel. It brings out the best in some and the worst in every one else. If you post up on a barstool long enough, you might hear someone’s entire life story, whether you asked for it or not. If that barstool happens to be plugged into the wood at the Knowlton Tavern, then the story you would be hearing might belong to James ‘Feb’ February. Only at a dive bar full of the most desperat... more

Mette Hansdatter

by Phyllis Florin

This book is a fictionalization of my great-grandmother, Mette Hansdatter set in Sogn, Norway, with some real and some imagined characters. The Norwegian landscape is strong and almost serves as a character: harsh and beautiful, exerting a life-long gravitational pull against the allure of immigration. When those who stay behind come to the shore to wave off those who will depart, the homesickness is palpable: "Another one gone." The heart of the book is about this unsol... more

A Mercy of Widows

by Marcy Lane

Her heartbreak is real but lack of a wedding ring has left her defenseless. Will grappling with MAID legislation destroy her or bring her peace? Heddie Wright worries she’s failing her beloved. Struggling to resurface from grief after caring for her boyfriend as cancer tore him apart, the forty-something almost-widow is discovering how hard it is to fulfill her promise to move on. And her tentative steps toward healing become entwined with a tense mercy-killing trial when she’s assigned to th... more

Her Own War

by Debra BORCHERT

As Napoleon rises from the ashes of the French Revolution, one woman dares to spy against him. Imprisoned for the crime of impersonating a man, Geneviève LaGarde fears giving birth in an asylum could be certain death for her and her unborn child. Desperate for her release, her husband, Louis, trades his freedom for hers and must join Bonaparte’s army in Egypt. As Geneviève wages her own war against the tyrannical general, she not only risks her own life but also those of her children and t... more

A Mirror for The Blind: Reflections of a Digital Seoul

by Mu Jeong

Kim Youngbaek, a fifth-year assistant manager at Company P, barely manages to stop the closing elevator and squeezes into the last available space. As he leaves the company building, he takes off the employee ID card hanging around his neck and joins his colleagues, who are all bowing their heads to their phones on their way home. He also barely finds a spot on the bus. Enjoying the view of the Han River from the bus, with just enough space to use his phone, Youngbaek logs onto 'SCR33N', an anon... more

Beneath the Swaying Willow

by Amily D'Nas

A young man and woman are torn apart when he is drafted into the United States Army and deployed to serve in Vietnam. She grows anxious as the anti-war movement heats up and and a second wave of feminism washes over the nation. Fate fills the void between them with new experiences, forever changing who they are. Once reunited, she does her best to help his readjust back to civilian life and leave the horrors of war behind him. Neither one realizes the extend to which the other is scarred and whe... more

The Diving God

by Brian Ray Brewer

The Diving God follows the misadventures of Bob Banks, who leaves his stultifying job, his broken marriage and New York City for a disastrous vacation in Mexico where he becomes stranded and where he eventually finds romance while teaching a single mother’s son the basics of platform diving. This romantic comedy speaks of urban angst, of self-discovery and of building family from the wreckage of past relationships.

Strange Tales and Shadowy Beings from Beyond the Bible

by Edward Brown

This book contains nine stories, written in an entertaining style for the average person – but based upon sound theological, historical, and scientific principles – drama, adventure, and inspiration all rolled into one. It is not just fantasy or pure fiction. As such, it provides a fresh perspective on understanding the human psyche – filling in gaps where people can stumble or fall. Most stories have a Christian perspective, although there is no denominational focus. The setti... more

Escape to Woodshine

by Debra Star

Greta and her daughter Lily flee a family violence situation. On reaching Woodshine township and thus safety they meet some very friendly, kind and caring people. However good their life becomes, how far will one man go when he is intent on seeking revenge?

When the Tamarind Tree Blooms

by Elaine Russell

Geneviève Dubois, half-Lao, half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. She is determined to uncover the story of her parents and locate her missing twin brother. Stepping into the deeply divided world of 1931 French colonial Laos, she finds neither French colons nor native Lao readily accept her mixed heritage. Even falling in love is fraught with the cultural restrictions of two dissonant societies. Where does she fit in?

Try Before You Trust: To All Young Gentlewomen and All Other Maids in Love

by Constance Briones

What if Taylor Swift found herself penning songs about love in Elizabethan England when women were required to be chaste, obedient, and silent? Young poet Isabella Whitney sets out to do just that. Having risked reputation and virtue by allowing her passions for her employer's aristocratic nephew to get the better of her, Isabella defies sixteenth century convention and sets out to shake up London's reading public by being the first woman to pen a poem about the deceptive practices of men in lo... more

The Sun Singer

by Coti De Laine

When his prayers go unanswered and Vivian dies in childbirth, journalist Ethan Tellinger curses God, turning his back on a life of faith. Five years later, their son is diagnosed with a terminal disease and given a few months left to live. Desperate to find a cure, Ethan follows up on an anonymous tip of a miracle worker living in a Palestinian refugee camp. To the locals he is known as the Forever Man, but when Ethan arrives in Jenin on the auspices of a human interest story, he is shocked ... more

The Growing Season

by JANE LORENZINI

In 1889, twenty-seven-year-old Belle Carson tends the gardens of world-renowned inventor Thomas Edison on his winter estate in Fort Myers, Florida. He and his family rarely visit, but when a friend of the Edisons' drops in, she convinces Belle to join an agricultural movement sweeping the South - tomato clubs for girls. But just as Belle is blossoming as a mentor and mother figure, her romantic relationship and the precious tomato crop wither on the vine. Can Belle prove to the girls that every ... more

The Day that Changed Long Island

by Luciano Sabatini PhD

A middle-aged couple with three young children are longtime residents and homeowners in the community of Massapequa, New York. When Superstorm Sandy makes landfall on Long Island on the evening of October 29, 2012, their stable, productive and serene lifestyle is suddenly shattered. As the storm surge floods their home, along with the homes of thousands of others living in coastal communities, they struggle to survive and then recover as one crisis seems to follow another. During the many trial... more

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