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  • River of Mercy

    by Paula Scott

    When she returns to her hometown, Maggie O’Leary’s secrets are right where she left them. There’s a car in the river with a body inside. An old flame wants her back. And her teenage son, Lane, wishes he could make it all go away. Lane joins the high school football team as an escape only to discover the head coach, Matthew Shear, could be his uncle. And the life they left unraveling back in San Francisco was his mother’s attempt to conceal his real father&rsq... more

  • Steel Butterflies

    by ELIZABETH B. SPLAINE
    Deadly secrets & destructive, unintended consequences are unearthed in this coming-of-(s)age story of an unlikely friendship between a teenage girl and a former WWII spy. Some truths are best left unspoken.

  • True Feel

    by Ted Bernal Guevara
    TRUE FEEL is a buckled sidewalk on which paraplegic Marion Rafino wheels through. He is casing a lurid killing in Texas, and the main suspect is exotic dancer Credence, his love interest. In the beginning, Marion claims: "I am a reporter for a major newspaper, capable of doing practically anything in my life. When I stumble upon a person whose face resembles a photo tucked in our murder file, the first thing I do is make my affection valid...and my investigation relentless." Credence upon ... more

  • BEN'S BONES: Based on the True Story of 28 Bodies Buried in Benjamin Franklin’s Basement

    by Joseph C. Gioconda
    Crime is running rampant in turbulent 1760’s London. Pregnant women and children start vanishing from the city’s crowded streets and thieves are looting graves. Ramshackle police departments are unwilling—or unable—to stop the pillaging. Benjamin Franklin arrives in London as Pennsylvania’s colonial agent to the Crown. He rents rooms from a lonely widow and her bright daughter Polly, who become his surrogate family while he is away from home. Franklin and Polly develop a deep friendship as he... more

  • Throwing Tarts at the King and Other Stories

    by Anne Bianco
    Anne Bianco’s debut collection Throwing Tarts At the King contains stories and essays whose diverse characters struggle with loss, class disparities, and time. They are “the walking wounded.” A lawyer who simultaneously mourns and envies his older brother’s legacy and regrets his own lost chances finds connection to the tangible in a brawl with a truck driver. A garbage man by day and a zoo security guard by night reaches for autonomy and love when he sheds dependence on an old friend. After his... more

  • Thar She Blows

    by Susan Emshwiller

    Agoraphobic suburban housewife Ann waits for her schlubby nineteen-year-old son Brian to call but learns that he's been swallowed by a whale and is alive in those huge lungs. Called crazy, she’s determined to find that whale and get him out. Brian survives in his new home, for the first time learning skills, and to respect himself. When a young woman from Norway is swallowed as well, her mother and Ann hire a boat to find their children. Intertwining stories of an Alaska native Stat... more

  • Epoch

    by Kat Elle
    After a traumatic deployment in Afghanistan, Army combat medic Blanca Hernandez is ready to leave the life of a soldier behind so she can help her younger brother Mateo start college. His orientation goes awry when a secret university experiment malfunctions and sends Blanca, Mateo, and several others back in time to Nazi-occupied Poland. Just like that, Blanca is back in a war. Matters are complicated further by the arrival of Otto Zimmler, a cocky Nazi fighter pilot who agrees to help them... more

  • Dreams of Arcadia

    by Brian Porter
    DREAMS OF ARCADIA is the story of Nate Holub, a Houston veterinarian with two teenage daughters. When Nate is offered a job in his late father’s hometown, he accepts, but he wonders if a city boy has what it takes to be a country vet. Nate quickly discovers the gritty reality of rural vet practice. He gets trampled by a cow, tangles with an irate cat in the cab of a pickup, and delivers a calf while standing knee-deep in creek water. As he struggles to adjust, he reconnects with his family and... more

  • Dreams of Arcadia

    by Brian Porter

    Dreams of Arcadia is the story of Nate Holub, a Houston veterinarian with two teenage daughters. When Nate is offered a job in his late father’s hometown, he accepts, but he wonders if a city boy has what it takes to be a country vet. As he struggles to adjust, he reconnects with his family and learns that his father’s accidental death thirty years earlier was much more complicated than he realized. Nate probes the past, afraid of what he might find. He encounters a resen... more

  • Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)

    by dean cycon
    The war is over, but hatred has not surrendered. Eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity during nine months in Auschwitz by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey to their hometown, seeking to restart their lives. Yet the town that deported them is not ready to embrace their return. Their homes and businesses are legally in the hands of former neighbors and friends, who resist relinquishing their new-found we... more

  • Chance of a Lifetime

    by Robert Tucker
    With an entertaining blend of comedy and suspense, Chance of A Lifetime depicts a gold hunt that taps into the heart of a contemporary American family with humor and sensitivity. Burnt-out middle-aged geology professor Wilson Trebourne is fed up with the social, economic, and ecological blight of Southern California. Much to his family’s chagrin, he quits his job at the university, sells everything he owns, including their beautiful house in the suburbs, then gambles his entire life savings o... more

  • Walking on Stones

    by Chris Handrahan

    weird, funny, puzzling, scary, dark, light and beyond

    First novel. Unattached to genre.

    Careful where you tread.
    It did not seem like her story to confess.
    Books inspire more books.

    A Story about a Stone.

     

    Final (small) Edit (all editions): October 2023

  • The Best I Can Do

    by John Branning
    In his latest collection, The Best I Can Do, award-winning humor writer John Branning includes essays, lists, comedic verse, lists, and more comedic verse. Also, a few more essays. As always, his humor is self-deprecating -- except for the times when he deprecates on others (rarely his wife and son, occasionally his cats, and quite frequently a certain former President). Among the topics covered in this delightful read, he explains diacritical marks in a way that doesn't clarify their use at ... more

  • Her Own Revolution

    by Debra BORCHERT
    A Woman Forges a Treacherous Path to Save Hundreds from the Guillotine If Geneviève Fouquier-Tinville had the same rights as a man, she wouldn’t have to dress like one, which she does to attend University—forbidden to women. By swearing her commitment to the revolution, she succeeds in convincing her father, the Public Prosecutor who condemns thousands to the guillotine, to hire her as a court clerk. But she intends to earn passage to join her lover, Henri, in America. Tasked with copying... more

  • And Union No More

    by Stan Haynes
    In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law. After a generation of containment by the Missouri Compromise, a path is created for slavery to expand. Southerners are ecstatic and northerners enraged. Both sides rush settlers to the Kansas Territory, seeking to gain the majority. Guerilla warfare results, with Americans killing Americans. Monty Tolliver, a former congressman from Ohio, moves to Kansas, determined to make it a free state. Two young men, Billy Rutledge from Mississippi and Robe... more

  • Day Of The Trumpet

    by Suj Ahmed
    Thirteen-year-old Eden escapes with his mixed-race family from the growing race hate and violence unleashed in a future England ravaged by economic hardships, food scarcity, and social disorder, plunging the country into the hands of a fascist and evangelical alliance. The family travels on foot at night across the English countryside to evade the marauding ‘People’s Militia’ who mercilessly hunt down POCS (people of colour). In the second timeline, Eden’s grandfather Tariq provides a historica... more
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