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  • On the Waterfront

    by Mike McCoy

    At thirteen years old, Danny Novak faced challenges of self-acceptance, abuse, mortality, and death. It was the best summer of his life and the darkest days he ever lived.

    When Danny arrives at Camp Baker in June 1978, he is happy to be away. Away from his mom, his bratty little brother, their crappy house, and his sad life. Danny is the youngest boy hired to work as camp staff, but he’s confident he’ll fit in. He quickly learns that he doesn’t.

    Mark Colby, at si... more

  • The Chaos Agents

    by F. Fox North
    Told in four inter-connecting narratives from the mid 50s through the early aughts, The Chaos Agents explores the impact and implosion of Saffron, a mid-century musical phenom led by Baron Templeton & Edmund Hammond – whose breakup is the stuff of legends. From a small British town in the 50s, to young brothers struggling with the grit of NYC in the 70s, to two camp counselors falling in love to a backdrop of 90s rock, to a secluded cabin in the early aughts where the offspring of Edmund ... more

  • The Wisdom of Winter

    by Annie Seyler

    Tangled influences compel a young girl to hide her true nature until one weekend in her mid-20s when the truths she’s been suppressing call her to a crossroads she can’t avoid.

    Insulated from societal mores by her glamorous mother and humble father, six-year-old Beatrice—barefoot in ratty overalls—tunes into animals, senses the unspoken, and thrives. But when tragedy penetrates their rural Vermont bubble, Beatrice is thrust into a world that tells her she has no ... more

  • The Renunciation

    by Alex McGlothlin
    Michael Winston is on the verge of losing everything. He’s lost his girlfriend. His job is hanging by a thread. His future, it seems, hinges on flying thousands of miles to the wilds of Costa Rica to track down a championship surfer who, for unknown reasons at the height of his career, became a recluse three years ago. Though Michael’s searching for a story, what he finds in Costa Rica is of far greater significance than a mere ripping good yarn . .

  • RIDE the WILD WIND - Book II - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - The Witch's Grave

    by Josephine Ashton
    Ride the Wild Wind, Book II - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - the Witch's Grave, is a sequel to Book I - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - Friends and Enemies. However, it's a stand-alone book, like the first, mystery, murder, love, loss, life, new friends, new enemies, in this fictional southwestern rural town and county, circa 1965, who live in, or pass through, or threaten this home-town in southwestern New Mexico. Like Brigadoon, Aragón Valley is there, it's inhabitants revolve around the hub who is t... more

  • RIDE the WILD WIND - Book I - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - Friends and Enemies

    by Josephine Ashton
    RIDE the WILD WIND - Book II - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - Friends and Enemies Sheriff Robert Gallegos, tall, handsome, quiet, friendly, Native American/Hispanic, an ex WWII Marine is determined that the encroaching Juarez, Mexico drug cartel that will stop at nothing to take over his Southwestern New Mexico, Aragón Valley - will not, on his watch, succeed. But as intimidation, rape and murder stalk the rural community, the reality of the threat, this summer of 1965, grows ominously closer. Galle... more

  • LITTLE BRAVEBIRD and the Grandparents' Gifts

    by Josephine Ashton
    Little Bravebird and the Grandparent's Gifts is fiction, and, like the classics, for both children, youth and grown-ups. Its is historical fiction in that there are parallel stories: one that of Little Bravebird's Navaho and French - American grandparents, WWII and the Navaho Code-Talkers and life after that; the other, a coming of age story of their orphaned grandson, Little Bravebird, age 5, who, through struggling with learning, and in particular, reading has an awesome memory and is, in the ... more

  • The Road to Kedarnath: Everyone is entitled to improbable gifts of grace

    by Immanual Joseph
    Arjuna travels to the sacred Kedarnath mountain in the Himalayas to kill himself. Once a successful software engineer in the United States, he has spent the past three years in the streets of India as a beggar, mendicant, madman, thief, and murderer. The universe sends Arjuna a lifeline in the form of a humble but enlightened tea-seller, who convinces Arjuna to spend the winter with him in a cave atop the mountain. What follows is a journey of inner healing and spiritual metamorphosis, and Arjun... more

  • Man in the Bath

    by Kit Derrick
    The ‘Man in the Bath’ videos were an overnight internet sensation. Dr David Dunn was as surprised as anyone when his philosophies and thoughts on the World went viral, and he unexpectedly gathered a huge cult following from the numerous occupants of cyber-space who seemed lost in life, desperate for answers, and happy to accept his wisdom, insights, and guidance, as gospel. But the internet can be an untameable beast, and before he even realised the extent of his new influence, some followers ... more

  • Under the Moon in Illinois

    by Kipling Knox
    This collection of interconnected stories is set in the fictional town of Middling, where ghosts conspire to redeem a troubled community. We follow a group of eccentric characters yearning for something better--a well-intentioned criminal takes on a corrupt pastor, a young man chases a ghost to impress his first date, a legendary phantom hitchhiker fulfills a dangerous promise, the spirit of a guilt-stricken ad man tries to fix a corrupt councilman. Combining social satire with humor and tragedy... more

  • Lost Souls of Leningrad

    by Suzanne Parry
    June 1941. Hitler’s armies race toward vulnerable Leningrad. In a matter of weeks, the Nazis surround the city, cut off the food supply, and launch a vicious bombardment. Widowed violinist Sofya and her teenage granddaughter are cornered in the crumbling city. On Leningrad’s outskirts, Admiral Vasili Antonov defends his homeland and fights for a future with Sofya. Meanwhile, Yelena’s soldier fiancé transports food across the Ice Road—part of the desperate effort to save Leningrad. With thei... more

  • Nine Days

    by Judy Lannon

  • Running to Fall

    by Kalisha Buckhanon
    Tragedy Powell tries to feel she has it all– until her and her husband’s perfect life online becomes a whirlwind of spilled secrets about Tragedy’s drinking, a missing woman and their all-white town. Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they’ve got to live large in real life to stay large online. With only a few blacks in their elite gated community, they settle in but never quite feel... more

  • Kiss My Carol!

    by Nicolas Rose
    You've never seen Ebenezer Scrooge like this before, no matter HOW impossible that is to believe! Still taking place in Victorian-era England with all the original characters you know and love, this over-the-top comedy parody of "A Christmas Carol" is like no other. Experience the delightful insanity of the loopy townsfolk, ultra-cockeyed Marley, the jaw-droppingly crazy Cratchit family, and Tiny Tim with Tourette's! All that awesomeness is then wrapped deliciously in a surprise ending that's bo... more

  • Domestic Arts

    by Annie M. Ballard
    The last thing she wants is a boyfriend. The last thing he wants is to take advantage of a situation. Artist Evie returns to Stella Mare with nothing. Having spent years building her boyfriend’s art practice, their break-up leaves her without a career, a home, or a way to make a living. She becomes enraptured with the hooked rugs made by an ancestor, stashed in her father’s attic. But is she just avoiding reality? Stephen shivers through a Stella Mare spring to collect stories and art from ... more

  • Spirit Level

    by Michael Reffold
    Lisa’s in trouble again. But she’s never been in trouble like this before. This time, she’s murdered her parents and younger sister and gone on the run. Now she’s found love – or something like it – at the worst possible moment. To make matters even worse, her family are refusing to rest in peace. Their ghosts have taken up residence inside Lisa’s head and they’re determined to comment on every misstep she takes. When her guilt has a voice (actually, make that three voices), ghosts won’t leave... more
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