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Anna's Shadow

by Ingrid McCarthy

Sofia Rossi, a Canadian-Italian orthopedic surgeon on leave from Doctors Without Borders and staying with family in Verona, is volunteering at the Club di Giulietta―Juliet's Club―to answer letters written by star-crossed lovers seeking advice in matters of the heart.

"Memories have huge staying power," Sofia writes in answer to Luke Miller's letter. "Without them, life would lack color and vibrancy."

When Luke Miller, a man in his late seventies, unexpe... more

A Hopeless Dawn

by Jill George

1841. In the misty moors overlooking the tiny fishing town of Port Quin, young Effy Pengelly has a nagging feeling something terrible is about to happen. She knows she has a gift of the "dark arts" handed down from her grandmother, but doesn't know what it means and couldn't foretell that she would get drawn into a dangerous love triangle with Cade, her emotional long time friend and William, the newcomer. The ancient church seems to try to give her a warning but she doesn't understand what's... more

The Lost Women of Mill Street

by Kinley Bryan

Inspired by true events of the Civil War, a vividly drawn novel about the bonds of sisterhood, the strength of women, and the repercussions of war on individual lives. 1864: As Sherman’s army marches toward Atlanta, a cotton mill commandeered by the Confederacy lies in its path. Inside the mill, Clara Douglas weaves cloth and watches over her sister Kitty, waiting for the day her fiancé returns from the West. When Sherman’s troops destroy the mill, Clara’s plans to start a new life in Nebr... more

A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom

by Leonce Gaiter

A modern, jazzy bildungsroman that uses everything from personal memoir, a fugue-like structure, poetry, images, lyrics, and diaries to paint a vivid, eloquent portrait of gay, black, Jessie Vincent Grandier and the striving African American middle class that spawned him in the late 1950s. Born to a high-yellow Upper-crust New Orleans Creole mother and a lowborn, Louisiana bayou-bred, military father, Jessie steadfastly battles to reconcile his existence with expectations and preconceptions o... more

Tidewater

by Eric B. Miller

A family saga spanning four generations, three decades, two continents, and one world war.

Tidewater covers the years 1890 to 1925. Andrew and Alice Croft leave a difficult past behind to take up life as large landowners in tidewater Maryland. Living and working on the property are Elijah and Viola Brown, and their precocious daughter, Delphina, along with three other families, one of which has lost three sons to the Great War.

Enlarging th... more

All the Broken Angels

by Pat Black-Gould and Steve Hardiman

As the Vietnam War rages, tensions flare between peacenik Cate and her cousin Albie who’s gung-ho for God and country. But life didn’t begin that way for these cousins and best friends raised in 1960s New Jersey under the strict eye of their parents and the nuns in their Catholic grammar school.

They drift apart as Albie secretly enlists right after graduation. Meanwhile, Cate rebels against her religious upbringing and protests the war. She yearns for the tie-dy... more

Young Conquerors

by Christopher Cosmos

"Young Conquerors" is a novel of Alexander the Great (Alexandros o Megas), but told from the first-person perspective of Hephaestion in the vein of "The Song of Achilles," and while most novels of Alexandros follow his later accomplishments in Asia (conquering the entire world without ever losing a battle), "Young Conquerors" instead focuses on Alexandros' early and teenage years and shows how a small, undersized boy from the backwaters of Greece, who was never meant to be king, is shaped and fo... more

The Surreal Adventures of Anthony Zen

by Cameron A. Straughan

“The Surreal Adventures of Anthony Zen” is a wild, hilarious account of one man’s absurd quest for enlightenment, inner peace and a really good pair of trousers. These twenty-three interconnected short stories dissect the chaos of modern life with a unique brand of off-the-wall humour. Anthony Zen pokes fun at the idea that our bosses can be pigs, our parents can be embarrassing and absent-minded, time is relative, justice is blind, and the foundations of our relationships might not always pass ... more

Ex-Mas Song

by Jeffrey Cummins

In this re-telling of A Christmas Carol as a fictionalized memoir, Justin R. must make a life-or-death decision: he can give up his stony heart to learn about forgiveness and work the ways of recovery to gain a fleshy heart or he can wreck his life against the obstacles of stress, his ex-wife, and guilt over his past failures.

The Devoured Sons

by Seth Parker

The Devoured Sons is a philosophical, genre-bending exploration of Artificial Intelligence and its integration into society following The Solemn Veil—an apocalyptic event that decimated life on Earth.

Quarter Moon: A Novel of the American South

by Preston Ford

Mississippi, 1934 - Willie Lee Jameson, a descendant of slaves, lives much as his forebears did, his life constrained by the will of others. The only bright spot in his life is Emmy, a young married woman who shares his affection by night but must keep their relationship secret by day. When a trio of outsiders discover the couple in an intimate moment, what follows is barbaric and unforgivable. And when Willie Lee later comes face to face with one of the culprits, he kills the man in a fit of bl... more

War and Sex

by Morty Shallman

Morty Shallman’s War and Sex is the provocative, transgressive, and audaciously irreverent follow-up to his #1 Best-selling Absurdist Novel, The Tyranny of Desire, hailed as "a comedic masterpiece"by Readers’ Favorite and as a "ribald and incisive provocation" by Booklife. Part raunchy action comedy, part cunning political thriller, and part twisted romance, War and Sex tells the story of Captain Rod Solo, a Top Gun naval aviator turned ace CIA drone pilot with a problem: He can’t get it up w... more

When It All Falls Down

by Chinedu Achebe

In the stirring sequel to The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi, Obi and Nkechi Ifeanyi, along with their children, Ikechukwu and Chimamanda, navigate the turbulent waters of modern America in the backdrop of Houston,Texas.. Amidst the global upheaval of Covid 19, the Ifeanyis strive to rekindle their marriage, seeking solace in each other as the world outside contends with racial strife and political storms. As the contentious 2020 US presidential election unfolds, their story is a testament to th... more

midnight's simulacra

by nick black

It was initially about the science. It became about the cash. Then it was about personal LSD supplies, and then the world's LSD supply. Somehow it became about uranium. But understand: it was always about the science. And the lols.

Michael Luis Bolaño is the scion of Mexican oil wealth gone to rut in Texas. Sherman Spartacus Katz is the hyperliterate son of evangelical eccentrics from the North Georgia mountains. One hopes to restore what's been lost, the other to attain ... more

Guardian Angel

by Eric H. Bowen

For the past thirty years, Dawn has served as Mike’s guardian angel, watching over him, pouring her heart into encouraging notes he may never see, and dreaming of the impossible—meeting him face to face. But when Mike’s life is threatened by a nest of drug-dealing demons, Dawn’s warrior instincts drive her to crash the forbidden barrier between realms to save his life. Her split-second decision stirs up a hornet’s nest of infernal proportions, driving a wedge of doubt between their hearts. And t... more

Fast-Food Cowboys

by Darby Guise

Twin brothers take revenge against a local butcher and set off a series of violent events involving a determined grandmother, her simple dog, the devil himself, and a maverick painter.

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