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Calling the Circle

by Heather Cobham

Vivian Gibbs is going through the motions of her life as a teacher, mother to Goldie, and wife to Bubba, who hasn’t been the same since his brother drowned a year ago in the 1913 hurricane. Everything changes for Vivi when the James Adams Floating Theater comes to town and Adelaide Thornberry, a singer on the boat, decides to stay in the fishing village of Oriental. She and Vivi become friends, and Adelaide, who’s from Boston, introduces Vivi to women’s suffrage and civil rights, and broadens Vi... more

Lost Seeds: The Beginning

by Teresa Mosley Sebastian

A novel chronicling the strained relationship between two brothers born into the remnants of their parents’ former enslavement. One brother seems to overcome, while the other descends further into adversity. What happens when they are forced to face each other? Lost Seeds is the story of two brothers, Dublin and Timothy Brisco, born into poverty at the turn of the twentieth century to formerly enslaved parents. From birth, they witness firsthand the atrocities their parents had to endure and ... more

Foxbook: Medieval & Contemporary Fables from Armenia

by Sar Kamler

Join us in celebrating the 335th anniversary of the original Foxbook's publication with our newly crafted edition, Foxbook: Medieval & Contemporary Fables from Armenia, now available in English for the first time. Originating from the rich Armenian storytelling tradition, the Foxbook has been known as the notable Armenian fable collection, earning its name from the recurring central character in many of these tales.

Published by Dudukhouse, this unique antho... more

He Whispers Tortured Sounds (The Lunar Workshop Book 1)

by Jeremy Bibaud

What would you sacrifice to change your legacy?

As the Industrial Revolution threatens the way of life for many, it gives birth to rebellion. Ned Ludd, leader of the Luddites, directs an offshoot of the uprising to terrorize the factories of Scotland. While tensions between tradition and progress reach violent heights, a young boy, Nicholas Locherbie, flees his home and discovers an arcane workshop beneath the winding streets of Edinburgh.

When Ned’s revolt ... more

The Prophecy of Achilles: A novel in verse

by Hayley Mitchell

Winner of Indies Today Best Poetry Award 2021 for her debut novel ‘Breaking Birds’, Roberts returns with this beautifully poetic retelling of the myth of Achilles. Destined from birth to become a legend, Achilles grew up training to be a warrior to fulfill his prophecy. When the time comes however, he begins to doubt the heroism of his bloodshed. With war raging all around him, will Achilles find a reason to join the battle?

The Tragedy of Medusa

by Hayley Mitchell

Too weak to be a monster, too monstrous to be a mortal. Tragedy of Medusa takes you on a captivating journey through her life, from her monstrous birth to her infamous death at the hands of a famed hero. As she struggles to find her place in the world, Medusa becomes a pawn in the games of gods and mortals alike. Her story explores themes of power, love, and betrayal, as well as the consequences of seeking revenge. Author H. M. Roberts masterfully retells this classic myth, breathing life ... more

And Ye Shall Be As Gods

by Jan Notzon

Jacob Kazmareck fights to discover the cause of his beloved sister's descent into despair and his lost love's imprisonment in apparent catatonia. On his quest, he comes to confront evils past and present. He discovers that the two mysteries have a related origin and his journey leads him to discover the key to both in an unexpected and harrowing place.

The Man in the Dark Suit

by Janet G. Sims

Who is The Man in the Dark Suit? Suspense novel follows the story of a woman with amnesia whose dreams may just reveal details of her accident Author Janet G. Sims is back with another novel. In The Man in the Dark Suit, readers will immerse themselves in a romance suspense about a young woman who wakes up in a hospital room after being in a car accident. With no memory of her past and even her own name, she begins to have dreams that seem to be trying to help her regain her memories. Will s... more

Empress & Soldier (Empire's Legacy)

by Marian L Thorpe

A boy of the night-time streets. A girl of libraries and learning. Druisius, the son of a merchant, is sixteen when an order from his father that he can neither forgive nor forget drives him from home and into the danger and intrigue of the military. Eudekia, a scholar’s daughter, educated and dutiful, is not meant to be a prince’s bride. In an empire at war, and in a city beset by famine and unrest, she must prove herself worthy of its throne. A decade after a first, brief meeting, the... more

Angels Landing: Journey to Sewawailo (The Jasper Freeze Novels Book 1)

by Trey Sienne Olneya

Book One in a sequential series of novels, Angels Landing is a story about breaking and breakdown, friendship and healing, set principally in the American Southwest of the present day. It is a tale about sun, plants, heritage, and spirituality, and the harmonious role each plays in the orchestration of one young man’s healing from both physical and psychological trauma. Infused with tri-lingual language elements (Spanish, English, Yaqui), a naturalist’s sensibilities for the earth, and the cultu... more

Angels Landing: Journey to Sewawailo (The Jasper Freeze Novels)

by Trey Sienne Olneya

Book One in a sequential series of novels, Angels Landing is a story about breaking and breakdown, friendship and healing, set principally in the American Southwest of the present day. It is a tale about sun, plants, heritage, and spirituality, and the harmonious role each plays in the orchestration of one young man’s healing from both physical and psychological trauma. Infused with tri-lingual language elements (Spanish, English, Yaqui), a naturalist’s sensibilities for the earth, and the cultu... more

Hieronymus

by Nic Ularu

"HIERONYMUS" is a fiction novel about the life and work of the iconic painter Hieronymus Bosch, which preserves the historical context of the dark end of the Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Based on the little historical information about the artist's life, the novel tries to dissect the context in which Bosch's imagination incorporated the sacred and the profane, the symbol and the metaphor, around which the dramatic life of the creator revolves. Some documented facts of Bosch's life are mentio... more

Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

by Alice McVeigh

This is a fresh "take" on Austen's immortal PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. So it's still, as the coffee mug puts it, "Darcy is too proud. Elizabeth Bennet doesn't like him. She changes her mind and marries him." However, the book is seen through Darcy's perspective, because most of Austen's is seen through Elizabeth's eyes, so we also get all his own revolutions in feeling. Other major differences: though Mary Bennet's private papers, we get her own doomed efforts to interest Mr Collins, and through flash... more

This Time Could Be Different

by Khristin Wierman

A compulsive overachiever, Madeline lives by the credo that easy is synonymous with mediocre—which is why, at forty-nine, she’s a senior vice president at a prominent bank, frantically adheres to a five-step nightly face cream regimen, and panics anytime she’s a foot away from her phone. Madeline works alongside her best friend, Emma—a master juggler of her own career, marriage, and motherhood to a fourteen-year-old daughter who speaks only in baffling acronyms. The path ahead for both women is ... more

The Stronger Brother

by G. A. Scibetta

Eighteen-year-old Theodore Perkins, "Theo", is practically modern-day nobility. His bloodlines stem from those of British aristocrats. Theo’s father, Archibald, believes the Perkins family is divine, above everyone else in society. His archaic ways do not reflect the modern Canadian society they live in.

Theo and his brother Alexander, "Alè", hate everything the Perkins family stands for. Money, greed, power, and nepotism do not sit well with the ne... more

The Advocate

by Billy McCoy

"Blisteringly funny, intelligent, and poignant, The Advocate is both a comic and dramatic story about growing up a ‘brainiac’ in a working-class Black family and learning to navigate the hellish levels of intellectual and cultural blindness. The humiliation of his beloved grandmother unleashes the most profound and extreme passion of humanity, and young Simon becomes obsessed with educating himself. The alienating neuroses, while being the catalyst for extra creativity, is so bedeviling that Sim... more

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