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Curb Children

by Carlos & Javier Avitia-Velazquez

“Once a punk, always a punk; Expect nothing, cherish everything.” Los Angeles native David Leandro "Leo" Rial-Alvarez takes these mantras to heart. But what do they really mean to an eighteen-year-old Latino Millennial dealing with the suicide of his close friend Aqua, a trainhopper girl, at his going-away party on the morning of his flight to college in New York City? Especially when he left behind Astair, his childhood love, and all his other California friends in the ... more

Daughter of the Boricua

by Olivia Castillo

Daughter of the Boricua continues the saga of the award winning book, Song of the Boricua, and follows the story of Puerto Rico, told through the lives of three generations of women. Liani; a Taino torn between her loyalty to her people, and her love for a Spanish officer. Isabella; direct descendent of Aztec princess Isabella Moctezuma, cursed as her grandmother was. Josephine; daughter of Isabella, afraid to love, but finding herself caught between love or career. Are they cursed? ... more

Myself to blame?

by DEEPAK DUBEY

The collection is a crude satire on blatant and sexist traditions, bourgeois morality, an ideology of patriarchy and gendered social discrimination; deemed to answer why Apathy gets its hands in paving the way for the development of existentialism agony that leads to a person to suicide?

Landscape of a Marriage

by Gail Ward Olmsted

New York, 1858: Mary, a young widow with three children, agrees to marry her brother-in-law Frederick Law Olmsted, who is acting on his late brother’s deathbed plea to "not let Mary suffer”. But she craves more than a marriage of convenience and sets out to win her husband’s love. Beginning with Central Park in New York City, Mary joins Fred on his quest to create a 'beating green heart' in the center of every urban space. Over the next 40 years, Fred is inspired to create dozens of city parks... more

I Own This Town: The Mayor Bert Xanadu Xanthology

by Gerry Flahive

It’s always 1973 in Bert Xanadu’s Toronto. As its longest-serving and longest-suffering mayor, he presides over a city as fantastical as a drip-dry shirt, and a cinema --- the Imperial Six --- as glamorous and subdivided as Ethel Merman’s last will and testament. He does it with panache, impatience and dyspepsia, but who’s counting? From the thousands of scintillatingly coherent pronouncements he has made, these are truly the most available! “@MOVIEMAYOR makes me genuinely laugh out loud.” -... more

Victor in Trouble

by Alex Finley

When case officer Victor Caro arrives in Rome for his retirement tour, he and his family anticipate a three-year joy ride filled with good food, even better wine, and all the cultural wonders the Eternal City has to offer. But when Russia’s intelligence services help install a new American president, Victor finds himself in a national security nightmare. He and his team must race from Rome to Moscow to Washington, fending off an American senator clamoring to ride a Russian bear and a Russian hon... more

Festival

by Chris Tomasini

While a student at the University of Toronto, Peter spends a summer working in England, at a hotel in Knightsbridge. Covent Gardens, Greenwich Park, the Thames itself, all become part of his life, as do coworkers who, like Peter, are mostly passing through London. When he returns to Toronto, the people he knew in London echo within him, especially Anne, who more than anyone, slipped behind his defenses and challenged him to hold onto life as though it meant something. Set in 1990s London and Tor... more

A Heart Lies Within Us

by Steven LaBree

Lucas Colby raised on lies and deception, discovers his heart has deceived him. After killing the man that created his misfortune, he leaves town and becomes successful despite his past. Lucas fails to learn his lesson and loses everything, along with his only true love. Does he surrender his heart, accept the imperfections of life and truth, and discover that giving of yourself entirely to another uncovers true love? Find out what happens in this epic love story of human frailty, life, and forg... more

Close Your Eyes: A Fairy Tale

by Chris Tomasini

Set in early 1400s Europe, Close Your Eyes is a sincere, yet light-hearted and lustful, ode to love. As Samuel, the court jester, struggles to describe why his friends, Agnieszka the cook, and Tycho the story-teller, fled the King of Gora's service, he learns that love was the beating heart behind everything that happened in the castle. He learns as well that more ghosts than he knew of walked the midnight halls, and that the spirit of Jeanne d'Arc haunted his friend, and once slid into bed wit... more

Make America Beautiful Again

by Bo Bancroft

Family loyalty and trusted friendships fight for survival when they battle with terrorists, law enforcement, political finagling, and a local militia in this taut satirical romp through Georgia. Suspected terrorists attack with a pre-dawn bomb spree, baffling law enforcement as the only targets are towering billboards lining the interstates. The laundry list of culprits include eco-terrorists, a notorious drug cartel, and disgruntled outdoor advertising employees. With Georgians on edge, p... more

The Janitor: or, dostoevsky in america

by Mark Beyer

At 16, Ernest Wain has a plan to murder his classmates, but a week before his Kill-Day Hour, three other boys let loose with their own murder spree, only to be killed themselves during the mayhem by Ernest, looking for revenge for missing his chance at murder glory. Ernest becomes the Town Hero for saving so many lives. Twenty-five years later, Ernest Wain is working as a janitor at McCormick University, and one day his past comes back to haunt him.

Yucca Mountain Exodus, The Search For Civilization

by Monty Nereim

Nine volunteers risk a daring escape from the Yucca Mountain Sanctuary seeking help to rescue their family and friends who are still imprisoned in the deep bunker complex. Their fifteen years trapped underground enabled their survival but left them totally unaware of the apocalyptic destruction of the world outside. Their quest for help turns into a disheartening search to even find civilization. Are they the Earth’s only survivors? They must decide whether to continue to search, or to return to... more

Daisy's Adventures in Love

by Nikki Sitch

Daisy’s Adventures in Love picks up where Love, Lust & WTF left off. Daisy’s finally found her match. Or has she? Is Brad really the one? Experience Daisy’s adventures, diving into love, family and fun. Daisy’s heart is on fire, for her girls, for Brad and for his kids. But as Daisy’s family potentially grows bigger, new unsettling—even terrifying—challenges arise. When you love more, you have more to lose. To triumph, Daisy must dive deeper into not only love, but diversity, acceptance and ... more

Charani's Gift

by Robert Nolin

Magic and science meet on the plains of Missouri, 1898, when two psychiatrists encounter a gypsy trance speaker who seems possessed...or psychic.

Coral Bay

by Debbie Cox

Dressed to kill and ready to land her dream job in the coastal town of Coral Bay, Faith Hemingway is beyond excited.

Thirty-six years old, divorced and stuck in a career she is no longer passionate about, Faith is ready to make some changes to her life. Having vacationed in Coral Bay as a child, Faith never imagined that someday she might actually live and work in this tropical paradise. She envisions moving into a charming seaside cottage, taking long... more

The Porcelain Vase

by Gordon Duff

This story is told through the lens of a grandmother who retells the origins of an ancient porcelain vase through the lives of Afonso and a pottery family from Funchal, Madeira. The entire story is related during the grandmother's daily walks with her school-aged granddaughter in a city park that they have nicknamed Story Park. With the city park as the novel's backdrop and her grandmother's storytelling as the soundtrack, the granddaughter reflects on life and its impenetrable mysteries: fro... more

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