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by Jadi Campbell

Tsunami Cowboys was longlisted for the 2019 Screen Craft Cinematic Book Competition. Prepare to meet Todd, a hero with dangerous fantasies. Coreen is trapped in a cult. Ronnie dreams other people's futures. Guy waits for disaster at a Christmas Market. And Lynn, the connecting thread, takes a train with a seductive man who has a secret identity. As much as we like to believe our lives have clear rules and goals, events occur that throw all our plans off-kilter. Be careful when you flirt with a s... more

The Sun and The Moon

by Willa Scantlebury

They were best friends, but that never stopped Robin from wanting Tommy, she knew she would always love him. As they struggle to find their way and fulfill their needs, hers took her to the top of the Adirondack Mountains, his took him to the underbelly of Manhattan. She thought she could control her destiny. He was afraid of his. With the questions and consequences of nature versus nurture, this gripping story embodies the power of friendship and love and proves how both can exist even in the d... more

Splendide Mendax

by Zephyr Dorsey

Visualize our world as it was 2019. Now imagine that a nation, say, one of the world's superpowers, in the attempt to protect itself against the next SARS outbreak, accidentally creates a worldwide plague. Imagine also that the plague-causing nation attempts to cover-up its mistake. And then envision the world's elite assisting in that cover-up. Too impossible to imagine?

It won't be after you read Spendide Mendax by Zephyr Dorsey.

My Summer Skin is Radiant

by Tiffany Obeng

Through gorgeous art and lyrical text, My Summer Skin is Radiant delivers an empowering celebration of black children's darker summer skin tones.

My Summer Skin is Radiant is a fun, easy read for beginners and advanced readers. It creatively addresses the issue of colorism, and promotes self-esteem and self-love. A relevant picture book that includes positive affirmations and a beautiful, important message that reminds kids (and adults) that our skin is ... more

Every Saint a Sinner

by Pearl Solas

Why would a survivor of the clergy abuse crisis think God is calling the Catholic Church to name the most unlikely of men as its next saint? A miraculous event poses a great challenge to Catholics. Some survivors of clergy abuse worry it minimizes clergy’s responsibility, while others think it repurposes tragedy to facilitate survivors’ healing.

Empire Builder

by Edward Sheehy

Empire Builder is the name of an Amtrak train route that stretches from Chicago to Seattle. Empire Builder is also the moniker bestowed upon James Jerome Hill, a railroad baron in the Gilded Age, who proselytized the gospel of Commerce and Christianity. The opening prose stream explores the historical and literary roots underpinning the philosophy of capitalist expansion and exploitation and its impact on Indigenous populations through absurdist conversations with figments of the traveler’s im... more

The Ugly Secrets of Private Roy

by Edward Roy

After much internal conflict and against the wishes of Malcolm X, Private Edward Roy (The Milkman), joined the Army and marched directly into the center of America’s most momentous events: The assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Malcolm X. Was there a connection between these killings and who was really responsible? The author argues, that the government is withholding information vital to answering this and other hotly debated Ugly Secrets; as he takes the reader on a vivid, compell... more

Hey Jude

by Kathleen Stone

In 1985 eighteen-year-old Jude Hastings loses her deaf twin sister to a brain aneurysm. A year later her longtime boyfriend dumps her for taking too long to grieve. Jude’s relationship with her parents is more volatile than ever because she’s the child who lived. The next four years see Jude on a path of destruction, leaving a trail of alcohol-induced nights and a laundry list of nameless men in her wake. Love simply doesn’t exist in her world. Until she meets Shea Sullivan, an unreachable four-... more

Lester Lies Down

by James Ladd Thomas

Lester Gordon is an odd man, just like everybody else. He’s on the lower end of the spectrum, just like so many others. He falls in love and marries his next-door neighbor. They create a family with three children. All seemed right with world for this peculiar man. After cancer takes his wife, he finds himself adrift, wondering if he’ll ever regain his purpose in life without his wife and the mother of his children. He decides to sell his family’s car wash business and become a hospice nurse. He... more

The Fountain (Second Chance Book 1)

by John A. Heldt

Three elderly, unfulfilled siblings gain a new lease on life when they plunge into a fountain of youth.

Nairobi Ndoto

by Mahua Cavanagh

Set in Nairobi, Kenya, Nairobi Ndoto follows three expatriate women whose ndoto—the Swahili word for dreams—become a nightmare when their world is thrown into turmoil by murder. Tilly, Pauline, and Zara each dreamed of a life abroad in Kenya filled with adventure, opportunities, and new beginnings. Reality didn't match the dream. Tilly thought her move to Kenya would be temporary, but nearly ten years and three kids later, she no longer knows what home is. Dealing with an increasingly straine... more

Peanut Butter Monster

by Melissa Kowalik

The Peanut Butter Monster eats jars & jars of peanut butter every day. But what happens when the Peanut Butter Monster runs out of peanut butter? He goes on a peanut butter hunt of course.

The Art of Unconventionality

by Jannet Nasim

The Art of Unconventionality is a story told from the perspective of Aarmin, Big Daddy's third child. Love and deception ran deep in Big Daddy's household. Every character is impacted by the tension that arose from Big Daddy's decisions, the liberation war of Bangladesh, and faith. Aarmin chronicled the struggles of each character through the various phases of their lives.

Six Canvases

by Thomas Bauer

A Manhattan art dealer becomes obsessed with an artist dying young and the enigmatic woman he loved. When he discovers strange canvases buried in the artist's attic, he goes on a quest to solve the mysteries of the painter's life. The canvases, the mysterious and beautiful Cory Forbes, and the small fishing village where the artist lived and worked set him on a journey that leads him to the brink of murder.

Alpha Buddies Land

by Donna M. Rink

"Alpha Buddies Land" brings the alphabet to life through the fun cartoon characters Alpha Buddies. Children will fall in love with the characters as they learn a series of new words. It is the first picture book in a series of eight exciting stories where the Alpha Buddies pair up with their friends and they all go on an exciting adventure at the end of a rainbow, in a magical place called "Alpha Buddies Land".

The Voice of Prophets

by Alan Simon

March 2033.

America had dodged the bullet of a full descent into darkness little more than a decade earlier; but now another round was in the chamber, and the hammer of hatred was cocked and on a hair trigger.

Once again, their false messiah tapped into their ugliest instincts and most vile impulses, mustering the dark armies onto the battlefield to unquestioningly do his bidding.

This time, their false messiah had risen from their own ranks, and was truly one of them... more

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