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Dancing with Dragons

by Jenni Ogden

From Jenni Ogden, author of multiple-award-winning A Drop in the Ocean, comes another evocative story of friendship, coral reefs, and marine conservation for book-club readers.

It is the late 1970s and teenagers Gaia and her brother Bron live with their parents on their isolated property on Western Australia’s Coral Coast. Intensively trained for a career as a professional ballet dancer by her mother, once a Principal Dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, Gaia ... more

Cînd eram prietenă cu timpul

by Lucia Verman

„Când eram prietenă cu timpul” este o colecție de proză scurtă și poezie, un minunat „jurnal al fericirii”. Cele peste 50 de episoade literare reprezintă un memorial al vieții emigrantului român plecat demult cu trupul din țară dar încă rămas cu sufletul acolo, deși nu s-ar fi întors, neam, acasă! Vom găsi aici alegoria, în istorioara amuzantă a copacului Gigel care refuză cu obstinație să moară, dar si poezie de o reală infuzie metaforică... more

Portrait of a Hollow Man

by Orlando Chavez

The Desperate Trials of Phineas Mann

by Mark Anthony Powers

Pulmonary and critical care specialist Dr. Phineas Mann is fighting a losing battle with a severe, progressive form of Parkinson’s disease. He is accepted into a novel trial to insert programmed stem cells into his brain. This experimental treatment is his last desperate hope to reverse his debilitating Parkinson’s symptoms. While grappling with his own declining health, Phineas is asked to consult on a difficult case. The patient is conservative congressman Quentin Tate, whose misdiagnosed ... more

The Importance of Wives

by Keira Morgan

Recently orphaned Duchess Anne of Brittany is not quite 12, yet her situation could not be more perilous. She is a girl, she has just inherited one of the richest duchies in Europe—and enemies surround her. It is 1488, and men do not believe that women can rule. The French want to seize her duchy. Across the channel, the English hover, ready to attack. And Anne’s guardians want her power for themselves. They plot to marry her to their chosen candidate, and rule in her stead. It is the traditi... more

The Council

by T. C. Weber

Luther Smith, a newly elected county councilman, is determined to make a difference for his constituents. Unfortunately, he’s ill-prepared for the corruption, incompetence, and lunacy of his fellow councilmembers. Lisa Hogan, a down-on-her-luck single mom and avid naturalist, discovers that developers plan to raze the last tract of forest in the county. Facing a dysfunctional bureaucracy, corrupt politicians, and lazy journalists, Luther and Lisa form a growing bond as they attempt to navigate t... more

Everyone’s Included at the Animal Party: The Little Bear Learns to be Body Aware

by Catie "Aunt Kiki" Greene, PhD, LPC

When a fun day splashing in the water with his Turtle buddy ends in tears, a Little Bear feels sad and confused. He knows that when his "brain feels too excited, his body just goes POW!" and that can hurt his friends. But he doesn't know what to do differently. With the help of a Little Frog, Little Bear is able to gain confidence in his body awareness skills. He learns about body boundaries, taking deep breaths, practicing empathy, checking in with his body's needs, and pro... more

Crockettville

by Matthew Minson

David Crockett, an outdoors averse, administrative drone in a multinational energy conglomerate (oil company) is sent by his deranged, nudist CEO to purchase the remote West Texas town of Crockettville and secure its extraordinary wind resources. Why? Because his boss erroneously assumes that Crockett must be related to the famous Davy Crockett and his lesser-known brother, Milburn, the lone accountant at the Alamo. (Not a real person) At first horrified by the place and its bizarre residents, h... more

GirlChild

by Morenike'

The Singleton family of Huguenot Island, South Carolina are a proud but humble one. They work tirelessly to drive the legacy of their once enslaved ancestors through ownership of a restaurant and land. All in all, life seems fulfilling for the Gullah family but Sparrow Singleton is not happy. She is tired of being ridiculed for her native creole and she is fed up with bad spirits leeching off her innocent little sister at night while she stands by powerless. At the ripe age of eighteen, Sparrow ... more

You Can't Go Home Again

by Christian Hendrix

After four years abroad, Lenoir Adams has come home. But something is different. As her friends and family attempt to adjust to this stranger, Lenoir’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic. She spends her days preaching about “the light” and her nights meeting with mysterious new friends. As the news cycle continues round-the-clock in a post- 9/11 world, her circle increasingly agonizes over her path, and rationale. The heartbreak and regrets from the past come to a head, as does Lenoir’s ... more

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

AFK

by Jamie Zerndt

There haven’t been any otters in Otter Rock, Oregon, since 1921. But after two friends stumble onto a black barn that might soon change. When fifteen-year-olds Atsuko and Lyric aren’t gaming or watching Bob’s Burgers, they’re out surfing. It’s something that helps Lyric cope with the recent divorce of his parents and also distracts Atsuko from her grandmother's failing health. But it's an older surfer who's trying to find his way back into the world after a recent tragedy that will trul... 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

Yeti Loves Spaghetti

by Michael Lawrence

Yeti Loves Spaghetti tells a story, in verse, of a Yeti who loves spaghetti so much, he'll eat it just about anywhere. But what happens if yeti's spaghetti runs out?

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

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