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Carl Thompson, is an aging biracial writer/musician who was formerly a bestselling novelist. Unfortunately, in Berlin, he has been reduced to hustling and sleeping on friend’s couches. He has an uneasy relationship with his Brazilian girlfriend, Paula Krauss, partly because she is engaged to his close friend, Ted Barnes, a black American novelist—but mostly because she is mentally ill. Ted’s relations with Paula are strained, at best; not so much because she has a second rel... more

Nate

by P. Lewis

Originally published in 2006, this powerful, disturbing, award-winning novel chronicles the free-wheeling mishaps of one Nathan James Morris, a talented, ambitious middle-class black kid from Prince Georges County, Maryland. At 19, he has been expelled from Freedom College for alleged misconduct. He has few friends, aside from the parasitic Guy Sellers; and save for his scholarship's chump change, even fewer dollars. Hurt, angry, and in desperate need of cash, he joins the Marines. "... more

Fire Answers Fire

by R.D. Mumma

How would you react if you came across evidence tying your grandfather to the burning of the Hindenburg in 1937? A cryptic 75-year-old letter leads to a large trove of German-language notebooks that a well-loved upstate New York radio and television repairman left to his granddaughter, an artist and gallery owner. As these boxes of handwritten documents are translated into English, they reveal a young man, living under a different name, intimately connected with the Zeppelin. After emigratin... more

Frankenstein Diaries: The Romantics: The Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley

by Michael January

The inspiration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s most famous work, “Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus” has been debated for 200 years. In 1814, two years before the notorious “Gothic Summer” in Geneva, 16 year old Mary Godwin eloped to Paris with the 22 year old poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, inviting Mary’s 15 year old step-sister Claire Clairmont to go with them. They would walk across war ravaged France to Switzerland and up the Rhine River to a castle called Frankenstein. Three years later M... more

Jack David, The Noisiest Kid in the Class

by Lindy Brown

Jack David has a hard time sitting still in school. But when his class takes a walk in the woods, he shines, showing his classmates some of the everyday wonders of the forest. And when they begin to wonder if there’s a bear around, Jack David knows just what to do. For ages 5 and up, Jack David, The Noisiest Kid in the Class is a Tell and Show™ book, designed to foster imagination, creativity, and just plain fun. This book has the text on the left-hand pages, along with color photos of “wonde... more

Flower of Iowa

by Lance Ringel

In 1918 France, during the final months of World War I, naïve young American soldier Tommy Flowers struggles to learn how to be a good soldier while befriending equally youthful British soldier David Pearson – a friendship that soon develops an unexpected intimacy. Baffled by their feelings, but committed to exploring them further, Tommy and David do everything to spend time together, even as the war reaches a bloody crescendo.

Body Of Music

by Stacey Culpepper

What does a girl do to overcome her stage fright? Music and singing have always been a major part of her life. Her bi-racial background exposes her to a variety of music. She loves to sing in her room alone. But what happens when her grandparents want her to sing a special song for their big anniversary party? Melody discovers that only she can muster up the courage to overcome this fear to realize her dream of singing publicly. This story is written for girls and boys of all ages. Melody will e... more

Fault Lines

by Brenda Ortega

When her revenge plan goes awry, fourteen-year-old Dani Burkhart finds herself in unexpected places: the back seat of a cop car, the police station holding room, Juvenile Court. She wants her old life, the one with a family that’s not falling apart. She wants to stay in her home with the woods in back, and keep her carefree dog with the windshield wiper tail, and hear her big brother laugh and shout “Sweet, D-Dawg!” when her curveball dips like a sparrow. Dani has always believed her grandmoth... more

The Twelfth of Never

by Brenda Ortega

Presley may be smart, but she buckles under pressure – or more specifically, she alphabetizes. In stressful moments her mind grabs words and compulsively sorts the letters, like a frightened guard dog chasing its tail. So it’s no surprise when signs from the universe constantly warn her: stay out of the spotlight. That’s hard to do when her Elvis-loving mom, the school secretary, plays embarrassing snippets of The King’s hits on the PA every day. It’s even harder when the school’s biggest g... more

Blue Sky

by D. Bryant Simmons

Belinda is happily remarried and her girls have finally been returned to her care. But the family isn’t whole—not yet. Wounds from the abuse and separation are still fresh. Further complicating the issue is time’s refusal to stand still.

Belinda, now the mother of six daughters, has three willful teenagers. As Nikki, Mya, and Jackie test boundaries, experimenting with love, sex, and drugs, Belinda tries everything she can think of to rein them in before they go too far... more

How to Knock a Bravebird from Her Perch

by D. Bryant Simmons

This award-winning book is a fan favorite and the start to a riveting family saga.
In the wake of her father's sudden death Pecan marries the up-and-coming boxing sensation Ricky Morrow. When she begins to doubt that desperate decision she finds herself on the receiving end of Ricky's violent temper. Scared for her life, she hunkers down in this marriage of convenience as the babies and fists keep coming. Will the abuse ever stop? Will Pecan and her gir... more

Approaching Twi-Night

by M. Thomas Apple

Journeyman relief pitcher Jonathan “Ditch” Klein was all set to be a replacement player during the 1994-1995 baseball strike…until the strike ended. Offered a contract in the minor leagues, at the same Upstate NY ballpark he once found success in high school, Ditch has one last chance to prove his worth. But to whom? A manager with an axe to grind, a father second-guessing his pitching decisions, a local sportswriter hailing him as a hometown hero, a decade older than his teammates and trying to... more

9781475231533

by Kenneth Hursh

Two Voices is a woman’s struggle against injustice, prison, and an isolating disability. On trial for a murder she did not commit, Janet Campbell’s only defense is her silence. A rare neurological disease has paralyzed Janet’s vocal chords, yet someone heard the killer speak! Top defense attorney, Harlan Eschmann, is convinced the DA falsely accused Janet for political reasons. He is convinced his client will be acquitted—if the jury believes in Janet’s illness. When a surprise witness ... more

Designing Truth, The Audacity of Intention

by Toni Elizabeth Sar'h Petrinovich

The City of Zim was originally built as a physical, stationary portal for communication with a number of gods. Many of the architects were diviners of ancient knowledge and wisdom. The design was intended to free human consciousness from attachment to the physical body. Joe chose this location for all of these attributes plus the air of mystery that enshrouded the structures. Here he would introduce Nancy, Don and Paul to the next steps in their shamanic training, begun by Talish several months ... more

Near Somewhere

by Edward Cozza

Near Somewhere WINNER-2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards-Best New Fiction (Foreword by Chef Dean Fearing) Feeling void of connection,Townes has hit the wall in his life. He has his dog, and he has his band partner Zeeder. but he needs more. His endless travel is making his nerves unravel. He needs someone to share his life with, to tell him he is all right, tell him he isn’t going to fall apart. He just needs to rearrange, get out the novel he has been writing, and the universe will talk care o... more

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