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Don Quixote Goes to YaleEytan Halaban
Michael has a secret—he knows where the treasure is. Months away from a Yale degree and blessed with a well-connected girlfriend who is hell-bent on pulling strings for him, Michael should be reveling in his good fortune. Instead, he has made a new friend, Boomie, who is...
Monster's ChildrenDan Hansen
The Queen of Order and the Trickster gods originally formed an alliance to defend against the dreaded beast they called the Monster. That alliance was dashed with the Monster’s defeat. The war that erupted with the alliance’s dissolution has ripped the land apart for millennia. With...
Missing BooksBrian Harris
This is a book for the book-lover. As the author writes, ‘great and wondrous things can happen around books. Boswell met Johnson at Tom Davies’s bookshop in Covent Garden. Karl Marx planned to remodel the world in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Jorge Luis Borges conceived a...
Faithfully ReligionlessTimber Hawkeye
Discover the difference between feelings and emotions, the disparity between truths and facts, and the countless benefits of mindful living. When his pursuit of happiness in Corporate America feels counterproductive, Timber Hawkeye escapes the flourescent-lit hell of his cubicle in...
Cloud DancerGary L. Henson
Ravi was enchanted by clouds. The majestic images and shifting configurations were dreamlike, hypnotic, and they held the mysteries and dark secrets of life. The boy’s imagination wandered and danced in the purity of silence, and his inner visions beheld the truth of past and future days. Cloud...
TrappedMaria Hernandez
Angelina Rivera was at the prime of her life. Surrounded by white sandy beaches, a good job and a condominium she called home. She relished in the peace Miami, Florida had to offer. But her life took a horrible turn when her mother fell ill; forcing her to leave her idyllic life and return to Taft...
The Canine Handler, PaybackMaria C. Hillegas
Sarah Gavin believes she has left her dark past behind. College diploma in hand, successful in her job, she is now aiming for the FBI Academy. But as a volunteer search and rescue canine handler, ghosts from her past come back to haunt her. In conflict with herself...
The Idea of Socialism
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to envisioning life...
You'll Do Anything for HerMaureen E. Hosier & Berta Hosier Conger
Dearest, What I want most is to feel cared about and loved by you. I've tried everything, but it's not working. What more can I do? I love you so much, but I don't feel like there are two of us in our relationship. When you fell for her, were you so crazy in...
You'll Do Anything for HimMaureen E. Hosier & Berta Hosier Conger
Dearest, What I want most is to feel cared about and loved by you. I've tried everything, but it's not working. What more can I do? I love you so much, but I don't feel like there are two of us in our relationship. When you fell for him, were you so crazy in...
MadisonvilleJ. A. Huff
Something isn’t right at Madisonville, Idaho’s most secluded penitentiary for its hardened criminals, and prisoners keep disappearing. Six college students are sentenced to Madisonville after almost getting away with the perfect crime. After a few short weeks behind bars, the six...
Where Triples Go to DiePhil Hutcheon
In irreverent, laugh-out-loud style, Where Triples Go to Die illuminates the messy intersection of sports, race, and romance in contemporary college life. Black superstar Juke Jackson and white counselor Malcolm Wade, each facing relationship crises at...
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Alienation
The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent...
Heist during the Rio GamesDexter James
From a desolate cell located at a remote, state-of-the-art prison facility in Northern Ontario, inmate Brian Beasley plans his escape. Convicted of embezzlement when he masterfully infiltrated a bank's computer system, Beasley and a would-be journalist assigned to...
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Woman Without an IdentityMartine Kalaw
Are you Martine Mwanj Kalaw? If so, your father is looking for you. Martine Kalaw is forced to make a choice in an immigration courtroom; save herself or her mother’s legacy. Her decision catapults her into a tumultuous and longstanding battle with immigration and a...
The Damascus CoverHoward Kaplan
In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he thinks. In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be...
Say It OnceKysa Kelleher
Say It Once is your go-to handbook for successful childrearing. The overall concept is simple: empower your children, and learn how to say "no" with love and a smile. Change your home for the better as you teach your kids to pull their own weight, and to discover for themselves how good...
Shattered TranquilityJohn M. Keshishian
Determined to enjoy a quiet seaside vacation with his wife, Dr. James Bishop instead stumbles upon hints of buried treasure from a 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck – and is drawn reluctantly into a frenzied race for the rest of the bullion. Thrust into a murky, violent world of gold fever...
The Clothes That Make YouL.S. Kilroy
It's 1967, the world is changing - and so is a quiet misfit named Sally Fiore. After the sudden death of her father, Sally turns to comfort in the small things – her beloved books, her new interest in sewing, and her slight infatuation with the handsome, young custodian at...
You Call This Living?Bill Kingsley
Can humanity continue on the present course of environmental destruction and over population? Or is the ship of state foundering under the weight of primitive delusions and beyond salvage? Be advised: This is a controversial, insightful and humorous account of the human...
What Matters MostHelen Bea Kirk
Meagan Morris has lost everything. Her family is dead, and all that remains of them, all that was endowed to her, has been stolen.Desperate to retrieve her legacy, Meagan disguises herself and attempts to rob King of her grandmother’s pearls at gunpoint. When Officer Dell arrives at the scene, King doesn’t...
This Changes Everything
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political...
Some Rain Must Fall
The fifth book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect — he wants it so much that he gets...
The Sixth Extinction
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact...
A Story of BadEdward M. Krauss
The relationship between the police and the media has always been a strange one, but it turning romantic certainly raises some questions. "A Story of Bad" is the tale of a cop and reporter entering into a controversial romance, where they both try to stay loyal to each other and their...
Here on MoonEdward M. Krauss
Here on Moon, which takes place near Boston, Massachusetts in 1990, is the story of Carole, a wife and mother with a successful career who, in her mid-30s, is devastated by her husband Ken's infidelity and humiliated by his refusal to be forgiven. She has no choice but divorce, and we follow...
Solomon the AccountantEdward M. Krauss
Solomon the Accountant is a tender love story set in Toledo, Ohio, in the 1950s. Solomon is a rather nebbishy fellow who falls in love with the beautiful, newly widowed Molly. He is painfully aware of her recent loss, yet she becomes the focal point of his life. He hopes that someday...
A Road Ran Through ItTony Kreit
‘A Road Ran Through It’, is my story. It is a young man’s story. It takes us to times of rebellion against my enforced induction into the Royal Air Force in 1960. It is also about the realisation that some important actions taken against me by the military authorities, at...
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The Light: A Modern-Day Journey for PeaceJudith T. Lambert
Religion’s common denominator? The Light. God does not have a religion. God does not speak a language. God does not have a culture. It is we who require these things. Why has humankind always sought the Light? What do pharaohs and prophets and festivals...
A Mother Goddess for Our TimesJudith T. Lambert
More than 18 million people have traveled to the tiny Bosnian village of Medjugorje to witness daily apparitions of the Virgin Mary and experience her healing powers. Author Judith Lambert, a skeptic, was among them. Events that occurred during her four pilgrimages there...
EmancipationMichael R. Lane
Emancipation is a compilation of linked-stories focusing on a cross-section of Americans. Gratey Johnson is a PSTD war veteran whose combat hell has left him a shattered man struggling to corral his demons. Parents, grandparents, children, lovers, executive, thief, cop...
The Gem ConnectionMichael R. Lane
Clinton Windell is murdered and robbed of twenty million dollars in uncut gems. C. J. Cavanaugh is hired to root out the murderers. There's only one catch. C. J. and his partner must keep mum they're working the case. Between the killers, Homicide Detective Pendleton, and their...
UFOs and GodMichael R. Lane
UFOs and God is not single-themed but a medley of characters kayaking their way through the erratic channels of life. Some of these stories are sharp edged and made to cut you emotionally to the quick. Others are inviting like a warm cozy room on a bitter cold day. In "Wake Up," a...
A Little Sammy MusicSuzanne Lane
A Little Sammy Music is a dog book. Author Suzanne Lane is, by her own admission, a "born rescuer," having taken in, at various times, dogs, cats, a pigeon, a fiancé, and a husband. As one by one the objects of her rescue die or move out, she becomes determined to spare herself the...
The Garrington GardenBenjamin Lederer
Peter Trenton knows everything about Fort Garrington, Illinois, and he'd like to help his coworker Jeff Hansen learn the tricks of the town. Peter hoped to make a friend in Jeff, and when that falls through, Peter seeks other means to fill the void. Meanwhile, Jeff...
I've Decided to Live 120 YearsIlchi Lee
New York Times bestselling author and one of the most renowned meditation teachers in our time, Ilchi Lee challenges you to radically rethink your ideas on aging, health, personal fulfillment, and what's possible in your lifetime. This highly anticipated book has...
Oscar: The Friendly RottweilerDavid Lees
Oscar: The Friendly Rottweiler, is a narrative recounting the life’s journey between David and his dog, Oscar, AKA, the "Big O" and the "Gentle Giant". During his very special life, which lasted nearly fourteen years, and is a near record for Rottweilers, Oscar...
I Am EnoughHarold Leffall
I Am Enough answers everything. Every doubt, every fear, and every insecurity is answered. Overcome anxiety and depression. Build self-confidence and self-esteem. Break self defeating habits. Be your best self now!
How Fast Can You RunHarriet Levin Millan
Set across a backdrop of refugee migration that spans Africa, America and Australia, How Fast Can You Run is the inspiring story of Michael Majok Kuch and his journey to find his mother. In 1988, Majok, as a five-year-old boy, fled his burning village in southern Sudan when the North...
The Kurdish BikeAlesa Lightbourne
"Courageous teachers wanted to rebuild war-torn nation." With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad, and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds...
Welcome to Saint AngelWilliam Luvaas
After his wife dies in a plane crash, iconoclastic inventor Al Sharpe moves to Saint Angel Valley in SoCal's high desert to rebuild his life on beloved "Second Chance Acres," building his young daughter a tree house in a giant oak tree and inventing the Sharpe Smoke...
Beneath the Coyote HillsWilliam Luvaas
Beneath The Coyote Hills explores the influence of choice and chance in our lives. Do we control our own destiny or is it dictated in part by mysterious forces beyond our control? Tommy Aristophanos is a luckless man, homeless freegan, fiction writer, and epileptic...
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I Didn't See This Coming from My FamilyNiecy M.
My book reflects on and is being told through the eyes of a nine-year-old Southern girl named Sofay White, who's an only child. She resides in Oklahoma with her parents. Who by the way, also live in the same household as her Grandparents along with their fifteen children...
Living LoveMaetreyii Ma
Living Love is practical mysticism at its best. This rare and wonderful work, based in the ancient teachings of yoga, is a poetic and penetrating therapeutic guidebook for transformation and awakening, giving the reader opportunity to explore how day to day experience can change...
My Heart BeatsV. Maree
Childhood trauma versus poor adult choices. What's the connection? Emotional and behavioral problems are among the most prevalent chronic health conditions of childhood that largely go unrecognized and undiagnosed until a child grows into adulthood. My Heart Beats is a...
Paper in the WindOlivia Mason-Charles
Paper in the Wind is a compassionate and riveting story depicting a single father’s dedication to his daughter. In the midst of the overwhelming struggles that accompanied autism, he continues to persevere. Her father’s love enabled her to overcome insurmountable...
Fishing With HyenasTheresa Mathews
Fishing with Hyenas is a love story between girlie girl Theresa and commercial fisherman Captain Bart, who convinces her to crew on a ninety-two-foot tuna boat plying the North Pacific Ocean. Trading cashmere and high heels for rain gear and rubber boots, she becomes a deckhand, confined for...
Building 8Anthony C. Mazzella
"You Know If You've Been There." "Been where?" "Where is 'There'?" Let me tell you, or should I say, let the people in these stories tell you? They, not I, will tell you where "There" is. You see, it is about real life. It is about right and wrong. It is about good and evil. It is about you! We are all these...
A Moment of FirefliesJohn McCluskey
An unimaginable event from years past in Ireland is kept locked up in the heart of an alcohol abusing dad who truly only wants the best for his children and wife. But can he survive without dulling away hard memories with drink? Can love from his family bring him back from the brink?
Because of the HorsesPatricia McGrane
Because of the Horses is a complex family story set in 1863 East Tennessee, a uniquely different and independently minded part of the state. Many local citizens still fiercely support the Union despite the rest of the state having voted to secede and join the Confederacy. Some...
Remote ControlChris McGrath
Hidden in the endless pantheon of conspiracy theories and secret organizations, there lies a faceless group known to only a few simply as "The Others." They anonymously control the world remotely, with accountability to no one... Remote Control centers around an unlikely couple sucked...
The Supernatural Pet SitterDiane Moat
Every animal can talk to you. You just have to know how to listen. Pepper Neely is better at this than most, especially because she is in charge of pet sitting all the familiars in her neighborhood. A familiar is a pet magically linked to a witch or warlock. As a gnome, Pepper is no...
Arkansas SummerAnne Moose
Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, and Catherine has joined her father in Arkansas after her grandfather's death. She's a California college student, and it's her first visit to her grandparents' farm since the summer she was...
Mad About MenMadelyn Morgan
Mad About Men is: - A (mostly) true, laugh-out-loud account of a successful executive single mother's search for love. - "Racy, raw, sometimes vulgar, always hilarious," according to a guy in Chapter 32 who actually read it. - An account of dating and sex from a liberated, confident...
The Past And Future KingWarren M. Mueller
The Past and Future King transports the reader to another world filled with compelling characters that move the imagination. More than a fantasy book, it is a story with ageless relevance to the great themes of life such as adventure, love, redemption, and...
Zulu WayRobert M. Murphy
The year is 1858. Zulu Way is the story of Danny, a young man sent on an adventure by his father up the Mississippi on his Uncle's new steamship to sell his family crops to the mills in Baton Rouge. Circumstances take him past Baton Rouge up to Vicksburg, then up the Mississippi to Memphis...
Among FriendsHeather Murray
Among Friends is an account of one woman's exploration of Cuba, as the country begins to find its feet in the post-Fidel era. With an eye for the telling details of daily life, Murray first explores Havana and then other provinces to the west and east in visits spread over a period of eight years...
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FourteenLeslie Johansen Nack
After her mother and father divorce at age seven, Leslie quickly learns the hard lessons of being Dad's favorite. The abuse begins at age nine and doesn't end until she begins to fight back at Fourteen. Her father, a larger-than-life Norwegian, assumed full custody of Leslie and her two sisters and move...
My Brother My EnemyAdrienne Nairn
Adrienne Nairn is a former British resident now living in New Zealand. Her autobiography provides a record of her first hand experiences of the issues of elder abuse, the waste of Police and Social Services resources, misuse of Powers of Attorney and matters of how...
Silver LiningsMrin Nayagam
In Silver Linings, Dr Mrin Nayagam takes us on a journey with her patients from all walks of life, who overcome the odds in the face of serious medical conditions or traumatic events. Young Kate, diagnosed with cancer at only seven months old and now in full remission at nearly 10 years of age. Rob...
The Train to OrvietoRebecca J. Novelli
The Train to Orvieto, set in Orvieto, Florence, and Milan, Italy, and in the heartland of America, is an intimate story of love, loss, betrayal, and reconciliation that unfolds against an historical background of war and dramatic social change. It is a story enacted by fascinating three-dimensional...
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Anonymous CallerSusan Parker
Caitlin Rourke is a young, restless reporter who feels like she's going nowhere fast, that is until she gets a fateful phone call from a woman reporting a rape, which propels her into a world of corruption and organized crime. Her car is torched and her dog is poisoned to scare Caitlin off the story. Her...
The Nordic Theory of Everything
A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children. Moving to America in 2008, Anu Partanen quickly went...
The MacBrides: Logan and RJJ.L. Petersen
Logan, the eldest of the MacBride clan, is thrilled at his brother Clay's pending nuptials to Sandy. But when Sandy's sister RJ arrives at the family's ranch, Logan's world is turned upside down. However, the sisters' shared past has created scars and barriers against love...
Life with My Idiot FamilyKathy and Gary Picard
Seven-year-old little girls love their daddy. Kathy was no exception, so when her daddy started paying "special" attention to her, she felt "special" in turn. Her daddy loved her... what could be better than that? Few betrayals run as deep as the betrayal of being sexually...
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But...
Smoke from Small FiresAnne Powers
It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving...
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