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The Murder of Sonny Liston Shaun Assael A daring investigation into the mysterious death of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, set against the dawn of the 1970s, when the mob was fighting to keep control of the Las Vegas Strip, Richard Nixon was launching America's first war on heroin, and boxing... |
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Cloud Dancer Gary 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... |
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The Cat on Salter's Point Anita Dixon Thomas The Cat on Salter’s Point is a story of a young social worker, Rachel Thomas, who embarks on a crazy adventure when she accepts her first social worker job at Salter’s Point Regional Hospital. It is a psychiatric facility outside of Seattle. On her first day, a suicidal... |
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Woman Without an Identity Martine 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... |
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Smoke from Small Fires Anne 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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A Book of Revelations A. C. Burch A. C. Burch's exquisitely written collection explores the tipping-point--the instant one must act or succumb to the status quo. The marginalized characters of A Book of Revelations grapple with identity, loss, and societal expectation with humor, compassion, and extraordinary courage... |
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Heist during the Rio Games Dexter 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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The Cry of the Lone Coyote Debra Barton American history books often portray the Spanish missions of California as havens of civil coexistence between the Spanish conquistadors, the Catholic priests, and the native Indians who had long inhabited the area. In reality, the "civilized" Christian life that was... |
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Inheritance Rachel Adair Alhanna is devastated by the violent loss of her loving parents. Alone and submerged in a torturous grief she learns of an Inheritance. An estate in Northern Ireland, dominated by a monstrous Tower, what awaits inside may unlock her destiny. Yet a dark malevolent force pursues her as she begins on... |
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Chinese Pearl Patrick Aaron Chinese Pearl starts in the year 1917 in Nanking China with the birth of Zhu, an albino with psychic abilities, who is adopted by the midwife Xiulan and her husband Shu. The child is a welcome blessing into this couples life and becomes an asset to their business, an apothecary, as her... |
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Oscar: The Friendly Rottweiler David 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... |
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Dog Logic Tom Strelich If Dr. Strangelove and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy got together and had a litter of puppies you'd get Dog Logic, a duck-and-cover fable and love story. Hertell Daggett is not what he used to be: once married, once a physicist, and once shot in the head in a New Year's Eve accident, or... |
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Silver Linings Mrin 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... |
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Kuwaiti Seeker Jim Carroll Yacoub, a young Kuwaiti, pursues truth in Islam. His search takes him to King's College in London, where he abandons his sexual morals, and then to the University of Arizona for his Ph.D. in the history of Islamic law. In his thesis, he confronts the Sunni hadiths, the words and deeds of the... |
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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... |
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I Closed Too Many Eyes Paul S. Arneson Bayer Nonen Ross, the son of Swedish immigrants who settled in Southern Minnesota, spent his military service in World War II doing his best to keep soldiers alive. His story was documented in letters he sent home and in conversations with his family. Bayer Nonen... |
