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Among Friends Heather 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...

Monster's Children Dan 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...

The Widows Club Sula Miller

Arnold Hoffman was dead. After fifty-five years of marriage, Irene could finally sleep as long as she wanted without her husband demanding that it was time to get up. Torn between grief and relief, Irene can't help but be both fearful and excited at the prospect of living on her own terms for...

The Stars Move Still Andy Regan

What happens when a cold calculating individual chooses to punish the most vulnerable in the community for misplaced revenge? In May 1927 a quiet town in Michigan suffers the most traumatic of days as its school becomes the target. Based on the true events of the...

Fourteen Leslie 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...

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...

Silver Baron's Wife Donna Baier Stein

The Silver Baron's Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado's Baby Doe Tabor. This fascinating heroine worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages, one to a philandering opium addict, one to a Senator and silver baron worth $24 million in the late 19th century. A...

Empire of Glass Kaitlin Solimine

In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K...

Lost, Lust and Love Gwyn Cooper Flynn

Paul O’Keefe is a respected Neurosurgeon, he has 2 teenage children Anna and Josh whom he adores, he is living in a loveless marriage with an alcoholic but financially independent wife for the sake of his children. Paul for the past year and a half has been having a very sexual secret...

Second Coming D. B. Borton

Hank Jones isn’t your typical alien abductee. There were no tractor beams, probes, or government conspiracies involved—no, Hank met his kidnappers at a bar. They weren’t exactly hard to miss—Elvis, a seven-foot tall Elvis clone, and Lawrence, a grounded European gent, were the only...

The Butcher's Daughter Florence Grende

What was it like to hide with your family in the dense forests of Poland for two long years, as Mameh did, living in a hole in the ground, while alert, always alert, to the sounds of Nazis and their dogs? How was it to be both hunter and hunted, as Tateh was, taking up arms...

The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack...

Dare to Remember Susanna Beard

Reeling from a brutal attack that leaves her badly injured and her roommate dead, Lisa Fulbrook flees to the countryside to recuperate. With only vague memories of the event, she isolates herself from her friends and family, content to spend her days wandering the hills...

The Pepper Tree Dave Freedland

A Southern California landmark primarily known to law enforcement has earned a reputation for crime scenes of the most unspeakable homicides. Infamous serial killers have chosen this location to discard and display their victims as trophies of their horrific deeds. Lieutenant Scott...

Woven Bertha Connally-Abraham

Dr. Lydia Giddens has taken an oath to do no harm. But now she stands in the shadows of her success, wondering if honoring her profession is even possible. Surely, her family doesn't expect her to jeopardize everything she's worked so hard for all of her...

Double Suns - Twisted Mirrors: Episode I Charley Blackwolf

There was an abundance of life on the planets when the flickering of the star first signaled the beginning of its death. Many looked upward in despondence and desperately prayed for deliverance from the unfeeling cruelty of the darkening star as shadows begin to...