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Beneath the Coyote Hills William 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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Darkness in Malaga Paul S. Bradley Crime Mystery novel set in Andalusia, Spain. In the narrow channel between Spain and Morocco, a Guardia-Civil patrol-boat discovers a small dinghy crammed with African migrants. They are towed into Algeciras and detained. By the following day, the majority have absconded. Further... |
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The True Story of Women's Harpoon Hally Abbott The True Story of Women's Harpoon is the autobiographical tale of a magazine's creation, and its journey from beginning to end. At the beginning of the feminist humor craze of the early 1990s a single mother with the desire for a women's humor magazine set out to... |
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Solomon the Accountant Edward M. Krauss A Jewish love story. Solomon the Accountant is set in Toledo, Ohio, in the 1950s. Solomon 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 - regardless of how long... |
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Marion Hatley Beth Castrodale To escape a big-city scandal, a Depression-era lingerie seamstress flees to the countryside, where she hopes to live and work in peace. Instead, she finds herself unraveling uncomfortable secrets about herself and those closest to her. In February of 1931, Marion Hatley steps off... |
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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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Daddy Issues!? Nikkita Jervey Not a how to book or just a daddy bashing monologue, in Daddy Issues you walk side by side with the author through some of the most trying times in her life. On this literary journey you receive pivotal advice and wisdom. More importantly the reader is blessed with a... |
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Chasing Grace Sanya Richards-Ross "For as long as I can remember, life has been measured in seconds. The fewer, the better." Most people equate success with having more, but Sanya’s quest was always for less. She started running track as a little girl in Jamaica and began competing when she was only seven. At 31 she's had... |
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Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence Glen T. Martin This volume examines the dynamics of self-transcendence for both individuals and humanity as a whole. In doing so, it illuminates the definitive relationship between self-transcendence and global democracy. Drawing upon a vast... |
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Beyond Our Degrees of Separation Judith Ravin & Muhammad Hassan Miraj A narrative weave of testimonial non-fiction, Beyond Our Degrees of Separation evokes points of intersection between the US and Pakistan. Hailing from oxymoronic bureaucracies, the co-authors transcend their respective realms of diplomacy and military... |
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The Shock of the Anthropocene The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting... |
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Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? J. Michael Springmann They come from across the Middle East, South Asia, North Africa—floods of refugees seeking sanctuary in Europe. Most are men. Some are terrorists. And all represent an ethnopolitical nightmare for the European Union. What drives these migrants? Why... |
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The Train to Orvieto Rebecca 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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Across Great Divides Monique Roy Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle — apartheid in South Africa. Sixteen... |
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The Too-Brief Chronicle of Judah Lowe Christopher Carter Sanderson Fiction. The formal playfulness of Christopher Carter Sanderson's novel, The Too-Brief Chronicle of Judah Lowe, is visually apparent at a glance. It consists of two parts, each composed of a series of short... |
