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The Chosen Maiden Eva Stachniak The lush, sweeping story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with fact, The Chosen Maiden plunges readers into an artistic world upended by modernity, immersing them in the... |
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Between the World and Me In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis... |
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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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Faces of Foster Care Lisa Aguirre Faces of Foster Care has heartfelt and frank messages from people around the country who have been involved in some way with foster care. Told like mini memoirs, their inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking stories bring us into their lives and show us unique perspectives of foster... |
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Behind Closed Doors Daniella DeChristopher The subtitle for Daniella DeChristopher’s new memoir, Behind Closed Doors, is A Daughter’s Story. Nothing could be more apt. As Daniella looks back on her life, she specifically examines her role as a daughter and how her mother’s actions shaped her entire life. Daniella’s mother had her at an... |
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Alex and the Druids’ Eclipse Carolyn Griffin After witnessing a total solar eclipse high on the Cornish cliffs with his father, Jory, ten-year-old Alex Pitts tumbles from the familiar, safe world he knows into one filled with uncertainty and danger. Summoned by the ancient druids to the time of Merlin and King Arthur, Alex is sent to... |
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Behind Closed Doors Daniella DeChristopher This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned to their homeland. When their youngest unwed daughter became pregnant, her family disowned her. It was 1949. Abortions were illegal. She was seventeen when she... |
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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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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... |
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The Taste of Air Gail Cleare A simple phone call disrupts Nell Williams's well-ordered life. Her mother, Mary, is in a hospital in Vermont. But her mother is supposed to be safely tucked away in an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, so Nell can't fathom why she would be so far from home. After notifying her sister, Bridget, Nell... |
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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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Alien Hitman Jay Cannon This prequel to the Euclidian series follows the exploits of Adar, an alien from the Ossuary System, hired as an elite assassin aboard the Euclidian resource ship Andrea. Adar was sent to retrieve, dead or alive, renegade aliens who started a gang war on their home planet and killed a group of... |
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Court Appointed Priscilla Audette Books about death are invariably about life. In her book Memento Mori, Muriel Spark says: "Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites... |
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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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Faithfully Religionless Timber 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... |
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The Light: A Modern-Day Journey for Peace Judith 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... |
