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Magnolia Song--a saga of the new south

by J. Robert Towery

Magnolia Song is the explosive saga of two Memphis families whose intertwined fates spiral out of control over four generations of heartbreak and renewal. By day, Gator Bates bumps along as the spoiled son of a self-made real estate tycoon; by night, he spins wild slapstick fables to entertain his drunken pals at the exclusive Collegiate Club. Gator lives (mostly) on the scrub pine acreage in northwest Mississippi on which his father and uncle once ran a commercial reptile exhibition. The field... more

Immortal, My Love

by Cynthia C. Scott

Before I met Stephen, I knew absolutely nothing about immortals. Immortal, My Love tells the story of an unnamed narrator who meets her future husband in an art gallery. Stephen is charming, debonair, enigmatic, and an immortal from ancient Africa. Intrigued, the narrator begins a whirlwind romance with him, and soon the two marry. When the newlyweds return to his home in the outskirts of Philadelphia, the narrator is immediately confronted with his past when she meets Alice, the old woman... more

Casualties and Survivors

by Len Joy

Colin, a wealthy, unhappy businessman waits for his wife at Windows on the World and dreams about the only woman he ever loved. (Casualties). Clancy flirts with the young woman who swims laps with him as his stroke-damaged wife waits for him at her nursing home. (Freestyle) A father grieves for his firemen son who died on 9-11. (Without a Trace) Missy has too much drink, falls out of her truck and gets run over by it. Twice. (Happy Hour) A man tries to come to terms with his unloving, dy... more

A Midlife Holiday

by Cary J Hansson

Helen Winters worries the walls are closing in. With her children grown and her husband literally climbing Mt. Everest on her fiftieth birthday, she regrets not taking the more daring paths she dreamed about in her youth. So when a well-meaning gift reveals a depressing image of her future, she takes a leap of faith and jets off to Cyprus for a vacation with her two lifelong friends. Basking in the glorious sunshine and crystal-blue waters while enjoying the attention of handsome European men... more

Bound by Honor

by Regan Walker

The friendship that changed the destiny of a nation… In the waning years of the thirteenth century, two young noblemen form a bond that forever changes their destiny and that of Scotland’s. Their shared pledge of honor would endure for a lifetime to secure power in the Isles for Angus Og Macdonald and a crown for Robert Bruce. This is the story of their friendship, their times and the battle that secured their future. Standing beside them would be two women from Ireland, Áine O’Cahan, the ... more

A Marijuana Man

by Steve Kravetz

A coming of age story. The year is 1966 and young Max Gold is off to freshman year of college, but before it starts, Max and buddy Rodger have a blow out weekend in Austin. It is in Austin his older cousin turn the two on to cannabis, the event would shape Max's life for the next eighteen years, and beyond. Those eighteen years were also the coming of age story of a USA going through it's own maturing growth. Protestors come out in mass to protest a war in Viet Nam, A demand for women rights, ... more

Brutal Beasts

by Craig Buchner

There are places you always call home, their smells rotting or warm or sweet, their bruises just deep enough to forgive until you touch them. There are places you leave that will forever contain you or cling to you or cry out for you. Where the difference between love and disgust is no more distinguishable than the point at which you stop trying to forget. Craig Buchner's Brutal Beasts is a trip to these homes. It opens the door and finds us at the edge of a falls weighing the jump, of a bedr... more

It's Alive!

by Julian David Stone

In the summer of 1931, life was good for Junior Laemmle. Only twenty-three years old, he was the head of all movie production for Universal Pictures, and the studio was flourishing. So much so, he was being promoted to VP. What’s more, his father, Carl, and the studio’s founder, was returning to California for the first time in years to personally present the honor. Or so Junior thought. But instead of being grateful for transforming and catapulting the out-of-date studio into the future, Car... more

The House on Liberty Street

by Frances Rivetti

Notes from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Wee Folk

by George Harvey

Notes from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Wee Folk is a series of essays on Wee Folk of all sorts. It includes discussion of how they interact with human beings, their place in nature, and how they communicate with each other and with human beings. It also covers their cultures and societies, their art and music, and their theatrical works. Some of the discussion goes into specific details, with several essays on their music, the history of counterpoint and harmony, and th... more

Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel

by Rob Roy O'Keefe

Duncan and Maya Small have just moved to an out-of-the-way town filled with odd characters, quirky customs, and a power-obsessed local official who one day hopes to be declared emperor. Duncan is sharp enough to know something needs to change, and delusional enough to believe he's the one to make it happen. The only thing standing in his way are feral ponies, radical seniors, common sense, and Duncan's inability to do anything without a list.

Hands Down

by Tom Figel

Hands Down, a Vietnam era coming of age novel, follows ambitious Dennis Spuhn as he completes military service and goes after the success he has anticipated since adolescence. Hands down, as he leaves Davenport, IA for the US Marine Corps in 1964, Dennis Spuhn means to have it all: a millionaire by age 30, his own restaurant chain, house on the bluff, Jenny Adamski. Along the way, avoiding jealous Greg Benson, he is going to need the help of others: a wrestler turned holy man and a likable Louis... more

The Mysterious Composition of Tears

by Sharon Heath

After a series of climate calamities, physicist Fleur Robins takes off for deep space in a desperate attempt to save the species from extinction. During her mysteriously prolonged absence, the internet has crashed, fire and flood have devastated whole countries, and End of Times cults have proliferated. There have been some intriguingly hopeful changes, too—nanoparticle holograms have replaced electronic devices, young people are witnessing exquisitely colorful “Shimmers,” and the most gifted of... more

Transforming Souls

by R.D. Samsara

It's a short story collection with eight stories. Each narrative shows a character who is searching for ways to improve their state of mind.

Aiken in Check: A Spy Game Novel - The Aiken Trilogy, Book 3

by Michael Frost Beckner

Christmas Eve in Havana, and Aiken in Check finds ill-starred and afflicted Russell Aiken betraying America to save CIA officer Nina Estrada. But as Aiken’s treason exposes the CIA’s top spy in Castro’s regime, events in Cuba share a hidden connection to Bishop and Muir’s China past. Will Aiken lose all he loves, or will he assume Muir’s mantle to become grandmaster of the Spy Game? Bursting with Aiken's absurdist wit, Aiken in Check is a love-letter confession, wrapped in the hauntings of thre... more

Hidden Buddha

by Jim Ringel

In Hidden Buddha, Lama Rinzen is reborn into the Hungry Ghost Realm as a doctor at Humboldt Hospital on Colorado's eastern plain. She is here to face the hospital's ghosts so she might learn the realm's lesson while solving the mystery of why so many of Humboldt's patients are disappearing. Rinzen cannot see these ghosts, but nine-year-old patient Claudia tells her they are real and trying to trap Rinzen at Humboldt’s so that she will have to spend this and all future li... more

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