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City of Liars

by Michelle Fogle

In 1487, the Inquisition establishes a new tribunal in Barcelona. Young navigator Joachim Déulocresca carries the weight of his father’s sins. Determined to honor his family name and rise above his shameful origins, he risks everything to smuggle sacred Jewish ritual items under the persecutor’s nose. But when a kindly patriarch who loves him like a son is burned at the stake for heresy, it compels Joachim to ply his talent for deception to mount an underground rescue mission smuggling Inquisiti... more

Electric Zen for Neon Koans

by J. Martin Strangeweather

Electric Zen for Neon Koans is an experimental tour de force told in eighty-one koans (Zen riddles) rather than traditional chapters. The story involves a married intersex couple (Phil and Ruth) and their attempt to find peace with themselves through the ingestion of a mind-altering substance in the jungles of Mexico, except this is no ordinary hallucinogen. The drug in this novel causes metafictional hallucinations. The story explores the trials of traveling, the complexities of long-term relat... more

This Storied Land

by Marilyn Oser

This is a story of ordinary people trying to do what’s right in extraordinary times. A new era beckoned in the Middle East in 1920. Gone was the old, corrupted Ottoman rule, succeeded now by a British authority promising peace, prosperity and order—with the pledge of a better life in Palestine for its Arab inhabitants, plus a homeland there for the Jews. But the next twenty-eight years beheld rapidly worsening strife, with ill feeling all around. The bitterest of triangles provoked fearsome and ... more

San Francisco

by Terence Clarke

A story collection so titled because each of the stories takes place in San Francisco.

Saving Doctor James

by Maria Kapfer

Thirty-two-year-old Katie Baur had always dreamed of becoming a police officer. All her life, that’s what she’s ever wanted – that and having a family of her own. However, her boyfriend of seven years refuses to commit, and worse, disapproves of her entering the academy. Working at a local diner owned by a feisty second-generation German immigrant, Katie re-lives her dreams by playing vigilante on the streets of Brooklyn whenever she isn’t running errands aboard a truck that’s nearly falling apa... more

Stolen Moments of Joy

by Hamour Baika

Baltimore, 2014. Abdul aches with shame. Used to bearing the brunt of people’s judgment, the Afghan immigrant can’t reconcile his love for his charming boyfriend with the bruises the man leaves on his face. So when a handsome activist’s flirtatious exchange offers solace, he goes against his beliefs and enters into a secret tryst. Drowning in guilt over the brief affair, Abdul struggles to reset his personal compass even as a racially motivated shooting twists his adopted city into a minefiel... more

My True Friend is a Ghost?

by Dell Bunny

Charlotte was never good around people around her even though she had one friend. Upon his return to her hometown, he didn't just come to stay but also to bring in news. Charlotte's life took a strange turn that she could never expect. Making new friends along the way and learning so much about them. Getting to know the people and immediately learned they are actually dead. Can living with people that are alive and dead bring happiness or fear in each life. There is one way to find out ... more

Arkansas History: A Journey Through Time - the Growth of the Twenty-Fifth State of the Union from 1833 To 1957

by Arlen Jones

Arkansas History: A Journey through Time - The Growth of the Twenty-Fifth State of the Union from 1833 to 1957 places in the hands of students and teachers a curated compilation of excerpts from original sources that tell the story of Arkansas from the founding efforts of the first advocates for the state's formation in 1833 through the confrontation at the Little Rock Central High School in 1957 that brought international attention to the American civil rights movement.The author, Arlen Jones, ... more

Covid Orphans

by Teri Peluso

Covid Orphans: Collateral Damage reveals the underbelly of society exploiting the vulnerability of children left parentless due to Covid-related deaths. A journey from despair to the fulfillment of lifelong dreams, employing the power of a community to counteract the darkness and underscoring the concept that "It takes a village to raise a child".

Unapologetically Feminist

by Urvashi Bundel

In her powerhouse collection, Unapologetically Feminist, poet Urvashi Bundel fights against the ravaging wildfires of misogyny, racism, and global social injustice with her own starbright flame. She travels the world in line after feverish line—observing, reporting back, and crying out for change. “The girl must eat / And the hyenas too. / In a fight to gather firewood, / She returns burned again from the bushes, / This time with the title of witch,” the po... more

Paper Targets

by Steve Saroff

Stalking, art, software, and murder. But more than crime, Paper Targets is infused with nature and solitude and unwraps big questions about why marginalized people sometimes do bad things. A runaway involved in computer crime, and a stalker who confesses through her art to murder, have their paths collide while both are struggling to understand their failures in love. This is a fast-moving literary novel about money buried in the mountains of Montana; a wise bail-bondsman who lives in his pickup... more

Silkfoot

by Kent Zimmerman

My handbook for reflection and recollection to tune my soul for amusement and pleasure. Favorite quote: MUSAEUS "Song is to mortals of all things the sweetest" as per Aristotle in "On Poetry and Music" as translated by S.H. Butcher: Bobbs Merrill Company Inc. Publishers (Library of Liberal Arts: Oscar Piest, Founder) I have fond memories of my mother reading poetry to me at night snug in my bed: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE FAMOUS POEMS and growing up in a little Iowa burg with my puckish friends, to ... more

978-1957148465

by Kent Zimmerman

My handbook for reflection and recollection to tune my soul for amusement and pleasure. Favorite quote: MUSAEUS "Song is to mortals of all things the sweetest" as per Aristotle in "On Poetry and Music" as translated by S.H. Butcher: Bobbs Merrill Company Inc. Publishers (Library of Liberal Arts: Oscar Piest, Founder) I have fond memories of my mother reading poetry to me at night snug in my bed: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE FAMOUS POEMS and growing up in a little Iowa burg with my puckish friends, to ... more

The Sun Still Shines on a Dog's Ass

by Alan Good

Here are nine new stories by Alan Good, author of The War on Xmas. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, occasionally a little of both, the stories in The Sun Still Shines on a Dog's Ass never seem to go where they're supposed to. Each story presents its own cast of weirdos and screwups for whom nothing ever seems to work out right except for those rare occasions when it does. People will toss around the word satire, as if that's a word with any real meaning, but despite all the absurdity and humor in... more

Pauper Auction

by Mary Kronenwetter

A gorgeous and meticulously-researched historical fiction examining a young woman’s struggle to escape unexpected poverty and find autonomy and purpose in early New England. Mankind are always seeking after happiness in some way or another. ~ Leavitt’s Farmer’s Almanac, 1805 The fall from beloved wife of the town blacksmith to widowed pauper was swift. Margery Turner sits in the Thorneboro, New Hampshire Meetinghouse on the second Tuesday of March, 1805. She and the other indigent town re... more

Delphic Oracle, U.S.A.

by Steven Mayfield

It is 1925 when a love affair between enchantress Maggie Westinghouse and con man July Pennybaker upends the small town of Miagrammesto Station, tumbles it about, and sets it back down as Delphic Oracle, Nebraska. Will their love fulfill its destiny? The narrator of this wry, entertaining novel, Father Peter Goodfellow, weaves back and forth in time to answer that question. Along the way, he introduces the Goodfellows, the Penrods, and the Thorntons—families whose members include a perpetual run... more

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