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  • BEN'S BONES: Based on the True Story of 28 Bodies Buried in Benjamin Franklin’s Basement

    by Joseph C. Gioconda
    Crime is running rampant in turbulent 1760’s London. Pregnant women and children start vanishing from the city’s crowded streets and thieves are looting graves. Ramshackle police departments are unwilling—or unable—to stop the pillaging. Benjamin Franklin arrives in London as Pennsylvania’s colonial agent to the Crown. He rents rooms from a lonely widow and her bright daughter Polly, who become his surrogate family while he is away from home. Franklin and Polly develop a deep friendship as he... more

  • Throwing Tarts at the King and Other Stories

    by Anne Bianco
    Anne Bianco’s debut collection Throwing Tarts At the King contains stories and essays whose diverse characters struggle with loss, class disparities, and time. They are “the walking wounded.” A lawyer who simultaneously mourns and envies his older brother’s legacy and regrets his own lost chances finds connection to the tangible in a brawl with a truck driver. A garbage man by day and a zoo security guard by night reaches for autonomy and love when he sheds dependence on an old friend. After his... more

  • Thar She Blows

    by Susan Emshwiller

    Agoraphobic suburban housewife Ann waits for her schlubby nineteen-year-old son Brian to call but learns that he's been swallowed by a whale and is alive in those huge lungs. Called crazy, she’s determined to find that whale and get him out. Brian survives in his new home, for the first time learning skills, and to respect himself. When a young woman from Norway is swallowed as well, her mother and Ann hire a boat to find their children. Intertwining stories of an Alaska native Stat... more

  • Epoch

    by Kat Elle
    After a traumatic deployment in Afghanistan, Army combat medic Blanca Hernandez is ready to leave the life of a soldier behind so she can help her younger brother Mateo start college. His orientation goes awry when a secret university experiment malfunctions and sends Blanca, Mateo, and several others back in time to Nazi-occupied Poland. Just like that, Blanca is back in a war. Matters are complicated further by the arrival of Otto Zimmler, a cocky Nazi fighter pilot who agrees to help them... more

  • Dreams of Arcadia

    by Brian Porter
    DREAMS OF ARCADIA is the story of Nate Holub, a Houston veterinarian with two teenage daughters. When Nate is offered a job in his late father’s hometown, he accepts, but he wonders if a city boy has what it takes to be a country vet. Nate quickly discovers the gritty reality of rural vet practice. He gets trampled by a cow, tangles with an irate cat in the cab of a pickup, and delivers a calf while standing knee-deep in creek water. As he struggles to adjust, he reconnects with his family and... more

  • Dreams of Arcadia

    by Brian Porter

    Dreams of Arcadia is the story of Nate Holub, a Houston veterinarian with two teenage daughters. When Nate is offered a job in his late father’s hometown, he accepts, but he wonders if a city boy has what it takes to be a country vet. As he struggles to adjust, he reconnects with his family and learns that his father’s accidental death thirty years earlier was much more complicated than he realized. Nate probes the past, afraid of what he might find. He encounters a resen... more

  • Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)

    by dean cycon
    The war is over, but hatred has not surrendered. Eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity during nine months in Auschwitz by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey to their hometown, seeking to restart their lives. Yet the town that deported them is not ready to embrace their return. Their homes and businesses are legally in the hands of former neighbors and friends, who resist relinquishing their new-found we... more

  • Chance of a Lifetime

    by Robert Tucker
    With an entertaining blend of comedy and suspense, Chance of A Lifetime depicts a gold hunt that taps into the heart of a contemporary American family with humor and sensitivity. Burnt-out middle-aged geology professor Wilson Trebourne is fed up with the social, economic, and ecological blight of Southern California. Much to his family’s chagrin, he quits his job at the university, sells everything he owns, including their beautiful house in the suburbs, then gambles his entire life savings o... more

  • Walking on Stones

    by Chris Handrahan

    weird, funny, puzzling, scary, dark, light and beyond

    First novel. Unattached to genre.

    Careful where you tread.
    It did not seem like her story to confess.
    Books inspire more books.

    A Story about a Stone.

     

    Final (small) Edit (all editions): October 2023

  • The Best I Can Do

    by John Branning
    In his latest collection, The Best I Can Do, award-winning humor writer John Branning includes essays, lists, comedic verse, lists, and more comedic verse. Also, a few more essays. As always, his humor is self-deprecating -- except for the times when he deprecates on others (rarely his wife and son, occasionally his cats, and quite frequently a certain former President). Among the topics covered in this delightful read, he explains diacritical marks in a way that doesn't clarify their use at ... more

  • Her Own Revolution

    by Debra BORCHERT
    A Woman Forges a Treacherous Path to Save Hundreds from the Guillotine If Geneviève Fouquier-Tinville had the same rights as a man, she wouldn’t have to dress like one, which she does to attend University—forbidden to women. By swearing her commitment to the revolution, she succeeds in convincing her father, the Public Prosecutor who condemns thousands to the guillotine, to hire her as a court clerk. But she intends to earn passage to join her lover, Henri, in America. Tasked with copying... more

  • And Union No More

    by Stan Haynes
    In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law. After a generation of containment by the Missouri Compromise, a path is created for slavery to expand. Southerners are ecstatic and northerners enraged. Both sides rush settlers to the Kansas Territory, seeking to gain the majority. Guerilla warfare results, with Americans killing Americans. Monty Tolliver, a former congressman from Ohio, moves to Kansas, determined to make it a free state. Two young men, Billy Rutledge from Mississippi and Robe... more

  • Day Of The Trumpet

    by Suj Ahmed
    Thirteen-year-old Eden escapes with his mixed-race family from the growing race hate and violence unleashed in a future England ravaged by economic hardships, food scarcity, and social disorder, plunging the country into the hands of a fascist and evangelical alliance. The family travels on foot at night across the English countryside to evade the marauding ‘People’s Militia’ who mercilessly hunt down POCS (people of colour). In the second timeline, Eden’s grandfather Tariq provides a historica... more

  • The Healers

    by Ken Levine

    In Ken Levine’s fourth novel The Healers, readers are taken on a multi-generational journey that follows Frances Anderson and her granddaughter Glynnis as they come to terms with their extraordinary abilities and the impact they have on those around them. This rich and poignant saga tracks the Anderson clan from homesteads in Wyoming to the magical coast of Oregon as they navigate through some seventy years of familial strife, loss, heartache, and love.

  • The Devil's Glove

    by Lucretia Grindle
    Northern New England, summer, 1688. A suspicious death. A rumor of war. Whispers of witchcraft. Salem started here. Perched on the brink of disaster, Resolve Hammond and her mother, Deliverance, struggle to survive in their isolated coastal village. They're known as healers taught by the local tribes - and suspected of witchcraft by the local villagers. Their precarious existence becomes even more chaotic when they are summoned to tend to a poisoned woman. As they uncover a web of dark secrets... more

  • Wings Over Germany

    by Eric Forsyth
    RAF Squadron Leader Allan Chadwick is back in Eric Forsyth’s third novel, Wings Over Germany. At the start of WWII, Chadwick struggles with technical and bureaucratic problems to get the four-engine heavy bomber, the Lancaster, into production. Then he commands an Auxiliary Spitfire squadron during the Battle of Britain, leading pilots straight from Flying School to fight against the combat-hardened Luftwaffe. As Britain moves into an offensive bombing campaign Chadwick is involved in the develo... more
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