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The Advocate

by Billy McCoy

"Blisteringly funny, intelligent, and poignant, The Advocate is both a comic and dramatic story about growing up a ‘brainiac’ in a working-class Black family and learning to navigate the hellish levels of intellectual and cultural blindness. The humiliation of his beloved grandmother unleashes the most profound and extreme passion of humanity, and young Simon becomes obsessed with educating himself. The alienating neuroses, while being the catalyst for extra creativity, is so bedeviling that Sim... more

The Illinois Caper: Book One of The Route 66 Steal

by Liz Hartley

Middle-aged and mostly respectable, Tish O’Donnell and Kat Merevec have lived on promises and prayers long enough. When Tish’s philandering husband, Fitz, walks out on her, and goes back on his promise of security to Kat, they’re both determined to make him pay—by emptying the safe in his Evanston, Illinois, jewelry store. But when they crack the safe, they’re shocked to find almost a million in cash, a stash of hot diamonds, and a glittering pile of gold ingots. What swindle is Fitz working... more

Last Call A Collection of Short Stories, Essays, and Poems

by Gabriel Reyes Benavides

Last Call is a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories, essays, and poems.

One of Us

by Bre Doshia

"Life some days may seem as though nobody can hear you. You may feel as invisible as the wind gracing your skin every time it blows. Many things may not go as you have planned, and that will be fine. Understand that life will not get the best of you unless you allow yourself to get lost in the negativity of the world." Find yourself immersed in North Carolina, where living among the rest of the world is one person that just "gets it." Follow Emma, Amy, Sydney, and their cl... more

Goes On, Without the World's Understanding

by Thomas Westerfield

Goes On, Without the World's Understanding is a collection of thirteen provocative, unpredictable, and often compassionate stories challenging expected tropes regarding sexuality, race, abuse, trauma, art, and intergenerational relationships. We meet, among others, a men's sexual abuse group rebelling against its earth mother therapist; a member of that group as he spends a quiet Sunday evening with the father who abused him as a teenager; an little boy in fear of what the Barbies he plays wi... more

Sins of the Father: Justice Part II

by John Henington

For the past twenty-two years Marcello di Paulo has been the faithful Consigliore to Pietro Giordano, Capo of one of the most powerful Camorra Families in Naples. However, recent events have seen their close relationship deteriorate out of control. Di Paulo seizes control of the Family Clan and embarks on a journey of personal revenge and fortune hunting only to plummet into the same self-serving lifestyle as that of his former Capo. Along the way, he connects with a previously unknown Aus... more

Justice?

by J. D. Henington

What is justice? Is it the conviction of fairness, of moral righteousness? If so, by whose standard of fairness? If so, by whose standard of morality? Or is it the administration of justifiable punishment? To be administered by whom? This novel cuts apart and scrutinizes the shadowy lives, the scandalous history and innermost emotions of two post World War II Italian families coincidentally seeking asylum in Australia’s South Coast village of Cringila. The Panzarroti and Garibaldi families’ cros... more

Kidnapping Steve

by C. Juliano

A comedic take on betrayals, bad ideas, and lost love in the tropics. When a catalog model turned college student and a sun-soaked visionary join forces, a small beach town is turned on its head.

Echoes from an Island

by Alicia Ang

Echoes from an Island is a collection of poetry and short stories about inspiration and wonder. Told through the eyes of a woman visiting Okinawa, Japan, the book takes readers on a search for meaning that stretches across cultures, kingdoms, and eras. A mixed manuscript composed of 9 poems and 3 short stories, the poems celebrate ocean wonders, feminine strength, and spirituality, leaving one with a sense of awe and a touch of magic.

NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESSA

by MARY L. GROW

LITERARY FICTION, HISTORICAL NOVEL It is 1919. The Russian Civil War rages in the Ukraine. Elvira Maria Andrushko, a mother, recently widowed, flees the embattled countryside bound for the safe haven, Odessa. As the night train approaches she is violently separated from her small children and arrives in the seaport alone and traumatized. Bewildered by the city’s harshness, alienated by unhelpful authorities, and tormented above all by her loss, she searches Odessa hoping to find her children. ... more

Eleanor's Song

by SUSAN K FIELD

Dive into a coming-of-age, a thriller, above all a story of redemption and hope in Eleanor's Song. Inspired by true events and set amid the backdrop of the Great Depression, World War II, and the western migration, Eleanor Owens learns lessons about the ties that make a family strong, how to endure, and about her own resolve.

WEAVING DREAMS IN OAXACAhttps://www.amazon.com/Weaving-Dreams-Oaxaca-Karen-Samuelson-ebook/dp/B0C54Y7H9C

by Karen Samuelson

Professor Mac, at age 37, find himself jettisoned into an identity crisis. Frankie, a NYC professional dancer, grapples with the spotlight versus settling down and having children. Enrique, a DJ and mechanic, struggles with coming out as a gay man with a hostile father. Immersed in their unique personal dramas, this trio crosses paths in the cobblestone streets and zócalo, or main plaza, of Oaxaca, Mexico. Together they weave a colorful, complex tapestry of adventure, deceit, discovery, love a... more

this is what it felt like

by Karli Crispin

everything i have learned about love through books and movies seems to be a lie because with you it felt less like lightning and more like rain the rain that pours in the middle of august after a great drought waking me up compelling me to confront these feelings and allowing me to grow in ways i never imagined this is what it felt like to fall in love with you

Signatures

by Lucas Alves

“A young writer. The brink of worldwide fame. A crumbling creative mind."

At the edge of a literary breakthrough, Landon Cassidy journeys through the northern United States with his mutt Maple in search of inner salvation. Filled with layered personages and perilous misadventures, this character study binds beauty with disaster, love with hate, all the while seeking refuge in the least of places. Confused and betrayed, Landon takes to a life on the road, outrunn... more

The Space Between Dark and Light

by Jan Krause Greene

Joe Geist is desperate. His brother Jared has vanished, and Joe, usually a roll-with-the-punches type, begins a frantic quest to uncover his missing brother's fate. The search leads him to an enigmatic homeless mystic, Sir Davies, who claims to know what happened to Jared. Anne Miller, a quick-witted freelance reporter, agrees to help Joe after discovering a link between Jared's daughter and Sir Davies. One hundred years after Jared disappears, civil society is collapsing in the wake of environm... more

Sweet Baby Mine

by Maria Daversa

Set in Paris, an American expat has her life upended when her estranged adult daughter emerges and threatens to reveal a marriage-ending secret.

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