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The Miracle at Assisi Hill

by Pat Camalliere

Emotionally scarred after\t battling cancer, amateur historian Cora Tozzi is troubled by religious doubts. She immerses herself in the life of a convent in her home town, Lemont, Illinois, agreeing to coauthor a book about the history of the religious order. Soon she discovers her problems are only beginning. She befriends a harmonica-playing young nun who is guarding a secret, and when Cora’s husband, Cisco, becomes seriously ill, she prays for help to a mysterious visitor from heaven. Soon Cor... more

The Present Perfect

by Cynthia Wishengrad

A 28-year-old half French/half American linguist and her father, a cardiothoracic surgeon, attempt to redefine their lives after a transformational family tragedy, ultimately making very different choices. What begins as a story of grief and regret evolves into an examination of personal choice: how to live life. The diverse cast of characters in this novel grapple with a diverse set of issues including friendship, gay identity, same-sex adoption, deafness, sibling rivalry, the wisdom of ancient... more

Beyond a Thousand Words

by Michael Rose

As 1954 Vietnam roils from its conflict with the French interlopers, American photographer Coty Fine leaves Hanoi in a rush on the flatbed of a truck. Also on the truck is a French priest, Laurent Sabatier — a man who will forever change the course of Coty’s life. Decades later, Coty struggles to repair the frayed bond between Jette, her often-absent, widowed daughter, and Evelyn, her only grandchild. Evelyn, at the behest of her grandmother, travels to Vietnam to locate a nun, Sister La... more

Beside the Still Waters

by Jacqueline T. Lynch

Four towns…dismantled as an entire valley is prepared to be flooded. Based on actual events that displaced four entire towns in central Massachusetts in the 1920s and 1930s for the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir, three generations weave a tapestry of isolation and stubborn independence, battling the forces of nature, the Commonwealth, and each other in this family saga. Families are torn apart, divided between those who protest the construction, those who give up and leave while... more

Rekindled Love

by Lars Bjerregaard Jessen

One evening on the beach, Anders is sitting with binoculars, watching his son, Thor, who is diving and spearing fish in the sea with his two friends. Meanwhile, Anders’ thoughts are taken back to his childhood sweetheart Cecilie, whom he can’t get out of his head, and his inner journey begins. But at the same time, a potential danger is lurking out on the water … Thoughts of Cecilie take him far and wide in the many spaces of his mind, including on a train trip around the world. As Anders rem... more

Something Sacred I Lost

by emmy vine

When horse trainer Damian Bradley agrees to work for wealthy Richard Watts, he doesn’t realize that the protective mask he wears is about to be destroyed. Since leaving home at seventeen, doing his best to forget the horrific trauma he endured, he prefers the company of horses to that of people. Horses accept him for who he is, and they never bring up the painful memories that he has so carefully tucked away beneath his prickly exterior. Lila Watts, Richard’s cherished daughter, is immedia... more

Kerəktərs

by T.C. Kennaley

Kerəktərs, T.C. Kennaley’s debut collection, contains eight short stories: “The Movement” (a journalist in a dystopian future reports on a “brazenly individualistic” hippie-type movement); “Of Deplorable Nature” (a wealthy hedonist from the 1920s has to decide whether to adhere to society’s norms or stay true to his shameful nature); “Plenitudes of Fish” (a man discovers that his wife - who refuses to move away from the ocean - is a mermaid who is having an affair with a huge tuna); “First Love”... more

Crumbled

by Amirah Suggs

Dawn's past haunts her daily. From her childhood to finding herself as an adult, she has struggled while dealing with her secrets. It's not until she decides it's time for a change that Dawn meets powerful, strong, and beautiful Miranda. Miranda is married to one of the most successful men in Florida, but this seemingly perfect couple has their own skeletons hidden in the closet. What starts off as a new opportunity for Dawn, takes an unexpected turn when she enters into Miranda's world. Secrets... more

Those People Behind Us

by Mary Camarillo

“Those People Behind Us” is set in the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices—divisions that change the lives of five neighbors as they search for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.

When Light Breaks Through: A Salem Witch Trials Story

by Brenda Murphy

When Light Breaks Through takes us beyond the witch trials to tell a compelling, expansive story of what happened in Salem Village. In 1692, twelve-year-old Ann Putnam and the other ringleaders of the “afflicted children” bring devastation to the colonial New England village. Beginning as a daring, adolescent game, their accusations of witchcraft lead to twenty executions and scores of imprisonments, wreck families and create deep and bitter divisions among the people. Five years later, Joseph G... more

The Varieties of Jewish Experience

by Larry Lefkowitz

Book is largely humorous. It contins stories (secular), a novella, and a humorous Yiddish Glossary.. Despite title book is also enjoyable by non-Jews.

The Greater Good: A Dystopian Novel of Divided America

by Seth Daniel Parker

In a dystopian future where power, control, and greed have triumphed over human dignity, individual liberty, and exceptionalism, the United States has fractured into two new nations—one socialist, the other capitalist. Thomas, a once-contented commoner, sees his perfect life shatter when he's "wrongly" sent to an enlightenment center for crimes against society. Expecting rehabilitation, he instead uncovers the center's chilling secrets and the harrowing history behind the United States' downf... more

Joe The Salamander

by Timothy Gager

Joe The Salamander follows Joe, a man with neuro-diversity , from birth through age thirty-five. Joe, a born people-pleaser, only chooses to say the word, "Yes," to everyone, except his mother, Millie, who he has unconditional trust with. The other woman in his life, Laura, his nurse on-duty at the time of his birth, becomes a life-long friend of his and his entire family. Joe, overwhelmed by loud or “busy” environments gets through life by wearing various costumes but identifies with Superman a... more

Uproar and Heresy

by A.P. Andes

Volume II of The Latecoming West, Uproar and Heresy, picks up the tale begun in Volume I as the brilliant, willful Joan, disguised as a man, shadows the most sovereign position in the religious world. Joan’s gift for scholarship fuels the young woman’s rise at Lorsch Abbey. But the peril of her true identity looms over every success. Meanwhile, in 1930s Berlin, star-crossed Polish Jews Rahel Buchwald and Patek Mroz meet amid Hitler’s rise to power, overcoming their differences as the new order d... more

Petrochemical Nocturne

by Amos Jasper Wright IV

The Mississippi River. HAZMAT. Boxing. Suicide by cop. New Orleans Saints football. Chemical explosions. The Angola Prison rodeo. Chlorine gas ghost ships. Through these symbols and themes we learn about Toussaint and his formative experiences in the Standard Heights neighborhood of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "Petrochemical Nocturne" results in an indictment of what Toussasint describes as "that dystopian haunted carnival cruise line called America." A discursive and often surreal exploration of... more

A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue

by Mary Carroll Moore

Framed for the brutal attack on her manager, indie rock legend Red Nelson flees to the only family she doesn’t yet know: her estranged sister, Kate Fisher, a Search & Rescue pilot working the remote mountains of upper New York State. Kate, the daughter of her father's legitimate but unhappy marriage, has no wish to meet Red, the product of her father’s passionate love affair, but when Kate’s daughter, Molly, decides to hide Red on their property, concern over Molly’s safety forces Kate to stage ... more

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