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  • American Pied Piper

    by Sam Foster
    At the dawn of the 20th century, Beardstown, Illinois, is a city of contradiction. A town of river rats, gamblers, and rail-yard workers, it’s also filled with the accoutrements and refinements that accompany wealth . . . whatever its provenance. In Beardstown, the God-fearing don’t just live side-by-side with the sinners—they often are the sinners. Throughout the first half of the century, the state’s attorney is the formidable James McHugh, who makes his home in Beardstown and has spent his... more

  • Take Me Back to Cairo

    by Pamela Paterson and Tarek Hussein
    Yousef's aspiration to fit into his new country of Canada is upended by the lies he hears from both sides-his traditional family trying to keep him entrenched in Egyptian Muslim culture and his new motorcycle-riding girlfriend Janelle, who disguises her fear of commitment as a freewheeling lifestyle. Yoga-pant-and-flipflop-wearing Janelle is the living embodiment of the adventurous life that camel-hair-coat-and-shiny-shoes Yousef has long craved. Yet his desire to enjoy life with her can only be... more

  • Spots In Your Love Feasts

    by Dawn N. Evans

  • Plowman: Harvest of Grain and Innocence

    by Charles Bruckerhoff

    At 12, Stella Young and Hana Sanada enrolled in the Stanton Academy for Humanity, where learning was hard, imparted truth, justice, morality, and built character. Students retitled the school Sustainable Farming on Steroids. One day, the girls discovered the wartime journals of their two great-grandfathers, who served in WWII. And a wartime journal of Stella’s grandfather, who served in Vietnam. Now, many years after the wars ended, the girls began turning the journals into a book-lengt... more

  • Alice's War

    by WILLIAM MCCLAIN

    Weymouth, England 1939

    War changes everything. For grandson Martin, coming of age under the backdrop of World War II. For Sonja, the Jewish refugee he’s drawn to, who left her family in Germany only to face new dangers in England. And for Martin’s friend, Ellis, confronting a war similar to the one that drove his father to alcoholism. Recently widowed, Alice must set aside her long-awaited chance to recreate her life on her own terms when the war places her two grandchildren... more

  • The End of Everything

    by Jimi Fritz
    It is midnight at the Winterbourne Psychiatric Institution. The only sound is the staccato hammering of a Smith-Corona Silent-Super typewriter. The crack of its Bakelite keys ricochet through the corridors like six-inch nails pounded into a solid mahogany plank. Known only as Fritz, the man at the typewriter rails against the world while plotting his own suicide. So begins a dark, comedic romp through the complex mind of a man on the edge. \tFritz takes great pleasure in his above-average IQ an... more

  • EIFFEL TOWER, PRIDE OF HAITI

    by gerard germain
    This is a summary of pertinent information in the author's previous publication that the New York Times echoed. It is also an uplifting book for the desperate and forgotten Haitian people.

  • Ralph & Murray

    by Rick Glaze

    Growing up in a small southern town in the late 1950s, this autobiographical tale is told with punch and humor by my four-legged companion, Ralph. This low-to-the-ground, canine perspective of my story was somewhat news to me, but who can question the poignant truth of the matter from Ralph's own lips. Why do pencils have erasers, and who eats alligators for lunch? Ralph and Murray have the answers. Travel along with Ralph and his sidekick as they narrate the story of the author's fic... more

  • Alive Nearby

    by Breena Clarke
    Amarantha “Amy” Douglas, retired school administrator, writes letters to her absent M. that juxtapose her personal loss with her family’s and institution’s long history in the highlands of New Jersey. Through her letters, Amy Douglas continues a family tradition of correspondence and preserves a vibrant family and institutional history for future generations. This gently ruminative novel ponders the intersection of past, present, and future in lyrical dispatches with the same storytelling brio o... more

  • The Impudent Edda

    by Rowdy Geirsson

    After 800 years, the final installment of The Edda Trilogy has at long last arrived! Picking up where its medieval forebears, The Poetic Edda and The Prose Edda, left off, The Impudent Edda not only introduces readers to a fresh, new perspective on both familiar and previously unknown narratives of Norse mythology, but also brings the world's foremost epic fantasy trilogy to its inevitable and fateful conclusion: in a dank alleyway behind a dive bar in ... more

  • Olawu

    by P. J. Leigh
    Olawu’s dream is to become a physician like her father. Though learning is forbidden in her patriarchal village, the rules are no match for Olawu’s strong will and her father’s secret teaching. When tragedy leaves her family destitute and vulnerable, Olawu must forgo her dream to save them. Falling in love, and getting caught in the middle of a war, were not part of her plan.

  • Choosing Sides

    by David K. Wessel
    Choosing Sides is the story of an ordinary family torn apart by Hitler's Germany

  • The Blue Iris

    by Rachel Stone
    A group of vibrant people with broken pasts converge on the Blue Iris Flower Market, where they unearth deeply rooted secrets and finally own their uncomfortable truths. Told from multiple perspectives in the spirit of Clare Pooley’s The Authenticity Project and hit television shows Ted Lasso and This Is Us, The Blue Iris is an intricately woven exploration of love tested beyond its limits, chosen family, and the beauty that grows in letting go.

  • 13 Acorns: Modern Short Stories for Thoughtful Adults

    by G. Edward Martin
    13 Acorns is the debut work of up-and-coming American author G. Edward Martin. It is composed of twelve original short stories written in multiple genres beneath the umbrella of philosophical fiction. Each unique story addresses one central idea or moral question, with each story being akin to a single acorn—something small or simple with the potential to grow enormous. 1.\tThe False Treeing Hound- Daniel, a lost young man, abandons everything and sets out on a road-trip headed west. After his ... more

  • The Mighty Esox: A Supernatural Mystery Novel

    by G. Edward Martin
    The Mighty Esox- A Supernatural Mystery Novel follows the journey of James Roslyn, a broken man wrestling with personal struggle, regret, and trying to rectify his own perceived mistakes. James recruits the help of his older brother, Alan, to travel with him in search of an elusive village concealed deep in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, so they can properly honor their recently lost grandfather and recreate a trip he had taken decades earlier. However, when the two brothers find the concealed v... more

  • Treasures of the Lochs

    by Greenleaf Book Group
    A long-lost treasure, a deadly chase, and a magnificent beast of legends For almost three hundred years, people have searched for one of the greatest treasures in history—the lost gold of the Scottish Jacobites. Following his father’s death and a brazen late-night break-in at the United States Naval Academy, Lieutenant Carter Porter, his life and career in tatters, unwittingly joins the quest. In Scotland, Hassie Douglass, a spirited young employee of a luxury inn situated on the picturesq... more
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