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Sean Akerman's crisp, evocative voice lays bare vulnerabilities, wonder, and mystery. With deep attention to his characters' psychologies, he creates men and women who linger in your mind long after you finish reading. His novella, Krakow, does just that. A man moves into a Brooklyn apartment and finds the journals left behind by the previous tenants. As he reads the journals, he discovers two people wrestling with why and how their love disap...

Trapped in the orbit of the buttes and a black obsidian Clovis, Hanna is sure there's nothing romantic about her hot and dusty job as an archeologist in the cultural and real desert. As she negotiates the misogyny of this no-woman's-land, she's on the move to evade physical and spiritual abuse at the hands of oil-field boys, and guard the damaged and angelic Paul. A vegetarian in a fast food wasteland, Hanna can't quite catch the wave of nothi...

Papa is a good liar-he can tell a fib all the way from Ripley to Nashville to calm everyone down or make a situation seem better, including the Great Depression. But the day he promises fourteen-year-old Caroline that everything will be okay when he leaves the farm to find work elsewhere, she isn't so sure. After all, George told her something very similar not long ago. And they haven't heard from him since. His loud laugh echoes in her mind, ...

That One Cigarette is a counterfactual history novel following four families from November of 1963 to January of 2009. In November '63, Ed Callahan is an assistant manager at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. His promise to his wife to quit smoking as soon as he finishes the pack in his pocket ends up changing the course of events on November 22. The fallout of this action alters the lives of the Scott family in Rochester, New York, ...

A story of ordinary people making extraordinary ripples in the ocean of life.That One Cigarette is a counterfactual history novel following four families from November of 1963 to January of 2009. In November '63, Ed Callahan is an assistant manager at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. His promise to his wife to quit smoking as soon as he finishes the pack in his pocket ends up changing the course of events on November 22. The fallout...

Twelve years after a botched kidnapping, young Mía Muñoz gets returned to a life of wealth and privilege in California. It's the right name. But it's the wrong girl. High in the Sierra Madre mountains of northern Mexico, impoverished Amedeo Munoz rescues an anonymous baby girl during a 1936 earthquake, insisting that she is his daughter. Twelve years later, when young Maria is 'rescued' again, this time by detective Gerald Manley, a more glamo...

A tragicomic story set in a Midwest university town, The College of Corn portrays a community of overseas Chinese students and immigrants, and three fledging young woman scholars - one from Taiwan, one Mainlander, and one Hong Konger - experiencing early adulthood, the reality of the American dream, commercialized education, and romance in a troubled country and flawed academia. Rachel, a Ph.D. student from China and the chief editor of a ...

A 9th-grader, Dapeng Liu, greets the 1949 communist victory in China with awe and confusion. While trying to shed old traditions and fit into the revolution, he's constantly caught between incomprehensible reality and his conscience. Amid his struggles with shifting political dictates, academic and financial adversity, purges, a broken marriage, and loneliness, he learns to swim in the stormy sea of Mao's first decades in power. As his profess...

The novel works on at least two levels: a relatively conventional external plot involving the inevitable struggles of two lovers from drastically different backgrounds, and a highly suggestive internal movement, governed by a set of symbols linking the subjective and objective worlds.

In the mid-19th century, the itinerant Vlad D'Agostino arrives in New York City after a long stay in Japan, bringing with him a samurai mask and a terminal case of tuberculosis. In Manhattan, he learns of an innovative doctor who claims to have found a treatment for the disease using 'alpine air, ' but Vlad will have to travel to the physician's clinic in the Rocky Mountains, in a place known as Never Summer…. On his quest to save himself and ...

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A Most Anticipated Small Press Book of 2017: a poignant love story and dynamic political novel of a period in our history that resonates todayPeace Corps Volunteer Laura Jenson has a lot in common with Peter Franklin, a Fulbright Scholar, whom she meets in Guatemala City in 1963. Both of them are inspired by JFK's call to action for a new foreign policy that would help the poor and promote democracy. What they find, however, is the reality of ...

A migrant novel based on the true story of Lost Boy of Sudan Michael Majok Kuch "The best war novel told from a young boy's perspective since Jerzy Kozinski's The Painted Bird." -Nyoul Lueth Tong, author of There is a Country: New Writing from the New Country of South Sudan Set across a backdrop of refugee migration that spans Africa, America and Australia, How Fast Can You Run is the inspiring story of Michael Majok Kuch and his journey t...

The epic tale of two teens in a fight to save a warming planet . . .the universe . . . and their love Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner Book Excellence Award Finalist New York Book Festival Honorable Mention This cli-fi quest full of romance, honor, and adventure is the #1 Top Marinovich Fiction Read of the year LitPick 5-Star Review Award Winner Best of a New Genre, included in "12 Works of Climate Fiction Everyone Should Read" Eco-Fiction ...

On May 4, 1970, the campus of Kent State University became the final turning point in Americans' tolerance for the Vietnam War, as National Guardsmen opened fire on unarmed student protestors, killing four and wounding nine. It was one of the first true school shootings in our nation's history. A new young adult novel, Leaving Kent State (Harvard Square Editions), by debut author Sabrina Fedel, brings to life America's political and social tur...

Desperate to escape the tedium of small island life, Florian finds himself drawn to Zar, not realizing how thoroughly her unconventional spirit will challenge his beliefs. The arrival of Emily relieves some of the tension that exists between the two, but hidden agendas provide new sources of conflict as the three characters discover each other and themselves.Elsewhere in the space-time continuum, Jo, an American in Brazil, stumbles upon an ana...

The Handbook for Literary Analysis: How to Evaluate Prose Fiction, Drama, and Poetry reclaims the metaphor, rhetoric, and literary analysis. It has a high view of the reader, the critic, and the student. This Handbook explains and illustrates a wide range of significant literature. Readers explore inspired examples, including biblical examples. Finally, readers read real literary analytical essays by American high school students. "Dr. Stobaug...

The Handbook for Literary Analysis: How to Evaluate Prose Fiction, Drama, and Poetry reclaims the metaphor, rhetoric, and literary analysis. It has a high view of the reader, the critic, and the student. All three are invited to think critically and to discuss thoroughly the great literary works of all civilizations. Systematically, this Handbook defines, explains, and illustrates a wide range of significant literary terms in fiction, drama, a...

Set in the world of sleazy banks that cost people their homes, Trading Dreams is a mystery as well as a call to action! An intriguing blend of one woman's awakening to her own power, an unsolved killing, and the inner workings of the Occupy Wall Street movement, this book will keep you up reading 'til the last page." - Susan Rubin, Ms Magazine Blogger, Feminist Majority Documentary Film-maker, Playwright J. L. Morin's humor unmasks the hypocri...

The Conjuror's Boy is the saga of Thomas Faye, a fatherless boy who enters a junk shop on a gray Chicago day in 1962 and is forever changed by the two men he meets there. Arthur Farrell, the proprietor, is a sometime-magician, raconteur, wanderer, a wounded veteran of the carnage at the Somme, who can heal - and perhaps far more - with the mere touch of his hand. His belligerent friend Meyer, a seemingly indestructible survivor of the fall of ...