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Bound by circumstance and tradition, mocked by the turnpike that bisects their farmland, folks folded into the ridges overlooked by Timmons Mountain sense the world is literally passing them by. Their tales reveal the resilience of the human spirit as they evince paradoxical change. "We read it with enthusiasm, and experienced the narration and point of view of a working-class woman as strong, unpredictable, and convincing." -M...

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Meet Bettina Grosjean, a professor of Women's History, and her husband, a high-ranking environmental policymaker in the New York City mayor's office. Once a pair of student radicals, they are now raising their two brainy children on New York's Upper West Side. Upper West Side Story is the tale of fierce parental love tested in a startling eruption of racial hostility and political chicanery within the very community they have long loved and he...

Two teens in love must make the ultimate sacrifice to avert global disaster... First-period English class is the last place 17-year-old Laena expects to have her entire existence thrown into a tailspin. But when Cree, a jaw-droppingly gorgeous boy, mysteriously appears in her classroom, Laena knows nothing will ever be the same. Before Laena can decide who Cree really is or whether anything he says is true, she falls for him. Hard. Cree...

The epic tale of two teens in a fight to save a warming planet...the universe...and their love. A cli-fi quest to outsmart polluters, full of romance, honour and adventure. "The eco-novel is wonderful...universal symbols are unearthed, codes are investigated, fat corporations are dominating, romance is blossoming, computers come alive, and native tribes and Nature on another planet bring our own treasured past into the future." -The GuardianRe...

Anomie is a uniquely told story of Michael, a middle-aged university professor and writer. After a series of tragic events, he seeks closure through myriad experiences, in order to bring balance to his world. Will he find himself in China?"With strong clear prose Jeff Lockwood illuminates the state of moving between cultures, physically, emotionally, and romantically. It's not that his character, Michael, has no connections, or no heritage. An...

In a barbaric future, enough hope remains for some to sacrifice everything: the gripping story of a father's struggle to save his son from a corrupt society in a pitiless, bleak, futuristic America.Mired in a corrupt, dangerous city that is on the verge of collapse, a father and son flee to a rural village, hoping to find refuge from their violent lives. What they find is not the haunted hippie environs of local legend, but a gritty farm commu...

Nineteenth century women are committed to an insane asylum for reasons that have nothing to do with their sanity: When New York physician, Adam Fletcher takes the position of medical doctor at the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane in 1857, he quickly realizes the asylum is not a place of healing. His compassion for the women under his care, and his shock at the perversity of their treatment propel him into actions no one could have pre...

The Beard" is a look at a Santa Monica-based internet empire, where young interns grovel at the feet of multimillionaires in the hope of moving up the food chain. Our protagonist is, Calvin, who comes to realize that his purpose is mainly as filler, with little of chance of promotion, while competing against the sons and daughters of the wealthy and well-connected, unless he finds a way to become indispensable.Alan Swyer is an award-winning fi...

CODA chronicles the life, and After-life, of the Last Human left alive, in both flashback and future shock, after the Apocalypse of the Millennium, where timeless, Masculinist aggression, and blindness , predictably destroy all life on Earth. The Last Journey is a compelling philosophical, and religious, Post-Modernist narrative, that (re)solves eventually the Riddle of the Universe: from the unique vantage point of the Last Sentient Being lef...

Faggot: An Appalachian TaleThe true story of tragedy, despair, and hope for the future after surviving a childhood of bullying by Frank E. Billingsley Debut true story on homosexuality, religion, overpopulation, and a boy's desire to fit into a society that has marked him as an outcast.A teenager tries to make sense of his life. He has turned cold, withdrawn, and depressed. He is different, and everyone knows. He is gay, living in a town that ...

Nature spent millions of years sculpting her masterpiece, Praiano. This place awakens the senses: taste the lemon, the basil, and the wine, touch the smooth stones and the passionate people, smell the espresso, the jasmine, and the briny breeze, and see the chiseled Lattari Mountains that soar from the azure Tyrrhenian Sea-killer views. Gerardo and Ciro, an easygoing pair from Praiano, have been best friends since their earliest memory, but th...

A rollicking, wholly entertaining take on the Italian immigrant story." --Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn. His father and grandparents immigrated to New York from Naples. Joe and his wife, Jane have lived in Brazil, Greece, Belgium and the Netherlands. They now live in Texas with their shih tzu Sophia.

Sparks ignite when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets rich, eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy. But Elizabeth, and her four unmarried sisters prejudge Mr. Darcy's genteel wit as proud, ill nature, while he battles with his pride, falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can the two lovers overcome their prejudice and their pride? The most-read novel of all time lives in this beautiful illustrated edition, abounding in courtship drama, tre...

Selina, a beautiful, British-born Pakistani young woman recently lost her father, and finds herself struggling to cope with life, in particular with some aspects of her studies. Matters go from bad to worse, when a trusted family friend from the mosque offers to tutor her, and rapes her instead. With the threat of dishonour to her family at her back, Selina goes to extreme lengths to avoid scandal, and prevent shame being brought to her widowe...

Selina, a beautiful, British-born Pakistani young woman recently lost her father, and finds herself struggling to cope with life, in particular with some aspects of her studies. Matters go from bad to worse, when a trusted family friend from the mosque offers to tutor her, and rapes her instead. With the threat of dishonour to her family at her back, Selina goes to extreme lengths to avoid scandal, and prevent shame being brought to her widowe...

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The first anthology of the Brussels Writers Circle

Who would've thought that doomsday could be so much fun? Though the characters in Greg Jenkins's new novel A Face in the Sky may not always enjoy what happens, readers certainly will.An apocalyptic tale with literary flair, A FACE IN THE SKY delivers a leavening dose of dark, irreverent humor. Among the characters are a befuddled business professor, a retired (and roguish) major league baseball player, an adult film actress, and a playwright w...

Winner of the 2017 Gold IPPY Award for Best Fiction of the Mountain West.An outlaw activist on the run. A pipeline set to destroy a river. And three young women who must decide who to love, who to trust, and what to sacrifice for the greater good.Set in the tinder-dry Southwest-and based in part on real events in the early nineties and mid-aughts-Hot Season explores what Oregon Book Award Winner Cari Luna called "the charged terrain where the ...