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Like the holiday staple, this novel is topped with cherries, filled with nuts and fruit, and doused with a healthy dose of spirits. The ghost from Christmas past in this tale is no Marley, he is an incubus freed from hell and chained to a fruitcake that is continually regifted, causing much havoc in the small Southern town of Dixon. This demon, accidentally released, is on the run from an old domestic housekeeper/voodoo root doctor, the eccent...

Blue Territory is a poetic immersion into the life and art of Joan Mitchell, the great American abstract expressionist painter. A contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning, she is not as well known as her male counterparts because she was a woman and also because she spent most of her working life in France. Still, in 2013, Bloomsburg Business listed Mitchell as the bestselling female artist of all time. When asked to talk about he...

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It's early cell phone days and pompous billionaire Jack Henniger, the 80-year-old founder of Agent Brown, gets himself in trouble with the mob and his demure middle-aged wife when he takes up sexting as a retirement hobby. While Catherine is hell-bent on improving things in bed and getting the penny-pincher to bump up her widow's pension, everybody wants a piece of Jack, especially the sadistic hitman husband of his blackmailing personal assis...

Through the growing and nurturing years there is no influence as important as the coaching a youngster receives. Those he selects as his heroes mold his character and create the fiber of the individual". So preached Dan Chandler the son of Happy Chandler, beloved two-time Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner, and the wildly eccentric father of Erin and Chan. Dan uprooted his kids from their southern aristocratic roots and the political ...

Jack and Catherine, St. Louis's golden couple since meeting in a free sample line at the Cosmetic Expo, have a reputation to uphold. It's 2011 and eighty-year-old Jack thinks he has invented sexting, a useful tool for enjoying naked bodies other than his forty-five-year-old wife's. Self-help books haven't helped the modest Catherine Henninger fix things in bed with her narcissistic husband or get the stingy billionaire to beef up her widow's p...

Don't Die: Poems 2013-2021 is Michael Blumenthal's most insightful, raw and important work to date. "One of the natural poets of his generation, " praised Seamus Heaney, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. "The intellect of a scholar, the sensitivity of a poet, the objectivity of a professor of law: it hardly seems possible that so many virtues can be embodied in one, " wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and translator, C.K. W...

I have long respected Bruce Lewis as a virtuoso jazz guitarist. A close cousin to Blues, Jazz is dissonant, unstable and like the music he has mastered, the author's prose follows suit. In the tradition of Thomas Wolfe, Lewis's words are a cry to the very soil that birthed each character. In lyrical outbursts, Joshua Celeste remembers and is remembered. We are introduced to the characters that make up Joshua's life from the fields of his boyho...

The Millionaire's Checklist is a book created for entertainment purposes. The author describes it as, "a definitive guide to accumulating wealth by utilizing a simple step-by-step approach. Each and every dollar on the road to acquiring millionaire status is covered. Start your journey to financial freedom today...

Would that the Roman people had but one neck, " said the mad emperor Caligula, "that I might chop it through." In Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic, Mike Wilson takes on our own mad would-be emperor, a man "sharpening the hatchet / for our collective suicide." Wilson, a poet of keen intelligence, guides us through this upside-down world where "Antarctica is hotter than L.A." and "all the answers on Jeopardy are lies." Here is the MAGA-hatte...

Alexandra was raised to be the next Jackie Kennedy. Just as her mother intended, Alexandra's summer internship on Capitol Hill results in the perfect fiancé, a future job, and D.C. political savvy. But when Alex returns to college for her final year and falls in love with a handsome, blue-jeaned bike champion, she must choose between the two men and the lives they represent, and decide whether she can defy her mother's designs to fulfill her o...

Through the growing and nurturing years there is no influence as important as the coaching a youngster receives. Those he selects as his heroes mold his character and create the fiber of the individual". So preached Dan Chandler the son of Happy Chandler, beloved two-time Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner, and the wildly eccentric father of Erin and Chan. Dan uprooted his kids from their southern aristocratic roots and the political ...