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Joe was just a guy punching the clock until Zappa showed up, but one flea-bitten, yowling tomcat later, and Joe is ejected from his daily grind to land smack in the middle of his dream job at the Brownbagg Brewery, a new life in atrailer park with a very interesting next-door neighbor named Janine- oh, and waking nightmares of a mysterious cult leader reanimating the dead. When Joe discovers that the monsters from his nightmares are real and h...

WHAT IS THE MESSAGE HIDDEN BEHIND A POLITE SMILE?In Yong Takahashi's Atlanta, the immigrants, preacher's wives, strippers, and shopkeepers who pass each other on the street all have a secret story to tell. Caught between generations of family, regrets from their pasts, conflicting cultures, and even countries, each character has a reason to fiercely guard their secret lives, even as they learn that the truth must escape. Takahashi's characters...

A Powerful and Poignant Coming-of-Age Tale A nosy young girl is on a quest to learn her family's hidden truths no matter who it upsets. Ten-year-old Willie Ma doesn't just live near the town of Feral, she's a bit feral herself. Spending her days eavesdrop- ping, exploring on her bike, and avoiding her brutish big brother, she's determined to uncover the secrets adults are clearly trying to keep from her. Raised in a Holy Roller family, Willie ...

AN ETHEREAL TALE OF HUNGRY GHOSTSA psychopathic killer disappears into the mountains and haunts the troubled residents. After the murderous Angel Jones escapes from a prison work crew, he mysteriously vanishes deep into the North Carolina woods forcing newcomers Cal and Joy McAlister to deal with his macabre presence lingering in the secluded forest. Burdened with grief, guilt, and unfilled dreams, Cal and Joy are joined by an oddball handyman...

A GRITTY AND DARK TALE OF REVENGE A tortured husband's grief stalks him like a friendly attacker. After his beautiful wife and young children die in a horrific car accident, Mark Hansberg risks all he has and more to solve the riddle of his family's sudden death. When his journey leads him down a treacherous path, he must decide how far is too far to travel for a dubious chance at redemption. This contemporary urban tale masterfully blends lit...

The morning Bill Becker awakes to find the butterfly tattoo bleeding on his chest, his upwardly mobile life begins its harrowing downward spiral. Exiled from a corporate career and from the failed marriage he left behind in a gated Charlotte community, Bill becomes obsessed with a tattooed dancer named Lucy, who is running from a trauma buried deep in her own past. Lucy and Bill wrap themselves in new skins of ink, wrought by the same artist, ...

DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, the U.S. government illegally deported more than a million Mexican American citizens to make room on the welfare rolls and alleviate unemployment for white Americans. Carlos Moreno is a young man who has known only hardship and poverty, chasing rumors of work across Texas during the 1920s. Pursued by a renegade Texas ranger who thinks he holds the key to a secret, Carlos takes refuge in "Little Mexico, " Houston's ...

Can Emma make the impossible decision between her boyfriend's continued suffering or having him leave her forever?EMMA FANE'S WORLD IS SHATTERED when her boyfriend, Kalen Machrae, drives off of a haunted bridge, leaving him teetering between life and death. After Jessa, Kalen's obsessive sister, starts committing arson closer and closer to where the ailing Kalen rests, Emma seeks the counsel of Lilly, the Machrae family banshee. Torn between l...

THE WALPOLE BROTHERS take their little sister, Dew, out on a johnboat to pirate the waterways for beer and loose change. Dew falls overboard and appears to drown, until two men with gigantic wings swoop down and carry her body away into the sky. The news of her disappearance hits the family hard, driving the mother to fashion wings so she can fly after the men who took her daughter. The Walpole boys set off in search of their little sister and...

A Beautifully Crafted Southern Gothic TaleA SHOCKING TRAGEDY follows an unstable family to a foothill town mired in tradition and hearsay, and challenges the bucolic hamlet's unwritten code. Once the Pickett family's demons unmask themselves to the citizens of Germantown, the isolated Piedmont villagers are forced to navigate the brutal upshots of violence and trauma. Collectively, they must face hard lessons about the traumatic unpredictabili...

IS REPAYING A DEBT OF GRATITUDE WORTH THE COST OF SANITY?Ben Bramley must answer that question when a fall day phone call beckons him back to the farm of his youth, to the land that scarred him to the bone. If he rescinds his resolution of lifetime avoidance, he will be returning to the postcard mountain hamlet of Abundance where townsfolk are long on judgment but short on sympathy. Clueless that their black-or-white world of Southern Baptist ...

A world-class ballerina loses her left leg in a horrifying accident, and with it, she loses her entire identity. After striving her entire life to establish a place in the grueling world of professional ballet, Sarah Gordon must reinvent herself. But as Sarah attempts to forge her new life, her husband's guilt turns him into an overbearing and meticulous caretaker. The couple must navigate their new roles and find the perfect balance of love a...

For fans of Philip K. Dick's The Man In the High Castle and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.A BLOODLESS RELIGIOUS COUP turns the American dream into an American nightmare where dissenters are jailed. Religious right-wingers rule the land, and those who resist the oppressive theocracy are forced into reeducation camps until they repent or disappear. A young Jewish-Gentile couple desperately navigates the tyrannical new regime by remaining...

A Brash and Clever Midlife COming-of-AgeA cowboy-up moment drives a derelict dad to decide whether he'll saddle up and rescue his loved ones from menacing threats or retreat to the comforting denial of good old boy golf and corporate hedonism. When a mysterious backyard stalker and an ex-biker preacher threaten Jesse Few's boozy womanizing life, the middle age rogue's cavalier approach to life and love is challenged. This energetic and enterta...