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At 34, Scarlet Kavanagh has the kind of homecoming no child wishes, a visit back to family and dear friends for the gentle passing of her mother, Addie, a famous bird artist and an even more infamous environmental activist. Though Addie and her husband, ornithologist Tom Kavanagh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the New Jersey home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because the Kavanagh's ramshac...

At the age of seven a mulatto slave boy, Jimmy Gates, is freed by his owner-father, separated from his mother, and sent to England for an education. So begins this adventure story of one man's quest to understand the true meaning of moral freedom.

Against a backdrop of Prohibition, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, the Verbicaro family makes its way from southern Italy to San Francisco to the Yucatan, finding ways to reinvent themselves as each member brushes up against some aspect of the divine.

Mixing heartbreak with satire, Abeel has created an intimate drama of a family shadowed by the past. "Conscience Point" offers enlightening descriptions of one woman's tough resilience and her ability to love and sacrifice when confronted with difficult choices.

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is a sweeping historical novel of Mexico during the short, tragic, at times surreal, reign of Emperor Maximilian and his court. This lush, grand read is based on the true story and illuminates both the cultural roots of Mexico and the political development of the Americas. The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is a story both sweeping and intimate, of geopolitics, the glamour of royalty, and the grit of mi...

Taut with suspense, beautifully imagined, full of unexpected corners, desperate choices, betrayals and half-truths with deadly consequences, "The Singer's Gun" explores the dangerous territory between one's moral compass and the heart's desire.

When her longtime lover dies in a plane crash, a concert violist is blackmailed by his widow in this artful novel about secrecy, vengeance and regret.

A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother's blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn't know what she has done wrong, but Jonas won't answer his cell phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in a safe-house apartment in New York City, pondering his conversion to Islam and his experiences training in Pakistan, preparing for the violent ...

Tears of the Mountain chronicles a single day in one man's life--July 4, 1876--along with a series of flashbacks that all lead up to an eventful Centennial Independence Day celebration in Sonoma, California. Over the course of this surprisingly pivotal moment in his life, Jeremiah McKinley prepares for the celebration and for a reunion with old friends and family. However, as he reflects on past love, the hazardous pioneer journey of his youth...

A deep friendship springs up between Amazing Grace Jensen and Mary Elizabeth Cox when they meet at Berea College in the early 1960s. Both troubled by difficult family situations, they find solace in each other and their connection to aging Shaker Georginea Ward.

As the California borderland newspaper where they work prepares to close, three reporters are oddly given assignments to return to stories they've covered before--each one surprisingly personal. The first assignment takes reporter Aaron Klinsman and photographer Rita Valdez to an abandoned motel room where the mirrors are draped with towels, bits of black tape cover the doorknobs, and the perfect trace of a woman's body is imprinted on the bed...

Intelligence analyst Noel Leonard struggles to come to terms with a mistake that caused the bombing of a Pakistani school even as another man uncovers his diplomat father's long-buried secrets.

In this rich, gothic tale, a young soul comes of age during the fabular boom and bust years of an immigrant coal mining town in 19th-century California.

The third of Candida Lawrence's memoirs, Fear Itself rises from her life-long awareness of human fragility. A survivor in the truest sense and a woman of greatest personal resilience, Lawrence traces her years struggling to have a child and her slow realization that she is a victim of governmental secrets and lies during the 1940's. Unwittingly exposed to low-level radiation, Lawrence learns to believe herself into wholeness and survive her di...