 | Ghosts of El Grullo
Publication Date: March 16, 2008Having left her much-loved San Diego barrio, Yolanda Sahagún is now living in the university dorms when a series of events--her mother dies and her father sells their home--forces her to re-examine her life. Yolanda visits her parents' hometown of El Grullo, Mexico, struggling to understand the ghosts in her life--her mother, her father, and her seemingly idyllic childhood. She fears losing herself in the disintegration of the family. For Yolanda, her father is her enemy (or so she thinks), and in the course of the novel we see him at his best and worst, ...
 |  | In the Meantime
Publication Date: September 1, 2008From the intimacy of small town America to big city life, from WWII to 9/11, In the Meantime vividly encapsulates an unforgettable era. ...
|  | Henry of Atlantic City: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2001From the author of Horace Afoot comes this affectionate and beautiful tale of a six-year-old prodigy with a photographic memory and a penchant for the Gnostic gospels and Byzantine history.Set against the background of Caesar's Palace, Henry of Atlantic City is a satirical “hagiography” of a troubled child trying to make sense of the world around him. Henry, whose imagination has been fed by ancient texts, finds himself living in a conflated world of past and present where casino owners are Byzantine Emperors, and the world is populated by Huns, Cappa...
|  | Lyin' Like a Dog
Publication Date: February 22, 2010As a young boy, R. Harper Mason lived the life of the paperboy, 'Richard,' in this novel. His interactions with the people in the small town of Norphlet, Arkansas, and the surrounding woods and swamps, formed the basis for both his first novel, The Red Scarf, andthis sequel, Lyin' Like a Dog. It was time of brown, sunburned feet and shirtless summers where a boy's only entertainment was his imagination. Mason is a geologist, an environmentalist, and an advocate for historic preservation. He lives with his wife, Vertis, in El Dorado, Arkansas... a few miles ...
|  | For the May Queen
Publication Date: September 20, 2008It s 1981 and 17-year-old Norma Rogers' parents drop her off at the college dorms. Soon, Norma finds herself drunk and nearly naked with three strangers. The strip poker event is the first of many experiences that prompt Norma to question who she is and who she wants to be. Norma's relationships with an array of characters induce her to grapple with society's messages about women, sex, and freedom. These characters include Jack, her aloof on-again, off-again boyfriend; Goat, her antsy dorm neighbor; Liz Chan, a pot-smoking sorority girl; Benny Moss, a nerd...
|  | The Legend of League Park
Publication Date: May 12, 2012Gioia Rinaldi is the star pitcher of Tusky Valley's Girl's Softball Team, but she wants more. She wants to play professional baseball, but everyone around her says it's impossible for a girl. When her brother is recruited to the majors, she wonders why he can have her dream and she cannot. Audrey Dawson has been thrown for a loop as she learns that now her beloved father is sick with ALS. The only constant thing in her world is baseball. In order to keep sports in her life, she decides to become a journalist covering baseball for her college newspaper, but it's ...
|  | Fifteen Fragments: Service is a Learning Story
Publication Date: April 6, 2011Alexis Coston is perfect: 4.0, flawless resume, put together 24 hours a day. On the other side of Fayetteville is Lina Dorsay, the beautiful mystery who no one understands. They know nothing about each other and rarely exchange words, despite attending Fayetteville Prep together.Until one typical spring day when Lina opened the car door in her driveway to find Alexis pale and about to pass out. This was the moment that changed everything she knew about Alexis. The two girls who never thought anyone could understand their worlds came together to give each other ...
|  | Antithesis
Publication Date: November 1, 2010Elliott Marks, a nice girl from a small town in Mississippi, just discovered her true passion in life - horses. While her girlfriends worry about clothes, guys, and where they will go to college, Elliott dreams of riding her pretty gray Thoroughbred mare and winning ribbons. But when she accepts an invitation to a foxhunt, her life bolts in several new directions. Suddenly something and someone else starts her heart, but can she ignore her upbringing, her parents, and her friends to trust...the unknown? Who exactly are her friends? Are they friends or rivals...
|  | Hassie Calhoun: A Las Vegas Novel of Innocence
Publication Date: June 7, 2011HASSIE CALHOUN, the first book of a trilogy, is a modern bildungsroman about a lovely, determined and talented teenager from the late 1950s/early 60s rural Texas, who flees a difficult family situation to seek fame and fortune as an entertainer in Las Vegas. Her beauty opens doors immediately, but leads only to a sybaritic lifestyle controlled by her brooding and dangerous lover, Jake, as well as drawing the attention of the powerful Frank Sinatra. Like the goddess Persephone, Hassie finds herself drawn alternately to the darkness and the light, finding joy and ...
|  | Writing on the Wall
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Megan befriends him without knowing anything about his past. Donnie relinquishes his solitude to her for the same reason. Her mom's affection is suffocating. His mom randomly shifts from being indifferent to overprotective. Neither teens' father is there when they need him.Donnie and Megan have to escape. Their haven is a rented storage unit, where there reveal their secrets, conquer boredom, and change each other's lives forever. ...
|  | Letters From The Ledge
Publication Date: March 26, 2012Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2012 for Young Adult Fiction Honorable Mention at the 2012 New York Book Festival Runner Up - 2012 Hollywood Book Festival Still reeling from the suicide of his best friend Tess, seventeen-year old Brendan struggles to overcome addiction and identity issues. Walking the ledge outside his Manhattan apartment has become its own sort of drug, as he stands night after night with his arms outstretched, ready to fly away.Sarah can see him from her window, and begins journaling about a boy on a ledge. Paige and Nate, a...
|  | Before (Vintage International)
Release Date: July 8, 2008| Series: Vintage International From the author of God's Snake, and Fear comes a stunning novel that shines light on what it means to be beautiful, and to be possessed—by oneself, and by others.The setting is 1970s New York City, a time and place of creativity, sexual freedom, and unforeseen dangers. At its center is Beatrice, who is twenty-five, mesmerizingly lovely, intelligent, and married to Ned, a volatile painter whose obsession with her has turned to hatred. Beatrice is desired by everyone around her: by Faye, her seductive, bawdy childhood friend; by ...
|  | Kelland
Publication Date: September 1, 2009When the Truth Is All That MattersThe truth begins with a family evacuated from Saigon during the final days of the Viet Nam War. Or perhaps it begins later, with a devoutly Catholic child with the voice of an angel who is troubled by visions both sacred and profane. Or perhaps later still, with a couple drifting apart following a tragedy.Kelland appears to them all in the guise of a small boy, a lover, a priest...Kelland is an enigma, a puzzle, and an almost imperceptible presence. Kelland is violence, sorrow, and joy. Kelland is the common thread tying fi...
|  | Wild Mulberries
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Sarah is on the brink of adulthood in her village in the mountains of Lebanon in the 1930s, a world itself hesitating on the verge of change. Her father the shaykh is uninterested in anything but the silkworms he's always raised, no matter that each year they're worth less. Her conservative aunt worries only about the family's reputation, fearing that Sarah will take after her mother, who ran away twelve years ago and has been unheard of since. Sarah's brother dreams of going abroad, but each year finds himself still trapped in the family business. Around her the...
|  | One Foot Wrong
Release Date: August 18, 2009“The stars shine brightest out of the deepest dark . . .” A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive, religious parents. Hester Wakefield has never spoken to another child, nor seen the outside world. Her one possession is an illustrated children’s Bible, and its imagery forms the sole basis for her capacity to make poetic, real-life connections.Her companions at home are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and Tree, and they all speak to her, sometimes telling her what to do. One day she takes a brave Alice in Wonderland trip into the forbi...
|  | Forest Song: Finding Home
Publication Date: February 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0981473989 | ISBN-13: 978-0981473987| Edition: 1st The story of Judy Baumann s struggle to escape to her true home in the woods and to grow into her power there. A cast of magical characters, including a witch, the witch s consort, a family of fairies, an ancient oak, and a bevy of animals each help her in this enterprise.We lived just at the edge of the frontier, as Mama called it, at the border of civilization. According to her the woods beyond our field was a lawless place, full of perils far worse than I could imagine, and so she made me ...
|  | About US
Publication Date: March 12, 2012Try as we might to deny it, we are in part what our families have made us. Set under the shadows of the Great Depression and World War II, About Us follows Benny Kahn, youngest of a Jewish family living in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, from his first great disappointment to the moment when he faces the choice of who and what he will become. It is a story of joy and grief, of love and anger, andof a boy who grows to manhood while the world he knows crumbles and falls. In his first novel, reprinted now after nearly three decades, Chester Aaron’s clear ...
|  | Off Track
Publication Date: February 19, 2011At twelve, Gary Sanderson found himself in Radcliffe – the oppressive juvenile detention facility for boys. At sixteen, he has a chance for a new, normal life in a new, normal town with foster parents Don and Gail Morgan. He attempts to build this new life, even as his past catches up to him and the problems of a small town erupt all around him.These problems spin out of control when the girl he loves asks him one question: Will he kill her father?Off Track is the character study of a boy, shaped by abuse and burdened with the death of his father, tr...
|  | Steplings: A Novel
Publication Date: September 16, 2011 Nineteen-year-old Jason is lost. The rush of graduation parties has subsided, the ubiquitous discussion of college departures dimmed to a dull roar. His former classmates have made elaborate plans, but the only date on Jason’s calendar is a court appearance next Monday. Jason, who dropped out of high school just two months shy of graduation, finds himself stuck in the well-worn grooves of his hometown. But when his over-achieving girlfriend Lisa departs for UT Austin to study medicine, Jason finds Mesquite a place he can hardly recognize. Jaso...
|  | The Broken World
Publication Date: March 23, 2012Luke Citrine’s grandfather is dying…and he and his family have come to the farm to help his grandmother and to keep vigil. Along with his older brother Stephen and cousin Simon, Luke spends his days seeking adventures in the farm’s fields, caves, and lake, doing anything to avoid the aura of death that fills the house. His adventures take an unexpected and harrowing turn when a tragedy occurs that shakes the very foundations of his family and changes Luke forever.In this austere and meditative story, a young man grows to face the truth abo...
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