 | Children in Heat
Publication Date: November 15, 2011Over the course of one manic night in the late 80s, a 15-year-old boy struggles to control the tiny dramas of his small-town punk clique as well as his own blossoming sexual desires. Narrated in the boy’s profane (although occasionally profound) jargon, Children in Heat unveils the funny, painful, and often insightful thoughts of a troubled teen. ...
 |  | The Body's Perfect: A Novel in Stories
Publication Date: July 17, 2012"Meet Irv, Dorna, Junior, Jackie and Angelo, the Miller family of Petaluma circa 1956 and in the two decades that follow. Who better to introduce you than Chris Riebli who has known them all his life, who is intimately familiar with their work and their dreams, their desires, fears and regrets. Here are twelve unsentimental tales told with loving attention and perfect pitch. These Millers of Petaluma belong to Chris Riebli in the way that Winesburg, Ohio belongs to Sherwood Anderson, or as the Salinas Valley belongs to John Steinbeck." Daniel Coshnear, author o...
|  | The Queens of K-Town
Publication Date: August 17, 2007Twenty-six-year-old Cora Moon comes back to Manhattan s Koreatown after an absence of ten years. The vision of a girl standing on the edge of a building hurtles Cora back into memory to her first summer in K-town, where along with her new friends, she got lost in the maze of nightclubs and room salons, mini-marts and private dining rooms behind rice-paper doors. The novel alternates between two worlds, as she relives her past and drifts through her present, in which she begins an affair with a stranger she callsThe Monk.They playpsychiatristin his living room...
|  | The Farm
Publication Date: February 7, 2011Sue, Ethan and Anna arrive in Oregon to find Sue's organic farming community devasted. Most barely made it through the winter. Sue's farm is overgrown and it's doubtful that she will be able to plant this spring. No one has cash to buy equipment or plant their crops. Livestock is selling below cost. Many are auctioning off their farms and moving away. Ethan has cash that he earned in Alaska and it might be enough to purchase some equipment and supplies. Their only hope is to construct a farm market where they can all sell directly to the public. The entire c...
|  | Swiss Chocolate
Publication Date: January 28, 2011Life in a Swiss boarding school is idyllic for Drew Smith. Captivated by the beauty of the Swiss Alps, he is also in love with the girl of his dreams, Alexandra Cavalletti, a young aristocrat from Rome.His world is ripped apart when he and Alexandra are expelled from school after being caught making love in the woods one night. Drew goes home to a broken family, and all that he has come to expect out of life is swept away. He spends the next thirty years trying to recapture all that was lost, including the love of his life. ...
|  | Spencer's Pond
Publication Date: August 29, 2011SPENCER'S POND is the story of Jules, a smart-mouthed teenager from Manhattan who discovers her sexuality one summer at a rural pond. Launching into a relationship with a neighboring boy, Jules is caught in a downward spiral which explodes in an unpredictable act of violence. Even as her world is shattered, Jules finds strength in the unlikely family of eccentrics who love her. In the wry, wise-cracking voice of adolescence, Jules describes her mother, Judith, a libidinous hack writer with a mysterious past, her mother's boyfriend, Shiva, a manic-depressive s...
|  | A Hero For Our Time
Publication Date: June 21, 2010Jamie Tarnowski, a sweet bright kid returns to Amherst, the town of his birth, to attend college.Here's what it's like at an elite school encountering its egos, structures, and plans for the future.He finds himself caught between two worlds, one overseen by his father, a professor, that represents the true meaning of a liberal arts education, the other guided by fitting in to the professional world of lawyers, doctors and bankers.In a class taught by his mentor about Hamlet, Jamie is informed that certain people can 'see ghosts.'Jamie, a maverick, intends to ge...
|  | Skye Object 3270a
Publication Date: February 12, 2011In an isolated star system far from any other human outposts, a space-faring "lifeboat" was discovered by a scientist from the city of Silk. Inside the lifeboat was a two-year-old girl in frozen sleep. She had no name and no history. The people of Silk believed her to be the only survivor of a star-faring great ship attacked in the void and destroyed by the automated warships of the alien Chenzeme. They rescued and revived the child, and named her "Skye."But the people of Silk face dangers of their own. Their city is in space, built around the column of a s...
|  | Student
Publication Date: December 6, 2011It’s the second semester of her senior year in college, and before she is thrown into the uncertain abyss of the real world, Jaye is desperately trying to cram in every delirious moment of university life.Her days are spent forging closer bonds with friends, watching grisly horror movies in her Film Theory class, applying to graduate school, and considering calling off the safe and secure long-distance romance she has been a part of for perhaps far too long. Her nights are spent forming attractions to fraternity boys and guitarists in local bar bands....
|  | Her Father's Daughter
Publication Date: June 6, 2008HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER (1921) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of Linda Strong, the titular heroine, a determined and opinionated young woman growing up in California in the 1920s.What could have been a typically charming and heartfelt story of personal discovery, loves and relationships by the beloved naturalist author is unfortunately marred by the strongly pronounced racist and anti-immigrant mindset of the heroine and several other characters. It must be pointed out that the racial prejudice portrayed here is typical of its time and must be viewed in a ...
|  | Where Wolves Dream: A Novel by Armand Nassery
Publication Date: September 27, 2011In the fictional town of Balluria, the evil Sheik Jawad takes in the Gypsy Barrya as a love slave, preventing her from ever dancing again. The childless mystic Gypsy becomes the surrogate mother for the many children in Balluria; one of them is the mayor’s son Salam. Barrya mesmerizes the young boys and girls with her stories mixing myths, legends and history and the secrets of the mystic town. Salam and his best friend Hamid spend countless days together. Salam and Hamid’s sister Amel form special bond through poetry and love songs. Unable t...
|  | Truth Be Told
Publication Date: July 7, 2012Caught in the midst of an emotional and an unexpected break up, a move from home and a start of a new life at university, Jack Beckett isn't having a fun time. The love of his school years, Lisa Linton, confessed that she has been cheating on him over the past few months.Now, in a new life, she's left Jack for him and left Jack tortured by her lies. Determined to move on but apprehensive of the realities, he and his fellow reclusive friends decide, purely for a laugh, to attend a speed dating event. An opportunity for him to prove to himself and to Lisa that he'...
|  | Sparks Off You
Publication Date: July 13, 2012Alienated and full of fire, two sisters navigate a chaotic world of sex, drugs, and dissolving identities. The younger sister, Julie Randeria, discovers that her assimilation into the world of Silicon Valley's teenagers only works when she lets go of her personality. But where does personality end and madness begin? When the mythology that barely holds her family together unravels, Julie is driven to the edge of unreality. Meanwhile her father and sister struggle with the limits of empathy. Beautiful, unusual language sweeps readers into the conscious...
|  | In Last Night's Clothes
Publication Date: July 14, 2012Set in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Villa Valle, In Last Night's Clothes, chronicles the misguided adventures of Colin Prescott. Presented as a charming, witty, anti-hero, Colin narrates in the form of letters to a mysteriously unnamed friend. The story takes several dark and exciting turns as he depicts navigating through his first two years in college, battling heavy family and relationship issues, and struggling to understand himself; all while having to maintain his presence as apart of the town's trend-obsessed social scene. ...
|  | Lilacs in the Snow: A Novel
Publication Date: July 21, 2011Arona Henderson, a Canadian born author, attended McGill University and the University of British Columbia. She received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. After a forty-year career as a beloved family practitioner, Arona faced her own devastating illness. Out of her resolve to survive emerged a story about courage, a compelling tale of a young Jewish girl, Caasi Lichman, born in Montreal. Lilacs in the Snow chronicles Caasi’s passage from desolate childhood to impetuous adolescence to a shaken, yet solid adulthood, and is...
|  | Preacher's Kids: Secrets & Salvation
Publication Date: April 19, 2009Mia Griffin's dark humor and quirky looks don't fit the mold of most PK's. Knowing the twisted and sometimes alarming secrets of church members generates more enemies than friends. But, as long as her free thinking best friend is by her side, Mia can laugh her way through anything. Mia's young faith will be tested when she suffers the greatest betrayal imaginable. As she begins to ask hard questions you will be astounded by the answers and perhaps learn something about the tests that God brings us through. ...
|  | MacGregor Tells the World: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2007The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel–at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, and coming-of age story–capturing a young man’s impossible and heroic first love.Twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a quest: to understand the circumstances of his mother’s untimely death. On a foggy San Francisco evening, guided by an old stack of envelopes, Mac finds himself at the mansion of cultural icon Charles Ware, where he encounters the writer’s beautiful an...
|  | Concrete Rose
Publication Date: February 23, 2012An epic entrenched within fundamentals of forgiveness and redemption, follows the tragic and tumultuous life of Diedra Brown. Raised in 1990’s Detroit, by an alcoholic, neglectful mother and soon-to-be absentee father, Diedra endures an onslaught of unimaginable trials that eventually compel her to flee home at sixteen. Mentally and emotionally scarred by her childhood, Diedra dredges through life semi-present and filled with resentment. Harboring hurt inflicted on her by those of her unfortunate childhood, Diedra’s current relationships are g...
|  | Running with the Moon
Publication Date: December 13, 2010Yano's adventure takes place in western New Mexico circa 1100 A.D. among what would today be called the pueblos. Life for the young warrior is exciting enough, what with hunting with his friends on the beautiful mesas, exploring mysterious caves, and falling in love. But there is also tragedy in Yano's world, and the treachery that spawns it. Marauders have been raiding the pueblos in their valley, and the brutality of recent attacks has escalated. When all-out war breaks out, Yano is forced on a dangerous mission of vital importance to their survival, one ...
|  | Apples: A Novel
Publication Date: June 10, 2008Apples, an unassuming debut novel plucked from the imagination of a remarkable new twenty-one-year-old talent, and published to rave reviews in London, is a surprising, affecting, ingeniously crafted little coming-of age novel that has critics calling Richard Milward the voice of the MySpace generation.As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates, and her mother’s progressing cancer, Eve’s adolescent eyes are opened to a multicolored life of fumbling one-night stands, drug-fuelled clubs, endless varieties of candy-flavored cheap b...
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