Renowned Hoover biographer turns a satiric eye. Who are Secret Agent Gals, Hilla Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim? Just two beautiful real-life socialite art collectors, who later founded the Guggenheim Museum, but eventually answered the call of duty, j...
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Fueled by the Blues, football, and guilt, white small-town hero Johnny Spink’s future explodes when he falls for an African-American girl, the brilliant daughter of his mentor. During a quest to the Mississippi Delta, Johnny is crushed by the blues ...
OFF THE YOGA MAT explores jealousy, bends of the body, and traumatic memory. Set in New York City, Finland, and New Orleans, the novel takes readers on a rollicking journey towards love and grace. OFF THE YOGA MAT follows three characters approachi...
There is a secret that we immigrants never share with the natives: a good immigrant adapts to a new country, while a most excellent immigrant makes the new country better. Fiction.
Jay Atkinson's THE TREE STAND presents short stories of hardscrabble living and crushing blows, shot through with seams of love and hope. You will find the settings convincing and mesmerizing; the characters, heartwarming and heartbreaking. "These ...
Tartt Fiction Award! These Deep South stories focus on character and setting. They often present humor and on occasion delve into form. Southern? Experimental? A collection of stories you’ll come to love as you might love something crippled but pre...
Nursing on the Floor What’s your pain, from zero to ten? How fast can you run on the floor, from zero to ten? How soon will you have burnout, from zero to ten? Over forty years of experience in nursing inspire all these stories, from joy to frust...
After the "Good War" American in transitions After “The Good War,” years of peace pervaded the United States. Except for Rosie Riveter and the resurgence of feminism. Except for returning shell-shocked G. I.s and the two- or three-martini lunch. Ex...
Even-keeled assessment of the Black experience Tartt Fiction Award Co-winner! With aplomb and humor and steady eye, this collection looks at the Black experience in Oakland, from the founding of the Black Panthers to present day. “Provocative and ...
Feminist Puritan WomenThis novel in verse tells of two historical women, Lydea Gilbert and Katherine (Kate) Harrison, who lived along the Connecticut River in the mid 1600s. They were women of intuitive genius and healing powers, who lived in a Pur...
In Venice, the narrator meets two women, one a devout and sensual Parisian, the other, an enigmatic beauty, who is mute but can hear. At the wedding—whoever bride may be—a 17th century rabbi will preside. For in this true fiction, characters cross t...
A PARCEL OF ROGUES is a quirky, barbed comedy. Opportunistic and crafty, the main characters, Gourlay and McMinn, along with the herculean Big Red, become bumbling founding member of 'army' cells that they hope will bring about Scotland's independen...
MADNESS WITH GRIEF is an autobiographical literary novel written with lyricism and dark humor about an offbeat young woman's struggle to sort her family's dynamics and the problematic circumstances of her oldest brother's death.Fiction.
The unraveling of eighteen-year-old Luna Kane's haunted past begins in the winter of 1988, when her dying great-grandfather, a self-proclaimed faith healer, claims he hears phantom owls crying in the night. "Can you hear the music?" His words trigge...
Fiction. Short Stories. Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award. THE DITCH-WALKING LOVE took shape in the Murphees Valley section of the Cumberland Plateau in central Alabama. Where I live, ridges lift above ravines the creeks and small rivers have ...