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...
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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 ...
Fiction. Short Stories. Sometimes immigrants must share their experience with the people who are fortunate enough to reside in their countries of birth. Not just to take off the load from their shoulders, but to make the others aware of the plight o...
Fiction. In his last posthumous novel, William Gay has offered admirable homage to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Marion Yates, a teenage orphan, is taken in by an ex-schoolteacher named Black Crowe. The boy in turn cares for Crowe when he is tempor...
Fiction. If Alice had gone to a sketchy doctor in a sketchy part of town this might be the rabbit hole she went down. Charlie Cain went looking for a cure for a minor pain and was given a medicament with a teensy side effect: it made Charlie invisib...
Fiction. Young Adult. After seven long years, James Ward gets the summons he's been waiting for. Soon, reunited with his childhood friend Cornelia, he is back among the Dragons, a nation of travelers with roots in the distant Celtic past. This time ...
Fiction. Poetry. Will the cheating, will the fraud never end? Breaking News! Biden Ballots! FBI finds nearly seven million Joe Biden ballots in Alabama woman's car trunk! Sumter County, Alabama: After answering a routine mid-morning request to repai...
Fiction. California Interest. Harry Gnostopolos is frantically trying to keep his beloved indie theater afloat while his frustrated girlfriend implores him to let it go along with his other neuroses. Harry's fate suddenly changes with the arrival of...
Fiction. Film. After being diagnosed with three months to live, 20 year old misfit Chaz Chase decides a road trip will help him find the meaning of life—and maybe apologize to certain people for being a jerk along the way. He adopts a dog as a trave...