Fiction. It's the summer of 1986 in Orange County, California, and ten-year-old Thomas Kabiri's father has just left for Iran to attend a funeral. With no school in session for the next few months, and Thomas's mother working two jobs to keep the fa...
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Fiction. Young Adult. RIVEN'S PATH is the thrilling sequel to 2016's RIGHT OF CAPTURE. On this adventure, Judge follows a trail of breadcrumbs to a reclusive physicist while Roan finds herself the unwitting star of a traveling road show. Judge and R...
Fiction. The imaginary author/teacher/father Sidney Fein (1942-1984) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family's fortune came from the business of clothing women of modest means. He attended elementary school in Philadelphia. When he was tw...
Poetry. Similarity, relationship, and comparison thread this new collection by Anaheim Poet Laureate and Prize Americana-winning author, Grant Hier. This collection is thoughtful, well-wrought poetry that simultaneously connects the unexpected and r...
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Humorous and local-interest newspaper columns from the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, California) written by David Allen and published from 2001 to 2005. Topics include Jack Benny, George Putnam, "Th...
Fiction. CIRCA is a dark comedy featuring Henry Colmes, a high school sophomore trying to find his place. It is also the story of Henry as a thirty-something cub reporter trying to track down an elusive cult leader in order to interview him for the ...
Fiction. THE LONELY YOUNG & THE LONELY OLD is a collection of lyrical fictions. Told in the words of unnamed narrators, each story gives voice to the easily dismissed, speaks from the center of an almost paralyzed intensity, desperately searching fo...
Fiction. Young Adult. JEX BLACKWELL SAVES THE WORLD is a Dadaesque homage to Donald Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series, or perhaps a Sobolesque homage to the Dada movement. The main character is a sixteen-year old punk with a secret genius for medici...
Poetry. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN is a collection of 66 poems that invite comparisons between seemingly disparate words, ideas, or things. Sparked by the poem "The Importance of the Whale in the Field of Iris" by Pattiann Rogers, this series similarly ...
Literary Nonfiction. On August 1, 1966, after murdering his wife and mother at home, Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower at UT Austin and ordained himself high priest of the first televised mass shooting and "domestic terror" spectacle in Americ...
Poetry. The poems in ARIADNE/DARK DARK SHINE are, as the starting poem says, "a lost/found/&repeat narration. The arcing-thread—a-whip/lifeline/way/the-magical-gift-given/odd-bit—discovered in an old sewing basket. (Who sews nowadays?) No enchanted ...
Poetry. Nomadic outsiders wander in a mythological world subject to chance, good or bad fortune. A family crosses the American Southwest in the 1920s. And a home dweller explores the mystery of familiar places. In these poems, tales told by multiple...
Fiction. Short Stories. With dark humor, the recurring characters in Roberta Allen's stories see themselves and others through distorting mirrors. The pain of never quite connecting is thrown into shadow as they go about their everyday lives and try...
Fiction. An artists community is planning something big for this year's gathering — something to put them back on the map. The sudden influx of capital piques the interest of a couple of investigators searching for the mysterious benefactors. Thousa...
Fiction. Young Adult. Tension brews as a battle ensues within your mind. The Tramples and Trembles come face to face. These tricky types of Tanglelows know how to create a bit of chaos. Travel along the Tanglelows' trail and work towards keeping our...