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Publisher
New Meridian Arts Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Barbara Ross was at the center of the punk movement when it hit Los Angeles in the 1970s, but twenty years later, she finds herself as the focus of a murder investigation. Her former girlfriend turned pop rock sensation, Jasmine, has been found dead on a jogging trail in the Hollywood Hills. Barbara is named a "person of interest" but she is bedridden and dying of breast cancer as her sister, a retired ballerina, tries to run interference with the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ram was born and raised in a small village in Nepal. He’s destined to be a village farmer like his father, but he dreams of so much more. Then, a mysterious opportunity in the form of an olive-green Land Rover comes to whisk him away into a new life. Through dedicated service and the gift of education, Ram can become more than he ever thought possible. As he transitions to adulthood, though, he begins to wonder if the path he’s...
Author
Publisher
Rowan Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
He's not that kind of angel. Jarrid is a "Bound One": half angel, half human, trained from childhood to enforce Heaven's laws on earth. An assassin with no remorse. And no choice. When he discovers an ancient ritual called Ascension, which might give him a shot at freedom, he can't resist his lifelong dream. He only needs to find one last Renegade angel and take him down... using a certain woman to flush the angel out of hiding. She's not what he's...
Author
Publisher
Cool Empire Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Less than three hours after Lincoln Davis's graduation, his father delivers him an ultimatum: come back home to Mississippi and start paying rent on his bedroom or fend for himself in Atlanta as a completely independent adult. Choosing the latter, Lincoln finds himself meeting a whole new cast of characters who help him to navigate this new terrain. Among this cast, however, is a mysterious woman who could change his understanding of everything he...
Author
Publisher
Rebecca Hunter
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Long summer days in the Stockholm archipelago A young American biographer looking for answers And the sizzling Swedish man she finds instead... In the next book in the Stockholm Diaries series! Biographer Melanie has spent her life in the shadow of a single question: Why did her father abandon her? When he unexpectedly dies and leaves her his cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Melanie heads straight for Sweden, looking for answers. But island life...
Author
Publisher
45 Alternate Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Marz Banx, the legendary MC, is lamenting what it means to be in the rap game at the age of forty. Feeling like the game has passed him by and becoming more focused on his daughter, Jazz, he decides to interview for a job as a college professor in Nashville to be closer to her. While Marz is planning his escape from New York, he also finds himself trying to help his daughter get through her Sweet Sixteen, while she deals with her own issues. This,...
Author
Publisher
45 Alternate Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
He has left his hometown to avoid an ex-girlfriend who has since remarried. In his new town, he lives a mundane existence until a new co-worker invites him into her intimate world and pushes him farther from the safety of his old identity. In this experimental novella, Ran Walker uses flash fiction to write a “fuga hacia adelante” (flight forward) story, modeled after the works of Argentinean author César Aira. In a story that uses no names,...
10) Runaways
Author
Publisher
Sashee Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Biffman's life has just cratered. His wife dumps him for Dr. Dwayne the periodontist, he's downsized out of a job, and he's living in a trailer in his best friend Erica's backyard. So, when Erica hatches a wild scheme to recapture Jimmy's lost youth, he's powerless to resist. Runaways is the journey of two 40-somethings looking for a life they're convinced has passed them by. With a naïve belief in what's possible-and a foolish misunderstanding...
Author
Publisher
Ksenia Anske
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Misunderstood and overmedicated, twelve-year-old Lilith Bloom finds the prospect of a grand family reunion decidedly dull... That is, until she discovers that the rose garden surrounding her grandfather's Berlin mansion is, well, completely and utterly carnivorous. Armed with Panther, her talking pet whippet, and the help of the mute boy next door, Lilith must unravel the secrets behind the mysterious estate, all while her family remains gloriously...
Author
Publisher
Cool Empire Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Kamal Jackson is a black novelist who has reached an impasse in his career. His work is either too white for black audiences or too black for white audiences. He decides to do something about it, in spite of the opposition he gets from his new love interest, Yasmin. Concocting a Caucasian-sounding pseudonym and a backstory to rival J. D. Salinger's, Kamal sets out to rework his most current novel for a new round of publishers.Kamal must now ask if...
Author
Publisher
Three Owl Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Piney Bluff, Texas. The absolute last place seventeen-year-old Kennedy Thatcher wanted to spend the last few weeks of summer vacation. But when her father's work means he has to disappear, she ends up living with her aunt in the middle of nowhere. Some secrets are good. Kennedy wants to go home, especially before she breaks Rule #1 - Never tell. Some secrets are bad. Kennedy has a gift, even though she calls it a curse. She's a Finder. She can find...
Author
Publisher
LJefferson
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year old James Castle Jr. has rugby to deal with the pressures of high school. Fights with his girlfriend, his dad's constant blame game and graduation anxieties all work out on the field. Every pass, tackle and scrum works out a kink. That is until rugby gets suspended. Without an outlet James has no idea how to do with the feelings of fear plaguing him since the break-in at home. Now on top of the fear James keeps seeing a little girl...
Author
Publisher
Cool Empire Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
“Ran Walker's Mojo's Guitar plays an authentic Blues song on the page, filled with all the sorrow, heartache, and beauty that entails. This layered, haunting book is worth listening to.” -- Mat Johnson, author of Pym and Incognegro “Ran Walker brings the blues into the 21st century and shows us how we can never forget our roots as long as we keep the love in our hearts. Thank you, Ran, for picking up the guitar of fiction and fretting together...
Author
Publisher
SkipJack Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When a dead body swan-dives from a balcony into the pool at a wedding, gossip comes to a halt about disgraced paralegal and former rodeo queen Emily — whose husband left her for a woman who turns out to be a man. Enter Jack, a secretive attorney and sexy mix of cowboy and Indian. She refuses to work for him, until she learns about the disappearance of the six-year-old daughter of his notorious client Sofia, the wedding shooter, who is also an illegal...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
She's finally met the man of her dreams. There's only one problem: he lives in a different century. "A fresh, charming new voice" — New York Times bestselling author Tessa Dare HOW FAR WOULD YOU TRAVEL FOR LOVE? A mysterious artifact zaps Isabelle Rochon to pre-Victorian England, but before she understands the card case’s significance, a thief steals it. Now she must find the artifact, navigate the pitfalls of a stiffly polite London, keep...
Author
Publisher
45 Alternate Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
For the first time in the history of Daily, Mississippi, the election ballot is completely divided, with a black and white candidate running for each office. Even more, the newly districted senatorial seat is up for grabs. David McKlusky, a millionaire lawyer seeking to establish his own legacy outside the shadows of his wife's family, dives into the race, only to be consumed by personal issues that threaten to derail his candidacy. Chante House,...
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