Mademoiselle de Malepeire Fanny Reybaud (translated by Barbara Basbanes Richter) Barbara Richter uses her considerable skills as a modern translator and writer to bring Fanny Reybaud’s captivating French novel to the English-speaking world for the first time in more than a century. This 1854 novel focuses on a portrait of Mademoiselle de Malepeire, which hangs… Continue reading Mademoiselle de Malepeire
Category: Fiction
Bountiful Calling
Bountiful Calling Fred Burton Joe has a successful government position working with a state senator in Pennsylvania, Nicole and her family enjoy their life on their rural campgrounds, and the two seem headed towards romance and possible marriage. But Nicole’s very way of life is threatened when the government takes over her father’s property for… Continue reading Bountiful Calling
FOTUS
FOTUS Kevin Kunundrum FOTUS is a political satire that takes place in a futuristic America, in which Alexander Rett, a self-aware talking embryo, defies medical science, runs to become President from within the womb, wins, and during his first few amazing months as leader of the Free World, coins himself the Fetus of the United States… Continue reading FOTUS
The Half-Life of Everything
The Half-Life of Everything Deborah Carol Gang David and Kate are happily married fifty-somethings when she’s diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s. He has never been unfaithful, but after several years of losing Kate more each day, he wonders: What is a married widower supposed to do? Two strong-willed women intervene and everyone finds themselves making unexpected… Continue reading The Half-Life of Everything
Her Kind of Case
Her Kind of Case A Lee Isaacs, Esq. Novel Jeanna Winer Her Kind of Case is a legal drama that centers on Lee Isaacs, a female defense attorney on the cusp of turning 60, who, out of curiosity, determination, and desire for a big, even impossible, professional challenge, chooses to take on a tough murder case… Continue reading Her Kind of Case
The Two-Plate Solution
The Two-Plate Solution A Novel of Culinary Mayhem in the Middle East Jeff Oliver A James Beard Award-winning chef stands atop a 50-foot-high diving platform having just plated a competition-winning culinary masterpiece. He looks down, faints from fear of heights, and careens into the water below. Worst of all? He knocks over his dish on… Continue reading The Two-Plate Solution
The Gene Police
The Gene Police Elliot Light Reggie Mason, a black Virginia state trooper, comes to Shep Harrington’s law office and makes a breathtaking confession to his longtime friend: “I think I’m guilty of illegally using the state DNA databases . . . and maybe a few more felonies to boot. Shep, I’m trying to decide whether… Continue reading The Gene Police
The Gospel of the Twin
The Gospel of the Twin Ron Cooper An ancient legend claimed that Jesus had a twin brother Thomas. An extra-Biblical text that dates from perhaps as early as the late first century CE (which would make it the same age as the Biblical Gospels) claimed to be the secret teachings of Jesus as recorded by… Continue reading The Gospel of the Twin
The Mandarin Club
The Mandarin Club Gerald Felix Warburg Summary Order here
Black-Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susan Elizabeth Leiknes My name is Susan Spector. I have one black eye, and one blue eye. I am colorblind. I experience synesthesia. My blood type is AB negative. I was born on a leap year. Do I sound like a freak yet? Oh yeah, and I’m dying of stage four lung cancer. My… Continue reading Black-Eyed Susan