In the Wake of the Boatman J. Scott Faqua Puttnam Douglas Steward isn’t having an identity crisis—he is one. To his father Carl, he’s a disappointment, and has been since the day he came home from the hospital. To his mother, he’s “Mama’s Boy,” and will forever be nothing less and nothing more. The Army… Continue reading In the Wake of the Boatman
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The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns
The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns Elizabeth Leiknes Lucy Burns wants a normal life: friends, love, and a family of her own. And she could have it all if only she could break free from the job she hates. That job? Facilitator to hell. And her boss is a real devil. At the age of… Continue reading The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns
Mia the Melodramatic
Mia the Melodramatic Eileen Boggess Summary Order here
Back Creek
Back Creek Leslie Goetsch It’s the summer of 1975. Eighteen-year-old Grace Barnett knows she should be preparing to leave for college in September. But a strange Memorial Day boating accident on the creek near her Virginia home—she’s the only witness to the apparent suicide—kicks off a series of events that will define her family’s future… Continue reading Back Creek
Hume’s Fork
Hume’s Fork: A Novel Ron Cooper Barely adequate philosophy professor Legare Hume has a mind-body problem. No matter how far he goes, no matter how hard he thinks, he can’t escape the world he lives in. On the run from his wife Tally, Legare joins brilliant but exceptionally awkward colleague Saul Grossman to attend the… Continue reading Hume’s Fork
Seventeen
Seventeen Shan Serafin The ultimatum: Show me a reason to live or I kill myself in seven days. When seventeen-year-old Sophia dares life to prove to her she should stay alive, her suffering is at its climax, her predicament at its worst, and her adolescence at its crescendo. Sophia is taking summer courses at a… Continue reading Seventeen
Jake
Jake Arch Montgomery The Second Novel of the Gunpowder Trilogy Jake takes place during one of the single most powerfully shaping times in a person’s life—secondary education. Through the metaphor of the utopian and fictitious St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, author Arch Montgomery shows us how our humanity can only be fully realized through other humans.… Continue reading Jake
Paul & Juliana
Paul & Juliana Richard Hawley In precisely the same spirit as Abelard and Heloise and Romeo and Juliet, Paul and Juliana are a fresh young couple who embody the near-impossible notion of perfect love. In this elegant, timeless, and lyrical love story, they walk the fine line between forbidden romance and tragic disaster that is… Continue reading Paul & Juliana
Chain Thinking
Chain Thinking A Shep Harrington Small Town Mystery Elliot Light Syndey Vail, once a beautiful soap opera star, enters lawyer-cum-detective Shep Harrington’s life in a cloud of dust and vanishes just as quickly, leaving behind two very different but strangely connected things: a chimpanzee and a murder. The chimpanzee is the young Kikora, whom Sydney… Continue reading Chain Thinking
Man in the Middle
Man in the Middle Ken Morris Charmain Burns, Hollywood’s sexiest, most talked-about TV actress, wills top at nothing to rise to the top of Hollywood’s A-movie list. So when the cutting-edge tabloid, The National Revealer, begins to uncover shocking information about her scandalous past, and threatens to expose her violent, narcissistic present, she directs a… Continue reading Man in the Middle