Jonetta Rose Barras JONETTA ROSE BARRAS is the author of the bestseller Whatever Happened to Daddy’s Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women (New York. One World/Ballantine, May 2000). Her biography of longtime D.C. mayor Marion Barry, The Last of the BlackEmperors: The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in the New Age of… Continue reading Jonetta Rose Barras
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The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania
The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania Steve Wiegand The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania tells the story of the Maryhill Museum in Klickitat, Washington and the wildly different individuals―Samuel Hill, Louie Fuller, Alma Spreckels, and Queen Marie of Romania―whose lives and dreams came together to create it against difficult… Continue reading The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania
Must Read Well
Must Read Well Ellen Pall Ellen Pall’s Must Read Well immerses the reader in an escalating game of cat-and-mouse between two women: a millennial scholar driven to deceit to reach her goals and a frail octogenarian no less capable of deception. Narrated by Liz Miller, a penniless Ph.D. candidate desperate to finish her dissertation, the novel begins… Continue reading Must Read Well
Though the Earth Gives Way
Though the Earth Gives Way Mark S. Johnson Mark Johnson tells a timeless tale of the struggle to find truth in belief, faith in fact, and friendship in times of fear. It is a new survival story, one that takes place post-climate apocalypse where our main character, Elon, thirty-seven, alone, hungry, and desperate to hear… Continue reading Though the Earth Gives Way
The Captain’s Boy
The Captain’s Boy Don Callaway As he returns home from gathering supplies with his father, fourteen-year-old Isaiah is looking forward to showing off his new symbol of manhood to his mother and sisters. What he doesn’t expect to find is his home burned and pillaged, his barn up in flames, and his family dead at… Continue reading The Captain’s Boy
Mademoiselle de Malepeire
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
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 Jeanne 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