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
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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
The Strange Round Bird
The Strange Round Bird Or the Poet, the King, and the Mysterious Men in Black Eden Unger Bowditch The long-awaited Strange Round Bird brings Eden Unger Bowditch’s Young Inventors Guild trilogy to a satisfying conclusion—no mean feat with so many threads and mysteries to be resolved. The children—young inventors all—are brought together with their parents at last… Continue reading The Strange Round Bird
Changing Michael
Changing Michael Jeff Schilling Matthew knows how things work. He’s pretty much an expert. For example: friends. Friendship requires both give and take, and Matthew strongly prefers taking. The solution is close acquaintances—people who think you’re their friend because you nod and act interested about whatever the hell they’re talking about. School? Perfectly pleasant as… Continue reading Changing Michael
The Secrets of the Greaser Hotel
The Secrets of the Greaser Hotel J. Scott Fuqua The Greaser Hotel is an eyesore even by eyesores’ standards. A long forgotten place, it sits dilapidated and mostly vacant amid a sea of Baltimore vacancies. But this building, this former lap of luxury, is much more than it appears. The Greaser Hotel is a place… Continue reading The Secrets of the Greaser Hotel
It Won’t Always be this Great
It Won’t Always be this Great Peter Mehlman In the crushing complacency of suburbia, mid-life crises pop in unannounced on men’s lives. For one Long Island podiatrist, it takes an impromptu act of vandalism just to make him aware of his own being. Walking home in the sub-zero wind chill of a Friday night, he… Continue reading It Won’t Always be this Great
The Salt Marsh King
The Salt Marsh King Drew Krepp A modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear by debut literary novelist Drew Krepp. Henry O’Reilly, the founder and head of a seafood empire nearing the end of his career, makes sudden preparations to divide his empire among his three sons and entrust to them not only the family business, but the… Continue reading The Salt Marsh King