Fiction | Fiction
Feb.25.2008
It is the winter of 1949: Tom and Wendy Hickey are at peace in their Lake Tahoe cabin awaiting the birth of their first child. Wendy is young and delicate and her unworldly innocence and faith in her "angels" provide her with a stronger shield against evil than Tom's devotion and the gun...
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Feb.25.2008
Nestled in the deep mountains of Appalachia is Leatherwood, Tennessee, home to the Flint family—Pentecostal Holiness preachers who spread the word of the gospels with poisonous snakes and lye. Charles, a preacher and the Flint’s patriarch, believes that his 10-year-old son Jacob is a prophet....
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Feb.25.2008
Amanda Eyre Ward's debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer.
In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine,...
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Jan.31.2008
A college professor faces the dark side of
the Internet in a so-called "review" website
that allows any and all, even non-students, to
destroy whomever they like with libel, lies,
and license, by bribing and blackmailing teachers
for grades, all the while Political Correctness
strangles...
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Jan.30.2008
Using the Chakra system as a framework, Seven Movements, One Song is a telling of seven stories which reflect the quality and energy of each of the energy centers of the body. Physical survival, sexual attraction, transformation, bonding, communication, understanding and finally spiritual vision...
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Jan.30.2008
Based on the author's experience as a midwife for servant families in North India, this story revolves around an impoverished servant family, and an all-night ceremony of flute ragas on the banks of the Ganges. In the summer season, a young man dies; in the monsoon season, his widow gives birth...
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Jan.29.2008
This is the story of an ex-Olympic sprinter – now a motivational writer – whose life is falling apart. Her kleptomania is intensifying. An ex girlfriend has begun stalking her. Her best friend/ex-husband is leaving her for good. Her manager is dropping her. And yet, for the first time, she...
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Jan.29.2008
"Heartbreaking and compelling…Richmond gracefully weaves in fascinating background material on the coffee culture and the field of mathematics as she thoughtfully explores family dynamics, the ripple effects of tragedy, and the importance of the stories we tell. Combine all that with perfect...
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Jan.23.2008
Prompted by a mysterious letter, aging, solitary Annie Freed recalls what happened to "the tribe": a group of young, freewheeling bohemians who found themselves slowly taking root during the 1970s in an idyllic Northern California river town.
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Jan.18.2008
Peter Orner explores the impact of life's essential moments, those brief but far-reaching occasions that haunt his characters. The discovery of a crime, a theatrical performance in a small town, or the recollection of a cruel wartime decision are equally affecting in Orner's vivid scenarios. Esther...
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