The Tormenting Beauty of Empathy by Richard Robbins is a heart-warming, somewhat traumatic journey into the world of spirituality and the human condition. Hana was just a 5-year-old when she watched, in horror, as her parents were murdered by the Guatemalan Army when their village...

Tumbleweed and Dreams is a slice of life novel by T. P. Graf centered around the lives of the inhabitants of an unincorporated community in Texas. Inspired by the movie Dancer, Texas, Jaime Cruz leaves his home in California and moves to find shelter in...

Would you ever consider breaking into a nursing home for a few good nights' sleep and some hearty meals? Well, homeless John Lester thought it would be a good idea. It was winter; cold and only going to get colder. After studying the comings and...

Primarily set in early eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of Tom Finch, Gentleman by Lucy May Lennox is a picaresque tale of a blind music master who triumphs over his disability to lead a thoroughly (dis)honorable life. It is a merry romp from start to finish....

The Dead Kids Club is an intense thriller by Rich Hosek. A divorced father narrates how the life of his young son ended too soon. As he drops his son Nick at school, the boy grabs his backpack and rushes to join the other first...

The Band Room is a coming of age story written by Bob Seay. Angel is a typical teenager and high school football player whose life is turned upside down when he gets a court-ordered sentence of 90-hour community service due to an accidental scuffle with...

The Narrows by Mark Zvonkovic takes us back to the late sixties/early seventies in a psychological tale about cult addiction. Larry Brown and his longtime pal Hal, in a Cambridge, Massachusetts bar, witness a ruckus in which two oddly clean-cut young men wrestle with another,...

Pete Dawson, a British man in his mid-fifties, is dealing with a number of changes in the past few years. He was recently divorced; his ex-wife moved to New York and only one of his grown children lives with him, while the other two live...

The Market Stall Girl by AnneMarie Brear centers around Beth Beaumont, a young woman who lives with her middle-class family on a farm and spends her day at the stall selling their fruits and vegetables. Noah Jackson is a coal miner living with his brothers,...

The daughter of humble parents, Ginny never in her wildest dreams believed she could study at a place as prestigious as Wilson Grange. When one of her teachers applied for financial assistance, Ginny was thrilled to be accepted into such a school. The prime target...