Book Summary: It's the turn of the 19th century, and Mary Whitcombe lives in blissful ignorance of the wider world. An orphan born into wealth, her guardian sends her away to a convent, where she grapples with the abrupt transition from opulent living to the austere...
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Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship by Julie Ryan McGue
Book Summary: Belonging Matters supports the adoption community while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption. The collection explores the pursuit of identity and the boundaries of family and kinship. It challenges the reader to embrace all...
The Advent House by Tim Jorgenson
Book Summary: Gabriela never imagined her promises to a dying Adriana would entangle her with the state security service. But working at CubaTur she knew the ordinary could mask the extraordinary and the ordinary could go awry. She would soon learn more-after meeting...
Love: A Novel of Grief and Desire by Jefferson R. Blackburn-Smith
Book Summary: After the death of his wife, Ed Gideon survived the bone-numbing loss and loneliness by narrowing his focus to only work and his two college-age daughters, who are also struggling with their mother’s loss as they seek to claim their adult identities,...
The Buffalo Butcher: Jack the Ripper in the Electric City by Robert Brighton
Book Summary: Summer 1901, and the great Pan-American Exposition welcomes the world to Buffalo, New York—Queen of the Lakes . . . the Electric City. Eight million visitors throng the bustling boomtown—all of them looking for a good time. As heat and swarming crowds...
Who is Anna Stenberg? by Tracey Norman
Book Summary: When her murderous father escapes from an institution, a young girl is forced to flee to safety with secretive pickpocket Anna. Disguised as a boy called Viktor, and drawn into Anna's mysterious activities, she is catapulted into a strange investigation,...
Lightning Bugs And Aliens: A Small Town Coming-Of-Age-Story by Daniel Babka
Book Summary: During the summer of 1960, five imaginative, adventurous 13-year-olds, free from computers, cell phones and social media, suddenly must grapple with the loss of childhood security in this small Ohio town, first person, coming-of-age story. A tsunami of...
Third Wheel by Richard R. Becker
Book Summary: Brady Wilks wished for a new life with a real family in the pre-boomtown years of Las Vegas, 1982. Instead, he finds himself in a precarious situation, struggling to belong and find his identity. Outcast as a teenage transplant from the Midwest and...
Epicedium Interview Questions
Can you start by telling us what inspired you to write "Epicedium - 50 experimental poetic journeys through awakening, alchemy, and other worlds”? I began exploring automatic and “stream of consciousness” writing during a dark time, mainly as a songwriter. At...
Ghost With Two Hearts
"Armed with a stolen samurai sword and a dark family history, Adrian Green embarks on a soul-searching journey of redemption to Japan in Michael R. French’s Ghost With Two Hearts. Confronting the intricacies of Japanese culture and the intrusion of ghosts, he grapples...