In Strip Club Heiress, Laurel Woods tears open the velvet curtain on a childhood lived somewhere between Catholic ritual and California vice. At its center stands Laurel, a girl raised inside an empire she never asked to inherit.
novel, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory, takes place during an elite five-day tournament, where large sums of money, personal pride, and fragile alliances drift across water often shallow enough to stand in.
What happens when cutting-edge science, climate politics, corporate greed, and murder collide off the coast of Cape Cod? That’s the setup for Award-winning journalist Judy Foreman’s new thriller,The Scallop Plot.
R. Scott West didn’t let a prison sentence get in the way of restoring downtown Knoxville, TN. “Smoke Rings: A Scruffy City Novel” fictionalizes his true story.
For most of his life, silence kept Rich Dunning alive. Speaking, finally, has given that survival a purpose.
In Gabriella Saab’s The Survivors Guild, the Titanic is not so much a ship as a threshold. The novel begins where the familiar story usually ends, with the living required to become human again.
A devoted reader of espionage novels, and suddenly in possession of unstructured time, Bill Brodsky had secretly written seventy pages of a thriller. He presented the manuscript to his wife, Karen, without warning. She was startled, pleased, and, before long, recruited.
Korey Rowe, the fugitive filmmaker has become, in middle age, a local businessman and positive community figure. His wars have merely become quieter, the kind fought through memory, routine, discovery and the difficult maintenance of inner peace.
Michael Gier undertook ‘The Heroism and Resiliency of 9/11: From Tragedy to Triump,’ “Because this one’s different,” pointing to a deliberate focus on inspiration and positive acts amid the devastation.
There is something theological about David Kibbe’s approach to getting dressed. For more than forty years, while the fashion industry has busied itself inventing fresh reasons for women to distrust their bodies, David has been preaching a gentler doctrine. Love-based beauty.
Transformation forms the heart of Denise Perez’s Alchemic Healings: The Art of Remembering. Its central proposition is deceptively simple: human beings are not defective machines in need of repair. We are, she tells me, spiritual beings who have forgotten what we already are.
Judith Starkston is a classicist as well as a novelist. She is drawn to the places where archaeology, history, and myth don’t agree and imagination must take over. In Achilles’s Wife, part of her Trojan Thread series, she turns her attention to Deidameia, a princess remembered by antiquity...
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