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      • Crime & mystery
        October 2017

        Rise of the Spring Tide

        by James Stitt

        In 1603, a shepherd named Brigu places three strange orphans (Sager, Faria and Shikha) with a religious congregation traveling to the New World. Among the congregation is a fire-haired young woman named Abigail with powers beyond the ordiniary. Abigail's care has been entrusted to Faria and Shikha, while Sager has been instructed to ensure that the colony survives in this harsh land.   Four hundred years later, long after Abigail's death, the three orphans, still young, seek to understand who they are and why they're different from ordinary humans. In their quest to learn their origins, they combine the latest scientific methods with ancient mythology. Part thriller, part mystery, this novel explores humanity's connection to nature and the cycles of death and rebirth that have defined our collective existence.

      • Fiction
        December 2019

        Ukrainian Nights

        by Pete Carlson

        Passion and bloodshed explode in the timeless tension between east and west. Ukrainian Nights is one of those gritty, unforgettable noir novels that takes its main protagonist to the nadir of love and obsession and then spits him out, almost broken. Hunter, a young New York Times journalist, assigned to investigate sex slavery and money laundering in Kiev just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is not a tough guy, not in the least. But he falls in love with Alina, the mistress of Karasov—the head of Ukraine's largest mafia—and refuses to let go of her.   The love story is run against a background of desperate brutality in Kiev and New York City, the result of the competing interests of international geopolitics, drug money, human trafficking, crooked banking—and for the rich spoils of oil and gas. The plot of Ukrainian Nights twists and turns until the reader is left wondering who is right and who is wrong.

      • Fiction
        November 2020

        Tearza

        by Pete Carlson

        Taking risks is how love begins.   Questions and guilt haunt Tearza after he husband's suicide. Major business losses hidden by her husband compound her burden as she worries about her daughters' grief and wonders if she can ever trust anything or anyone. When Ryan, the workaholic lawyer she blames for deepening her financial losses, unexpectedly enters her life, she keeps him at arm's length. But as she learns about Ryan's tragedies and fears of being a single father, a grudging relationship begins. The compelling story of Tearza reminds us that taking risks is often how friendship and love begins.

      • Fiction
        October 2019

        Panic River

        by Elliott Foster

        Struggling artist corey fischer is in big trouble. A lifetime of deference and masked inner-feelings has blinded him to the truth in others, even as those truths emerge onto the canvas of his paintings. The sudden death of his estranged father brings Corey downricer to his hometown of Pepin, Wisconsin, where he confronts past and present torments. The taunting inheritance of a pair of hunting rifles from his dead father, together with lukewarm reunion with his mother, launches an unraveling of the tenuous ties binding Corey's life together. The inheritance delivers Corey and his husband, Nick, to the Fischer family cabin in northern Wisconsin during hunting season where they head into the woods with loaded guns and years of simmering resentment. Emotions explode as the couple tracks a wounded eight-point buck at dusk and as Nick's betrayals are accidentally revealed. Corey makes a series of panicked, life-defining choices that propel him to flee the trail of destruction his life has wrought and to seek comfort from those who loved him all along.

      • Fiction
        October 2014

        The Syrian

        by Cathy Sultan

        Other books in the series (All rights are available): Damascus Street (2018) An Ambassador to Syria (2021)   In the Cauldron of Lebanon, he "disappeared." Now he's coming after her. "Nadia, I think your husband is still alive!"   The Syrian is a powerful contemporary novel of passion and betrayal, set against the brutal and bewildering outbreak of the Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon, 2006.   Nadia, a woman who has waited thirteen years for a husband who was "disappeared," finally decides to declare him dead so she can marry an American physician, Andrew Sullivan. On the eve of her engagement party, her best friend Sonia, a well-connected war correspondent, rings to tell her that her husband may still be alive in a Syrian prison. Out to get Andrew for herself, Sonia draws in the powerful head of the Syrian secret police to help her in her Byzantine manipulations. Thus begins a series of dangerous plot twists that become increasingly bloody as Nadia attempts to rescue her husband, and the border conflict with Israel escalates.

      • Fiction
        June 2016

        House of Large Sizes

        by Ian Graham Leask

        Once in a while a novel comes along that is very different. House of Large Sizes is such a novel. A dysfunctional, sexually addicted and inauthentic little family finds its failings coming to a head when one member decides to deal with his pain directly and heads to New Orleans for an unsanctioned sex change. They all end up in The French Quarter—in "the sump of America'—and a great mythic Jambalaya of horrors are visited upon them as a venomous and self-professed witch threatens to run amok. House of Large Sizes is a rare but extraordinarily "readable" literary work, which draws from multiple genres to produce its sometimes shocking and laser-like effect on the imagination.

      • Fiction
        September 2016

        The Alchemist's Children

        by Carolyn Killion

        After their mother disappears, fourteen-year-old Gabriella and eleven-year-old Holden decide to search for her. The problem is, she's a human-sized leprechaun and has traveled to the leprechaun world, which they have never seen. With the help of their Uncle Robert, they journey to this mysterious realm, where they encounter goblins and dragons and unexpected surprises. What they find is both more enchanting and more dangerous than they ever could have imagined. A leprechaun king is determined to invade Earth through a magical portal. To save their mother, Gabriella and Holden must find a way to stop a war between leprechauns and humans.

      • Fiction
        April 2017

        Wishbinder

        by Hayley Ann Solomon

        Oh seventh son of a seventh son, listen well to worlds half gone, whisper wishes, oh seventh son, and let the tides in ribbons run.   Wishbinder transports us from earth to Elvenswolde, a magical realm of elves and dragons, where the business of wish fulfillment is overseen by the Wish Maker, Ramón. However, a dark power has risen, seeking to overturn the existing order and weave malice into the intricate balance of enchantments. Septimus, seventh son of a seventh son, raised on earth but half elf, must now fulfill the prophecies to restore equilibrium. He is helped by a dragon hatchling with a remarkable propensity for trouble. Hilarious, magical, heartbreaking at times, this amazing novel presents a world we can only wish existed.

      • Fiction
        September 2018

        A Song in My Heart

        by Roma Calatayud-Stocks

        Companion Novel (all rights available): A Symphony of Rivals   Alejandra Stanford is born into a privileged bicultural family in Minneapolis of 1902. Growing up, she and her artistic family experience the intermingling of American, Mexican and European cultural influences, as well as formidable national events that challenge their lives; yet, Alejandra finds music is the perfect expression of her own artistic inclinations, emotions and ambitions. As a young pianist and budding composer, she's affected by Minnesota's musical pioneers and resolves to become a symphonic conductor despite the obstacles. When drive, sensible and independent Alejandra travels to the great cities of the world in pursuit of her dreams, she falls in love with the music and legendary composers and conductors. Along the way, she will meet two men who are her match in ideals and intellect, each with the potential to bring fulfillment in very different ways. Ultimately, it is the passion for music and love which guide, inspire and determine Alejandra's destiny. History and fiction converge impeccably in this historical novel infused with music, art and romance, creating a compelling first installment to a trilogy.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        The Dancers of Sycamore Street

        by Julie L'Enfant

        Sometimes, in looking back at one's life, one can recall the precise end of childhood. For Meredith, that time is 1955, when she is fourteen years old and her quiet, predictable life revolving around high school and ballet classes is upended by a visit from a famous choreographer. In Middleton, a medium-sized city in north Louisiana, his great world of professional ballet is viewed as remote, exotic and not quite respectable.   Beautifully capturing a long-ago time and place where mothers were not supposed to work and propriety ruled, The Dancers of Sycamore Street is a poignant, witty and engaging story of a young girl's coming of age.

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        The Graveyard Gang

        by Daniel Hauser

        Everyone deals with fear, some of it real, some of it imagined. Fourteen-year-old Donny Hansen is trying to keep it from ruling, and ruining, his life. But, then, he has reason to be afraid. The town bully, Swade Percival, has it out for Donny and his three best friends. The guys can't seem to go anywhere during the summer of 1978 without running into Swade and his hulking sidekick, Avery Burke.   Written in the smae vein as Netflix's Stranger Things and Stephen King's The Body. The Graveyard Gang is a nostalgic journey combining the bonding and playful interaction of teen-age boys with a mystery that only they can solve. It's a story of kid vs. adults, kids vs. kids and life vs. death.

      • Fiction
        August 2019

        Toxic Spirits

        by Mani

        Toxic Spirits is a highly atmospheric thriller set in Thailand, a playground for colorful expats, beautiful women and limitless skullduggery. Narrated with insightful meditations on nature and biodiversity, interspersed with macabre violence and dark hilarity, the novel is also a brilliant, genetics- and AI-inspired take on multiculturalism and personal identity.   Benton, a widowed African-American intelligenced analyst from Washington D.C., reitres to Thailand. At an expat bart, he is captivated by Siri, a beautiful tribal singer. When Siri disappears, he discovers that she had been speaking out about the side-effects from drug trials conducted on her hill-tribe. Benton's investigations draw him uncomfortably close to Pierre, the seriously disturbed Indo-Cambodian doctor running the trials. Becoming an unwilling guinea-pig in the trials, Benton is transformed by the genetically-engineered drugs and falls in love with Mimi, a stunning and gifted young Thai-Australian. As the genetic manipulations spiral out of control and spread to the botanical treasures of Thailand's Golden Triangle, the forces of tribal healing, high-tech medicine, and love battle to determine who will survive.

      • Fiction
        October 2016

        Mysterious Midwest

        Unwrapping Urban Legends and Ghostly Tales from the Dead

        by Adrian Lee

        All rights are also available for Mysterious Minnesota: Digging Up the Ghostly Past at Thirteen Haunted Sites   Where humanity leaves its footprints, paranormal activity will follow.   Are you ready to experience the resident spirits of Forepaugh's Restaurant in St. Paul, the witch's curse of Loon Lake Cemetery, the phantom of the Wieting Opera House, the restless souls of a Masonic temple, and the ghosts of grisly murder victims? Join ghost hunter and historian Adrian Lee and his elite team of paranormal investigators on a compelling tour of the Midwest's most haunted historical sites. His chilling firsthand investigations accompanied by rich historical details will send shivers down your spine as he recovers history from the lips of the dead.

      • Fiction
        December 2020

        Moving in Stereo

        by Tom Trondson

        It's 1996 and enigmatic tennis professional Richard Blanco is enjoying a late-career run, reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals. What no one knows is that he's hearing voices again. It won't be long before the ghost of punk rocker Luke Scream starts whispering dark nothings in his ear.   Over the summer, Blanco hopscotches the circuit from Los Angeles to the tennis academy where he's trained since childhood, but his brilliant play will be overshadowed by the escalating chatter in his head. By turns hilarious and dark, Moving in Stereo is a vivid portrayal of an athlete eyeing the end of his career while seeking the dignity that would make his dead father proud.

      • Fiction
        December 2017

        Dorie LaValle

        by Mary DesJarlais

        Companion Novel (All rights available): The Cutter's Widow   Survival takes many forms . . . but never the one you expect.    Born on the first day of 1900, Dorie finds herself at odds with the world and out of options. When she marries Louie LaValle, a local man with an inherited farm, but not the talent or stamina to run it, Dorie is anchored in poverty, childless and tied to someone she doesn't love.   Prohibition and desperation inspire Dorie to make and sell moonshine to the men in town; soon she makes more money than she ever dreamt possible. To expand production, she enlists freewheeling Victor, who builds a secret distillery in the woods. When Victor appears at her door with a gunshot wound, describing an ambush at the still, it's up to Dorie to protect her future—and Victor—against angry neighbors, a zealous sheriff and the Chicago mob.   More on Dore LaValle from the author can be found here.    Mary DesJarlais was awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to write Dorie LaValle.

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