About the book: You’ve always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps you’ve made a pile of notes—even written several chapters. But as you sit down alone with the blank page or your next scene, nothing happens. Or if the writing does start to flow, it soon dries up. […]
The law touches our everyday lives, and Maclen Stanley is determined to help readers change the way they think about the legal system. In this book, the Harvard Law grad and practicing attorney focuses on six broad sections: policing, crime, self-defense, rights, employers and landlords, and the court system. In an entertaining and approachable tone, […]
“We bring our beliefs wherever we go.” The myths and lore from Africa came to America with the enslaved peoples. But it wasn’t just the stories that arrived in the New World; the gods came, too. One of these gods was the spider Anansi, who came to consume the stories of the captured Africans. The […]
In a forgotten corner of the Catskills live the Drakefords. The family has been cursed for generations. Nineteen-year-old Maggie lives with her family with no hope of escaping their curse. One night, a visitor knocks on the Drakefords’ door. The man who ventures onto their property is Laszlo. Introducing himself as their Curse Keeper, Laszlo […]
Outdoors enthusiast Maren Laughlin is looking to start on a new path in Wisconsin after leaving her job as a park ranger and life with her former fiancé in Michigan. In Wisconsin, she reunites with Josiah (Joe) Cole, her older brother Liam’s best friend. They spent a lot of time together growing up through Liam, […]
The London drag scene is on its heels when Lady Lady, one of the premier drag queens of London, is found dead in her dressing room in this uneven novel, which is part mystery novel and part musings on what it means for the author to be in drag and how the rest of the […]
Fragility is a speculative satire set during Portland’s COVID-19 quarantine. At its core is an etymology-obsessed narrator, charged with a mission to “disrupt the dominant discourse” by a godlike entity. The narrator’s ability to psychically surveil and manipulate the people around him forms the foundation of the novel’s exploration into language and power. Much of […]
Sol and Alice have recently bought a home in a community named Maneless Grove. While Alice is ecstatic at the new step in their lives, Sol is reserved. Sol has been dealing with a career setback as her position at Yale is tenuous due to an allegation of plagiarism. Sol has dealt with anxiety for […]
Detectives Flinders Petrie and Thomas Pettigrew are now famous after their last case to find Cleopatra’s tomb. Years later, they are contacted by the curator of the British Museum to locate a statue of Aphrodite that was stolen. Following the trail will lead them to the deserts of Syria and its Bedouin people. They discover […]
Fifty-Two Stories should be subtitled fifty-two absolute delights from a master of literature. Many of these stories were written under deadline pressure in order to earn money to keep his family afloat financially, however, they each show the great capability that Chekhov demonstrated in his plays: scene-setting, character delineation, and an deep understanding of the […]
