42
by M. Thomas Cooper | Paranoia and conspiracy confound when accusations of murder force George Olson to realize the true forces at work in his life. But is the number 42 truly important, or is it all in George's mind? When he is accused of murdering his wife and child, George sets off in search of his family, only to be caught up in a conspiracy of numbers and strange events. More about this book... |
Abraham Lincoln
A Novel Life
by Tony Wolk
 | Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and marginally free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. What he leaves and what he takes when he returns to his own time reveals much about this mythic American hero. This first novel is a wonderful piece of speculative fiction that twists the history on which it is built. More about this book... |
Good Friday
by Tony Wolk | In Good Friday, the second book in Tony Wolk's Abraham Lincoln trilogy, our protagonist, Joan Matcham grapples with the challenge of carrying Lincoln's child and the possibility that she may change the course of history. This alternative history tale brings Lincoln's emotions and thoughts to the modern reader, from 1865, through 1955, all the way to us in 2007. With references to Shakespeare, Arabian Nights and others, Good Friday is truly an intimate and compelling story that defies classification and appeals to readers across genres. More about this book... |
José Builds a Woman
by Jan Baross | Mesmerizing. Stunning. Elegant. Captivating. Powerful. Lush. A winner! Magical realism that seduces the reader from beginning to end. “What a romp! Let Baross take you for a wild ride on her magical-realist camel, from the village of Octopus to the village of The Women, through an extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination.” -Ursula K. Le Guin. More about this book... |
Ricochet River
by Robin Cody | Set in a fictional Oregon town in the late 1960s, Cody’s superlative coming-of-age novel is the story of Wade, Lorna, and Jesse—teenagers preparing to break out of their small-town lives. Considered a Northwest classic, this novel is widely used in high schools as an “adult book for young adults.” More about this book... |
The Weight of the Sun
by Geronimo G. Tagatac | Geronimo Tagatac—in an interrelated collection of short stories about the fictional Guerrero family—captures the essence of a people who are broken, without a home, and lost. Geronimo's fiction has been called “profound, powerful, and poignant.” More about this book... |
You Have Time for This
Contemporary American Short Stories
edited by Mark Budman & Tom Hazuka
 | Love, death, fantasy, and foreign lands, told with brevity and style by the best writers in the short-short fiction genre. This collection takes the modern reader on fifty-three literary rides, each one only five hundred words or less. Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka, two of the top names in the genre, have compiled an anthology of mini-worlds as diverse as the authors who created them. More about this book... |
Zagreb, Exit South
By Edo Popović | Zagreb, Exit South masterfully illuminates the lives of diverse, colorful characters adrift in postwar Croatia. The author is one of Croatia's new literary stars. Already published in most major European languages, this is his first book-length appearance in English. Welcome to America! More about this book... |