Mark is a disgruntled adjunct professor and middling poet. One night at a reading, he meets Donna, a walking hurricane who challenges him out of his complacency into a passionate love affair. But it’s not enough for them to have each other when the world is being destroyed by billionaires and corruption.
The Eleanor, is a delightful romp through the streets of downtown Reno. After a mysterious hum nearly debilitates Leland Powers, he seeks to liberate the throwaways who have lived in his transient hotel for many years.
Invincible Summers is a gorgeous meditation on history and family, innocence and experience. Robin Gaines has created an unforgettable character in Claudia, but by following her through eleven years of her life, she shows us how each one of us is many characters throughout a single lifetime. Her voice and sensibility changes, and we change with her, as the years pass and events alter her time and place and self.
Audrey: A Book of Love is an important look at intricate facets of love as it surprises, delights, challenges, sometimes defeats, and always honors our lives. “She came with a painted dragon and cinnamon hearts for Valentine’s. Her name was Audrey and I am hard pressed to remember what anyone else brought to the party.”
Phyllis Green gives us, with Polly & Veronica, a charmingly-told, though bittersweet, coming-of-age story. As it unfolds in intimate letters between two cousins, we, as readers, are drawn irresistibly into their individual changes and challenges even as the complexity of their epistolary relationship evolves. Green’s writing has that rare quality of using plain language to paint vivid pictures—like a painter’s masterpiece done in primary colors
Jessica Barksdale Inclan’s writing is gorgeous and moving. With relatable characters and real dilemmas, It Happened in Barcelona moves us through the sights, sounds and smells of an unexpected European underworld, and shows us the ways – in the name of love – that we avoid hard truths about ourselves and others.