Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

CLASS ENCOUNTERSPoetry by Maketa Smith-Groves... Maketa Smith-Groves is a reincarnate William Carlos Williams, recording specifics of an urban world so down and out that only those born of it are permitted to wander its ghost realm. When she brings this...

'Excellent... this is a worthy page-turner' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYBreeda Looney tells herself she's happy with her life in a remote Irish fishing village.Sure, there are days she talks to no one but the cat, her panic attacks have become public spectacles,...

Emotions in Evolution is an emotional appreciation of our world through the exploration of nature. Colours, their meaning and the pleasure they bring us, are brought to life through words. Language explodes into a description of common and unusual plant...

She's hiding from heartache. He's a hustler hiding more... Floriculturist Jordi uses her shyness as a shield to keep everyone at a distance-except for family. And Luke. The sun-soaked, stunning Luke who hustles her for free flowers to feed his family's...

A collection of travel poems and accompanying images. The author has created a homage to the traveler in all of us, bringing the reader with him on his journey, making us taste, feel, and smell the multilayered experience that is travel and knowing a...

Brila Landry, a twenty-nine year old living in Texas, lost a part of herself the night her sister, Angelle, died in a tragic car accident. When she ends up on the wrong end of budget cuts at work a few months later, Angelle's words from her last birthday...

In a Shot of Malaria, Charles Souby unfolds the twisted story of a young man, Daniel Martin, desperately hooked on heroin, alcohol and his own delusions. Set in San Francisco in the nineties and written as a deadpan, first-person narrative, the novel...

In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the...

The saddle told the storyAs it sat there on the rack. It had been someone's pride and joyJust a few years back.It spoke of doing rodeo,A circuit of twelve long years,When at times its ownerHad to swallow back his fears ...Janice N. Chapman shares poetry,...

EMOTIONALLY STRIPPED.Benjamin Tyrone Kersey is a young painter artist and sculptor fast chasing an award. He fishes for unusual subjects and muses. He might yet have to meet Giovanna Morelli and Fionna 'Fifi' McCrae to understand his emotions.

The Confederate assassin John Wilkes Booth's ongoing mission to travel interdimensionally across alternate Earths to assassinate the tyrannical variants of Abraham Lincoln brings him to strange new places. This book predominately bears record of his...

four stories of fear and isolation written by the most unnerving voices in the modern horror undergroundFeaturing Jon SteffensJoanna KochJustin Lutz Dominick Cancilla

A desperate hairdresser. Her handsome friend. And a farmhouse full of secrets. When Maggie Devereux is served an unexpected eviction notice, everything falls apart. Out of options, the nearly divorced forty-something stumbles across an unopened...

In affluent 1890s Philadelphia, Ellie McAllister has always pushed the boundaries of proper behavior. Her elite Ogontz boarding school trains her to be a refined young woman, but she yearns for the earthy, small town in Ohio where she...

With his work selling well through distant urban galleries, the father and twice-divorced painter Robert Turghoff has created an idyllic life for himself. In the rural northern California community where he has lived for two decades, he has his cat, his...

This volume of beautiful poetry is a celebration of the coastal experience. In delightfully-crafted verses, the author explores the glory of nature, the allure of the sea, and the joys of combing shores for treasures.Kick off your shoes and follow Stein...

An artistic, photographic and poetic celebration of the beauty of Shropshire. When Houseman wrote of Shropshire, it is where 'the wanderer halts and hears my soul', he knew of the county's power to captivate.A local artist and photographer lead you off...

A grieving daughter. A highway roadhouse. An unsolved mystery. Roadhouse waitress, HOLLY DUNCAN's life is on hold unless she can accept her mother's disappearance five years ago, decide where her future lies and move on.Loner truck driver, TOM...

A new novella from the mind of author Garrett Francis.The murder of seven-month-old Cameron Harris has rocked the town of Ludington, Michigan. Beyond dominating the media cycle for months, the murder continues to burrow its way into nearly every...

In a thrilling interconnected narrative, You're in the Wrong Place presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that Joseph Harris has a particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the slightly...

Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers is a collection of poetry by award-winning Ojibwe author Lois Beardslee. Much of the book centers around Native people of the Great Lakes but has a universal relevance to modern indigenous people...

Maggie's in love, just not with the man she married, a situation the uber-capable HR officer never anticipated having to face. And when civil engineer Grayson travels to a remote Queensland town to relieve for six weeks, he isn't expecting to have to...

When it comes to first and second impressions, they couldn't get any worse. But when a heated moment ends with a kiss - it breaks all the rules.As Elsie Creek's newest resident, Que is way too jaded to go near any man, let alone Connor, the judgemental...

Nothing in life has ever come easily for him, and rescuing his woman is no exception.Jared “Blade” Walker’s life hasn’t been his own for a long time. Sold by his father when he was just sixteen to the head of the mob, he did what...

Opposites attract when vibrant, outgoing Thea Benson meets withdrawn, curmudgeonly sculptor, Josh Marten, but behind her bubbly image, Thea is not who she appears to be. In coming to Oxley Crossing she has a secret agenda of her own which has the...

I'm unemployed, recently divorced, and living with my parents. I have nowhere to go but up.A year ago I was married and living in a wealthy neighborhood in the biggest city in Alabama. That was before my husband left me and I tucked tail and ran home to...

Mauvaise Partance Bonne Arrivée"A bad beginning brings a good end," that's what Mawmaw Guidry used to say. They're the words Priscilla, Catherine, and Desiree have lived by all their lives, but when a fatal car accident brings Desiree's life to an abrupt...

I'd do anything to take over my dad's money management company. Even entertain deer hunters at a cabin in rural Alabama.Growing up in Atlanta I learned two valuable lessons: how to shop and how to do business. My mom taught me the first. My dad the...

Amy Reilly grew up in the rural town of Haven in the Oil Region of Western Pennsylvania, a once-prosperous land where oil barons built magnificent mansions and grand boomtowns. Now the boomtowns are ghost towns, the money is gone, and nature is...

Tommy Grovetown was bred to the job of sheriff. He had seen his father do the job for three decades and knew exactly what he wanted to do now that he was sheriff. He had decided long ago to do things differently from his father. He would be a man who...

Henry Salt's lyrical tribute to Egypt captures the essence of this mysterious and alluring land. Through vivid descriptions and evocative imagery, Salt transports readers on a journey through Egypt's ancient history and awe-inspiring landscapes.This work...

A dog can change everything.In this novel inspired by a true story, three strangers set out to save a dog living in the woods along a small-town road. Their unlikely partnership leads to major life changes as they try to protect Poppy, the little pup at...

Where do we go when our war ends? How should we feel when we leave it? How can we love a place so much when it's come so close to taking our lives so many times? Sangin, Then and Now is a stoic collection of poetry from a lifelong loyal subject of the...

In Anu Mahadev's A mouthful of sky, sensual and sexual pleasures, joys, and freedoms are woventogether with gendered inequities, misogyny, and cruelty. The narrator is exceedingly matter-of-factlyvulnerable and courageous as she shows the complexities,...

BOLD WESTERN ACTION AND BULLET-FLYING ADVENTURE.David "Davy" Patton's once beloved service as a park ranger in deep East Texas has left him dreaming of a real adventure-until he finds out the tall tales he keeps alive aren't so tall at all.When an...

Secrets won't stay buried forever... "This book is a wonderful mixture of swoon-worthy romance and captivating suspense." ~ reviewer Lil LaChance has been hiding a major secret from her family and friends for three years. But now the man who attacked her...

Parley Porter's narratives in verse capture the stories and characters rarely found in official county histories, but which are the bones on which hang the truest local history of all, recounted in a deeply rural dialect.

Bouncing back after further relapse, Jason is thrilled to find his fame still opens many doors for him when he is presented with film scripts and endorsement opportunities.The best news has to be a flattering list of artists who all wish to collaborate...