Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

Primrose Valley is a wholesome small town with their share of troubles.Gunslinger Clint Driscoll is just passing through Primrose Valley when he crosses paths with Sarah Mullins. She needs help protecting herself against an overzealous suitor, and he...

This beast just found his beauty, but will he be able to keep her?RyderLife is full of surprises.For example, I never expected to find my mate, and definitely not in the middle of a snowstorm.I certainly didn't think I would surprise her and cause her to...

Unlikely friends Mallory and Beth embark on a landmark paranormal investigation--they will explore and document Derby Hill's notorious Spook House. Surrounded by forest and cut off from the modern world, the ghost hunters slowly begin to uncover the...

Harry Lyle Brown, Marry Kay, Terry, Susan, and Lucas move into 303 East Street, a haunted house.  A demon also lives there.  A ghost named Edgar meets Terry and becomes his friend.  The demon raises the stakes the longer the Browns...

طفولة بتاخد الرايةمن المولد كعيل تاهوتعمل منّها حكايةتبان ساذجة لكن بتعيشوما تطوِّلش؛ بتشبه جيشبيعلن حربه ضد؛ مافيش

لَنْ أَبْحَثُ عَنْكِ بَيْنَ الوُجُوهِ، لَسْتُ أَنَا مَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ.لَنْ أَتَصَوَّرُكِ كَفَرَاشَةٍ مُلَوِّنَةٍ تَسْبَحُ فِي هَوَاءِ غُرْفَتِي، تُدَغْدِغُ مَشَاعِرِي الَّتِي أُغْرِقَهَا الحُزْنُ، صَدِّقِينِي لَا أَعْرِفُ حَتَّى كَيْفَ أَفْعَلُ...

"The Story of an African Farm" by Olive Schreiner is a literary masterpiece that beckons readers into the vast and untamed landscapes of 19th-century South Africa. This groundbreaking novel, published in 1883, stands as a beacon of literary innovation,...

هل انتشر زواج المحارم في مجتمعنا العراقي؟هل تفكك المجتمع وتفشى الفساد في كل جوانبه؟أم لم يسقط المجتمع العراقي كله في هذا الفساد؟هل الأغلبية لم يطولها هذا الانحلال والتفكك، وذاك الفساد؟الأحداث المثيرة تكشف عن المسكوت عنهلتكون مصباح إنذار للمجتمع

A family reconciling their troubled past. A new enemy emerges. Will this unsettling development ruin the O'Connell's hard-earned harmony?Will life ever return to normal? Your favorite O'Connell family is back in The Return of the O'Connells."You're my...

Two men possessed by their visions square off like Charolais bulls over who owns a Minnesota mineral spring. Dr. Robert Hartwell returns home from San Francisco driven to open a meditation center at the spring and finds the road to his property gated and...

A country woman makes a Sophie's Choice regarding her family's survival. A small town marshal hunts his own son for murder. A former football hero must face his role in a brutal locker room ritual. Ferocious and real, the fourteen tales in Bob Johnson's...

Welcome to Moonstone, a town where nothing is what it seems. Marilyn Maxwell is an accomplished woman in all areas. But what people don't know is she has struggled with the demon of death since she was a child. After a personal crisis forces her to...

Thirteen-year-old Brian has been unexpectedly uprooted from his home and planted in northern Wisconsin for the summer. Surrounded by beavers, thunderstorms, walleye, forests, a rippling lake, and his tenacious little Granny Jane, nothing can prepare...

Alaska Fish and Wildlife Officer Will Trippeet, partnered with his old schoolmate Gordy Ponset, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Officer to patrol Mystery Creek Road on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula to check bear baiting stations. While investigating tracks of an...

Over a century of bad blood. A woman worth fighting for. And a past that refuses to let go.Hunter:I returned to the Florida Keys to face my demons- to rebuild both my life and my shattered relationship with my brother. I'm starting my security business...

"Time of death..." the doctor said.I won't forget that moment I looked over at Ellie-the paleness of her once rosy cheeks, the blue hue coating her perfect lips-the woman I had been with since we were five years old. My wife. My best friend...and the...

During their many travels to countries in Europe, Jim and Carol McCord have seen and responded to the world around them through two different lenses—Jim through the lens of emotive wordsmithing and Carol through the lens of striking visual imagery...

This cowboy's on the ropes...Seasoned wrangler Brendan Sawyer's on board with Jo Fielding's plan to skip the dating routine and test their compatibility during a weekend at a Montana resort. Brendan's convinced they'll get along just fine. They're not...

-an Eagle Cove romance-Natalya Lamont misses the small Oregon Coast town of Eagle Cove. Her career took her to the big city hours away. There Natalya achieved everything she thought she wanted. Until her best friend's wedding opens up a whole new...

"James Alan Riley's Uncertain Mythologies reverberates with a profound sense of time, rooted in the tangible experiences that form and inform our everyday lives. The collection embraces the interplay of light and shadow, life and death, where...

Sometimes to find your future, you have to face the past...The death of a childhood friend while under Jefferson Parker's counsel fills him with doubts about his calling as a minister.  Convinced he's incapable of helping anyone, he still...

Winner of the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, Jimtown Road, by Dennis MCFadden, takes readers on a years-long journey through the small Pennsylvania town of Hartsgrove by way of linked stories that “offer an unblinking look, illuminated with...

Libby Bernardin's poems summon a landscape of vivid imagining—her birds, skies, stars, and wind. Yet these are not merely poems of the outer natural world, no matter how beautifully they render it. Stones Ripe for Sowing has immense inner life...

“Architecture doesn't just apply to buildings. It can apply to the way we shape our environment and the habitats of other creatures,” says Monica Barron. “There's also an architecture to our emotional/intellectual makeups...

Funny and heartbreaking, Australian Paul Whitby's poetry book How to Measure the Distance of Things resides somewhere between the head and the heart. Follow the narrator as he drifts through rural Victoria and New South Wales, house-sitting. See him hug...

Sometimes love is closer than you think.Career woman Eve is on the brink of a major promotion. So what if her personal life is a disaster - her online dating app constantly matches her with the most awful dates. And her best friend's chaotic love life is...

American-born fighter pilot and Vietnam veteran, Nick Sullivan, is a broken man. Abandoned for dead by his family while he rotted in a Viet Cong prison camp, Sullivan finds solace in alcohol and flashbacks to war and prison. The death of a nearly...

Audrey Moretti always knew she wanted to be a police officer, but she never expected it would take her on the most harrowing venture of her life-the search for her sister on September 11th, 2001...Audrey has made it to the final weeks of the police...

"Marlis Manley's heartfelt novel of the heartland goes nowhere fast in all the best of ways. It moves and moves us." -Michael Martone, author of The Complete Writing of Art SmithIt's summer 1957, and when fourteen-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing-along...

"...a funny, well-written shaggy dog of a crime novel meets resort hi-jinx." –Michael Hartnett, author of The Blue RatFive years into the Federal Witness Security Program, former trucking executive, Bob Deighton, lives a quiet life as Bob...

Foreword's Book of the Year IndieFab Finalist"An engaging and uplifting tale, Climbing the Coliseum will appeal to mystery lovers who enjoy characters with depth." -Foreword Clarion ReviewHe's teetering on the edge of suicide. She's a reminder of his...

Nick Moran is an English literature PhD who cannot find a job. Even when he does, years later and after a second career as a hack Hollywood screenwriter falls apart, the department at a university in Auckland, New Zealand, turns out to be a hornet's...

Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant where he was the head of security?This is what Harold's widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work,...

A Vietnam vet crafts a flute from bamboo to redeem the past. An executive drives his mother's ashes to the Gulf. A woman paddles away from her daughter's graduation party on Lake Martin. A musician finishes writing his song during a tornado. A...

Free Verse EditionsEdited by Jon ThompsonMore than any American poet now, Joshua McKinney is devoted to origins. A conservator of first things, an enthusiast for those early syllables brooding upon the compass-rose of language, he counsels joy, and he...

Reeling from addiction and on the run, accused murderer, Jeff Radcliffe escapes South Carolina authorities by sailing to the U.S. Virgin Islands. In Saint John, Jeff tracks down old sailing rival, Marcel Renaud, who invites him to sail to Trinidad. En...

In this third and final installment of The SideRoad Kids, the boys and girls say goodbye to their childhood. As such, this book contains themes and imagery unsuitable for young audiences. Each of the nine stories is told by one adult character. Blew,...

"A chilling erotic horror novel about demonic possession and the decay of the American south." -Best ThrillersMarcus Lanehart has lived a lonely life in San Diego. He is haunted by recent loss in his personal life, as well as being disowned by his family...

Henry and Chiffon are the unlikeliest of friends. He is drawn to plastic flowers and checklists. She wants to save the world and is tolerant of most everyone, except herself. Henry is all about predictability and following a plan. Chiffon is usually late...

From the cave paintings of Lascaux to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, from the Mo'ai of Rapa Nui to the totem poles of North America, and from the Giza pyramids to the colossal Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, humans have long used unspoken...

This eclectic assemblage is a metaphorical exploration of the compartmentalized personality and the collection of feelings, thoughts, and life experiences that we gather over time and put in a junk drawer or a basement. We revisit our collection on...

The Vandalia in Me is a collection of poems and photographs from an author who has lived in Appalachia for his entire life. First on his family's homestead in southern West Virginia, then for the past 40 years in the northwestern Pennsylvania Wilds...

Five Gates of Entry - Selected Poems is a compilation of the best of Don Langford's poems taken from his previous five poetry collections. Here we find the range and scope of Langford's poetic perspectives in full expression, including reverence and...

A city girl's life takes a dramatic turn when she's upended from her bustling urban office and placed in a quaint small town in the icy heart of winter. As she navigates the frosty terrain, Dylan forges unexpected connections with the townsfolk while...

Here is another book from the daily trials of Stone White. A companion piece to the eight years earlier Trapped in St. Louis. One hundred fifty-six days in a row of my life beginning again in Seattle. Then it's back to The Lou (St. Louis) for Stone. More...

Blue California Sky is both homage to the varied and rich landscapes of California and poignant glimpses into the human experience: grief, trauma, loss, change, and also love, joy, wonder, and connection-to one's self, to others, and to the natural world...