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Dirty Rice

by Diane Gardner

“Inside the white lines that mark off the [baseball] diamond, a lie cannot live and it cannot prosper,” writes Gerald Duff in his compelling and thoughtful novel Dirty Rice. Steeped in the history of baseball, this tale proves to be... Read More

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Redemption Day

by Lawrence Kane

Nick James worked for a US government contractor as an intelligence analyst. An expert in terrorism, he believed that there would always be work for him to do … until the contract he was working on was canceled and he found himself out... Read More

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Twilight Tales

by Alicia Sondhi

Ranging from the ghostly to the gruesome, the poems in J.T. Holden’s chilling new collection, Twilight Tales, are filled with atmospheric rhymes and eerie images. The twenty-two poems are roughly organized into four main sections, with... Read More

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Jagged Blind Hop Zozzle

by Joseph Thompson

Even ninety years later, the 1920s still roar in the collective imagination of writers, readers, painters, and dreamers everywhere. It was a wild time when flappers and philanderers challenged taboos. The guns of the Great War were... Read More

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Holy Water

by John Michael Senger

It takes nothing short of a miracle to make a urology conference sound inviting and to make the French Quarter in New Orleans appear hopelessly unattractive. But Robert Schwab, physician and first-time novelist, accomplishes both feats... Read More

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The Unlikely Sleuth

by Dawn Goldsmith

What can one fifteen-year-old, girl-crazy farm boy know about mobsters, murder, and honor? Turns out, according to Edward J. Bertz in his first novel, The Unlikely Sleuth, quite a bit. This coming-of-age murder mystery takes place in... Read More

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