A straightforward account of an abusive childhood in the rural Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, this unsentimental memoir succeeds more as a chronicle of a bygone way of life than it does as the story of a strong-willed survivor... Read More
Alice Breon offers a collection of delightful, lighthearted tales about her often ordinary, if oddly fascinating, personal life in Green Gravy, Monster Bread and Other Adventures. The title conveys the octogenarian’s fine sense of... Read More
Even life in a retirement home can involve intrigue as Janice Harmon discovers when she moves to a beautiful estate near Louisville, Kentucky. Although she is looking forward to a little peace and quiet, she soon finds herself involved... Read More
“I dreamed of so much better. The old man hated me for it. No balls. Me or him.” From the start, first-time author Emory Black grabs the reader through staccato language, immediately establishing the narrator, Tom Hamilton, as an... Read More
“The greatest desire of any woman must be the realization of her dreams and the rejection of limitations on her abilities to achieve her goals…I believe that contemporary women have begun to recognize the power of middle age; to... Read More
“It’s sort of like a dream—only, it’s still happening. And it’s almost at the point where it doesn’t even bother me anymore. You accept these severe limitations, including the possibility that you may not even be experiencing... Read More
Every good story begins with a hook. But Gene Dick’s tale of a young man surviving the sinking of the battleship Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, begins with an improbably long hook—the narrator (a lawyer) interviewing a... Read More
The story N.B. Edge tells in "The Many Shades of Indigo" is not a pretty one. His focus is a vulnerable young man named Indigo and a small group of friends, all of whom are trying their best to make it through high school and out of... Read More