Abuse in all of its malevolent forms drives Nancy Prudhomme’s first novel "Behind the Drapes". Sheila shares a home in the projects with three older siblings and a younger sister as well as a controlling abusive father and a submissive... Read More

Nora Simms isn’t a whore with a heart of gold. She’s a whore with a head for gold. Determined to avert a life of penurious drudgery in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the nineteen-year-old flesh merchant arrives in San... Read More

Las Vegas has it all: glitz, gambling, intrigue, and murder. A beautiful poet is found dead, her body sprawled across the late Elvis Presley’s king-sized bed, at a swanky party during a book publishing convention in 1990. The official... Read More

Twelve-year-old Adam and his older cousin Justin are in for some unbelievable adventure in this debut young adult novel by Fiona Ingram. As the boys embark on a trip to Egypt with their grandmother and aunt the adults are determined that... Read More

An American graduate student from UC-Berkeley visiting Peru as a geo-archeological point man for a Spanish conglomerate finds himself kidnapped for ransom by a group of Maoist rebels known as The Shining Path. Peter Martin builds a... Read More

This uncommonly common man, so ordinary, so invisible, carried himself in an unassuming way that spoke of strength. El Indio Jesus, the “uncommonly common man,” is introduced in scenes describing his activities during a typical week... Read More

William Blake’s paradox, “without contraries is no progression,” could well serve as an epigraph to a book premised on the belief that perceiving the contradictions at the heart of erotic love is the only route to romantic and... Read More