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Literary Fiction Date Published: May 15, 2025      Delivered is a moving, contemporary novel about Jean Valeur, a Haitian American NYU grad student whose life is derailed after he’s wrongly arrested during a party sting. After a harrowing stint at Rikers Island, Jean is released under a COVID-19 emergency order into a city …

Literary Fiction / Short Story Collection Date Published: 09-16-2025 Publisher: Wayne State University Press In 1970s and '80s Detroit, the city wrestles with an unending economic downturn, increasing violence, and white exodus to the suburbs. Amid all of this is twentysomething Mary who is just trying to grapple wi…

Literary Fiction Date Published: March 6, 2025 Publisher: Seacoast Press One choice. One moment. A ripple that changes everything. In The Smallest of Miracles, Douglas Carpenter crafts a masterful literary debut that merges gripping storytelling with profound life lessons. The novel follows Ted Carrington, a wealthy, bril…

Literary Historical Fiction / LGBT Friendly Date Published: 07-16-2025 For Caleb McRae--devout Baptist, Texas Ranger, hero of the Wild West--life's simple enough: lawmen bring bad guys to justice, and hellfire's a sinner's fate. At least it seems that way, until he falls in love with the notorious outlaw, Henry M…

Literary Fiction Date Published: 01-13-2025     In a school/reformatory, a teacher fights his own loss of faith in the power of education and the twin assaults of drug cartels, their hired assassins among his students. and the blind idealism of his principal.   Interview What is the hardest part of w…

Literary Fiction Date Published: 01-13-2025     In a school/reformatory, a teacher fights his own loss of faith in the power of education and the twin assaults of drug cartels, their hired assassins among his students. and the blind idealism of his principal.     About the Author Jan …

The Karma Series, Book 2   Literary Fiction, Mystery Date Published: November 9, 2024   Officer Bella Streit's abduction has yet to make headlines. Her captor once again humiliates police by nabbing Captain Stark's protective detail from the precinct parking lot. Her predecessor, the third off…

Philosophical Speculative Literary Fiction Date Published: November 13, 2024   For readers of George Orwell’s "1984" and Kazuo Ishiguro’s "Klara and the Sun," Julian Mercer’s "The Algorithm" is a deeply philosophical speculative novel that explores the boundaries of truth, …

Literary / Historical Fiction Date Published: 09-25-2202 Publisher: Woodpecker Lane Press   In this vividly-rendered novel, Melanie Dugan reimagines the life of Alice Neel, a groundbreaking American painter who revolutionized the art of the portrait in the twentieth century. Born in 1900 into a straitlace…

Literary Novel / Historical Fiction Date Published: 07-23-2024 Publisher: Vine Leaves Press   Now 80 years old, retirement and advanced age have dissipated the spirit of six college radicals of the 1960s, who jointly had participated in civil rights campaigns and anti-war protests. Having engaged in only p…