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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 with…

Historical Fiction, American Civil War Date Published: September 16, 2025 Newlywed Abby Anderson is unsure whether to call herself a widow. In July of 1860, as the nation teeters on the brink of war, word comes that her merchant captain husband, Clifford, has been lost to the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Rejecting social ex…

Music Fiction Date Published: 09-30-2025 Publisher: Covfefe Press    For anyone who's ever said, "They're playing my song!"   On Halloween Eve, 1961, in his dingy Bronx walkup apartment, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Welton hears the opening notes of a song in his head. Jimmy’s still mourning his firefighter fa…

Book 3 in the 21 Tattoos Series   Speculative Fiction; Visionary and Metaphysical; Christian Fiction Date Published: September 17, 2025 Publisher: Acorn Publishing How far will a man go to save his very soul? Derek Hollinger has walked a long, hard road since a fateful encounter with an Indigenous shaman woman turned…

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…

Fiction / Drama Date Published: May 22, 2025 The Perfect Ten is a gripping tale of friendship, betrayal, and the lengths people will go to when pushed to the edge. When three high school friends witness a disturbing event, they make a pact to never speak of it again. Twenty-five years later, their high school reunion r…

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…

Political Satire/Fiction Date Published: October 28th, 2025 Publisher: Acorn Publishing At the turn of the next century, a corporate oligarchy rules America with an iron fist. Commercial jingles have replaced the Top Forty, babies come from factories, and the race captivating the nation isn’t between political candidat…

ARMY APACHE SCOUT (The Apache Kid Chronicles-Volume 1)   Fiction / Indigenous / Historical Fiction / Native American Date Published: 06-03-2015 Publisher: Hat Creek   From Army Scout to Outlaw, from Hero to Legend. He survived the embers of the fires and murders at the Camp Grant Massacre of th…