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Before and After the Book Deal
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing—but were too afraid to ask—is in this funny, candid guide featuring advice from 150 contributors, including Anthony Doerr, Roxane Gay, and Rebecca Makkai. “Anyone who’s trying to get a book published or is in the process of being published should consider this guide required reading.” —BuzzFeed There are countless books on the market about how to write better but very few books on how to break into the marketplace with your first book. Cutting through the noise (and very mixed advice) online, while both dispelling rumors and remaining positive, Courtney Maum’s Before and After the Book Deal is a one-of-a-kind resource tha...
A Short Season
No parent is ever ready for a terminal diagnosis of their child. No mother should see the day where turning off your son's ventilator is the only option to end his pain. And no grandfather should see the day when your grandchild is scheduled to die in his mother's arms. But on September 10, 2005, this was the harsh reality facing our family, and this was the day we’d never forget. I am no pastor; nor a preacher. I am no miracle worker, nor a missionary. I am a struggling husband, a decent father, a survivor of brutal child abuse, and from the miraculous survival and extraordinary life of a Progeria child, I am a believer saved by the Grace of God through Jesus Christ. In A Short Season: Fa...
From Blue Ground
Set in 1876 in the coal hills of Pennsylvania, the story follows two unwitting orphans, Patrick and Sissy Hughes, who are propelled on a desperate journey after witnessing the murder of their father. They carry with them a wooden box retrieved from a secret compartment beneath their father's bed. His dying words to them: "keep it safe, keep it hidden." Powerful men are looking for what's inside the box and they will do anything they can to get it. One hundred miles to the South, large crowds have gathered at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Patrick and Sissy's father had promised to take them there for the Fourth of July celebration. Instead, they are running for their lives. Alone...
The 100th Human
"December 2012....A small team of scientists have uncovered a riddle concerning the 'End of Days.' As they reveal the symbolic meaning of the riddle, their serendipitous journey is discovered by the Fraternity of the Veni Victus - determined to thwart such revelations. These two powers - of good and evil - converge. Only the spirits of the ancestors know the outcome." -- from cover.
Emeralds of the Alhambra
"How could we forget? Our world is stained with the blood of religious conflict and fanaticism, yet we managed to forget that for hundreds of years in medieval Spain, Christians, Muslims and Jews lived together in relative peace, sharing languages and customs, whispering words of love across religious boundaries, embracing a level of mutual acceptance and respect unimaginable today. Together, they launched one of the great intellectual and cultural flowerings of history. Our world aches for a future graced with tolerance and peace. Let us join together in reawakening the glory of medieval Muslim Spain, of al-Andalus. Emeralds of the Alhambra is a love story set in the resplendent Alhambra Pa...
Love, Faith, and the Dented Bullet
Love, Faith, and the Dented Bullet blends historical fiction with a sweet romance. Through letters and diary entries, we learn how Jacob, a Polish Jew, survives World War II and in 1947 falls in love in Pennsylvania with Anna, a Mennonite farm girl. Both harboring secrets and guilt, they forge a strong bond as they learn how to forgive and be forgiven.
The Grey Girl
The Van Tassel murders have troubled the locals for years when Chloe and Alex arrive they find themselves trapped in a mystery. Vengeful ghosts, witches, and demons conspire to control Chloe and her special gifts. Alex has to find a way to reunite with Chloe and end the Haunting, all while trying to understand the strange Van Tassel Murders.
The Indigo Scarf
The Indigo Scarf chronicles the crossing lives of escaped slaves Jedediah James and George Sharpe as they flee with their white wives into the wilderness of Pennsylvania's Sinnemahone country, on the upper reaches of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, during the frontier decades after Pennsylvania's last Indian purchase. The novel opens, however, in 1882 in Washington's Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station. Narrator Anna Maria Sharpe is departing for the backwoods of north-central Pennsylvania, which she fled in her teens doubtful of her identity. She encounters Benjamin James, now a drifting, alcoholic longshoreman, who'd been implicated in the murder of his brother during Anna Mar...
Dead Catch
Retirement is the perfect time to travel the country, enjoy the grandkids—and solve some murders . . . Retired robbery/homicide detective Hank Moran and his wife, Helen, are off on another adventure darting around the country in their motorhome. They’d like to make a stop in Amish country—just a little detour on their way to the White House, where they’ve been invited for dinner with the president as well as the senator whose life Hank recently saved. But most of all they look forward to spending time with their grandson Chip, and taking him on a pleasant weekend fishing trip to a Louisiana state park. But Chip hooks into something a bit more interesting than a five-pound bass . . .
