Genre: General: Literary

The Song Book of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon

The Song Book of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon

A powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line to be together. New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. With his father’s deep ties to the mob, the Bronx piano man has learned that love and family can get you in trouble. So he keeps to himself, writing songs for other musicians, avoiding the spotlight…until the […]

March 16, 2021 / 0 Comments
Marry Up! by John Leslie Hart

Marry Up! by John Leslie Hart

Deathly afraid of intimate relationships, Farmer Og cannot bring himself to court the woman he loves. When he admits to a passing psychiatrist that he saw an elf, the psychiatrist tells him it is actually his inner child trying to help him get married. “Listen to it,” he says. After the psychiatrist leaves, townspeople twist his advice for their own amusement. Og’s sincerity at wanting […]

January 19, 2019 / 0 Comments
The Heart of Rue by Jewel Adams

The Heart of Rue by Jewel Adams

One moment, Rue Stapleton was handed the world, and her life was almost complete. The next, everything she loved was torn away from her… Everything, that is, except one old woman and a God who would be their binding tie, connecting their lives together forever, and taking Rue in a direction she could never have foreseen. A modern-day story of the Book of Ruth. [shareaholic […]

September 24, 2018 / 0 Comments
American Fork by George B. Handley

American Fork by George B. Handley

Zacharias Harker is a brilliant botanist and an aging recluse. Haunted by his mistakes and living without his wife and daughter for the past twenty years, he hatches the idea to write his magnum opus, a book on the implications of climate change for humanity focused on the wildflowers of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. Just prior to the tragedy of 9/11, he hires a young artist, […]

May 25, 2018 / 0 Comments
The Other Side of the Bridge by Camron Wright

The Other Side of the Bridge by Camron Wright

Two strangers, opposite coasts, and abridge that silently beckons. Katie Connelly has lived in San Francisco all her life. Her late father made his career as an ironworker on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the many stories of him trying to save jumpers still haunt her. When she’s asked to write a history about the bridge, her research uncovers a secret journal hidden in her […]

March 7, 2018 / 0 Comments
The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus

The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus

An obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book—and find it. Meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a forgotten Brazilian science-fiction author named Salgado-MacKenzie. There’s Danny, a writer who’s been scammed by a shady literary award committee; Sergio, journalist turned sub-librarian in São Paulo; and Harriet, an excommunicated Mormon historian in Salt […]

January 16, 2018 / 0 Comments
Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats by Steven L. Peck

Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats by Steven L. Peck

Follow Gilda Trillim’s many adventures—from her origins on a potato farm in Idaho, to an Orthodox Convent in the Soviet Union, to her life as a badminton champion… When Gilda is taken prisoner during the Vietnam war, she finds comfort in the company of the rats who cohabit her cell. Follow Gilda as she struggles to comprehend the meaning of life in this philosophical novel […]

September 29, 2017 / 0 Comments
The Prodigal Father by Richard M. Siddoway

The Prodigal Father by Richard M. Siddoway

Does it take a funeral to learn how to forgive? When Scott left home after graduating high school, he told himself he would never go back. But thirty-two years later, he finds himself home again—for his father’s funeral. The man who had driven Scott away becomes the reason that brings him back, but not for reconciliation. Scott’s past away from home begins to unravel, and […]

May 9, 2017 / 0 Comments
The Broken Road by Richard Paul Evans

The Broken Road by Richard Paul Evans

A broken man. A twist of fate. A second chance. Chicago celebrity, Charles James can’t shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he’s so haunted and […]

May 6, 2017 / 0 Comments
Prayers in Bath by Luisa Perkins

Prayers in Bath by Luisa Perkins

After several attempts at in vitro fertilization, Ted and Julia Taylor are out of money and out of hope. In an attempt to shake herself out of her depression, Julia accepts an internship on an archaeological dig in Bath, England. When she finds an ancient scroll while working in the sewer connected to the Roman baths, she sneaks it back to her flat, translates it, […]

March 24, 2017 / 0 Comments