2024 First Place Winner - Bookfest Award for Fiction with Folklore. Maren Philips has spent years running from a past full of loneliness and heartbreak. In the wake of a birthday a motorcycle crash, she realizes she wants more. So she returns to the only place she has ever been happy–her late uncle’s cottage in the Scottish Highlands. As Maren works to restore her uncle's farm, she finds herself healing, along the way discovering magic, love, and a dark family secret which has been buried for seventy years. But when disaster strikes, will she stay in this new life she loves, or will she do what she has always done and run?
In this twelfth and last novel in Barbara Ross’ award-winning Maine Clambake Mystery series, Morrow Island is a perfect spot for a wedding—and a Snowden Family Clambake. Julia Snowden is busy organizing both—until a mysterious wedding crasher drops dead amid the festivities . . .
Reason To Be
A.G. Sorette
Independently Published
By order of Jupiter’s Ideal Overlords, the planet’s top neuranthropologist, Dr. Red Eyes, must find a way to manipulate Earth’s inhabitants into becoming subordinates of the Jupiterian people by putting the Earthlings through psychological experiments. After repeatedly failing, this could be the doctor’s last chance to prove he is competent enough to fulfill his commitment to Work. But as the pressure of finding success in his next experiment looms, his personal and professional life begin to fall apart. His subordinates, Third Hand and Eight Toes Jr., start to question the quality and value of his Work while the doctor’s domestic partner, Glow, begins to experience a crisis of faith in her own devotion. When an Earthling man named Andre starts to follow him in places no other Earthlings have been allowed to go, Red Eyes begins to wonder if he is actually the focus of an even larger psychological experiment.
The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize, and Amplify You
An inspirational guide for visualizing and actualizing success on a personal and professional level. In The Success Guidebook, Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino, master life coach and founder of The Best Ever You Network, writes that we must define success for ourselves—a one-size fits-all-concept is unworkable. Success is more than materialism and achievements. Rather, it’s joy, peace, gratitude, and striving for our best in each moment.
Animals and Other Siblings (Second Edition)
Peter L. van Oosten
Independently Published
Many years of animal encounters have developed the writer's connection to and understanding of animals. These animal anecdotes, over a lifetime, have morphed into a deeper search for the connectedness between humanity and other life forms. Through the medium of many delightful cartoon animal characters and with one-on-one conversations, we see these relationships moving onto more mature ground, where the interactions are recognized as interdependent. This volume seeks to present the recognition that each form of life has its place and value, and every presence is to be celebrated rather than seen as a nuisance or something to fear or be repulsed by. Many questions remain, and the writer still struggles with formulating and accepting the consequences of such higher-level relationships.
A Gardener at the End of the World
Margot Anne Kelley
Godine
In March, 2020, Margot Anne Kelley was watching seeds germinate in her greenhouse. At high risk from illness, the planning, planting, and tending to seedlings took on extra significance at this time. She set out to make her pandemic garden thrive but also to better understand the very nature of seeds and viruses. As seeds became plants became food, Kelley looked back over the last few millennia at successions of pandemics which altered human beings and global culture. In this memoir, seeds and viruses serve as springboards for wide-ranging reflections, such as their shared need for someone to transport them, the centrality of movement to being alive, and the domestication of plants as an act of becoming co-dependent. A Gardener at the End of the World explores questions of what we can preserve—of history, genetic biodiversity, culture, language—and what we cannot. It is for any reader curious about the overlap of nature, science, and history.
Keeping Heidi Close: Becoming Available to my Orb-Angel
When my daughter, Heidi, was 11, she died suddenly at a toll booth in the car I was driving. This book is the vulnerable sharing of my guilt, “if only’s,” hopes, tears, journaling, therapy, spirituality, and all that came with her death 30 years ago. I have changed and grown because of this monumental loss and the subsequent experiences forced upon me. Yet I would trade every bit of this growth to have Heidi back. I am not saying I know the answers. I do not. Rather, this book is an invitation into these experiences and into my soul as I learned to live with my pain and guilt and to embrace my new relationship with Heidi. In its pages, I share how our community of friends, family, and town came together to hold us. I hope you will read this book as if we are sitting together, sharing as friends do, and find comfort and hope in its pages.
"Wasted Youth is James Wright’s vivid and emphatically unromantic memoir of his late teens and early twenties, when his life derived its meager meaning from consuming drugs and alcohol, dodging authority, and simply staying alive day to day. Eventually, with no place to go but up, he did exactly that, discovering in rock climbing his means of ascent into the beginnings of a disciplined life. Relentlessly self-critical, Wright is not looking for pity or even sympathy from his reader. But the reader can’thelp but extend it anyway, knowing from the evidence of this beautifully written book the great potential that was once in danger of being lost"— Richard J. Maiman, biographer and author of A Man for All Branches and Zion Home.
"In Unleashed, Thomas Moore navigates the intersection where memory and imagination converge. It is a liminal space, one which this extraordinary collection occupies with quiet, particular and eloquent glee. The poems traverse a preternatural arc from the near catastrophic accident which catapulted Moore from builder to academic, to interspecies escapades in his limbic ecosphere. There are salty meditations on aging and a juicy application of darkish wit. Moore is a master of the spare, vivid stanza, and Unleashed abounds with droll and meticulous craft" —Ellen Sander, author, critic, and former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine. To purchase, please contact the author at: tmoore41@gmail.com.
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