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Congratulations to Craig Buchner
Winner of Best Indie Short Fiction 2022 for His Book Brutal Beasts
New Releases
A Tale From The Trenches: Prurient Interests Book One
by Luke Hayes
Prurient Interests: displaying content that concerns only lustfully lewd and indecent desires; absent of any artistic, educational, or scientific value. There are some who believe such vile interests, in vast aggregates, will ultimately produce the end of days. And these people fear not the end of the world, but the beginning of the next one.
PRURIENT INTERESTS Book 1: A Tale From the Trenches: is the first story in a new gritty crime drama and legal thriller anthology series called Prurient Interests. This tale depicts an addict and recklessly successful trial attorney that is compelled to lose all his cases by a corrupt city councilman. But after the attorney unearths the formidable skeletons in the councilman's closet, he questions if the dirt the councilman has on him is truly worth covering.
Virgin Snow
by Moxie Gardnier
​At 13, Cosi McCarthy wants what every girl in Buffalo wants in the 1960s—to become a happy wife and loving mother. But that dream collapses when her father dies, ugly family secrets emerge, and her widowed mother is trapped in the double standards of a patriarchal culture and impoverished by the city's failing economy. Swept up in the idealism of youth, Cosi soon learns how hard it is to save the world, and that love is easy to mistake when you have no idea what it looks like.
“From the highly charged opening scene of young Cosi slipping into her dying father’s bedroom to the irreverent humor that classifies a handy crucifix and candles as “An emergency kit, of sorts, for Catholics on their last legs,” Moxie Gardiner asserts her writing chops in this coming-of-age story of a girl growing up in Buffalo, New York. Cosi’s heart-rending experiences spring from her desperate efforts to define herself in a culture that expects certain willing sacrifices. Polished by Gardiner’s love for her hometown, Virgin Snow shines. Keep tissues handy.”
--Ginny Fite, award-winning author of The Physics of Things
We Remain: Race, Racism and the Story of the American Indian
by Keith Burich Phd
​The story of American Indians is an arguably sad and tragic tale of the conquest, degradation, oppression and near extermination of the Native peoples of North America, all driven by a virulent and violent racism that courses through U.S. history. From slavery, genocide and removal from their traditional ecologies to incarceration on barren and isolated reservations, cultural annihilation, disease and despair, they have suffered much since the arrival of European colonists. And yet, they have endured and even triumphed, albeit in unexpected and surprising ways.
In We Remain: Race, Racism and the Story of the American Indian, Keith Burich meets Native people where they live, sharing their narrative in a profoundly stirring way. An emeritus professor of history at Canisius College, Burich uses his experiences and observations to trace the poverty, deprivation, discrimination and inequities of the present to the racial hatred and violence that invaded North America in 1500. Having spent 25 years in Indian Country, he has seen the worst of the Indians’ plight. Injustices notwithstanding, he has likewise witnessed firsthand the beauty, resilience, courage and compassion of America’s First People.
We Remain is a must-read for anyone who wants to better comprehend the power of the human spirit and the unique and tumultuous history of the United States.
Boulder Point: Book 2 in the Merrill Connor Mystery Series
by Deborah Madar
BOULDER POINT – BOOK #2 IN THE MERRILL CONNOR MYSTERY SERIES
When beauty and evil collide, trauma ensues for those who witness it. In Boulder Point, Book Two in the Merrill Connor Mystery series, the podcaster/criminologist returns, but this time the crime she investigates is personal.
With the help of her faithful podcast fans, input from her friends at their Thursday night round tables, and some mystical clues from the Afterlife delivered by a Lily Dale medium, Merrill goes in determined pursuit of the perpetrator. Personal trauma, multiple suspects, and plot twists abound, as do forays into events from local history as Merrill continues to host her podcast, A Deeper Dive.
The Redemption of Uncle Richard, “Boss” Croker The Lion of Manhattan: From Irish immigrant to Tammany Boss
​The Redemption of Uncle Richard is in part, an overview of Ms. Caton’s family lineage that focuses on the history of this intriguing and colorful individual.
After decades of working on her family genealogy, Ms. Caton discovered Richard Croker, Tammany Boss, was indeed her great, great, grand uncle, immigrating to the United States from Ireland. She found during her extensive research, many redemptive qualities in this so-called “crime boss”, as she found many of the historical summaries depict him for his negative influence and corruption of New York politics. However, this book investigates and illustrates his character in depth, and ultimately finds him to have some significant endearing attributes while it dives head on into his personal life and his political career.
This biography begins in Ireland, way before Richard and his parents immigrated to the United States and continues throughout his tragedies and triumphs both and out of the spotlight.
Ms. Caton was fascinated to learn about the evolution of our political structure here in the United States and how that structure, in many respects, has modeled the past as well as changed very little from the designs of these formative Tammany bosses, one of which is this Uncle, Boss Richard Croker, The Lion of Manhattan.
Adam’s Way
The Journey of a Child with Dyslexia and a Resource Guide for Parents
“Hi, my name is Adam. I’m five years old and my mother is about to discover a secret I’ve been keeping from her: I’m dyslexic.”
So begins Adam’s Way: The Journey of a Child with Dyslexia and a Resource Guide for Parents by Mary Ann Coulson. In clear, heartfelt prose that only a devoted mother could craft, author Coulson recounts the difficulties Adam, despite his exceptional intelligence, experienced with learning in traditional settings. She describes, as well, the lengths to which she and her husband, David, went in trying to get Adam the education he needed and deserved. Despite the tutoring, testing, tears, conferences, confrontations, and, ultimately, court actions, Adam was about to begin ninth grade reading at a kindergarten level. Finally, they found relief, a school whose dyslexia remediation curriculum had him reading at grade level quickly, graduating on time and going on to college and a successful career. Only part memoir, Adam’s Way also provides guidance and resources for parents who may be in a similar situation.
Bail Out: Alfred Mock’s World War II Story
by Christopher P. Gregoire
“. . . I don’t lay claim to much of a horror tale. Mine pales into insignificance when compared with some of the experiences of others here. Last of all, it’s considered bad taste, a breach of “kriegie” etiquette to tell terror tales. We’re all just a bit tired of them. So, I’ll just skip all that and confine this log to a few notes . . .” – Taken from Alfred R. Mock’s Log Book of Prisoner-of-War Days in Stalag Luft 1
Alfred Mock’s World War II memoir in the U.S. Army Air Force stands out because of the incredible detail this bombardier shared from the time of his entry into the military service straight through to his liberation from Germany’s Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp, journey home and beyond. Christopher Gregoire chronicles Al Mock’s war experience from a “feet on the ground” perspective that compels one to read on.
You Wonderful Boy is a mother’s memoir of her son’s tragic fight against OCD, bulimia, and addiction. Jennifer Liberatore poignantly tells the story of her son’s mental illness, her family’s attempt to save him, and her journey of healing after his death.
Zachary was truly a wonderful boy. He was an honor student, quarterback of his high school football team, and loved by everyone who knew him, especially his three younger brothers. Zach had a bright future ahead of him, until the onset of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder at age 16. He never gave up his fight, which led him to six inpatient facilities and six outpatient facilities all over the country. He was a strong advocate of raising awareness and breaking the stigma of mental illness. Zach died of an opioid overdose in October 2020 at the age of 24.
You Wonderful Boy is a beautiful and vulnerable story about motherhood, perseverance, healing and hope.
Far From The Twisted Reach: The Last Road Trip Ever
Matt Bindig
In the summer of 2019, while staring down a deadening depression, Matt Bindig packed up his family for a three-week road trip out West—circling through six national parks—searching for the truth behind Bill Clinton’s words, “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” After twenty-one days and 3,700 miles, he returned to his mind-numbingly normal suburban life with a collection of classic family photos and a journal full of scribbled notes. Six months later, COVID arrived and the world changed forever.
“Matt Bindig is the embodiment of Henry David Thoreau in 21st century language and circumstances. Told with understated vulnerability that is both lyrical and engaging. Far From The Twisted Reach, presents a world of disconnection—from personal relationships, community, and nature—and warns that if unchecked, our hectic and unfulfilling lives will destroy both the planet and our souls. But Bindig’s story also gives us faith that there is beauty and goodness in this world if we could only stop to listen, breath, and feel the quiet. Infused with passages of hope, readers wilt turn the last page sure of the belief that our better angels have a chance to tip the scales for good in both small and large ways”
- Richard Robinson, Jr., is the author of the memoir, The Boy
From Nowhere
The Grape Farm: The Sequel to the Berry-Picker House and Lace Around the Moon
by Mary Pierre Quinn-Stanbro
The Grape Farm is the sequel to The Berry-Picker House and Lace Around the Moon.
Set against the backdrop of 1930’s Naples, NY and New Orleans, LA, where jazz singer, Pierre calls home, the story follows her struggles and racial discrimination prevalent at the time and depicts not only her perseverance but how she thrived. Her life comes full circle when she finds the son she was forced to give up when she was just a child. The book resolves several mysteries, including who murdered the man who ravaged Pierre as a young woman.
Readers will relate to the story as it showcases love between friends and family and the love between a man and woman, who thought that secure love had passed them by.
It is an enticing tale that stimulates all of the senses, making you feel as though you can taste and smell the grapes.
HUSH THE CANNON’S ROAR: The Life and Times of Bennet Riley, Defender of Buffalo
by Thomas Schobert
Against the backdrop of the funeral of Major General Bennet Riley in June 1853, his beloved Arabella reminisces about their life – their happy times, his challenges on the battlefield and their personal tragedies. The reader will be taken on a journey that traces his rise during a forty-year army career that saw him advance in rank during service in all the major conflicts of his nation during the first half of the 19th century and placed him in a role where he would be considered the father of California statehood.
They lived on the western prairies and in tropical Florida, but Buffalo New York became the place that truly became home for Bennet and Arabella, during and after his remarkable military career. It is a love story that spans one of the greatest eras in American history.