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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
The Voice of the Wooden Dragon
by Christie Waldman
An engaging, thought-provoking, debut novel by Christie Waldman with illustrations by Lane Waldman. For middle grades/young adults.
Things were not fair in Deweydaire, a land ruled by dragons. The humans worked while the dragons played. Even though she was a dragon, Princess Meredith had taken the side of the humans. She insisted on speaking out loudly against the injustice. She’d even been leading her band of rebel dragons against her uncle, King Harold the Humble, in a war between the Red and the White Dragons. Such destruction! Surely there had to be a better way of resolving their differences!
How could Meredith have known that she would run afoul of her bully cousin Rupert when she went to King Harold’s castle to seek a truce? Or that Rupert would use a forbidden magic to try to silence her voice forever? Somehow, with the help of her loyal friends, the intrepid Peter Porter, under-rated court jester Felix, and a little girl named Suse, she must figure out how to regain all that is rightfully hers. What holds her back? And who will listen to the Voice of the Wooden Dragon?
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.
NOTHING’S EASY
Audrey and Jim Mang, Faithful Peacemakers
a memoir by Audrey Mang
NOTHING’S EASY is Audrey Mang’s heartwarming and unequivocal chronicle of the truth of her husband Jim’s belief that “… it is love, in faith, in doubt, in risk that community is built.” Whether through conflict with the Church, strategizing with worldwide activists for nuclear dismemberment, raising awareness of economic injustice in Buffalo, NY, executing risky acts of civil disobedience, or celebrating the joys and navigating the challenges of their family life, Jim and Audrey’s unwavering commitment to unity, peace, and justice continues to impart love, courage, and vision to the communities they have so selflessly served.
Poker Cemetery
by M. Hartman
Poker Cemetery
A terrible secret is hiding in plain sight inside an oddball cemetery located in a small town called Pontoon Alley. The cemetery headstones, decorated with jokes, jabs, riddles, and insults draw tourists from near and far to the dismay of the town’s Culture Committee. However, amidst the quaint little town’s Victorian mansions, tranquil scenery and quirky cemetery lurks an unthinkable evil.
When an unemployed college graduate returns to Pontoon Alley, desperate to make something of himself, he discovers the awful secret that will ultimately threaten his life and the lives of those he loves.
Jack Poker struggles to learn the truth while uncovering Poker Cemetery’s twisted history and the community of leaders that will do anything, including murder, to keep the secret concealed.
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
Please Let Me Destroy You
by Rupert Taylor
In this darkly comic rollercoaster of a novel, a desperate young filmmaker goes on a global quest for perfect content.
While trying to heist a casino in the Cambodian jungle, Apollo Jones has a crippling panic attack. But he’s no seasoned crim, he’s a filmmaker, and he’s heisting the casino so he can turn the story into the first season of a preposterously ambitious TV show he hopes to sell to HBO or Netflix or some other global streaming powerhouse. Spoiler alert: his panic attack stuffs up the heist. As punishment, his partners slice off his right pinky. But the TV show is all he has, so Apollo bandages his stump and heads off on a search for stories that will take him to the steaming streets of Saigon, the glittering hills above Hollywood, and all the way back to the dark and damp Cambodian jungle, where he may or may not be forced to dig his own grave.
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.