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Sarah Smarsh's Heartland is a telling memoir about growing up in a working-poor family in and just outside of Wichita, Kansas during the 80s and 90s. It's a piece that is built on powerful storytelling, and a unique voice in which the writer addresses her future daughter throughout the narrative. She shares the stories of... Continue Reading →
#1. Do you like adventure? Are you a treasure hunter trapped in an average Jane or Joe's body? Go to #3. If not, go to #6 #2. Are you ready to encounter drows, gnomes, orcs, dwarfs, goblins, and huge hairy spiders? Yes? Continue to #5. If this is getting too scary for you, go to... Continue Reading →
A panic attack is crippling. All the body's defense mechanisms are triggered at once, leaving a person frozen and in utter fear. Combine that with the fact that the stigma of mental health continues to plague our society, and dealing with these issues can be nearly impossible. Scott Stossel, current editor of The Atlantic magazine,... Continue Reading →
Paris 1992: An existence based on want. Of pure gluttony and desire. Cultivating a life of art, sex, drugs, and writing. A hard-driving frenetic love of Katerina. Los Angeles 2017: Stability. Boredom. Guilt. Commercial success. Deep self-hatred. Selling out. A love defined by partnership of wife, mother of children. Katerina is the story of Jay,... Continue Reading →
Florence is a game about the life of a young woman named... Florence. She has a career, a love of art, a doting mother, and as we all do, a daily routine. One day she meets a person who causes her to somewhat break and change that routine. She and Krish may be on their... Continue Reading →
Daniel Mason’s The Winter Soldier is a strongly-written novel of a field hospital on the Eastern front of World War One. Lucius is a young man from a family of means who finds medicine as an escape from the obligations of his birth. And when war breaks out with only a couple of years of... Continue Reading →
Fate brings a shipwreck to the shores of Themyscira, the Amazons' island home. Diane makes the decision to defy her people edict not to leave the island. She jumps into the water to save a Warbringer, a young woman in a long line of catalysts that have started wars and famine through the ages. Wonder... Continue Reading →
Mix a couple parts Jurassic Park, one part Indiana Jones and Indy Jane, and a dash of the law and you have The Dinosaur Artist. This is the tale of one man's desire to make a living at selling dinosaur bones. Yet, in his path lies an ongoing debate that has been raging for centuries:... Continue Reading →
More IQ! The young African-American PI from East Long Beach. This time he takes on The Triade in Vegas to help a young woman who has been threatened by a loan shark. And he continues to try to track down his brother’s killer. Ide adds more depth to IQ and other characters we met in... Continue Reading →
