"Requiem for the Bone Man" is a moving, compelling first novel, told with the assurance and skill of a born storyteller. It is also a meditation on the art of healing, as seen in the adventures of its unforgettable central character, Dr. Robert Galen. From his youth as a streetsmart son of immigrants, to his career as a gifted physician, Galen is tough-minded yet compassionate. Above all, he is deeply human, willing to risk the ...
Portia is a journey through several generations of a family as perceived through the senses, emotions and memories of one of its members, Portia. The story realistically examines certain aspects of existence, perseverance and love between people within a devoted family as well as the tenderness and affection which only occur between soul mates. From a young lady coming of age to a career woman glimpsing her own mortality while confronting an unc ...
David, the narrator of "Diary: Alone on Earth," is a loner, but he is yet to discover what true loneliness feels like. David suffered a great tragedy in life, so he has decided to cut himself completely loose from all those who love him. This man now feels safe inside his comfort shell, having abandoned friends, family for a hermit lifestyle in a tiny Alabama town. But his world is turned upside down on one particular day: Nove ...
The lure of the Charm City streets can be addictive. Money moves fast and the lifestyle that goes along with it moves even faster. No one knows that better than Cho, a Baltimore hustler who, along with his crew, dominates the city's drug game with an inventory that lines dope fiends up for blocks. But the notoriety and the privilege of being at the top comes with a long list of life-or-death consequences that Cho and the people he loves ...
IT STARTED WITH A DEAD LADY…<br>That chance discovery, on a dingy river bank in New Jersey, changed the life of 8-year-old Robert Galen forever. It propelled him into a lifelong study of medicine, beginning under the sage counsel of his mentor, Dr. Agnelli. In turn, his medical career led him to two ill-fated marriages and one would-be recaptured romance. Then, alone and in near despair, Galen found a new reason for being, in his old frien ...
Is there life after death? Richard and Karen are sure of it because they died once and, although the doctors brought them back, part of them is still trapped on the other side. But this Afterlife their alter-egos are experiencing isn't what they were led to believe. It seems there is no peace after death, no Heaven, not any more. There is just a decaying land of medieval customs and barbarity, a living nightmare.<br><br>Join ...
BLACKOUTS and BREAKDOWNS<br>A Novel by Mark Brennan Rosenberg<br><br>Drugs up our noses and boyfriends from Britain<br>Vodka called Ketel and diaries written<br>Guys with hot packages and lots of bling<br>These are a few of my favorite things.<br><br>Ever wondered what it's like to pretend to know sign language to pick up a hot deaf guy?<br><br>Have you ever wondered what it& ...
In Paris, the so-called radiant city, Matthew Bowles, freelance journalist, suffers a dark time. Holed up in a bare apartment in the 8th arrondissement, he's recuperating physically, though not emotionally, from injuries sustained in a shooting in Hebron. His memory of the event is murky, and although the media has deemed him a hero – he may or may not have tried to save a man and his child – Matthew is repulsed by th ...
Set in the heart of Memphis' Shelby County in the 1940s, Spiral is the story about the great lengths a hard working mother will go to protect her family. When young girls start missing in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, the mother, Tammy Tilson, begins to look upon the father of her oldest son's fiancee with suspicion. Her efforts to find and stop the killer cost one of her own children his life. It is not until the finger of ...
