The Kitchen Brigade

Literature & Fiction

Boris, Laurie

Genre Fiction

Laurie Boris

Former stand-up comic Frankie Goldberg left her family behind to pursue success. But fifteen years later, when a mudslide plummets her hopes, her home, and her entire collection of impractical footwear into the Pacific, she flees Los Angeles for her idyllic hometown. In this story about family love and redemption, Frankie craves comfort, but continually finds that the joke's on her.

The Joke's on Me

Humor & Satire

4RV Publishing LLC

Art teacher Daniel Benedetto has cystic fibrosis. At thirty-four, he's already outlived his doctor's "expiration date," but that doesn't stop him from giving all he can to his students and his work. When he takes on Caitlin, his landlady's daughter, as a private student, the budding teen painter watches in torment as other people, especially women, treat Daniel like a freak because of his condition. To Caitlin, Daniel is not a disease, not someone to pity or take care of but someone to care for, a friend, and her first real crush. Convinced one of those women is about to hurt him, Caitlin makes one very bad decision.

Drawing Breath

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Sarah loves Boston. The feeling isn't mutual. After a run of bad luck, she moves back to the college town where best friend Emerson lives. Still in love with her, he'd dreamed of her return. But well-meaning Sarah's hasty decisions often end in disaster, so Emerson's dream may become a nightmare.

Sliding Past Vertical

Contemporary

Television producer Charlie Trager knows he's lucky to have a successful career and good friends and family who support him. The man he loves, however, is not so lucky. Joshua Goldberg suffers the spite of an ex-wife gunning to keep him from their two children...and maybe Charlie. Determined not to let Joshua go, Charlie crafts a scheme that could remove the obstacles to their relationship...or destroy their love forever. (Note: May be read as a stand-alone story.)

Playing Charlie Cool (Trager Family Secrets)

Romance

LGBTQ+ Romance

Christina Davenport, waitressing to pay the bills, has abandoned her childhood dream of becoming a magician—until she meets the mesmerizing Reynaldo the Magnificent. He hires her as his assistant for his magic and juggling show; she hopes she can play the role without cutting his giant ego in half. Devon Park, a surgical resident, is escaping his own problems when he visits the street performers in downtown Boston. But the young doctor worries that the bruises beneath Christina’s makeup go deeper than the training accident she professes. Convinced the doctor’s interest is more than clinical, the mercurial magician attempts to tighten his grip on Christina. Now she needs to decide—is the opportunity Reynaldo offers worth the price of admission?

A Sudden Gust of Gravity

Romantic Suspense

Boo! Fore!

Butcher, A.L.

McGowan, Erin

Clark, LB

Mader, JD

When a mudslide plummets her hopes, her home, and her entire collection of impractical footwear into the Pacific, former actress and stand-up comic Frankie Goldberg takes the only possession she has left - a cherry red Corvette convertible - and drives east to her family's bed and breakfast in Woodstock, New York. This begins a journey into the family she left behind, the family she joked about in her act. But the joke's on Frankie. While she was doing impressions of her slightly menopausal Jewish mother and her sister the serial divorcee, her family was slowly leaving her. And maybe that joke is just too new to be funny. Travel along with fearless Frankie as she puzzles through that eternal dilemma of coming back home to find that nothing is where you left it.

The Joke's on Me (The Goldberg Women)

Independently published

Forget making history. Forget people who think women don’t belong in baseball. It’s the early 1980s, and as one of the first female umpires in the minors, Margie just wants to put on her gear and be part of the game she loves. When she suspects a big-name slugger of cheating—and wonders why nobody else is calling him on it—she’s square on the horns of an ethical dilemma. If she lets him get away with his dirty tactics, she’ll hate herself for it. But blowing the whistle on a popular player could risk her career...and maybe her twin brother’s major-league prospects, too. In a baseball establishment looking to show the world that a woman can’t hack it on the field, can Margie keep her integrity and her job? The Call is a B.R.A.G. medallion honoree.

The Call: A Baseball Novel

Boychik

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