A prisoner dies under mysterious circumstances and Nate Jillian, idealistic prison psychologist, finds himself caught in the ruthless machinery of state bureaucracy in order to investigate. Using the metaphor of a state prison, this frank and intelligent novel, based on a true story, strips away the usual prison novel cliches to reveal the private lives of the people who work for the State. As the depth of injustice is revealed, each of these people is challenged to confront his or her own sense of morality.

Deliberate Indifference

Literature & Fiction

Jed Lewis

Contemporary

Laughing Fire Press

Daniel Scott's haunting and hilarious second collection is set in disparate spots across the American map, from Kansas to Cape Cod to New York City, and yet they are written with such piercing universality that you sense they could be happening right now in your town, on your street, maybe even in your own home. The stories delve deep into the lives and psyches of a stunning array of ordinary American misfits.

Pay This Amount

Daniel, Scott

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fancy a slice of cherry pie? Let's get started. . . . What, no bowl? No pie pan? No pot holders?Join our young baker (and her little dog!) as they travel the United Statesand--from New Hampshire to Hawaii, from Alaska to Texasand--in search of the coal, cotton, clay, and granite they need to create all their baking tools.In a companion to her bestselling How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, two-time Caldecott Honor illustrator Marjorie Priceman takes us on a round-the-U.S.A. journey by riverboat, taxi, train, and plane in a culinary adventureand--and a playful celebration of America's natural resources.

Gulls Hold Up the Sky: Poems 1983-2010

J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry

HAPPINESS LTD. is a darkly comic thriller with a chilling vision of our consumer culture's future. The world's biggest corporations have united to form the first global nation, promising a new era of prosperity. Happiness Ltd. governs countries like a business: keeping its customers happy, squashing competition, and covering up bad news with a smile. But when star employee Nelson Young falls in love with Celia, a disenfranchised rebel, he becomes a liability. Nelson and Celia try to escape, but are charged with economic terrorism and put on trial for their lives.

Happiness Ltd.

Michael McGhee

Humor & Satire

-#1 Amazon Best Seller ("Satire" and "Urban Life" Kindle categories) -Winner of 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes (Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction category) -Bronze medal winner of 2016 FAPA President's Awards (Adult eBook category) -Recommended by Kirkus Reviews Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story follows a group of recent college graduates who struggle with feelings of alienation and their addictions as they try to survive a year of teaching at two dysfunctional Miami public schools. A poetic and insightful coming-of-age novel, Developing Minds is centered on 24-year-old Luke Entelechy, an aspiring writer who sees his creative output suffer when he begins teaching at one of Miami's most challenging middle schools. As the year progresses, however, Luke begins to relate to the neglect and abuse his students suffer, and is faced with a "haunting" decision: continue to let his dark past destroy him, or rise above the struggle to realize his potential as an artist and a "real" human being. Equal parts disturbing and humorous, Developing Minds offers a brutally honest look at the American public school system and the extreme measures many teachers take to cope with working in it. *Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story is the fourth book in a loosely-linked series, with Hammond, The Summer of Crud, and Understanding the Alacrán as books one-three, and The Soul City Salvation as book five. Each novel can be read independently of the others.

Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story

Jonathan LaPoma

This second collection of adult poetry by J. Patrick Lewis published by Laughing Fire Press explores themes of nature, love, politics, and popular culture in ways that arouse emotions of nostalgia, sadness, laughter, tenderness, and lightheartedness in the reader. It is a complement to his first collection, Gulls Hold Up The Sky.

Porch Light

Girl, World is a collection of stories about survival: women discovering their untapped strengths and their metamorphoses into becoming whole. Mixing lyricism, stark realism, emotional depth, and vivacious language, Alex Poppe has crafted unforgettable female characters who navigate through places where the big political picture is captured in their personal stories.

Girl, World: stories by alex poppe

Alex Poppe

Literary

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