Born in the South, during the 1940s, an African-American girl with white skin was destined to live with secrets, shame and intolerance from her family as well as the black and white community. She grew up feeling unworthy and desperate to belong. When her three-year-old son wondered why she was white and the rest of the family black, she struggled with an answer. At age 50, divorced and discouraged, she knew she had to make a change, a dramatic one, and she did what few have the courage to do. She joined the Peace Corps and traveled throughout Asia and the Middle East for seven years, an opportunity chockfull of rich experiences and personal growth. To her amazement, she discovered she fit in everywhere. Through deeply moving stories imbued with humor and grace, Pat Holland Conner will transport you to exotic parts of the world where acceptance of others transformed her life spiritually, emotionally and mentally from fear and alienation to self-acceptance and approval.

Doorways to Significance: Finding Peace, Power, and Passion

Biographies & Memoirs

Goodwin, Ellen

Conner, Pat Holland

Memoirs

Lucky Bat Books

Chiller

Originally published under the pen name, Sterling Blake, Chiller is one of Gregory Benford's most thrilling convergences of science and imagination. What happens when cryonics works -- when scientists begin to awaken the cryonically preserved "Chillers" who lie frozen and waiting? Benford gives us a story that snaps along through the crazed mind of a serial killer, the scientists he stalks, and the chilling results of science advancing against death.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

BENFORD, GREGORY

Designers, JG

Science Fiction

Ugh, summer school! No one wants to spend the summer in school. Sam would rather be sketching. Instead, she's stuck in a group with three other students in high school English.  She instantly butts heads with Tyrell, but Tiffany and Javier are friendly and hard to ignore. Then Tyrell reveals a recurring nightmare and strange things start to happen. Sam soon discovers a world of supernatural giftings she never knew existed. Are her sketches a supernatural gift as well? With these gifts, can she and her new friends work together to save the mysterious girl who is caught in THE CAGE?

The Cage: First Book of The Birthright Series

Religion & Spirituality

Turner, Jacci

Christian Books & Bibles

Have you noticed that, after a particularly harsh winter, spring unfolds in even greater beauty? So it is with life. This story of Claire Bergano’s winter, tinged with fear and grief, speaks to her unflagging courage and hope. Claire draws upon her inner strength, to face personal change and a secret from her childhood. She builds upon strong friendships, mends a faltering familial relationship and forms new bonds. A story of spring manifesting in the life of a young woman, Winter is Past invites the reader to believe in the promise of rebirth. Book Club Recommended: Winter is Past offers insight into the process and benefits of organ transplantation and is strongly recommended for health care providers and persons dealing with organ transplants in their own life. The author is an RN and recipient of a kidney from a former co-worker and friend.

Winter is Past

Literature & Fiction

Slotto, Victoria C.

Women's Fiction

Collection of science fiction by Gregory Benford, with short fiction and work ranging from comic to apocalyptic. The stories of Anomalies challenge concepts of time, space and science. In addition to the title story, this collection includes several stories anthologized in "Best of" collections, such as "A Worm in the Well", "The Champagne Award" and "Doing Lennon". In total, the collection counts 17 works by Benford plus an Afterword providing insights by Benford into his writing methods, sometimes quite idiosyncratic.

Anomalies: a Collection of Short Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

With Dawna's court date against the sex traffickers approaching, her younger sister, Emily, has a chip on her shoulder as high as Mt. Rose. When Dawna moved to Reno, she left Emily all alone to face the gossip of their small hometown. Suddenly Emily is thrust into a bigger problem when she finds Loyalton's most popular cheerleader on the floor of the school bathroom semi-conscious. There are forces driving her and some new friends to take crazy risks. What is it? Where does it come from? Is there any hope of true friendship between seniors and freshman? And what about the boy in the barn? The suspense builds as the clues unfold. Join Dawna and her friends as they work to solve the mystery of this action packed adventure! The suspense builds as the clues unfold. Join Dawna and her friends as they work to solve the mystery of this action packed, young adult adventure!

The Bar: Second Book in The Birthright Series

Genre Fiction

Heart of the Comet

Gregory Benford and David Brin come together again to issue a new edition of their bold collaboration about our near human future in space, planting our boots . . . and staking our destiny . . . on becoming the People of the Comet. Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great "hard sf" novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells the story of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley's Comet and alter its orbit, to mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells— that might once have brought life to Earth—begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's future . . . and that of Earth . . . only love, courage and ingenuity can avert disaster, and possibly spark a new human destiny.

BRIN, DAVID

Penne Armour's bad day just keeps getting worse. First, she has to visit The Goddess Lounge, the notorious LA coffee house/knitting salon/menstrual palace decried by religious conservatives as a “man-hating elevator to hell.” Then, she learns that her “inner goddess” is Venus, the goddess of love, the one goddess—if she believed in goddesses—that divorced-mom Penne would want nothing to do with. But when her ex-husband goes missing and she sets out to find him, maybe Venus is just what Penne needs to face down a one-eyed fashionista, a boar-taming olive-oil rancher, a hypnotic lounge lizard, an ocean of traffic, and her own increasingly irrepressible feelings for a businessman with a dangerous secret. A comic yet thoughtful riff on Homer’s Odyssey, The Goddess Lounge asks the eternal question: Why be a hero when you can be a goddess?

The Goddess Lounge

Finnegan, Margaret

A painfully honest, inspiring memoir of a man whose broken back taught him to stand in his truth. One moment, Grant Korgan had everything he’d ever wanted—a successful career, a new marriage to the love of his life, and an athletic body that enabled his constant pursuit of world-class adventure sports. The next, he found himself lying in the snow, with no feeling or movement below his belly button. But this is not a book about the paralyzing grip of a spinal cord injury, or the struggle to walk again. Rather, Grant’s story of survival, unbound love, endless gratitude, and the limitless power of unwavering positivity is one that applies to us all. It’s about living big, remembering and finding the greatness that lies within all of us, and living the highest version of yourself regardless of your circumstances. Determined not to change a single goal of the past, the Korgans embarked on an unconventional, activity-based recovery plan that bucked the prognosis that Grant’s long-cherished independence was gone forever. Two Feet Back is Grant’s account of this incredible first year of recovery, the Korg 3.0 movement it inspired, and how the path to getting back on his own two feet back gave him a lot more than he bargained for.

Two Feet Back

Self-Help

Korgan, Grant

Motivational

FINALIST FOR THE AURORA AWARD—Best Collection "There are three stories in this collection, and they reach from van Gogh's rural France to the classic travelling fair to the far lost forest, and from timeshift to shapeshift to the activity of luck. That's range, or at least a glimpse of range, in the grand manner that harks back to Bradbury and Sturgeon and Ellison."—Chaz Brenchley, British Fantasy Award Winner Like any of us, the characters we meet in IMPOSSIBILIA have things they hide inside—secrets, fears, aspects of themselves they keep locked away. Or try to. Only their things are a little...different. A painter who talks to Vincent van Gogh... A shapeshifter hunting one of his own... The secret to being the luckiest man alive... Welcome to IMPOSSIBILIA! From the reviews: "Rarely have I seen such an apt title to any book! Douglas Smith has given us three amazing stories that are so unusual and beautiful that no other name than Impossibilia could possibly describe this collection. Each tale was rapture and ecstasy, magical and mysterious, perfect and implausible. ... I don’t know what else to say without spoiling things for you so I won’t say anything else, except READ THIS BOOK!!!" — Jim Dodge Jr., Mass Movement Magazine, May 2009 "The writing is superb. Douglas Smith is an artisan and his stories beautifully crafted. ... In my search for the perfect short story, the three in this volume certainly qualify." —Kelly Jensen, SF Crowsnest Book Reviews, 2009 "There is a certain exhilaration that comes from reading the book’s complex and powerfully emotional stories couched in that deft and smooth prose. … [Smith deserves] to be known to by a very wide audience indeed." —Dead Reckonings review magazine "Highly, highly recommended." —Liviu Suciu, Fantasy Book Critic, 2009

Impossibilia (Short Story Collections)

Smith, Douglas

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