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YA science fiction adventure

During the Great Depression, Martin, a 12-year-old only child of Nashville, Tennessee, has lost his father to polio and his mother has become overbearing. She hires a World War One veteran, Seth, to work at their home. Unbeknownst to her, Seth suffers mental illness. When he drives Martin’s beloved dog Fritz away, the boy has had enough loss. Martin goes against his mother’s wishes and sets out to find Fritz, an odyssey that takes him into dangerous, unknown territory. He finds power-hungry men seeking a mysterious cache of futuristic weapons—the Will’ven’t Bin—and are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way.

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a collection of short fiction by Elizabeth Engstrom

In this, her latest collection of short fiction, Engstrom again shows her superior storytelling talents. From science fiction to western to horror,  psychological suspense and love, she captures the spirit of the human condition in its myriad facets. Take your time reading these stories. Many will sneak up on you later.

“Each story is a microcosm of experience and insight that will delight the psyche; whether literary readers seek the macabre, psychological shifts that render the underpinnings of foundations fluid, or the types of loss that expand notions of adaptation, change, and tragedy into unfamiliar territory.” – D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review

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The Witch of Wapping, A Ghost Story, a novel by Alan M. Clark and Rebecca Allred.

Like time, the River Thames flows through London Town in one direction, the water willing to swallow most anything. Items lost to the river’s churn lay exposed on the foreshore at a later date, perhaps centuries hence. Yet the river’s power to resurrect the commonplace, the fascinating, and the priceless, also extends to things much less desirable. In THE WITCH OF WAPPING, the river’s cycle of burial and revival preserves and then brings back a malevolence meant to remain dead and buried—something with a mean bite.

October 1, 2024 release date

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Night Birds, a dark fantasy novel by Lisa Snellings and Alan M. Clark.

In Night Birds, Lucy’s grandmother, Annie Maude, may be a witch, her school’s lunch lady might be a murderer, and a mysterious figure stalks her in the small South Carolina town where she lives. The chapters consider themes of mental illness, religion, sexual orientation, witchcraft, and death as seen through the eyes of this plucky girl growing up in a haunted house in the 1960’s. Charming, provocative, funny, and creepy as Hell, Night Birds will shake you up before leaving you all warm and fuzzy inside.

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Fallen Giants of the Points, the new adventure novel by Alan M. Clark.

A novel inspired in part by the early gangs of New York, this sprawling adventure is also a western, a coming of age story, and a tale of redemption that carries readers from the streets of infamous Five Points, New York City in the 1840s to Gold Rush era San Francisco. Told from the point of view of two dauntless orphaned children, Alta Mae and Cedric, the narrative provides a fresh and at times innocently humorous perspective on the grim realities for homeless children of the period and the hardships of western migration. Raised on the streets and resorting to petty crime to get by, they are filled with the bigotries their older brother, a nativist Bowery Boy gang member, gave them. He sells them into servitude and joins up to fight in California during the Mexican American War. Since he’s the only family the children have ever known, they escape service and head west to find him. With experiences along the way that put the lie to their bigotries, they are no longer the children their brother groomed to hate when they arrive.

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Free on YouTube, THE CHRISTMAS THINGY, a children’s book by F. Paul Wilson, illustrated by Alan M. Clark, narrated by Harley Jane Kozak. https://youtu.be/BNhOUF8FFGY

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