The stories take place at different points in Ottoman history, from the 15th century to the 20th. The characters are a seaman turned military engineer, a housewife, a scribe for the Young Turks, and a boatman.
Sarah Green has come a long way from the traumatized attorney who jettisoned her Boston life and fled to Maine after her friend Miriam’s murder. With effective trauma treatment and a new graduate degree, Sarah has accepted her clairvoyance, adjusted to ghostly conversations with Miriam, and settled into an enjoyable counseling practice. Good friends and new romance make life sweet—until the man in prison for murdering Miriam requests mediation. Sarah meets Reginald Harper, who denies murdering Miriam and stuns Sarah with stories of bioweapon experimentations that turned ticks into carriers of virulently enhanced Lyme disease. It’s personal—Lyme is disabling Sarah’s close friend and a client. So Sarah enlists friends and her ex, Ryan, in a dangerous investigation searching for answers: Is Harper delusional? If he didn’t kill Miriam, who did? All too soon, they unearth a dangerous conspiracy of people willing to kill to keep dark secrets buried.
When Gwynn Denning sees Sam Townsend at an event, she knows she will kill him. Townsend assualted her friend, Tift Ainsley, back in college. Or at least that’s what Tift told her. Gwynn swears that this will be the last time she kills. She’s a mother, a wife, and the director of a home for neglected children. Ever since she was a young girl, she’s wanted to eradicate the murderous thoughts that have occasionally plagued her. When she learns that someone saw her leaving the event with Townsend, it sets off a series of catastrophic events requiring Gwynn to stay one step ahead of the law. The consequences of Gwynn’s actions force her to confront the painful truth about her past and the dark secrets kept hidden by her family. Gwynn wants to be normal like everyone else. But how far will she go to keep from being arrested?
Lieutenant Bailey's Mistake: A Foray into the Recent Past
What’s in a name? Particularly if the conclusive – or persuasive – backstory remains elusive, buried in the swamps of time? So it is with the tiny Down East harbor facing the wilds of the Atlantic Ocean, known today as Bailey’s Mistake. Despite its tranquil façade, this blind inlet in a remote corner of Maine has been the scene of action for many hundreds of years, many more if the question includes the trail of the region’s First Nation occupants, who came in behind the glaciers. This work explores the record, going back four centuries, creating a tapestry of legends all based on historical facts. Do any of them explain the inscrutable name? Maybe.
The Anarchist Reforestation Show: A Worker's Memoir
James Wright spent ten years working in the woods of the Pacific Northwest as a tree planter. This book follows this career, from the first shock of seeing a clear cut, to the last deterioration into injury and disillusionment. The author worked with two different crews during this time—crews with different approaches to the work but who shared a commitment to anarchist principles of self-organization. The memoir delves into the odd characters drawn to the work, the absurd situations resulting from clashes between forest managers and their labor contractors, and the unrepentant high spirits of the workers toiling to replant a devastated world. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, this is the rarely told story of labor in the trenches of the American industrial forest.
Blade Work
Lily Brown
Parlor Press
The poems in Blade Work explore the relationship between humans and natural and built environments, questioning the violence we do to nature, along with the industrial landscapes we traverse in our daily lives. The poems dwell, too, in human relationships—how does one manage and live with vulnerability in relationship to others? How can the imagination and its creations shore us up against the fractures and fissures in our relationships to each other and to the world? Thinking about dreams and memory, the poems explore how our dreams can bring the past into the present and vice versa. The poems in Blade Work use the poetic line as a vehicle for multiplicity, challenging the reader to engage on multiple levels of language and syntax to find meaning, from the line to the stanza, from the sentence to the word.
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