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The Dust Settles

This collection of poetry and prose explores Mingoia's experiences navigating grief in the five years following her father's death. Split into three sections, the beginning, the middle, and the healing, this collection attempts to comfort readers by showing the journey through pain, sorrow, and anger toward hope and healing.

Published 2022 by Lightning Tower Press.

Categories: Poetry Autobiographies, Biographies and Memoirs Family and Friends Nonfiction

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The Electric God and Other Shorts

by Michael Thomas Perone

A small town becomes obsessed with television—to the point of madness. A cheerful innocent confronts the harsh reality of the world and is forever changed by the experience. A struggling author begins receiving strange messages on the paper he uses to write. A bullied, brilliant teen is put through the wringer of his high school and comes out the other side insane. A detective of the future discovers he may be investigating his own untimely demise—and that of the world's.

These and one more dark fable await you from the imaginative mind of the award-winning author Michael Thomas Perone. Part fractured fairy tales, part nightmare fuel, The Electric God and Other Shorts follows characters who struggle to remain sane in an insane world and features stories that will keep you up at night, wondering what might be lurking in the shadows.

Published 2024 by Wheatmark.

Categories: Fiction Short Stories Horror Dark

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The Fairmounts

by Valerie Nifora

He's ready to hang up his uniform. Until the woman of his dreams spurs a mysterious adventure…

The turn of the 19th century. Harry LaCroix yearns to make up for lost time. After spending several years serving in the war in Africa, the English veteran is delighted to reunite with his last living relative and closest confidant. But his plans take an unexpected detour when he falls for a beautiful heiress with a missing fortune.

Embarking on his journey to unearth the truth for the young lady, the faithful bachelor unknowingly unleashes a chain of events that could lead to his undoing. But as Harry becomes embroiled in wealthy politics, a vicious rivalry threatens to turn him into a pawn in a jealous game of love. Can the devoted suitor unravel a tangle of lies and relish a newfound future?

The Fairmounts is the first book in the captivating romantic fiction series. If you like impassioned characters, mysterious revelations, and selfless sacrifice, then you'll adore Valerie Nifora's enchanting tale.

The book earned the Hawthorne Prize Award (shortlist) in 2023, Amor Award (finalist) 2023, Independent Press Award (distinguished favorite-audiobook) in 2023, and Author Academy Elite Award (honorary) 2022.

Published by Author Academy Elite, 2022.

Categories: Fiction Romance Drama

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The Falconer's Apprentice

by Malve von Hassell

Andreas, an adventuresome 15-year-old orphan, embarks on a precipitous flight across Europe to rescue the falcon Adela. A crotchety falconer, a secretive trader and his feisty daughter, a mysterious hermit, a young king in prison, an aging emperor, and an irascible Arab physician are among the principal characters in this action/adventure novel, set in the 13th century.

Written for readers age twelve and above, this coming-of-age story conveys life in medieval Europe, with bedbugs next to silver chalices, food ranging from the moldy to the sublime, and intellectual sophistication side by side with rank superstitions.

Published 2015 by Namelos; second edition independently published.

Categories: Growing Up/Coming of Age Fiction History Action and Adventure

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The Famous Phoebe of LI: Adventures at Sailors Haven

by Jean Derespina

Phoebe's first boat trip with her forever family was to Sailors Haven on Fire Island, New York. Everything was new and exciting to this young pup who made many different friends as she explored and played at this wondrous national park. Phoebe's adventures will delight children who will listen and read about the natural beauty of Sailors Haven National Seashore as told by Phoebe herself.

Published 2021 by Mascot Books.

Categories: Children's Books Fiction Long Island, New York Outdoors and Nature

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