There are no new listings to report this time around, so we’d like to highlight some additional randomly selected works from the archive for your reading pleasure.
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The Bobtails Meet the Preacher’s Kid | Arthur Yeomans | Historical, YA | $14.99 (or free on Kindle Unlimited)
A poignant story about four orphans and their widowed aunt who takes them in. Set on a dairy farm in Northern Vermont in 1889, Bobtails follows the children's journey through grief, jealousy, and, finally, settled love with a new family and friendships.
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From the Archive
Featuring a different, randomly selected book every week
| Literary (NA) (C) (F)The Water Is So Wide is a novella about the resilience of art and love, an episodic story told in three parts, tied together by the involvement/voice of the first-person narrator interwoven throughout. Its theme questions how love and art can survive the ever-present forces of destruction and not be permanently extinguished. Art, simply by its existence, invariably attracts forces bent on its destruction. The same holds true with love. The world labors under this dynamic and is ultimately weakened by it: almost ninety percent of Cambodia’s artists perish under the Khmer Rouge; a train built with love and longing no longer runs, standing rusted and still; the Lipik Lipizzaner horses are kidnapped and lost during the war in the Balkans. And yet, the gestures of Khmer dance, the history and power of one man’s love, and the horse stables of Croatia survive to this day. How this can happen, how what’s most valuable is not lost, is often the most fascinating story to tell.
Written as an evolving series of diary entries, in Brae's meteorite, Renn recounts his strange and heartfelt journey with Brae. Discover and unravel everything that happened after they witnessed a meteor falling from the sky.
A dynamic collection of character-driven, speculative-fiction tales with a spiritual, supernatural, or uncanny twist. A new story added every month!