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Literary
Two Years in New York | Michael Mohr | Fictional Memoir (N) (C) (F)→($)
A fictionalized memoir about my experience living in a rough part of East Harlem during the opening months of the pandemic.
The African Songbook | Ben Woestenburg | Literary (NA) (C) ($)
A love story that takes place during the Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s. THE AFRICAN SONGBOOK: A Tragedy In 5 Acts, is a story that speaks to the strength of true love, and the lengths one woman is willing to go...
At the Edge of a Long Lone Land | Ben Woestenburg | Literary (NA) (C) (F)
Nearing the end of The Great War, a young boy meets a widow and falls in love; a complicated story about love, family and the crushing defeat of first love…
The Evil That Men Do | Ben Woestenburg | Literary (NA) (C) (F)
A coming of age novel set in 1963 Rome, when Lorenzo meets Benjamin Messenger for the first time and has to come to terms with what he thought was the truth after he uncovers the biggest secret of his life…
No Simple Remedy | Ben Woestenburg | Literary (NA) (C) (F)
An actress discovers she has cancer and wants to die in Florence, but only makes it as far as Montepulciano, where she settles with her three children, and her brother—who harbours a dark secret…
Speculative
MEOW: Magical Emporium of Wares | Toni Binns | Cozy, Slice-of-life Fantasy (N) (I) (F)
Tucked away on a quiet street, the bookstore doesn't have an address -
but it doesn't need one, as it magically appears to those who are
meant to find it.
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The Memory of My Shadow | Ben Wakeman | Science Fiction (N) (I) ($)
It is the year 2052. General A.I. has arrived and already become big business. Magdalena is a brilliant and tenacious computer scientist who led the charge and profited greatly as the founder of Commune, the company that successfully planted Digital Companions, or DCs, into the heads of most of the world’s population. But at the height of her success, she mysteriously walks away from it all. From a remote compound deep in the mountains of North Carolina, Magdalena writes her story with the help of her latest creation, Meela, a DC imbued with the personality and emotional intelligence of a human. Magdalena’s obsession with mapping the personalities of real people to DCs is fueled by a longstanding obsession that is more than scientific curiosity. At sixteen, she survived the deadliest school shooting in American history. The shooter was her twin brother, Joe, who died in the aftermath. When Magdalena begins mapping her latest model, a charismatic painter named Evan, a confluence of events forces her to confront her motivations. But is it too late? The virtual monster she has created could prove to be a destroyer of worlds, just like her brother, whom she simultaneously reviles and mourns.
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