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A Beirut Heart
In 1969, Cathy Sultan fulfills her dream of living abroad, moving with her Lebanese husband and two infants to Beirut—cosmopolitan, beautiful, and dangerously seductive. She comes to love the city like a dysfunctional lover, even as civil war erupts in 1975. Using cooking as calm amid chaos, she fights to keep home life comforting and hospitable while bullets strike her kitchen and bombs shatter the city. A Beirut Heart is her gripping story of preserving family and humanity in war.
There is nothing like an intelligent woman, spouse and mother of small children, to carry one into the midst of war, with its horrors as well as its capacity for soul-building,,, Her narrative enfleshes our disjointed news of the Middle East.
—David Burrell, CSC, Hesburgh Professor in Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame and Director, Tantar Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem -
A Firm State of Heart
In Bob Gilbert’s A Firm State of Heart, Minneapolis writer Samuel Meckler tries to compose a long poem that can rise above the chaos of the Trump years. Paying bills as a waiter at an upscale Pennsylvania Avenue restaurant between the White House and the Capitol, he becomes an eyewitness to politics through diners ranging from lawmakers to diplomats and media stars. His nights move between salons, trap houses, and Capitol Hill bars, as an affair unfolds amid COVID, recession, and George Floyd’s death—an idealist searching for a new American narrative.
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A Fortnight of Fury
Amid escalating Cold War tensions and post–Beirut bombing fury, Reagan sets his sights on Grenada. Far to the north, a bumbling crew of island misfits steals a boat and kidnaps the girlfriend of dive master Captain Jay. Jay and his tight-knit friends launch an island-hopping pursuit across the Caribbean—arriving in Grenada on the eve of Operation Urgent Fury.
Never a dull moment
—Bluegrass on Amazon -
A Grave Matter
A cemetery should be peaceful—until a cryptic call draws P.I. Spencer Manning to one that isn’t. As disappearances mount, Spencer uncovers a graveyard where bodies may not match the names on the stones. Linking the mysteries could expose a scandal reaching frightening heights. To crack the case, Spencer must set a trap—with himself as bait—in his eighth and most perplexing investigation.
it connected with my emotions on every level
—Karen Bedore on Amazon -
A Reluctant Madonna
A foreign land grab in the Dakotas, a strangulation, a lecherous artist, a psychotic stalker, a Ponzi scheme, illicit lovers, and an ovulation cycle—all combine to lead our young heroes on a dizzying path, capped off in a frightening climax.
…more twists and turns than the Pikes Peak Highway.
—Bob Junghans on Amazon -
A Song in My Heart
A Song in My Heart, book one of a trilogy, follows Alejandra Stanford, born into a privileged bicultural family in early-1900s Minneapolis. Immersed in American, Hispanic, and European influences amid turbulent national events, she discovers music as her calling. A gifted pianist and budding composer, she dreams of becoming a conductor. Chasing that ambition through the great cities of the U.S. and Europe, she encounters legendary music, formidable obstacles, and two intellectually matched suitors—each offering a different future—until love and passion shape her destiny.
flows softly and rhythmically
—Ana Luisa Fajer Flores, Consul General of Mexico, St. Paul, MN -
Accidental Journey
Richard Lentz has written a novel abounding with life’s complications. At once a probing family saga and the story of a man’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury, Accidental Journey is the richest sort of book. It immerses you in the injury, then pulls you out on the other side. You’ll feel as if you’ve gone through the recovery yourself, and, standing at the crossroads you find on the light end of the tunnel, you’ll be as resolute as these finely drawn characters. You’ll also be wiser. And fuller of heart.
a book that is well-paced—painfully slow and paradoxically urgent
—Hal Steiger, PhD -
Albert Park
Step into the mind of Albert Park, an unreliable narrator who turns his guilt-ridden life into a surreal, thrice-told fairytale of tragic misadventures, haunting memories, and elusive truths. From abandoned orphan to scheming life coach to world-famous neurosurgeon (or so he claims), Albert spins a charming, contradictory tale riddled with dubious recollections and denial of his role in cascading calamities. Darkly funny and deeply moving, Albert Park: A Memoir in Lies probes guilt, identity, and redemption—and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
Koefod’s masterful tale is a portrait of our times: a modern picaresque novel that examines the nature of truth, lies and memory.
—Carla Hagen, author Hand Me Down My Walking Cane and Muskeg -
Alterio’s Motive
El Simpatico, a brutal trafficker who feeds enemies to sharks, needs a new way to launder hundreds of millions. Enter Alterio Delgado—unscrupulous, charming, and pitching a pristine Caribbean island off Mexico as “the next Cancun.” The island’s poor but content fishermen, descendants of pirates, buy his promise of billions, unaware tourism will erase their culture. What Alterio doesn’t know: El Simpatico has engineered this play for years—and will claim Mexico’s next resort at any cost.
a fantastic fusion of riveting adventure and enlightening narrative on sustainable development
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An Adverse Possession
Two men possessed by competing visions clash over a Minnesota mineral spring. Dr. Robert Hartwell returns from San Francisco to open a meditation center—only to find his access gated off. Rancher Justin Taylor claims ownership through a farmer’s adverse-possession sale. Hartwell’s lawyer hires Boston Meade to track down the vanished farmer and expose the fraud. What begins as a small favor becomes an obsession, as Boston’s dead-end interviews reveal that the land dispute hides something far more dangerous than rutting bulls.
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An Ambassador to Syria
An Ambassador to Syria plunges into the shadowy rise of ISIS and the Syrian conflict, continuing Sultan’s The Syrian and Damascus Street. New ambassador Robert Jenkins arrives in Damascus with a covert mission: spark civil unrest and engineer regime change. As Homs erupts in bloodshed, the novel asks whether Bashar Assad is brutal dictator, nationalist defender—or both—in a land where multiple truths collide.
Characters that feel like they live in the real world.
—Jack Rice, radio host & ex-CIA officer -
Awesome Kindness
Awesome Kindness follows best friends Jaylen and Langston, who build each other’s confidence by choosing joy and seeing the best in one another. When bully Kennedy targets them, they respond with unexpected kindness instead of anger. Their compassion helps Kennedy recognize her meanness is learned—and choose vulnerability and friendship instead. Together they sing, dance, and create more joy. The book also includes vocabulary “Word Power,” “Turning a Phrase,” and a virtues practice page for daily character-building.
an excellent story modeling kindness
—Paula H. Johnson on Amazon -
Back Time on Love City
A cast of magnetic characters share this little piece of paradise in chaotic harmony, with one character more magnetic and dangerous than the rest—Captain Jay. The island captivates an accidental hero from Middle-America, the Rookie, who arrives in the late 1970s and unwittingly heralds a reluctant populace into modernity. The Rookie’s relationship with Captain Jay will heartbreakingly and hilariously change them both, and the island-forever.
once you’re in the [book’s] dreamy place… you want to stay there
—Michael Garber on Amazon -
Black Dirt, Bright Stars
In Black Dirt, Bright Stars, Will Weaver continues the Haugen saga into the rugged Midwest of the 1940s. After loss, injustice, and the ruin of their farm, four siblings fight to survive. Jenny, the youngest, finds hard-won power at the county courthouse and becomes a leader no one can dismiss. But when revenge goes wrong, she binds the family to a vow of silence. As the Haugens rise to prosperity, their buried secret threatens everything.
A marvelous work of art… deserves to be read and celebrated.
—Larry Watson, Montana 1948 -
Boundaries Without
An anthology of previously unpublished short stories, selected and edited by Steve McEllistrem and Cynthia Kraack, by authors of Calumet Editions, which includes a mixed genre short story by Ian Graham Leask.
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Change of Address
She’s only five… and her mother was killed…tracking down an unknown father involves Spencer Manning in murder and drugs as his first case leads him to a Chicagoland racetrack and the mayor’s house…where things are not all as they appear.
My new favorite mystery series!
—Rita Butler on Amazon
