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  No Better Time - A Novel of the...

  Sheila Williams

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  “Just the novel to elevate these unforgettable voices.”—Shelf Awareness 
  The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II—the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict.  
  In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom, Spelman graduate, librarian and Francophile, joins the Women’s Army Corps wanting to do her part for the war effort. Longing for adventure, she has one question for the recruiter: “Do you think I’ll get to go abroad?” 
  As Dorothy and her sister WACs discover, life in the Army is an adventure filled with unexpected deprivations and culture shock. Women from all levels of society, secretaries, teachers, and sharecroppers, work together to navigate a military segregated by race and gender. At boot camp, the “colored girls” are separated for processing. At Ft. Riley, the women’s barracks are rustic and heated by coal-burning pot-bellied stoves while German POWs spend their incarceration in buildings with central heat and hot water. 
  In early 1945, Dorothy and eight hundred African American WACs cross the turbulent North Atlantic to their post in England. Their orders are to process the mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces. The women arrive to find mail stockpiled for over two years in warehouses and airplane hangars, many pieces in poor condition, the names illegible.  
  In England and France, the WACs traverse a landscape of unimagined possibilities. With their outlooks changed forever, they return to the United States as the catalysts for change in America and build lives that transcend anything their ancestors ever dreamed of. 
   No Better Time illuminates a love of country and duty that has been overlooked until now.

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  Unbidden Visitor An - A Cooneen...

  Dianne Trimble

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  A short story inspired by Northern Ireland's famous Cooneen ghost. 
   
  A tale of family, friends, and fear... 
  And the unnatural force that threatens to ruin everything... 
   
  March 1913:  Struggling to make ends meet, widow Bridget Murphy finds life in rural Ireland difficult, raising six children while farming her small acreage.  With the help of neighbours and friends, Bridget is able to cope with the many arduous tasks and chores required of her.   
  When an unnatural and terrifying force invades their house, threatening their family, Bridget is surprised to see so many backs turning on her.  Fearing for themselves, those she once counted on for help and support will not risk their safety for her. Father Smyth, their priest, is the only one who stands alongside their family in the battle against the uninvited and fearsome poltergeist.  But, prayers alone won’t run the farm. Will Bridget find a way to save her home and her family before there's nowhere left to turn?  

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  A passion for tom

  Sandra Salinas Newton

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  Explore the Intricate World of T.S. Eliot in "A Passion for Tom" by Sandra Salinas Newton 
  Narrated by the talented Jon McNally and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, "A Passion for Tom" offers a deeply immersive journey into the life of Thomas Stearns Eliot ("Tom")—a young American poet navigating the complexities of 1920s London. As he struggles with mental instability and the pursuit of literary greatness, Tom finds himself entwined in relationships that both inspire and torment him. 
  This captivating audiobook delves into Tom's tumultuous marriage to Vivien, a relationship fraught with sexual dysfunction and mutual dependence. It also explores his affair with Lottie, a young, innocent housemaid who becomes both his muse and his lover. As Tom works tirelessly on his masterpiece, "The Waste Land," he battles the pressures of London’s literary society, leading to a nervous breakdown that only a neurologist in Switzerland can mend. 
  Why "A Passion for Tom" Will Captivate You:Rich Historical Context: Set against the backdrop of 1920s literary London, experience the rise of Modernism through the eyes of one of its greatest poets.Deep Emotional Resonance: Explore the inner turmoil of T.S. Eliot as he grapples with love, mental health, and the demands of artistic genius.Complex Characters: From his troubled wife, Vivien, to the innocent Lottie, the characters in Tom's life are as compelling as his poetry. 
  In "A Passion for Tom," Sandra Salinas Newton masterfully portrays the transformation of Tom into T.S. Eliot, a poet celebrated for his contribution to Modernism but burdened by personal sacrifices. As Tom sheds his "crutches"—his wife and lover—he emerges a better poet but a man forever changed.

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  The Great Prince Died - A Novel...

  Bernard Wolfe

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  “Illuminating. . . . No one who reads [this novel] . . . can fail to be gripped by a tale well told. Its message is one the free world will ignore at its peril.” —Selden Rodman, New York Times 
   
  On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacán, Mexico. He died the next day. 
   
  In The Great Prince Died, Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized account of Trotsky’s assassination as witnessed through the eyes of an array of characters: the young American student helping to translate the exiled Trotsky’s work (and to guard him), the Mexican police chief, a Rumanian revolutionary, the assassin and his handlers, a poor Mexican “peón,” and Trotsky himself. Drawing on his own experiences working as the exiled Trotsky’s secretary and bodyguard and mixing in digressions on Mexican culture, Stalinist tactics, and Bolshevik history, Wolfe interweaves fantasy and fact, delusion and journalistic reporting to create one of the great political novels of the past century. 
   
  “Wolfe is a remarkable and essential lost American voice, and Great Prince is one of his finest books.” —Jonathan Lethem, national bestselling author of Fortress of Solitude 
   
  “A novel which burns its way into your mind and your memory. If you read it, you will not forget it.” —Newsday 
   
  “A hell of a read.” —Larry Grobel, Los Angeles Free Press 
   
  “Wolfe has written such convincing fiction that it may be difficult to remember that history may have happened in some other way.” —Maurice Dolbier, New York Herald Tribune 
   
  “Powerfully told.” —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times, The Book Report

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  Between Ourselves

  Donald Smith

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  The six months that Robert Burns spent in Edinburgh, between the Aryshire years and the short-lived maturity in Dumfries, were an intense time in the life of a poet who became a Scottish hero. Burns is an icon, but he is a flawed one. The great bard was fond of drink, women and over familiar with Edinburgh's underworld. He was often conflicted with crippling self-doubt about his talents and bitter about his place in society. Duringhis short time in Edinburgh, Burns had dealings with the infamous Deacon Brodie; was struck by inspiration and failed by his muse; and, fell in love with two unavailable women and bedded many more than that. While never straying from accepted Burns' history, this remarkable novel imagines the life of Burns' in those months to discover the flesh and blood man behind the legend. BACK COVER Among the dirt and smoke of 18th century Edinburgh, the great poet ponders his next move. Frustrated with the Edinburgh literati and the tight purse of his publisher, Burns finds distraction in the capital's dark underbelly. Midnight assignations with working girls and bawdy rhymes for his tavern friends are interupted when he is unexpectedly called to a mysterious meeting with a dangerous man. But then Burns falls in love, perhaps the only real love in a lifetime of casual romances, with beautiful Nancy, the inspiration for 'Ae Fond Kiss'. Donald Smith has woven the real life love affair of Nancy and Burns into a tantalising tale of passion and betrayal, binding historical fact and fiction together to create an intimate portrait of Burns the man.

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  Brimstone Trail

  Marcus Galloway

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  GOD HELP HIM Before hearing the call of the Lord, Paul had seen more than his share of sin-- mostly his own. But since he came to minister to the small town of Pueblito Verde, most of what he sees are tamer transgressions. Knowing his own past, Paul believes the occasional mistake doesn' t make someone truly evil. But some men are more evil than others. When the brutal Jack Kerrigan and his band of ruffians hit town, Paul' s new life starts to go bad. Then things go from bad to worse when ruthless bounty hunter Dave Sprole arrives with money and murder on his mind. Now, the town is caught in the crossfire between two cold-blooded killers-- and Paul knows that it' s time for him to stand up for what he believes in

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