In "Circles," a suspense novel set in the late '60s, two patriotic people join the Living Foundation, a popular anti-war group in Manhattan. 
Fran, a single mother who opposes the war, and Paul, a covert FBI agent, are both out to save the world. How they would do that is entirely different, though. Fran wants to bring an end to the war, and Paul wants to bring an end to the Foundation. 
The book, which takes us into the heart of what some might describe as a cult, raises questions that are pertinent today. What are the causes of war? Why do we love the ones we choose to love? Why do we believe what we believe? and how far are we willing to go for our beliefs?

Circles

Baker, Sybil

Cobbossee Press

After Simone learns that her ex-husband Guy has died unexpectedly at the age of fifty, her only regret is that she didn't expose his affairs when she had the chance. But when a woman asks her to help her disrupt his Celebration of Life planned in Northern Cyprus, Simone wonders if she has a last chance to reveal Guy's hypocrisy. Accompanied by her best friend, Simone arrives in Cyprus; however, the circumstances surrounding Guy's death become increasingly mysterious. Worse, since Guy's death, Simone has been haunted by Guy and the ghosts of her loved ones warning her of impending danger. As the Celebration approaches and Simone's mental state deteriorates, she must decide who she should trust and who she must betray in order to save herself.

Apparitions

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Signal 8 Press

Fiction. Elise understands her father—a Vietnam vet who abandoned her when she was an infant—about as much as she does her church organist mother and the rest of their suburban Virginia town. When even that thin thread of connection is suddenly severed, Elise is flung across the world, to Southeast Asia. Tracing the steps her father took through the war, Elise searches for a connection—with his ghost, with other travelers, with the foreign culture and environment she experiences. In a series of linked short stories, TALISMANS follows Elise's journey to learn what she must hold onto, and what she must leave behind.

Talismans

Contemporary

C&R Press

Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. When Baker received a MakeWork grant to write about Chattanooga's unheard voices, she had no idea that her project would take her from the homes of Chattanooga's refugees in "Landings" to what "Critical Flame" calls a "Sebaldian travelogue through the Syrian migration route" in "Reverse Migration." From her childhood home near Ferguson, Missouri, to her travels as an expatriate living in Asia, to the troubled cities of Eastern Europe, Baker explores the physical and emotional wanderings of what Mary McCarthy calls "exiles, expatriates, and internal emigres." "Adventures of a Fake Immigrant" and "Schemers" examines her ambivalent complicity in Chattanooga's rapid gentrification and the erasure of its historically black neighborhoods. Using photos, literature, and her own family's slave-owning history, Baker excavates her own past as well as Chattanooga's to try and understand the ghosts that haunt her and the city she inhabits. With a poignancy that is particularly relevant for these times, the voices in this collection echo through the text and shine brightly through the dark.

Immigration Essays

Essays & Correspondence

Fiction. As young adults growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the three Nash sisters are still haunted by their mother's early death. Shannon, the middle sister, wants to be an investigative journalist. Paige, the youngest, wants to channel Bessie Smith, her mother's favorite singer. Claire, the oldest, desires stability through family and career. When their father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the sisters cope with the loss in different ways. Recovering from divorce and the collapsing journalism industry, Shannon manages a bottom-feeder rag and considers having a child for her cousin and his lover, an Army veteran. After Paige is kicked out of her band, she becomes obsessed with a reclusive songwriter she wants to make famous against his will. Claire's family and career are threatened by her attraction to a new hire she supervises, an African American who ignites her passion for literature and the deeper questions it asks of her. But, when their family's uncovered secrets threaten all they've known, the sisters will have to choose between lives they've dreamed of and those they love. Inspired by Chekhov's Three Sisters with echoes of King Lear, WHILE YOU WERE GONE traces the journeys of three sisters growing up in and returning to a hometown that, like them, seems to reflect a new South. But beneath the surface changes are secrets that run as deep as the Tennessee River. WHILE YOU WERE GONE explores how three sisters living in the American South in the twenty-first century deal when their own dreams collide with their own misconceptions about family, race, gender, and the larger world.

While You Were Gone

United States

"This fast-paced story of a family secret will keep readers turning pages."—Krys Lee, author of Drifting House
Allison flies to Seoul to discover the truth about her adopted sister. A tangled history of love and deception reunites two sisters whose fates were shaped by a long-lost love and its attendant lies, and the history of a country and a man they never understood.
Sybil Baker is the author of The Life Plan and Talismans. She spent twelve years teaching in South Korea, returning to the United States in 2007. She teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Into This World

Engine Books

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Journeys To Success: Health, Wellness & Fitness Edition

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wall, Nigel

Berger, Werner

Melville, Kaley

Lee, Dr William

Jarvensivu, Shannon

Paul, Therese

Woods, Julie

Hole, Dr Nadia

Hattas, Mark

Diets & Weight Loss

John Westley Enterprise

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