In "Birds on Elephant", all of the landscape is an allusion, and "we borrow or skim on [it], and our work becomes more fertile." Each poem in the collection either perches on a great work or a famed poet, or has first words that make a sentence if read downward-as in: Across and Down Frame your memory so I could see it tomorrow. Your place in mine has gone off with the tide. Memory is not quite the warmth that was once on me. So gather the particles and weigh in; it's not too dispersed. I will look up and fly the gossamer of you yesterday. Could you withstand the mind without the frame? See it against the sea. It will elevate with the sun. I'll just diminish tomorrow.

Birds on Elephant

Literature & Fiction

Guevara, Ted Bernal

Poetry

Anaphora Literary Press

Journalist Jenna Harris strives to write her way out of a quaint Great Lakes town and onto the staff of a major newspaper. The town and its people tug back-with old secrets, an endearing ethnic culture, and a lively group of 20-somethings sorting out life in the wake of the loose and experimental 1970s. "Secrets of Gray Lake is a haunting story that creates its own half-familiar, half-exotic world in a small town in a 'far, cold corner of Pennsylvania.' Heroine Jenna is a features writer whose personal investigations take place in a world not absolutely fit for print, at any rate not in a small town newspaper. Drawn to a house-next-door of free-wheeling young people and their charismatic leader, Jenna is drawn into a life that skims the edge of sexual and nautical adventure. How much and how dangerously the history of the lake infuses its present is a secret that may never be adequately understood, but its pursuit makes for a story of recurrent and illuminating surprises." -Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction, Losing Tim "Excellent storytelling: warmhearted, intelligent, strict yet conversational. I love the growing sense of connections between all these people. Rebecca has that necessary fiction writer's credo deep in her blood-that a story comes from relationships between characters, not from just the characters themselves. The details are wonderful and made me laugh many times, but also just paint a beautiful, new, fresh, visionary sense of life." -Rebecca Lee, author of Bobcat and other Stories.

Secrets of Gray Lake

Duncan, Rebecca

Contemporary

The Muscle Car Wars

"The Muscle Car Wars" tells the story of young man who suffers a traumatic head injury and while recuperating becomes involved in rebuilding and racing the powerful muscle cars of the 1960's and 70's. The book chronicles the major historical and cultural events of that era, including the Vietnam War, while weaving a tale of teen romance, amid tumultuous student protests and dangerous street races. Writing from experience, the author captures the essence of the time, putting the reader in the driver's seat of the greatest street machines ever produced, while retelling classic gear head tales, and providing a running commentary on every subject from religion, politics, drug use, the sexual revolution and romantic love.

Miller, B. J.

Genre Fiction

Behind the Steel: One Life-Five Epochs

Carvalko, Joe

Lombard Street: A Novel

Diving to the very depths of human feeling and then scrambling desperately to the surface for that last breath of air, Lombard Street weaves the riveting tale of a man's dangerous and emotional journey through marriage, addiction, madness, countless misfires, and across seas of broken promises from San Francisco to Singapore to Hong Kong. "When I got home that evening all the finished paintings and drawings had disappeared from the apartment and the large Haitian canvas had been returned, though Janet made no mention of it. "So perhaps this obsession had run its course and apparently she'd lost her passion for the whole Voodoo episode although two of Harold's books still sat on her nightstand in the bedroom. The less said the better about these seemingly unexplained things, I thought to myself. "In the past some unfortunate things had happened to us, we didn't have children for one. And we had tried for years, particularly those first few years. "She had suffered a devastating miscarriage some time ago, and that had forced a striking change in her manner though subtle at first."

Colbert, Bruce

Literary

In "Birds on Elephant", all of the landscape is an allusion, and "we borrow or skim on [it], and our work becomes more fertile." Each poem in the collection either perches on a great work or a famed poet, or has first words that make a sentence if read downward-as in: Across and Down Frame your memory so I could see it tomorrow. Your place in mine has gone off with the tide. Memory is not quite the warmth that was once on me. So gather the particles and weigh in; it's not too dispersed. I will look up and fly the gossamer of you yesterday. Could you withstand the mind without the frame? See it against the sea. It will elevate with the sun. I'll just diminish tomorrow.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Behind the Steel: One Life-Five Epochs: takes the reader on a journey through Twentieth Century America, its cities, its wars, the western prairies, and the poet's encounter with death, losses of the heart, and old age, when the past stands still and time quickens, when the echoes of the past ricochet and scatter into pure energy. The poet sharply searches for meaning through action, but discovers that only in solitude does he find answers, albeit conditional, bowing to the forces beyond his sensibilities, to the limits of a self-imposed blindness, to the incomprehensibly complicated and absurd events that occur in our midst, yet exceed the human capacity for reason, moral belief and even suffering.

The Fajitas and Beer Convention

The story begins with the passing of little Manolo's mother. She left instructions with their ranch hand, Salvador, to deliver Manolo to their only family in the northern part of Mexico. Along the way, Manolo and Salvador encounter great adventures including a sinister drunk, a deceiving carnival owner, a magician, and the beautiful Paloma. The adventure does not end in northern Mexico! When Manolo and Salvador accidentally enter the United States on a train, they find themselves walking the streets of an American border town. Here they come across a wealthy neighborhood where ten Mexican gardeners are preparing to have a social. They explain that they all work for wealthy men, who are using the funds from their businesses to take vacations, meanwhile writing these off as, "conventions." So, every time their bosses leave, they use their houses to have their own "conventions" with fajitas and beer. Each of the men tells a tale during one of these socials, each with its own plot, moral lesson, and satire.

Rodriguez, Roger

Humor & Satire

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Birds on Elephant

Secrets of Gray Lake

The Muscle Car Wars

Behind the Steel: One Life-Five Epochs

Lombard Street: A Novel

The Muscle Car Wars

Birds on Elephant

Secrets of Gray Lake

Behind the Steel: One Life-Five Epochs

The Fajitas and Beer Convention