Somehow, somewhere a secret list of ultra-radical college students has been smuggled out of a federal prison. At J.Edgar Hoover's direction, a covert plan has been concocted to coerce young Americans into becoming undercover agents in a desperate attempt to find that list and neutralize the Weather Underground before it can join forces with the Black Panthers. Sean O'Neal leaves the tough streets of South Boston to become a Green Beret and fight a guerilla war in the jungles of Vietnam. He returns home with his life shattered, and finds himself ensnared in Hoover's plan. Jack Duncan, a child of the counter-culture, leaves college to travel overseas. What he doesn't know is that the FBI has put him directly in Sean O'Neal's crosshairs.

Hoover's Children

Literature & Fiction

Irons, Tony

Contemporary

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"Thoughtful and action-packed, with a final showdown that is both exciting and gratifying--a fine first novel. History, action, the supernatural and intelligent discourse; this novel holds something for everyone.” --Kirkus Reviews New York City in 1847 is a boiling stew of ethnic gangs, foul living conditions, and runaway crime. Police Captain Alvord Rawn effectively meets violence with violence until one bloody night he goes too far. Forced to resign, Alvord agrees to help a wealthy society woman locate her missing son, the rising artist Charles Deas, who has been painting and exploring the frontier areas west of St. Louis. Deas has fallen under the spell of the mysterious Count Abendroth, a practitioner of mesmerism. Under the Count’s sinister occult guidance, Deas’s paintings have grown darker and more intense, verging on madness. When Alvord arrives in St. Louis, he finds that Abendroth is much more than a charlatan, and that he is massing his dark powers for nefarious ends. Abendroth is unwilling to let Deas leave without a fight, which is just fine with former Police Captain Alvord Rawn, because fighting is what he does best. As each side gathers soldiers for a final showdown, author Edward Swanson blends exacting period detail, old time story telling, and non-stop action into a satisfying climax of good versus evil.

Mesmer's Disciple

Swanson, Edward

Mendoza - a conservative provincial town in Argentina at the foot of the Andes. April 8, 1977 - the last day that Gisela Tenenbaum was seen alive. How does a family come to terms with the fact that their twenty-two-year-old daughter disappeared so many years ago? Was she kidnapped, tortured, murdered? How have her friends and companions fared? Gisi is gone and yet still present. Argentina's Angel tells the story of Gisi's family (Austrians of Jewish origin who fled to South America in 1939) , of her committed struggle against injustice, and of her desperate, underground work for a cause that would ultimately be lost.

Argentina's Angel

Biographies & Memoirs

Hackl, Erich

Community & Culture

In the future, progress demands that we dispose with old, outdated culture and look to the future. Out with the old and in with the new. However, deep beneath the city, the renegade Snitches horde treasures in the Witch Market, preserving every scrap of culture that they can and struggling to survive.
 But now, news comes that the Witch Market will be overrun any day, the Snitches killed and their material passions destroyed. A small band of Snitches must find a way to overcome squabbling factions, avoid the hostile Xs, and move the Witch Market to a promised land that may not even exist. And time is running out...
 Silver Medal Winner of the 2014 Piscataqua Press Novel Contest.

The Witch Market

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Geiger, Catherine

Science Fiction

Born behind the Iron Curtain in 1955, Thomas Schardt had very little say in how his life would be. The government dictated his every move with little resistance from Thomas or his family: work, home, career, and schooling were all in the hands of the East German republic. As Thomas developed from a boy into a man his discontent grew as well. Was his future to be a tiny insigni&#xFB01;cant cog in the giant wheel of the overbearing Communist machine? Little by little, Thomas took control of his own destiny. In the face of threatening government of&#xFB01;cials, the scorn of his family, his own crippling self-doubt and the sexual and emotional abuse of his lover, Klaus, Thomas escaped a harrowing relationship and fought his way to a dream career and a life of personal freedom. Against the backdrop of war, poverty, the gay sexual revolution and the terrifying onset of the AIDS epidemic, Thomas Schardt tells a coming-of-age story that you'll never forget.

Under the Linden Trees

Schardt, Thomas

Norman Mean, age 30, is drawn back to his hometown to attend his mother’s funeral. Norm left immediately after high school to escape the everyday reminders of a tragedy he considers to have been his fault, and he has no intention of staying. However, his concern for his father’s wellbeing, and a general inertia lead him into an unusual teaching job at his old school. And there’s this girl...
 Marked by razor-sharp dialogue, The Drift of Things is a complex, witty, and sad, with an unforgettable father and son duo at its core. 
 2014 Piscataqua Press Novel Contest Silver Medal Winner
 "Funny, smart, unpredictable, and true, The Drift of Things is that rare book in contemporary fiction, one with both heart and intelligence. Benjamin Schwartz has delivered a cast of characters so real you expect to find them watching TV in the living room. In a beautifully-crafted story about what remains broken and yet healed in all of us, Schwartz has established himself as a writer to watch." -Katherine Towler, author of Snow Island

The Drift of Things

Schwartz, Ben

This revealing memoir of a single woman’s journey to deliver justice as a Parole Commissioner in the macho world of the criminal justice and parole systems uncovers shocking questionable ethics, introduces us to notorious lawbreakers, and sheds her light on the darkness that exists behind bars.

Geranium Justice: The Other Side of the Table

Treen, Barbara Hanson

Professionals & Academics

Lucy doesn't understand why the new boy in Miss Reed's class doesn't like her. "I said hi and he ignored me," she said. "Lucy, that's Daniel. He has autism," Miss Miller responded. "What's autism?" asked Lucy. From that moment on Lucy works to make friends with Daniel in this bright, upbeat book about autism. Once she succeeds, Lucy becomes determined that the other kids in the class learn to accept Daniel as well.With an estimated 1 in 68 children now falling somewhere on the autism spectrum, "Lucy's Amazing Friend" is just the right book to help children understand that we are all different, and while those differences can be challenging, they also make us each special.

Lucy's Amazing Friend: A Story of Autism and Friendship

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Stephanie Workman

Children's Health

1972 – A time of war and Watergate, of Ms. Magazine and consciousness raising. As the post-World War II era of peace, prosperity, and pointy bras gives way to the life-expanding changes of the women’s movement, four women meet and over the course of two decades, create a space that allows them all to thrive, with humor and irreverence, as they each struggle to reconcile the realities of adult life with the expectations of youth. 
 “Virginia DeLuca’s captivating novel, 'As If Women Mattered', fuses compelling social drama with page-turning storytelling. Four women, whose consciousness-raising group becomes a life-long, life-saving family of the heart, wrestle with marriage, motherhood, careers and sex, during a time when no one knew the rules anymore, and it was all up for grabs. The entwined stories of these women will keep you up way past midnight, experiencing the extraordinary era when women rose up and found their voices, and each other.”
 Randy Susan Meyers, International Bestselling Author of "The Murderer’s Daughters" and "The Comfort of Lies"
 “'As If Women Mattered' takes me vividly back to my own experiences in the early second-wave women’s movement and, in its characters’ lives, highlights many of the dynamics and issues that made those years so fascinating, so fraught and so fruitful. Thank you especially, Ginny DeLuca, for following the ongoing friendship between these four women over time.”
 Wendy Sanford, cofounder and coauthor, "Our Bodies, Ourselves"

As If Women Mattered

DeLuca, Virginia

Discover a time and place jam-packed with raids and river armadas, real estate speculators and rebellions, religious revivals and rags-to-riches entrepreneurs.  In a journey that combines time travel with adventure, cyclist Dianne Fallon takes readers to the early America she discovers on a 400-mile trek from New York to Maine.  In uncovering the stories beneath the tarmac, Pioneer on a Mountain Bike brings history to life. Readers will take away a fresh understanding of early America and the urge to plot their own journeys along forgotten back roads.

Pioneer on a Mountain Bike: Eight Days through Early American History

Sports & Outdoors

Fallon, Dianne

Individual Sports

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