On November 23, 2000, one hundred inmates hold twelve guards hostage in the laundry dorm of The Indiana Penal Farm. Emergency squads are massed along the fence, awaiting the order to attack, while sharpshooters are perched like crows on top of the administration building. Tom Hemmings, a dorm counselor, has been conscripted to defuse the standoff.  But the inmates are divided into rival gangs, the guards into feuding unions. And the prison administration has sparked the standoff by forcing cut-rate services upon the facility. As he enters the prison, Tom's heart starts to hammer. Who are the good guys? Who are the bad? And how will this nightmare end?

The Siege: A Prision Uprising Redefines Justice

Hanna, James

Literature & Fiction

Sand Hill Review Press

Janet Magill’s brother has been shipped off to Vietnam, and Aaron Becker, her childhood sweetheart, might well be next. When Janet’s parents banish her from the Berkeley protests to what they expect will be a safe, idyllic springtime in Paris, she runs headlong into the 1968 May Revolution and falls in love with a secretive Czech dissident. Far from the City of Light, Aaron makes plans to evade the draft and join her, but loses contact as her "safe" year abroad turns into a dangerous coming of age.

A Time to Cast Away Stones

Miller, Elise Frances

Literary

In A Time to Cast Away Stones, Elise Frances Miller catapults the late 1960s beyond media stereotypes that have inflamed opinions of the era for decades. This powerful novel tells the story of Janet Magill, a shy, straight-arrow Berkeley freshman with compelling reasons to join the antiwar movement. Janet's brother has been shipped off to Vietnam, and Aaron Becker, her childhood sweetheart, might well be next. When Janet's parents banish her from Berkeley to what they expect will be a safe, idyllic springtime in Paris, she runs headlong into the 1968 May Revolution and along the way, falls in love with a secretive Czech dissident. The story brings to life the historical "Events of May," in which over ten million French citizens were involved in the only student-worker-bourgeois alliance and true "revolution" that a Western, capitalist democracy had ever experienced. Far from the distant and haunting City of Light, Aaron makes plans to evade the draft and join her. He follows Janet's journey through an embattled correspondence, witnesses the wrenching exploration of her capacity for love, responsibility and sacrifice, then loses contact as her "safe" year abroad turns into a dangerous coming of age.

Miller, Elise F.

From 1882 to 1884, John Singer Sargent painted his greatest masterpieces-the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and Madame X-haunting portraits with dark psychological depths. The first unconsciously revealed a secret that would cause great anguish in his private life; the other created a social scandal that drove him from Paris forever. Portraits of an Artist brings to life the subjects of Sargent's paintings-his family, friends, enemies and lovers-to tell his story from their own perspectives. John Singer Sargent's paintings told more than he ever wanted anyone to know.

Portraits of an Artist

Burns, Mary F.

Carry the Light, Vol II: Stories, poems and essays from the San Mateo County Fair

Koodrin, Bardi Rosman

Short Stories & Anthologies

The San Francisco/Peninsula Writers have done it again. This is their fourth volume of short stories. Novelists Max Tomlinson, David Hirzel, Margaret Davis, James Hanna, Diane Lee Moomey, and Laurel Ann Hill join forces to produce a stellar anthology. Senior poet laureate Jo Carpignano and award winning poet Maurine Killough will jog your sensibilities. This anthology is chock full of great stories by professional and prize-winning writers. Other authors include Lois Young, Tina Gibson, Darlene Frank, Diane Jacobson, Martha Clark Scala, Don Redmon, Frank A. Saunders, Sue Barizon, Karen Hartley, Ann Foster, Tim Woolf, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Lisa Melzer Penn, Wendy M. Voorsanger, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, Tory Hartmann, and Lucy Ann Murray.

Fault Zone: Shift: An Anthology of Stories

Introducing the fifth volume of Fault Zone . First it was Words from the Edge, followed by Stepping Up to the Edge, and then Over the Edge. In 2014 there was Fault Zone: Shift. The San Francisco/Peninsula Writers have completed their fifth volume, Fault Zone: Diverge. Read strange tales like “Lose the Bubble, Screw the Pooch, Buy the Farm,” or flirty love in a Starbucks with “Skin Deep?” Whatever your mood, there is something to charm you, confirm your suspicions, or let your kindred soul run free. Fault Zone: Diverge should be on everyone's bedside table.Authors are: Kevin Arnold, Sue Barizon, Jo Carpignano, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, Emily Eddins, Ann Foster, Darlene Frank, James Hanna, Karen Hartley, Laurel Anne Hill, Diane Jacobson, Amy Kelm, Maurine Killough, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Eileen Malone, Elise Frances Miller, Diane Lee Moomey, Lucy Ann Murray, Linda Okerlund, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Frank A. Saunders, Martha Clark Scala, Ellen Six, Eve Visconti, Wendy Walter,and Ollie Mae Trost Welch.

Fault Zone: Diverge: An Anthology of Stories by the San Francisco/Peninsula Writers Club

Kalman, Audrey

A lifetime of missed connections. One moment that will change everything. In a placid California suburb, thirty-seven-year-old Sean Masterson holds his mother at gunpoint. “You have to listen to me now, Ma,” he says to Ginny. She does listen. But she also talks: about her life, lost love, and the mistakes of a misguided young girl. In telling her story, Ginny begins to see the possibility of redemption. What Remains Unsaid is about the stories we could never imagine behind the faces we think we know. But sometimes even brutal honesty and the promise of forgiveness may come too late to save the ones we love. If you like diving deep into our tangled connections with one another, you’ll love this meditation on the tragedy and hope of the human condition. 

What Remains Unsaid

Genre Fiction

A depression-era boy wants badly to become a classical musician against the wishes of his hard drinking, heavy equipment operating father. His long-suffering mother wants him to escape the kind of life she’s had and supports his musical dream. He convinces himself that music is the most important thing in his life and marries the woman who has set her sights on him and is willing to support his musical obsession. Joey winds up in the symphony and performing in Hollywood, backing up the likes of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra. But he lets the love of his life, the high school beauty that he adored from the first encounter, slip away. Tears and Trombones is a roller coaster of highs and lows with humorous twists and poignant turns as we watch Joey pursue his dream.

Tears and Trombones

Woody, Nanci Lee

Contemporary

The death of a humble clergyman in 1877 leads amateur sleuths Violet Paget and John Singer Sargent into a medieval world of saints and kings—including the legendary Arthur—as they follow a trail of relics and antiquities lost since the destruction of Glastonbury Abbey in 1539. Written in alternating chapters between the two time periods, The Spoils of Avalon creates a sparkling, magical mystery that bridges the gap between two worlds that could hardly be more different—the industrialized, Darwinian, materialistic Victorian Age and the agricultural, faith-infused life of a medieval abbey on the brink of violent change at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. First in a new series of historical mysteries, The Spoils of Avalon introduces two unlikely detectives and life-long friends—beginning as young people on the verge of making their names famous for the next several decades throughout Europe and America: the brilliant and brittle Violet Paget, known as the writer Vernon Lee, and the talented, genial portrait painter John Singer Sargent.

The Spoils of Avalon (A John Singer Sargent/Violet Pagent Mystery)

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The Siege: A Prision Uprising Redefines Justice

A Time to Cast Away Stones

A Time to Cast Away Stones

Portraits of an Artist

Carry the Light, Vol II: Stories, poems and essays from the San Mateo County Fair

Fault Zone: Shift: An Anthology of Stories

Fault Zone: Diverge: An Anthology of Stories by the San Francisco/Peninsula Writers Club

What Remains Unsaid

Tears and Trombones

The Spoils of Avalon (A John Singer Sargent/Violet Pagent Mystery)