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Cover art for CREATURES WE DREAM OF KNOWING
INDIE
Released: Jan. 13, 2011

"Fans of the fantastic, the quirky and the diversity of nature will find new ideas to relish and ponder."
Marr's debut is a collection of emotional, imaginative stories written from a spiritual viewpoint. Read full book review >
Cover art for PLAYBILLS TO PHOTOPLAYS
INDIE
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
edited by Brenda Loew

"Scattershot, intermittently engaging profiles of Old Hollywood icons."
This biographical anthology from the New England Vintage Film Society celebrates the lowly thespians whose theater training turned them into Hollywood royalty in the dawning era of sound films. Read full book review >
Cover art for CRASHING AUGUSTA
INDIE
Released: Dec. 8, 2010

"Littman's plainspoken journalism reminds readers that, even in the Google era, there's no substitute for hard-nosed journalism."
A collection of muscular reportage from the pages of Playboy. Read full book review >
Cover art for IMAGINATION & REALITY
INDIE
Released: June 29, 2010

"A fun stocking-stuffer or distracting waiting room read.
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A collection of whimsical stories based in--but not bound to--reality. Read full book review >
Cover art for DOG BOY
INDIE
Released: May 28, 2010

"Slightly limited by its style, but nonetheless a charming and haunting read."
Six chilling stories that bring the Gothic style of writing popularized in the 18th and 19th centuries into the 20th and 21st. Read full book review >
Cover art for ON THE EDGE
INDIE
Released: April 1, 2010

"A beguiling collection of well-wrought tales by a writer with talent to burn."
People trapped in a bleak reality cross the line into madness, murder, magic and even hope in these knotty, engrossing stories. Read full book review >
Cover art for SEX AMONG THE SAINTS
INDIE
Released: Jan. 10, 2010

"Lurid but humane tales of faith and its carnal discontents."
Mormon spirits are willing but the flesh is weak, wayward and kinky in these edgy stories. Read full book review >
Cover art for WE FLY AT DAWN
INDIE
Released: Oct. 6, 2009

"Imaginative and competently written, the stories deliver a well-developed sermon for the Christian reader."
In this collection of inspirational short stories, ordinary people and one extraordinary flock of ducks search for peace of mind in rural America and the Swiss Alps. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE ANTHOLOGY OF STINGY BEAR'S ADVENTURES
INDIE
Released: Sept. 21, 2006

"An entertaining set of fables that packs some ideological baggage."
Greed, selfishness and big government get lambasted in this amusing, opinionated children's book. Read full book review >