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Front List: Fiction

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Betrayal: Will Stone In Vietnam
Kennedy, Brad

Before the Reef
Eleanor Swanson

Novel: Story of a brother and sister who learn the truth about a murder their father was accused of in their youth. A deep and wise psychological journey.

Bringing Vincent Home
Madeleine Mysko

A Vietnam era novel told by a mother of a soldier who returns home with serious burns. A real and riviting protrayal of the burn ward vicitms and their families.

Strike!
Julius Getman

A novel by Julius Getman about a labor strike in a paper mill town in New England.

An Infinity of Days in the Psychotic Atomik Empire
Gregory Alan Norton

A cycle of short stories about labor unions and workers and the company store in Chicago today — working class heroes and clowns.

The Passion of Maryam
Loren Woodson

A young girl at the end of ancient history is raped and must heal and raise a magical and holy son while she struggles to cope with deep shame and a hard life.

What Love Can't Do
Kitty Beer

A novel by Kitty Beer about climate change and society in 2020, hopfully fiction.

The Caduceus -- A Water Chronicle Featuring Dr. Frances Allenton
Dennis Edwards

First in a series of water novels exploring globilization and privitazation of water.

Ancient Water -- A Water Chronicle Featuring Dr. Frances Allenton
Dennis Edwards

When Dr. Allenton is asked to explore the properties of water from space (star water) nature raises her own voice. Second in Edwards' cycle of novels about water.

The Measure of Everything
Ed Davis

Novel by Ed Davis about an actual and successful mobilization to save farmland in Ohio.

Magdalena
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

A story of three generations of women, three generations of love stories, three generations of war set in the Philippines.

The Blue Geography
Eve La Salle Caram

Continuation of the story of the characters in the critically acclaimed Wintershine, by Eve La Salle Caram.

Goodby Silver, Silver Cloud -- New Orleans Short Stories
Lee Meitzen Grue

Classic New Orleans by Lee Meitzen Grue, a founder of the modern literary scene in New Orleans.