Literary
This category is for character-driven fiction that appeals to a more intellectual audience than more genre-based writing. Writing generally fits into this category if it is very descriptive and demonstrates much originality of thought and style.
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Literary Fiction
A Thirty-Something Girl (Stull) Life has been anything but kind, and everything that can go wrong has. At an age when life should be coming together, and questions should start to be answered, Hope finds herself feeling very alone and terribly . . .
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Love & Wrath: The Beginning (Johnson) This first novella of a three part series pulls back the curtain on the lives of three best friends to reveal love, friendship, and budding romance. Their stories are woven together against the backdrop of the mid-western art world of Kansas City . . .
In My Memories of a Future Life (Morris) Carol’s a gifted musician who needs nothing more than her piano and certainly doesn’t believe she’s lived before. But forced by injury to stop playing . . .
In Once in Every Generation (Grossman) eleven-year-old Angelina Mariano was a phenomenon that happens only once in every generation. Her spectacular singing voice was incomparable. But a traumatic incident created a debilitating phobia that destroyed any dream of pursuing her passion . . .
In Patches of Grey (Pickering Jr.) Tony Johnson is a studious young man planning to soon graduate from much more than high school. Although his zip code places him in a Bronx tenement pre "rise of Obama", his sights are set far beyond the trappings of a humble upbringing. Collegiate dreams combined with falling in love . . .
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Shadow on the Wall (Tyler) Controversial and daring, Shadow on the Wall details the transformation of Recai Osman from complicated man to Superhero. Forced to witness the cruelty of the Morality Police in his home city of Elih, Turkey, Recai is called upon by the power of the desert . . .
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In The Same Moon (Kirk) Pearl Zhang was born in Sichuan Province in China, and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. She was raised in a typically Chinese manner, went to school, got a job, got married, and her whole life path was mapped out, or so it seemed . . .
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In Tree/House (Knauss) upon the death of her strange and distant husband, Emma awakens into a world full of possibility. With the help of a vagrant who camps on her property, Emma comes to understand that her life, up to this point, has been little more than a bad dream . . .
Trials of Life (Kirk) This novel is sequel to The Same Moon, and we follow Pearl in her journey and pursuit in personal and professional fulfilment. The story is told in different voices, painting a full picture of Pearl's new life in the UK, Will she find love or will she be confronted with more trials . . .
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