BOOKS
In This Sleep of Death
Young Adult Novel
On a dark night in the secluded backwoods of an Ohio landscape, fifteen-year old Helen Wren kills a man, drags his body across the dirt and buries him. At least she thinks she did. But who? And why? Her memory is blocked and the few scattered details that she can recall have come out of recent dreams that have begun to consume her. It is during these night terrors that the dark account begins to emerge. She must work quickly now, for there is reason to believe the authorities are on her trail. Helen thought this murder was the worst thing to ever happen to her. It was. Until she started to dream.
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NIGHT RUN TO SAND COULEE
Middle Reader Novel
Twelve-year-old Danny Warner is supposed to spend Christmas with his dad in Sand Coulee, Montana, but all that changes when his mother moves Danny and his sister to Red Rock, Arizona instead. Danny, who hasn’t seen his dad since his parents’ divorce six months earlier, is now more determined than ever to get to Montana. He devises a plan, a daring and dangerous one, to be carried out in the cloak of night under the Arizona winter skies. But his plan doesn’t go as intended, and Danny finds himself on the journey of a lifetime—too far to go back, and uncertain on how to move forward.
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AMONG THE COMMON
Stray dogs, stray bullets and a run-down row house are Paula Mathey’s new reality. Her husband has disappeared into the night, taking their life savings and what was their future with him. With no skills and even fewer resources, Paula is forced to move quickly. AMONG THE COMMON is a novel set in the lower income area of a warehouse district of Cleveland. Paula lands a job as manager of a string of row houses, but her life takes an unexpected turn when she is embraced by a group of African refugees whose isolation in many ways seems to parallel her own.
In her new role, Paula tries to protect herself and her neighbors from the callous and self-serving owner of their run-down rentals. Meanwhile every search for her husband comes up empty. This story illuminates the gaps in humankind and the bridges that follow, both arising from years of struggle—from the African savanna to the back streets of a changing America.
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