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Sea of Betrayal (Sample Chapter)
Two men. A father and a son. Their destinies separated by forty years, yet secretly bound by the most daring covert operation ever undertaken by America’s silent service.
Dodging Prayers and Bullets (Sample Chapter)
In an Appalachian Mountain town during the early 1950s, guns and domestic abuse are as prevalent as prayer meetings and dubiously ordained preachers. Young Skyla Fay Jenkins is often forced to choose between what’s labeled “righteous” and what she knows to be right. When her family moves up north to an urban setting, she struggles to overcome the social and gender limitations of the late 1950s and 1960s. Decades later, a chance encounter with a childhood nemesis prompts her to revisit the abiding love and playful river romps of her youth, along with a traumatic abduction and family violence.
This fictional story celebrates the ability of a child to survive and thrive, despite those who would do her harm and the failed intentions of those who would protect her. It also explores decades of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, from the perspective of an evolving free-spirited female.
Call to Valor (Sample Chapter)
Marine Major Sam Hanson refuses a presidential order to surrender his battalion to be butchered by ISIS when they overrun the Mid-East.
He is reduced in rank and transferred to a company of Marines that provides security to the hospital complex in New York City where he becomes friends with Dr. Carver.
A deadly terrorist attack kills Hanson's son and Carver's daughter. They make a plan to identify the terrorist cell and target a safe house in Brooklyn. There they discover nuclear material intended for a dirty bomb. When government agencies downplay the threat of more nuclear material, Hanson pledges to help the new President avoid a nuclear disaster.
Margery (Sample Chapter)
Introverted backpacker Jeremy wanders off trail and discovers an eccentric, otherworldly town nestled in a mountain basin.
The people he finds there are pleasant, but a little bit peculiar. He befriends a reticent doctor and his wife, who is struggling with dementia, and Margery, who regularly leaps from a cliff in death-defying bungee jumps.
Why, he wonders, do the otherwise healthy and upbeat townspeople seem to be disappearing?
Deadline on Arrival (Sample Chapter)
Appearing in a news story can be fatal.
News becomes a dangerous business for everyone involved when the people profiled in the pages of The Boston Observer start filling the morgue. Spearheading the investigation, literate Detective Ronan Mezini has a rare condition called synesthesia that commingles his senses, turning sounds into colors.
Though he feels as if he's living in a movie with special effects, his skewed perceptions lead him to a startling link between the murders and put him on the trail of a killer on a warped mission.
Mazes of the Mind (Sample Chapter)
Saxon knows something. People are desperate to know what he knows. But Saxon doesn’t know what he knows. Only Kafka can help.
In Prague, a man finds himself in possession of way too many memories. Which are true? Who are all these people claiming to know him? Why has he attracted so much attention? Will he ever learn who he really is, what he has done, and why it matters so much to so many people? Also, he has this book he has never read, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, that he can’t seem to get rid of.
The Butterfly Cage (Sample Chapter)
If a fellow teacher had asked me what was new in my classroom, how could I explain to them my war against the word who? Hearing kids incorporate the question words effortlessly into their vocabulary by preschool age. I’d seen the vocabulary lists that hearing first graders at my school were studying; words like “feast” and “ordinary”. Second graders were mastering “scholar” and “peak,” while third graders labored over words like “agreeable” and “tentacle”. My students were just as intelligent as theirs, and in the same grades. However, we were studying “why?” and “who?”.
This, then, is the challenge of Deaf education. It is the crux of the problem, the heart of the who. An educational system that, not understanding the basic tenets of Deaf student’s language acquisition issues, doesn’t hire ASL-fluent teachers, doesn’t encourage parents to learn ASL, and expects academic success from students who don’t yet have a language.
The Weaver's Daughter (Sample Chapter)
“Sometimes people disappear into the North and are never heard from again.”
When her papá doesn’t return, twelve-year-old Ixchel, a Maya from the Yucatan, resolves to leave home and make her way across the treacherous border into the United States to find him. Chel relies on an inexperienced smuggler and faces unknown dangers in a border tunnel.
Frightened, but resourceful, she is driven by hope, love for her father, and her dream of going to school.
The Double Crossing (Sample Chapter)
In 1939, shortly before World War II breaks out in Europe, thirteen- year-olds David and Hannah attempt to escape Nazi Germany, along with over nine hundred other Jewish refugees, on the historic voyage of the St. Louis.
Together, they discover a Nazi spy plot, and dare to interfere, nearly at the cost of Hannah’s life.
When the ship is forced to return to Europe, the passengers are divided between four countries. Despite their wishes, David and Hannah are sent to different destinations … perhaps separated forever.
Learning about these refugees of nearly a century ago will give young readers insight into today’s refugee crisis. It will help them understand why sometimes people must leave their countries, and what can happen to them when forced to return to regions they are trying to escape.
Dangerous Inspiration (Sample Chapter)
Synesthesia alters detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini’s perceptions. But can it help him find the killer?
Detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini has skewed perceptions because of a condition called synesthesia, which for him transforms sounds into colors. These visions give him unusual insights that help him solve the case. So when a collection of eccentric – and possibly violent — creative people come together at an elite artists' colony in rural Vermont, murders occur in rapid succession and suspicion falls on everyone as Mezini unearths the founding family's secrets.
Modus Perfectus (Sample Chapter)
Lonely misfits face foes, beasts, and their own inner demons in search of a mythical land of music … and end up finding themselves instead.
Haycorn Smith and the Castle Ghost (Sample Chapter)
A boy is in danger when he stumbles upon a crime committed by two prominent men of his town, but finds an unusual ally in the form of a castle ghost.
Twelve-year-old Haycorn may know all about ghosts of Ohio, but even he is stunned when he and his friend Budge encounter a ghost in a castle.
The boys witness a clandestine meeting there between two men involving a kick-back scheme, putting their lives, and that of Haycorn’s mother, in jeopardy.
But the ghost may have other plans for all of them.
Daily Fresh
In the summer of 2020, the final summer of his life, Jory Post gave himself an assignment: He would write one essay a day, inspired by whatever caught his eye and imagination.
The seventy essays that emerged — personal and idiosyncratic, contemplative and fierce — range in subject from the writing life, extinct birds, and the origins of words to the "three ‘C’s" (cancer, chemo, and Covid) and his love for his wife and friends.
As he faced his last days, Jory Post measured the world around him and threw the full reach of his emotions and literary skills into these pages.
Dear Goldie Hawn, Dear Leonard Cohen
After suffering a devastating loss, Claudia writes letters to family and friends, the famous and the infamous, as a means to explore the events in her own life and find meaning in human connections.
In this third memoir by Claudia Sternbach, she once again knits together fragments — this time using letters written to the likes of Goldie Hawn, Leonard Cohen, Vermeer, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and more — to shape a story of a woman attempting to make sense of the life she is living and those who have been a part of it — knowingly or not.
Paper Angel Press Sampler (2022 Edition)
Storytelling is an act of courage and of faith.
This volume contains bits of tales from authors who were brave enough to trust us with their literary offspring to bring their stories to appreciative audiences. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did in bringing them to you.
The Lip Reader (Sample Chapter)
“It’s not what you get in life, it’s what you give back that truly defines you.”
Set in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s, and later in Los Angeles, California, Zhila Shirazi tells her story firsthand. She reveals the real-life struggle of being a deaf woman who refuses to allow adversity to stop her from reaching her dreams of living a normal and fulfilling life.
Right up to the end, Zhila shows her caring nature, innate intelligence, and will power to overcome almost any challenge. Her courage and the beauty of her memory is certain to inspire all who venture to follow her on their quest for a truly meaningful life.
Paper Angel Press Sampler (2020 Edition)
Storytelling is an act of courage and of faith.
This volume contains bits of tales from authors who were brave enough to trust us with their literary offspring to bring their stories to appreciative audiences. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did in bringing them to you.
Carnival Farm
Seagn Conway is tired of her veterinary practice — the same entitled pet parents, the same dogs and cats, maybe the occasional lizard or snake, now bore her to pieces.
When a traveling carnival with a farm animal petting zoo comes to town, she discovers all the animals are depressed, malnourished, and neglected.
Seagn knows she can do a better job of taking care of them than anyone else there, so she purchases the animals, their cages, and their transportation with the purpose of following the carnival around, presenting the animals in their natural habitat.
Was it the right decision, she wonders, to give up everything she had for this ragtag collection of farm animals?
Back to the Land in Silicon Valley
“We all worked together. Ate together. Sang together. Learned together. We had a good life. After living close to the natural cycles of the earth year after year, good and not good, we grew stronger and more resilient, learned to manage our occasional conflicts with tolerance and love.”
Follow Marlene and her friends as they live on the land, coping with the challenges of rural life as Silicon Valley evolves into the high-tech center it is today, and the world in which they live transforms itself culturally, economically, and politically.
