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  Living in the Middle

  A. Robert Allen

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  Rejected by his race. Hunted by the Klan. Yet, standing up to hatred is what he’s compelled to do. 
  New York, Early 1900s: Jimmy Montgomery comes from old New York money and grows up among the Manhattan elite. At the age of eighteen, Jimmy discovers he’s been living a lie.  He follows his roots back to Tulsa, Oklahoma to answer the burning questions in his life. Who is he? What is he? Where does he belong? He finds love and friendship along the way, but full acceptance from either the White or the Black world eludes him. When trouble pits the White population of Tulsa against the Black community of Greenwood, Jimmy must finally make a choice---he can no longer live in the middle. His decision will alter the course of his life and those he’d come to love. What will he decide? Pick up a copy to find out. 
  LIVING IN THE MIDDLE is a powerful African American historical novel based on the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. If you like passionate heroes, no-holds-barred history, high-stakes emotional tension, then you’ll love A. Robert Allen’s eye-opening story. 
  LIVING IN THE MIDDLE is a stand-alone story connected by theme to the other volumes in A. Robert Allen’s Slavery and Beyond series.

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  I Am Venus - A Novel

  Bárbara Mujica

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  This fictional account of the seventeenth-century Spanish painter’s life is “a very enjoyable read . . . A portrait of Velázquez and a meditation on love” (Washington Independent Review of Books).   Narrated by the mysterious model who posed for Rokeby Venus, Diego Velázquez’s only surviving female nude, I Am Venus is the riveting account of a great artist’s rise to prominence, set against the backdrop of political turmoil and romantic scandal. A sweeping story of scandal and passion, and a vivid recreation of a corrupt kingdom on the brink of collapse, I Am Venus is a thrilling novel that brings to life the public and private worlds of Spain’s greatest painter.   “A well-plotted read with engaging characters and rich detail. Fans of Tracy Chevalier and Elizabeth Kostova as well as art history buffs will enjoy Mujica’s interpretation.” —Library Journal   “A worthwhile read . . . Mujica continues her realistic representation by loading the text with rich historical detail [that] instantly creates a sensory world for her readers to inhabit.” —Booklist   “Mujica’s prose is vigorous and intense, and the story is paradoxically both dark and illuminating.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  The Sky Devil

  L. Ron Hubbard, Corey Burton

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  Vic Kennedy is in one hell of a jam. Quick-witted and sharp-tongued with   Nicholas Cage’s maverick sense of adventure, Vic’s flown out of  trouble  by the skin of his teeth . . . and straight into the jaws of  disaster. He  chose the wrong side of a rebellion, and now the  French have bid him  adieu and the British have said off you go. It  seems the only place that  will have him is Greece. The problem with  that is, as soon as the  Greeks get him, they plan on giving him a real  send off-at the gallows. But  Vic has a better idea, plotting a  course for an oasis in the Sahara . .  . where things are looking up. A  gorgeous captive princess mistakes Vic  for a genie-The Sky Devil-and if  he gets his wish, well, this Sky Devil  will certainly have his day. If  he lives to see it. . . .In  1933, when L. Ron Hubbard began  his professional writing career, he  entered a crowded and competitive  field. But he very quickly separated  from the pack, making a name for  himself as a writer who was both good  and fast. So good and fast, in  fact, that in 1935 the three stories  included in this volume were all  published in the same issue of an  all-fiction magazine. Fully a quarter  of the issue had been written by  Hubbard-though readers didn’t know  it, two of the stories appearing  under two different pseudonyms. Also  includes the  adventures Buckley Plays a Hunch, in which an adventurer  seeks to solve  the mystery of three castaways who refuse to be rescued,  and Medals for  Mahoney, the story of man who journeys into the heart  of darkness to  thwart a murderous conspiracy.

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  Anthem

  Ayn Rand

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  Experience a world with no freedoms and no individualism in this unabridged InAudio presentation of Anthemby Ayn Rand.In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, humankind has entered a dark age at some point in the unspecified future. Individuality is no longer permitted, and people are assigned roles to fulfill in their lives. The book’s protagonist, Equality 7-2521, is given an undesirable job as a punishment for thinking for himself and desiring to become a scientist instead. The novella outlines his journey as he starts to commit more “crimes” against society, such as desiring a companion of his own choosing, discovering electricity, and ultimately fleeing from his leaders. The story tells how he eventually discovers the concept of individuality and sets about beginning a new society of freedom and the ability to think for one’s self. A fascinating work of dystopian literature, Ayn Rand’s Anthem shows readers the importance of individuality to the advancement of society.

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  Reinhardt's Garden

  Mark Haber

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  At the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle-"not lost, mind you, but retired." Jacov's narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov's obsession seems increasingly unlikely.  
  From Croatia to Germany, Hungary to Russia, and finally to the Americas, Jacov and his companions grapple with the limits of art, colonialism, and escapism in this antic debut where dark satire and skewed history converge.

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  The Darkest Winter

  William W. Johnstone, J. A....

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  From America's most popular Western storytellers comes another adventure in the treacherous life of Breckenridge Wallace, a man as wild as the frontier he tries to conquer.He followed the call of the wild. Killers followed him.Exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, Breck Wallace tries to make a new home in St. Louis, even tries his hand at romance, but some men are too wild to settle down. Breck is soon back on the trail, where a vicious gang of trappers, after his goods, picks up his scent and begins to dog his every step, until Breck's only choice is to bed down for the winter with a tribe of friendly Indians. In the frigid, brutal cold of a Rocky Mountain winter, he hopes to find peace . . . but death is not done with Breck Wallace. When the trappers ambush the Indians and leave Breck for dead, the frontiersman must ride deeper into the mountains than he has ever gone before. Peace be damned. The blood will flow until vengeance is his alone . . .

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