Two families on Edisto Island, SC are convulsed by the mixed-race child of a white woman and her black lover. Set between 1959 and 1994, this explosive novel poses crucial questions about the extent to which two families can escape the legacy of slavery. Why do even well-meaning modern men and women become bearers of the south's sadistic practices?

About the Author

Catherine Burroughs is a Professor Emerita of English at Wells College and a member of the Actors' Equity Association. She has published eight books and currently resides on Edisto Island, SC.

Nick Baeta is a Canadian author hailing from Ontario, from a young age he found an escape in writing and carried this passion throughout his life. With this passion Nick penned what would become The Atlantian Chronicles: Fight for Survival. Taking inspiration from his martial arts background, love for history and much more Nick blends real life and pseudo-historical events to create a world full of mystery,adventure and action. With this book and the books to come Nick hopes to leave a lasting impact on the literary world and inspire new authors to chase their dreams the same way the authors that shaped him inspired him to follow hisdream of becoming an author.

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On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, Mariner Books is proud to publish acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould’s highly ancipated new book, BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock. This deeply researched account captures the grity energy of 1970s New York City and shows how a group of art students brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jonathan Gould is a writer and a former professional musician. A contribung writer for The New Yorker, he is the author of Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America and Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life. He currently divides his me between Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Livingston, NY. #talkingheads #rockmusic #nyc

Mexican-American author Isabel Cañas blazed onto the horror scene in 2022 with The Hacienda, a stunning Latinx take on the haunted house tale, followed up Vampires of El Norte (2023), an equally rich Western-meets-horror-meets-vampire novel.
Cañas’ third novel, THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ (Berkley Hardcover), is a supernatural-meets-body-horror story of demonic possession, set in 1765 among the silver mines of Mexico. Kneading together mysticism and sorcery, the science and supernatural powers of alchemy, and the patriarchal grip of the Church on mining towns, THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ is ultimately a terrifying historical horror about the earthly and unearthly ways in which a woman’s body can be owned.

In a world of many supernatural races, most unknown to the world it makes it hard for them to find a mate, so when Dylan Vito meets Rose Bellamy things start getting complicated, but he just can’t stay away from her and it’s a risk he knows he shouldn’t take but can’t help taking, the relationship isn’t the only thing getting complicated. A whirlwind of things become evident in their lives. Can they overcome it all and survive the complications and obstacles coming their way or will things spiral out of control as the web of hunters, and races put them on the run. Or another question weighing on their minds is who or what Rose really is? Will there be enough clues and research left behind to figure it out?

My name is Marie, ever since I was in middle school I would be writing in my journal or writing pros or poems sometimes songs, life wasn’t easy growing up, so I would find myself journaling or reading it was my escape from reality my own fantasy world when I needed an escape during difficult painful moments in my life. If it wasn’t writing, reading or journaling it was listening to music. I enjoy anything creative that I’m able to do. My imagination never stops, it’s been like this since I was a child. I enjoy taking pictures and dancing to my favorite music and singing along if I can. My favorite season is Autumn because of all the amazing colors. I have three sayings that I used my whole life.For more info on the book click HERE

Philadelphia’s early national history represented in Thomas Sully’s portraits
Thomas Sully is widely regarded as perhaps the most important portrait painter of the antebellum years. Using those portraits, Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America reconstructs many of the people, institutions, and events that combined to make Philadelphia, from the Revolution until the 1840s, at once the most cosmopolitan and most racially embattled city in America. The book approaches Sully’s portraits as visual documents in the history of Philadelphia in the first half of the nineteenth century.About the author

Peter Conn's two most recent books are The American 1930s: a Literary History (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and Adoption: a Brief Social and Cultural History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Peter has also produced a video course on American Bestsellers for The Teaching Company.

1942. Everywhere around the world, the Allies are losing the war. Nowhere is this felt more completely than in thePacific, where Japanese sea and ground forces claim victory after victory. Singapore falls. Then the Philippines. The vaunted American Navy fights to a draw with the Japanese at the Battle of Coral Sea. America's lone moral victory is ColonelJimmy Doolittle's bombing raid on Tokyo—though even that is tinged with tragedy as two crew members are shot down and beheaded.

Meanwhile in Honolulu, a brilliant young naval officer isdetermined to break Japan's top secret communication codes. Lt. Commander Joseph Rochefort is inches away from cracking the code by April. He is then startled to learn that the Japanese are planning yet another major invasionsomewhere in the Pacific. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is planning to send four aircraft carriers to complete this task, in a bold attack that will be even larger than the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

About the Author | Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them Taking London, Taking Paris, Taking Berlin, the Killing series, and The Explorers.

In LOUD AND CLEAR: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection (St. Martin’s Press) journalist Brian Anderson interviewed hundreds of people associated with the band and the construction of the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound itself, including band members, roadies, tech wizards, fans and many more, to tell the full story of the unprecedented and since unparalleled speaker system that was as tall as a school bus is long and more than a hundred feet wide.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BRIAN ANDERSON has been a Webby Award-winning senior features editor, writer, and producer at VICE in New York City (2011-2019). More recently, Anderson did a stint running the Science desk at The Atlantic (2020), where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team for early pandemic coverage, and was later a senior editor at Vox (2021-2022). His 2015 VICE feature on "The Wall of Sound” served as the jumping off point for his first book Loud and Clear. He currently lives and works in Chicago, where a piece of the Wall of Sound sits in his living room.#gratefuldead #braandersonian