Posts Tagged ‘Illinois’
Murder in the Summer of Love
It is the Summer of Love, and unorthodox private eye Harry Strummer is hired by night club singer Valerie Rolfe to find her estranged husband, who may or may not have been murdered by a pair of out-of-town killers after a drug deal gone wrong has left three men dead on a Florida beach.
Read MoreBaxter’s Friends, by Ned Randle
Baxter’s Friends (218 pages), by Ned Randle, is a work of literary fiction about three middle-aged male friends whose lives are spinning out of control. Baxter’s Friends is a finalist in the ForeWord Firsts Contest, sponsored by ForeWord Magazine. “We want our writers, our poets, our storytellers to make rainbows, not black or white or…
Read MoreRunning at Night, by Ned Randle
Running at Night: Collected Poems 1976-2012 (106 pages) is a collection of fifty-nine poems from the past thirty-three years of poet Ned Randle’s life. “At their best, Randle’s poems evoke a connection with the land that reads as true and absolute. He solidifies the thoughts and lives of imagined earlier inhabitants with grace and empathy, such…
Read MoreOne Gay American, by Dennis Milam Bensie
One Gay American (242 pages), is a memoir by theatrical wigmaker Dennis Milam Bensie about growing up gay in small-town America. One Gay American was a finalist in the 2013 Indie Excellence Awards and 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The Advocate voted Bensie’s first memoir, Shorn: Toys to Men, “One of the Best Overlooked…
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