Boson Books

TAKEN!

de Gayle Peters

So, what if you're Jonathan Prophet, a widower, a father (three beautiful girls, including 8-year-old twins), and a deputy sheriff in Vidalia County, Georgia, and it's been a hot summer Sunday on roadblock duty...

The Saga of Rifka and Herschel

de Dorothy Friedman

The Saga of Rifka and Herschel begins in South Africa where Herschel Haverman joins the Frankel family after his parents are murdered in Lithuania. Eventually, Herschel goes to Munich for his rabbinical studies....

Becoming Americans

de Donald Batchelor

The docks of seventeenth century London and Bristol funneled yeomen, thieves, whores, and stolen children by the thousands onto tiny, crowded ships bound for Virginia. For decades, second sons of lesser nobility,...

Sick and Full of Burning

de Kelly Cherry

Is there any hope for a hypereducated thirty-year-old med student who would like nothing better than to be taken seriously sexually? That's what Mary "Tennessee" Settleworth, the dislocated heroine of this unsettling...

Safe Passage

de Ellyn Bache

Bache gives us an American family richly created and lovingly depicted.

On a chilly October morning, Mag and Patrick Singer awaken in their suburban Washington D.C. home to learn that the airport in Beirut...

3 Plays by Hal Lieberman

de Hal Lieberman

Kafka in Love deals with the last year of Franz Kafka's life. It won the Forest A. Roberts/Playwrighting Contest award and was produced at the Forest Roberts Theatre in Marquett, Michigan. With Ron Moody directing,...

Moments of Light

de Fred Chappell

Moments of Light Foreward by Annie Dillard. These stories prove that the mythic powers of the balladeer and the story teller survive even in this fragmented and unmysterious day. In the eleven stories gathered...

Necessary Evils: An Original Screenplay

de Phillip Gardner

In Necessary Evils, Hal, an L. A. cop driven to avenge the murder of his three partners, finds himself blindfolded and stripped to the waist, on his knees, his hands bound behind him, surrounded by a chorus...

Attack Butterfly

The Rust Bucket Universe series #2

de Atk. Butterfly

Attack Butterfly is the second in The Rust Bucket Universe series from BOSON BOOKS.

Susan's eyes gleamed with the intensity of a natural born killer instinct. She was always ready to play rough.

Susan watched...

Peregrine

The Fighting Anthonys #5

de Michael Aye

July 1778. A French fleet of mighty warships under Comte d'Estaing arrives off Sandy Hook to aid the colonies. The British Navy finds itself hard pressed to fulfill the duties cast upon it.

Vice Admiral Lord...

3 Plays by Hal Lieberman

de Hal Lieberman

Kafka in Love deals with the last year of Franz Kafka's life. It won the Forest A. Roberts/Playwrighting Contest award and was produced at the Forest Roberts Theatre in Marquett, Michigan. With Ron Moody directing,...

Painting Trees

de Naomi Myles

With quiet surety, Naomi Myles cultivates a contemplative wordscape allowing that " . . . some roots be hidden and some exposed." And in this crafted world we are asked to think of windows framing the past,...

The Basketball Expatriate

de Bradford C. Eastland

When is a story about a basketball player not even about basketball?

When the basketball player spends a couple hundred pages trying to convince you that it is.

A nameless man boards a plane in Los Angeles,...

Paravoid

The Rust Bucket Universe series #4

de Atk. Butterfly

"Imagination is man's most fearsome weapon."

In Paravoid, volume four of The Rust Bucket Universe, Rear Admiral Oden reports for the simple ceremony that promotes him to Fleet Admiral. Because of the earlier...

Dust Bunny

The Rust Bucket Universe series #3

de Atk. Butterfly

Diane stabbed at the intercom switch near her and shouted, "Close hatches and launch!" It took her almost thirty seconds to run to the bridge. Just before she reached it, a voice sounded over the intercom, "All...

Land of Black Clay

de Jose Louzeiro & Ted Stroll

Land of Black Clay takes place largely in the rural township of Sapé, a town in the northeast Brazilian state of Paraíba, many hundreds of miles north-northeast of Rio de Janeiro. The main character, Jorge...

Someone To Crawl Back To

de Phillip Gardner

Someone To Crawl Back To is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they've always wanted or what they've eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker...

Rogues in the Gallery: The Modern Plague of Art Thefts

de Hugh McLeave

Rogues in the Gallery exposes it all: the cozy insurance ransom racket, the professional gangs of art thieves, the specialists, the connections with the international drug racket and the Mafia. Hugh McLeave...

The Inkling

de Fred Chappell

The Inkling by Fred Chappell is, says the New York Times, "A work of genuine talent.... Chappell writes with power and passion and with flashes of humor."

This early novel of Chappell's takes sixteen-year-old...

Quite Contrary

de John Chabot

The unusual thing about the collection Quite Contrary is the range of subgenre. Although these are all crime stories, each is vastly different in its approach to the crime. One story, "A Step Above The Beasts,"...