Virtual Library....
Last updated: 2/27/2026. Deadline for submissions to be included in next planned update: 3/15/2026.
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All the Perils of This Night | Imagination Fury Arts, 2020 | All the Perils of This Night is the standalone sequel to Murder at the Rummage Sale, by the author of The Maeve Chronicles. A numinous thriller, All the Perils of This Night is set in 1968 on both sides of the Atlantic. | Elizabeth Cunningham Writes | ||||
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| Herrera, Nina | KID Or, High School is Beautiful | Paige M. Guttenborg Press, 2016 | Christine Perrino is a Freshman at Calverton High, hoping for "luv" and trying to figure out ... parents, the War, religion and life. One thing she knows, though, is that "High School is Beautiful." time capsule, 1968-9. | Contact Nina for availability | |||||
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| Johnson, Joel |  |
Joel F. Johnson, Never |
Arbitrary Press, 2023 | "Johnson's debut novel ... recalls coming of age in the segregated south. An observant and immersive work about a society in flux." Kirkus Reviews | available from Amazon | ||||
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| Lavin, Maud |  |
Maud Lavin, Mermaids and Lazy Activists |
Beyond Press, 2025 | Maud Lavin's debut novel follows a woman of a certain age who loves to swim and meets Evelyn, a mermaid--feral, strapping, rule-breaking--in Lake Michigan. Evelyn is all id. The two become friends, competitors, and reluctant activists in the Great Lakes clean water movement, while also taking over poetry readings and eating many blueberry muffins. (A portion of sales will be donated to the Traverse City, MI nonprofit Flow Water Advocates.) | Read more here available from Publisher's website |
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Maud Lavin, Silences, Ohio: Real Stories of the Midwest |
Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2024 | From Tim Moder: "In Maud Lavin's patient hands, these 14 stories return home to share with us their joys, to offer their advice 'To Someone Moving to the Midwest.' and to reveal to us what lies behind the 'places of white paint,' an otherness that sounds 'wholesome and nearby' but sometimes harbors bigotry, intolerance, and the spectre of dark nationalism." | available from Cowboy Jamboree Magazine & Press | |||||
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| Long, Claudia Hagadus |  |
Claudia Hagadus Long, Sisters at an Exhibition |
Sibylline Press, Sat Aug 01 2026 00:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) | The third in the Zara and Lilly series. A Caravaggio sketch authenticated by a highly respected curator is discovered to be fake. When the sketch and the curator both disappear, and a wealthy donor turns out to be neither wealthy nor honest, Zara and Lilly find themselves chasing all three through San Francisco, New York, and Alsace, France. Echoes of a lost World War 2 journal complicate the search, and may hold the clue to the mystery. | available from This link | ||||
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Claudia Hagadus Long, Truck a Duck |
Sibylline Press, 2025 | Book two of the Simpato Mysteries. Sometimes you'd kill for a taco. When the tiny town of Simpato decides to let three food trucks park downtown, the chichi restaurants aren't happy about it. Sal, waiting out her suspension from practicing law, has a new gig writing columns for the local paper. Covering the taco truck wars gets spicy when affairs are uncovered and one of the truck owners ends up in duck soup. | available from This link | |||||
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Claudia Hagadus Long, Murder Without a Duck |
Sibylline Press, 2024 | Book one of the Simpato Mysteries. Sal, a recently divorced and temporarily suspended lawyer, moves to the tiny wine-growing town of Simpato to start over. When the local gossip columnist turns up dead, just after discovering some very embarrassing secrets about the mayor, the librarian, and even newcomer Sal, she unwillingly finds herself assisting the chief of police solve this very public murder with roots deep in the town's, and Sal's, past. | available from This link | |||||
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Claudia Hagadus Long, Our Lying Kin |
Kasva Press, 2023 | Touching on the experience of daughters of immigrants, but set in today's New York City, Our Lying Kin is book 2 in the Zara and Lilly series. Zara and Lilly discover that their father had a secret apartment, a secret daughter, and maybe, an unnatural death. Underneath the daily clamor, their family history continues to reach out from the past to wreak havoc with their modern lives. | available from This link | |||||
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Nine Tenths of the Law | Kasva Press, 2020 | In 1939, Aurora is targeted by the Nazis, and the beautiful artifacts her family owns are looted. 80 years later, her daughters, Zara and Lilly, see a menorah at the Jewish Studies Museum and realize it's the one that belonged to their mother. The book was inspired by the support I received at our reunion' Creativity Panel in 2016. | Read more here available from Amazon |
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Claudia H. Long, Chains of Silver |
Five Directions Press, 2018 | Fourteen-year-old Marcela Leon's parents, secret Jews of Mexico, are dragged away to face the last auto-da-fé of the Inquisition in colonial Mexico. | Read more here available from Amazon |
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| Polk, Milbry |  |
The Quest | Posada Press, 2008 | A novel about a journey through South America searching for paintings that offer clues to solve mysteries. | available from Amazon | ||||
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| Washburn, Dennis |  |
Murasaki Shikibu (Author), Dennis Washburn (Editor and Translator), The Tale of Genji |
W.W. Norton & Co., 2021 | This work contains my translation of The Tale of Genji, a classic of world literature and a one of the key works of Japanese literature. This edition of the translation includes historical background, critical essays, and bibliographic information. | available from WWNorton | ||||
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| Weker, Jonathan | Jonathan Weker, The Uncovering |
Self-published, 2026 | A story of psychological trauma and personal evolution wrapped around a crime thriller, set against the backdrop of the construction of Boston’s Big Dig. | Contact the author for availability | |||||
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| Whitehouse, Anne Cherner |  |
Fall Love | Xlibris, 2001 | With vivid descriptions of time and place, the novel chronicles the lives of Althea, Jeanne, Paul, and Bryce, as they undergo trials, experience revelations, and are affected by chance, luck, or fate. As we learn about their ambitions, triumphs, and defeats, Fall Love explores their inner lives and their struggles to let go of the unattainable and accept the possible. | available from Amazon | ||||
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| Wilentz, Amy |  |
Martyrs’ Crossing | Simon & Schuster, 2001 | A novel about a Palestinian toddler who has a medical emergency at a checkpoint in Jerusalem, and the consequences for his Palestinian-American family and for the Israeli soldiers guarding the checkpoint. | available from Amazon | ||||
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