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New Book by Alberto Ambard Dogma A Red Door And A Birthday

ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Alberto Ambard Dogma, A Red Door, And A Birthday hitting stores everywhere on June 4th, 2020.

Dogma, A Red Door, and A Birthday, set in Oregon, is about the reunion of Leah and Adriel, a mother and daughter separated when at age fourteen, Adriel escapes home to avoid being forced into marriage by her father Richard. The day of her eighteenth birthday, urged by a feeling of loss, Adriel decides to find her mother. Four years have changed her. She is now a blue-haired punk rocker with a girlfriend lover and a big bouncer friend. Together, they embark on a road trip to Baker City, where Leah and Richard reside. The same day, Richard is also eager to get home. He suspects that his wife has been speaking with an attorney behind his back, to leave him. In reality, Leah has been talking to a support group. She was a victim of forced marriage at thirteen and has been molded for the role forced upon her. Throughout the day, the three main characters expose their side of the story and their emotions, all the way until they converge at Richard’s and Leah’s house, and a new sinister secret is uncovered.

Alberto Ambard divides his time between writing and practicing maxillofacial prosthodontics. He co-authored High Treason, a novel Adelaide Books recently re-published. His short stories have appeared in various publications. His love of music and diverse background are often exposed in his writing. A descendant of French, American, Spanish, and Venezuelan families, he grew up in Caracas, a city of immigrants Isabel Allende said to have given her a sensual vision of the world. He also lived in Capaya, a remote Afro-Caribbean village. While in the Amazon, he interacted with tribes largely unknown to civilization. He later lived in contrasting Birmingham, Alabama, and Chicago. Mr. Ambard received the José Félix Ribas Medal for his achievements in collegiate and international karate. Currently, he lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and children. You can find him at www.albertoambard.com

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New Book by Stan Duncan The Fire On Poteau Mountain

ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Stan G. Duncan The Fire On Poteau Mountain hitting stores everywhere on June 4th, 2020.

In The Fire on Poteau Mountain, an elderly pastor reflects back on the people and stories he encountered in a small town at the foot of Poteau Mountain in the early 1970s. As a young pastor, filled with his own feelings of doubt and inadequacy, he interacted with his parishioners and today retells their stories of pain and loss, heroism and humor. The people in these stories are both uplifting and gritty. They struggle in a world of sin and grace, tragedy and hope, and their devotion to their little church on the hill is somewhere in the middle.

Stan G. Duncan is originally from Oklahoma, the setting for this collection of stories, but has lived in a number of other states and countries working (mainly) as both an economics instructor and local church pastor. His previous books have been in human rights, economics, and religion. This is his first book of fiction. He is presently at work on his second, tentatively titled Zacamil, and based on his years of working in El Salvador as an economic development advisor in the 1980s when the country was in a civil war.

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New Book by Philip Wexler The Burning Moustache

ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Philip Wexler The Burning Moustache hitting stores everywhere on June 4th, 2020.

Philip Wexler, originally from Brooklyn, New York but a long-time resident of Bethesda, Maryland, has written poetry his entire adult life, with some 170 magazine publications, including prose poems, to his credit.

He has also dabbled in short fiction. Phil has organized a number of spoken word series in suburban Maryland, most recently at Glen Echo Park.

Retired from a career in federal service at the National Library of Medicine, he has also written and edited technical works related to toxicology.

In addition to writing, Phil also enjoys working as a non-commercial mosaic artist.

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New Book by Daniel Falatko On Neutral Zones

ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Daniel Falatko On Neutral Zones hitting stores everywhere on December 4th, 2020.

An unnamed narrator. A Westchester house and a patch of lawn. A distant marital partner and a dissolute daughter. A stack of unopened bills in the middle of a kitchen table bought on a chain store credit card. The crushing weight of a dying empire. The overpowering urge to flee. But where is there to run? One day while trudging his usual steps to Grand Central after wrapping up at the office, the narrator stumbles upon one of the several “pod hotels” now occupying New York City, a hip takeoff on the tiny transient quarters long occupied by Japanese businessmen. “pod”. Within those three letters our narrator finds his answer, his obsession, his salvation.

Daniel Falatko is the author of two previous novels, Condominium (CCLAP, 2014) and Travels & Travails Of Small Minds (Ardent Press, 2017). His music writing can be found on niche-appeal.com. A graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Vermont College, he lives, writes, and works in New York City.

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New Book by Jim Metzner Sacred Mounds

ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Jim Metzner Sacred Mounds hitting stores everywhere on June 16, 2020.

Cyclonic hordes of insects, a telepathic despot, body-swapping sex - just a few of the surprises Salvador Samuels encounters when he finds himself swept back to pre-colonial times walking in the moccasins of a blind Indian - who, in turn, has been transported into Salvador's body in present day America. Four hundred years apart, they're bound by a common mission to rescue our world, aided by the mysterious presence of the mounds. Thousands of these ancient earthworks once dotted the landscape of North America. We still don't know why they were created. Sacred Mounds suggests they are as important today as when they were made over a thousand years ago.

Sacred Mounds, a first novel of magical realism and historical fantasy, weaves the stories of two men, each a stranger in a strange land. With the help of two remarkable women, they must find a way to save our planet and return home.

Jim Metzner studied acting at Yale Drama School and enjoyed a brief career working as a singer-songwriter in London.

He has been producing sound-rich audio programs since 1977, including Pulse of the Planet, which has been on the air since 1988 and is now heard widely as a podcast. For many years, Jim produced features and commentaries for All Things Considered, Marketplace, Weekend Edition and other public radio programs. He has recorded all over the world and received major grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Grammy Foundation.

Stories about his work have appeared in Audio Magazine (cover story), New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic, Today Show and CBS Evening News. His forty-year archive of sounds is now deposited in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

A bee-keeper and avid fly-fisherman, Jim resides in New York’s Hudson River Valley with his wife Eileen

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