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Mom's Dead by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 112,410. Language: English. Published: November 27, 2020 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
Hank LaFarge finds himself in middle-age, having achieved at least some of what most people would consider to be the hallmarks of success but without any sense of purpose. He’s convinced that there must be some hidden meaning to life, and he has undertaken a mission to extract the secret from his elderly mother.
Bread and Salt by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 78,940. Language: English. Published: September 5, 2020 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
(4.00 from 1 review)
Compelling and vivid, the stories in Bread and Salt use the metaphor of salvage to consider the reclamation of the natural environment, human relationships, and material objects. The characters in these stories live and travel in Tunisia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, France, and the United States and consider their individual agency in both local and global contexts.
Of Covenants by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 10,620. Language: English. Published: December 9, 2017 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General, Poetry » Female authors
Of Covenants considers the ways we name and structure experience, creating contracts through our legal, religious, and linguistic systems until we are caught in a web of shifting signification, a system in which we "submit to consensus" but "did not participate in the building of this consensus."
You Can Fly: A Sequel to the Peter Pan Tales by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 35,460. Language: English. Published: September 23, 2017 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Thomas Pandora is the son of Peter Pan and Wendy, but Thomas doesn't know it. On the eve of Thomas Pandora's thirteenth birthday, he's visited by a mysterious fairy named Tink who tells him that Hook is back, and without Peter Pan there to protect Never Never Land, Hook will soon have it conquered. Thomas Pandora is the only one who can save them.
More Sonnets from the Portuguese by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 7,570. Language: English. Published: November 19, 2016 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Love
More Sonnets from the Portuguese is a sonnet novella that chronicles one year in the life of Zélia Nunes, a widow in her mid-40s. When Zélia receives an email from an ex-lover, her powerful inner longings threaten long-held traditions of Azorean-American and Azorean life.
The Treasures That Prevail by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 9,150. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2016 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Poetry » Female authors, Poetry » American poetry » General
The Treasures That Prevail is about climate change and its effects on Miami; the narrators of the poems in this collection are two unnamed women, married with a teenage daughter and a teenage son, who live in a part of Miami that will be underwater unless action is taken.
Imperfect Tense by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 13,580. Language: English. Published: July 16, 2016 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
Imperfect Tense is a meditation on language, and the poems in this collection are grounded in teaching, learning, and living between languages and cultures. Much like the imported "dragon fruit," these poems grasp displacement as opportunity; they relish in perpetual outsider-ness as a way inside a fundamentally shared human condition.
Off Somewhere by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 50,980. Language: English. Published: November 17, 2015 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Literary collections » American / General
(4.00 from 1 review)
Off Somewhere, Z.Z. Boone's debut story collection, is populated by characters who seek recognition and empowerment in a world that has suddenly become baffling. The characters are, for the most part, ordinary people driven to exceptional actions.
Lighting the World by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 52,390. Language: English. Published: March 16, 2015 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Coming of age
Wade Rule reveals to his classmate Maria that he plans to run off to Vermont to escape his domineering mother. When Maria tells him she'd rather run off than live with her father, Wade makes up his mind to take Maria along. But when he shows up at school with a shotgun to fetch her, things go horribly wrong.
Belle City by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 185,830. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2014 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Historical » USA
This saga of love, land and loss is told from the disparate perspectives of Ruth Thatcher, who is Black, and Jonas Thatcher, who is White, and spans nearly a century. During the course of their lifetimes, Ruth and Jonas-- and their respective families have prospered-- but it is left for their descendants to come to grips with the long-unacknowledged truth that the two families are actually one.
The Things We Do for Women by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 44,140. Language: English. Published: December 2, 2013 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
This debut story collection comprises twelve linked tales set in Kentucky against the backdrop of the disintegration of a young marriage. A man on the run hides out at a boarding house owned by a paraplegic woman. A young man confesses his extramarital affairs to his mother. A housewife attends the funeral of a young woman whom she never knew.
How They Spend Their Sundays by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 43,900. Language: English. Published: September 2, 2013 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Literary collections » Female authors
Courtney McDermott’s debut story collection unveils a perspective of African life that is both startling and intimate. An Afrikaner woman sleeps with a shotgun because she fears black Africans, an undead garbage man “saves” lives by taking them, a modern day Cinderella struggles to escape the bitter residual constraints of colonialism. These twenty-two tales embrace graphic realism and magic.
Searching for a Pulse by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 4,160. Language: English. Published: August 5, 2013 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Poetry » Female authors, Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Nazifa Islam's debut poetry collection tells the story of Rosemary who wants to love and to be loved but finds it tragically impossible.
Ten Thousand Heavens by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 67,690. Language: English. Published: July 1, 2013 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
With patience, persistence and love, a man called Bird befriends Annie, an abused and difficult mare. Eventually, Annie reciprocates Bird's affection, but their relationship is sorely tested when they are separated by a catastrophic wildfire. In order to reunite, they must battle not only the forces of nature but the greed and cunning of unscrupulous men.
To the Left of the Microwave by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 31,570. Language: English. Published: July 5, 2011 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
The eclectic characters in this collection of ten tales contend with the classic, American quest after freedom. The women in these stories grapple with greed in 1980s New York, tangle with an Indiana abortion clinic surrounded by protesters, and succumb to a wacky adventure with a scientist who thinks he’s losing his mind in California.
My Valley Is Icky Too by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 32,740. Language: English. Published: June 28, 2011 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
A self-imagined free spirit, Janice Huntington endures her days at Suzanne’s Newsclipping Service sifting through mountains of information, and on her own time she navigates sexual encounters in a search for who knows what. Her frantic, lonely routine begins to unravel with an inquiry into the fate of the inventor of her favorite form of birth control.
Momentary Mother by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 53,460. Language: English. Published: June 25, 2011 by Whitepoint Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
(4.00 from 1 review)
Los Angelena Lulu Rosetti, a thirty-three year old word processor and tarot reader, is urgently summoned by her mother to her New Jersey childhood home to help Lulu's only sibling, a younger sister, recover from a vitamin-induced suicide attempt. Over the course of Lulu's one week stay with her too-close family, she's sure that moving to California was the right thing to do.

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