Dec 6, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Wayne F. Burke Turmoil: And Other Stories hitting stores everywhere now.
TURMOIL & OTHER STORIES consists of 12 tales with interrelated characters and stories starting with childhood and childhood-related themes, move into adolescence, and then to adulthood. These are, mostly inspired by the real events which happened between early 60’s and late 80’s of the last century. Outstanding examples of powerful prose in a limited space, this collection is packed with satisfying reads. Interesting and engaging work of social significance, it will keep you turning the pages.
Wayne F. Burke has lived in the central Vermont area for the past thirty-five years. He is currently employed as an LPN (licensed practical nurse) in a nursing home. Previous to his earning a nursing certificate, he worked as substitute school-teacher, journalist, book reviewer (Burlington Free Press, Burlington, VT), illustrator, dishwasher, fry cook, bartender, moving man, janitor, machinist, security guard, store clerk, laborer, truck driver, carpenter’s helper, sign-painter, roughneck, and orange-picker. He published his first full-length poetry collection in 2013 at the age of fifty-eight, and has published five additional volumes since. TURMOIL & Other Stories is his first published book-length work of fiction.
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Dec 6, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Donny Barilla Beneath the Cloth hitting stores everywhere now.
Under and within the landscape of nature, Donny Barilla coats the palate of his metaphoric and imagist reach as he uses the tremble of his pen to wrangle upon the fever of his surroundings which flood and weave each page. Donny motions primarily as a poet and uses techniques such as he writes books of short stories and novellas and searches his creativity in multiple arenas fastened through thought provoking paints which slip from word to page to book. Keeping late hours which sometimes bleeds into the rising patterns of the sun, he works in his study keeping an espresso machine close at hand. Here, he allows the softened press of his discipline, awake and aware at each moment. Having placed ninety-four poems in journals and magazines, he also donated twenty-three books to libraries, academic and public.
Donny took first place in the Adelaide Literary Award Contest for Poetry and has placed on two other occasions. After building a construct of vowels and consonants, the words blend upon the page as he pays due respect to the motions of the English language and passions of poetic touch.
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Dec 6, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Libby Belle The Juicy Parts hitting stores everywhere now.
Prop up a pillow, grab your favorite drink, and enjoy the ride! These stories are meant to entertain. You hold in your hand 22 delightfully quirky tales full of lovable, incorrigible, funny, and impulsive characters that you may recognize – some might even be friends or family!
In the story, A Simple Lie a divorcée struggles with love addiction. It’s payback time in Intruder Alert! Tragedy in Out of Luck links a mournful songwriter to a charming Irish taxi driver. Meet two brave teens, a zombie and a couple of ghosts in “Beyond the Wall.”
The Bathroom Material section was created for those of you who like to read on the throne, with “shorties” like Gertrude, a zany gut-spilling massage therapist, and It’s Over, where that four-letter word is mistreated, while Ten Items or Less rolls you down the aisle to an unusual grocery store scene. And there’s more to enjoy.
Libby Belle lives in Austin, Texas, a city that thrives on weirdness – a perfect place to nurture her vivid imagination. It’s also where all six of her beautiful children, ten grandchildren, and a bunch of wonderful wacky friends and relatives reside. Anytime, anywhere, and especially during the witching hour, she has written over 100 stories, a book of poetry, and a half-dozen songs. “I even write in my dreams,” she says. “It’s a wonderful curse!” Her stories have been published in London and New York magazines and Texas newspapers, with contributions to Beyond Art & More magazine.
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Dec 2, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Don Tassone New Twists hitting stores everywhere now.
The 20 stories featured in this collection are based on abiding themes but with new twists, stories that explore old ideas in today’s world. What does tolerance look like, for example, at a time of such great divisiveness? Fifteen of these stories are longer. Five are very short. All are an invitation to think anew.
Don Tassone’s thoughtful new collection of wide-ranging stories delves into the connections made throughout our lives—from the perils of teenage angst to the precariousness of life at the top of the corporate world. Communications play a huge part—by iPhone, executive phone, in heartfelt handwritten letters, and even when the characters find themselves off the grid. Tassone knows whereof he speaks, and the “New Twists” ring true! – Mary Ann Presman, author of The Good Dishes
With authority and compassion, Don Tassone brings his characters to life on the page and makes us care about them—whether a teenage Mexican immigrant who resents his hard-working father or a hardboiled executive prepared to fire her mentor. You find yourself pulling for these characters as they reach small epiphanies or suffer shattering disappointments and loss. – John Young, author of When the Coin is in the Air
After a long career in the corporate world, Don Tassone has returned to his creative writing roots. New Twists is his fifth book. The others are Drive, a novel, and three other short story collections: Sampler, Small Bites and Get Back. Don and his wife Liz live in Loveland, Ohio. They have four children.
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Dec 2, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Jeffrey Kass The Rona Diaries hitting stores everywhere now.
“This wise and witty book reminds us of the intimate connection between genuine humor and real solidarity in our struggles against evils like racism and for the good such as justice and joy! In this age of catastrophe, we all are needful of The Rona Diaries! – Dr. Cornel West, American philosopher, political activist, intellectual, professor at Harvard and Yale Universities and author of twenty books including this classic, Race Matters.
Jeffrey Kass is an award-winning author, lawyer and community activist residing in Denver, Colorado. As an authoritative voice for those committed to the betterment of our world, Jeffrey Kass is a relentless champion for racial and societal engagement. Jeffrey’s insights rattle ingrained thinking, provoke dialogue, and ignite fresh approaches for navigating today’s rapidly evolving times. Jeffrey is the author of the End Racial Distancing Journal, available on Medium.com, as well as the book Oreos and a Pack of Marlboro Lights, a collection of true traumedy stories. His stories and articles on race, religion, society, the Middle East and politics have appeared in national and regional publications for over twenty five years. He can be reached on his website, jeffreykassglobal.com.
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