A CLOSER LOOK AT JULY’S
PRIMITIVES
By Erich Krauss
Does humanity deserve to survive?
Thirty years after The Great Fatigue infected the globe—and the treatment regressed most of the human race to a primitive state—Seth Keller makes a gruesome discovery in his adoptive father’s makeshift lab. This revelation forces him to leave the safety of his desert home and the only other person left in the world … at least, as far as he knows.
Three thousand miles away in the jungles of Costa Rica, Sarah Peoples has made her own discovery—just as horrific, and just as life-changing. It will take her far from the fledgling colony of New Haven, yet never out of reach of its ruthless authoritarian leader.
On separate journeys a world apart, Seth and Sarah find themselves swept up in a deadly race to save humankind.
THE AUTHOR
ERICH KRAUSS is a New York Times bestselling author and has written more than thirty books. For more than two decades he traveled the globe searching for inspiration for his writing, including fighting professionally in Muay Thai bouts in Thailand, living with an Indian tribe deep in the Amazon, hang gliding throughout Central America, and bicycling across the United States and Canada. After more than fifteen years as president and publisher of Victory Belt, Krauss took a step back in 2020 to revisit his passion–writing fiction.
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FREE THE ANIMALS
By Ingrid Newkirk
A classic work of radical popular storytelling.
First published by Noble Press in 1992, then reprinted and revised by Lantern in 2005 and 2012, this thirtieth anniversary edition is revised, expanded, newly typeset, updated, and has a new foreword, by Academy Award–winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, and an afterword by Dr. Emily Trunnell, who describes whether and how the experiments you read about in this book have changed (or have not) over the last three decades.
Free the Animals is the story of Valerie, a twenty-three-year-old police officer whose world is turned upside down when she learns about the abuses of animals in laboratories. The book describes how this law-abiding woman comes to challenge the system by taking direct action and examines why ordinary people are moved to do extraordinary things on behalf of animals. Free the Animals is not only a classic for our times but a compellingly relevant examination of our cruelty to other animals.
THE AUTHOR
INGRID E. NEWKIRK is founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the largest animal rights organization in the world.
Her campaigns to promote cruelty-free living have made the front pages of The Washington Post and other national newspapers. She was named a top business person of the year in Forbes magazine, and has been profiled in The New Yorker and twice in People Magazine. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King, Politically Incorrect, Crossfire, Nightline, 60 Minutes and 20/20 among others and enjoys a lively debate and the opportunity to show how easy it is to make animal-friendly choices.
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THE LAST LUMENIAN
By S.G. Blaise
Most princesses need saving. This one will save you.
She is a rebel. Lilla is fighting for the refugees’ freedom from oppression. The king, her father, lost touch with reality ever since Lilla’s mother died. Now everyone else is paying the price.
The arrival of Callum, a powerful Teryn general, complicates Lilla’s life. His presence leads to conflicted feelings and friction with Arrov, a handsome pilot and fellow rebel.
Her life is not what she imagined it to be. Meddling gods, love interests and sudden magical abilities have no room in Lilla’s world, but that has become her new reality. No matter how hard she pushes them away, it’s too late. They all seek to control her anyway.
Now the Era War between two ruling archgods forces Lilla to act: accept who she really is magic and all; find true love; fulfill her destiny by defeating the Archgod of Chaos and Destruction before He finds her. The Last Lumenian.
THE AUTHOR
S.G. BLAISE was born in a faraway land of castles, monarchies and fallen dictatorships, aka Hungary. Hollywood movies were forbidden under Soviet oppression during her childhood, but her dad smuggled them in anyway, risking his life so that his children could experience the magic and hope inherent in those stories.
She watched rebellions unfold in real time. Journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean for love.
She ended up in sunny California, where she is living her dream — writing stories and annoying family members.
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EVENTUALLY THEY ALL FALL
By Jenna Marcus
A captivating story of love and loss, betrayal and redemption.
Domino Garrison knows that he is the king of all that is weird, but he would rather abdicate that throne. He would rather be a normal teenager who just goes to school and works at a bookstore—and for all intents and purposes—that’s exactly how he appears to his peers. However, aside from his best friend, Griswold, no one knows Domino’s secret, or his secrets. Domino has the ability to see into other people’s fantasies. He thinks this ability is pretty useless; however, little does he know that his ability is more powerful and expansive than he thinks.
When extraordinary circumstances begin to occur, Domino soon discovers that not only can he see fantasies, but he can also pull these fantasies into reality. However, doing so causes horrendous pain and mental anguish as Domino is concerned that the power he has could corrupt his mind.
However, he knows that it is up to him—with the support of his friends Griswold and Lucy, and his boss Miles—to put a stop to the unnatural occurrences plaguing the earth before it is too late.
THE AUTHOR
JENNA MARCUS is an academic leader with a passion for leveraging her decade of expertise to robustly enhance and redefine the quality of teaching and learning. She is also an avid reader, voracious coffee drinker, a vegan and supports animal rights. Until June 2020, she held the combined roles of Director of Student Achievement and IGCSE Coordinator at the private international boarding school EF Academy in New York. In addition to her professional experience, she holds two Master of Science in Education degrees, one in Middle Childhood & Adolescent English Education and another in Educational Leadership as well as a BA in Literature. She is also certified in School Building Leadership and ELA (grades 7-12) in NYS. Currently, she works as a Reading Interventionist at Harlem Village Academy-East Middle, a charter school that practices progressive education.
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KARMA UNDER FIRE
By Love Hudson-Maggio
Sparks fly in this debut romance novel…
When Harlow Kennedy, an aspiring jewelry maker, meets Tej Mayur, the “it” chef of Atlanta’s hottest new Indian restaurant, on a flight from Atlanta to Delhi, sparks fly. Unfortunately, Tej’s nuptials are already being arranged by his privileged East Indian family, and Harlow is not Indian. A modern day Mississippi Masala, Karma Under Fire tells the story of two young people’s search for love while they navigate the uncertain path between passion and tradition.
On the other side of the world, the parents of Tej Mayur, the hottest restauranteur in the hottest city in the South, are fretting about their son’s unmarried status. They summon him home.. Harlow and Tej touch down at Indira Gandhi International and flee one another’s company – or so they think.
THE AUTHOR
LOVE HUDSON-MAGGIO is a marketing technology executive that writes contemporary fiction about smart people with a lot to learn in life and love. She works as a Senior Advertising Technology Executive for a global Fortune 500 company and splits her time between Atlanta, New York and San Francisco. She enjoys the great outdoors with her husband and two sons when she’s not busy writing.
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STAND A LITTLE OUT OF MY SUN
By Angelyn Christy Voss
When is forgiveness justified?
Stand a Little Out of My Sun is a sweeping saga that captures the dramatic crosscurrents of life within the folds of a Greek American family in Chicago’s Industrial Southeast Side during the fifties.
It tells the story of Sophie Poulos, who becomes the sole protector of her little brother, Niko. Sophie wishes to live with her grandparents with their big passions and abundant love, but Niko idolizes their pa. Nine-year-old Niko becomes the newest member of an under-the-table car business run by his pa. He shuts Sophie out, and she can’t bear the way his eyes have begun to get the same hard flash as their father’s. The core of this multigenerational and multicultural story tests the bounds of a family’s loyalty and its astonishing mercy under impossible circumstances.
THE AUTHOR
Stand a Little Out of My Sun, winner of the 2021 National Indie Excellence Award in General Fiction, draws upon ANGELYN CHRISTY VOSS’ early upbringing on the East Side of Chicago within the folds of a colorful Greek American family. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Elementary Education, with an English minor from Oregon State University and Western Oregon University, respectively. She has taught English Language Learners, Reading, and Kindergarten.
Angelyn belongs to Willamette Writers of Oregon, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – a global transdisciplinary network of educators, writers, artists, and others whose purpose is to promote mutual respect. Angelyn has studied art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as continuing art education at various universities and community colleges.
Angelyn lives with her husband, George, and her cat, Teddy, in the idyllic university town of Corvallis, Oregon. She has raised three children, has four grandchildren and is a tap dancer!
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