Tag: contemporary fiction

Book Brief: Savannah Jade

SAVANNAH JADE
by Sandra Cimadori
Genre: Young Adult Novel, Contemporary Fiction
Word count: 46, 272

Trailer trash is what people in Port Regal, South Carolina call seventeen-year-old Savannah Jade Mason and her family. Savannah dreams of doing important, spectacular things, but it is unlikely she ever will given her spectacular ability for getting into trouble. When her mother dies, the family’s circumstances sink further into the Lowcountry swamp. Adult responsibilities are thrust on Savannah overnight. She is the only one left to care for her elderly grandmother and little brother – Savannah’s older sister is in jail and no good to anyone.

Who can Savannah turn to? Will it be Jonah her rocker boyfriend who she has loved for years, Derek who is anxious to escape his new life and baby, or steady and dependable Luca who she sees only as a friend? The revelation of a family secret will shake her identity to its core, lead her to question all her relationships, and set her on the road to self-reliance.

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Sneak Peek: Scrambled

Scrambled
by Kathryn Elizabeth Jones

What happens to an unhappy woman who leaves her husband only to discover that she may have just made a terrible mistake? So horrible, her choice threatens to end her very life?

Susan believes that the grass is greener on the other side. Not that her current life is bad, necessarily; it’s just boring and lifeless, kind of like the old matted rug on her dining room floor. Susan thinks her marriage has just grown – well, old. Her husband, Bob, has gained tremendous weight and continues to gain, and his health suffers. She must work at a job she hates full-time to provide the little sustenance they have. He, on the other hand, works very little (because of his health) and prefers spending his days watching television or surfing the Internet. Besides, there’s her problem of not getting pregnant that can’t help but contribute to his unhappiness.

Can Susan continue to live her life at the hotel knowing that she might be killed herself or imprisoned for life? Will she be able to find the real murderer with the help of the eccentric Ms. Martha Boaz?

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Book Brief: Under An Orange Sun, Some Days Are Blue

Under An Orange Sun, Some Days Are Blue
by Irving Belateche
Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Inspirational
55,000 words

Hollywood screenwriter Ben Cross is broken-hearted after the death of his young daughter. Even though he knows it’s impossible, he still wants his little girl to have the Hollywood ending she deserves. And so Ben begins a desperate personal quest, searching for some sign from her. Consulting self-help gurus, philosophers, and religion, he derives a set of principles that reinforce his belief that everything can still work out. First, he applies those principles to finding that sign from his daughter. Then he applies them to his writing–to his career–to everything else in his life. Along the way, he discovers which principles work and which don’t.

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Book Brief: Upgrade

UPGRADE
by Stephen Hise
Genre: Contemporary fiction/psychological drama
62,886 words
A very wealthy but unattractive young man undergoes a microprocedure that re-contours his face. Though he sees the same reflection in the mirror as always, others now see him as extremely attractive. Whole new worlds of romantic possibilities open up to him, but there is a terrible and unforeseen price. Upgrade is a fast-moving psychological drama with a twist ending that has readers raving.

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