A Hollis: 9 books

What if honest words spoken in anger led to murder? The unsolved 1998 murder of a recent high school graduate weighs heavy on her classmates for more than twenty years. Anneewakee McWhorter’s story is frozen in time as her peers try to survive adulthood. The Great Recession, natural disasters, addictions,...

Bruce Jones and Marcus Emerson are members of the posse, an elite group of five football standouts at UC Berkeley. There isnt a female on or off campus who is immune to the suave brothers legendary tactics with the fairer sex. Bruce is the leader of the group and his words are considered golden by...

Thousands are dying and many more sickened as an unknown virus runs rampant through Western Africa. Its victims experience a violent death within a few days of exposure, so the CDC jumps in before the virus can become a global pandemic. They send their best man, Dr. Lennox Richards of the Epidemic...

Read this story before you condemn an act of madness, or doubt the redemptive power of love.Pursued by the increasingly real apparitions that would destroy him, a young man journeys from New Zealand’s rural north to the beguiling luxury of Italy’s Amalfi Coast.In searching for the...

A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability. Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...

Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good is a feminist anthology of dark fiction and darker knowledge, edited by Joanne Merriam. Containing 35 stories of “bad” women, and “good” women who just haven’t been caught yet, it features 35 fearless writers who identify as female, non-binary, or...

Mothers might be exhausted, over-touched and under-appreciated, but they’re problem solvers who know how to get their “self-care” on.  In If Mom’s Happy: Stories of Erotic Mothers, we hear from women waiting for their child’s arrival; mothers of infants, toddlers and teenagers; straight,...

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...

With 200 unforgettable images, Carlton and Point Breeze recounts the history of a community that developed along the shore of Lake Ontario in 1803. The first settlers hunted and fished for a living, just as Native Americans had for centuries. At Point Breeze, Oak Orchard Harbor became a shipbuilding...