Aquarius Press: 5 books

Novel about the decline of Detroit's famed Paradise Valley entertainment district, which experienced an artistic and economic Golden Age from the 1920s to mid-1960s. Headliners included The Four Tops, Jackie Wilson and Della Reese. From the back cover: Detroit, 1956—Cars were rolling off...

Second book in the Slice of Life Collection of short stories by Thom Gossom Jr. The stories of Another Slice of Life reflect the decadence and newly found freedoms of the 1980s through the early 21st century. The newly hired groundbreaking African American Coach of the Alabama Tech Spiders...

Short story collection by Thom Gossom, Jr., actor and author. His memoir, WalkOn: My Reluctant Journey to Integration at Auburn University, is his story as the first African-American athlete to graduate from Auburn. A Slice of Life mirrors the first season of life, reflected in a newly integrated...

Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this journey stretching from the southern tip of Japan to the bottom of Grand...

Novel by Cole Lavalais. Lavalais received her MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University. She has been awarded writer’s residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and The Noepe Center for the Literary Arts. An Inaugural Fellow of the Kimbilio Center for Fiction, Cole’s short stories...