Coffeetown Press: 52 books

Cover of The Spy's Little Zonbi
by Cole Alpaugh
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

During a college sponsored aid program in Haiti, Chase Allen witnesses the slaughter of homeless boys. Unable to shake the haunting images with booze and bong hits, he decides to make something of his life by taking an unpaid newspaper internship. There he is recruited for a branch of the CIA whose...
Cover of Lucia Triumphant
by Tom Holt
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012

In postwar Britain, the quaint town of Tilling is feeling the pull of both the modern world and its Norman past. Elizabeth Mapp-Flint, in yet another bid to wrest power back from her social rival Lucia Pillson—now the town’s mayor—purchases a motor-car. Hoping to improve her shaky motoring skills...
Cover of The Fun of Speaking English: Selected Poems
by Dorothea Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012

Before her death in May of 2012, Dorothea Grossman wrote: “I like to think my poems are honest and that they connect me with my fellow mammals in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and comforting. If they retain an air of mystery/humor, so much the better.” The late Allen Ginsberg called...
Cover of Shorn: Toys to Men
by Dennis Milam Bensie
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010

Bensie chronicles his journey from damaged boy to confused young man paying hustlers to shave their heads. The world of theater is his sanctuary, where he spins fantasy into reality and turns his private sexual conflict over haircutting into a career as a wig designer. Humorous and honest, this is a uniquely tangled love story—a triumphant quest for love, forgiveness and self-acceptance.
Cover of Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood
by Samantha Parent Walravens
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011

REAL MOTHERS. REAL CAREERS. REAL CONFLICT. Striking the right balance between career and motherhood is one of the most stressful, heart-wrenching tasks facing women today. In Torn, forty-six women examine the conflict between the need to nurture and the need to work, and reveal creative solutions...
Cover of Being Fruitful without Multiplying: Stories and Essays from Around the World
by Patricia Yvette
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

Childfree, childless ... these are the labels society gives to women who do not bear children, due to choice or genetics. Being Fruitful without Multiplying started as one woman’s quest to come to terms with her decision not to bear children. In conversation with Renee and Janice—two close relatives...
Cover of Satori
by Jack Remick
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014

Jack Remick is a writer and teacher. As a young man, he worked as a tunnel rat, a bus driver, a house painter, a social worker, a retail clerk, and waited tables at the UC Berkeley Men’s Faculty Club where he rubbed shoulders with Nobel Laureates, scoundrels of all stripes, and international students...
Cover of Gas Drilling and the Fracking of a Marriage
by Stephanie C. Hamel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

After receiving an offer to lease the farmland of her idyllic childhood summers for natural gas exploration, Stephanie Hamel saw her hitherto strong convictions rattled by dreams of royalties and signing bonuses. With a PhD in environmental health sciences, she could not ignore the possible ill effects...
Cover of An Act of Murder
by Mary Angela
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015

When one of Professor Emmeline Prather’s students dies while working on the fall musical, Em has reason to suspect foul play. She teams up with fellow English professor Lenny Jenkins to comb the campus and vicinity for clues, a venture that puts their reputations, their jobs, and even their lives at risk. Book 1 of a new cozy mystery series.
Cover of Red Desert
by Clive Rosengren
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013

Hollywood PI, sometime actor Eddie Collins receives an SOS from Mike Ford. His Oscar has been stolen during a home invasion and his girlfriend drowned in the swimming pool. Did she surprise the burglar? All the dots connect around a movie Ford directed and acted in: Red Desert. Is a person associated with the shoot harboring a deadly grudge?
Cover of Lucia in Wartime
by Tom Holt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012

Across the Channel, the battle rages ... On the Tilling front, another battle is being fought—the constant war of wits and social ascendancy between Lucia Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint. Lucia, with her superior style, timeless elegance, occasional low cunning and husband Georgie—whose talent...
Cover of Deros
by John Vanek
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

When Father Jake Austin is assigned to his hometown of Oberlin, Ohio, in July of 2002, he has been away for a long time. A physician and a war veteran before entering a Catholic seminary, he is now a member of the Camillian Order. He takes comfort in his vows of obedience, poverty, chastity, and service...
Cover of Gabriela and The Widow
by Jack Remick
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013

The Widow (La Viuda) is ninety-two years old. She lives in a house filled with photos and coins, jewels and a sable coat. Aware that her memory is failing but burning with desire to record the story of her life on paper, she hires Gabriela, a nineteen-year-old Mixteca from Mexico. Gabriela is one...
Cover of Between the Two Rivers: A Story of the Armenian Genocide
by Aida Kouyoumjian
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010

Orphaned by the Armenian Genocide in 1915, Mannig and her sister Adrine struggle to stay alive in what is now eastern Iraq. Mannig lives on the streets and trades camel dung for bread; her sister works as a servant for an Arab family. With the help of Barone Madiros, a wealthy philanthropist, Mannig...
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