The Permanent Press: 217 books

A timely, suspenseful, and historically detailed novel about the nefarious dealings of people who profited from the Holocaust.

Ernest DeWalt has every right to feel reclusive. He can’t drink, he can’t make love, he has lost all faith in a world gone mad with violence and greed. Now that all his old coping mechanisms are denied him, DeWalt, a private investigator turned novelist, attempts to flee the corruption of both...

No one thought Jack Stone of Speakeasy, Virginia, was the kind of man who would try to solve his problems with a .38. But here he is, on a train to New York, armed and dangerously determined that somebody is going to read his damn novel. Jack once had dreams of bigger things, but here he is, a long-distance...

Jam is a passionate tale of money-hungry musicians, sleazy record companies, over-adoring fans, the majesty of jazz, and ultimately, a creative soul who is true to himself and to his art.

Lovesick Budge Moss, middle-aged author on the skids, sails his boat one way to Rock Hall on Chesapeake Bay, with only his cat for company—and then he sells the boat. His wife has left him, his home and possessions are gone, but he’s determined to reestablish his bearings and write a thinly disguised tale about this lonely passage in his life*.*

A poetry anthology by writers living and working on the South Fork of Long Island.

Who Dwelt by a Churchyard centers around an old man about to move, who—as he sits before a fireplace throwing ancient photographs upon the flames—recalls the major events in his life. It is a stunning, moving work, written with great economy, and yet so richly textured that it gives one a feeling...

Prayerfully Sinning is a novel in verse recounting the brief love affair of a lapsed Jesuit priest and an alcoholic coed. 

The fictional town of Georgetown, Alabama, is home to a sweeping cast of characters whose lives intertwine during a sweltering and languid summer. 

The Do-It-Yourself Psychotherapy**Book is based upon the two secret factors behind every successful psychotherapy. Using these ingredients, Dr. Martin Shepard presents an action-oriented program designed to help you feel better, achieve more, and maximize your potential for a full and rich life.

A humorous, bittersweet look into five days in the beleaguered life of a fifty-year-old middle management executive whose American dream life is crumbling around him.

Lost and Found is a story of the struggle to survive and transcend murder, secrets, and abandonment. It is the story of a family captured by its own bloody history, and ultimately a triumphant tale of Babette’s step-by-step passage from an ill-starred and dark destiny to selfhood, freedom, and a transported life.

Piper, the adopted teenage daughter of Kathryn and Tom Scanlon, refuses to believe that her mother’s gruesome death was a freak accident—especially once another sordid story featuring a shared suspect comes to light.

New York, the 1970s: Frannie D’Amato, activist, young artist, and unashamed truth teller, wants to awaken her disabled mother, Vera, from her 1950s housewife slumber and rescue her from physical neglect; to call to account Anthony, her arrogant physician father; and to convince indifferent onlookers about the urgency of her struggle and, if possible, to save her own neck.