Troy Book Makers: 22 books

My Memoir The Bijou Dream Theatre is about how I survived my childhood losses: the mental illness and alcoholism of my parents and our placement in a foster home. Along the way, a Quaker family takes us in and nurtures us for a while. I meet the love of my life and win a scholarship in voice to JUILLIARD....

Barstool Prophets is not just the coming-of-age story of a young writer working in a bar in New York’s East Village, but also the chronicle of an iconic neighborhood and its wild spectrum of characters. From a love-addled bartender to a suicidal doorman to the junkies in Tompkins Square Park, they...

Lester Doodle, an archetypal innocent American teenager, escapes from a mental institution in upstate New York and flees to Manhattan where he hopes to find personal freedom and liberation from his intense feelings of insecurity and loneliness. The narrative of his comic, perilous, and often deeply affecting...

As two wise-cracking friends (one firefighter and one paramedic), share the camaraderie of their life-saving work, they realize they have something else in common: Their vivid dreams make them witnesses to the clash of good and evil in beings that inhabited the Earth long ago. By chance—or is it fate?—they...

In his literary journalism, critic, novelist, and memoirist Robert J. Begiebing offers readers a rare view of American authors at transformative moments in their careers. Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, poets Sydney Lea and Wesley McNair, and novelists Merle Drown and Norman Mailer are among the authors...

Educated at Catholic schools, Richard Atnally went to graduate school at the University of Florida from 1962-6. He then went first as an Instructor and Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. After six years there he taught at three other private and public universities on the east coast for...

Cynthia Brok had it all: a rich husband, a home in Switzerland, a villa on a Greek island, purpose in life and a passionate lover...until someone killed her. Detectives Aliki Notis and Stephanos Arditis are sent to find Brok’s murderer in Kalini, a Greek island village, where white-washed houses sprawl...

A cloud of fear hovers over the village of Kalini. A beloved member of the small island community has been viciously murdered. Suspicion travels quickly from sea-side cafes to white-washed houses clustered on the hillsides. Detective Aliki Notis returns to Kalini and a challenging case. Who wanted to...