Posts Categorized: Historical

Bold Water By

Bold Water The only novel by the beloved, and influential, Millikin University English Department chairperson and professor Davida McCaslin, back in print for the first time in 70 years. It's the deeply-felt, intimate saga of Bold Water, a town on the Maine coast, and the turbulent, storm-tossed lives of the people who live there, all deeply rooted in the history and beauty of the land.

"A beautiful story of Maine. The book has color, excitement and reality." Decatur Daily Review

"Her writing is marked by a delicate quality," Decatur Herald & Review

Ride the Nightmare By

Ride the Nightmare Southerner Jake Perry is a successful, married comicbook artist living the good life in New York in the 1930s. But, bored and restless, he falls under the sway of Bellerophon Cawdor, a 'Bohemian love-cultist' in Greenwich Village, and the sadistic, erotic world he offered. Jake can't let go, pulling his dutiful high-society wife, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, into his tragic obsession with forbidden pleasures, trapping them both in a whirlpool that could destroy their lives.

Desire in the Deep South By

Desire in the Deep South Ward Greene's blistering third novel, once again set in his fictional Georgia town of Corinth, follows the booze-soaked loves, tragedies, and betrayals of people caught in the clash between old traditions and the new morality of the Jazz Age. It's a passionate conflict sparked by the return of local girl Eloise King after a decade away in New York...bringing with her the Bohemian ideals of Greenwich Village. The characters include an Italian bootlegger,  a sex-starved librarian, a philandering husband, a conniving actress attracted to married men, and the return of Cora Potts, the colorful heroine of Greene's first book.

Route 28 By

Route 28 A long-lost literary masterpiece that Damon Runyon called "a story of a curious American scene, packed around a drama with an astonishing climax. Read it if you want a thrill."

This is the raw story of a lonely New Jersey highway and the people who travel it: the New Yorkers escaping to their country homes, the hard-scrabble shopkeepers, farmers and their families who live in the small, drive-by communities along the asphalt, and finally the wanderers who live on wheels, eat and drink at roadhouses, and sleep where-ever they stop when night falls...and with anyone willing, warm and desperate enough to share their beds.

Cora Potts By

Cora Potts A long-lost literary classic...hailed by the Raleigh News & Observer as  "a powerful, arresting, unforgettable book"... back in print for the first time in 70 years.

Cora Potts was born "poor white trash" in a small town in the deep south. But she uses her beauty, cunning, ambition and pure ruthlessness to escape her destiny, to survive against adversity, and rise from poverty to wealth, in a uniquely American success story that's shocking in its raw, naked intensity.

Sense and Sensuality By

Sense and Sensuality A lost literary classic, back in print for the first time in 94 years!

The story of Richard and Laura, a young, sophisticated, upper middle class, married couple pushing the boundaries of morality in the 1920s London, enjoying the nightlife while leaving their children to be raised by their servants. Richard is a publisher and intellectual, while Laura enjoys the benefits of their unspoken "open marriage" to romance other men. But soon their infidelties, and the harsh, inescapable realities of their time, come crashing down on them, threatening to destroy their seemingly perfect lives.