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Born and Raised
by Chris Ross

Coming in 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9816453-7-7
ISBN-10: 0-9816453-7-2
$16.95 US ($21.95 Canada)
224 pages
softcover

 

Sean Yokam fights not to come apart in his small southern Indiana town where hope and defeat stain both sides of the same coin.

Sean is the baby of the Yokam family, but he’s the only real grown-up in the bunch. The summer of ’84 delivers Sean the first chill of neglect: His mother has left. His father, Roy, and his older sister, Billie, try to fill the void—but they have demons of their own. Roy turns every success into a failure. He roams the used car lots, flips through the pages of International Male catalog, and chases whatever can be found at the local singles’ scene. Billie, squeaking her way through life in a Dodge Dynasty whose seats reek of Little Kings beer and suntan lotion, looks for salvation in scratch off-lottery tickets and the scratch-off people she hooks up with on her spontaneous months-long road trips.

Six years later, in the summer of ’90, Sean is a nineteen-year-old high school graduate and a reluctant trucker. He sets out on his own—not to escape, but to find a way back. Back to what or where, he’s not sure. Sean tries to do the right thing, tries to correct his family’s wrongs, but it seems hopeless. Shit in the one hand, wish in the other. Given this foundation, where can he go?

As Sean sifts through the two summers that have brought him to where he’s now stuck, he realizes that the bad things happening around him are just the choices people are forced to make to survive. It becomes painfully clear that love is blind—but only to those who aren’t looking
for it.

meet the author

Chris Ross

Chris Ross was raised along the muddy currents of the Wabash River in Indiana. He moved to New York in the hopes of seeing Bob Dylan crossing the street, any street. Fifteen years passed: no Dylan, only street, while the Wabash simmered away on the back burner of his mind like leftover chili that tastes better once it’s been reheated a couple of times. Born and Raised is his first novel.

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Little Lord Shiva and the Mob: Adventures with Lipbone Redding

by Lawrence “Lipbone” Redding

Travel essays, wacky memoirs, and musings from a most curious and charismatic musician.

Love, Ben

by Kelly Flint and Benjamin Eyrich

Through quotes and anecdotes, this charming gift book chronicles the extraordinary outlook, wisdom, and cheer of Benjamin Eyrich, who was diagnosed at age two with high-functioning autism.

Curiosity with a
Capital S

by Tonya Trimble

Tracy recalls her family’s move to a beautiful South Carolina island during World War II. She was always trying to keep her insatiably curious and adventurous big brother, Stan, from getting into trouble.