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Genre

Contemporary Fiction

Present-day lives, families, work and community.

Seven Days to Goodbye

Sheri S. Levy · 2014 · Trina Ryan novels #1

Trina has one beach week left with Sydney, the service puppy she has raised, while her friendship with her best friend wobbles. The first Trina Ryan novel, published by Barking Rain Press in 2014 and aimed by its author at readers in grades four to eight.

Slip Sliding Away

Sean Mulcahy · 2014

Published by Barking Rain Press in March 2014, Sean Mulcahy's first book follows Michael Reilly, a jobless, indebted college graduate living with his father and stepmother, as his brother's redeployment to Iraq pulls him toward a reckoning.

The Revolving Year

Vanessa Furse Jackson · 2013

In Devonshire in 1999, 35-year-old Imogen Hearne faces her sister's cancer diagnosis and the loss of her rented cottage, then falls in love with her niece's fiancé. The author's first novel, published by Barking Rain Press in 2013.

The Scarred Letter

Val Muller · 2014

After Heather Primm exposes steroid use on her school's football team, she is attacked, a 'T' is carved into her face and she becomes an outcast. Val Muller's young adult update of The Scarlet Letter was published by Barking Rain Press in 2014.