Besides her fam­ily, Lacey Robinson’s only other love is base­ball. She’s on top of the world when Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity approaches her to dis­cuss a schol­ar­ship. To be the first girl ever to grace a col­lege boys’ team is beyond what she has ever dreamed.

Her fast­ball is impec­ca­ble, her curve­ball equally as good, and her slider anni­hi­lates any­one who dares to step in the batter’s box. But fate has its own way of throw­ing curve­balls. When she looses her mother and sis­ter to a home inva­sion, base­ball and her dreams die with them. Tragedy has a way of seep­ing deep into her psy­che, caus­ing night­mares, panic attacks and black­outs. Diag­nosed with Post Trau­matic Stress Dis­or­der, her psy­chi­a­trist rec­om­mends a change of scenery and pick­ing up the things that she loved to do, and for Lacey that is base­ball.

After a move clear across the coun­try, only two things mat­ter to Lacey—overcome her PTSD and make Kens­ing­ton High’s base­ball team. But try­ing out for the team comes with obstacles—the cap­tain, Aaron Seever, doesn’t want a girl on the team. 

Her life is fur­ther com­pli­cated when she meets Kade Maxwell, a tall, sexy and drool-worthy bad boy who has a mag­i­cal touch that awak­ens her fem­i­nine side and a kiss that slowly erases her night­mares. But get­ting involved with him may be dan­ger­ous when Kade’s arch­en­emy returns to town to set­tle a vendetta. 

To com­pli­cate mat­ters, her PTSD has taken a turn for the worse. She has to find a way to heal oth­er­wise she may not have a chance at any­thing in life, espe­cially love.

This is a New Adult Novel and con­tains strong lan­guage and sex­ual con­tent. Intended for audi­ences age 17+

Catcher’s Keeper

JD Spero

What if Holden Caulfield was around when John Lennon was shot? In 1980 John Lennon was killed by Mark David Chap­man, who believed he was Holden Caulfield, nar­ra­tor of the clas­sic “The Catcher in the Rye.” After the shoot­ing, Chap­man remained on the scene calmly read­ing the book, which he later offered to police as his state­ment. “Catcher’s Keeper” asks the ques­tion, “What if Holden could have met Chap­man, learned of his plan, and tried to pre­vent the assassination?”

Look­ing for Jack Kerouac

Bar­bara Shoup

It wasn’t Duke Walczak’s fault that I took off for Florida, like Kathy thought. The truth is, we started get­ting side­ways with each other on our class trip to New York and Wash­ing­ton D.C. nearly a year earlier—which, look­ing back, is ironic since she was the one dead set on going.

From the author of Wish You Were Here andStranded in Har­mony(Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion Best Books for Young Adults), andVermeer’s Daugh­ter (a School Library Jour­nal Best Adult Book for Young Adults).

In 1964, Paul Car­petti dis­cov­ers Jack Kerouac’s On the Road while on a school trip to New York and begins to ques­tion the life he faces after high school. Then he meets a volatile, charis­matic Ker­ouac devo­tee deter­mined to hit the road him­self. When the boys learn that Ker­ouac is liv­ing in St. Peters­burg, Florida, they go look­ing for answers.

Bar­bara Shoup is the author of seven nov­els and the co-author of two books about the fic­tion craft. She is the recip­i­ent of numer­ous grants from the Indi­ana Arts Coun­cil, two cre­ative renewal grants from the Arts Coun­cil of Indi­anapo­lis, the 2006 PEN/Phyllis Nay­lor Work­ing Writer Fel­low­ship, and the 2012 Eugene and Mar­i­lyn Glick Regional Indi­ana Author Award. She was the writer-in-residence at Broad Rip­ple High School Cen­ter for the Human­i­ties and the Per­form­ing Arts in Indi­anapo­lis for twenty years. Cur­rently, she is the exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Indi­ana Writ­ers Center.

Quan­tum Spirit — Apocalypse

Sal­lie Haws