Our Books
Potters Mountain (2026) by Michael Hemenway
Witness to an explosion at a controversial pipeline, young Matt Garrison sees a shadowy figure fleeing the scene. Coerced by police to incriminate his science teacher, Matt faces criminal charges as a co-conspirator. Can he free himself of the allegation at the expense of the teacher's freedom or is there some other way? In the search for an answer, and with help from Dakota, stepdaughter of the pipeline’s owner, Matt uncovers the secret of Potters Mountain.
Chasing Windmills(2025) by Michael T. Hemenway
Instead of taking a gap year, disgruntled high school graduate Sam Harrison accepts an offer from his eccentric grandfather, Gus, to ride with him across the country on a pair of restored vintage BMW motorcycles to visit an old friend in California. While riding the vast stretches of open road, Sam decides to listen to a Don Quixote audio-book, as suggested by Dr. Fitz, the one teacher he had admired while in school. Meanwhile, Gus gradually reveals the details of a highly unusual criminal case he was involved in while a young prosecutor in New Mexico. As the two stories unfold, Sam begins to see similarities between the fictional knight errant of yesteryear who chased windmills and his grandfather, who chased corporate giants.
Jeannette: A mixtape chapbook by Futureman7 (2025) by Chad A. Hutchinson
Poems and stories
About rock and roll
And rocket ships. And jet streams.
And rainbows. And panthers.
And hummingbirds.
And the way it felt as a kid
Going to the arcade at the mall
Or wading through creeks
Looking for crayfish
And salamanders
An attempt to feel like that again.
A longing for a certain time or
place. A time or place that might
not have ever even actually
existed. Not a sadness though
really. A wistful nostalgia.
And an exploration on being
present.
A sort of Bildungsroman memoir
in mixtape chapbook form.
Is Barry Stange: A Transformative Journey (2026) by Bill Davis
Is Barry Strange follows a septuagenarian do-gooder compelled by his community to attend a transformational workshop. He makes friends and falls in love with a paralytic woman while contending with occasional visits to alternate realities. Is he expanding his consciousness or is he losing his mind?
In Beauty It Is Finished: Reflections on the Life and Work of Oliver La Farge(2020) by Proal Heartwell
In Beauty It Is Finished: Reflections on the Life and Work of Oliver La Farge is a hybrid biography of an American author best known for his novel Laughing Boy, winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A member of a prominent American family, La Farge's canon of 24 books is equally divided between fiction and nonfiction, and most of his work examines Native American life and culture. In Beauty It Is Finished is divided into four sections, each of which details La Farge's life in a specific locale: New England, New Orleans, New York, and New Mexico. The book also contains a Preface in which author Proal Heartwell examines the systemic racism of the Virginia of his youth. In particular, he looks at textbooks of the era and their depictions of Native American life. In the Afterword of the text, Mr. Heartwell explores works of contemporary Native American literature, and he compares the themes of these modern books with motifs found in La Farge's work.
The Boarding House: A Novel (2024) by Proal Heartwell
It is the summer of 1927 when freshly-minted college graduate Robert Martin moves to the small Southside Virginia town of Lawrenceville. There, he takes up residence in the boarding house operated by widow Louvenia Hicks with help from her teenage daughter, Laura. Over the course of the next year, Robert is emmeshed in the lives of the Hicks family and his fellow boarders, as well as those of the citizens—Black and white—of the broader community. With humor and pathos, The Boarding House explores the intricate fabric of life of an American town in the days just before the Great Depression.