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The Wooden King is a powerful and timely novel about denial, desire, and family drama against the backdrop of WWII Czechoslovakia. For fans of The Women in the Castle and A Gentleman in Moscow.

It's 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent's self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie's fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband's bed, storing strange keepsakes in a mountain cavern. To Brodis, these are all the signs that Irenie-tiptoeing through the dark in her billowing white nightshirt-is practicing black magic. When Irenie slips back into bed with a kind of supernatural stealth, Brodis senses that a certain evil has entered his life, linked to the lady agent, or perhaps to other, more sinister forces. Working in the stylistic terrain of Amy Greene and Bonnie Jo Campbell, this mesmerizing debut by Julia Franks is the story of a woman intrigued by the possibility of change, escape, and reproductive choice-stalked by a Bible-haunted man who fears his government and stakes his integrity upon an older way of life. As Brodis chases his demons, he brings about a final act of violence that shakes the entire valley. In this spellbinding Southern story, Franks bares the myths and mysteries that modernity can't quite dispel.

Independent Publisher calls Rockin' a Hard Place "an essential read for music lovers." CelebrityAccess calls it "a splashy, starry memoir." Kirkus Reviews says the book is "a hard, sobering look at what it really takes to bring live music to the fans."John Jeter is a burnt-out journalist living in Florida when the younger brother who once saved his life with a donated kidney telephones with life-altering news: he¿s found the perfect spot in Greenville, South Carolina for the concert hall they¿ve always dreamed of opening¿a nearly abandoned cotton mill fluttering with pigeons ¿ and potential.Rockin¿ a Hard Place is the story of The Handlebar, an intimate ¿listening room¿ that has presented thousands of artists¿John Mayer, Joan Baez, Zac Brown, and Sugarland among them¿and hosted a quarter-million fans since its opening in 1994. A promoter¿s memoir, this is the story of a naïve plunge into an industry that Hunter S. Thompson once called a ¿cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free.¿With a wry and irreverent voice, Jeter describes the concert business from the bottom of its food chain, where one band¿s backstage demand includes ¿one hamster dressed like Indiana Jones, one dressed like a police officer,¿ where a landlord seeks to evict him over an ice machine, and where he is reduced to standing with a decibel meter in the dark behind his club.Singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor tells him at the grand opening: ¿Never book anyone just because yoüre a fan.¿ But for this cantankerous club owner, it¿s often Art before Commerce, financial risk be damned. After all, it¿s the small clubs¿where the likes of Springsteen, Jefferson Airplane and even The Beatles got their start¿where real music is made.