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Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for 2019, and Finalist in the 2019 NGIBA, “the Sundance Film Festival of the publishing world.” 1995: Having grown up in America during the Cold War, young Peter Turner’s idealism has led him to study Russian. Brilliant and driven, he dreams of building bridges between the decaying Russian system and Western ideals. When the opportunity for a university exchange in Nizhny Novgorod falls in his path, Peter jumps at the chance to go and help build the new Russia. American businessman Del Sanning has also set up shop in Nizhny. A real cowboy ...

The vagabond is dead, killed by the global tourist! Inspired by The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Vagabond is an indictment of mass tourism and tourists in the post-modern world that is erroneously seeking to create connection and belonging through conformity and consumption – on a global scale. Set in modern day Rome, Bob, a tourist from the USA, has a fateful encounter with a hedonistic vagabond who triggers Bob’s own unconscious insecurities around his own unexamined and unremarkable life. Deluded by his own false sense of superiority and entitlement, Bob is controlled by his own ...

A chef of unprecedented imagination is discovered. How will he fare under public scrutiny? Chef Maurice Le Coq is found dead in his burned-out brasserie in France. The police are calling it a ‘tragic accident’ but the villagers of Les Andelys speculate that the fire was set intentionally. There is only one man who knows the whole truth. The latest battleground in France’s ongoing “guerres de cuisines”, The Plucked Hen is discovered by the country’s foremost restaurant critic, but Chef Le Coq remains a secretive figure who refuses to step into the spotlight, spurning the critics ...

He is a helpless romantic but unlucky in love. She is a rising star with a golden voice. Fate will bring them together in surprising ways. Life’s cruelty is about to drive the postman, Afonso Riqués, to despair. On the verge of losing the only job and home he has ever known, he grabs Fate’s outstretched hand for his last chance to save his job and home, and finally find the love he has been longing for. Inspired by the melancholic poetry and sweet sadness in Lisbon's traditional music, Fate and Longing in Lisbon will carry you away to Portugal’s colorful streets and cozy taverns, ...

When Jaap de Hollander comes nose to nose with his childhood fears, who will blink first– him or the witch? Haunted by the local witch, the boys of the Dutch seaside town of Drontenburg are running scared, desperate to avoid the spells that she casts on their preparations for adventure, and their dreams of leaving the low tides of Drontenburg behind. Will the witch’s prediction of a watery grave deter Jaap and the boys as they prepare to take to the open sea? (Note: This story is included in the short anthology Armchair Travel: Cultural Fiction for the Restless Wanderer, also available ...