Float Street Press: 17 books

Things go wrong in the Wild West Set shortly before the American Civil War, dancing between magic and realism, this historical western follows the trail of two buddies who once shared the joys of childhood in an Irish orphanage. After escaping to America and settling into a satisfying life as Texas...

The magnetic pull of your opposites can provide an unfathomable attraction. To put it simply -- you know better. Still, that attraction is as powerful as the lure of the dark and giving in to it is as exciting as it is disruptive. 

A story told in a bar triggers a strange response A writer backpacking in Asia finds a quiet place guest house and settles in to write a story about a real criminal on the run. But telling a story about an event that took place halfway around the world provokes a curious reaction right in the here and now.

Never before published images of Cambodia seen through lens and mind. As for the suitcase, it has no pretension, no markings, no grandeur as is right for such a vessel. Yet it has carried within a world of worlds forgotten and promised. Its past cannot be comprehended, its future contemplated....

Fun with poetry: A fictional review of a fictional long poem by a fictional poet, and the romantic tale of how the search to find the cause of potato bruising led an academic to find love and a new life in the potato patch.

**Human trafficking is the third largest criminal activity in the world. ** It is a form of human slavery which includes forced labor, domestic servitude, and commercial sex trafficking. This does not just happen in other countries. It's going on right here. The number of cases has doubled...

Getting away from it all is hard, and when your business is trouble... it's everywhere. Even leaving the city, getting away from the crime, the craziness, to go fishing doesn't always work out the way you plan. Especially when you go to see an old pal and walk into a murder. Especially when the victim worked for your pal and he wants to call in a favor--having you solve the crime.

The origins of a modern Flying Dutchman, trying to sail round the world, his adventure interrupted by his own success as a businessman. He learns that following your dreams isn't as easy as you'd like, and even when you do, dreams can be a tricky things. Beautifully illustrated with photos by Tom Tsui.

"A man oughta be able to walk home drunk without some damn fool running him off the road, you know." The hub of life in the islands is the local rum shop and though living in the Windward Islands in the Caribbean might be a little different than other places, maybe move at a slower place, the...

All she needs is an author! Stephanie Masters has exactly what she needs to make her mark in publishing as an editor. She has found a writer who has written a great book and is writing more. But he is a recluse and there is no way he can promote his book--she needs an author, a charismatic...

Motels dot the highways of America, providing a range of services and prices. We use them. Thousands of us use them for a place to rest, for meetings and assignations, and even, at times, to act out life's dramas. They are souless places, almost perfect for the tragic endings that sometimes seem to take on their own power and strength, playing out no matter what we truly want.

Paradise can be treacherous, especially on the sea. The lives of a rasta and his girlfriend going fishing in a borrowed boat, and a couple traveling the islands on their sailboat have little enough in common, but when things go wrong they share the life-threatening challenge of the sea.

When Amanda Murphy accepted the command of a new spaceship that would test Earth’s revolutionary new propulsion system, she didn’t bother to ask why she was selected over the dozens of veterans with more rank and seniority. Until, that is, she learned that her new command would be totally under...

Proton, protector of the innocent and oppressed, roams the world of Chem fighting evil and injustice. But if she can't escape the ambush she has wandered into, all life on Chem will be in peril. An adult story for those who appreciate chemistry and dedicated to adult chemists everywhere who have a sense of humor about their profession.