The latest tomes from local authors:
A Life Twice Given
by David Daniel
Berwick Court Publishing Co.
“May God be with you. Whatever it takes, bring Joey back,” Rachel Jacobson told her husband, Joseph, after a horrific ATV accident at their summer house in Luray. Over a year later the Jacobsons met with a Czech man promising he could do just that—at a cost. Eight years after the birth of the first Joey, the Jacobsons had their second Joey, through cloning. Later in life, Joey faces collaboration with the CIA and the secrets of his existence. (August 2016)
Karma and the Art of Butter Chicken
by Monica Bhide
Bodes Well Publishing
Rescued by a monk as a child, raised in Delhi and having seen the pains of poverty firsthand, Eshaan goes on to bigger things with a fierce determination to stop hunger in his city. Through many endeavors to grow toward his mission, he is quickly shut down. Eshaan finds a chance by competing in a TV cooking show but again is potentially thwarted as past secrets bubble to the surface ready to put another halt to his dreams. (May 2016)