FICTION & POETRY
A powerful historical novel about the ILWU in 1980 refusing to load weapons bound for the military dictatorship in El Salvador. Written by a San Francisco union officer who helped lead the campaign.
There's never been a more timely story than this one, showing workers standing up for justice and putting their jobs on the line.
There's never been a more timely story than this one, showing workers standing up for justice and putting their jobs on the line.
Paperback $17.00
When a dockworker falls to his death under strange circumstances, investigative journalist David Gomes is on the case. His dogged pursuit of the truth puts his life in danger and upends the scrappy Cape Cod newspaper he works for.
Spend a season on the Cape with this gripping, provocative tale that delves into the complicated relationships between Cape Verdean Americans and African Americans, Portuguese fascist gangs, and abusive shipyard working conditions. “Bill Fletcher is a truth seeker and a truth teller – even when he’s writing fiction. Not unlike Bill, his character David Gomes is willing to put his life and career in peril to expose the truth. A thrilling read!” − Tavis Smiley, Broadcaster & NY TIMES Bestselling Author |
A sniper’s bullet shocks the sleepy Cape Cod village of Osterville. As young reporter David Gomes covers the story, the murder investigation becomes personal when Gomes, a Cape Verdean American, encounters the smoldering racial antago-nism between the descendants of Cape Verde and African-Americans, and the deep-seated hatred toward people of color among some members of the white community.
“Bill Fletcher pulls together history and mystery to create an exciting and compelling story of race and revenge. It is truly an unexpected page turner.” ~Danny Glover "Bent on relieving the suffering of one family, he [Gomes] ends up finding the truth is more complicated, the villain a victim, too, of a bigger cruelty and devastation that stretched through the generations." ~Walter Mosley |
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Man Who Fell From the Sky Hardcover $28.00
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Lenny Moss - The Shop Steward Detective
In this exhilarating 9-book mystery series, militant union steward Lenny Moss organizes the workers to fight against cutbacks and, attacks on the union while solving a murder mystery, freeing an innocent worker accused of the crime. Check out all nine novels here.
"Things get off to a macabre start ...when a student at a Philadelphia teaching hospital identifies the cadaver she is dissecting in anatomy class as a medical resident she once slept with. Although hospital administrators are relieved when a troublesome laundry worker is charged with the murder, outraged staff members go to their union representative, a scrappy custodian named Lenny Moss, and ask him to fi nd the real killer. Since there’s no merit to the case against the laundry worker to begin with, Lenny is just wasting his time. But Sheard, a veteran nurse, makes sure that readers do not waste theirs. His intimate view of Lenny’s world is a gentle eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a working man's perspective .” Marilyn Stasio, New York Times
In this exhilarating 9-book mystery series, militant union steward Lenny Moss organizes the workers to fight against cutbacks and, attacks on the union while solving a murder mystery, freeing an innocent worker accused of the crime. Check out all nine novels here.
"Things get off to a macabre start ...when a student at a Philadelphia teaching hospital identifies the cadaver she is dissecting in anatomy class as a medical resident she once slept with. Although hospital administrators are relieved when a troublesome laundry worker is charged with the murder, outraged staff members go to their union representative, a scrappy custodian named Lenny Moss, and ask him to fi nd the real killer. Since there’s no merit to the case against the laundry worker to begin with, Lenny is just wasting his time. But Sheard, a veteran nurse, makes sure that readers do not waste theirs. His intimate view of Lenny’s world is a gentle eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a working man's perspective .” Marilyn Stasio, New York Times
Price $17.00
"So much fiction is about escape and fantasy, but these powerful Tales of Struggle will enrich our real and daily lives." ─ Gloria Steinem
“What a wonderful story of class, class struggle and regular people. The story is about struggle and change, but also about joy and humor. Great work! ─ Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided
“Great storytelling about standing up to injustice, filled with hope and powered by love and human interdependence. ” – Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
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Catherine Campbell is a union organizer. Nate is an accountant working for a company planning a hostile takeover of Pac-Shoppe, the company Catherine is organizing. It's a love story.
"An awesome read with fascinating twists and turns featuring the unlikeliest of romantic interests further demonstrating that love and relationships can develop under any conditions. All you need is a heart and a little solidarity! Highly Recommended! ~PhillyLabor.com
“A truly gripping, impressive fast-paced, and compelling love story emerging from a fierce contested labor union vs. company battle for supremacy. The stuff of which Oscar-winning movies are made. --Midwest Book Review
Listen to an audio reading sample about a militant protest outside the company that draws the police, click here
"An awesome read with fascinating twists and turns featuring the unlikeliest of romantic interests further demonstrating that love and relationships can develop under any conditions. All you need is a heart and a little solidarity! Highly Recommended! ~PhillyLabor.com
“A truly gripping, impressive fast-paced, and compelling love story emerging from a fierce contested labor union vs. company battle for supremacy. The stuff of which Oscar-winning movies are made. --Midwest Book Review
Listen to an audio reading sample about a militant protest outside the company that draws the police, click here
Paperback $17.00
"...an intelligent pick for readers who are looking for stories depicting enslaved, fugitive, and free black people as change agents for their liberation during slavery in the African diaspora.” ~Donald Peebles, School Library Journal Review
Freedom Soldiers, a new young adult novel, brings alive the turbulent and prophetic experiences of two young people freed from slavery who vow to destroy the hated system. Their story reveals the leadership and courage of self-liberated and enslaved black men and women who secretly worked to bring enslaved people to freedom and abolish slavery forever. A novel for young adults and older readers.
"I've never read anything like it. So much I didn't know. So much history not taught in schools...Freedom Soldiers fights back with the power of reality and facts woven into a powerful story of bravery and young love." ~Sue Doro, Pride & a Paycheck
Freedom Soldiers, a new young adult novel, brings alive the turbulent and prophetic experiences of two young people freed from slavery who vow to destroy the hated system. Their story reveals the leadership and courage of self-liberated and enslaved black men and women who secretly worked to bring enslaved people to freedom and abolish slavery forever. A novel for young adults and older readers.
"I've never read anything like it. So much I didn't know. So much history not taught in schools...Freedom Soldiers fights back with the power of reality and facts woven into a powerful story of bravery and young love." ~Sue Doro, Pride & a Paycheck
Paperback $17.00
Hardcover $25.00
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SIXTEEN TONS
Sixteen Tons takes the reader down into the dangerous coal mines of the early 1900s, as Italian immigrant Antonio Vacca and his sons encounter cave-ins and fires deep below the earth's surface. Above ground, the fiery women join their husbands to battle gun thugs and corrupt sheriffs at Virden, Matewan and Ludlow in an epic struggle to form a union and make the mines a safer place to work. An epic novel in the tradition of The Grapes of Wrath $17.00.
"...a sobering reminder of the struggle for workers’ rights in America. A book that should be read and enjoyed by a large audience..." ILLINOIS TIMES For reviews and more, click here... |
THROW OUT THE WATER
Coal mine wars. The long, bloody conflict between the competing mine unions that tore apart communities in Central Illinois during the 1930s. Hot-headed Vinnie Vacca sides with the newly-formed, radical Progressive Miners of America. His stubborn brother Bullo fights for the established United Mine Workers, while the coal mine bosses hire Chicago gun thugs from the Capone mob to spread death and fear across the landscape. Antonio Vacca struggles to make peace within the family--and the community--as the bombings and gunfights kill too many too young. Based on actual events that occurred throughout Illinois from 1933 to 1937. $17.00
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A book of poetry and art to heal America's wounded heart. Poems that call to our better angels while condemning bigotry.
Art work that resonates with hope and love. This is a book for the moment. Give a copy to someone who is hurting or who has lost hope. Give one to yourself and your family. Stewart Acuff is a lifelong peace and social justice activist. Mitch Klein is an artist dedicated to the struggle for fairness, justice, freedom, and compassion in the world and tries to live that way. |
Peter Davies, an emotionally damaged young man, goes in search of the woman he loves, only to come face to face with the Black Pearl, the notorious madam of a sex trafficking ring, in this unflinching look at the sex industry and the harrowing journey of a man searching for love in the worst of all places. $17.00
"...a gripping, breath-taking story of the invisible crime of sex trafficking in New York City ... People who come to New York must read “In Hiding” to wisen up. The Big Apple could be poisonous." OSM! The Magazine for Global Citizens “Sheard weaves a complicated personality and difficult childhood background in and out of the novel so the reader gets to know Pete as the real hero he is. Lenny Moss would be pleased to have him as a friend!” - Pride and a Paycheck |
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IN HIDING by Timothy Sheard
LOVE DIES by Timothy Sheard
A professional killer haunting the divorce courts offers the spouse with the weakest morals and the most to lose a simple proposition: hire me to fake an accidental death for your mate and your troubles will be over. It’s a perfect profitable business plan, with one little problem.
The killer doesn’t realize that the New York City Department of Health keeps death statistics. And Doctor Nicholas Andreas, who reads the obituaries, becomes curious when he notes several accidental deaths among high profile divorcees. Dr. Andreas investigates with the help of a police detective on medical disability for World Trade Center lung disease. Their search leads them into a dangerous cat and mouse game with the killer, who is not about to let a nosy physician wreck his business. Will the good doctor become yet another death statistic? Find out in the exciting new crime novel . $17.00 Harriet Klausner, MYSTERY GAZETTE: “This is an exciting thriller starring an intriguing doctor, an ailing first responder and a for hire mercenary killer…with an amusing lampooning of the book publishing industry to lighten the dark story line of what happens when literally Love Dies.” Eleanor Bader, Brooklyn Examiner: "By turns creepy and compassionate, this well-plotted summer release is entertaining, eerie, and unsettling.”
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MURDER OF A POST OFFICE MANAGER
How far can you push a man before he explodes? Postal worker-union steward Paul Farley has battled his sadistic manager for years. Sometimes he wins a grievance; too often he loses. Paul watches as Manager James Newton uses his power to destroy the lives of workers at The Plant. So when Newton is brutally gunned down outside the facility, it’s not a surprise when the police arrest the beleaguered union steward whose patience had worn out from losing so many battles with his cruel boss.
Is Paul Farley guilty of the crime? Or is he an innocent man facing a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit? Find out in this intriguing mystery and courtroom drama by veteran union steward Paul Felton. $17.00
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WOMAN MISSING by Linda Nordquist
Fearless steelworker Ginny Johnson was fighting to stop the steel mill from closing when she disappeared on the midnight shift at the plant. She’d accused the local union leadership of selling out the rank and file, while threatening to disrupt the steel company’s plans to shut down more mills across the country. No one investigated Ginny’s disappearance.
Twenty years later, Ginny’s daughter Cory returns to her mill town home, where she finds old friends of her mother who want to help her discover what happened, and old enemies who want to keep the past dead and buried. Her quest puts Cory in the same danger her mother faced. Will she, too, end up one of the missing? By former steelworker Linda Nordquist.
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Twenty years later, Ginny’s daughter Cory returns to her mill town home, where she finds old friends of her mother who want to help her discover what happened, and old enemies who want to keep the past dead and buried. Her quest puts Cory in the same danger her mother faced. Will she, too, end up one of the missing? By former steelworker Linda Nordquist.
$17.00