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  • The Mercury Fountain

    A Novel

    by Eliza Factor ...
    In an idealistic utopian community in the early twentieth-century West, a father and daughter engage in a battle of wills: "Transcendent." —Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken AngelsSet in a remote stretch of desert near the border of West Texas and Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century, this story follows the pursuits of Owen Scraperton as he struggles to establish Pristina, a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Maps

    A Novel

    by Eliza Factor ...
    "The truest kind of story: about the inconvenience of love, and the choices people make when they're most afraid" (Amanda Stern, author of Little Panic).Sarah Marker, an artist who ekes out a living teaching at a fancy Connecticut high school, hasn't seen her husband in seven years. But now she's received a letter from Philip, and he wants to visit. The two never formally cut ties; they simply ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strange Beauty

    A Portrait of My Son

    by Eliza Factor ...
    A unique and hopeful story of how one woman and her family were transformed by her child's multiple disabilities and inability to talk and how she, in turn, transformed a community.This intimate, no-holds barred memoir shares one family's experiences with a child who is both autistic and physically disabled. It is a story of infectious laughter, blood on the floor, intense physical conflict, and ... Read more

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  • The Mercury Fountain

    by Eliza Factor ...
    Eliza Factor’s first novel, The Mercury Fountain, explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people. Though the action takes place between 1900 and 1923, the resonance feel alarmingly contemporary. . . Factor counters convention with a sharp sense of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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