A Little About Us
Alternative Book Press publishes quality fiction and nonfiction that strives to expand the mind and speak to the diverse spectrum of human experience. An alternative to traditional publishing in both process and content, the press’s main goal is to champion new writers, different cultures and backgrounds, and work of intellectual and literary merit. More about Alternative Book Press…
Featured Fiction
Mercy Dogs
In Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, Donny grows up with his best friend, Vito, amidst the chaos of drug addicts, punks, and destitute misfits. To make sense of the world around him, he rewrites narratives of history into a mix of humorous and solemn dreamscapes… Read More
Social Distancing
That question haunts Fred Traubert, a disillusioned former professor of Germanic languages. Fred has relocated to a small town in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan… Read More
Life, Death, and Everything Else
The war and hatred between the Fae and the humans cost both sides everything. When the great war ended, the Fae were believed extinct, but their offspring lived on… Read More
Delightmares
It’s 1994. Kurt Cobain has just died. Nineteen-year-old poet and ex-carnie Martin Hemlock has moved to Nashville, where he quickly befriends His Assholiness Pope Jas and… Read More
The Caducean Choice: A Medical Thriller
Dan Marchetti hopes that he’s put his false accusations of murder behind him, and that he can live the rest of his life as a highly-regarded physician. His dreams may be coming true when… Read More
The Circle Game
Told through the verging, alternating viewpoints of two broken women in two different eras, The Circle Game is at once a thoughtful commentary on female agency, racial bias, and domestic abuse, …
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Montjoy
Montjoy is a book for the moment, a bold work of fiction about the truth that dies and the lies that live on. When a Nazi diary is found at the Mauthausen Memorial in Austria, it’s entrusted to a Jewish professor in England…
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Verlie and Olive: A Novella
Verlie Sue Martin, an attractive fifteen-year-old girl, is exceptional. She has a gift for making animals—or people—disappear, an ability that manifested after she was baptized in the local Pentecostal Church… Read More
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Featured Non-Fiction
Abuelo: A Memoir
Who are we? Are we individuals shaped by our own sense of desire, or are we an amalgamation of our influences, …
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Welcome Home: A Memoir
Welcome Home chronicles the true life events and episodes of one man’s experiences from his native land, to this incredible country…
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Daughter’s Exchange: a vernacular performance“Daughter’s Exchange explores the way that African American women intellectuals still struggle like Zora Neale Hurston to find room…
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