Montemayor Press: 6 books

Fourteen-year-old Melisandre Rossi lives in New York City with her mother. Meli, a self-identified weird teenager, far prefers exploring the museum to attending classes at her upscale private academy. Increasingly bored, she convinces her mother to let her transfer to an alternative public high school,...

By the time the colonists landed on the planet with two suns, they had already divided into the rulers and the ruled. When the new world failed to provide sufficient food, this division erupted into civil war. Some people fled to the desert, others stayed on the coast and built a city from the hulks...

In most organizations, you won’t be perceived as a leader unless you’re perceived as a strong, compelling communicator. But here’s the rub: the history of public speaking has been dominated by men. Does this mean that for women to be successful, they must lead—and speak—like men? Edith Poor...

Seething with rage toward what he considers the sinful modern world, a survivalist named Cliff retreats to an uninhabited valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He has outfitted a 1930’s-era miner’s shack at timberline and has stocked it with food, equipment, and weapons. In this aerie Cliff awaits...

A real village called Slawotich existed long ago. Now Steven Sher brings this shtetl back to life in five eloquent stories in which the mystical infuses every day.In the guise of a giant, Greed comes to Slawotich and menaces the villagers. A seller of mystical books inadvertently leaves plagues...

Marilyn Levy’s extraordinary novel Chicago: August 28, 1968 relates what a dozen ordinary Americans experience on a single day during the Democratic National Convention and the riots outside in Grant Park. Viewed through the eyes of Levy’s varied characters—among them a teenager, a cop, an artist,...