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  • Testing the Limits

    by Kate Lance
    1930s England: and for a group of friends it seems as if the sunny days of sailing, flying and love will never end. A deepwater sailing ship takes restless young Eliza McKee to a new life in glamorous London, but when she meets the handsome star of a talking film it's not quite the life she expects. Eliza's brother Pete yearns to fly, and pilot Billie Quinn can teach him. Pete calls her a sarcastic, scowling Amelia Earhart, but it's Billie who knows how much Pete has to learn. Eliza's aunt, actr... more

  • Diary of a Lacemaker

    by Sukey Hughes
    In 1749 feisty Saskia Klaassens sails from her abusive home in the Netherlands to work as nursemaid in Africa's Cape of Good Hope. At the wine estate, she is appalled by the slaves' lives even as love slowly burns for one, the stable master Titus. She struggles with the arrogant whims of her employers, all the while making lace and viewing life through its prism. When secret intrigues come to light, a storm of fear sweeps through the estate, and Saskia must decide where her loyalties lie - with ... more

  • A Merry Life Book 1, Pirates of New Earth

    by Sarah Branson

    Series Synopsis:

    Pirates of New Earth

    Kat Wallace is on a mission. After escaping tortuous enslavement and arriving in the pirate nation of Bosch, she sets her sights on ending the human trafficking that has flourished in 24th century Earth. As she moves to complete her mission, she finds friends, allies, and lovers. But her enslaver is on a mission as well: He wants her back and will stop at nothing to possess her.

    Book 1 synopsis:

    A Merry Lif... more

  • Les Beaux Chateaux

    by Dorothy Mackevich Marks
    A father and son, duty bound by business, live continents apart. Will their legacy keep them together, or are they destined to drift? Father and son Victor and JP were never close, the distance between them only widening after the death of Frida, JP’s mother and Victor’s wife. Though they now run Les Beaux Châteaux together, they do it from separate continents. Victor lives in France and finds beautiful historical pieces with a classic French aesthetic. JP runs their New York storefront, sell... more

  • Letter From a Fictitious Person

    by Leo Cohen
    Charlie Kenway and Frank Duckworth spent their first two years together in the same babysitter's crib, and then grew up, first next door to each other and then in the same trailer in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although not brothers in blood, it was the only connection they were missing. Then fate in the form of bad luck deprives them of their father, and not much later, of their mother, spinning their life lines in completely opposite directions. It's the 1960's and Charlie Kenway ends up anonymo... more

  • In Freedom's Light

    by Sharon Gloger Friedman
    A Sweeping Saga of Faith, Friendship, and the Enduring Bonds of Family It is 1785 and enforcers of the Spanish Inquisition are still hunting down and torturing conversos—Jews who outwardly converted to Christianity, but who practiced their Judaism in secret. When nineteen-year-old converso Anica Amselem refuses a cut of pork in Valencia’s marketplace, she and her husband Efren come under the suspicion of the Church as secret Jews, endangering their lives and that of their infant daughter Isabel... more

  • Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park

    by Cecelia Tichi
    In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val DeVere learns a third young woman’s strangled body has been found nearby in New York’s Central Park. The victim could be someone like Val’s late mother—or her—for the Valentine Mackle DeVere is one generation from the Irish immigrants who now risk their lives toiling in the city that promised a better life. Heartsick, Val joins her well-connected husband, Roddy (Roderick Windham DeVere), to press the mayor for action, but scandal-... more

  • A Fatal Gilded High Note

    by Cecelia Tichi
    New York’s “Diamond Horseshoe” balcony in the Metropolitan Opera House glittered with ladies’ jewels in January 1899, and Society seated in private boxes heard Mozart’s murder victim sing his song of death—unaware that the sudden death of a “Coal King” in Box 18 will be ruled a homicide. When opera-goers Val and Roddy DeVere are asked to investigate (“on the q.t.”), Val finds herself suspected of complicity in the murder. The police have “material evidence” against her. Before a jury, Val’... more

  • Ganesh volume -1

    by Anusha HS
    Lord Ganesh is the son of Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva. He is the first one to get worshipped before worshipping any other god. We can say in short that there is no Hindu who doesn't perform Lord Ganesh’s worship. In Ramayana Lord Rama had worshipped Lord Ganesh. In Mahabharata Lord Krishna had also worshipped Lord Ganesh. They have become the role models to the whole world. Before the beginning of any work it is common to worship Lord Ganesh. There are many Holy hymns on Lord Ganesh. Lord Ga... more

  • Tom Sawyer Returns

    by E.E. Burke
    In August, 1864, the once-peaceful river town where Becky Thatcher grew up is a hotbed for sedition. When suspicion falls on her upright father, the judge, the last man she needs help from is one she can't trust. Former beau Tom Sawyer has shown up unexpectedly, injured and missing critical memories. He offers to help vindicate her father, but his involvement further entangles Becky in a web of intrigue involving her disloyal cousin, Tom’s relentless brother, and a childhood friend who offers he... more

  • Voices Beckon

    by Linda Lee Graham

    Set in late 18th-century Philadelphia, Voices Beckon spans seven years in the lives of three young Britons who cross the Atlantic in search of a new beginning. David, a Scot indentured for the next six years to a Philadelphia printer, and Elisabeth, a young English girl with class-conscious, widowed father, fall in love on the journey. Liam, an orphaned Scot with a checkered past, forms a fast friendship with them both.

    Rich in historical detail, the story chronicles their comi... more

  • Pigs in Paradise, a fairy story most absurd

    by Roger Maxson
    When Blaise gives birth to Lizzy, the “red calf” on an Israeli farm, the masses flock en masse to witness the miracle birth that will usher the end of the world and the arrival of the Messiah, or his return, depending on which camp, Christian or Jew. When the promise of the end comes to an end, the red calf blemished, and no longer worthy of blood-letting sacrifice, the faithful the world over are crestfallen. By this time, two evangelical ministers, as representatives of a megachurch in America... more

  • The Magus and The Fool

    by Akiva Hersh
    Carry Iverson needs a change of pace from his predictable life in Ohio. He takes a position with a social justice firm in Austin and rents a cottage on Lake Travis. At a bewildering dinner with his cousin, Donovan, his wife, Fallon, and an alluring transgender man, Levi, Carry discovers his neighbor is a wealthy and mysterious man who has everyone talking. Carry’s curiosity turns into attraction after meeting the flirtatious Jacobi at one of his parties. But Jacobi has a secret desire of his... more

  • Bone Necklace

    by Julia Sullivan
    Bone Necklace tells the story of America's last "Indian war." In the summer of 1877, a bedraggled band of Nez Perce evade four converging armies before finally escaping to Canada. Other books have been written about the 500+ Nez Perce who were captured or killed in the war. This book focuses on the triumph of the nearly 300 who escaped.

  • Dead Horse Bay

    by John Dyson
    In Dead Horse Bay, John Dyson’s novel, three unlikely characters plan to stop the goose roundup at New York’s, Kennedy Airport. The geese lives are in danger because a goose has collided with an airplane at New York’s, La Guardia Airport and all geese living within a 7-mile radius of La Guardia Airport are to be killed.

  • The Moon Food Cafe

    by William Hageman
    It's the early eighties and OLNEY GARKLE has returned to California after several years of itinerant travel in Europe and Asia, culminating in a failed love affair in Paris. His immediate goal is to put an end to his life of hedonism-on-a-shoestring by getting a job. With modest bills in the mailbox of a modest apartment he can then begin the book that he hopes will give vent to his greatest outrage: the triumph of politics over people, and resolve his greatest conflict: the battle between lu... more
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