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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

Men of Khyber

by Om Soni

Jawar Dil is the influential and charismatic leader of a powerful Hindu clan in Khyber. His skill in maintaining peace and harmony between many different factions and amidst the complex relationships that abound in the region are legendary, but after the death of his beloved wife he decides to retreat from public life and live as a spiritual recluse in Jalalabad. \tWith the clan now left dependent on Jawar’s untested son, Jai, it isn’t long before radical elements emerge to take advantage. En... more

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by Jean Rover

Something's amiss in Oregon's backcountry. A teacher spots a scruffy stranger loitering near the Forest Lake grade school, and there's a young boy missing in a neighboring county. Then eight-year-old Cody Benson, on an outing with his grandfather in the Big Bat Wilderness area, vanishes. Ken Blake, the deputy sheriff coordinating the search for Cody thinks he wandered off and froze to death. Cally Benson, Cody's mother, and eventually, the townsfolk are convinced a registered sex offender, livin... more

White Birch

by Paul Edmund Lessard

White Birch by Paul Edmund Lessard is a darkly humorous novel about the trappings of generational wealth and the human cost of ambition. The White Birch Hotel in the city of Tuffty Town teems with poorly kept secrets: detectives tapping lobby phones for news of banished royals; nervous lovers hiding traces of their trysts from prying eyes; captains of finance hatching plans in the thick haze of the smoking bar. We find among this clamour Henry Huvvy: bon vivant, boulevardier, and mainstay ... more

Sex Business Tokyo

by Alta Eva Bourne

This is the story of an Australian dancer named Angela, who travels to Tokyo seeking work in cabaret. Angela's story is set in the 1980s. It portrays the slow seduction of the naïve girl, who willingly enters her own concept of sex business amidst the busy nightlife of Tokyo's entertainment centres. It is the story of sex, money, men and the voice within Angela, who becomes the most significant identity in her journey seeking fame through prostitution. Angela is cheated, betrayed, and then be... more

Rebel's Knot

by Cryssa Bazos

Ireland 1652: In the desperate, final days of the English invasion . . . A fey young woman, Áine Callaghan, is the sole survivor of an attack by English marauders. When Irish soldier Niall O'Coneill discovers his own kin slaughtered in the same massacre, he vows to hunt down the men responsible. He takes Áine under his protection and together they reach the safety of an encampment held by the Irish forces in Tipperary. Hardly a safe haven, the camp is rife with danger and intrigue. Áine is a s... more

The Heretics' Revenge - ISBN 9798643973560 - ASIN B082FZ9F6N

by Martin Barrett

Steve Jackson's search for the Cathar treasure and relic results in one of the greatest finds ever and provides a huge dilemma for the Vatican.

A Death in the Family

by Mark Pifher

Tom O’Brien, a journalist, has lost his wife, Laura, to cancer. Katie, his college aged daughter, and Katie’s brother no longer have a mother. In their attempt to mend a strained relationship, father and daughter agree to jointly write a journal, the content of which will focus on their investigation into the brutal murder of a Senate staffer. Their efforts will trigger a chain of events, some planned, others seemingly totally fortuitous. Before they can take the next step in rebuilding thei... more

The Bequest

by B. E. Baker

Two widows, six kiddos, and a will that leaves them a massive cattle ranch, but only if they work it for a year.

Abigail and Amanda may have married brothers, but they have almost nothing else in common (and really, they never did get along very well). After their husbands both pass away within a year of one another, they have no reason to interact. Their connection drops to an awkward phone call on birthdays and an exchange of holiday cards.

Until an eccentric u... more

The Reversible Mask" An Elizabethan Spy Novel

by Loretta Goldberg

My debut novel draws loosely on the career of an adventurer, Sir Anthony Standen, who inserted himself into the religious wars of the day and tried to moderate English and Spanish policy. An English Catholic courtier, he left England in the 1560s and spied for Catholic Spain against European Protestants. But his nationalism was aroused when the threat to England intensified. He became one of Protestant Elizabeth I’s most effective spies abroad, while on Spain’s payroll. My fascination in fictio... more

Blue Woman Burning

by Lâle Davidson

On the altiplano, the high plain, between Chile and Bolivia, Fallon’s family witnesses their mother magically disappear. The inexplicable nature of their loss marks each family member in a different way. For Fallon it is the first step toward adulthood. For her brilliant and troubled older brother, it is an abandonment from which he never recovers. Thirteen years later, back in the United States, Fallon is about to conquer self-doubt and apply to medical school, when another mysterious event sha... more

Boom, Boom, Boom

by Ian Kirkpatrick

Jan Bagan is a Ukrainian YouTuber living in Nide, a small, rural town leaning against the Russian border. While he stocks the only grocery store in town during the night, his love of all things combustible fuel his YouTube channel where he makes art in the sky chance he gets. He's not classically trained by any means, but with a little lick and a strong nose, he's usually pretty good at mixing things to get a satisfying ending.

Though his talents are mostly overlooked in his sma... more

We Have A Plan

by Gregory Ulseth

The mission was to salvage the society we once held dear and eliminate religious and underclass oppression. The plan was to build strength through the subterranean network of outlawed religious institutions and high-tech paramilitary powers to infiltrate and to gather assets along the way. Charlie was one such asset groomed from birth to help these Revolutionaries. Charlie Prescott, a teenager born into an influential family in early 22nd-century America, is forced to grow up fast when he is... more

August in the Vanishing City

by Lakis Polycarpou

Love, Lust & WTF?!!

by Nikki Sitch

Love, Lust & WTF?!!, Daisy's single again and riding the dating rollercoaster, experiencing it all: the orgasmic excitement, the melancholy blah, and the eyes-pop-out-of-your-head ugly of online dating, on her search to find true love. In the blink of an eye, Daisy’s life was flipped upside down when her soulmate, Adam, was ripped from this world, leaving Daisy and her daughters crushed. It has been a long and difficult struggle picking up the pieces and raising her girls alone for two years... more

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