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Cross Purposes

by Stephen D. Senturia

Martin Quint and Jenny have moved to Bottlesworth College in Maine, where Martin hopes to find a calmer environment in which to write his long-simmering book on the role of live conversation in education. Jenny, meanwhile, has started a replica-antique business, and the couple argue over money, child care, and travel. A pushy college trustee diverts Martin's attentions with a new project, and an unwelcome relic of Martin's past arrives to push the marriage to a precipice.

One Man's Purpose

by Stephen D. Senturia

Martin Quint, Professor of Engineering at the Cambridge Technology Institute and world-class researcher, is assigned to mentor the razor-thin tenure case of a female, Hispanic colleague. HIs wife, Jenny, pregnant and anxious, must compete for Martin's attention as the case makes its tortuous way through the system. The case ultimately fails amid upsets and lawsuits, but Jenny and Martin's marriage, while bruised, survives.

My Name Is Edward

by Annmarie Topel

Unwanted and neglected since birth, Edward struggles to find his way in the world. With the death of the grandmother who was raising him, Edward is left with no one. Eventually, he is forced to take to the streets where he finds that his struggles are more than just surviving. Battling internal demons and unable to trust anyone, the hope he fought to hang onto fades, and he begins to lose his grip. Ann, a high-powered businesswoman with barely enough hours in the day to manage her own busy li... more

The Student Panopticon

by Canisio Mudzimu

Gift Wagona grows up under debilitating poverty in the People's Republic of Zvevanhu, which is under the tyrannical rule of the Supreme Leader who clings onto power by hook and crook. Gift fortunately gets a bursary until he enrolls at the University of the North where meets Stella who has secrets of her own. Gift is subsequently recruited into the Intelligence Organization where he assumes the name Agent Foxtrot but he goes on not only to date two more women but to also sell state secrets to th... more

The Wild Fields

by Paul D. LeFavor

Lying at the crossroads of Europe, Ukraine has long struggled to forge an independent path between the West and Russia. So great has been this conflict that a prominent theme in Ukraine’s history is its struggle for freedom from foreign rule. The Wild Fields is a story about a man and his struggle between good and evil and the decisions he must make for his family, and most importantly, his own sanity, in the war ravaged Donbas region of Ukraine.

Treble Damages

by David Elkind

TREBLE DAMAGES SYNOPSIS A leading New York lawyer reaches the top of his career through brilliance and ruthlessness, but his life is ruined because of his fatal flaw. Jack Pressler is considered the top antitrust lawyer in the country. His partners respect and fear him, and make him the firm’s first name partner since the 19th century. Jack’s pitfall is that if anyone crosses him, he reacts with an unmatched fury. He strikes back at anyone who fuels his anger... more

Hope Is A Six Letter Word

by Kit Derrick

When Will Stark’s parents died together in a tragic accident, it felt like his whole World had fallen apart. And then the realisation came that the woman he’d thought he would marry was drifting away too. So Will began a journey around the country, visiting and sketching all the places that held special meanings in his past, to try and regain a sense of his own identity and honour the memory of his parents. That’s what he told himself anyway. It wasn’t avoidance, he’d found a worthwhile purpose.... more

Underneath The Honeysuckle Vine: Beyond Cedar Cove, Book One

by Cynthia Ulmer

Meg Evans grew up privileged and special. The whole world was open to her. She was destined to become a model. And then, she got pregnant. Shamed and thrown out of school, she returned home refusing to tell who the father of her baby was. Her family shunned her by making her live in one of her grandfather's rental homes. As a result, Meg constantly fought to regain her special status in life. She despised her illegitimate daughter Carin, putting the blame of her misfortune on the child. Unde... more

Tsiu Blue: Salmon Fishing in the Gulf of Alaska: A Fable

by Richard Bard

Tsiu Blue blows away the boundaries between humans, animals, and objects. In the mountain-ringed seascape of the Alaskan Gulf anything---a sea lion, a rockfish, even a glacier, may have a point of view. As a salmon fisher pursues kings, silvers, and enlightenment through the wave-tossed ocean reaches, his mind-bending encounters make the idea of animism---that spirit may inhabit any entity---begin to seem perfectly reasonable.

The Bastardo

by Steve Kravetz

A perfect storm of events hit 1850's Sicly to created the Mafia. It is going to take Don Leonardo's perfect plan to save his family from the threat with in and re-gain control of the LA Barbra's families businesses. He only had to breed a perfect man and he might change the families fate, and future.

Possum Boy Battles The Mulefoot Menace

by Swifty Slowpoker

Eleven-year-old Delphus V. White lives a pretty idyllic life at Clover Bottom Hospital and School with his pals, the Blount Brothers. That is, until The Mulefoot boar came into their lives. Named for his single, fused hooves, The Mulefoot wreaks havoc at Clover Bottom’s hog farm. The situation heats up when the CIA orders Delphus to terminate The Mulefoot with extreme prejudice! OR did Delphus just dream up that part?

Vanishing Hour: A Novel of a Man, a Girl, and the End of the World

by Lisa King

Seventy-year-old Matthew Werner, who suffers from a debilitating case of Not Normal, doesn't know that nearly everyone on earth has died. He only knows that, out in the world, something terrible is happening - something he's not willing to discover. So he barricades himself inside and tries to stay ignorant. That is, until twelve-year-old Ruby Sterling shows up at his doorstep, all alone. The two have little in common. Matthew is old, strange, grumbly, and concerned only with figuring out wh... more

Roaring Creek

by Emerson Williams

Clark Lewis leaves his home on Roaring Creek, Greenbrier County in the mountains of Central Virginia) now West Virginia in 1861 to fight for the Confederacy. He adapts to a new life in service to his native state.Follow him through 14 battles and the hell of being held prisoner in Point Lookout Prison. The emotions of love, triumph, defeat, capture and social growth and exposure to various characters of the times. This true story is the last thing you will think of at night.

Don't Forget

by Robert Karmon

A young writer sets out on a journey of self-discovery through encounters with memorable characters, dreams. nightmares and vivid memories from the past and present to discover the mystery of love and to uncover the truth of his existence and identity.

City of Liars

by Michelle Fogle

In 1487, the Inquisition establishes a new tribunal in Barcelona. Young navigator Joachim Déulocresca carries the weight of his father’s sins. Determined to honor his family name and rise above his shameful origins, he risks everything to smuggle sacred Jewish ritual items under the persecutor’s nose. But when a kindly patriarch who loves him like a son is burned at the stake for heresy, it compels Joachim to ply his talent for deception to mount an underground rescue mission smuggling Inquisiti... more

Electric Zen for Neon Koans

by J. Martin Strangeweather

Electric Zen for Neon Koans is an experimental tour de force told in eighty-one koans (Zen riddles) rather than traditional chapters. The story involves a married intersex couple (Phil and Ruth) and their attempt to find peace with themselves through the ingestion of a mind-altering substance in the jungles of Mexico, except this is no ordinary hallucinogen. The drug in this novel causes metafictional hallucinations. The story explores the trials of traveling, the complexities of long-term relat... more

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