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Her Own Revolution

by Debra BORCHERT

A Woman Forges a Treacherous Path to Save Hundreds from the Guillotine If Geneviève Fouquier-Tinville had the same rights as a man, she wouldn’t have to dress like one, which she does to attend University—forbidden to women. By swearing her commitment to the revolution, she succeeds in convincing her father, the Public Prosecutor who condemns thousands to the guillotine, to hire her as a court clerk. But she intends to earn passage to join her lover, Henri, in America. Tasked with copying... more

And Union No More

by Stan Haynes

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law. After a generation of containment by the Missouri Compromise, a path is created for slavery to expand. Southerners are ecstatic and northerners enraged. Both sides rush settlers to the Kansas Territory, seeking to gain the majority. Guerilla warfare results, with Americans killing Americans. Monty Tolliver, a former congressman from Ohio, moves to Kansas, determined to make it a free state. Two young men, Billy Rutledge from Mississippi and Robe... more

Day Of The Trumpet

by Suj Ahmed

Thirteen-year-old Eden escapes with his mixed-race family from the growing race hate and violence unleashed in a future England ravaged by economic hardships, food scarcity, and social disorder, plunging the country into the hands of a fascist and evangelical alliance. The family travels on foot at night across the English countryside to evade the marauding ‘People’s Militia’ who mercilessly hunt down POCS (people of colour). In the second timeline, Eden’s grandfather Tariq provides a historica... more

The Healers

by Ken Levine

In Ken Levine’s fourth novel The Healers, readers are taken on a multi-generational journey that follows Frances Anderson and her granddaughter Glynnis as they come to terms with their extraordinary abilities and the impact they have on those around them. This rich and poignant saga tracks the Anderson clan from homesteads in Wyoming to the magical coast of Oregon as they navigate through some seventy years of familial strife, loss, heartache, and love.

The Devil's Glove

by Lucretia Grindle

Northern New England, summer, 1688. A suspicious death. A rumor of war. Whispers of witchcraft. Salem started here. Perched on the brink of disaster, Resolve Hammond and her mother, Deliverance, struggle to survive in their isolated coastal village. They're known as healers taught by the local tribes - and suspected of witchcraft by the local villagers. Their precarious existence becomes even more chaotic when they are summoned to tend to a poisoned woman. As they uncover a web of dark secrets... more

Wings Over Germany

by Eric Forsyth

RAF Squadron Leader Allan Chadwick is back in Eric Forsyth’s third novel, Wings Over Germany. At the start of WWII, Chadwick struggles with technical and bureaucratic problems to get the four-engine heavy bomber, the Lancaster, into production. Then he commands an Auxiliary Spitfire squadron during the Battle of Britain, leading pilots straight from Flying School to fight against the combat-hardened Luftwaffe. As Britain moves into an offensive bombing campaign Chadwick is involved in the develo... more

The Marriage Box

by Corie Adjmi

Forced to return to her parent’s roots in the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, Casey Cohen faces two opposing worlds as she explores the unfamiliar culture and finds love.

Give My Regards to Nowhere: A Director's Tale

by Richard Engling

Chicago director Dwayne Finnegan has a long shot at the big time and only two obstacles: himself and everyone he knows. Dwayne's got an idea of how to direct Shakespeare's least-favorite play that could set him on the road to Broadway. We're talking Bob Fosse choreography, Jimi Hendrix guitars, and the hottest cast in the city of Chicago. But when the show's producer cuts out with the cash, Dwayne decides to produce the show himself, putting his marriage and his meager finances at risk. What ... more

New Leaves In Winter

by C. Gary Johnston

Dan Pierce and Joan Schneider are key management employees of Starlingers Gourmet Food Markets until suddently they both find their careers in jeopardy, each for different reasons. As Dan and Joan deal with the apprehension and anguish with what they are sure is facing them, they are unaware of their real status as pawns in the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of a situation much larger than either of their jobs.

The Golden Hour

by Fayla Ott

An Epic Saga of Two Families Living on Opposite Sides of Slavery in Pre-civil War South It’s 1852 in the Delta of Mississippi, and the choice to sell one slave sets in motion a series of tragic events for two families on a cotton plantation. What if the nightmare you feared your entire life became a reality in one day? Without notice, Thomas is snatched from all he knows and placed in an unjust world of cruelty. Back at Arledge Hall plantation, his parents, Joe and Lucy, grieve his absence, bu... more

Reinventing Ruthie

by Kate Lloyd

When Ruth Ann Templeton’s husband, Drew, leaves her for another woman Ruthie is devastated. She seeks solace at their beach cabin in Puget Sound where she meets Victor, a neurologist who has marital problems of his own. Their relationship blossoms just as Ruthie’s husband moves home asking for forgiveness. But can Ruthie trust and forgive him or any man?

Asphalt & Water

by Ted Bernal Guevara

California. 1955. AMARA SIP is sanguine, determined, and skillful on the road. For a living, he drives an ambulance in the Cholame Hills area. One day he receives a dispatch to aid in a car crash. At first glimpse, Amara is taken by the sleekness of the Porsche 550 out in the tundra. He is unaware of the driver lodged in the car, fighting his last breaths. The EMT puts forth his best effort to save the dying James Dean.

Darcy Lane

by James T. Graham

Darcy Lane tells the story of a young girl, who at the tender of age of 7, witnesses the murder of her mother. The book explores the girl's trauma, efforts to move on, and how the legacy of the murder persists in her life.

What She Takes Away

by Adele Annesi

The weaver's shuttle turns after the death of Gia Falcini's mother, when Gia's estranged father in Italy sends a scarf whose unusual qualities could revive Gia’s ailing fabric shop in Boston’s North End. Goaded by deadlines and conflicting desires, Gia leaves Boston for Italy's style capital, her father’s hillside village and the stepfamily she has never met, and a vibrant local fabric mill in a venture that could shred Gia's ambitions or offer a legacy worth taking away.

Uncontrollable

by Sara Staggs

Casey Scott is an attorney who seems to have it all in place: a booming career, a loving husband, and two young children. But, she also has epilepsy, and when her doctor tells her she might die if she doesn't get her seizures under control, she is at a crossroads: does she choose her career, dreams, and lifelong ambitions, or her family and health? She undergoes brain surgery, which changes the trajectory of her life in a way she could never expect, and the life she toiled to build begins to unr... more

The Lifestyle and Adventure of Ace McDice, Stretch Deed & moonshine Melody

by doug mcphillips

The lifestyle and Adventure of Ace McDice, Stretch Deed & Moonshine Melody tells a fictitious tale of three devil-may-care wild men of the Australian bush during the last days of the era of the Bushrangers and the Gold rush at the end of the 19th century. It tells of each character's lifestyle and their united bent as wild men of Australia's west who set upon a plan to rob the Sugar and Tea Express. How the plan manifested and what drove them to an apparent reckless course in gaining the never ... more

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