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  • Sorrow Ledge

    by Kenneth Arbogast
    America is in turmoil. In the wake of a disputed election, simmering political tensions threaten to boil over into violence. Ethnic, racial and religious intolerances are rampant. A divide remains between those who supported or opposed a recent war. The year is 1880. During this conflict, a ship wrecks upon a Maine island. The light keepers rescue the crew and passengers, finding one armed with a pistol and ancient grievances. The keeper faces his most dangerous enemy and greatest possible los... more

  • Disaster at Bushehr

    by Reginald Nelson
    Terrorists have destroyed the nuclear facility at Bushehr with a stolen American cruise missile that was painted with Israeli markings. Their goal is to start a war to bring Israel to its knees. Will they succeed? Will Iran retaliate? Can the INCISOR team unravel the mystery before it is too late? The INCISOR team is growing and fighting terrorism around the globe. A new device helps them pinpoint kidnapping victims which allows for rapid interdiction and resolution. But, the turmoil in the Mi... more

  • The Saudi Oil Gambit

    by Reginald Nelson
    If only you knew what a scary place the world can be... A Saudi terrorist cell is plotting to bring America to its knees. They have their hands on a nuclear device and they want to cripple our oil reserves to keep America needing Middle East oil long into the future. Can they be stopped? Dr. Reginald Nelson is a dentist with international ties to Dubai. He is also an inventor. Dr. Nelson and his two new friends, Lance Wood and Ashonte' Black may have found a way to stop them! One of his inven... more

  • Forging a New America

    by Roger Colley

    Twenty year old Alex is inquiring of his 95 year great-grandfather,PapaBear, how his cousin Tyler is getting along in America.  The year is 2033 and the place is thousands of square miles of leased land in the Russian Far East, part of Siberia, now known as New America. Tyler is a college student trying to figure out why Socialism in America is not working very well.  PapaBear relates the stories of Ty's best friend, his coed sweetheart, his favorite professor, and the pitfalls of socialism. ... more

  • The Fabric Over the Moon

    by Ferran Plana

    Stories come alive at night.

    They are whispered around dying campfires, by quiet bedsides, under deformed old trees.

    They might get interrupted by the howling wind, inaudible gasps, or nervous comments, only to be continued fervently once the dust settles again.

    Why did the girl visit the eerie village? What did the gypsy’s words mean? Can the discovery of a new flower change the world?

    Stories are supposed to end but they never do.

    They leave you ... more

  • The Hidden Peace In Poems

    by Eric Bruce Smith
    This book contains poetry about life, love and the many obstacles we encounter.  

  • Pekolah Stories

    by Amanda Bales

    A linked story collection centered on a rural community evicerated by economic collapse and steeped in a bigoted and unforgiving religion. From orphaned children to burned-out dreamers to conversion camp survivors, these stories  reveal the desperate hope of people in a place where hope is a hard weight to carry.

  • White Man's Graveyard

    by Sarah Angleton
    Annie is a no-nonsense Pennsylvania teacher whose hunt for a home and family of her own inspires a commitment to the abolition movement. Sylvanus, the baby brother she helped raise, is an adventure-seeking physician who finds purpose on his way to Western Africa in support of the controversial colonization effort which seeks to establish a safe-haven for former US slaves in the colony of Liberia. In the decades leading up to the American Civil War, the siblings find themselves on opposite si... more

  • Emma's Tapestry

    by Isobel Blackthorn
    Emma’s Tapestry tells the story of a German-American private nurse coming to terms with her husband’s disappearance. She sits at the bedside of Jewish heiress Adela Schuster who reminisces over her dear friend Oscar Wilde. It’s 1939 and war has been declared. Terrified her true identity will be discovered and she’ll be interned, Emma destroys all her papers. In 1914, Emma struggles to fit into the colonial lifestyle of Singapore with her export-manager husband Ernest. War is declared. Emma is ... more

  • The Rape of Persephone

    by Monica Brillhart
    Crete, 1694 BCE. They call her Kore, nameless term for girl. But Kore is no mere girl. She is the blossoming daughter of Demeter, High Priestess of Knossos, and Zeus of Olympus, famed liberator who led the Titan War. Stripped of identity at birth, Kore was sworn to the gods as a virgin priestess. When Kore vanishes amidst the turmoil of a quaking earth, Demeter launches a desperate search for a girl who does not wish to be found. For Kore has not vanished. She has escaped. Her quest for... more

  • GOLD!—The Kincaid Saga

    by Thomas Greenbank
    GOLD! is an 80,000 word novel that would appeal to fans of gritty family saga/drama. It is set against the backdrop of the Western Australian gold mining industry, circa 1975-2005. The central character, Malcolm Kincaid, is a ruthless and self-centred businessman who runs roughshod over friends and family alike in his pursuit of wealth and power. When he allows the pollution of an Aboriginal settlement’s water supply, however, he faces justice of a kind he could never imagine. The story b... more

  • Portrait of a Woman Madly in Love

    by Boman Desai
    Farida Cooper is too shocked by her husband's treachery even to talk about it, but in hiding her shame succeeds only in denying the damage to herself and making casualties of others, among them an infatuated 17-year-old boy. Farida is vivacious, intelligent, beautiful, talented, rich, spoiled, and selfish, but her life is hardly as rosy as it appears. Her father's affairs render her mother frigid. Her saving grace is her Kaki with whom she lives after her sixth birthday, but this also heightens ... more

  • The Quarry Bank Runaways

    by G J Griffiths

    In the early 19th century, when it was the policy of many of the poorhouses and workhouses to deter paupers from applying by making the conditions inside harsh and unpleasant, two boys set out on a journey to Hackney Workhouse in London. Their starting point was in the pleasant Cheshire countryside, where they were apprenticed to the cotton mill built by Samuel Greg in 1784. Children as young as nine would be employed there as scavengers, piecers, mule doffers or can tenters. These jobs could... more

  • Breaking Lucky

    by Bruce Mitchell
    Danny ‘Lucky’ Thornton cursed his middle name. Born in 1895, asthma almost killed him when he was four, but he survived to be among the first volunteer lifeguards on Sydney’s Coogee Beach. Danny’s sister Cath dreamed of becoming a doctor at a time when they told women to ‘know their place’. She didn’t listen, and broke through the walls of prejudice to graduate from Sydney University the only woman in her class. Danny came home from the war with a crippling wound and a shattered mind. Cath st... more

  • Wide Sky People

    by Bruce Mitchell
    Wide Sky People – Volume 1 of the Thornton Series Wide Sky People is the journey of the Thornton family from Ireland to Sydney, over the fabled Blue Mountains to the town of Orange in Central Western New South Wales. The story starts in the 1840’s when Mick and Cate Thornton and their two boys survive four months at sea to encounter false arrest, bushrangers, crooked cops, working the land and a devastating bushfire, to name just a few. Their sons Michael and John take us on a journey thr... more

  • Father War

    by Thomas Doherty

         Young John Spenser sets out to follow in the footsteps of his missing father - duty, honor, country - only to discover decades later that coming face to face with a flesh and blood idol can have dreadful consequences -- for him, his idol, and the woman both men left behind.

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