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Sky Almighty!: Two Trolley Dollies Telling Tales

by Franco Lombini & Mario Tadiello

When capturing the inherent comedy of being human, in the highest heavens, the exuberant and often augmented reality far exceeds any earthly imagination and this time it won’t be boring and lazy pub tales spread by passengers – kings and queens for a night - but a page turner of wry and hilarious confessions from the horse’s mouth of two bewildered stewards sharing what they see and hear flight in flight out. Lo and behold, this is showdown time! The chips are down, we are holding the life jack... more

Punk

by Amy Q. Barker

1932. A blossoming new love affair. Rochester, New York. The Great Depression. Work is hard to find and even harder to keep. Didi Diamond meets Paul Miller and falls head over heels. She pours her heart out in her diary, never knowing that decades later her granddaughter and great-granddaughter will pick up the words and breathe new life into a family mystery. And into their own complicated relationship and their own chances at love.

Punk is a heartwarming, witty, historical, c... more

Keziah's Song

by DARYL POTTER

The Greek empire. A Jewish rebellion. A musically gifted girl strives to overcome the brutal siege of a contested land. Maccabean Israel, 135 BCE. Judean orphan Keziah has been traumatized by a savage war. As the Greek empire invades Jerusalem with battle elephants and a ruthless army, the twelve-year-old witnesses her parents' violent murder by their once-trusted neighbours. Keziah has no time to mourn when she's forcibly transported to the far north and ripped away from everything she's eve... more

Adjustment Year

by Melina Druga

The stunning conclusion to Melina Druga’s World War I trilogy traces Hettie’s attempts to reacclimate to civilian life in the aftermath of the conflict.

It’s been five years since Hettie left home a blushing bride. Recently relieved of her duties as an army nurse, she makes her long-awaited return a newlywed once again… and pregnant.

Hettie can’t escape the painful memories of the thousands of wounded soldiers she tended to at the Ca... more

Beneath the Splendor

by Jami Taylor

A gripping tale of love, murder, and betrayal in antebellum North Carolina. In 1853, Reverend George Carawan was arrested for murdering the timid schoolteacher Clarence Lassiter in the small town of Rose Bay, North Carolina. The subsequent trial was a media sensation at the time, with the story being reported in newspapers as far as London, England. The idea of a well-respected preacher shooting an unarmed schoolteacher would have been enough to gain an audience's attention, but Reverend Car... more

Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin

by Marc Sercomb

It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him. “I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away.” Calvin’s life is falling apart at the seams. He’s a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka musi... more

Johnny And The Kid: An Old Time Western

by R Lawson Gamble

It was just Johnny and his ma until Ike Sanders came to Deep Water. He invested in the town, started a newspaper, and hired young Johnny as an apprentice. Now Ma could quite work at the Lucky 7 Saloon. Then The Kid came to town. A long-ago secret connected Ike and the feared gunfighter, a secret that would change Johnny's life forever.

Kicking

by Robin Merrill

Esther is her granddaughter's last chance. Esther hasn't seen Zoe in years and hardly knows her. But she's not going to turn her away. Zoe is family, and she's a child. A wild child. How will Esther keep her from self-destructing? Rachel. Zoe wants nothing to do with the crazy-hat lady from her grandmother's creepy old church. But as Rachel starts to share herself with young Zoe, Esther sees a change. Will it be enough? This heartwarming story is the second in Robin Merrill's New... more

Maud's Circus

by Michelle Rene

In a time when women were restricted in every aspect, Maud Wagner became the first female tattoo artist in North America. Maud ran away to join the circus when she was a teenager. By 1904, she was working as a contortionist at the World’s Fair when she met the famous tattoo artist, Gus Wagner. She struck a deal with him: she’d give him a date if he gave her a tattoo—and a lesson in how to create them. Along with her husband and daughter, for more than fifty years, Maud travelled the countr... more

Nice Girl

by Julia Carol Folsom

It's 1965, a small town in Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Callie Ingram is an "A" student, a church regular, a nice girl who does what she's told. But after her beloved grandmother's death, Callie is all but ignored in the family she has left. Her distant, auto mechanic dad and rebellious older sister, Ruth Anne, are always fighting. To escape her loneliness and the turmoil at home, Callie takes an after-school job as a waitress in a diner. And there she meets Nick Gamble, a prominent, married busine... more

Ardent Grandeur

by Lynnette M. Clement

Ardent Grandeur, is a fiction novel about an aspiring artist who will stop at no end to live a life of grandeur, despite who he hurts along the way. It is a suspense, jaw dropping, thrilling tragic love story where all of the characters in the book learn through triumphs and tragedies that life decisions matter more than you think.

In the Dead of the Night

by JP Robinson

Darkness gathers in the final days of the Great War as the Germans plot to unleash a weapon that will plunge the Allied world into obscurity. For the Steele family, the stakes have never been higher. Leila is forced back into the shadows when the leader of a German spy ring kidnaps her child, jeopardizing Europe’s fragile bid for peace. Meanwhile, Malcolm fights to keep Northshire Estate as his father stands trial for treason against the British empire. Confronted with overwhelming c... more

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