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Threads of Us

by Greenleaf Book Group

Sometimes the answers we are looking for are hidden in our own stories. The night before the dance performance that could determine Gracie Wilder’s career, her father unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a curious gift with ties to a myth told to her as a child. Desperate to understand her father’s unspoken words, she puts her greatest dream on the line for an opportunity to remember the childhood she tried so hard to forget. A few chance encounters with Beau Griffin, a bighearted building contra... more

Pitching to Giraffes

by Tom Puszykowski

Pitching to Giraffes follows a rambunctious college baseball team trying to learn from past mistakes, overcome an arrogant chief rival, and win a championship. Their well-meaning coach is a fish out of water attempting to corral their hijinks. They need leadership from their top pitcher, but John Light's engagement with baseball is weakened by his desire to actively participate in the counter-culture quest to demand a better world. A student activist with militant connections offers him the act... more

Dance with the Devils

by Paul Frisby

A novel geo-thermal power station is being built in a remote location in Tasmania in the near future. The characters involved from the company's owners to the staff, the contractors to the environmentalists, the nurse who works for the medical team who discovers the power of magic mushrooms growing on the site, are working hard to meet their own objectives. Everyone has their own moral code, but key players are flawed and by the end of the story the reader has to wonder if any are moral at all.

Nicked

by Joanna Hill Bastin

Nickedunfurls a riveting tale of high-stakes art theft, where the worlds of crime and culture collide. A Parisian van, laden with precious fine art destined for a London sale, falls prey to a cunning heist. Amidst this chaos, Alistair, a casual holidaymaker, finds himself thrust into the heart of the intrigue. Urged to chase the thieves, his pursuit catapults him across the Channel, back to France.

Silenced Whispers

by Afarin Ordubadi Bellisario

Brought up as an orphan in a remote desert town, Gohar is adopted by an influential aristocratic family from Tehran and at fourteen married off to a politician forty years her senior. She persuades her conservative husband to take her to Tehran, just as parliament deputies embark on reforms aimed at ending corruption and meddling by foreigners, despite Russian opposition. In a rapidly changing Tehran Gohar joins a group of secular women supporting the reforms and foil the Russian spy master, ... more

Dancing Desis

by Raj

The book is a conversation driven sitcom-style adult comedy of five short stories. It’s a comical adventure of Indian expats causing confusion and disruptions overseas. Fans of sitcoms will love the quirky situations of this Comedy-Crime themed Desi Frenzy. Readers who like adult comedy, odd funny situations, a little bit of shock value and a twist ending might be interested in my book. Please note the book contains strong language and adult theme intended for mature readers.

Nonesuch Man

by Steven Elkins

The mythic origin story of a hybrid child born from the mating of a human being and a Sasquatch. As the child grows to manhood, his quest to solve the mystery of his identity and impossible birth puts him on a collision course with his father, who has been tortured by a haunting memory, once buried but now slowly rising into his conscious awareness - namely the terrible truth about the crime against nature he perpetrated 20 years earlier.

Hungry Crow Babies

by Daria Hilton

A San Francisco water meter reader, Morrigan enjoys her sexually active, but unexamined, life. Her friend Lorita’s unintentional verification of the spiritual significance of crows compromises the structure of the reality Morrigan has taken for granted. Uncomfortable in her realization crows possess a consciousness well beyond academic assumption, Morrigan’s reality crumbles when they begin to outright talk to her. She alternately attempts to escape and make sense of her extraordinary experien... more

The War Photographers

by SL Beaumont

1943 – Bletchley Park, England Mae Webster, immersed in the clandestine world of codebreaking at Bletchley Park, is recruited to help unveil a spy who’s on the brink of exposing Britain's most guarded secret: the cracking of the Enigma code. As war rages around her, Mae's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls in love with the enigmatic New Zealand war photographer Jack Knight. Their relationship develops at pace, but tragedy strikes when one of Jack's photographs risks unmasking an elus... more

The Cicada Spring

by Carolyn McBride

An empty nester must rediscover her inner compass on the shores of the Potomac River, guided by an ancient arrowhead and the captivating marsh man who found it. The Cicada Spring, the first in the Potomac Shores series, is a coming-of-middle-age story about second chances, the enduring bonds of friendship, and the power of nature to heal and guide us home.

A House of Cranes

by James Walter Lee

In 1963, Lucius Cook, an eleven-year-old orphan, comes to live with a lawyer, Kenneth Crane, and his family at their stately Victorian home in the affluent suburbs of Hartford, Connecticut. Quiet and precocious, Lucius is in awe of his surroundings. He discovers he shares Mr. Crane’s creative passion for photography. The Crane’s clever daughter, Beatrice, keeps Lucius on his toes, while the lawyer’s stunning and aloof wife, Eleanor, captivates him. As time passes, his curiosity for Eleanor, twen... more

The Devil's Berries (The Last Favorite's Page: Book Two)

by Patti Flinn

Inspired by the true life of Louis-Benoit Zamor. ~~ Serving Madame du Barry by day and rubbing shoulders with revolutionaries at night, Louis-Benoit Zamor is ready to find his greatness. In this, his time in the sun, he will lend his voice to the revolutionary movement and love like he’s never dared. But the Ancient Régime isn’t done with him, yet. Much like the deadly devil’s berries, Madame’s bitter anger takes root at the chateau. Zamor will discover that when facing the devil in di... more

Pescadero: a Novel

by Hollis Brady

Fourteen-year-old Hilde, raised on a family farm in Wisconsin, is dragged to the northern California coastal town of Pescadero by a mother fleeing a bad marriage. But Pescadero is worlds away from the conservative Midwest, and Hilde finds herself adrift in a community where all the attitudes she absorbed growing up seem oddly off-key. When her mother hires an undocumented farmworker to tend the goat farm the family is trying to revive, Hilde strikes up an unlikely friendship with him and l... more

End of Beyond

by Jonathan M. Nielson

For history professor Tom Strange summer beckoned. He'd escape the heat of Prescott and go north. Montana called to him. Having recently lost his wife in an auto accident, her memory still heart-achingly fresh, the beauty of Big Sky country seemed like a soul-saving deliverance. She was sitting in his pickup, distraught, terrorized. His student, Abeline Davis, pleaded with him. She'd just witnessed the brutal murder of her mother and little brother. The killer was her estranged father...a co... more

Making Shadows

by Tony McHugh

Making Shadows spans the period from the fall of Singapore in World War 2 to the Welcome Home Parade for Vietnam veterans in 1987. It is a story about what appear to be opposites – life and death, light and shadow, war and peace – when, in fact, they are the same. Joe is a National Service conscript. Assigned to his four-man tent at Nui Dat base, he is scrutinised by three regulars of the 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam. Once they learn he has a degree in psychology, he is nicknamed Shri... more

A Cowboy Christmas An American Tale

by Tom Van Dyke

A MYSTICAL TALE when dreams were chased with reckless abandon, when life was raw and unforgiving, when the adventures of WB, a young boy with a spark for life and a wild sense of freedom encounters the Spirit of the West sparking a magical connection that will forever shape his destiny as he fearlessly ventures into a frontier of untamed majesty, bigger and more beautiful than any dream, inviting us to embrace the magic that dwells within the human spirit.

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