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The Heart of Annie

by J.S. Foote

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by stephen tobias

OK, here’s the deal. A large robust crow has found a choice spot hanging around a homeless guy who’s caging handouts by Seattle’s Montlake Bridge. When the homeless guy discards a can of Vienna Sausages, the crow, gluttonous as always, gets his beak caught in the half opened can. Desperate to free himself, the crow begins to bang the can against the cement and the repeated shocks to its head, brings back the shocking realization that he has lived before. Henry has always considered himself a ma... more

High Jack de Conqueror: Original (Circa 2222) Edition

by Whit Frazier

High Jack de Conqueror traverses the political development of the United States and the world in the years following the volatile cultural and political skirmishes of the 2020s and 2030s. Beginning with the murder of Lena Powers, America’s transformative Black female president, events unfold that reveal deep blemishes on the soul of the country as well as revealing cultural aspects of the people that could possibly work towards repairing and healing the nation amidst environmental, political and... more

Goodbye Woodstock: The Last Reunion

by M.H. Sullivan

It is 50 years after Woodstock and the Love & Peace Commune in southwestern Oregon is planning its annual end-of-summer Woodstock Reunion weekend. Former hippie residents of the commune are already arriving in their tie-dye granny dresses and bell-bottom jeans. They’re expecting to enjoy 3 days of peace & music, organized by Ceil’s partner, Sky, who intends to recreate the 1969 Woodstock Festival playlist. With his cancer no longer in remission, this may be Sky’s last reunio... more

The Angle of Vanishing Stability

by Sally Lee Stewart

A vessel can heel to one side, but at a certain point, it will no longer balance above water—and it capsizes. This is the angle of vanishing stability.  Thea West, a Northern Californian teenager growing up in the late sixties and early seventies, is one of five daughters trying to stay afloat amid the psychologically catastrophic dynamic between her parents—a covert and commanding mother and an ocean-yachtsman father. A talented sailor and businessman, Mr. West suffers from crippling alcoholism... more

Saint Richard Parker

by Merlin Franco

Ace businessman, writer, and investigative journalist Richard Parker loses his job when he exposes the CEO of his newspaper as a beef exporter. Accused of misconduct and forced to dissolve his company, he retreats to his wretched little village.

Attempting to resuscitate his life, Richard realizes that attaining enlightenment is his calling.

What holds him back?

Well, he does not know if spirituality or sexuality comes first. He must also avoid the at... more

The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra in Ancient Arabia

by Brock Meier

A young sculptor enters the fast-track of the art world in Petra (ancient Arabia), but family secrets of death and abandonment leave an ache for belonging. His progress is entangled in the arms of a brilliant songstress and a devastating injury deals the final blow to his ambitions. His quest to resurrect his ruined career takes him to the very ends of the earth, seeking a mysterious and powerful object buried beneath centuries of myth. The quest’s price?…more than he can possibly imagine. His l... more

Frank's Shadow

by Doug McIntyre

We leave shadows, not footprints. Newlywed Danny McKenna’s honeymoon ends abruptly when he learns his father has died, uncannily, on the same day as his hero, Frank Sinatra. Returning home to his knotty Irish American family, Danny is confronted with a painful truth—while he knows everything about the famous singer, his own father is a mystery. Tasked with giving a eulogy for a man he hardly knows, Danny sets out to uncover his dad’s past—an immigrant’s tale of mid-twentieth-century America an... more

Flight of the Monarchs

by M. H. Reardon

When Jeremy Hill returns to his hometown of Pacific Grove, California, in the summer of 1967, the small town is gripped with curiosity. Having disappeared for eleven years following the tragic night he was found standing over his abusive father’s dead body, knife in hand, Jeremy sparks a rush of memories, longings, and regrets for Celia, his childhood best friend, and three of their early classmates. What follows is a summer of reconnections and self-discovery amid the cultural revolution of a c... more

Songs By Sumnima

by Veneeta Singha

The novel is an account of Selo’s world and her circle of companions. An inferred chasm between the hinterlands and city life foreshadows much of their lives and imminent maturity. The cultural life of daily living and migration stands as a lost guardianship.

A Lot of People Live in This House

by Bailey Merlin

A Lot of People Live in This House follows introvert Rachel; after a devastating loss, she arrives at the house on the hill alone as her partner Job attends a meditation retreat in India for two weeks to unpack his own grief. She’s greeted by housemates who smile, bring her cups of tea, and seem happy she’s there. She hates it. Not long after, Job is trapped in India by a virus that’s grounded just about every plane in the world. As she falls apart, her new housemates rally to find a way to get ... more

Black Seagull

by Rinat Klein

Unravel the captivating family secrets of a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Israel in "Black Seagull," a gripping family saga with a thrilling mystery at its core. Embark on a captivating journey through generations as "Black Seagull" unveils a mesmerizing family saga filled with long-buried secrets. This gripping tale unravels the complex web of relationships, cultural tensions, and clandestine mysteries within a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Israel. Follow Tamara Atias, a single mo... more

Sovereign Citizen: Solitude

by B.F. Galligan

Loss is gain if it is possible to deconstruct what remains behind, to rebuild anew. Can the Sovereign Citizen survive the evaporation of humanity and the collapse of all nations into him, the sole survivor? He can. But first he must overcome the grief of trauma and discard the need for answers. More will be out there for him as the reconstruction evolves. He must see the story of humanity, self and civilization through what is absent once there is nothing left to study. There can be no evol... more

THAT YOU REMEMBER

by Isabel Reddy

In 2019, Aleena Rowan, adrift in the wake of a failed marriage, receives a box of her father's desk diaries from the years he worked as a coal executive. She expects to find nothing more than the cost of business lunches and meeting notes. Instead, she finds a mysterious name, Sara, scrawled on a slip of paper in her father's handwriting. Frank Rowan meets Sara Stone while fishing on a frigid January day, and sees her again waiting tables at Otter Creek’s only restaurant. It is 1970, and Fr... more

Project Boing;)

by Brian W. Robinson

It's 2012, before fake news, the cryptocurrency crash, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Internet still feels like a hope-filled meritocracy where people anywhere in the world can realize their dreams. But changes are stirring at Boing;), in the heart of Silicon Valley. Once the world's largest Internet portal, the company is facing an existential threat from search and social media companies, as people shift their online time from portals to Google and Fa... more

Paradise Confronted

by menalcus lankford

This fantasy novel gives a continually inventive, comic and surprising picture of an afterlife for modern readers—specifically the psychological-spiritual-religious trials encountered by well-meaning modern pilgrims to move beyond the stage of admission at the paradise gates and actually reach heaven itself. To do that they must learn to transcend their various Earthly limitations and gain a larger vision of what human life is and could be. Here they will discover a few animals admitted in th... more

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