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  • Hearts of Cotton

    by Uliana Domasheva
    Anatole Grey (45) is a worldwide famous bestselling author recovering from depression caused by the death of his wife. After 5 years of silence and rehabilitation, Anatole is preparing for the release of his new book, which according to the media, is expected to be better than anything he has ever written. However, Anatole did not write the book – he stole it from his own daughter. His autistic daughter from his first marriage wrote the book to get the attention and love from her father that she... more

  • Crying Is for Women

    by Zafarul Azam
    Just published eBook on Amazon, paperback release date is 30 Sept. - A man, out for prayers, is found dead by a river bank and the reader is off to the races in this relentlessly paced twentieth century chronicle. - Human irrationality is front and center in this historical fiction theater. The book’s provocative title is but one example of such, now outdated, criteria formulated by man. - A child of humble beginnings grows up to find himself thrown into turbulent... more

  • How We Healed: a novel

    by Melody Fowler
    There is nothing ordinary about the journey we take in life, or the people in it. A tale of starting over and an unforgettable odyssey of healing. How We Healed follows Drunetta Brown, an oppressed black housewife desperate to escape her drunkard husband and small-town southern life. After fleeing with her youngest children to New York City in 1957, she finds unlikely friendship with Sister Rose, a church secretary, and Miss “Raycie” Rayceen, a boisterous bar singer. These women prove to be t... more

  • Xylene X Band

    by Charles Harvey
    It’s 1985. Joe Ecks is a rock star guitarist for X Band. He’s a bad rock star, though, despite the fact that he is a musical genius. In an emotional moment, he has a seizure, and his personality changes drastically. The new personality calls itself Mike Smith and is shown to be the direct opposite of Joe’s old personality. For example, the Mike Smith personality loves Joe’s life (including Joe’s wife Angie), and he wants to live it forever. But there’s a hitch: the new personality can’t play gu... more

  • An Empty House by the River

    by Robert Hays
    Life has been good in the old Prather house on the bluff overlooking Singleton’s Branch. Then the second “once in a hundred years” flood in a decade brings changes that will affect the Prather family for years to come. Lacy, who sees beauty wherever she looks and expects others to be as good as she is, can no longer count on her big brother to protect her from an abusive husband, and the family learns a hard truth: No one is immune to the quirks of fate, be they blessings or tragedies, and the r... more

  • FEAR OF THE GUN: A tale set in the New Mexico and Arizona Territories 1849 - 1884

    by John Gerts
    FEAR OF THE GUN: In February 1849, Lorenzo, a Mexican-American war veteran, walks west from Albuquerque toward the Alta California gold fields. Lost in the Ponderosa Pines of the San Francisco Peaks mountain range, Lorenzo is saved from hypothermia and Cholera by Hanna, a Jewish sheep rancher living alone. Hanna and Lorenzo build a supply station for the surveyors and crews of the Beale Wagon Road, while Hanna schools their three children, Jeremiah, Zachary, and Sarah. Tragedy prompts Lor... more

  • Marrying Myself

    by Christine Melanie Benson
    Julia Jones is about to marry her uber-wonderful, uber-wealthy soulmate, ditch her dead-end nonprofit job, and finally focus on her stalled art. But when the wedding doesn't go quite according to plan, Julia's real-life fairy tale is suddenly out the window - leaving her happy ending up to her, and her alone. Looking for a fun, often funny read with substance and a jolt of self-love? Pick up Marrying Myself and fall in love with Julia, with Boston - and, most of all, with yourself.

  • The Chapel Ghost A Collection of Short Stories

    by Kate Becker
    Six stories blend the lines of ethereal and earthly. Surreal things happen when someone believes what they see and allows the experience to merge into their daily life. From a small ghost whose mystery needs solving to a life that leaps from haute couture magazine pages to become an everyday woman's reality, the stories make one wonder what they may have missed along the way.

  • Where the Butterflies Sleep

    by Steve Carey-Walton
    Marigold’s husband is dead. She wears black and tries to cry. But he was old, like she is, and sick, so what does she really have to mourn? That is until she learns that he cut her out of his will, bequeathing his sizeable estate to the first child to be born from the vials of semen he left behind. With her sister Eliza, Marigold devises a scheme to get rid of the samples and win back the inheritance. For the plan to succeed, Marigold sheds her passivity and acts like her sister. She lies, steal... more

  • Pericles and Aspasia

    by Yvonne Korshak

           Two lovers crest the wave of the golden age of Athens: Pericles, statesman, general, and great visionary of democracy, and Aspasia, his courtesan, a philosopher’s daughter and an brilliant woman in her own right. In a world of hierarchies, he is at the top when she arrives as little more than flotsam cast up on Athenian shores. Their story brings to life the arts, archaeology and history of a brilliant classical world.

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  • Through Both Eyes: Second Edition

    by Robert Henry Benson
    You may think that identical means “identical” when it comes to identical twins, but that’s not true. One of five monozygotic twin pairs do not share the same handedness, their fingerprints are never the same, and their personalities can be remarkably different. This story is about identical twin boys, Austin and Bryan Gustafson, who came of age in hot, dry South Texas during the 1950s and 1960s. The lives of these increasingly competitive brothers deteriorate and fragment when a strikingly-b... more

  • The Impossible Childhood of My Desires

    by RICK R. REED
    Carl Young’s biggest secret: he’s always felt like Cara Young. Through the years, he acknowledged his authentic female self in ways he kept hidden in the shadows. The makeup, the dresses, the shoes -- all of them represented his most longed-for desires and his deepest shame. When Carl’s husband Roberto comes home early from work to discover Cara in her wig, makeup, dress, and high heels, he’s shocked. Who is this person he married decades ago? He flees, leaving their home in Chicago for the o... more

  • A Time For Lies

    by Cy Stein

    “Fascinating…unexpected twists and turns with insights into Cohn and McCarthy that will keep readers engaged to the last page. Five stars.” -Andrew J. Heller, Gray Tide in the East: An Alternate History of the First World War

    Working with Roy Cohn will bring him untold success. It’ll only cost him his conscience.

    Benny Peskin is a bright young lawyer drawn into the orbit of Roy Cohn, the most shockingly sensational lawyer in New Y... more

  • Xylene X Band

    by Charles Harvey
    It’s 1985. Joe Ecks is a rock star guitarist for X Band. He’s a bad rock star, though, despite the fact that he is a musical genius. In an emotional moment, he has a seizure, and his personality changes drastically. The new personality calls itself Mike Smith and is shown to be the direct opposite of Joe’s old personality. For example, the Mike Smith personality loves Joe’s life (including Joe’s wife Angie), and he wants to live it forever. But there’s a hitch: the new personality can’t play gu... more

  • The Piano Bench

    by Ralph Webster

    The Piano Bench is a story of survival – of secrets and betrayal, of love and deceit, of the heights of happiness, and the despair of heartbreak.

    Born to a middle-class Jewish family family in the late 19th century, Josef Samson grew up believing that the possibilities for his life in his beloved Germany were limitless. His doting parents were ferocious advocates and fearless protectors, encouraging him to pursue his passions and dreams. And when he came of age, on the da... more

  • Our Daughters, Yàzhōu nǚ'ér – The Asian Daughter

    by lori ann mathews
    Jesse Roberts, straddles not only two worlds but four. She’s the dutiful, loving daughter to her adopted parents; a loyal sister to Loren who’s different from her; a best friend to her friends of Asian descent and a competent woman to the world-at-large when she literally falls, is on the ground being attached and is rescued by Abrams Harrington whom she falls, instantly, irrevocably in love - wild love. Abrams is everything Jesse could want, yet he’s mysteriously much more. Abrams’s involved wi... more
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