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From Caracas to the Corps

by William James Barry

Before WWII, a young undefeated pugilist, on his way home from winning his tenth fight saves a former Miss Venezuela from being raped by a government official. He is forced to flee his country and makes a treacherous trip to Brooklyn to be with a cousin. The girl follows and they fall in love in old New York. He changes his name and success in the ring follows him. Venezuela sends agents to NY to kill him. US Immigration searches with the intent to deport him. The New York mafia wants to control... more

NED PICKERING - The Exploits, Romances and Adventures of a 17th Century Entrepreneur

by George Pickering

George Pickering shares the story of Edward Pickering, aka Ned Pickering. A relative of diarist Samuel Pepys, Ned Pickering’s life was one of a soldier, adventurer, lothario, businessman and entrepreneur. Written in the form of a journal that merges historical fact with delicious elaboration, Ned Pickering delights from the outset From the English royal court to the battlefields of the English Civil War, from the genteel estates of Dorset to the scaffold of Charles I, from the chateau... more

From G to PG to R to X

by Stephen C. Bird

Sunnie and Brother mourn Mother; an apparition visits Sunny. Mother appears in Sunnie's disturbing dreams. In one dream, Sunnie meets Momma Leg, a vicious dominatrix … Comedy writers Pamm Demmyck and Remmy Dessyvyr then appear. Pamm is the boss; Remmy fights back. Remmy has principles; Pamm just wants to write jokes … Amourrica Profunda descends into political chaos caused by endemic polarization. The nation is in peril; Amourrica Profunda becomes “Mourrzicka” … Pamm and Remmy find success ... more

The Lost Diary of Cécile Dubonnet: Forgetting the Yesterdays of World War II

by A.P. Harper

IN 1999 PARIS, Hénri Durant, a jilted photographer, was remodeling his apartment and discovered a diary under the floorboard which had been there since 1938 when Cécile Dubonnet celebrated her twentieth birthday. Cécile, a naïve, romantic young woman, had fallen in love with a German diplomat in pre-war France, which, as Germany invades Poland and France enters the war, challenges the bond between her friends and details her struggles in her diary.

Captain Hornigold and the Pirate Republic

by Martin A. Frey

Benjamin Hornigold, an out of work sailor, leaves Port Royal, Jamaica, after the Queen Anne's War (1713), and sails to Nassau on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, where he purchases a.sailing canoes and become a pirate. The next year he acquires a sloop and crew and becomes the leader of the non-Jacobite faction that frequents Nassau Harbor as their safe haven. He sails in consort with Blackbeard (Edward Thache), Major Stede Bonnet, Black Sam Bellamy and his partner Paulsgrave Williams, and ... more

Return to the Lion's Den

by G.S. Treakle

When eighteen-year-old Daniel MacRae escaped his father’s alcoholic abuse in 1981, he left his Indiana hometown, uncertain he would ever return. In the years that followed, he pursued an education and embarked on a very successful career in broadcast journalism.

In April 2005, as Daniel is settling into his new role as a senior network news executive, he receives a desperate plea from his estranged mother to come home and help deal with the affairs of his dying father, Jerome. Des... more

The Douglas Bastard: A Historical Novel of Scotland (Archibald the Grim Series Book 1)

by J R Tomlin

King Robert the Bruce and the Black Douglas are dead — and Scots must once more must fight for their freedom. Young Archibald, the Black Douglas's bastard son, returns from exile to a Scotland ravaged by war. With treachery and danger on every side, he must learn to sleep with a claymore in his hand and one eye open because even his closest friend may betray him...

Private Admission: A Black Comedy

by Antonio Robinson

“Famous? … Being famous don’t mean much nowadays if it ever did. They’re making murderers famous now."

Private Admission is a dark comedy about a man named Jimmee who's trying to write his breakout novel to elevate his stalled writing career. He uses Muffin and the other unsavory characters that he encounters during his day as his muse.

Reading With Matthew

by S. D. Turner

Into the Maelstrom

by Douglas Cornell

1922 - OKLAHOMA: Oil-rich Osage Indians are being murdered one by one. It's up to a veteran US Marshal and a young FBI agent to catch the killer and solve one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Strange Child

by G. J. Daily

Marvin Johnson was an influential author before his daughter was murdered nearly three decades ago, and now with the death of his wife, he is contemplating suicide. Until Samantha Wilkins, a homeless 16-year-old, invades Murphy's sheltered existence in an impoverished neighborhood in Boston and forces him to face parts of his past he would rather forget. Known as the neighborhood recluse, Marvin is a man whose mystery and eccentricity border on the mythical, especially when he begins talki... more

The Courtesan's Daughter

by Susanne Dunlap

What happens when a daughter's dream and a mother's sordid past collide? New York, 1910. Seventeen-year-old Sylvie and her French-immigrant mother Justine eke out a living doing piecework in a tenement on the Lower East Side, while Sylvie attends school so that she can escape their life of poverty by becoming a teacher. At least, that's what her mother believes should happen. Sylvie, though, has a different dream. She wants to be a star in the new moving pictures, just like the beautiful V... more

THE VOYAGE OF A DRESS

by Amy Hartman

HA! (Humanity's Absurdities)

by Remo Perini

From the mind of a retired harpsichord psychologist, HA! (Humanity's Absurdities) touches upon the meaning of life in much the same way that a misplaced moist towelette does not. HA! is a sardonic parody, rife with irony, satire, and lampoons of every-day drivel-laden gibberish. Complete with a glossary of insightful and meaningless original vernacular, this volume will exercise your mind and keep you laughing, grinning, or smirkingly amused as you try to discern fiction from fabrication or mere... more

The Judges

by Eric J. Matluck

"You can't win unless you're judged." So somebody tells Mary Sorabi, and Mary is no stranger to being judged. She's a young woman, half-Indian, half-Chinese, who's a classical pianist, and plays the kind of music, music from the twentieth century, that most people hate. But that's her passion. When she wins a prestigious competition, her life changes, but rather than fill her with a sense of pride and accomplishment, it fills her with feelings of fear and claustrophobia because, suddenly... more

The Unsealing

by Robert Brighton

Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age ... Buffalo, New York, 1901 ... a muscular, young city, Queen of the Lakes ... The Electric City ... where the money spent to build Newport mansions and Park Avenue townhouses is made, plays host to the world’s greatest fair, the Pan-American Exposition and its 8,000,000 guests ... And less than a mile from the great spectacle, a web of love, lust, and intrigue is forming among the young, elite Ashwood Set. Alicia and Edward Miller may be one of Ashwood’s... more

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