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Pieces To Mend

by Clarissa Kae

In their small agricultural town, Scarlett’s family is the picture-perfect variety. The mother encourages juvenile delinquents at the local detention center and her father coaches the church’s youth group. All is right until Scarlett lets a shameful secret slip. Blaming her for the indiscretion, the family silences Scarlett’s accusation but the arrival of a new high school student threatens the delicate balance. Everett’s giant frame and fractured skull are compliments of his father, but h... more

The Innocent

by Heather Shaw

It's 1982, and a group of locals and ex-pats gather in southern Mexico for a little cuchi-cuchi. Someone is watching, though. Someone knows that the party is just an excuse... but for what? Murder? Or something even worse.

Escape from the Lower East Side

by Richard Peres

A murder in the old country. A husband and friend's dramatic betrayals. A forgotten tragic tenement fire. This book brings them all together in the true-to-life story of Harris Wolff, based on research of the author's great grandfather and actual events, including participation in Civil War battles. This deeply historical novel of 19th century America transports the reader into the dark, claustrophobic hold of a sailing ship and the dangerous confines of New York City's worst neighborhood. Ulti... more

Surviving Crazy

by Frank Crimi

After a gigantic solar storm plunges the world into the dark ages, a cast of borderline crazy characters find themselves stranded at a remote mountain diner. Cut off from the rest of the electricity-deprived world, the group, whose grip on sanity is tenuous, and whose coping skills leave much to be desired, are forced to rely on each other with laughingly absurd results. As their situation rapidly deteriorates, the distant town of Jericho becomes their only hope for survival. Only the road to Je... more

The Ninth Passage

by Dale O. Cloninger

Alec Driver, a WWII veteran earns an advanced degree in music from a prestigious university. At age thirty-seven with glowing recommendations in hand, he secures the post of choir teacher at a small town high school on Florida's west coast. Soon thereafter he falls in love with Tracy Ashbury a bright, talented and attractive student in his choir. Community outrage aroused by his courtship demands his dismissal prompting certain influential citizens to affect Alec's rescue. National recognition f... more

Seniors

by Thomas Quealy

Four bored senior citizens with shocking pasts — Fred the ex-assassin, Maureen the retired CIA spy, Ida the former dodgy entrepreneur, and Gabe the human lie detector — are all regulars at Pig Feet Sadie’s Cowboy Saloon near Wall Street, a rowdy watering hole for Old Wild West enthusiasts as well as for the modern-day bandits who brought us the devastating 2008 Financial Crisis. In search of a final great adventure before being summoned to that last big round-up in the sky, they instead find... more

Raines in the Day

by Gene Lee

Raines in the Day, is the story of one man’s life as it unfolds through the first half of the 20th Century with the state of Florida for a backdrop. Rich with the bittersweet gifts of life and infused with the beauty of the sea and the outdoors, Raines in the Day details John Raines journey through loss, love, and healing. With appeal to readers of Patrick Smith’s A Land Remembered, and Richard Powell’s I Take This Land, John Rain... more

Billy the Bat

by Patrick Henry Adams

Come join Billy the Bat on a trip through the craziest year in modern history- 2020! See where COVID-19 originated, see the Communists react to a horrific event, and show your children what they can do to keep our freedoms alive! A quick, fun look at a long hard year- and this is only the first half! Bonus coloring pages at the end

Lake Fun for You and Me

by Rinda Beach

This book is part story – part souvenir. Follow Zoe and her family on their lake vacation on the left side of each page. On the right side, there’s room to record your own lake vacation story. When Mom reveals Lake Hunt Fun, the adventures begin. Maddie, Nick, and Zoe explore the lake while they look for answers to Mom’s questions. The more answers they find, the more points they earn towards winning a prize. Zoe is the youngest in the family, but she’s determined to beat her older sister and br... more

Snakes and Lovers

by Anne Lovett

Can a snake give two stubborn people a second chance at love?

Beach bum Daisy needs to save her parents’ marriage. They’re the one steady thing in her twice-divorced life. But her trip home to a small Georgia town gets complicated by a disappeared friend, a small boy named Raj, a five-foot python named Bogart, a jewel thief, a cranky bus, a trip to New Orleans, and, oh yes—the guy who broke her heart in high school. Can Daisy risk a second chance?

Bikini Cowgirls of the Urban Legion

by Dave Agans

Years after Meg Brecker’s scuba-diving boyfriend is scooped up by a firefighting plane, she returns incognito to investigate the crime scene. Spear-gun-wielding dolphins attack; Meg escapes and collapses on a Galveston beach. So much for going incognito—she wakes up surrounded by the cast of the Next Bikini Cowgirl reality show, and the discovery launches her and the cowgirls into the viral stratosphere. Meg links the show to her boyfriend’s demise and joins as a contestant to find the mo... more

Datuk: A Memoir of the Fallen King

by VC Thong M.D

“Once, he was like a big tree that sheltered our whole family.”- Mdm LiLi, my mother. A story about a person in his late life, of how he influenced the dynamics of his huge family. Contrary to his past, when he was rich and powerful, he is now frail, abandoned, and alone. How does a person who was once regarded as the ‘Most Notable Chinese of Kuala Lipis’, end up being in such a situation? And how does his family react to it? This is a book that tells the final days of that old man, who I love.

Priestess of Pompeii: The Initiate's Journey

by Sandra C. Hurt

Pompeii, First Century BCE: Fate intervenes when a baby girl destined to be a servant is abandoned and miraculously found by a wealthy merchant family. Epileptic seizures and prophetic dreams disturb young Rufilla's life and loves. Leaving home, she embarks on a journey to ancient Greece where rituals, both healing and provocative, compel her to reconcile her powerful desire for independence with the expected role as someone's wife. Goddesses and gods, oracles and healers, women of wisdom and my... more

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Melody's Magical Flying Machine

by Elaine Ambrose

Melody is an amusing 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who narrates her adventures. She's a storyteller and loves to daydream beneath a catalpa tree in the backyard. After a sad day at school, she meets an enchanted talking bird, and they use a 3-D printer to create a flying machine so she can soar through the air, scare a group of bullies, and proclaim her unique abilities.

Odette's: A Quality Men's Club

by Bridget Finnegan

It’s been five years since investigator Jessamyn Jakes left her life as a prostitute to start her detective agency, J. Jakes Discrete Investigations. When Suzanne—her former lover and fellow prostitute—goes missing, Jess is drawn into a mystery that goes beyond the raunchy, shipbuilding town that was 1854 Portsmouth—all the way from the antebellum south to the Isles of Shoals. Together with her adopted daughter Sarah, Jessamyn unravels Suzanne’s disappearance all while uncovering other my... more

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