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All the Little Secrets

by D. Thrush

When Vera runs into her old boyfriend, it breaks open the past. Things had ended badly, but Brad seems genuinely happy to see her. He had been The One, and now he seems more interested than ever. There’s just one problem… he’s married. Is it wrong when she was with him first? YES, says her best friend. Don’t be the other woman in a love triangle. But things are not always black or white. What if he really is her soul mate? What if they really do belong together? This could be her last chance. Bu... more

The Time Artist

by Sheila Martin

Night after night for as long as she can remember, Rachel would watch the clock’s second hand annihilating moment after moment. Where did they all go? Is the past still back there somewhere? Is the future out there already?

And now she was faced with a more pressing question: Had she been flung into the future in a terrifying acid trip where she saw a body face down in a puddle of blood, her own hand gripping a smoking revolver?

Over the course of the 1968-69 art school year... more

BEDLOE (A True Fable)

by tony powers

The 2016 Presidential election of Ransom B. Conover has led to the oligarchy of 2040 in which 48 year old widower John Bedloe and his 16 year old son James now live. They are members of the Associate Class. This is John Bedloe's sardonic comment on the human condition based on his life experiences. As such, it is an existential reflection on the rise of The State which has now taken Bedloe from being relatively free in 2016 and having relative free will, to the tyrannical present in ... more

One Day in the Life of Thomas August

by Robert Jacoby

It’s the end of summer, 1999, and Thomas August has a few problems. He finds himself on the edge of his 39th birthday, his marriage in trouble, bored with his job, and afraid his kids will end up like him. When he gets fired for browsing internet porn at work, he thinks his life is over. Looking backwards and forwards and through time, Thomas sets off on a journey through the city of Louisville, Kentucky, in search of a place he can call home, before he goes home.

Kissing Daisy Parker

by Michael Milton

Daisy is a Sylvia-Plath-reading, Robert Smith devotee, planning on a summer of Australian beaches with or without her two favourite boys. Obsessed gamer and jealous boyfriend Greg needs the prize money from the Scottish Street Fighter II championships to join Daisy in Oz. She wouldn’t really go without him. Would she? Scottish-born, English-accented Junaid is the couple’s best friend. Haunted by that school dance and terrified of the future, he finds himself falling for his best friend’s girl... more

In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams

by Thomas Davis

Winner of the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award for 2019: Wisconsin's Washington Island in the 1850s was about as remote from the slave-holding southern states as it was possible to get in the United States. Before the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, which made it legal for bounty hunters to capture any black person they claimed was an escaped slave in the abolitionist states, a number of black families established a fishing community on the island. In the Unsettled Homeland of Drea... more

Gobbledy

by Lis Anna-Langston

Ever since eleven-year-old Dexter Duckworth and his brother, Dougal, lost their mom, everything has been different. But “different” takes on a whole new meaning when, one day just before Christmas (or Kissmas, as they call it), Dexter finds a golden rock in the forest that hatches into an adorable alien. Gobbledy is smarter than he seems and is lost on planet Earth. Before long, Gobbledy takes Dexter, Dougal, and their best friend Fi on an adventure of friendship, family, and loss―one that requi... more

Uncertain Luck

by Rea Keech

Her mother has died and her father is missing. In despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her father in Tokyo. It is 1969, and her father has helped with student protests against the war in Vietnam. This gives Emiko a lead to start her search. To survive in Tokyo, she stays at a hostel in the seedy Sanya neighborhood and takes a job as hostess in a bar where she’s required to “talk cute,” which goes against her grain. She’s previously refused an offer to... more

The quick brown fox

by claire white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. while the lazy dog jumps over the lazy fox.

Cry Sanctuary

by Carole Kulikowski

CRY SANCTUARY by Carole Kulikowski. The novel follows the trials of Anna, a young girl born with a facial deformity (like the author herself), who grows up in Nazi Germany and during World War II escapes their euthanasia program. At thirteen years old, Anna is taken from her family. She and another little girl, Liesel, in the program escape from the Nazis and flee through a war torn Germany finding sanctuary in Switzerland. After the war, Anna writes her witness statement because little has been... more

Eight Pound Cows

by Dr. Barbara Ten Brink

Cows are huge animals that weigh between 1,000 to 2,000 pounds. Wouldn’t it be fun if cows weighed the same as our pet dogs and cats? Wouldn’t it be fun if cows were also our fur babies? Eight Pound Cows is a story about imagining cows that only weigh eight pounds. As eight-pound cows, they would be the size of our other pets. If cows were smaller and lighter, it would be easier to care for them, to feed them, to walk them as they graze. It would be exciting to teach them some tricks as co... more

BabyWarrior and the Seven Deadly Grandmother Book II

by Emil Simeonov

“With horror, the baby realized these weren’t rocks . . . these were the TrunkNoses!! A horrible, merciless army, with big iron helmets, rubber uniforms, and rubber trunks they were breathing through. Their lifeless eyes hid behind the cold glass of their goggles, the filters of their trunks filtering out the clean air, letting only the poisons in. They were so evil, they were breathing only the poisons in the air!! “ The second book of the fantastical adventures of BabyWarrior and his faithfu... more

BabyWarrior and the Seven Deadly Grandmothers Book I

by Emil Simeonov

“The SpottedOnes! Enormous bear like creatures with horrible jaws full of shiny, sharp teeth, and small, red, bloodthirsty eyes looking at him without blinking. Everybody knew their spots were painted. The SpottedOnes painted spots all over their bodies every morning. They wanted to look at least as pleasant as hyenas, but it didn’t help. They looked hideous . . . horrendous . . . horrifying!! “ Book one of the fantastical adventures of BabyWarrior and his faithful sidekick, BullHorse. A ta... more

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

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