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The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

by S.W. Clemens

When tragedy strikes Tom Birmingham on the brink of his retirement, he has an out-of-body experience and a conversation with Fate, who charges him to tie up "loose ends.” Tom’s neighbors rally to his aid, bringing their own issues to bear. Emily Abbot, a closet novelist, seeks a "real life,” and freedom from obligation. Steve Wexler, a musician who once flirted with fame, must come to terms with growing older, but no wiser. Gary Myron is simply trying to make a liv... more

A VERY IMPORTANT POWER: A Portal Fantasy about Bullies, Bystanders, Upstanders, Kindness, Empathy, Inclusion, Diversity & Gender

by Wild West Wendy Jo

For everyone who has ever felt like they didn’t matter or belong. Nine-year-old Wild West Wendy Jo is a feisty, red-headed, cowboy-boot-wearing tomboy. She is considered a misfit by many of her classmates and becomes a target for bullying. Afraid to go to school, Wendy Jo writes a letter to VIPPI ̶ the main character of her favorite TV program ̶ The Vippi Mouse Show. When Vippi answers her, everything changes. Vippi leads Wendy Jo on an exciting quest that could help her to solve her pr... more

Hidden Among Us

by Garrett Hutson

Before America had its own spies, brave men like Martin Schuller tracked down and captured foreign spies hidden among us. As the threat of war looms in Europe, the shadow game of espionage has come to America, and Martin Schuller knows it. While most Americans go about their lives oblivious to any threat from abroad, Martin's work at the State Department's counter-intelligence office keeps them safe, even going undercover to catch Nazi spies. But an anticipated bust at the rally of the Germa... more

Searching for Nora: After the Doll's House

by Wendy Swallow

Searching for Nora answers the question that audiences of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House have asked for decades: What happens to Nora Helmer, Ibsen's protagonist, after she walks out on her husband and young children at the end of Ibsen's play? Guided by the realities of Nora's time and close study of Ibsen's celebrated character, author Wendy Swallow sends Nora on a journey that takes the outcast down the social ladder in Norway and sweeps her, in disguise, onto an emigrant ship for America... more

The Kilwade Tragedy

by Terry Keys

Seventeen-year-old Blaze Planter is a Jr. at Kilwade, High School. His parents have recently divorced. His grades are slipping. His anger is growing with each day. Relationships with his closest friends are failing. Secrets about his life are being uncovered. No one understands what he is going through. And everyone who has betrayed him needs to be taught a lesson. So now he stands with the one friend that has never betrayed him. The one friend that does what he asks every time he squeezes the... more

The Inheritance - The Guernsey Novels No 7

by Anne Allen

How close were Victor Hugo and his copyist? 1862 Young widow Eugénie faces an uncertain future in Guernsey. A further tragedy brings her to the attention of Monsieur Victor Hugo, living in exile on the island only yards away from Eugénie’s home. Their meeting changes her life and she becomes his copyist, forming a strong friendship with both Hugo and his mistress, Juliette Drouet. 2012 Dr Tess Le Prevost, Guernsey-born but living in England, is shocked to inherit her Great-Aunt’s house on ... more

Against Mark: On the Antiquity of the Jew called Jesus

by Brian Josepher

"Against Mark: On the Antiquity of the Jew called Jesus," to be independently published on November 1, 2019, explores a revolutionary find. Did Jesus Christ die at the prison of Machaerus, years before he took his mission to Jerusalem? Did a book, written some forty years after that event, document the true story of Jesus? What happened to that book, following the rise of Christianity, and how did it resurface in recent times? In Against Mark, we find answers to these questions, and many oth... more

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A Distant Past, An Uncertain Future

by J. R. Klein

What do you do when the most important person in your life is taken from you? Thomas Blake is a successful author living in Del Mar, California. When his wife suddenly dies, his life comes to a standstill. Caught in the clutches of writer’s block, he spends time in a local café where he is befriended by a group of surfers half his age. They invite him onto the water in Del Mar and down to Baja. Will their youthful energy be enough to bring Thomas Blake back to life? Or has the die been forever c... more

Beneath the Flames

by Gregory Lee Renz

BENEATH THE FLAMES is an intimate combination of love, race, and the complexities of life through the eyes of a young urban firefighter. A Rookie firefighter, Mitch Garner, is assigned to the busiest firehouse in the heart of the Milwaukee Ghetto. The vicious hazing by a senior firefighter, the anguish of dealing with the intense violence of the streets, and terrifying firefights has him on the verge of quitting within weeks. He’s an outsider in this strange world of the inner city. His salvatio... more

Stubborn Debra Sue

by Jeffery Tracey Sr

Inspirational story based on true story about a little girl who never gave up after being afflicted with polio. It tells about her struggles to overcome the many obstacles she faced due to her handicap. It tells how she was bullied and treated as an outcast by her grandmother. It tells of her love and affection she has for all stray animals. It tells about her friendships and the pain and agony she felt when her best friend betrayed her. She would get knocked down, but she refused to stay down. ... more

The Island Years

by J K Gunne

Lena Sundman, a rude and often dysfunctional young woman, is found brutally murdered on an island near Stockholm – a haunt of wealthy retirees and artistic weekenders. Taking refuge on a neighbouring island after the sudden death of his wife, Dan Byrne found himself strangely drawn to the troubled girl, starting from the moment he reluctantly rescues her in the teeth of a gathering snowstorm. Suspicion falls first on a family of Iraqi refugees, initially welcomed into the community but graduall... more

Save Him

by William M. Hayes

Rydel Scott, a brilliant scientist working at a secret military lab, accidentally discovers a form of time travel while working on a project designed to save wounded soldiers in the field. Rydel's sister, a woman of faith, tells Rydel on her deathbed that she has received a message from God. The message—save Jesus Christ from the cross. And Rydel Scott travels back in time to do just that. It is believed even the smallest change to the past can cause catastrophic repercussions for future g... more

One Plus Seven

by Frederick Regenold

After marrying a virtual stranger, but one who had the bucks and promised her a world of comfort, Kendra Smithton Hatley, returns to La Jolla and phones an old flame, Brock Ainslie. He's an unsuccessful novelist who lives in a house his deceased father left him. Up front, Kendra informs Brock she murdered her husband two nights ago in Memphis, leaving his body on the recliner where she poisoned him with an overdose of Xarelto. Brock mini-panics at the thought of being an accomplice, but vividly ... more

Britfield and the Lost Crown

by C.R. Stewart

Tom has spent most of his life locked behind the cruel walls of Weatherly Orphanage, but when he learns that his parents might be alive, Tom knows he must do what he can to find them. He can’t leave Weatherly without his best friend Sarah, so armed with a single clue to his past, the word BRITFIELD, the two make a daring escape by commandeering a hot air balloon. Now they’re on the run from a famous Scotland Yard detective and what looks like half the police officers in England. Tom and Sarah’s ... more

The Third Half of Our Lives: Two Old Guys Not Selling Anything

by Jon Foyt

Two men reflect on what went right and wrong during their long lives in this novel. Socratic dialogue on growing very old. These two men of the Silent Generation might not confront any of the really intriguing issues—from their white maleness to the sex lives of octogenarians—but they do hit the classics: parenthood, accomplishments, and the point of it all. A philosophical tale about two men in old age.

“The Third Half of Our Lives” is a dialogue between t... more

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