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  • Exposure

    by Adam Cliff
    After the passing of their father in 1992, Harold Pritchett’s children take control of high quality photographs that Harold took in the Dealey Plaza area on November 22, 1963. One son, with guidance from an unscrupulous reporter, has the photos evaluated by a Kennedy assassination historian who identifies known government operatives in incriminating circumstances. Sonny’s attempt to deliver “Box 63” to researchers unravels as his family is exposed to vicious attacks from the Kansas City mob an... more

  • Just Before Too Late

    by Mel Currie
    Paul McCarahan has killed twice. The first time it was in Germany, his Afro-German mother’s country. The second time the theater was Pittsburgh, his hometown. The latter killing made him something of a hero to the local African American community, from which he nonetheless has drifted away. However, it is the violent struggle in the Rhineland when he was nineteen years old that has marked him, apparently for life. This “victory” remains his dark secret. He muses that it might be his guiding lig... more

  • Saving Jahan

    by Hans Joseph Fellmann
    A Peace Corps volunteer in Central Asia finds purpose in helping a friend escape a life of servitude. Johann Felmanstien is going nowhere in life. He has no money, no job, no girl, and a degree that would look better as a doormat than on his CV. He applies for the Peace Corps and is accepted. His country of service is the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan, which is seventy percent desert and run by a totalitarian dictator with a cult of personality. Johann is sent to teach English i... more

  • The Storm 1776

    by Tom Schneider
    Christmas night, 1776. General Washington is losing the Revolutionary War. In a desperate attempt to turn the corner, he plans to cross the Delaware River and lead a surprise attack on Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey in the midst of a winter storm. Amongst Washington's troops is 14-year-old Nathan Smith, whose mother has just been murdered by a group of Hessian soldiers. While trying to care for his younger sister and track down his father, Nathan's manhood will be tested and transformed d... more

  • Lordly Wadson

    by Jonathan Land Evans

    The book (warmly reviewed and 'recommended' by The U.S. Review of Books) comprises two comic novelettes and three shorter entertainments, all set in Bermuda in the late 1930s and featuring the character Lordly Wadson, a private detective who sometimes secretly moonlights as the humorous calypso singer 'Lord Tightwad', plus various of his associates and a rotating cast of American visitors to the resort island. The original novelette ('White Roads and Moonlight'... more

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    kelachandra

    by Albin Benny
    Now a day’s water courses are polluting day by day so we need purified water. in fact we can get more water purifiers and water filter but we have more money loss such as maintaining these system and replacements and other. The best way to fresh water with in your budget is installing well re charging system. It’s a new method for storing water with less money. We stored rain water for installing some products and stored it in well. So we can get good water sources and giving many fresh water wi... more

  • A Tough Nut To CRACK

    by Eric VanTuyl
    Mac is a macadamia nut that has some unique ways about him that his friends just can't grasp. within this wonderful story of friendship, they come to an understanding that it's not how different he is, but how special he is inside.

  • JoJo Learns About Credibility

    by Sivonnia DeBarros
    JoJo learns about a legal principle - Credibility - in a very practical way after lying to his counsin, Javi, about taking his cereal. JoJo quickly learns that lying does not create a great reputation or trust. So, JoJo makes the right decision to be truthful when confronted by his Grandmother. Once this decision is made, JoJo feels better about telling the truth and know that he can be trusted in the future.

  • The Haunted Hanging Tree

    by David and Michael Krumboltz
    Ten-year-old Scooter Kane, and his sister, Mary, learn their great-great-grandfather was hanged for murdering the sheriff of Dry Gulch, California in 1873. The two kids visit the area to seek the truth.

  • When Clara Was Twelve

    by Terence Clarke
    During a stay in Paris in 1957, an American girl Clara Foy learns that her mother Lauren had an illegitimate child when she was a teenager living in California. The infant girl was immediately given up for adoption. This event has been kept a guarded secret until the present moment, when the lost little girl comes onto the scene, now a young Parisian woman named Emma Dusel. With the aid of Emma's birth father, an Irish painter now living in Paris named Jack Roman, Clara attempts to bring abou... more

  • A Garden Locked

    by Naomi Ruppin

    “Recall yourself, Abigail,” the king said. “And be thankful you’re a woman and do not suffer the consequences a man would, for speaking as you just have.”

    “I’ve never been less thankful to be a woman!”

    Abigail flings these words at her brilliant but remote father King Solomon. He’s just casually informed her she’s to marry the sinister Prophet Nathan, a lizard-eyed palace schemer four times her age. Determined to prevent ... more

  • NINJANS 3: The Golden Seal

    by Dave Kwan

    Jody Long Grass honours the dying request of her grandfather, Carl Long Grass - travel to Japan and return a special Artifact to its rightful owners, a Ninja Clan. The Artifact was passed down from the Sword Master Katsu, to his son Takeshi. The Ninja Master bestowed the relic to his Ninja graduate, a Shoshone young man named Yuji; who later passed the Artifact to his son Kamatsu. Years later, Kamatsu gave it to his son George, who handed it down to his son Carl. Now, the Ninjan Master is dyi... more

  • NINJANS 2: Black Feather

    by Dave Kwan

    Teenager Tommy is strong-armed to join a local street gang that's organized to steal vehicles and do break-ins. Evidence at a crime scene lead the Police to arrest Tommy and he goes before the Court as a Juvenile. The Judge gives Tommy a 'Second Chance' and releases him to the care of his grandparents, Carl and Kathy Long Grass. Living of the Indian Reserve bores Tommy until he enrols at Gold Eagle Martial Arts. The discipline, progress, and positive friendship... more

  • NINJANS: The Beginning

    by Dave Kwan

    The Japanese Ninja Clans were attacked by a Warlord and sent into hiding as Outlaws with a reward for their capture and death. As the sole survivor of his Ninja Clan, Takeshi Shinobi sails to America in search of safety, freedom, and his final duty of honour - find someone to inherit his Ninja skills and knowledge. The young apprentice Takeshi finds and successfully trains becomes more like family, and Takeshi gives him the Japanese name, Yuji, which means good son. Takeshi passes over all hi... more

  • Fensetter Falls

    by Jack Young
    On a snowy Thanksgiving eve the latter day Fensetters gathered in the failing town that bears their name. But the occasion had an ominous note, for the family fortune has shrunk to an alarming level. In the best genetic tradition, the inheriting sons resolve to swindle each other and enlist outside help to do the job. So with a voluptuous "interceding" gypsy and a sinister, semi-retired hitman moving into the old mansion, the future of Fensetter Falls is about to be decided. Or is it? What ensue... more

  • Little Hometown, America

    by CG FEWSTON

    GOLD Winner in the 2020 Human Relations Indie Book Awards for Contemporary Realistic Fiction

    FINALIST in the SOUTHWEST REGIONAL FICTION category of the 14th Annual National Indie Excellence 2020 Awards (NIEA)

    LITTLE HOMETOWN, AMERICA

    “Readers of The Catcher in the Rye and similar stories will relish the astute, critical inspection of life that makes Lit... more

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