BookLife - Resources and tools for book publishers and writers

Milly and the Tale from Across the Street

by Martha Klopp

Milly is an imaginative 10 year old girl. She is excited when a new girl, Cora, moves into the beautiful, old, and mysterious house across the street. They become fast friends and they discover a secret room. In that room, there is a dramatic journal and magical potion recipes. They waste no time trying out “Canine Communication” and have a ball with Milly’s dog, Angus. It’s not all fun and games when they come across journal entries and old letters hinting at an evil son who is plotting aga... more

Saint Agnes’ Garden

by Diana Lynn Klueh

Jodie Sealy is an outsider at Saint Agnes School, a privileged southern girl in a rough part of town. She learns what life is like in an underprivileged community. She also discovers she is not cut out to be a nun, but is a unique flower in God’s garden.

BETH CURTIS: CONQUEROR OF DARKNESS

by James L. Graham

People tended to pity Kathleen (Beth) Elizabeth Curtis. Most people assumed the thirteen-year-old was a frightened little girl, who could barely function without help. Some even suggested she be locked up in a home because she was totally blind. However, her parents raised her to be as independent as possible. Being blind was no excuse for her not to stretch her limits and do what others considered impossible for her to do. Beth awakens aboard the starship taking her from Earth back to her ... more

You Can't Invite a Fish to a Dance Party

by Jessica Williams

The pets all agreed, they couldn't invite Fish to the Dance Party. It was too dangerous for him, and besides, he wouldn't have any fun. But Fish has other plans. A delightful story about a group of well-meaning pets who's lack of understanding leads them to exclude a friend from their plans. You Can't Invite a Fish to a Dance Party shows that everyone can be part of the fun, no matter their circumstances

RIPPLES OF TRUTH

by Nell Eva Newton

Wounded Angels

by Chuck Miceli

Available January 14, 2020. Maureen Bower remembers the day her father walked out of her life forever. She struggles with her fear of abandonment until she falls in love with Frank Russo. Together, they overcome family prejudices, separation, war, and loss. Their life becomes rich and full until the unthinkable happens and Maureen’s fear of abandonment rises to the surface and consumes her. Friends, family and ministers are helpless to lift her from her depression. Enter Doris Cant... more

The Peninsula

by Alan Thompson

The School of Illusions

by Karl Toepfer

In 1969-1970, the unnamed narrator, a film student at UCLA, begins a homosexual affair with another student of film, Victor, a Jewish political activist engaged in the organization of demonstrations against the Vietnam War. They plunge into eerie, complex erotic pleasures. But the narrator continues his sexual relationship with a Jewish girl, Rachel, a philosophy student, and harbors amorous feeling toward another young woman, Laurie, a chemistry student. Victor, too, pursues an erotic relations... more

Our Land: everyday stories can change an election

by JJ Gaitán

During an important election year in Europe, Ferosa, a successful American company, and a European government investigate the death of Manu Moretti, an employee who worked for Ferosa’s European branch.

Documents left by the victim expose the company´s bad management and financial secrets but also links his death to the growing far-right movement.

As the election year develops, an anti-immigrant sentiment that has been slowly stewing in the population is taken advantage... more

The Hand of Fate

by Alvira Michaels

If you like reading contemporary fiction with a supernatural theme, add a splash of romance, some social issues and a pinch of humour, then this is the book for you! Minimum reading age: 18 and over. She was still coming to terms with being adopted, then all of a sudden she was thrust into the limelight by a celebrity and had to deal with the resulting fallout. Determined to live her life her way, on her terms, Alexandra Gray, who hails from London, finds love across the pond and settles in S... more

Song of Sugar Sands

by Debra Coleman Jeter

A deeply committed young man falls in love with the beautiful but troubled Acadia, who knows herself too selfish, too sinful, and too skeptical in her faith to marry a preacher.

Acadia Powers nearly lost her faith at an early age due to what she saw as the hypocrisy of her parents’ generation. In college—where the novel begins—she meets and falls in love with Peter O’Neil, who is fervent in his faith and wants to share the good news with th... more

LONG NOSE LEGACY: A Dog's Story of Royalty and Loyalty

by J. G. Eastman

Winner 2020 Parents' Choice Silver Award for audiobook and 2019 BRAG Medallion.

Gracie, a haughty royal Russian Wolfhound (Borzoi) show dog, expects her noble puppies to follow in her pawprints of being a pampered princess.

Daughter Carnegie has inherited Gracie’s aristocratic attitude and assumes she’ll be pick of the litter. But when the coveted title goes to her humble but perfect sister, Madison, she’s resentful and scoffs at being a sill... more

Obsessed By A Promise

by Sandra Warren

A CHILDHOOD PROMISE! A LOST CHILD! THE ORPHAN TRAIN! A LIFE ON HOLD! JT Saunders grew up homeless on the streets of New York at the onset of The Great Depression. Through perseverance and hard work he gained money and prestige, married and had a son, yet it all meant little to him because, as an eleven-year old, he promised his father he'd keep his little brother safe and he failed. The compulsion to find his lost brother and rectify what he perceived as he personal negligence in carrying out th... more

The Misadventures of Rabbi Kibbitz and Mrs. Chaipul

by Mark Binder

She owns the only restaurant in Chelm. He’s the wisest man in this village of fools. Together, they make an unlikely and lovable pair. Weddings and celebrations, stories of Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah and Passover, this brief novel of stories has it all. Themes include the importance of exercise for seniors, maintaining your identity, the challenge of work and relationships, and of course the joy of eating good food.

The Winter Sisters: A Novel

by Tim Westover

Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods to the superstitious masses. But the local healers, the Winter sisters, claim to treat yellow fever, consumption, and the hell-roarin' trots just as well as he can. Some folks call the sisters herb women; some call them witches. Waycross calls them quacks.But when the threat of rabies—incurable and fatal—comes to town, Dr. Waycross and the Winter siste... more

Dancing on the Spider's Web

by Sasha Paulsen

Is love incompatible with intelligence? Sarah Glass believes this is the case. Shy and serious, she is half-way through medical school when she receives a prize for being outstanding and decides to give herself "a month to live." She goes to San Francisco where, in the colorful, chaotic 1970s, she falls into a series of adventures with characters who fill the city in this "winter after the summer of love." These draw her back to her home in a farming community, Napa, to the Mexico of her grandp... more

Discover Books

General Fiction (including literary and historical)