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Birds of a Feather

by Tom crice

A young boy's happy life is interrupted when his grandfather passes away. For a time, he struggles with his thoughts and feelings. Then a chance encounter on the subway reveals a path back to the happiness he once knew.

From Paris to Storyville: A Tale of Painted Ladies

by Kristin Cherryhomes

Paris, 1900: A young Impressionist painter is challenged by his teacher to find inspiration and create art outside of Paris. In his quest to locate a destination, he discovers a gentleman’s guide to Storyville, in New Orleans. Then by chance, sketches a musician on holiday who hails from the same notorious red-light district. The two artists strike up an instant friendship; each promising to show the other the face of their beloved city that most tourists rarely get a chance to see. Thus, they ... more

The Kitchens of Canton

by Isham Cook

Jeff Malmquist is unaccountably catapulted to the year 2060. He finds himself in New Gary, Indiana, a labor camp of one million Chicagoans, their identities hacked and incriminated as pedophiles through the collusion of a corrupt US Government, the Russian cybermafia, and China. He escapes to Chicago, only to find himself in a full-scale replica of Ancient Rome in China, erected for the wealthy country’s amusement and manned by a million enslaved Italians. As he struggles to orient... more

Masks of Morality

by T.L. Mumley

Carysssa climbs the corporate ladder of Silicon Valley...until she brings a child into the world and nothing is about herself anymore. She becomes concerned about unbridled capitalism and planetary eco-collapse, with humanity treading on a slippery slope. Surrounded by parents turning inward to truth and empathy, each makes choices beneficially impacting lives---revealing the reality and spiritual costs of politics. For Parisian artist Anna, this means opening her heart to the boy who fatally... more

Gables Court

by Alan S. Kessler

Good Afternoon, The novel isn’t Romance, erotica, or faith-based fiction but it is about the resilience of the human spirit in our quest to find love. Although the language is adult, the scenes of intimacy aren’t graphic. I appreciate how Pearl S. Buck handled sexual matters in The Good Earth with the simple sentence: she taught him. Age 24, Samuel Baas is a romantic and virgin who wants love and marriage before sex. After moving from staid New England to the hothouse world of Miami, he... more

Galahad's Fool

by Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller

A year after the death of his co-creator and soul mate Lainie, a grizzled puppeteer struggles to build a solo show. But what Albert Fisher intends as a lightweight spoof turns sharply personal, and he labors to birth a raw myth of love and loss. His aging, pot-bellied Sir Galahad launches a second mad quest for the Holy Grail. To follow him, his lady secretly changes guises with their frail, androgynous Fool. As his play evolves, Albert finds kinship with Galahad’s despair and dogged vision, a... more

Giants in the Clouds

by Maria Muscarella

A poetic journey through a child's dreamworld, Giants in the Clouds takes its reader on a nighttime adventure in which friendly giants climb down from great castles in the sky to romp and roam the farmlands and get up to all manner of mischievous tricks while the rest of the house sleeps peacefully in their beds.

A Well-Respected Man: a novel

by David W. Berner

Chicago professor Martin Gregory is the author of a critically acclaimed novel of love and longing, a cult favorite among women. The book brings him unexpected status and prestige, but also unwelcome fame. A love affair with one of his students derails his career and breaks his heart. Coming to terms with a life knocked off balance, Martin retreats to a quiet English village, only to be confronted at his flat by a mystery woman with an unexpected message and an implausible request, one that c... more

Can You See Us Now?

by Cheryl Benton

Three best friends rebel against unsolicited AARP cards, hot flashes, bosses, becoming invisible, and the perceptions of what’s old. Suzy, Trish, and Madge, best friends since their early twenties, seemed to have it all. Beautiful, smart, and successful, they'd made it to the top in the most demanding city of them all, New York. Then they turned 50 and found that the world which once was their oyster started closing up faster than a New York minute. Bartenders ignore them, bosses marginaliz... more

The Sapphire Song

by Todd Erick Pedersen

The time and the place are universal. Metaxaeus, a youthful yet visionary sculptor, will embark on an odyssey in which he will at last meet face to face with Akasha, a talented storyteller from a distant township. Set in a simple landscape of mountains and rivers, The Sapphire Song is a meditation on the possibilities of love, when seen in the light of the spirit. Underscoring a fidelity to the sacred dimension of life, that so often reveals itself to us in the inmost presence of our dreams, and... more

The Helicopter Pilot - A Novel

by Darcy Hoover

Far removed from the nine to five existence of normal folk, nomads of the modern age scour the hinterlands and remote corners of our globe in a never-ending quest for resources. Modern day explorers, these hard men endure months away from loved ones, exposed to foreign cultures and exotic dangers, all to scrape out a life, and perhaps find a little adventure.
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An established career in the First World grows stagnant, an opportunity presents itself, and a timid man ventures ... more

Ray Vs the Meaning of Life

by Michael F. Stewart

Grandma’s Last Will and Testament names Ray to inherit the trailer park. It’s a million-dollar estate with one hitch: to prove he’s not as aimless as he seems, Ray must discover the meaning of life by the end of the month. (She left the answer in an envelope.) If he fails, the camp goes to his estranged family. How does anyone find the meaning of life while running a park full of misfit miners, would-be truck racers, and one demanding little girl? There’s a bear too. A grizzly. Maybe that’ll ... more

Run or Die

by Beth Howlett

A young boy photographs a murder then runs for his life to escape the murderer. Ten years later the murderer is running for President of the United States and wants to find the photos before anyone can bring them to light.

Lucia's Renaissance

by C.L.R. Peterson

Heresy is fatal in late Renaissance Italy, so only a suicidal zealot would so much as whisper the name of Martin Luther. But after Luther’s ideas ignite a young girl’s faith, she must choose--abandon her beliefs or risk her life in the turbulent world of late sixteenth-century Italy. Twelve-year-old Lucia discovers a dog-eared book by Martin Luther in her father's desk drawer. At once, she remembers her priest's diatribe against Luther. Curiosity drives her to examine the arch-heretic's ideas... more

Brahmahatya: Sanskrit for 'the act of killing a Brahmin'

by Rajiv Mittal

A story of revenge and redemption and deeds shaped by forces that humans believe they have defined through mythology and scriptures but still struggle to understand. A woman employee of a retirement home is shocked to discover that a new resident is in fact the son impersonating his father. The son is seeking revenge. She, by her past actions, is unwittingly complicit in his being there and now tries to thwart his peculiar plans. A senile woman-resident and an enigmatic founder offer him sage ad... more

One More Foxtrot: a tale of second chances

by Joyce Hicks

The year after octogenarian Betty Miles' exit from senior living as told in Hicks' Escape from Assisted Living, she's staying in Chicago. Her daughter Sharon D'Angelo is busy with Sharon's Desserts, her new shop in Elkhart, Indiana, funded by a legacy from her father. This equanimity between Betty and Sharon may be short-lived after a stranger makes an astonishing claim. Will mother and daughter work through this mystery together? Of course not. They have protected each other from upsetting trut... more

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