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Artwork on Mind's Canvas

by Shelley Vrgleski

A wondrous explosion of thought in all its vibrant colors, taking you from pain-filled transformations to a fantastically euphoric sense of pleasure, culminating in random thought and the art of simply being.

Artwork on Mind’s Canvas is Shelley Vrgleski's debut book of poetry with beautifully creative hand-drawn illustrations. Discover how each poem crafts a small part of the complete picture and that random thought consummates the journey – a journey into the senses tha... more

Pumpkinville

by P. Holiday Gardner

The struggles of a child actor's life during the 1980s while making a movie about the actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's childhood changes his path in life.

A Voice Beyond Reason

by Matthew Félix

A young Spaniard's awakening to his intuition
gets him out of his head, so he can follow his heart.

In his mountaintop village in southern Spain, Pablo's entire life seems planned out for him—his place, his vocation, his future. When family tragedy catapults him into an unconventional journey of self-discovery, everything he holds true is called into question. His hopes and dreams. His doubts and fears. His faith in something greater,... more

Terror Holiday

by Colin Guest

This book is based on the attempted coup in Turkey in July 2016, seen through the eyes of a fictitious English family on holiday there in Istanbul.

In His Time

by CAROLEE RUSSELL

This book was written for my niece, Gail, from a fragmented two page story she had written and wanted so much to see it in print. The yolk of the story is hers but I have created the rest of the egg, so to speak. It is about a Christian family who, with other families of similar values, broke from a wagon train headed west and settled in a secluded canyon to set up their farms and raise their families dedicated to the Lord. A severe two-year drought tests their faith and devotion. One young, ph... more

A Hero Dreams

by Mark Ristau

Devastated by his father’s sudden death, eight-year-old Ricky begins to see things—a ghostly silhouette in his bedroom window, a gruesome train accident involving four local teenagers, a terrorist attack that won’t occur for another twenty-five years. After a traumatic incident at a New England summer camp, the visions become more frequent, more vivid, and more disturbing. A mysterious voice assures him everything will be okay if he crosses the “threshold.” But j... more

Blame

by Tony Holtzman

Jason Pearce, a young geneticist, loses NIH support when his basic research falters. Though he and his attractive wife Audrey, legal counsel to Pearce’s university, disdain private, corporation support, he accepts an offer from a venture capital firm to take his research in a new direction: gene therapy to prevent Alzheimer’s Disease. As the research succeeds, Pearce’s disdain for private support diminishes—it enables him to buy a Lamborghini and build a new house in the country. Audrey become... more

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: A Billy Bob Joe Block Adventure

by Eldon N. Spady

Billy Bob Joe Block, the basis of 'Gators, Goons & Guns on the Bayou is at it again. Along with assorted cousins and associates, they're pursuing their animal-control/security-consulting/reality-show production businesses in Louisiana bayous. In the process, they seemingly just accidentally, encounter many exciting, often deadly, and nearly always hilarious run-in with mob family and drug cartel operations and assassins.

Add to this the bumbling interference from do-gooders who ... more

Nicole's New Friend

by Dawn Brotherton

Has Nicole found a nasty enemy…or a new friend? Nicole loves every moment she spends playing softball with her friends on the Lady Tigers fastpitch softball team. When her coach introduces a new girl, Nicole tries her best to welcome her onto the Lady Tigers. But Diana doesn’t seem interested in being friendly—or even polite. Nicole realizes that the team is infected with drama and negativity and Nicole finds herself dreading the practices she once loved. What will bring the team back together... more

This is Not a Test

by Liv Wigen Carswell

Sixteen year old Beth was ignorantly happy. That changed over spring break of her grade eleven year. Her mother kills herself, her boyfriend of over a year becomes abusive and she finds herself falling in love with a boy she just met. Being a teenager is hard enough as it is; add a dead mom to the mix, plus a younger sister to take care of and it becomes a living hell.

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by Jim Reardon

Noble Chaos

by Brent Green

RYAN STERLING is a nineteen-year-old college junior traversing a moral switchback in 1969 and 1970.

He protests the Vietnam War while weighing patriotic implications. He loses passion for education while remaining on the Dean’s List. He defies authority while conforming to group pressure. He experiments with drugs while resisting dependency. And still he devours philosophy and psychology to find meaning in his raging confusion.

But conflict is the price of his search for und... more

WARRIOR: The Life and Lessons of A Man Who Beat Cancer for 57 Years

by Brent Green

A warrior who fought for life

Perhaps a teacher cared enough about you to sound an alarm. Or a caring friend. Or maybe a medical professional urged you to drop a bad habit and live healthier. And then you changed.

For Brent Green that life-change agent was Mark Crooks, a doctoral student in exercise physiology. After just one run with him through a city park, Brent cast off a seven-year cigarette habit and reoriented his thinking to wellness.

In ho... more

Starting Over in a New Country

by Elzbieta Dudkowska

After arriving in Chicago in 1988, Polish immigrants, Yoanna and Michal undertake many challenges in their adopted country - looking for jobs, finding an apartment, learning the language, wrestling with illness, and meeting educational goals. Along the way, they find friends, life lessons and assimilate into American society, while never turning their back on their Polish heritage. Yoanna's most discovery, "To succeed, our fate is in our hands."

The Very First Christmas Stocking and the Gifts of the Seven Coins

by Terry Paul Lafargue

THE VERY FIRST CHRISTMAS STOCKING and The Gifts of the Seven Coins

The Never Before Told Nativity Story

It is a new and creative holiday story whose roots are nestled sweetly in tradition. Author Terry Paul LaFargue captures the warmth of the original Christmas story with a modern twist the whole family can enjoy. ... more

The Most Bold and Daring Act of the Age

by E. Thomas Behr

At 55, Henry Doyle has it all: wealth, happiness, a strong, loving wife, a young son, and most important, his life − after a violently successful, 35-year career as a spy, soldier of fortune, and as needed, paid assassin. To the men he’s led in battle against Napoleon, he is El Habibka, the legendary Bedouin cavalry general. To the French who hate and fear him, he is more ominous: a shadow − a Sufi ghost – le wraith qui disparaît. When Napoleon escapes captivity on Elba in 1815 to return as Emp... more

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