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The Girl on Rusk Street

by Penny Carlile

When Lucille Harris, a beautiful young widow, moves into the vacant house on Rusk Street in Marshall, Texas, the lives of ten-year-old Bobbi Rogers and her two best friends are turned upside down. Neighbors begin to gossip when Lucille accepts a teaching position at all-black Bishop College and married neighbor Jim Tressell starts helping her with her garden. Bobbi takes piano lessons from Lucille, and they become friends. She also likes Jim because he's nice to Lucille. When Lucille is murde... more

LOVE, SUGAR AND COOKIE❤️

by Susan Marie Chapman

It is a story about twin sisters

Lovers and Madmen

by Kathy Lowry

The line between true love and insanity is as thin as a paper cut and just as uncomfortable for the members of a very untraditional American family navigating their way through small town life and relationships in the early 1970s. Seventeen year old Beverly Patterson is discovering that her amorous adventures with Warren, her long-term boyfriend of six weeks, aren’t quite like anything she’s ever read about in magazines or learned from the whispered conversations with her friends in the high ... more

Wildflowers in Winter: Aging with Alzheimer's

by Naomi Wark

How do you define family? Is family strictly tied to lineage? Is family only ancestors who connect you like links in a chain? Or is family defined by those who surround you daily with love, guidance, and support whether bound by blood or not? For 92-year-old, Edna Pearson, facing early signs of Alzheimer's, family means bloodline, pure and simple. When her last child, Larry, dies and estranged from Larry's wife and daughters, Edna is afraid of spending her last years alone. But the tragedy of he... more

The Criminal MasterMind of Baker Street

by Rob Nunn

What if Sherlock Holmes had turned to crime instead of detection? THE CRIMINAL MASTERMIND OF BAKER STREET by Rob Nunn investigates this very concept. Holmes famously said that "when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all." A sinister influence is at work in Victorian London with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson running a hidden criminal empire. THE CRIMINAL MASTERMIND OF BAKER STREET explores all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories through the lens of Holmes as a... more

IF THE MOON HAD WILLOW TREES

by Kathleen Hall

On July 23, 1967 Detroit cops raided a blind pig and incited the biggest race riot in American history. A generation of hope, peaceniks and Freedom Riders believed they could end the Vietnam War and achieve civil rights by sheer determination. Book One of a trilogy, MOON follows The Eights––eight part-time activists attempting to curb white flight and integrate the burbs. With the intrigue, corruption, brutality and bigotry, The Eights experience the love, laughter, irony and self-reflection... more

Legacy of a King

by Charlene Sponsel

Lili is a young girl who personifies the beauty her people are known for, not only through her physical attributes but also by her actions. Her father’s business was decimated by the Elderman’s War, which put Tali Major on the throne of Conica. Now, Lili must make a wealthy match before her father’s debts destroy everything she loves. She finds a friend among the sovereignty, lessening her loneliness. Cam may be the youngest son of the king, but he is far from becoming a prince. Impulsive a... more

Investing in Vain

by William Worsley

When Bruce Benson, a nerdy quantitative analyst at Quandary Capital, stumbles upon the last great secret for beating the stock market, his entire world is turned upside down. Forced to flee, he assumes the guise of a transgender to work at Vain Capital, a Washington firm promoting morality-based investing to its self-righteous clients. There he joins buxom Alison Hartswell in her frustrating search for gay money managers to help re-elect the governor of California. He then becomes accidentally ... more

Just Say No-el

by Terry Deighton

Just Say No-el is a companion novel to A Christmas Village. Find out what happened across the street from the folks in "At Whit's End." Kelly Yeager can never seem to say no.With five children to Christmas shop for, a Sunday School class to teach, and a cub scout den to lead, she has no time to volunteer at the Seattle Crèche Festival. Reluctantly, she agrees to help her friend arrange the nativity displays for one afternoon. Somehow, she ends up working for weeks under Marilynn, a stern... more

At Whit's End

by Terry Deighton

Whitney Saunders enters her new life in Seattle in the second year of marriage, the first week of a new job, and no position to make Christmas perfect for her husband. Soon, cards, presents, lights, and baking take over her life. Can she bring together a wonderful holiday, or will her efforts pull apart the happy home she wants so much?

Taco

by John E DeJesus

A heart-warming book, ‘Taco’ is about survival, about growing where you are planted, a book about realizing goals and dreams, about family and those you love.

Excerpt:

"Almost every adult in the neighborhood had a Title. It was either Don or Doňa, Tío or Tía, Suegra or Fulano de Tal. Never understood the last one, but I hear Fulano is well known. At least the older people had titles …
… So we... more

Trailer Trash with a Girl's Name: Father Figures

by Stacey Roberts

Being a boy with a girl's name was just the beginning... Stacey Roberts detailed the family’s five-year adventure in their unpredictable Winnebago in his previous novel. Now, his free-spirited mother, entitled older brother, criminal stepfather, and not-so-trusty old Winnebago are back for the next chapter in his story. Machetes at the breakfast table, shooting grapefruit for sport, and a dogged police detective get the story rolling, along with trailer park bullies and his mother’s daily menu... more

Trailer Trash, With a Girl's Name

by Stacey Roberts

When the author was born, his mother did the unthinkable. She gave him a girl’s name—Stacey. But Stacey’s name was just the first hurdle he’d face in his uphill climb from birth to manhood. He also had to deal with an entitled older brother, the hodgepodge of different men his mother was involved with, and the nomadic lifestyle he was forced to endure for five years. And to top it all off, his mother couldn’t cook a decent meal to save her life. Trailer Trash, With a Girl’s Name is Stacey Robert... more

Our Sweet Guillotine

by Mary Gray

Tempeste has survived much choosing to live on Paris’ streets–scavenging for food, learning survival skills from a deserter whom she paid to attack her in her sleep, and living a life her mother would approve of, one devoid of luxury. But denying oneself of food and proper bedding can stir a madness in the brain. So, when Tempeste witnesses the quick and painless death of the guillotine–the death her mother should have received–she vows to find her mother’s accuser and vivisect his spleen. Qu... more

Love at First Slight

by J Marie Croft

In this humorous, topsy-turvy Pride & Prejudice variation, all major gender roles are reversed. It is Mr. Bennet’s greatest wish to see his five sons advantageously married. When the haughty Miss Elizabeth Darcy comes to Netherfield with the Widow Devonport (nee Bingley), speculation — and prejudice — runs rampant. William Bennet, a reluctant and irreverent reverend, catches Miss Darcy’s eye, even though he is beneath her station. His opinion of her is fixed when she slights him at the Meryton a... more

Copper

by B B Shepherd

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