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Red: The Untold Story

by Angela M Hudson

Once every twenty years, pack alpha Luther takes a new wife. On the day of Selection, Red is chosen. Just as her family always planned. Just as she always planned. Until she met Alex Plain. Alex took Red to worlds she never imagined, where the ordinary is seen as magical, and the upright is abstract. With the help of this new friendship, Red begins to see a future for herself outside of the pack. But, unfortunately, Alex Plain came along too late. Red is obligated to marry Luther now, an... more

Maddie's Monsters

by Jonathan Gould

Strange things are happening in Maddie’s house. Objects keep disappearing, and Maddie’s family can’t imagine where they’ve gone. Only Maddie knows that her monsters have taken them. Can she get her family to believe her? And can she get her monsters to give everything back?

Specifics of None Specific

by Bayan Tree

This book is full of colorful and diverse short stories and poems. It's hard to categorize this book because there is something for everybody! You'll get a front row seat during rehearsal of the soul-singing living legends, GLOW. Sit through a week re-cap of a broken heart in Days Without Corey. Take a glimpse into the future with a short story called TIME. And share the grievances of a tired employee in the poem Another 8. This book is a rollercoaster ride of thought and emotion.

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by John R Bancroft

Isaac Yardley did not know what he was getting into when he and his father started chasing after people who threw cigarettes from cars. He did not know their “research” project would lead to getting gassed at an anti-poverty demonstration, befriended by an eccentric entrepreneur, a windfall at a race track and the New York City showing of “Magical Mystery Tour.” But he might have expected something. His father was born a Quaker, became an atheist, joined the Dick Mobius society of Herman Melvi... more

Fireflies in the Night: A Novel

by Nalini Warriar

Two sisters and a beautiful mother caught between tradition and love, a family torn apart by tragedy and betrayal.

From the award winning short story writer of Blues from the Malabar Coast, comes a novel about two sisters once bound by love and loyalty; a beautiful mother torn between tradition and love; a gentle and caring father who loves his girls but is caught in the middle, seduced by his wife’s sophistication. Set against the lush backgroun... more

The Burden of Sweetberry

by Carol Gosa Summerville

When Deacon Josiah Hess beats Luther McGill to death on the grounds of First Macedonia Baptist Church, the community points the finger at Sweetberry, the married deacon's mistress of many years, and the dead man's fiancé. The deacon's trial reveals secrets about Sweetberry that shock the community, sending her veering towards insanity. But the cause of the murder comes in a shocking confrontation after the trial.

What All the Songs Add Up To

by Greg Masters

Forty years of poems from the East Village of Manhattan, a community of artistic and social vibrancy amid the nation's detritus. Extending from the mid-1970s to 2016, the poems range from expressions of youthful concerns – fueled by rock and roll, freedom and excess afforded by bohemian existence and rebellion against mainstream values – to perhaps more mature reflections and observances – and unease with mainstream values.

Finding the Raven

by Patty Dickson Pieczka

When Julia Dulac's father is murdered onstage and her inheritance is swindled away, she must work through her grief and fear of poverty to find both the killer and a means of survival with help from the Raven, a black crystal that reveals images of past and future truths. While having the crystal appraised, Julia finds love and her life takes unexpected turns through mystery and betrayal against the backdrop of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Through the boarding house windo... more

When Mommy Is in Heaven

by Wendy Hackey

Micah's school is having a Mother's Day Tea Party. Though he knows that his mommy is in Heaven, he believes that if he asks God to allow her to come to the party, since it is for mother's and grandmothers, God will allow her to come. It is a sweet and touching story that offers an important message about family, love, loss and healing.

Chuckaboo: an Appalachian Trail novel

by Christopher Fitzgerald

    Nobody expects a runaway to hide on the Appalachian Trail.
    Don Gallagher, 16, joins a springtime migration of backpackers. They trek northbound in Georgia.
    Hikers nickname him Chuckaboo.
    Pent up frustration has led him to the mountains. He’s boycotting home. He will not return unless that skin-headed couch potato—also known as Mom’s boyfriend—moves out.
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A Faithful Son

by Michael Scott Garvin

A Faithful Son is a dazzling debut and genre-defying novel. This captivating coming of age tale chronicles the life of Zach Nance, a young man struggling to find his place in an ever-shifting world and the zany cast of local characters who help him come to an understanding of himself and the secret he harbors. The small town of Durango, Colorado provides the rural backdrop for Garvin’s masterful novel. A hunky traveling carnie, an eccentric gaggle of pious church spinsters, a flirty drag queen a... more

Green

by Barry Cotton

green beckons us. green evokes life. green is a sanctuary. Carbon manifests itself in green and humanity is a manifestation of carbon’s innate desire to organize itself at higher and higher levels of complexity. The story of green is interwoven in our DNA. We should listen to it. Especially now that so much green has been slashed and burnt by the poor struggling to grow enough food to stay alive. Ultimately, our addiction to cheap fossil fuels could turn green to grey. green is a... more

Love, Marriage and Divorce

by LaQueisha Malone, Rashonda Jones Aiken, Alma Collins Thomas

"THREE UNIQUE EMPOWERING STORIES"

Love…
For DeShay, love meant war. She'd invested herself in many failed relationships that she had grown tired of fighting. Every time she got it right, she'd soon realize just how wrong she was. But all that changes when she discovers the love she's been looking for she's had it all along.

Marriage…
Marriage is about a partnership, a sacred bond between two people... more

Amie an African Adventure

by Lucinda E Clarke

Amie reluctantly accompanies her husband when he is sent to work in Africa. soon after she settles in she comes to the unwelcome attention of a government official and then civil war breaks out and Amie is fighting for her life.

The Old Guy Goes

by Keith Elkins

On his 40th birthday, community college teacher Eldred Duker feels he’s getting older faster and faster. Childless, he and his wife Marie visit the orphanage he and his now-estranged sister Anne lived in as small children and, as Marie has long wanted to do, end up adopting six-year-old Hope. Hope is sexually assaulted at age 16. Herself molested by one of their mother’s male friends as a child, Anne comes for a visit to help. After Hope is on her own, Marie is killed in a car accident. Slowly a... more

Death Of A Thug

by koffi hallman

tale of a phenomenal two sport athlete who is hails as the top pick in both the NBA & NFL drafts. a month prior to draft has an accident that seals his sports future and meets his cousin best friend and his life goes 180 degrees from the bright lights of fame & fortune of professional sports to life in the hood a a drug dealer and the difficult choices he must make to survive, then life takes a very drastic turn all because of the Death Of A Thug

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