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Down, Set, Hut: The Untold Story of College Football

by Matthew Nighswonger

“Down, Set, Hut” illuminates the real world of college football. Learn about all the human drama that accompanies the high stakes world of America’s favorite sport. Charlie is trying to lead the Puma college football team to a championship that could change lives forever. Is the building pressure and stress too much for him? Mary tries to be the supportive college sweetheart, but it is not as easy as she thought. Will their relationship make it through the season? Blake chases his dream of b... more

The Disciple of Beauty: A Philosopher's Tale of Love, Tragedy, and Transcendence

by Steven Q. Fletcher

What happens to Eric James, a brilliant professor of the humanities—and a hopeless romantic—when his beloved wife of thirty years dies? How can he reconcile his shattering loss with the philosophical and spiritual ideas that he has been comfortably teaching for decades? More importantly, will he ever be able to cherish life and be willing to risk loving again? Perhaps the answers to these questions await him in the fabulous city of Paris, where an ancient society struggles to save mankind from i... more

Forgotten Soldiers

by Warren Martin

A Cold War POW/MIA Mystery surrounding Jacob Walden, an Air Force Captain shot down over Vietnam in 1970 and the untold story of why he never returned home. Forty years later Journalist Ted Pratt investigates what may be the reappearance of Jacob Walden and encounters Charlie Smith, a secretive operative who may have answers to the question about “What Happened to Jacob Walden.”

A Scorpion's Sting

by Pink Maxwell

Tammy has become a successful young woman despite her abusive, tormented past. She thinks it is well behind her and is enjoying life with her newfound love, Mason, until she receives a phone call from Dr. Howard that her Aunt Brenda is now on her deathbed. Brenda desperately wants to reunite with Tammy because she is seeking her forgiveness for the abuse and she wants to reveal a dark secret that will expose the family’s true history. Will Tammy forgive her before she dies and allow her aunt to ... more

HitList

by k rawson

Quinn Cotti has a 4.0 GPA and can hack the school database. From her phone. While driving. And when her reputation is trashed by cyberbullies, she can concoct the perfect revenge. But when her computer virus posts a secret video and a classmate commits suicide, she learns her detractors had unexpected motivations. She’s had a low-grade crush on Jake since seventh grade, when she imagined him the noble prince of the Cybertown family. A darkly funny modern tragedy that lands fresh a... more

IN FOR A PENNY :: Book One :: The Granny Series

by Nancy Naigle and Kelsey Browning

IN FOR A PENNY Kelsey Browning and Nancy Naigle Book One:: The Granny Series Honey, these are not your momma’s grannies… When Lillian Summer Fairview’s husband up and dies on her, it leaves the last living member of the most prestigious family in Summer Shoals, Georgia, in a hot mess. While Lil was busy being a proper Southern lady, Harlan squandered dang near the whole family fortune on lottery tickets. To keep her financial skeletons in the closet and give him a decent bu... more

Guion the Lion a Colorful World

by Rebecca Wilson Macsovits

Where did all the color go? That's the question an irrepressible little lion asks in the brand new children's picture book titled Guion the Lion: A Colorful World. Guion (rhymes with ''lion'') is a rainbow-colored lion who stands out in a world of black and white. He wants to find a way to bring back the color, but how? While on his quest, Guion encounters a variety of animals, each struggling with a unique problem. Always kind and friendly, he does his best to help. To his delight, Guion ... more

Freaks I've Met

by Donald Jans

A college graduate from Spokane moves to California determined to prove that money does buy happiness via the seedy underbelly of the 80's bond market.

The Trotters of Tweeville: Harraf Namrattle

by Shirin Zarqa-Lederman

Harraf Namrattle lives in Tweeville and is a girl who always says what she thinks—no matter what! She doesn’t seem to understand that sometimes words can hurt others’ feelings and that some things are better left unsaid. Today, however, Harraf’s mother reminds her to think before she speaks. Harraf sets out to play baseball with her friend Bo, who has a new baseball mitt. What will she say when she sees it? Then she meets her friend Hennaj, who has a lemonade stand. What will she say when she t... more

The Wrong David

by Christa Wojciechowski

David is a disillusioned American wine broker who meets his partner and best friend, Brian, in France to tour the vineyards of Provence. Brian brings his wife, Vanessa, who David has been desperately in love with for years. David has cultivated his obsession with Vanessa, using it as a distraction from his otherwise unfulfilling life. As the threesome drink themselves through The French Riviera, David is losing his ability to hide his feelings for his best friend's wife.

The Bloody Shoe Affair: A daring and thrilling adventure with the jailer's daughter

by Joy York

A daring and thrilling adventure with the jailer’s daughter In this mystery set in 1968, Christi, a shy and awkward teenager, never expected to get sucked into helping her cousin, Lily, the “double-dare-you” daughter of the county jailer, try to solve the grizzliest murder the town of Roselyn, Mississippi, had ever seen. Then again, Christi had been entangled in her misadventures before. So a whirlwind week of spying, lying, crawling through tunnels and sneaking into the jail should have com... more

Kulture Klash: An Allegory on Organizational Culture

by Terry R. Barber

In his book, "Kulture Klash: An Allegory, Changing the Culture in the Corporate Workplace, Terry Barber uses an ancient site as a battlefield for the modern day confrontation between the good and evil of a hostile takeover in the corporate workplace. It is an allegory that is brilliantly presented for today's leaders and followers who struggle in their job of trying to make their companies and lives relevant. Barber highlights three groups of combatants: King Klash, the Enigmatic Emperor, the ba... more

The Trotters of Tweeville

by Shirin Zarqa-Lederman

The Trotters of Tweeville is a series of children's picture books dedicated to demonstrating random acts of kindness through fable-like tales that exemplify these random acts of kindness.

Flight

by Charlene Moncrief

18 year-old socialite Camille Vanderhale’s life is not going the way she had planned. Her days are normally spent attending one vapid social event to another. Ballroom galas, charity auctions at the Met and afternoon tea with New York’s elite is how she spends most of her time. The Vanderhales are American Royalty and she is the perfect gilded princess. Between her countless social obligations, and watching over her partying 16 year-old sister and best friend, Noelle, her path is clear and her d... more

The Ash Tree

by Daniel Melnick

[Powerful prologue and other parts now streamlined, seeking a larger publisher:] The Ash Tree – a novel -- tells a timeless story of the romance and marriage between an American Armenian girl and her immigrant husband who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey. In the aftermath of the Genocide from the twenties to the early seventies, the couple and their three children become vivid, quintessentially American characters, only for tragedy to find them again in ... more

Man Trouble

by Latina R. Sheard

In her debut novel, Man Trouble, Latina Sheard has composed an engaging story about five dynamic women: Sylvia, Patricia, Kenya, Simone, and Valerie. As stylists at In the Mix Beauty Salon, each woman is living out her professional dream. But, their life outside of the shop is filled with struggle and heartache. Sylvia lost the love of her life in a tragic car accident and is left to raise two sons on her own. Unwilling to imagine falling in love with another man, her sons are now the only me... more

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