BookLife - Resources and tools for book publishers and writers

See You

by Dawn Lee McKenna

You will laugh loudly. You will cry ugly. You will find it hard to forget Jack and Emma.

Sometimes the promise of something is so good that it's worth having, even when you know that you can't keep it.

See You is not a romance, but it is a love story, one filled with the rawness of risk and redemption and the dry humor that is the backbone of the South.

Emma has loved Jack since she was a little girl. But he was more than 20 years old... more

Never Waste Tears

by Gloria Zachgo

Each had their own reason to leave everything they knew. The land was free—the true price—was often high, where opportunities and tragedies were in equal abundance. Those who were strong, didn’t waste their tears, but used them wisely to help wash away their grief. Joined together through friendship and family relations, Rebecca, Nathan, Hannah, Carl, and Sarah tell one story—each in their own voice. Never Waste Tears travels with them on their trek to homestead on the lonely Kansas prairie, whe... more

Rosabelle

by Linda Harrington

Jane Williams is an 11-year-old girl growing up in 1970s New Zealand, a farming nation at the bottom of the world. Living on the outskirts of a small rural town, her family have no telephone, no fridge, and use an outside toilet. However, Jane's family does own a promising racehorse, Jane’s pride and joy — Rosabelle. When the family falls on tough times, Jane finds out that all is not as it seems in Woodville. With the help of her Italian best-friend and Scottish teacher, will Jane b... more

The Dog Called Hitler

by Walerian Domanski

The Colletion of 63. short stories "The Dog Called Hitler", full of humor, satire, and dramatic events.

Where Gringos Don't Belong

by Robert Joe Stout

\tEarly in the evening of November 25, 2006, George Bynum, the protagonist of Where Gringos Don’t Belong, leaves his Mexican novia Patricia among anti-government protest marchers in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico and returns to his apartment to finish a report for his employers, the Rural Development through Education Center. Before he can finish, his cell phone rings. “They’re attacking! Killing..! They won’t…stop!” Patricia’s voice rings in his ears. He rushes out, hoping to find her, but blinded ... more

The Agony of Keeping Secrets

by Saber Saleuddin

The novel tells the fascinating story of seven friends whose lives and loves interweave over the course of twenty five years and across three continents and several religions. The friends relocate to advance their careers, fall in and out of love, and suffer successes and tragedies. The story begins with Kamal, a brilliant pre-med student, driven by his passion to cure eye diseases of the poor.. With much of the action set in medical facilities throughout the world, the readers get an insider'... more

A Chasing After the Wind

by Jim Carson

No one was supposed to get hurt. Young Mack Shannon, of black-Irish descent, was the driver for the two robbers. He was just the driver. He didn't steal the money and he didn't shoot the cop, but when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, it's him the cops are looking for. What Mack doesn't expect is for his affluent uncle and aunt to take him under their wing and train him to be the most formidable force Memphis has ever seen: a disciplined, educated man of wealth, with a fearless passion for su... more

Heaven Has No Regrets

by Tessa Shaffer

*Based on a TRUE STORY* Faith and Makenzie weren’t just cousins, they were best friends. And no matter what life threw at them, no matter what they lost, they would always have each other . . . until Faith got sick, and time was like its own disease. Hear each girl’s struggle and survival from their own point of view as they tell their story of life, love, and letting go. Walk with the narrator as she moves through an unwanted end, to a new beginning. Keep moving through the emotional journey to... more

Traveling Light

by Jeff Tompkins

Traveling Light tells the dramatic story of a young woman whose carefully planned future is up-ended by her impulse-buy of a used Honda Civic. Casey Hansmeyer is a recent graduate of Brown University who discovers, within days of buying her car, the dubious allure of I-95, that non-celebrated, non-wonder of an interstate highway which she can easily access from her home in Providence. Thoughts of grad school start to fade once Casey begins going for longer and longer drives on the hi... more

Victorianne Phoenix is a Real Princess

by Kinya Shakur Travis

Victorianne Phoenix loves Princess Kristy! She has the entire collection of books, movies and dolls. Today, Victorianne wants to dress up and look just like Kristy. Simple, or so she thinks….when Mommy attempts to recreate the Princess’ look, the results are not as Victorianne expected. Disappointed and confused, Victorianne wonders if this means she’ll never look like, or be a real Princess like the one in her doll collection. Well, her Mommy knows a thing or two about Princesses from fara... more

Gabbie Flowers: And the Key to the Universe

by Dianne Caplin

Eleven year old Gabbie Flowers never imagined that winning the school mural contest would turn into a nightmare. She knew her friend could be mean, but Gabbie never thought her friend had the power to make Gabbie’s favorite things – like flying through the night sky with her invisible friend, Samuel, and visiting her mother in Heaven – come to a crashing halt. Samuel holds the key that can put the bullying to rest, but due to Gabbie's fear, she can no longer see him. Desperate, he must find a... more

The Limbus of the Moon

by Bill Mego

The Limbus of the Moon is a feel-good adventure about two young people, in dead end careers, who meet in Chicago in an extraordinary way and get caught up in an eccentric, and possibly delusional, man's search for the most poisonous sea anemone in the world and the medicines it may yield. That search takes them to a remote fish camp in the Florida Keys, an exotic island in the Straits of Florida, and the mountaintop home of a fabulously wealthy Chinese shipping magnate in Vancouver, British C... more

Rhinoceros Summer

by Jamie Thornton

Into the Slough

by Keith Wilcox

When a piano washed up on his family’s pear farm in a flood ten years ago, Joe convinced himself that it was no accident—that the instrument was a gift from God. And ever since that day, he has been hopelessly preoccupied with spiritual things—whether he was on a walk in the orchard he named Eden or gazing at stars from atop a radio tower that pierces the sky. His devotion to this lifestyle has left him with a reputation among his friends and around town as the "good boy." So when his cousin end... more

Such a Good Boy

by Josh Olsen

Josh Olsen's sophomore effort is a grab bag of candid flash fiction, self-deprecating personal essays, and subversive pop culture musings that (warning: cliché alert) make the ordinary extraordinary and mine the humor, darkness, and resplendence of childhood, parenthood, and baseball cards.

The Panchatantra Retold: Part 1 - Mitra Bheda

by Sonal Panse

The Panchatantra Retold is a collection of entertaining and enlightening folk-tales from Ancient India, originally narrated by Pandit Vishnu Sharma to the three Princes of Mahilaropya to infuse them with the much-needed worldly wisdom that traditional learning had failed to impart.

Discover Books

General Fiction (including literary and historical)