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To Do the Deal, a Novel in Stories

by Cathy Baker

To Do the Deal, A Novel in Stories is about the quotidian—the everyday challenges, minute dramas, and endearing moments that make up the every day. Set in a suburb of Washington, DC, To Do the Deal sets its focus not on the power brokers that dominate the nation’s capital but rather, on one family that is muddling along. Through ten stories, one each set in the years 1991 through 2000, we follow Kenneth Bodine on his quest to make a decent living in commission sales. We also follow his wife, Jod... more

The Big Ceremony

by ozi okaro

In this lighthearted and fun children’s book, young readers get to join six-year-old Cheta and her best friend, Kosi, as they attend the wedding of Kosi’s cousin. Delighted to each wear her own stunning, specially designed dress, the girls can hardly contain their excitement as they experience the lavish festivities and witness the captivating rituals that are part of both their families’ African heritage.

Six Degrees of Isolation

by Craig Emmel

Emma is a talented young artist disturbed by nightmare images that she can only quiet by painting. These haunting visions become inspiration for collections, so Emma turns these troubles into a burgeoning career.

When her boyfriend slashes a painting, adding a detail that Emma had dreamed but not rendered, he brings her waking world into alignment with her dreaming life.

Emma questions whether she paints what she dreams or dreams what she will have painted. Frightened by this new pos... more

Parked at the Mansfields': A modern twist of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

by Sandy Ward Bell

Keeping with the heart and spirit of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bell tells a parallel story with a modern twist. As a ten year-old girl, Franny Price is taken from her mother. Forced to live in Pittsburgh with wealthy relatives who are practically strangers, she learns to nurture herself. While her crazy aunt obsesses about a secret family key, Franny finds the courage to obey her instincts as she falls in love with the boy down the street and searches for her missing father. Ambitious neighb... more

One Day's Tale

by Lois Barliant

Betsy Randall, a young wife and mother, journeys with her family from their 18th Century English home across the Atlantic, bound for her late brother’s plantation in Colonial Virginia. At the end of a tragic voyage, she is unexpectedly alone in a land where Europeans, Africans, and Indians are becoming a nation. Betsy has few choices but resolves to claim her inheritance. Forging a way in this new world, she encounters the kindness and treachery of colonials; the bravery an... more

THE OLD GUN, FINDING SUNDANCE

by Randal Benjamin

Thirteen year after he and Butch Cassidy were supposedly killed in Bolivia, The Sundance Kid is alive and living under an assumed name on an Oklahoma ranch with his wife, son and daughter. Then, with oil production on the rise in Oklahoma, a former New York gangster turned oil baron moves in with hired gunmen to force the ranchers off their land. Now Sundance must decide whether to fight the invaders, perhaps exposing his true identity, or to give in and lose his ranch and the new life he has... more

The Power to See

by Jennifer Anne Davis

From the best-selling author of The True Reign Series--Jennifer Anne Davis--comes a dark and twisted love story with characters you will fall for and others that you will want to murder in their sleep. WARNING: This isn't your average love story. The Power to See is dark, gritty, and not for the faint of heart. This book includes mature content. On the outside, twenty-two-year-old Brianna's life seems perfect and totally envy worthy. But inside, she's a twisted-up hot mess. She is sick o... more

PRINCE RIC

by kevin michael irvine

Tight buddies since NYU, Ric and Hal dream of producing the next audience smash. But to pay the rent, they must work for Ric's megalomaniac father, Malcolm, owner of the most powerful advertising firm on Madison Avenue. Ric's long history of bumping heads with his disapproving dad comes to a boil when Malcolm cruelly fires Ric and Hal, sparking a twisted journey of personal exile and exploration neither of them could have imagined. Long held family secrets, deeply buried personal truths, and a p... more

Chronicles from Chateau Moines

by Evelyne Holingue

September 1970: Scott’s mother has recently died and his father gets the crazy idea to move his family from California to Normandy. Now Scott has to learn to live without his mom while adjusting to France. In his seventh grade class there is only Ibrahim who comes from another country. Scott doesn’t even want to play his guitar anymore. Why does his father think that life will be better so far from home? Scott has no idea that his arrival is also a challenge to Sylvie. While her best friend is ... more

Queen of Someday

by Sherry Ficklin

Before she can become the greatest empress in history, fifteen-year-old Sophia will have to survive her social-climbing mother's quest to put her on the throne of Russia - at any cost. Imperial Court holds dangers like nothing Sophia has ever faced before. In the heart of St. Petersburg, surviving means navigating the political, romantic, and religious demands of the bitter Empress Elizabeth and her handsome, but sadistic nephew, Peter. Determined to save her impoverished family - and herself... more

Wolves of the Northern Rift

by Jon Messenger

Magic is an abomination. It spread from the Rift, a great chasm hundreds of miles long that nearly split the southern continent in two. The Rift was a portal, a gateway between their world of science and the mythological world of magic. On the northern continent of Ocker, King Godwin declared that no magical monstrosity would be allowed within their borders. The Royal Inquisitors were formed to investigate reports of mystical occurrences and, should they be found, to destroy them. Inquis... more

Stilettos in the Sun

by Nadel Harvey

Stilettos in the Sun by Nadel Harvey: The Synopsis Stilettos in the Sun is the story of Roberto Davila, a young engineer-mathematician. As a boy, his Panamanian parents sent him to live with an uncle and his family in Philadelphia. He is full of trepidation, having never lived outside his hometown, Colon. He spends his days musing over happier times, writing poems and songs as a way to assuage his longing. If his accent and his handsomeness are not enough to make the boys dislike him, he i... more

Little Bean's Funderwear Day

by Roni Noone

Little Bean isn't so little anymore. Now that he can walk and talk, it's time to start using the potty! Join Little Bean as he learns and prepares for Funderwear Day with his family.

Forgetting the Love

by Roxanne Comegys

During the course of our busy lives, we often forget one simple truth. We search for satisfaction and love in all kind of places, leaving us unfulfilled. Take a journey with the characters of this book as they learn about the simple truth: we should never forget God's love.

The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China

by Isham Cook

A foreign teacher struggles with proper whipping technique on his female student, while another gives his student a mysterious substance known as LSD. In other stories, a sex robot rapes its owner, a female professor trolls cafés minus her underwear, a store clerk softens up a stingy customer with his fist, and a foreigner comprehends all too slowly the home he is visiting is not a family but a scam. Whether it's locals colliding with foreigners or with each other on the big chessboard with ... more

A Safe Haven: Flower from Castile Trilogy Book Three

by Lilian Gafni

The years are 1494-1496. The third book concludes the exciting trilogy of Flower from Castile where Isabella continues her search for Miguel, despite the truth that he has met his death on the pirate ship. Columbus’s promise to find gold in large quantities for the Spanish crown has become elusive, sifting as sand through his fingers. The refugees from Castile’s 1492-forced exile are now faced with a new threat—Portugal has promised the Spaniard Monarchs to expel all non-Christians from their la... more

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