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Coming to Rosemont

by Barbara Hinske

Forensic accountant Maggie Martin’s well-ordered life is shattered by her husband’s untimely death and the double life he concealed. Dealing with the financial and emotional wreckage left in Paul’s wake, she is stunned to learn he inherited an estate known as Rosemont in the seemingly-serene Midwestern town of Westbury. Seeking a fresh start and a quiet, solitary life, she moves halfway across the country to make Rosemont her home. Before she can unpack her first box, she’s knee-deep in a bat... more

The Temple Is Not My Father: A Story Set in India

by Rasana Atreya

Ensnared by a tradition hundreds of years old, a woman fights for her daughter’s happiness in this novella set in India

Trespassers

by Andrea Miles

Years after suffering sexual and verbal abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Melanie is still haunted by her past. Her husband, Julius¬—a cop, and thus experienced in dealing with crime and punishment—struggles to understand his wife’s silent pain, but he can’t give her the closure she needs. Determined to exorcise her past, Melanie must choose between revenge and forgiveness. The first may destroy her marriage—but she’s not convinced that the second will bring her the peace of mind she so des... more

A Tangeled Web: Rejecting Technology's Assault on Mother Nature

by M.P. Zarrella

This book is a cautionary tale. It looks at the future through the eyes of a group of animal/nature loving people. In their future world, water is so scarce that animals and plants (grass, trees, flowers, etc) are outlawed. Digital animals and artificial ‘green space’ prevail. Science has learned to create photosynthesis using machines. Technology prevails. The common theme is “everything in the modern world is stark and cold”.. NO longer to they hear birds, or bees, or barking dogs. The charac... more

Snippy the Square Backed Snail: The Playground Hero

by David Paul

Snippy’s having a bad day at the playground. He is bullied, teased and almost eaten by a huge beetle! In this adventure he gains self confidence and courage by facing his fears. Includes hidden characters on each colorful page. Educational snail facts included.

I LISTENED TO MY HEART

by Rosemary Gallagher

Rose O’Carroll is the eternal optimist and never stops believing that she will one day find’ her one’ even though she’s still single and hitting 40. In her search for love, she bravely decides to pack up her comfortable life in Australia and move to London. Guided by her special friends — her angels — she quickly settles in her new life; lands a great job; makes new friendships and begins her spiritual journey. It didn’t take long until Joe DeMarco, the handsome American business man tur... more

Fearless in Alaska

by Izzy Ballard

et out the bear spray Double up on the vodka Hide the glock . . . It's Valentine's Day in Alaska! Abbey Vertccuio, reluctant clairvoyant, meets Ben, the brother of an infamous MI6 agent, and together they take on a reported porn king by day and drug lord by night, as Abbey, who's had an extremely scary Valentine's Day wedding vision, tries desperately to avoid V-Day in any way, shape or form. What follows can only be described as Kismet meets Crazy.

The Heart of Annie

by J.S. Foote

THE HEART OF ANNIE tells the story of Lilly Roche and Curtis Walker, whose lives have flourished socially and professionally, but who find themselves single through a combination of circumstance, choice, and heartbreak. Lilly's mother passed away when she was a teenager, leaving her to an adolescence spent coping with her father's depression and her brother's ceaseless bullying. The divorce of Curtis' ill-matched parents at age thirteen, and later his own failed engagement, leaves him on emotion... more

Suicide Supper Club

by Rhett DeVane

Sometimes, life dishes up more than you can take—cancer, abuse, loss, isolation. Four small town Southern women bound by their backgrounds, friendship, and their serious miseries band together to forge “the easy way out.” But life has a way of turning out opposite of misdirected plans. And it’s stupid-hot, so why would things go as planned? Abby has no husband, no children, no living kin, and a painful family secret. Loiscell is a two-time breast cancer survivor facing recurrence with dwindling... more

Elephant Summer

by Douglas Channell

Only three weeks had passed since I had arrived in Africa with my two best friends, Jackie Cooper and Smiley O'Dell. We had left our small town of GeorgeAnn, Texas, to spend the summer with my Uncle Keeno in the jungles of Kenya. As an archeologist, it was his job to explore the region for clues of pre-historic man. For Jackie, Smiley, and me, it was just supposed to be a lot of fun. Now, we were running for our very lives! With others from the camp, we hung to the trail as it wound along the ri... more

The Crypto-Capers in: The Circus for Hire

by Renee Hand

THE ASSIGNMENT: The Circus for Hire is a whirlwind of an adventure where the Crypto-Capers travel to Russia to save Max and Mia's parents, Mitchem and Martha Holmes, from going to prison for a crime they didn't commit. Finding themselves caught up in a scandal that is beyond their control, they use their skills and talents to try to outsmart the most notorious criminal of all time, but can they do that without sacrificing one of their own? Lies become intermixed with truth, yet, with the help of... more

Rebellious Women

by Farruh Yusupov

Based on the true stories of prostitutes, the interesting and exciting novel Rebellious Women shows how two sisters fight against an appalling, painful, inhumane, and hopeless life. These girls, like other women, dream about a life of happiness, family, and children but … The usual lives of Indian sisters Kate and Gauri, who are living in New York City, change dramatically when a man named Anand forces them to become sexual slaves and prostitutes. Despite facing their misfortunes in life, ... more

The Dark Side of Glory

by Richard McMahon

In this suspense novel set during the Korean War, Matthew Clark, the biographer of a respected and highly decorated Army general, learns that there is a hidden side to his life, involving a brutal, covered-up murder, a secret mistress, and an abandoned illegitimate daughter. As he delves deeper, Matthew discovers an intriguing mystery and a tragic love, in a world of surprises where nothing is at it seems. Tracing the general’s earlier career during the occupation of Japan and through the early ... more

Days of Amber

by Alex Chu

Amber & Associates is the most successful software company in the industry’s history, which is surprising since all of its employees are aloof, lazy, and downright dysfunctional. When they’re not obsessing over their next smoothie fix, or walking around the office half-naked, they’re doing everything in their power to avoid working. As they approach their long-awaited IPO date, hackers start breaching the company’s system, and messing around with Amber’s clients. Still, nobody seems to care. It’... more

One Hundred Miles from Manhattan

by Chris Orcutt

One Hundred Miles from Manhattan is a novel about an upscale rural community (Wellington, NY), where the hills and the seemingly quaint village conceal lives of love, lust, adultery, tragedy and small wars. Unlike other novels in the pastoral tradition, which tell the story of a place and a time through the eyes of a single character, this modern novel uses 10 narrators, a different one per chapter, to shed light on this exclusive community. In Wellington, a trophy wife undergoes a shockin... more

PINE VALLEY

by Ged Ruggles

Most men of ambition would kill for the chance to play a bracing game at Pine Valley, the most celebrated, and exclusive, golf course in the world. And in the summer of his 30th birthday, Jeff Carpenter gets his chance. Trouble is, Jeff isn't exactly a man of ambition, having put his literary dreams on hold 10 years ago for a soulless back office job. Nor did he ever master the art of the swing farther than once making par on the giant dinosaur hole at his local childhood mini golf. But ... more

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