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Carla Rising

by Topper Sherwood

Based on a true story, Carla Rising finds herself caught between two rival leaders in a workers’ rebellion against the brutal regime of a corrupt county sheriff and the Sovereign Coal Company. The conniving Sheriff Riley Gore uses his strikebreaking police to enforce authoritarian rule across a mountainous landscape of small mining communities. When thousands of workers decide to strike, the atrocities escalate, compelling Carla to become more deeply involved. Her decision to joi... more

The Other Side of Quiet

by Tara C. Allred

Mrs. Childs's creative writing students are expected to keep personal journals for self-expression. But when clues from a murder investigation cause police authorities to confiscate the students' journals, writing intended to be private is no longer. Words meant to liberate now condemn. And an innocent writing project, meant to empower students, as well as rescue Mrs. Childs from her own personal tragedy, now open deep conflicts within the class. 2015 KINDLE BOOK AWARD FINALIST "A unique a... more

The Sleepy Bear Club iBook

by Jennifer Grantham

From a secret cabin deep within a wondrous forest comes a meeting of imaginative proportions. Here you will find stories of a dreamworld inspired by adventures of the day. You will run across the mountains, chase the rivers, and experience the joy of freedom as you drift into a playful slumber.

Friends Like These

by Hannah Ellis

Betrayed by her boyfriend and abandoned by her best friend, Marie finds herself on a mission to find new friends and shake up her social life. While on the search for her ideal friends, a chance encounter brings some unlikely characters into her life. As lives quickly become entwined and unusual friendships form, Marie realises that we don't always get to choose our friends; sometimes they choose us. Buoyed by her newfound friendships, Marie might even take another chance at love.

Luminary (Luminary Saga) (Volume 1)

by P.S. Meraux

Emily Wren had two soul mates. Before she could meet either they were both killed. Is she doomed to be alone? A race of super immortals, the Paragons and their Luminary companions, who live in the domain between reality and the tangible, must intervene. They have one duty, matching up soul mates to release magic into the world. But is there more at stake than the happiness of one girl?

Redneck Opera

by Margaret Mooney

Redneck Opera is a sweeping tale about an East Texas oil boomtown. The discovery of oil in the 1930s and 1940s transformed sleepy farm towns into hotbeds of greed and corruption. Redneck Opera tells the story of one such town, Bullard, where Junior Peck arrives fresh from a difficult childhood. Here to seek his fortune and respect, Junior, like other outsiders, preys upon unsuspecting locals, swindling everyone from dirt-poor cotton farmers to his wife Priss. His wildcatter escapades, social eve... more

Flames

by Ginny L. Yttrup

When betrayal’s flames explode, can Jessica Weaver save what matters most? I preserve legacies... So begins the story of Jessica Weaver—wife, mother, and fire archeologist. Preserving Yosemite National Park’s natural and cultural resources is Jessica’s job. Preserving her family’s legacy is her obsession. But when she discovers her husband’s infidelity, betrayal’s flames threaten her family and all she’s fought to protect. Haley Weaver, a sophomore in high school, is a daddy’s girl. As ... more

Big Data Is Watching You!

by Bruce Hartman

It’s way past 1984. Your toothbrush, your coffee maker and your Rice Krispies are running your life. But don’t worry... BIG DATA IS WATCHING YOU!

Welcome to Goozle Earth®, a dystopia where the all-knowing and all-powerful force of Big Data rules humanity through the Internet of Things and the corporate power of Goozle Inc. Where English® and every possible combination of words has been copyrighted and the only law is the Terms of Service, which has ... more

Capitol Kid

by Bill Gourgey

A homeless teen with nothing to lose… A corrupt politician with everything to lose… What could possibly go wrong?

On the run from local drug dealers, a young hacker hides out in the U.S. Capitol and soon finds himself entangled in a dastardly political conspiracy.

From the shadows of the U.S. Capitol, can a runaway change his country?

When thirteen-year-old Boot doesn’t have the money to pay his mom’s... more

Poems of the Elder Edda

by Bruce Van Deventer

(Audiobook) Thor, Odin, Loki, Brynhild, the Valkyries – the gods and heroes of old Norse mythology live on today in popular culture. But where did they come from? Much of what we know of the myths of the Norsemen comes from two collections: the Prose Edda, a collection of oral histories compiled in the thirteenth century by the historian Snorri Sturluson, and the Elder Edda, a collection of poems compiled by anonymous scholars and contained in a single surviving manuscript, the Codex Regius. ... more

White Coat Fever

by Roland Jefferson

While attending college, four childhood friends are thrown into the civil rights movement and its conflicts of race, class, color and ideology. But noble ideologies can sometimes go tragically awry.

Delivering Virtue

by Brian Kindall

Hilariously inappropriate, squirmingly irreverent, and oddly charming, DELIVERING VIRTUE will deliver you on an epic journey out of your comfort zone and into a mystical transcendence you didn't see coming. Didier Rain, bumbling ne'er-do-well and dissolute poet, is hired by the Church of the Restructured Truth to deliver a child-bride across the frontier of 1854 to their prophet Nehi in his stronghold a the City of Rocks. The landscape is rife with hooligans, carnal temptatio... more

Motivations

by Peter Stockwell

Roger and Mary Waite have the ideal marriage until her suicidal history returns and raising children and pressures of life cause anxiety and depression. Roger asks Victoria Johnson, Mary’s adolescent, attractive sister, for help with keeping Mary stable. Emotional attachments become entanglements as Roger sees the woman he married in Vickie and Vickie wants to explore becoming a woman with the man who transformed her sister into a vibrant satisfied woman when they met in college. Can each person... more

Across the Border: Interview with a Refugee (Volume 1)

by I.C. Rivera

In a bold search for new life experiences—and the eagerness to alleviate deception with traces of an international romance—the beautiful and ever-independent Isabel Alvarez trades her cozy American Dream for a chance to live within the notoriously-multicultural Kingdom of the Netherlands. Holding on to her ambitious mindset and vast work experience, she assumes to have the expat life completely under her control, unsuspecting that she would soon end up at the very bottom of the social pyramid. A... more

Peter the Slug and the Great Forest Race

by Jennifer Klath

Peter the Slug has a dream. An impossible dream. He wants to run in the Great Forest Race. But slugs always finish last. Everyone says so.

Two for the Heart (Stories in Pairs Book 1)

by Ekta R. Garg

A man and a woman get their divorce papers right after the wedding. A woman learns she's suffering from amnesia. Two stories about relationships and the power of love. Two stories with characters to remember. Two stories for the heart. "The Proposal": Pooja and Akshay don't want to bother with relationships, but they get cornered into marriage. The two devise a fool-proof plan: get married, then get their divorce papers ready. But will they have the guts to go through with the break up? "R... more

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