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Novels

Book reviews of novels with artistic merit and  fictional content focusing on literary appeal.

Author
Steve O'Brien

Publisher
A & N Publishing

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Elijah's Coin: A Lesson for Life

Steve O'Brien has crafted a new work of fiction that successfully negotiates the tricky balance between entertainment and instruction. Overtly didactic in some ways, Elijah's Coin is also a highly suspenseful story that introduces us to characters we come to care about. The content is edifying and thought-provoking, but the story never becomes dry.......

Author
Stephen V. Masse

Publisher
Good Harbor Press

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A Jolly Good Fellow

Two weeks before Christmas, Duncan Wagner gets into his car for another attempt at kidnapping the son of his most despised enemy, State Representative Win Booker.
When he drives into the wealthy Boston suburb, he is surprised to find the boy hitchhiking.......

Author
Anya Achtenberg

Publisher
Modern History Press

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The Stories of Devil-Girl (Reflections of America Series)

Devil-Girl is a storyteller smaller than a stain and larger than life, a mythic figure roaming the globe. Born into Brooklyn housing projects and the nightmares of her immigrant family, she becomes a runaway in the human marketplace of the streets of New York.......

Author
Kathryn Maughan

Publisher
iUniverse, Inc.

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Did I Expect Angels?

Jennifer Huffaker knows that grief is normal, but she thought she’d get over it—that’s what people do. But it’s been eighteen months since her husband Jack died, and she still can’t focus on her young daughter Kaitlin, can’t accept support from her family, and can’t allow herself to live without the love of her life.......

Author
John Shors

Publisher
NAL Trade

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Dragon House (New American Library)

From John Shors, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Beside a Burning Sea and Beneath a Marble Sky, comes an unforgettable story of redemption… Set in modern-day Vietnam, Dragon House tells the tale of Iris and Noah—two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietname.......

Author
Sylvia Smoller

Publisher
iUniverse, Inc.

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Rachel and Aleks: A Historical Novel of Life, Love, and WWII

Author
Michael L Goines

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Sailor

 A humorous journey into the dark world of sex, drugs and violence in this fictional period piece set in the early seventies. It’s often said that sailors have a woman in every port and a hustle in all of the bars. Some would say it’s just an old cliché, but one sailor actually lived the life.......

Author
Joyce Norman

Publisher
Chalet Publishers, LLC

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Coming Together

Coming Together is a love story. A story of foreign intrigue. A story of the coming together of cultures, of passion, and, most of all, of unbelievable hope in the face of staggering odds. This is also a story of choices, hard choices, where life and death are constant reminders of making the wrong decisions.......

Author
Ilyn Ross

Publisher
Booklocker.com, Inc.

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Reason Reigns

A novel of ideas with nonstop suspenseful action. Its theme is: "Heaven on Earth can be achieved when reason reigns." Young beau ideals shine as battles are joined between tyrants who crave to rule and thinkers who cannot be ruled......

Author
Patrick M. Garry

Publisher
Inkwater Press

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A Bridge Back

Eighteen years ago, on a stormy night, the worst tragedy to ever hit Mount Kelven occurred on a lift bridge over the Esarno River. Many said it was caused by two reckless young people on their way to a Justice of the Peace. For 18 years, Nate Morrissey has stayed away from his hometown of Mount Kelven.......

Author
Stuart Nachbar

Publisher
IUniverse

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Defending College Heights: A Novel

Defending College Heights is an investigation into the murder of a U.S. Army recruiter within a tumultuous and corrupt college community.

The body of U.S Army captain and recruiting commander Kevin Callahan is found in a guardhouse at Hudson Technical University, a small private engineering school located in College Heights.......

Author
John Allen Royce

Publisher
Micron Press

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Eclipsed by Shadow (The Legend of the Great Horse - Book I of III)

Eclipsed by Shadow takes readers on a startling journey through the ages when horses were everyday companions in work, war, sport and spectacle. The story is told through the eyes of a young woman, a horse-crazy teenager traveling through time with a knowledge of 21st Century horsemanship as her only defense......

Author
Sam Moffie

Publisher
Xlibris

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The Organ Grinder and the Monkey

Seymour Petrillo, Constance Powers and Irving Hanhart. Three protagonists' from vastly different backgrounds intimately share a very public secret. One therapist who impacts them all. From Steubenville, Ohio (Petrillo) to Boardman, Ohio (Powers), to Brookline, Massachusetts (Hanhart) - the three protagonist's imaginative and individual experiences are detailed.......

Author
Edward Hujsak

Publisher
Mina-Helwig Publishing Company

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A Pig in the Rumble Seat

A Pig in the Rumble Seat is a collection of short stories that includes memoirs and tales of the Great Depression era in New England, memoirs of the author's experiences developing the Atlas and Centaur ICMB's and space launch rockets in San Diego, a few science fiction and contemporary tales and several poems selected from the author's other works......

Author
J Douglas Bottorff

Publisher
Wheatmark

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The Whisper of Pialigos

Stuart Adams, a moderately successful novelist, wants to write the big book that will make him rich. A serendipitous encounter with aging eccentric Wes Barnes may provide a ticket to the wealth he seeks. Barnes has been on a decades-long search for an ancient scroll believed to contain knowledge that could have a profound impact on global consciousness.......

Author
Andrew O'Keeffe

Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group

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The Boss

Got a spirit-crushing boss? Well so does Lauren Johnson—five of them. 

Based on true stories of bosses' political maneuverings and workers under siege, The Boss tells Lauren's story—a talented but naive professional struggling under a self-serving, insensitive boss who undermines her at every turn.......

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol I, No. 1) Sept 2009

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. 1, No. 1) September 2009

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, essays, fiction, humor, media reviews and psycho-education.......

Author
Mara Feeney

Publisher
Gaby Press

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Rankin Inlet: A Novel

"This is a novel about culture shock, love, loss, identify, belonging, the Inuit people, and the birth of the Nunavut Territory in Arctic Canada.".....

Author
Gint Aras

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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Finding the Moon in Sugar

Gint Aras writing is infused with a rare sensitivity for the thousands of seemingly trivial things that give meaning to life. He invites us to laugh at his hero, then sneaks him into our hearts. -Dan Vyleta, author of Pavel & I

In this tragicomedy, Gint Aras' hapless and marijuana-dazed narrator, Andrew Nowak, is seduced by a bombshell internet bride.......

Author
C.E. Edmonson

Publisher
Aventine Press

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Prodigal Of The Pecos

Clint Cooper returns home after many years to find the land of his birth embroiled in a bitter and deadly land war. An Eastern powerbroker, bent on fencing off the West Texas range for his own profit, hires gunslingers to bully the local ranchers and farmers into submission.......

Author
Deborah K. Martin

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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A Hot Dog Stand in the Himalayas

The enchanted world children live in often envisions life in terms of stories with insights and lessons that can be profound. Unfortunately, as we grow older many of us lose these insights. As everyday experiences disenchant the world, these stories were inspired by a loving grandchild who saw the world with such imagination and understanding that they deserved to be remem.......

Author
Laurel Dewey

Publisher
Story Plant

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Redemption

As Redemption opens, flawed but driven detective Jane Perry has resigned from the Denver Police Department and is trying to make a living as a private investigator. Kit Clark hires Jane to drive with her from Colorado to Northern California in search of a man who matches the description of the killer who murdered Kit’s granddaughter many years ago.......

Author
Alberto Rios Arias

Publisher
Freedom Rivers Books

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A Death For Beauty

A troubled young woman struggles with her conscience after a death-wish aimed at her abusive husband comes to pass.

When Virginia Mae Mercy secretly wishes for her husband's death, she never thought of herself as an accomplice. But when he is mysteriously murdered, she begins to question her involvement in the grisly crime.......

Author
Jonathan Slusher

Publisher
Cow Chip Press

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Water Landing

How many of us move through life on auto-pilot, our youthful dreams and ambitions somehow forgotten in the daily grind?

Lukas Kettle, approaching middle age in San Diego, is doing just that, and adding to his woes, he is headed back to his native New Jersey for his girlfriend Sara’s funeral.......

Author
Gregory Mose

Publisher
Gregory Mose

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Stunt Road

It seems too good to be true. When Pete McFadden invents his own system of fortune-telling, he doesn't really expect anyone to take it seriously. He can't imagine that it will become Hollywood's next spiritual fad. And he certainly never dreams that "Horokinetics" could make him famous. But it does.......

Author
Behcet Kaya

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Voice of Conscience

Voice of Conscience (published by AuthorHouse), the second edition of the well-received novel by Behcet Kaya, is a tightly-spun tale of redemption and human nature vividly depicted in the story of one man’s manic journey to fulfill his debt and reclaim his past at whatever cost.

Author
Luke Lively

Publisher
Beaufort Books

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A Questionable Life

"Beneath the compelling story is a treasure chest of wisdom"
Didiayer Snyder, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

 In A Questionable Life,novelist Luke Lively introduces protagonist Jack Oliver, a hard-charging, Philadelphia born-and-bred banking executive who finds his world in turmoil when his life-long goal slips from his grasp.......

Author
Anthony Pour

Publisher
Marlborough Publishing

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The Undercover Gentleman

Anthony Pour’s "The Undercover Gentleman" was probably born some point in between Ian Fleming’s Bond novels and W. Somerset Maugham’s tales from around the world—more precisely, a culmination of Fleming’s choice of subjects and Maugham’s writing style.......

Author
Stacy Cohen

Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press

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The Last Train from Paris

Set against the chilling backdrop of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, The Last Train from Paris tells the story of forbidden love between an artist turned French soldier and a Russian ballerina. While apprenticing for Henri Matisse, painting the scenery for a ballet at L'Academie Nationale de Musique--Theatre de l'Opera, Jean-Luc Beauchamp meets Natasha, who becomes his.......

Author
Charlotte Bronte and Wayne Josephson

Publisher
Readable Classics

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Jane Eyre (Readable Classics)

Readable Classics gently edits the great works of literature, retaining their essence and spirit, and making them more enjoyable and less frustrating to the modern reader.
 
Jane Eyre, a novel of stunning power, romance and suspense, was an instant bestseller in 1847.......

Author
Larry Ketchersid

Publisher
JoSara MeDia

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Software by the Kilo

Jason and Kenny needed investors for their startup company but when Italian drug smuggler Roberto Campioni makes them an offer they can't refuse, they get more help than they bargain for: the Feds and Interpol are watching, the smuggler's cartel created in violence during World War II is crumbling, and Roberto's henchmen, even with their love of Clint Eastwood movies, aren.......

Author
Maxine Thompson

Publisher
Urban Soul

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Hostage of Lies (Urban Soul Presents)

Hostage Of Lies

Nefertiti “Titi” Godbolt’s been a captive of her family’s secrets her whole life. Now, as she returns home after seven years, she’s ready to confront her family and finally get some answers.......

Author
Toni Teepell

Publisher
Ramsay Publishing

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A Truth Worth Tellin'

New author Toni Teepell’s debut, A Truth Worth Tellin’, is a story of unconditional love. It chronicles a family who triumphs in the midst of utter tragedy and a true friendship between two likeminded souls. At twelve-years-old Maggie Wall is on the brink of blooming when she learns how to swallow a spoonful of fate.......

Author
Cynthia Rogers Parks

Publisher
Leigh Walker Books

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Houses: a novel

Through the turbulent '60s, the psychedelic '70s, the materialist '80s, and the booms and busts of the end of the century, Lacey Winters will find herself house proud, house poor, even homeless, and she will learn a great deal about how our homes confer status, hide our secrets, even become our prisons. This is a story for anyone who has ever loved, or lost, a house......

Author
Veronica R. Tabares

Publisher
Sun Break Publishing

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Behold the Eye: Braumaru

Behold the Eye: Braumaru is the first book in the fantasy trilogy in which two distinct worlds become intertwined by dreams, shadows, ghosts, and magical gifts. As several different stories are weaved into one, diary entries from an ancient text allow the reader to discover how the past affects the present.......

Author
Veronica R. Tabares

Publisher
Sun Break Publishing

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Behold the Eye: Cerulea

The Behold the Eye trilogy continues with this second installment: Behold the Eye: Cerulea; bringing together the world of dreams and the allure of adventure into an imaginative journey of mystery and danger.......

Author
Veronica R. Tabares

Publisher
Sun Break Publishing

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Behold the Eye: Viridia

The absolutely perfect fantasy fiction for middle school and young adult readers, Behold the Eye: Viridia is a rare blend of humor, action, and heart. Third in a trilogy that illustrates how important the anchor of a safe home is to young minds, this novel finds heroine Vickie Sutton first in a coma and then missing.......

Author
D. E. Knobbe

Publisher
Emerald Book Company

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Runaway Storm

This first book in D. E. Knobbe's gripping Runaway series puts readers in the middle of a wilderness adventure that few could survive on their own.

Nate stole the kayak . . . sort of. His parents don't know where he is, and that's just fine with him. He's made it to the chain of sparsely populated islands off the coast of Vancouver, his kayaking dream come true.......

Author
Chris Katsaropoulos

Publisher
Luminis Books

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Fragile

Amelia Geist, Holly Schenck, and Tris Holloway are all broken--in one way or another.

In a lifelong act of penitence and defiance, Amelia Geist has remained a virgin and saved herself for Tris, her first love, who abandoned her more than fifty years ago.......

Author
Shaila Abdullah

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Saffron Dreams (Reflections of America)

Saffron Dreams is a tale of love, tragedy, and redemption from the award-winning author of Beyond the Cayenne Wall...

You don't know you're a misfit until you are marked as an outcast.

From the darkest hour of American history emerges a mesmerizing tale of tender love, a life interrupted, and faith recovered.......

Author
Eva Etzioni-Halevy

Publisher
Plume

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The Triumph of Deborah

The richly imagined tale of Deborah, the courageous Biblical warrior who saved her people from certain destruction

In ancient Israel, war is looming. Deborah, a highly respected leader, has coerced the warrior Barak into launching a strike against the neighboring Canaanites.......

Author
Linda Gould

Publisher
iUniverse

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Let's Play Ball

Miranda is a bright, attractive woman with an important government job, a nice home, and a prominent lawyer husband. Her fraternal twin sister, Jessica, is a sportswriter who has spent years sacrificing her social life and conventional career prospects to establish a magazine.......

Author
Michael R. Stevens

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Fortuna

Longing for escape from his mundane existence as a Stanford computer science major, Jason Lind signs up to play Fortuna, an online role-playing game set in Renaissance Florence. From the first, fateful mouse click, Jason tumbles into the vibrant, lush, anonymous world of Fortuna.......

Author
Amber Carez

Publisher
Ishàny Press

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Pùqest Book 1: The Hunter

The new book, The Hunter by Amber Carez, seduces us into experiencing a story set on the planet Efírmà within an unparalleled universe whose science and culture we have not seen before.......

Attack in the Alleghenies

Attack in the Alleghenies gives chilling accounts of the mayhem spread by the Delaware warriors of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and of Colonel John Armstrongs 1756 raid to destroy this terrorist base......

Author
Holly Weiss

Publisher
Star Publish

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Crestmont

"A dream, after all, needn't be fueled by particulars, only by desire." So notes main character, Gracie Antes, in CRESTMONT, a historical fiction gem set in the 1920s. Determined to take control of her life, sheltered Gracie Antes leaves her unhappy home in 1925 to pursue her dream of a singing career.......

Author
Steven Donkin

Publisher
Aberdeen Bay

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Honest Faces

During the autumn of 2008, Frank Allerton, lifelong resident of the small eastern Ohio town of Vernen, is visited by a brother whom he has not seen or heard from in forty-seven years. This bittersweet reunion, however, has a pall cast over it: Frank can't help being reminded of the family tragedy that originally drove the brothers apart.......

Author
George Matthew Cole

Publisher
Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

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Colt O'Brien Sees the Light

Colt O'brien doesn't think that he has to prove anything. He is the most savvy computer technician at Highline High in Burien, Washington. When a PC needs fixing, Colt is called in to save the day. The short, energetic senior, with his bright, colorful attire and cocky attitude, knows that he is the best.......

Author
T. K. Varenko

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Ordeal

It is a verse-ornated story
About love, betrayal, wrath,
Royal vampires' bliss and glory
Bringing them straight to their death.

Luella, fierce, strong vampire,
Falls for a pretty human catch
Sent on her fiancé's desire
To celebrate they are engaged.......

Author
Walt Shiel

Publisher
Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC

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Once a Knight: A Novel of Aerial Combat & Romance in World War I

World War I: Air combat is invented in the skies above the battlefield.

May 1917: America is gearing up to enter the brutal conflict, and the Sopwith Camel is entering combat service. Many individual Americans, however, have long since signed on to fight the war.......

Author
J.C. Burnham

Publisher
Xlibris Corporation

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THE FRUIT OF THE FALLEN

When an infant is thrust into the arms of Dr. Jonathan Keats by a dying nun, he finds
himself accused of murder. His search to identify the child carries him to Europe and
to a secret religious society who reveals a prophecy of unimaginable proportions.
Serenity D’Evele has always known she was different.......

Author
Nan Weizenbaum

Publisher
CreateSpace

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the moon, the snow

Rebelling against the expectations of her middle-class upbringing, Aurora has dropped out of pre-med at Princeton with the illusion that she is going to make a life with her boyfriend. Instead, when Joe leaves her to pursue his career, she ends up isolated in a remote, unforgiving part of the Pacific Northwest.......

Author
Mark Whiteway

Publisher
Virtualbookworm.com Publishing

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Lodestone Book One: The Sea of Storms

First Place Award Winner - 2010 Premier Book Awards.
First Place Award Winner (New Author) - 2011 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards.
First Place Award Winner (Science Fiction) - 2011 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards.
First Place Award Winner (Young Adult) - 2011 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards.......

In the Shadow of War

Glen Kinsella, a recent high school graduate, has just finished opening all the cards proclaiming that he is on the doorstep of an exciting life. But in the summer of 1970, Glen is living with his naive grandfather and an array of desperate residents in a Midwestern prairie town that has withered to near-extinction – populated primarily by the sagging shells of .......

Author
S. Carol Crovo

Publisher
Tate Publishing

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More Than Good-bye

Jane Bell wakes up in an unfamiliar train station only to discover that she has died. But she is given the chance to live her life again, not to change the past, but to hold her family once more, to share her love with them. In S.......

Author
Krysia Jopek

Publisher
Aquila Polonica

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Maps and Shadows: A Novel

Maps and Shadows is a literary novel based on the author's family's experiences at the start of WWII in eastern Poland through the mid-1950s.

The story is told from the point of view of four characters: Henryk, the 12-year-old son (author's father); Helcia, his 15-year-old sister (author's aunt); Andrzej, the father (author's grandfather); and Zofia, the mother (.......

Author
Tonya Plank

Publisher
Dark Swan Press

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Swallow

WINNER OF GOLD MEDAL, 2010 Living Now Book Awards, Women's Fiction
WINNER OF GOLD MEDAL, 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Best Regional Fiction
FINALIST, 2010 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, General Fiction
FINALIST, 2010 National Indie Excellence Awards, Regional Fiction

Sophie Hegel is a shy New York lawyer who hails from .......

Author
James Ross

Publisher
Nightengale Press

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Opur's Blade

After the first ball is struck on the driving range, the head pro, J Dub Schroeder, realizes that he has a child prodigy in his midst. Soon thereafter the pro shop regulars assign a nickname to the teenager.......

Author
Larry Seeley

Publisher
Eloquent Books

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Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves

Jack Sloan played his cards right, took the money and ran. Only now it seems he may not have run far enough. Set in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, this riveting novel is a story of murder and revenge, with a cast of characters that drive the plot forward, until the climactic end.......

Author
T. William Phillips

Publisher
iUniverse

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Restless Heart

HIS RESTLESS HEART BEAT TO A RHYTHM OF ITS OWN- a rhythm that had once been so prevalent in the core of his soul, but had long been lost under the thick layers of routine, expectation, and responsibility created by a quiet, civilized life.......

Author
Garasamo Maccagnone

Publisher
Strategic Book Publishing

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St. John of the Midfield

World-class soccer star Bobo Stoikov makes an escape from communist Bulgaria and finds his way to America. Landing a job as a youth soccer coach, Bobo builds a reputation for himself as a successful, yet unorthodox, coach who propels his team to the championship title.......

Author
Mark Pogodzinski

Publisher
No Frills Buffalo

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Flashes and Specks

SECOND PRINTING This is the story of Henry Kent, father, husband, teacher and would-be superhero. A story of right versus wrong, faith versus logic and the tenuous nature of reality and sanity. Flashes and Specks is a portrait of one man's attempt to maintain his life in the face of madness, torture and the end of the world.......

Author
Hugh Centerville

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Bobby Slater's World: An early 1960s summer ghost story

Summer, 1964 and for 13 year old Bobby Slater, 1 of those rich summer kids up on Baker Lake, it's idyllic - swimming, fishing, baseball, hiking the mountains around the lake, camping on the islands, but what Bobby wants is a girlfriend. Be careful what you wish for, Bobby.......

v2036: A Tale of Sociopolitical Change in a Militarized Venezuela

v2036 brings entertainment and cohesion to an otherwise depressing and incomprehensible subject: Venezuelan politics. Through the lives of three resolute men that represent the country's warring factions, the story boldly illustrates that leading the people of a volatile South American nation is anything but an easy task.......

Polk's Soliloquy

His name is Polk, and he has something to say. Maybe.

POLK'S SOLILOQUY is the story of Polk Fauxston, a recent college grad trying to make a life for himself in Washington, DC. He navigates the city as he moves through his life with the help of friends and the specter of relationships past, present, and possible future.......

Author
Bob Brink

Publisher
iUniverse

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Breaking Out

Breaking Out is a novel about the emotional torment suffered by a Midwestern  adolescent boy and his eventual breakdowns in the transitional process toward becoming a well-functioning adult with a successful career.......

Author
Vlane Carter

Publisher
VC Imagination Factory

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The Bialien Trilogy: Rise of the Bialiensapien: Human Evolved

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A New Sci-fi, Space, Action, Adventure and Romance novel. Bialien - Where fiction, science, religion and technology collide.......

Author
Mark A. Salvatore

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Labeled

We meet Vinnie in high school where he does not attend classes. His path leads from untimely deaths, changes of schools, a first love, to problems academically, emotionally and socially. He reels from a failed first encounter with a girl. He reads widely and experiments with alcohol and other drugs. He hitchhikes across the country with two friends.......

Author
Jack Gilhooly

Publisher
McNeil & Richards

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Christmas Village

Two children discover what it's like to live with the people in a little Christmas Village that sits atop a table in their grandparents' house.
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Author
Theodore Jerome Cohen

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Full Circle: A Dream Denied, A Vision Fulfilled

Solly's dream is for his son Teddy to one day become a concert violinist. Eventually he comes to understand and to endure the heartbreak of knowing that the dream never will be realized. As Solly watches, life takes Teddy from gifted violin student to adult engineer and scientist, leaving no time for the career in music Solly so dearly wants his son to pursue.......

Author
Theodore Jerome Cohen

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer

Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer is Book II of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy. It continues the story of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Lientur and the hunt for the millions of dollars in U.S.......

Author
Theodore Jerome Cohen

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences

End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences, is Book III of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy. In many ways, it brings to an end three things: the sagas of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Lientur, the hunt for the millions of dollars in U.S.......

Author
Theodore Jerome Cohen

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Death By Wall Street: Rampage Of The Bulls

Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, a murder mystery, is based on real events. It is the story of how the oligarchs of Wall Street, doctors and others in the pharmaceutical research profession having significant conflicts of interest, and employees of two 'captured' US government agencies-the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Food and Drug Administra.......

Author
R.M. Doyon

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Upcountry: A Novel

JANE SCHUMACHER is a smart, spirited and often profane press secretary to the Governor of New York. Immersed in the thrilling world of political warfare, she is shepherding her popular and charismatic boss for a serious run for the White House. But after visiting her doctor just before Thanksgiving, she questions whether any of her dreams will come true.......

Author
Sidney Gale

Publisher
lulu.com

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Unto the Breach

Eric, Rob and Anthony's sailing adventure goes horribly wrong when a life-threatening injury occurs. Emergency surgery is required, but can the boys rise to the challenge?.....

Author
Christine Sunderland

Publisher
OakTara

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Hana-lani

Only opening their hearts will keep them from plunging into the dark abyss. Old Nani-lei lives in Hana-lani, her family home in rural Hawaii. She looks after her grandson Henry, 52, and his daughter Lucy, 6, who have returned to Maui from Berkeley after the death of Maria, Henry's wife.......

Author
Rick Elliott

Publisher
Rising River Press

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The Reluctant Martyr

Determined terrorists take a circuitous route towards their final destination. After losing one of their group on an aging freighter, the remaining trio reach Buenos Aires where they are met by a jihadist who takes them to Ciudad del Estrellas, Paraguay.......

Author
Rick Ward

Publisher
Spring Morning Publishing, Inc.

3 Review Copies Left

Blood for Molasses: A Mississippi Massacre

Blood for Molasses: A Mississippi Massacre based on a true story, is about a slaughter that started over an accidental spilling of molasses. The offended was a prominent white citizen. The offenders were two half-breed black and Indian brothers.......

Author
Joe A. Crawford

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Rock n' Roll Supernova

Rock n' Roll Supernova is about dreams, having a dream and what it takes to make it come true, along with the price ones pays to accomplish it. In Buddy Carmichael's case, it's the dream of rock n' roll and being on stage, playing his music for millions of people.......

Author
John E Nevola

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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The Last Jump: A Novel of World War II

Would you like to thank a soldier and help a military family?  Read on! 

The Last Jump is a war story, a mystery, a love tale, and a tribute to the people who won World War II. Fact and fiction intermix seamlessly to unravel a secret passionately guarded by four aging soldiers.......

The Last Ruble - A Story is Born - Part 1

Join Jack Rivers, as off Wall Street Investment Banker, as he bonds with Middle Eastern Bankers and journeys back in time, discovering tragedy, romance and the search for hidden treasure. Meet Vladimir, a Russian warrior, whose honor is unmatched......

Author
Jerry Ackerman

Publisher
iUniverse.com

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In Green Sleep: A Tour of Duty

It is the late 1960s. Cold war tensions and the Vietnam conflict dominate the media. John Bluderin, a drafted, dejected nineteen-year-old army specialist, has been assigned to military intelligence in Germany. Fluent in German and absorbed into the social fabric of Schwäbisch Gmünd, no one would ever suspect him of doing anything out of the ordinary.......

Author
Michael H. Haussler

Publisher
Eloquent Books

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Results May Vary: A Novel About an Urban High School

Results May Vary follows a teacher and a student through one day in the life of a Los Angeles high school. Santa Ana winds are blowing, brush fires are burning in the mountains above the city, and emotions are tinder dry. It's the end of the year push for a battery of standardized tests. Despite outward signs of success, Mr.......

Author
Al Ruksenas

Publisher
Meridia Publishers

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Devil's Eye

An evil cult, spawned long ago in the desert wilderness of Egypt, has realized its goal. The people of the United States have been gifted with the Devil's Eye. It pulsated an ancient curse.

An infiltrator has risen to the highest levels of society to bring about the collapse of the American way of life.......

Author
Bradley Clemmons

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Mountain Dragon: Aspiration

A GREAT SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE BEGINS

The first thing that hit them-and this was well before they reached the site of the caravan's encampment-was the stench. The smell of death was heavy in the air...

The world is in chaos and transition.......

Author
Bradley Clemmons

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Mountain Dragon: Fulfillment: A New Myth of the Enlightened Feminine

A Great Spiritual Adventure Continues ... Thrust back into the world by the most terrifying of circumstances, the brutal murder of her beloved teacher before her very eyes, a young spiritual adept must deal with the intentions of friend and foe alike.......

Author
Mark Whiteway

Publisher
Virtualbookworm.com Publishing

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Lodestone Book Two: The World of Ice and Stars

First Place Award Winner (Science Fiction) - 2010 Reader Views Awards.
First Place Award Winner (Young Adult) - 2010 Reader Views Awards.
First Place Award Winner (Science Fiction) - 2011 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards.
First Place Award Winner (New Author) - 2011 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards.......

Author
Sandra Levy Ceren

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Stolen Secrets: A Dr. Cory Cohen Mystery

A woman reveals her most intimate fantasy...
a stolen secret which could lead to murder!

A strait-laced patient in San Diego running for District Attorney is threatened by a midnight phone caller who knows her dirty secret--her fantasy of living as a prostitute--a secret she shared only with Dr. Cory Cohen.......

Tutu Much

“A background rich in ballet will enable you to grow far more quickly than any traditional genre training. You can do anything in the dance world with proper ballet technique.......

Author
Richard Barager

Publisher
Interloper Press

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Altamont Augie

A NATION'S HONOR...A GENERATION'S POLITICAL SOUL... LOVE and WAR in the AGE of AQUARIUS
A startlingly vivid portrayal of one of the most colorful and turbulent periods in recent American history: the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of two ill-fated college lovers at odds over Vietnam.......

Author
Barbara Briggs Ward

Publisher
Wheatmark

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The Reindeer Keeper: Believe Again ...

Abbey senses something special about the little man tending to the reindeer who, along with a century-old farmhouse, a barn full of animals, and fields abounding in woods and pasture, was a gift to Abbey from a stranger. Abbey and her husband, Steve, move in just before the holidays. They have been together since the '60s, eloping when Steve returned from Vietnam.......

Author
Carolyn Moncel

Publisher
CreateSpace

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5 Reasons to Leave a Lover: A Novella and Other Short Stories

In 5 Reasons to Leave a Lover, author Carolyn Moncel offers up a fresh batch of stories based on love and loss. As singer/songwriter, Paul Simon so eloquently suggested in a famous song from the 1970s, there are many ways to leave a lover. However, Moncel's characters demonstrate that the reasons for leaving in the first place are quite finite.......

Author
Bonnie Trachtenberg

Publisher
iUniverse.com

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Wedlocked: A Novel

On what should be the happiest day of her life, Rebecca Ross is panic stricken. Rebecca has just wed Craig Jacobs, but she realizes she put more thought into choosing her florist than she did in choosing the man she's just pledged to love for the rest of her life.......

Author
Alan Thompson

Publisher
WingSpan Press

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A Hollow Cup

A HOLLOW CUP recounts the murder of a beautiful young woman and the effort, twenty-five years later, to find her killer. The novel has three parts. In "The Island" we see the characters growing up in the segregated South. Like most of the book, it presents events from the perspective of the two main characters, Pete Johnson and Luke Stanley.......

Notary Public Enemy

Notary Public Enemy is a fast-paced tale of forged documents, murder, million of dollars vanished—and the troubled lawyer to whom it all points.......

Author
Glen C. Strathy

Publisher
iUniverse Publishing

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Dancing on the Inside

Ever since her grandparents gave her a DVD of Swan Lake, twelve-year old Jenny Spark has wanted to be a dancer. But on her first day of ballet class, she suffers a panic attack and makes a horrifying discovery. She's terrified of dancing in front of the other kids, and as for actually performing for an audience? Forget it. Yet Jenny refuses to give up her dream.......

Author
Dan Spencer

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Be Now, Buddy What

A naked man survives a meteoric plunge from a cloudless sky, and a small-town TV reporter rushes to get the story. The fallen man claims amnesia and, despite widespread efforts, no one can identify him. The press dubs him Buddy What.......

Author
Christine Stark

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Nickels: a tale of dissociation

"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable"
--Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl

Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood.......

Author
olivia free-woman

Publisher
Acacia Publishing, Inc.

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The Incident at New Providence

Two sisters who had grown apart clash over race relations and small town politics that push old friendships to the edge and rip open long hidden family secrets. Terri, who escaped to Los Angeles years before, has returned to her Southern roots.......

Author
Chelsea Fine

Publisher
Acacia Publishing, Inc.

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Sophie & Carter

SYNOPSIS: While other high school seniors are dreaming about their futures, Sophie and Carter are just trying to make it through each day. Carter is overwhelmed by issues at home as he struggles to support his mother. Meanwhile, next door neighbor Sophie is left to care for her three younger siblings in place of their absent and troubled mother.......

NOC - Non-Official Cover: British Secret Operations

"WE WERE INSTITUTIONAL KILLERS in disruptive actions on the black, that is to say we made illegal entries across borders to perform dirty work then returned home mostly without the knowledge or connection to the local British embassy's staff assigned to other covert affairs. The main job description was called deep cover within SIS (MI6), though the U.S.......

Author
Rosa Alexander with shELAH

Publisher
Tate Publishing

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Where the Willow Grows in Transylvania

 “I do not want to hear another word about your crazy American Dream!”


Words such as these from Rosa Alexander’s father during his frequent drunken rants often drove young Rosa to seek solace beneath her weeping willow tree.......

Author
William P. Robertson & David Rimer

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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The Bucktail Brothers of the Fighting 149th

Lieutenant Colonel Walton Dwight inherited the difficult task of whipping the green 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry into battle shape before the summer campaign of 1863. Through brutal drilling, he instilled in his raw Bucktails the discipline to withstand the horrors of the first day's action at bloody Gettysburg.......

Author
Bernard Leo Remakus

Publisher
Wasteland Press

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Mia

Captain Zack Adams is the only American who can identify an elusive terrorist, codenamed Chameleon. Disfigured and emasculated during his Delta Force unit's failed attempt to neutralize the menacing terrorist, Adams is airlifted to an American military hospital, but his stay there is short-lived.......

Author
Tim W. Jackson

Publisher
The Chenault Publishing Group, LLC

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Mangrove Underground

What happens when you have to choose between doing the right thing, knowing disaster will ensue, or taking the wrong action and saving everything you love? Haunted by his mother's sudden death when he was young, Ben Gates spends his life trying to be a hero, but can never seem to get it right.......

Author
Jeff Gafford

Publisher
Jeff Gafford

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Summertown

Summertown is a little hamlet in Northern Arizona that accountant Jimmy Stone, a refugee from the big city of Phoenix, has called home for the last nine years. In that time, the biggest things to happen have been the day his first wife did him the favor of leaving him for another man and the day, two years later, when he married his current wife, Tara.......

Author
Stuart Land

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Epiphany

Doctor Sam Enright and his geneticist wife, Dorinda, face turmoil in their small town when a dozen adolescent girls show up pregnant at Sam’s office—and they’re all virgins. When their own daughter falls victim to the same fate, the Enrights rush to Homeland Security for answers.......

Author
Bette Lee Crosby

Publisher
Bent Pine Publishing

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Spare Change

Olivia Westerly’s father disowned her when she tossed her nose in the air and left home in pursuit of a job he considered scandalous. He expected that she’d marry and settle into having babies as her friends had done; but Olivia simply couldn’t tolerate the thought.......

Author
Kathryn Heuston Clark

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Grave Markers, Bird Feathers, and The Aegean Sea

Journey with an intriguing woman as she struggles to make sense of life after experiencing anguishing loss. Through her knowledge of ancient Greek religion and her travels through the Mediterranean, she slowly weaves together a rich understanding of life by examining different religious customs and assimilating ancient Greek rituals......

Nickels: a tale of dissociation

"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable"
--Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl

Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood.......

Author
Terri Sedmak

Publisher
Vivid Publishing

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HEARTLAND - On the Side of Angels

Set in Wyoming in 1883, HEARTLAND On the Side of Angels is the first volume of The Liberty & Property Legends, and takes you on a journey of intrigue, love and loyalty, and a fight for freedom.......

Author
Allan G. Johnson

Publisher
Plain View Press

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Nothing Left To Lose

The year is 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War. William Carson, a World War II veteran teaching in a small New England Prep School, has for more than two decades been haunted by nightmares whose content he has never shared with his wife, Anne, or their two sons, Joshua, a Marine on active duty in Vietnam, and Andrew, an ROTC college senior bound for active duty followi.......

Author
Ryan Frawley

Publisher
529 Publishing

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Scar

Dermot Fallon has a disease. Currently hospitalized in Vancouver, he recreates with lunatic clarity the circumstances surrounding his recent trip to Ireland to bury his father, and his own schizophrenic breakdown.......

Author
Lauren Clark

Publisher
Monterey Press LLC

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Stay Tuned

What happens when a #1 news team becomes the top story instead of reporting it?

 For TV producer Melissa Moore, crisis management .......

Zombie Day Care

     "He had dozed off, feeling safe and exhausted, in the middle of nowhere. He laid his head back, just for a second, listening to the madness on the satellite radio. America has fallen! Russia has fallen! The Middle East has fallen! He fell asleep.
     His eyes snapped open. A shuffle of dirt caught his ear.......

Author
Rhonda Sheree

Publisher
Reason Enterprises

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Jaded

Syeesha Green knew something wasn’t right the second she entered her office. And within minutes of her arrival, she was back on the street again. Fired. Fine for a wealthy twenty-something with an Ivy League education. Not so fine for a thirty-year-old legal secretary who’s also struggling through law school.......

Chasing Her Destiny

Chasing Her Destiny is a story about love, hope and adoption as a successful, forty-something couple struggles to start a family. After a whirlwind romance, they ride the emotional rollercoaster of infertility and adoption where they meet extraordinary women in the most unexpected of places.......

Strings of Color

Life can grab a hold of you like captivating strings of color. It is a lesson that four women will learn as they each travel down a journey filled with lies, betrayal, and shocking secrets. Simone. Is immensely talented, yet everything she has ever known will be ripped apart. Her love will be tested.......

Chihuahua Karma

Chihuahua Karma chronicles the horrendous consequences of Cherry Paget’s bad choices. Cherry trades love for a Black American Express card. She dumps veterinarian, Richard Preston, to marry gangster, Larry Finkelstein.......

Author
Tom Thiele

Publisher
Jesus Solution Media, The

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Discovery in the Desert: It Will Shake the Nations

David Hart is a young, bright NASA physicist who is chosen to join a team of other NASA scientists assigned to a Classified Military Project. The team has been formed to bring a new, cutting edge technology to the United States military--Time Travel. The team initially makes great strides in developing a time travel capsule, and then they hit a brick wall.......

Author
Lorraine Oman Hanover

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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My Name is Grace

"Some people call me amazing Grace, and some people call me a dis-Grace."

When she slurs those words in a northern Alberta bar, Grace is worlds away from the girl who began a diary on the eve of World War II.......

Author
W. S. Marble

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Boilerplate Reich

A kinder, gentler sturm und drang story... What it Paul von Hindenburg and his son Oskar were more complicated figures than those depicted in current historical accounts? What if they were much more complicated than anyone COULD imagine?.....