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Pericles and Aspasia

by Yvonne Korshak

Two lovers crest the wave of the golden age of Athens: Pericles, statesman, general, and great visionary of democracy, and Aspasia, his courtesan, a philosopher’s daughter and an brilliant woman in her own right. In a world of hierarchies, he is at the top when she arrives as little more than flotsam cast up on Athenian shores. Their story brings to life the arts, archaeology and history of a brilliant classical world.

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Through Both Eyes: Second Edition

by Robert Henry Benson

You may think that identical means “identical” when it comes to identical twins, but that’s not true. One of five monozygotic twin pairs do not share the same handedness, their fingerprints are never the same, and their personalities can be remarkably different. This story is about identical twin boys, Austin and Bryan Gustafson, who came of age in hot, dry South Texas during the 1950s and 1960s. The lives of these increasingly competitive brothers deteriorate and fragment when a strikingly-b... more

The Impossible Childhood of My Desires

by RICK R. REED

Carl Young’s biggest secret: he’s always felt like Cara Young. Through the years, he acknowledged his authentic female self in ways he kept hidden in the shadows. The makeup, the dresses, the shoes -- all of them represented his most longed-for desires and his deepest shame. When Carl’s husband Roberto comes home early from work to discover Cara in her wig, makeup, dress, and high heels, he’s shocked. Who is this person he married decades ago? He flees, leaving their home in Chicago for the o... more

A Time For Lies

by Cy Stein

“Fascinating…unexpected twists and turns with insights into Cohn and McCarthy that will keep readers engaged to the last page. Five stars.” -Andrew J. Heller, Gray Tide in the East: An Alternate History of the First World War

Working with Roy Cohn will bring him untold success. It’ll only cost him his conscience.

Benny Peskin is a bright young lawyer drawn into the orbit of Roy Cohn, the most shockingly sensational lawyer in New Y... more

Xylene X Band

by Charles Harvey

It’s 1985. Joe Ecks is a rock star guitarist for X Band. He’s a bad rock star, though, despite the fact that he is a musical genius. In an emotional moment, he has a seizure, and his personality changes drastically. The new personality calls itself Mike Smith and is shown to be the direct opposite of Joe’s old personality. For example, the Mike Smith personality loves Joe’s life (including Joe’s wife Angie), and he wants to live it forever. But there’s a hitch: the new personality can’t play gu... more

The Piano Bench

by Ralph Webster

The Piano Bench is a story of survival – of secrets and betrayal, of love and deceit, of the heights of happiness, and the despair of heartbreak.

Born to a middle-class Jewish family family in the late 19th century, Josef Samson grew up believing that the possibilities for his life in his beloved Germany were limitless. His doting parents were ferocious advocates and fearless protectors, encouraging him to pursue his passions and dreams. And when he came of age, on the da... more

Our Daughters, Yàzhōu nǚ'ér – The Asian Daughter

by lori ann mathews

Jesse Roberts, straddles not only two worlds but four. She’s the dutiful, loving daughter to her adopted parents; a loyal sister to Loren who’s different from her; a best friend to her friends of Asian descent and a competent woman to the world-at-large when she literally falls, is on the ground being attached and is rescued by Abrams Harrington whom she falls, instantly, irrevocably in love - wild love. Abrams is everything Jesse could want, yet he’s mysteriously much more. Abrams’s involved wi... more

Vignettes from the Landed Gentry - Outlandish Tales from the Trailer Park

by Rondi Springer

Enjoy outlandish tales from the trailer park, brought to you in part by Covid-19 and people's growing sense of utter entitlement. We all know the world has changed. Behavior considered by polite society simply unacceptable a few years ago has now become the norm. As a woman running a trailer park during the Pandemic, lessons learned include how certain men absolutely loathe a woman in a position of power (you're not the boss of me), that no one understands the word "no" (why not?) and that peop... more

The Light Among Us

by Jill George with John Dirring

Elizabeth Carne is torn apart by the conflicts of the English class system; local poverty; her love of Henry, a man from '"the lower order;' and her role as an heiress. As a woman without a college education, she struggles to gain credibility in her father's banks as she tries to maintain her family's long legacy of wealth and philanthropy. Amid lies, murder, smuggling, famine, and restrictive social norms, Elizabeth fights for her love of Henry, the local miners, and fishermen. Meanwhile, th... more

Life of Cyn

by Caitlin Avery

Some say life begins at forty. Cyn Mckinley hopes so since her former life is over. Home foreclosure, a cross-country move, and hidden drinking problem pretty much killed it. Being crushed by crippling anxiety doesn’t help. When she discovers that her husband's new boss is the monster who raped her in high school, she spirals further down. Struggling to process this revelation, she conceals it from her husband because they need his job. Instead, she numbs her pain with t... more

The Nobodies

by Alanna Schubach

Jess and Nina, Nina and Jess … to everyone else they’re typical best friends, sharing closeness and confidences in their own little world. But Nina and Jess have a secret. Simply by touching their foreheads together, they can swap bodies. In Jess’s assertive persona, self-conscious Nina turns bolder, free to say what she’s frightened to voice on her own. Inhabiting Nina, Jess becomes part of the loving, stable family she craves. Now, in crisis after her father’s death, Jess has reentered N... more

Burning The Witches: (Introducing the Underworld Series)

by Penn Fawn

Burning The Witches is the prelude to the Underworld series of books, a spin off from author Penn Fawn's Necropolis dark fantasy novels.

It is a semi-biographical account of the witch Hespatia and her peers in a world of enduring apprehension and terror for those who dared to try practicing their pagan faith.

Witches, wizards, wicca, nature worshipers and paganists of all kinds are invited to read about its protagonist and central figures whose interest lay in exploring subjec... more

Incident 395

by John Riha

The Devil is loose in southern Oregon. A monster wildfire explodes and begins to devour everything in its path. Miles from any roads, a father and his blind 11-year-old daughter are trapped while backpacking in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Smoke, flames, and tornadic winds thwart efforts to save them. The only way into the violent firestorm may be a dangerous, off-the-books rescue attempt proposed by a pair of rappelling firefighters. But there’s no way out.

Sister Liberty

by Gregory Hill

Their American Dream was simply to survive. It wasn’t simple. Set in 1885, and spanning from France to Indiana, Sister Liberty’s wry absurdism centers on Annie, Euphémie, & young Auguste, three French nationals drawn across the Atlantic by a combination of murderous circumstances and a chance encounter with a group of beneficent religious cultists. Things go about as well as one would expect. With its cast of obedient romantics, mystical nutbags, and adorable cynics, Sister Liberty... more

The Anstruther Lass

by Vivien Carmichael

A historical romance set in the Dundee Jute Mills in 1865. Lana, a young widow from Anstruther, works at a mill and falls in love with a Dutch sailor Stefan, the son of a rich jute trader and shipping magnate. But then, a love triangle arises that pursued wrongdoings just to acquire Lana’s love. Will Stefan be alive and safe? What happens to Lana later on? Will a pregnant Lana survive in the uncertainties of the world? Follow through the answers to these questions in “The Anstruther Lass” by... more

The Quadrant Conspiracy

by James H Lewis

As Anglo-American leaders gather to plan the defeat of Nazi Germany, Hitler orders the death of President Franklin Roosevelt to derail the conference. Brandon Armitage, a Canadian veteran of the Great War, has joined Canada’s Volunteer Guard to oversee German prisoners; it’s a role he’s undertaken to seek revenge for the death of his son during a raid on the French Coast. When one of his prisoners escapes. Armitage pursues him to a remote island above Lake Huron, where FDR is on a pre-conference... more

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