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22 Rue Montparnasse

by Richard Helms

Beau Shipley and Keeby Styles barely survive the WWI battle of the Meuse-Argonne. Beau returns to Charleston in a fatalistic attempt to stop his former girlfriend's wedding to a rival, while Keeby remains in Paris to become a writer. Beau discovers that time, the war, the Spanish Flu, and a dark family secret have left the Charleston he remembered unrecognizable, so he returns to Paris to live as a painter. On separate but intertwining paths, Beau and Keeby are swept up in what Gertrude Stei... more

Beneath the wild fig tree

by Fiona Preston

A family drama unfolds across a Bass Strait island, Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide. Should betrayal be forgiven, and if so, who should forgive and who should be forgiven? Wheeler is a traveller who relishes freedom. Freya is engrossed with the past, and Ninka believe that parents should never be trusted, particularly after they move to a far-flung island raucous with birdlife. Migrating birds return and an eclectic assortment of visitors arrive, but all the time, beneath the surface of their... more

Bringing Sunshine back to my Mind

by Momoko Uno

Sachi Kubo-Sanchez, a woman in her forties, leaves her unfulfilling marriage and conservative hometown for New York City. Plagued by resurfaced childhood trauma, she begins therapy and reconnects with lost aspects of her psyche, including her inner child, Sunshine. As she embarks on a journey of self-healing and integration, Sachi faces challenges balancing motherhood with her newfound sexuality, navigating the complexities of online dating, managing an unfamiliar job, and addressing family issu... more

The Tower Jockeys

by Bruce Golden

Part satire, part memoir, The Tower Jockeys is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Full of political and pop culture references from the early '70s, it tells the story of the last American military draftees and how they became part of the U.S. Army's most infamous and uproarious unit while guarding nuclear missiles in the Republic of South Korea. Come for the sardonic tower jockeys, stay for the sabotaged missile, the Bravo missions, the court martial, the tower ghost, the great raid, and the Kore... more

Uplift

by Jessica Mann

When her high mountain wilderness is threatened by humans, a rebellious young bird must teach others how to work together to save their common home.

Both Sides of the Same Coin

by Michael Weiner, MD

The Doyle, Carbone, and Roth families immigrate to the United States from Europe for a variety of reasons: the 1850 potato famine in Ireland, religious freedom, and persecution of the mafia in Sicily by Mussolini in 1925. It is the appearance of Oscar Klein, an orphan from Philadelphia, which brings them all together in the post-depression, pre-World War II era of the late 1930s to 1940s. Oscar Klein is a kid of the streets without formal education, but he becomes the driving force and inn... more

Trail of Fate The Arduous Quest Series (Book 1 Western Adventure Novels)

by B. S. Daniels, Novelist

THE TRAIL OF FATE
The sun rises. Is it fate?
The moon rises. Is it fate?
The people we meet and the places where we travel. Is it fate?
All the many roads, twists, and turns, the people who come and go in our lives. Fate . . . What does it have in store for you?

Step into the rugged world of the 1890s West in the debut novel, The Trail of Fate by B.S. Daniels. Follow Reg, a man torn between his test of will in his quest for justice and the welf... more

The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife

by JC Restorick

\tOn Christmas Eve 1856 we see Caleb, the Under Keeper, slip away from duty to visit his new wife and daughter. He surprises his with an Exciseman and, enraged, he pushes his wife aside and pursues, unsuccessfully, the Exciseman out the door and into the dunes. Giving up Caleb returns to his cottage now aflame and, blaming himself for the death of his wife and daughter, returns to the lighthouse where he throws him self off the top deck to his death. \tNext we see Emma, the protagonist, arrive... more

Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria's Court

by Rozsa Gaston

Where did Anne Boleyn first learn the skills that captured the heart of Henry VIII and and launched England's reformation? Not in France, as is widely supposed...but at Margaret of Austria's 1513 imperial court in Mechelen, in what is now present-day Belgium. Enter the world of the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries, where Anne Boleyn grows from girlhood to womanhood under the guidance of Europe’s most brilliant female ruler. As one of Margaret of Austria's eighteen maids of ... more

What was Beautiful and Good

by Jill Blocker

A novel about a young singer whose 'joie de vivre‘ is disrupted by the outbreak of the First World War and whose fight for freedom inspired an international art movement.

Andrew's Addled Autopsy

by Christopher Griffith

So why is Andrew addled? And is this a real autopsy? Well, in a sense, because our hero has been so traumatised by the violent demise of William Ottoway’s tropical Utopia that within days of returning home to England he sets off again, and in one direction only, north. In the Lake District he meets an able fellow who starts to steer him down a path which, by way of accommodation hosts in Windermere, a Loch Ness monster, Iceland’s night sky and the University of Lapland, will in the end test h... more

Celtston, The Arcanum Series Book 1

by L J Litton

Few humans ever manifest any innate special ability, and those that do are classified as Arcanum. It is foretold that the supreme Arcanum, the Millenarian, will possess all known special abilities. A sect of global elite puppeteers, the Veneré, governs the Arcanum to ensure they engage in magnanimous versus nefarious pursuits. The Veneré employ an international Special Forces cadre to maintain their supremacy and send a select team of these operators to retrieve the Gordon Dynasty hei... more

LOVERS" PURSUITS

by Nona Babcock

A letter from Inga Johansson’s uncle in Danville, Minnesota, spurs her parents to immigrate to America to take advantage of the Homestead Act. She begs her parents to allow her to stay in Norway and marry her fiancé Erik Norskaag, but is denied. The lovers emotionally charged final farewell ends with his promise to join her later. Arriving in America, Inga discovers she is with child. He is born prematurely. In Danville, she meets bachelors, George and Tomaas Nilsson. George is immediately smit... more

Also Known as Jaime Dorn

by Karen Emilson

When your whole life is a lie, how do you tell the truth?

Jaime Dorn is a tough-talking, wannabe artist whose train-wreck past has left her uninspired and insecure. Tired of the lies and desperate to outrun a police investigation, she hides her grandfather's ashes in a knapsack and jumps on a bus for the West Coast. Finally free of her shady, so-called parents, she vows to keep one final promise to Gramps and live an honest life.

But when she becomes stranded ... more

The Man Who Made an Angel

by Ivan Blake

The year is 1921. A young scholar, unable to cope with the turmoil unleashed by a devastating family tragedy, flees to a war-ravaged Germany in the vain hope he might find tranquility hidden away in the archives of an abandoned university. There he encounters a former biology professor, still living within the bowels of the shuttered campus. The old man is also one of the few remaining followers of Monism. a once-popular German philosophic movement that advocated the integration of science and r... more

Two Thousand Miles from Omaha

by S.D. Goldman

Ryan Collins is isolated. A thousand miles from friends and family, his days are spent working, while his nights are shared with women whose names he doesn’t remember, all in an attempt to drown reminders of a past prison sentence and the cynical love he abandoned years ago. Soon, changes arrive – first in the form of a career promotion and then a new romantic interest. Ryan believes that all this will lead him away from his grief, but it isn’t long before his idyllic life becomes upended. Faced... more

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