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12 Days to Christmas

by Rebecca Alexandru

Traditions may change…but memories last forever. Christmas is Mira’s favorite time of the year. Except this year. It’s the first time she will spend the holiday without her mother. Even though she doesn’t feel the joy of the season, she must lead the traditional 12 Days to Christmas festival in her small town––from a cookie exchange commemorating the WW1 Christmas Day Truce to a vintage game night remembering the 1968 moon orbit, along with ten other community events celebrating the history o... more

The Ballad of Thomas Patrick Downing

by Des A Ryan

The Ballad of Thomas Patrick Downing is a true story. Born into post famine Ireland, Downing moved from Adare, County Limerick to Savannah, Georgia at the tender age of three. The move was precipitated by an unfortunate brush with O’Donovan Rossa and the Fenian movement. Growing up in Savannah, against the backdrop of the American Civil War, Downing experienced the cruelty of slavery and then watched as the slaves were emancipated around him. Thomas Patrick Downing left Savannah and m... more

Chains of Fate

by Melissa Cole

In the shadowy alleys of 1770 London, destiny is a thief in the night... Orphaned and thrust into the darkest corners of the city, Thomas Everhart’s life takes a dramatic turn when he’s torn from his homeland and shipped across the Atlantic to toil in the green prisons of a Virginia tobacco plantation. Bound by chains but driven by an unyielding spirit, Thomas becomes the spark of rebellion among the oppressed. With freedom in sight, Thomas and his comrades embark on a daring escape, pursu... more

Alcibiades, Mon Amour

by Tobias Maxwell

Alan Chadwick, a sophomore at a private Ivy League college in 1978 Massachusetts, is hypnotized at the start of the academic year while attending a philosophy department party. Under the exotic spell of Dr. Lisa Gibson, he travels back in time to Ancient Greece and soon finds his identity caught between past and present lives. His college’s production of Plato’s Symposium only complicates matters, plunging Alan and his closest friends, Todd and Ginnie, into the psychological abyss, along with hi... more

The Gilded Age Promise: Kopp Chronicles

by Gregory Kopp

The promise of the Gilded Age evokes a worldwide exhilarating time of technological advancement and economic expansion. American society is transforming from focusing on small rural farms to an urban one dominated by large corporations resulting in even more inequality between the wealthy and middle-class. Discriminatory segregation and immigration laws enacted by misguided and corrupt political leaders threaten to tarnish the American dream. Nevertheless, charismatic American women activists ar... more

Long Fang Band

by Keith Root

Forty-five thousand years ago, in a verdant valley of Central Asia, a Neanderthal band's paleo lifestyle is upended by the arrival of Homo sapiens— adventurous newcomers in search of fresh territories. Amidst this pristine, untamed landscape, two Homo sapien brothers stumble upon the secluded refuge of the Long Fang Band, forging an unexpected connection with these enigmatic people. Tragedy swiftly claims the elder, thrusting the younger, Amo, to navigate in a pristine but violent wildern... more

The Missionary's Wife

by Claire McGregor

The never-before-told true story about a dark chapter of Australia's history. In 1871 Nova Scotia, Annetta Stewart boards a ship bound for the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) with her new missionary husband, John. She doesn't realise she is entering a battlefield where ships' crews ply the islands looking for labourers for Australia and Fiji. The couple face many hardships in their time on the islands - John is attacked by an islander, and the couple lose their son to pneumonitis. This culminates in ... more

A Quest for God and Spices

by dean cycon

A Quest for God and Spices (The Emissaries – Book One) begins an epic journey across the ancient world. In the year AD 1200, a new pope agitates for a renewed crusade to reconquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem. European monarchs largely ignore his call, too involved with squabbles among themselves.

The pope chooses two men—Brother Mauro, an older monk, and Nicolo, a young, striving merchant—to traverse the treacherous political, religious, and mercantile terrain o... more

The Morning People

by Beth Uznis Johnson

Marcia Moss is desperate for a beach vacation. Her husband David’s vision for a family trip—to Disney’s store brand neighbor—is the one she’ll need a vacation from. Marcia stays sane with a daily walk, pretending to blend with the fit and friendly morning people even though she doesn’t exercise. Accustomed to practical fantasy, Marcia invents lives for her morning cast of characters. Each day in the parks brings a series of false starts and expensive stops.... more

The Curse of Maiden Scars

by Nicolette Croft

A Yorkshire orphan struggling for opportunity against 18th-century odds reluctantly transforms into a Venetian courtesan during the Empire's last days. Sixteen-year-old Renna Covert toils away in the shadows of a Yorkshire workhouse, her days filled with the mundane task of shelling cotton and the dangerous duty of scouting for punters. One fateful night, she crosses paths with two sailors and finds herself thrust into the heart of a chilling encounter at the local asylum. These harrowing... more

Rez Dog Blues & The Haiku: A Savage Life in Bits and Pieces

by William George Lindsay

Rez Dog Blues & The Haiku: A Savage Life in Bits and Pieces is the story of the generation beyond Indian residential school. Part bildungsroman, part roman à clef, this searing tale is based on the reflections and experiences of a book-obsessed, poetry-loving, music-fixated Cree youth whose life was impacted by residential school, post-colonial education, reservation life, experience as a teenage runaway, and contact with the foster care system. His Dickensian tale does not forget, however, the ... more

The Martha Odyssey

by Bonny Gable

It’s 1915 and young Beatrice Damron burns to become a professional classical pianist. She leaves behind her meager mountain home and enters Martha Washington College to study at its well-regarded music conservatory, unaware of what lies in wait for her there. Thrilled to exhibit her prowess with Beethoven and Brahms, she wows students and professors alike. Yet a menacing presence lurks that bedevils her. Beatrice seeks solace beyond the college halls and discovers a simpler world with Jonah,... more

Collegiate Gothic

by Matthew Meduri

Fall semester 2009. Will Thierry is burnt out. He thought he had written a philosophy to end all philosophies. Instead, after abandoning his former life in New York, he has found himself stuck in Ohio at a perpetually renovated public university where the students don’t care, the faculty is spread thin, and the administration is executing budget cuts of epic proportion, including Will’s department and his job. To make matters worse, he suspects he is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend Lily Zephy... more

Beyond a World Apart

by Caitlin E. Myers

As the world enters an era of uncertainty in 1928, a hidden queer community struggles to find love and acceptance in this compelling LGBTQ+ women’s literary fiction novel. Beyond a World Apart tells a story of a grossly misunderstood and underrepresented period of history. Cara O’Shea encounters her first look at a fully nude female figure in Die Freundin, and her life is never the same again. When her strict Catholic family finds the magazine in her closet, she is forced to flee to the libe... more

The Celestial Contract

by W.B. Dineen & Elizabeth Boyer

Thousands of years ago, Earth was hijacked by a self-appointed group of puppet masters. Their objective? To keep humanity from remembering why we have incarnated onto our planet—to keep us ignorant of the contract we signed with God before we came. The powers-that-be have created and perpetrated falsehoods, distractions, and illusions, so we no longer have any idea what life on Earth is supposed to be—what reality truly is. We struggle with the most basic principles of living, unaware the gam... more

The Girl of Many Crowns

by D. H. Morris

King Charles, the first king of France, is beset by Vikings, rebel lords, and his brother, all seeking to take his kingdom. To strengthen his kingdom, King Charles marries his twelve-year-old daughter Judith to elderly, widowed Aethelwulf, King of Wessex. When Aethelwulf dies unexpectedly, Judith is pressed into marrying Aethelwulf's cruel eldest son. When her second husband also dies, twice-widowed Judith refuses to accept a third arranged marriage. As punishment for her refusal, King Charles... more

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