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The Quarry Bank Runaways

by G J Griffiths

In the early 19th century, when it was the policy of many of the poorhouses and workhouses to deter paupers from applying by making the conditions inside harsh and unpleasant, two boys set out on a journey to Hackney Workhouse in London. Their starting point was in the pleasant Cheshire countryside, where they were apprenticed to the cotton mill built by Samuel Greg in 1784. Children as young as nine would be employed there as scavengers, piecers, mule doffers or can tenters. These jobs could... more

Breaking Lucky

by Bruce Mitchell

Danny ‘Lucky’ Thornton cursed his middle name. Born in 1895, asthma almost killed him when he was four, but he survived to be among the first volunteer lifeguards on Sydney’s Coogee Beach. Danny’s sister Cath dreamed of becoming a doctor at a time when they told women to ‘know their place’. She didn’t listen, and broke through the walls of prejudice to graduate from Sydney University the only woman in her class. Danny came home from the war with a crippling wound and a shattered mind. Cath st... more

Wide Sky People

by Bruce Mitchell

Wide Sky People – Volume 1 of the Thornton Series Wide Sky People is the journey of the Thornton family from Ireland to Sydney, over the fabled Blue Mountains to the town of Orange in Central Western New South Wales. The story starts in the 1840’s when Mick and Cate Thornton and their two boys survive four months at sea to encounter false arrest, bushrangers, crooked cops, working the land and a devastating bushfire, to name just a few. Their sons Michael and John take us on a journey thr... more

Father War

by Thomas Doherty

Young John Spenser sets out to follow in the footsteps of his missing father - duty, honor, country - only to discover decades later that coming face to face with a flesh and blood idol can have dreadful consequences -- for him, his idol, and the woman both men left behind.

Hula Girls

by Eric B. Miller

Claudia Wyler is a young navy wife living in Hawaii in 1941, striving to be the perfect helpmate to her ambitious husband. She believes devoutly in the dictates of “The Housewife’s Pledge” and embraces the gender roles, social mores, and cultural norms of pre-feminist America. She seeks guidance in The Newlywed Cookbook and Woman’s Home Companion, and finds solace for her failings in the weekly delivery of Life magazine.

Spanning wartime Hawaii to mainland Americ... more

If Only

by Matthew Tree

In Saint James' Park, London, the police apprehend a young man who is carrying a bag full of high explosives in one hand and a collection of letters sent to his grandfather by the writer Malcolm Lowry in his inside pocket. In the course of the following interrogation, we discover the strange past and secret phobias of the detainee, and the emotional link between his actions and the Lowry letters. (The book's author really did have a grandfather to whom Lowry wrote on a regular basis).

Terriers in the Jungle

by Georja Umano

Small and clever California street dogs, Roxie and Romeo, get adopted by a wildlife conservationist. The two adore each other, their home, and their mom Kate. But Kate decides the family will move to Kenya to help save endangered elephants. The dogs must now learn to survive in the midst of wildlife, dangerous people, and challenging circumstances. Told in their own words and based on real-life experiences.

Leah's Legacy

by Cara Skinner

The week before her graduation from the University of Texas, Caitlin Rhodes goes with her mother, Leslie, to the small community of Friendship to clean its little country church for her family's annual Memorial Day celebration. While cleaning the pulpit, she makes a startling discovery; an ancient scroll that provides a totally new perspective on the life and teachings of Jesus. This fantastic discovery soon leads Caitlin and Kyle, her boyfriend, on an exciting and dangerous adventure throug... more

John the Angelic: A Chronicle of Pope Joan

by A.P. Andes

Set in the ninth century, John the Angelic, Volume I of A.P. Andes’ genre-bending quartet, The Latecoming West, explores one of history’s most egregious omissions, excised from the record with cold precision: the brilliant, willful woman, Pope Joan. After her father's murder and the loss of their home at sixteen, she adopts the dress and mannerisms of a young man to enter the monastic life, meeting in the process a count who will become her mentor, lover, and closest companion. The book and the... more

The Freed Church Boy

by Lloyd Johnson

Caught in a mid-life crisis, Lawrence Greene finds himself abandoned by his family and burned by his faith. However, when his religious mother returns, begging for reconciliation, can Lawrence find it in his heart to forgive her, and heal his spiritual wounds? And when an opportunity for a relationship comes knocking, will he feel worthy of a chance at love with the man of his dreams?

The Always Already

by Braulio Muñoz

The planet is suffering. All over the world humans are forcing nature to bend to their desires. If they continue with their ways, the planet will die. Up in The Highlands the Oca, a people of great knowledge and power, see the devastation and want to know whether humans deserve saving. They send one of their own into The Land, the place where humans are most adamant in using knowledge for controlling nature. Kukuli, a dark and beautiful young woman, is given the fateful task.

The Big Empty

by Loren C.Steffy

When Trace Malloy and Blaine Witherspoon collide on a desolate West Texas highway, their fender bender sets the tone for escalating clashes that will determine the future of the town of Conquistador. Malloy, a ranch manager and lifelong cowboy, knows that his occupation—and his community—are dying. He wants new- millennium opportunities for his son, even though he himself failed to summon the courage to leave familiar touchstones behind. Witherspoon, an ambitious, Lexus-driving techie, offers ... more

A Revolution of the Mind

by MV Perry

A Revolution of the Mind is a seething, honest, revelatory account of a life caught inside mental illness, set in a society where mental illness faces multiple layers of neglect—in family life, in social life, and in our systems of political economy and punishment. Set in modern-day Chicago, A Revolution of the Mind is both an unprecedented contribution to the literary canon on serious mental illness and an exigent, timely clarion call for social action about the welfare and treatment of people ... more

make believe

by Tom Epperson

Make Believe is a light-hearted love story, set in the cynical, cutthroat world of Hollywood. Dustin Prewitt is a handsome screenwriter with a taste for women, money, big houses, and hot cars. His life is turned upside-down after Laura Keene, his beautiful but crazy movie star wife, apparently commits suicide by drowning herself in the ocean. But Dustin's not exactly broken-hearted, because Laura comes from one of the richest families in America, which... more

The Mary Jane Gambit

by Sam B. Waite

Can crypto currencies threaten the all-mighty dollar? A privately held U.S. banking chain aims to use a marijuana stable coin to do exactly that. It faces reprisals from U.S. authorities until a lithium cartel backed by China raises a challenge that forces foes into uneasy friendships. The dollar’s role as the primary currency for international reserves and invoicing gives the nation extraordinary advantage in the global economy, including its ability to impose economic sanctions for po... more

Jupiter

by John Carney

Giovanni Alberto is in Hell. His hometown of Jupiter, Florida is as close to paradise as any place on Earth, but perception is reality — or, in Giovanni’s case, perception is surreality. On Halloween, as all his worst nightmares come to life around him, he must overcome his fears and find a way out. ————— Containing the irreverent hits Aichmalatoi and The Atlantiad, John Carney’s Jupiter tells a tale of contemporary American society using all the tropes of Ancient Greece and Rome. Giovanni... more

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