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  • Broken

    by Erica Noble
    When Ezra discovers that his much-loved daughter Sadie moves about with weakness and twisted legs, he does everything possible to keep away the institutions that wish to claim her, so that can live a normal life. But when you are broken and abnormal, how much of a normal life can be lived? This is a question Sadie must wrestle with for her entire life, leading to a bitter hatred and rejection of herself. Kieran is a boy with white eyes and a kind soul. Having aided a disabled girl at a soiree... more

  • Greetings from Asbury Park

    by Luigina Vecchione
    Fifteen-year-old Mariella yearns for a new life. Since the Germans arrived in Rome, food has been scarce, and danger lurks around every corner. On top of that, she’s haunted by a childhood tragedy and weighed down with the responsibility of caring for her siblings. Everything feels impossible. But when she meets Jack, a handsome American soldier with a crooked smile, her future doesn’t seem so dark. She gives him a tour of the famed Colosseum, then takes him to dinner with her family. Despite th... more

  • Under the Weeping Willow

    by Jenny Knipfer

    Just as Robin Holcomb settles into married life with her husband, Willis, on his aunt and uncle’s farm in Wisconsin, WWI calls Willis away. With an unknown future and a child on the way, Robin makes the best of life among people she barely knows.

    After the birth of her child, Robin struggles with depression and battles to overcome her inner demons before despair and hopelessness drive her to attempt to take her own life. Will Robin survive her dive into postpartum depression, let ... more

  • Jalan Jalan

    by Mike Stoner
    Winner of the Guardian Self-published Book of the Month. A story of travel, loss, reinvention, a little quantum physics and a persistent dead girlfriend. Newbie travels to Indonesia to reinvent himself and forget his past. His girlfriend has died and he wants no more painful reminders, no more memories, no more missing her. The trouble is, she's followed him there. Club-land bosses, prostitutes, shaman, damaged expats, they all help with his reinvention. The local mushrooms, jungle gras... more

  • Eto takoy gorod - Sankt Petersburg (Russian Edition)

    by Ekaterina Yakovina
    You admire of the city Saint Petersburg, Russia. You have traveled in the city or you desire to make this travel in the future? So this book for you. This particular city, its beauty, and the emotions also gave rise to the author's deep feelings in response. The author describes history and different seasons of St. Petersburg. You will understand emotions of the St. Petersburg citizens and for what they love this special city.

  • The Caged Bird Sings: A Young Man's Untold War Chronicles

    by James Channing Shaw and Cal Orey
    SHORT SYNOPSIS: THE CAGED BIRD SINGS \tby James Channing Shaw and Cal Orey In Nazi-occupied France, Benjamin Cohen, a young gifted musician, becomes obsessed with studying the fifty-five-bell carillon in the Catholic Rouen cathedral. Forced by his father to see a child psychiatrist, he learns to express his emotions through diary entries and seeks companionship through his pet cockatiel, Frère Jacques. Benjamin cannot share with his family the joys of his new un-Jewish instrument or the lov... more

  • Rite of Passage

    by Leslie Allen
    An unexpected turn of events leads to an adventure to places never explored.

  • Hot Air

    by Charlie Suisman

    It's summer in Arnold Falls, where's the more than enough hot air to go around and. Will order be restored in this most disorderly town? Probably, but, as always in Arnold Falls, they'll take the long way home and they will definitely stop for doughnuts.

  • Five Hundred Moons

    by Buzz Anderson

    They all saw it at once. A wooden craft of sorts—as long as an ancient redwood, as tall as a river alder. It moved not with the wind but across it.

    “Look! There are men riding atop the giant craft! Some climb near the top of wooden poles. Others pull on thick twine. They are adorned in strange capes and wear odd coverings on their heads. They must be gods from the land beyond the setting sun!”

    Charquin lifted his hand high above his head in greeting. His fellow t... more

  • A Heart Worth Healing

    by Cara Devlin
    Doctor Elliot “Ellie” Lennox defied society rules when she became a physician, but after a tragic mistake leaves her reputation in tatters, she has no choice but to travel west to the only place willing to have her: the rugged Rocky Mountain mining town of Sage Canyon, Colorado. It isn’t exactly a warm welcome. Sage Canyon’s mayor believed he’d hired a man, and he insists Ellie cannot possibly stay. However, giving up isn’t in her blood. As she settles into the precarious role as town physici... more

  • The Last Rhino War: A Journey of Survival

    by Rory Johnston

    This is a story of one man, Mike Delport, a professional hunter, and his journey as he is caught up in in the unspeakable violence of the illegal rhino horn trade to his redemption through love and newfound commitment to conservation. At his hunting ranch in South Africa, times are tough. Hunting of rhino has just been banned, cutting off Mike’s income. Rhino poaching is on the rise just as his income is falling. Mike is forced to consider illegally selling the horns to a crime syndicat... more

  • I Met Her Before

    by Chandra Moyer

    What if you found out your perfect childhood wasn’t so perfect? What if parts were so terrible you couldn't even remember... until now?  Marcia Thompson has always had happy memories of growing up an Air Force brat in the Philippines. Sure, her father could be controlling, but she loved living on base and exploring the jungles with her siblings. Today, she and her husband, Tony, have worked hard to give their children an equally content military childhood in Hawaii. But when th... more

  • The Other Side Of Good

    by E. A. Coe
    Reputed criminal, Theo Jackson, proposes a donation to the city for a new youth center and the mayor sends police officer, Denton Jones to negotiate the terms. Theo and Denton, once friends from the same Cincinnati tenement, took different career paths. Denton’s efforts make him a target for a corrupt city official, but a dishonest bureaucrat is the least of the city’s problems. Theo uncovers evidence that a criminal organization has set up shop in the city to facilitate human trafficking... more

  • Alexander's Infinity

    by Lidija Stankovikj
    Beset with a deep sense of alienation, Alexander, a middle-aged Scandinavian mathematician with a bent for the metaphysical, begins to question everything, from his failed relationships to his declining career prospects and the attainability of happiness. On a cold winter night, a seemingly random encounter with a stranger obtrudes onto him an unsought responsibility over a dog and a series of bargains with eccentric individuals. Caught up in piquant musings on the crossings of poetry, mysticism... more

  • The Outcasts - A Thousand Dreams of Redemption

    by Lidija Stankovikj
    The Outcasts is a story of loss, running away, hope and return. Three protagonists boldly confront a tradition-driven and repressive world. Through a series of serendipitous encounters, and against all odds, their paths intertwine at a time when each stands at a personal crossroads. Tabu is a rebellious young Muslim woman, who speaks her mind under the guise of jinn influence. Santan, an aging Hindu man, in the face of a near-death experience, suddenly discovers a new spark for life. And Cha... more

  • Punk Disco Bohemian

    by Arya F. Jenkins
    Brief synopsis: Punk Disco Bohemian is a literary transgressive novel and queer multicultural coming-of-age story set in 1970s Provincetown; full of literary and musical allusions, it celebrates literature, music and a unique time and place. Longer synopsis: It's 1973 and seventeen-year old, multicultural Ali is on the run from suburbia, since her best friend has left for college and home has turned into a nightmare, with a druggy brother and a mother who has hooked up with another man si... more
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