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Flies in Amber

by Jonathan Land Evans

'Flies in Amber' gathers together 33 short stories chosen from the author's recent collections of short fiction. The stories range from the humorous to the serious, and from the brashly contemporary to a more classic literary mode reflecting settings in the early-to-mid 20th Century in places ranging from the USA and England to Europe and the author's native Bermuda.

Saving Vincent: A Novel of Jo Van Gogh

by Joan Fernandez

Saving Vincent, A Novel of Jo van Gogh, traces the persistent efforts of Jo van Gogh-Bonger — Vincent's sister-in-law— and her work to save Vincent's paintings from obscurity. When Jo's husband, Theo, died six months after his brother, the young widow and her infant son inherited hundreds of virtually worthless works. Defying tradition to move back to her parents' home, she opened a boarding house to raise her son alone and to promote Vincent's work herself. It took nearly fifteen years of hard ... more

Surviving Nuclear War

by Dayo Oyewumi

in a world where nations are rising against nations using different kinds of method of war to defeat opponents there is a need for understanding of how to survive in case of nuclear war

Star Late Rising

by Ron Luce

Star Late Rising is both a novel and a theatrical performance. The book focuses on four characters, an ensemble cast: the narrator who has written a play—a dramedy that attempts to make sense of life immediately following the insurrection of January 6, 2021—and three professional actors who are performing the work he has written. This tour de force uses drama, comedy, reverence for history and literature, and a touch of surrealism to engage and challenge readers to consider basic questions of wh... more

New American Café

by Richard Sanford

In late seventies Chicago, a young musician teams up with an offbeat writer to open a restaurant, and while juggling music, the café, and romance with his tribe of artists and poets, tries to thread the needle to freedom and fame.

Summer of 93

by Archana Somvanshi

Laughter dances amidst the warm winds, concealing secrets beneath the mystical river Simroo. Three siblings and their cousins arrive at their ancestral village, enveloped in the scent of mangoes and laughter. Days blend into playful dips, childhood's spirit washing over them like a vibrant tide. But beneath the idyllic surface, shadows stir, eager to unveil the whispers of the past. A forgotten aunt, Saraswati, a prodigy silenced tragically, ignite their curiosity. What darkness veils her fat... more

Intelligence Without Thumbs

by Michael Schulze

In this part sci/fi fable, part species-bending coming-of-age story, Earth has suffered a massive human-made Conflagration that has reduced the global population to 1.2 billion. Given that another cataclysm of this sort could annihilate everyone left, many people are now convinced that humans aren’t the superior animal species they think they are and that technology isn’t the boon that it seems. As a result, a movement called Posthumanism has emerged, arguing that DNA’s experiment with oppos... more

The Gift (Vintage Vines Series Book 1)

by C. D’Angelo

Toni Agosti is having a midlife crisis at age thirty-five. Unsurprising, since she hasn’t achieved her dream job of becoming a cellist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic and, instead, is trapped teaching music all day. She’s also barely surviving in her shaky marriage to former soulmate and new Mr. Condescending, uh…Christian.

When she learns about her ancestor leaving Italy to reestablish his winery in early 1900s LA, she longs to awaken the freedom-filled family legacy... more

Lost Seeds: The Legacy

by Teresa Mosley Sebastian

In this riveting continuation of the Brisco family saga, brothers Dub and Tim strive to persevere against their early 1900s post-slavery beginnings—clashing with their history of family trauma and their different coping mechanisms for living in a world that doesn’t accept them. While Dub becomes a respected coal miner and finds prosperity for his family, Tim continues a slow descent into a fog of psychosis, alcoholism, and perpetual joblessness—forced to live an isolated existence on Dub’s prope... more

Because I F**king Said So

by Liam James Leaven

The toddler years are the hardest, they said. . . Then the precious little monsters began to talk. Soon they embraced this new superpower and discovered the most feared word in the English language—the one that every parent dreads . . . “WHYYYY!?” “Why can’t we stay?” “Why can’t we go?” “Why not right now?” “Why not one more?” “Why, why, why….?” This adult bedtime book is for the parent in your life who’s gripping onto the last threads of their sanity. Because when no a... more

Safe Passage

by Karen Menezes

The old-growth forest and the borderlands of Capherayna are a mystery. So are its people, the Xaeltik community. They live in a pre-industrial time warp, unable to defend themselves from the dark forces of the modern world. In the heart of the forest, a vortex of death is rumoured to swallow the living, chew on them and spit out the pieces. The Lightbender stumbles into Xaeltik territory after days of wandering the forest. He is welcomed by a macabre sight that changes the course of his destiny.... more

Eighteenth and Western

by Laura Jenski

Jean Dickey dreams of doing something important for women’s rights. She failed in 1970, but now she’s in her seventies and has a second chance. Her granddaughter, Dani, arrives to help her start a civil rights center on Chicago’s Lower West Side. But when a cold-case crime on the center’s deteriorating property is connected to Jean, and Jean talks about visits from her grandmother’s ghost, Dani faces a difficult decision about Jean’s future.

Kill Me Now

by Christopher Ridley

KILL ME NOW is a satirical whocareswhodunnit centered around Damien, a gay man found dead in the street of the Hollywood Hills, wearing only a ratty pair of briefs and a cherry-blossomed kimono. Here you'll play detective, the testimonials of those closest to him-his best friend, her girlfriend, his two exes, boss, new best friend, and even his cat-laid out before you. These tea-spilling Angelenos will take you on absurd tangents under the guise of providing deep insights into Damien's murder. ... more

Insect Zoo

by Paul Rood

A satire of office politics and radical feminism, which is set in an archive during the pre-computer age. A false accusation of sexual harassment threatens the career of a trainee archivist named Tom Barnet. His only ally is an eccentric colleague nicknamed Bugman who collects insects for a hobby. Bugman provides the main theme of the story—that life in an archive is similar to life among insects. In the book-ending reverie, radical feminists plan a “final solution” for men.

Tatae's Promise: You will live... you will tell

by Sherry Maysonave and Moises J. Goldman, PhD

Based on the never-before-told, true story of Hinda Mondlak’s mind-boggling survival during the Holocaust and her daring escape from Auschwitz with her younger sister.

Synopsis: Hinda Mondlak was eighteen years old when an axe crashed through the front door of her home in Zielun, Poland.

Nazi soldiers swarmed inside. Their guns cocked at Hinda and her family, they commanded the Mondlaks to leave their rightful home... the so... more

Neil Vickers

by Neil Vickers

Born in the late fifties, went to school in Derby England, mainly midstream education. It was a lack of concentration that made me lose my place at the top grammar school, the exams went disastrously wrong. It was never a good thing asking me to concentrate, my mind would always be somewhere else, thinking all the time about other things. Being at school was a secondary chore in place of a primary, although I was always marked good for turning in every day. I had little absences from school but ... more

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