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Anny in Love

by Barbara Wright

When Vanity Fair author William Thackeray dies without a will, his young adult daughter Anny is forced to support her sister and their mad mother in a Victorian world unfriendly to female talent and ambition. Anny develops a crush on Leslie Stephen, the future father of Virginia Woolf, but it is the prettier sister Minny who steals his heart. After their marriage, Anny finds solace on the Isle of Wight among her father’s famous, eccentric friends: the poet Alfred Tennyson, Lewis Carroll, the pai... more

The Classics

by Elise Schiller

MARVELOUS DAYS

by Hayden Thompson

A widowed biologist, Kevin Brunner, an American expat in Germany, faces a life turn at the start of his retirement. The usual aspirations like romance, family, and career are seemingly past him now. He finds himself adrift after his adult son moves far away. Kevin seeks to travel and mostly takes trips to France as his preference. On the way, he experiences melancholy sometimes, especially after discovering his late wife’s unfaithfulness. But the constant voyages enable him to reflect on his pas... more

The Void Beyond the Walls

by Relvin Gonzalez

A construction worker from Texas is hired as part of a group of astronauts to terraform Mars. On Earth, a detective connects a series of cold case files to Dean, and realizes he is a serial killer. The book is about the lives of these two men and their pursuit of meaning, purpose, and their place in the universe.

Ten

by Michael guisao

This is a collection of poetry & short stories that I have written from 2011 to 2021. The poems mean a lot to me. They symbolize the 10 year journey from breaking up with my now ex-fiancé, to falling in & out of love with various amazing women. The short stories are also meaningful to me, & I feel they express who I am & what I feel.

Ridley Speaks: A Novel

by Kirk Ward Robinson

In a sun baked southern town near the famous Appalachian Trail, poverty and drug abuse have taken hold, and an eighteen-year-old girl sets out on a single-minded mission to save her future. In Book Three of The Speaks Saga, Blaize’s eldest daughter, Ridley, has finally come of age and can now escape her bleak life, desperate to leave bitter memories behind but she is haunted by them, recounting the trials and struggles of the Speaks family during its darkest period. When she is stranded in Nash... more

It Rhymes With Truth

by Rich Miller

Sometimes the truth sets us free. But most of the time, it’s the scariest thing in the world – so scary it keeps us on the run for our entire lives. Which is why, when an eight-and-a-half-year-old homeless boy and an eccentric elderly woman trapped in a retirement community forge a fragile bond and become each other’s accidental family, they only have one rule: never speak about before. But the truth has a way of catching up to us, spoken or unspoken. And when the pair’s bond is tested, t... more

Memories Time Can't Heal

by James Quinnett

This is a story about Jim, a draftee, grunt, and reluctant warrior, who goes through a challenging and intense experience as a member of the 1st Cavalry Division. The narrative involves foul language, death, drugs, betrayal, stupidity, and brutality capturing the harsh realities of war and its impact on Jim's humanity. The story concludes with the aftermath, depicting Jim's struggle to adjust and regain his sanity.

Fire Horse

by Pat Olney

Exploring themes of love, loss and redemption, Fire Horse is the story of Don and Julia’s quest for peace and meaning in a chaotic and unfair world. Don is a man adrift. Since his separation from Julia, he spends his days puttering around his isolated cabin and his evenings drinking alone on the porch, staring into the woods of western Michigan. Julia, meanwhile, is living a life of comfort in London together with her boyfriend, Gerrard. She goes through the motions of life oblivious to th... more

Wolves and Empires

by Daniel McKenzie

Captain Lucien Dumaine is directed to France by the Orthodox Church in an alliance with Cardinal Richelieu on the political chess-board and immediately sails to Europe, receiving a grand welcome. His Red Eminence, Cardinal Richelieu, orders his new privateers to sail to the Spanish Main, pirating in the Caribbean.

The Captain and crew sail to the Caribbean and join with the infamous Brethren of the Coast, where the Wolf plans a heist of Spain’s major shipping port at Vera Cruz, Me... more

Giant Banana Over Texas: Darkly Humorous Tales

by Mark Nutter

A collection of thirty-one short stories, perfect for fans of absurd comedy.--Monty Python meets Douglas Adams meets Salvador Dali.

Dancer on the Ceiling: More Darkly Humorous Tales

by Mark Nutter

Laugh-out-loud stories for lovers of absurd comedy.

The Night Doctor of Richmond

by Tony Gentry

The Night Doctor of Richmond is a biographical novel which portrays the life of Chris Baker, a notorious 19th Century “resurrrectionist,” who by his own admission robbed hundreds of graves to supply anatomy classes for the Medical College of Virginia across his long career. The novel draws on contemporary newspaper articles and the hospital’s historical records, along with research into the fraught racial politics of the city in Baker’s time, to align with what is known about this man. The chron... more

Dog Logic

by Tom Strelich

Hertell Daggett has just discovered a time capsule. Only this one is full of people, and they've been living beneath his pet cemetery since 1963 due to some bad information they got about the end of the world. Hertell leads the duck-and-cover civilization into the glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying modern world. What could possibly go wrong?

School

by Isabel Pabán Freed

This is a campus novel where things go wrong. There are a few layout decisions that read better in the physical than the ebook. Half of the profits will go to organizations working with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated trans people.

The Immortal's Secret

by Alexandra Edmiston

Imagine finding a mystical book that offers the gift of everlasting life. Would you look inside?

In The Immortal’s Secret, an Amazon bestseller, art merges with magic to explore the seductive allure of eternal life. Dr. Benjamin Mann, a curator at the Louvre who is recovering from cancer, is thrust into an unexpected adventure when his eccentric grandfather, Josiah Mann, vanishes.

Desperate for clues, Benjamin turns to Josiah’s treasured possession: a... more

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