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Among Sea Wolves: 1150 The Whale Road

by Jean Gill

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A yarn fit for a Norse saga. Full of action, poetry and heart; a thrilling voyage through the vibrant world of the twelfth century." Matthew Harffy 1150: The Whale Road. An epic medieval adventure, set in the Viking world of 12th century Orkney. To change their doom, Skarfr and Hlif must pay the price. Warrior-poet Skarfr embarks on a death-defying pilgrimage with his ruler, Jarl Rognvald, from the wind-whipped shores of Orkney to the Holy Land. He is one of the few men trusted by t... more

Zephyr Trails

by Nicki Ehrlich

The fine line between friends and enemies blurs as Ellis Cady sets out to reach the new frontier of post-Civil War America. After waiting out winter at the Cady ranch in southern Missouri, hope blooms in the Spring of 1866. Ellis receives news of a mysterious man arriving in St. Louis. Will she find her father alive and well, or finally put his memory to rest? Grasping at the illusive promise of her father’s whereabouts, Ellis is distracted by the intrepid trick rider, Jimmie, a woman wh... more

Finding Plymm

by Christopher Brookhouse

Theo Vos comes to Mott County from Ohio in search of answers about an ancestor whose casket was shipped home during the Civil War but when it arrived, the body inside wasn't his. While there, Theo is hired to tutor an agoraphobic teenager, the daughter of Milo and Calla Drew. Milo, a once renowned author, has holed himself up in the family castle too, working on a book based on an old journal of the county's sheriff during the War Between the States. Finding Plymm weaves back and forth between T... more

Oh! Cosmetic Claims

by Theresa Callaghan

Oh! Cosmetic Claims! Step into the captivating world of beauty where dreams take flight and promises shine bright in "Oh! Cosmetic Claims." In this enchanting universe of prose, cosmetic claims twinkle like stars in the night sky, guiding us through the maze of skincare with their captivating light. From anti-aging serums to wrinkle-free creams, cosmetic claims offer solutions beyond our wildest dreams, promising to revitalise and rejuvenate with each application. But beneath their glitter... more

Anemone

by Jim Frazee

After his failed rescue of his brother Wyatt in a house fire, sixteen-year-old Russell Cobb wakes up from a coma, strangely mistaken for him and thrust into the middle of an arson investigation. Russell’s only hope, before his bandages come off, is to deduce the likeliest suspect in his recent turbulent past or risk being charged with homicide. In view of his brother’s death, he begins to see his family and Wyatt’s enigmatic girlfriend Edie in a darker light, colored by deceit and his own parano... more

A Brush With Mortality

by Caryl Hallberg

By all outward appearances, she’s just a typical woman going through menopause at the turn of the 21st century. Living in a stale and distant marriage, her grown kids living their own lives, there is a psychological and sexual itch she hasn't felt in years that needs to be scratched. What are the secrets this Executive of a Hospice nonprofit keeps? Even she doesn’t know for sure – Set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the year 2000, her journey explores meaning through death, erotic adventure, m... more

A Grand Pause: A Novel on May 14, 1945, the USS Randolph, Kamikazes, and the Greatest Air-Sea Rescue

by Gary Santos

Based on an incredible true story that took place in the midst of World War II, on May 14, 1945, A Grand Pause follows two American airmen, Ensign John Morris and his gunner Cletis Phegley, after they are stranded on a raft in the middle of the Japanese islands, surrounded by a cutthroat enemy. What follows is a daring rescue mission by the Randolph and her war-weary crew, as they struggle against enemies both physical and psychological to bring their brethren home safely. A story almost lost to... more

Somewhere East of Me

by Sean O'Keefe

Denver writer Jake Dustin is untethered from indolence when his estranged sister announces South Carolina is exhuming their mother. With no choice but to go, Jake embarks on a cross-country odyssey of uproarious absurdity and self-exploration during the strange days of September 2021. Jake feeds the internet’s insatiable lust for content as the miles rumble by while pondering where he lost his inner child and why he lives in his ex-wife’s basement. Along the way, a rousing cast of characters lik... more

Deep Fried

by Mark Doyon

Americanized millennial Arjun Chatterjee is a food-truck chef working in a parking lot outside the nation’s capital. He dreams up multiethnic recipes and pursues a young woman toiling in a Kafkaesque office nearby. Building a clientele, he faces life with a sly optimism.

One day he idly asks the sky: “Why am I here?”

Deep Fried is a tragicomic love story wrapped in creative freedom. Its chefs, musicians, and entrepreneurs face a world of oversized dreams... more

A Horse Brought Us Here

by Dershie McDevitt

Excitement grows all day Friday in the quiet Wyoming cattle town of Juniper as cheerleaders and football players ready themselves for the biggest football game of the year. When the Homecoming Parade finally winds its way down Main Street, everyone strains to see who’s been chosen Homecoming Queen. They clap delightedly when they spot BJ Bonniface in her pink strapless formal dress sitting high on the back of the big Buick convertible, though no one is surprised. She’s the popular... more

Never Human

by C. P. Serret

Through a schism, the Abyss finds a Maya American boy gazing back.

Never Human interrogates the American Dream of the trampled, in cost and consequence. An exigent self-critique of the colonialistic American novel by the American novel, Serret confronts indigenous and immigrant anomie, the coloniality of voice, and the effacement of identity within the post–Cold War milieu.

Circumstances of War

by Robert John Gardner

Four young men try to survive in a world gone crazy. One story of the Holocaust wrapped in an epic war story.

Diver

by Lewis Buzbee

On the morning that his father, Navy deep-sea diver Mac Macoby, dies of a heart attack, 12-year-old Robert is engulfed by the memories that tie them together. The memories come in fragments, some broken, some incomplete, but together they form the portrait of a man shaped by the tides of history, not a hero’s life but a heroic one, nonetheless. Diver is about one California family in the 1960s, and about every family, a novel about the rigors of military life amid the turbulence of the countercu... more

Darkness Falling

by Patrick MacDonald

From 1845-1847 the British government reshaped Irish society, with disastrous results. Ultimately, a million lives would be destroyed, and another million people would flee. These are two stories of those lives.

Walker's Way

by William Greer

Joe Walker is born into slavery in the 1850's and is sold away from his family at the age of nine. He eventually escapes from his new master and joins the Union Army at age 17 where he serves as a trooper in the 5th Colored Cavalry. After the war, he goes in search of his family and reunites with his older brother Amos, on a wagon train west. Once settled, Joe pursues the occupations of farmer, bounty hunter, cowboy, and rancher in an attempt to recreate the family he had lost. His journey from ... more

Pericles and Aspasia

by Yvonne Korshak

Two lovers crest the wave of the golden age of Athens: Pericles, statesman and general, and Aspasia, his courtesan, a philosopher's daughter, and a brilliant woman in her own right. In a world of hierarchies, he is at the top when she arrives as little more than flotsam cast up on Athenian shores. Their love transcends social sanctions, enduring and deepening despite the grave threat it presents to Pericles' reputation as a leader of the Athenian democracy. The novel unfolds against the backg... more

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