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  • REUNION BY THE LAKE

    by james gilbert
    Richard Collins knew he had only a short time to live, and it was vital to inform his three sons. But beyond he news of his impending death, he needed them to grasp the significance of his will and how it would continue to shape their lives, even after his passing. Gathered in the house by the lake, Richard anticipated the disclosure of his final wishes would be a solemn affair. However, he couldn't predict the tumultuous reaction each son would have to his revelation. In this painfully ... more

  • Sea Tigers & Merchants

    by Sandra Wagner-Wright

    In 1790 the United States has a new Constitution. George Washington presides as the first elected president. Abroad, France and Britain are at war. And by 1795 seafaring Americans are accosted on the high seas by French privateers and British naval ships.

     

    Tensions rise as American merchants continue to trade. Among them, Hasket Derby and Captain George Crowninshield busily build maritime empires while their sons seek a new way forward.

     

    Captain Elias Derby... more

  • Sea Tigers & Merchants

    by Sandra Wagner-Wright
    In 1790 the United States has a new Constitution. George Washington presides as the first elected president. Abroad, France and Britain are at war. And by 1795 seafaring Americans are accosted on the high seas by French privateers and British naval ships. Tensions rise as American merchants continue to trade. Among them, Hasket Derby and Captain George Crowninshield acquire wealth and build maritime empires while their sons and other adventurous young men take risks on the high seas and in th... more

  • The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany

    by Katherine Koch
    Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishi... more
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    After the Earthquake

    by Levi Rogers
    What if disasters were a portal into a new future? On a Halloween night in the near future, the Cascadian Subduction Zone triggers a massive earthquake, sending tsunamis and shockwaves across the Pacific Northwest. As the disaster hits, six disparate characters cross paths as they survive (and thrive) in the aftermath. Reluctant stay-at-home dad Levi is stranded in downtown Portland, cut off from his family. As he makes his way across the river and back home, he meets a former love interest who ... more

  • Songs of Lost Things: Sonata for the Sun

    by Monica McCollough
    In this coming-of-age narrative, Lavender Adair—a budding and musically gifted teenager—navigates adolescence within her tumultuous home life and equally chaotic Newark city neighborhood. Her father is her pillar and prods Lavender to focus on music and education and none of the typical distractions of their surroundings. However, Lavender will find herself having to deal with complex family affairs, hardship, and surprising turns. When she rises to conquer these obstacles as a young girl, what ... more

  • INFINITE STRANGER

    by Wendy Skorupski
    On a snowy morning in 1978, 18-year-old Leah Cavanagh meets Brother Matthew while on a Retreat with her girls’ school. The four days she spends at Greystones Abbey in the wilds of North Yorkshire will have a profound impact not only on her own life, but also on that of her single mother Molly, who never recovered from the murder of her fiancé in 1956. Brother Matthew and Leah start writing to each other and soon an unspoken attraction develops, shared vicariously by Molly. When Leah leaves h... more

  • Marie-Madeleine

    by Kit Sergeant
    Can one woman stop the Nazis’ advance? 1940: The air is dense with the thick, acrid smoke of German bombs as Marie-Madeleine departs Paris, utterly alone in the world. Her destination is hundreds of kilometers away, where Navarre told her to meet him. Surely he would have a plan to get back at the Boches and fight for their freedom… But is she willing to sacrifice everything for the cause? Torn between defending her country and safeguarding those closest to her, a startling twist of fate f... more

  • Waiting for Aegina

    by Effie Kammenou
    Book Two in The Gift Saga: The continuation of Evanthia’s Gift… In 1961, five little girls moved into a suburban neighborhood and became inseparable, lifelong friends. They called themselves the ‘Honey Hill Girls,’ named after the street on which they lived. As teenagers they shared one another’s ambitions and dreams, secrets and heartaches. Now, more than thirty years later, they remain devoted and loyal, supporting each other through triumphs and sorrows. Evanthia's Gift follows the life... more

  • Nancy Wake

    by Kit Sergeant
    Can she defeat the Nazis to save the man she loves? 1937: The streets of Berlin are tense with fear as swastika banners flutter ominously from buildings and brown-shirted men stalk the streets. The atrocities Nancy witnesses firsthand at the hands of the Nazis spark an unwavering resolve to do whatever it takes to stop Hitler. With northern France under siege, Nancy joins the Resistance and earns the nickname 'The White Mouse' for her ability to evade capture. But when Hitler's forces take c... more

  • Stone Mother

    by Malve S. Burns
    Imagine growing up in a German family right after WWII with no knowledge of your country's horrendous Nazi past or an understanding of your own family's fierce internal struggles. Marie is a dreamy child of a doctor whose family is offered refuge within the walls of Falkenburg Castle after the war. Within the safety of this thousand-year-old "stone mother," Marie begins her coming-of-age journey dominated by her troubled, often violent mother and comforted by her beloved father. Soon, Mari... more

  • Courageous Wild Heart

    by Jane Catherine Rozek
    Dark hardships play out against the brilliant purity of nature in this achingly poignant novel of survival, love, and loyalty. Dave’s goal to build a cattle ranch in the pristine Canadian wilderness hampers Kate’s desire for tender romance. Her search for spiritual empowerment opposes his old-fashioned religion. With grit and ingenuity, they learn how to be poor and proud of it while being rich with potential.

  • Blue Wild Indigo

    by James Jennings
    It’s 1954 in the red rock country town of Serafina, Oklahoma, where racial tensions are mounting in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision declaring segregation in schools unconstitutional. When two White hoodlums sexually assault a Mexican girl and pin the blame on Woody Coats, a young Black man, they nearly get him lynched. Bachelor rancher Harry True knows Woody didn’t do it. So does his best friend’s wife, Bliss Stone, the woman Harry would have married if war hadn’t intervened. They... more

  • Agnes Treading Water

    by Charlotte French

    LOVE IS BLIND. LIES RUN DEEP. SECRETS CAN SINK A WEDDING.

    Small town recluse Agnes Andersson is financially secure but emotionally adrift. After a rippling romance with an Australian sailor and a subsequent betrayal by him, Agnes is back in Sweden determined to mend her broken heart. Today she'll settle for Thomas, the man her late parents detested, whom she's dated on and off for years.

    That she's never met his family matters not. She knows him.

    ... more

  • Resurgius, a Sex Comedy

    by E.M. Schorb

                Serge Bering-Strait, a young poet living with his activist mother and aunties has just been employed as copywriter for “Women’s Omnibus” magazine. His boss is out to deflower him.  On the sly, he’s writing Resurgius, a novel set in a universe governed by women, where the Dongs are in revolt. Serge would rather remain in his garret room writing poetry, but his mother and his aunties have insisted th... more

  • Trifocals: One Man's View

    by Ron Stultz
    31 “pieces” between the beginning and the end, all different in size, presentation and flavor: from required genetic testing before pregnancy to the “sleep-sees” and “visions” from the time of early man, to the trial of a Holocaust criminal. Presentations of personal epiphanies, both large and small, to muses or ponders that explore and ask more questions than they answer. Machine-gun-burp style storytelling of: staring through a turning airplane propeller; hunting the horned one and the life o... more
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