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End of Beyond

by Jonathan M. Nielson

For history professor Tom Strange summer beckoned. He'd escape the heat of Prescott and go north. Montana called to him. Having recently lost his wife in an auto accident, her memory still heart-achingly fresh, the beauty of Big Sky country seemed like a soul-saving deliverance. She was sitting in his pickup, distraught, terrorized. His student, Abeline Davis, pleaded with him. She'd just witnessed the brutal murder of her mother and little brother. The killer was her estranged father...a co... more

Making Shadows

by Tony McHugh

Making Shadows spans the period from the fall of Singapore in World War 2 to the Welcome Home Parade for Vietnam veterans in 1987. It is a story about what appear to be opposites – life and death, light and shadow, war and peace – when, in fact, they are the same. Joe is a National Service conscript. Assigned to his four-man tent at Nui Dat base, he is scrutinised by three regulars of the 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam. Once they learn he has a degree in psychology, he is nicknamed Shri... more

Naked Girl, a Novel

by Janna Brooke Wallack

Growing up motherless in 1980's Miami Beach, Sienna and her little brother Siddhartha get by with their charismatic and capricious father, Jackson Jones. When a small windfall relocates them to a condemned mansion on the water, the siblings are forbidden traditional schooling and left to live off the land. As Jackson uses their new home to create a communal utopian cult, the siblings are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Living amidst the vagrant seekers who take up reside... more

A Cowboy Christmas An American Tale

by Tom Van Dyke

A MYSTICAL TALE when dreams were chased with reckless abandon, when life was raw and unforgiving, when the adventures of WB, a young boy with a spark for life and a wild sense of freedom encounters the Spirit of the West sparking a magical connection that will forever shape his destiny as he fearlessly ventures into a frontier of untamed majesty, bigger and more beautiful than any dream, inviting us to embrace the magic that dwells within the human spirit.

Spillage

by Michael Gross

Spillage is a wild play on the Faustian musical Damn Yankees, a rock and roll romance, and a wickedly fun throwback to a chaotic time. It's 1976, and The Big Apple is in sorry shape. Besieged on all sides, the city has become a graffiti-coated, garbage-filled, crime-ridden cauldron, teetering on the edge of total collapse. Adding to New York's towering woes, a revolutionary group called the Satanic Vanguard has kidnapped the mayor, set fire to Coney Island and threatened furt... more

Vietnam and the Summer of Love

by Bailley Adams

With military precision, it goes on. It becomes larger and more profound, and for what? The story is an East meets West conflict that continues to repeat itself. It is a geopolitical romance with a slight twist. It speaks of the American culture and power and endless strife. It is the overcoming of barriers and forgiveness and the search for a better world. And the book is a direct hit on America's sagging foreign policy. Do you like to smile? It has some humor and some dark spots, an... more

Finding Fran

by Nancy Christie

Once a best-selling romance novelist, 55-year-old Fran Carter is now dealing with a slow but steady drop in book sales and a major case of writer’s block, complicated by the knowledge that her lover, a professional photographer, has been on the wrong side of the camera (so to speak) with his models. (So much for her author brand, built on the premise that women in their fifties and beyond can still find love and happiness.) Her solution is to spend a week in isolation at a northern Californ... more

Letters From The Saddle

by Michael Wegner

Farm boy sent to find and bring home his brother. While traveling, he meets a former slave (half Cherokee, half African) who is searching for her mother. She is being chased by members of the Klan who recently killed her brother. They travel together through Arkansas in 1868 and into the Oklahoma Territory. During their travels, they meet several people, some good, some bad. There is some violence, but not graphic. Book is suitable for young teens.

The Sparkle Club

by max emerson

THE SPARKLE CLUB is about a gay-baiting influencer and social justice warrior who gets himself cancelled so hard that he’s forced to do a summer of community service in a rural Ohio farm community... while living with the family whose lives he destroyed.

Like Water and Ice

by Tamar Anolic

Figure skater Thad Moulton has his eyes on Olympic gold- but at what price? Thad is one of the most talented skaters of his generation- and one of its most inconsistent. He has won a gold medal at National Championships every other year throughout the 1990s, and his bad performances haunt him. When he skates perfectly at the 1997 World Championships and still places second behind his mistake-ridden Russian rival, Thad decides it is time to retire. Then that rival, Grigoriy Arsenyev, flaunt... more

Radio Free Olympia

by Jeffrey Dunn

In Radio Free Olympia, Washington’s wild Olympic Peninsula is embodied through a captivating circle of visionaries and characters. Embark on a riveting journey into this untamed region, where folkloric legends and historical icons come to life as Jeffrey Dunn weaves the threads of many voices into a complex ecological tapestry.

Follow the enigmatic Petr, who armed with nothing but a pirate radio transmitter, fearlessly broadcasts the forgotten and untamed voices that echo through ... more

Wildcat: An Appalachian Romance

by Jeffrey Dunn

A retired English teacher has come home to Appalachia, a land of industrial disaster and natural beauty. He has been enticed by stories of Wildcat's transformation: the collective action embodied in Hotel Wildcat, as well as the artisanal pursuits springing to life in the old iron mill. But in returning, he must confront his dark memories: the lost love of his hippie-chic girlfriend, not to mention the lost trust between his middle-class family and the working-class community of Wildcat.<... more

The First Lights of Eventide: A mystical journey through time

by JAYE BURKE

Can an old Southern legend be discovered without mystical intervention? Enter the enchanted world of the ‘mystical eventide,’ where an esteemed historian will prove that fiction can become fact and will confirm something theoretically impossible.

Pickett's Dream

by Christopher Carlisle

In the words of the former Senior Editor of McClelland & Stewart, who has worked with Leonard Cohen, Farley Mowat, Michael Ondaajte, Mordecai Richler, Sylvia Fraser and Gabrielle Roy: “As an editor, a spark ignites when one encounters, in a heap of unsolicited manuscripts, a unique and distinctive lyrical voice. This was my experience with Chris Carlisle’s Pickett’s Dream. Here is a writer whose passion to reveal the human condition is as essential as breathing. And now decades later, the figur... more

Anna Bright Is Hiding Something

by Susie Orman Schnall

A ripped-from-the-headlines story set in the glossy offices of Silicon Valley startups and NYC new media, Anna Bright Is Hiding Something explores our fascination with female founders breaking barriers—and sometimes behaving badly in the process.    Anna Bright is committing fraud. But nobody knows it yet. Not the board of her multibillion-dollar company, not her investors, not the public breathlessly anticipating the launch of BrightSpot, not the media—including Jamie Roman, a hardworking j... more

The Fig Tree

by Leah Rice

Step into Cleo's mind, where silence is a rare gem. Her perpetual playlist of Tchaikovsky, Mozart, and Bach becomes a refuge amidst the chaos of everyday thoughts. However, this auditory haven transforms into a double-edged sword, immersing her in memories that lead her into precarious distraction. A decade ago, Cleo stood at the peak of her career—a prodigious pianist reaching new heights in the classical music world. Her greatest challenge was navigating a complex love triangle with her pia... more

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