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Tallstone and the City: A New Heaven and Earth, Second Edition

by Dennis Wammack

Tallstone and the City is first in a six-book series. It tells the simple story of two members of the Clan of the Serpent from their birth through their death—Pumi the stonecutter and Valki the gatherer. Pumi and Valki—through innocent altruistic acts of living—invent sex, create a city, domesticate wheat, establish science, create animal husbandry, and thereby lay the foundation of civilization. The Beginning of Civilization: Mythologies Told True is a character-driven suis generalis ser... more

Head Fake

by Scott Gordon

Mikey makes everything a joke, even the clinical depression he’s struggled with for years. After a run of failed jobs, he becomes the unlikely basketball coach at a high school for high-risk offenders who are experiencing mental illness. The position becomes suddenly available after the team tried to strangle their last coach. Every instinct tells Mikey to get as far away from this school as possible. Coaching these kids, who have been arrested for who-knows-what, would be difficult for... more

Bridges Between Our Hearts: Book Three in the Love That Does Not Die Trilogy

by Jennifer Collins

Bridges between Our Hearts continues Larissa's winding journey through the anguish of grief as she resolves to live life to its fullest. Challenges in the world around her and changing family configurations create emotional chasms she never imagined. Faced with choices between connection or further loss, opportunities to build bridges emerge - allowing Larissa to see clearly that love does not ide. Quite the opposite.

We Are Not Saints: The Acolyte

by H Les Brown

It’s hard enough just being fifteen… Randy Carter might as well be on his own. He’s an only child whose mother and stepfather have better things to do than raise him. Raised by the Davis family next door, his two great passions are his skateboard and his church. He dreams of becoming a priest like Father Sean, his pastor and confidant. As a gay boy, he worries the church he loves might not accept him. And then he meets Michael, a new boy in town, and their chemistry is instantaneous. Whe... more

Elysian Fields

by Twila Gingerich

Quiet and unworldly Imogen has spent twenty-four years locked in a mind hell-bent on her demise. Isolated from her peers by the oddities of her mental illness, she’s more acquainted with counsellors’ and doctors’ offices than classrooms or house parties. On the precipice of graduating from university and happy with her boyfriend Jesse, Imogen can finally see the possibility of a normal future. When an unwanted pregnancy threatens her well-being and compromises the medication she depends on, ... more

No One Is Good Except God Alone: God's Ultimatum for the Church to Pierce through Darkness, Defeat Evil, Conquer the World

by Hanh Nguyen

This book unfolds the reality of Isaiah 5:20-21 of the present world where evil is called good and good is called evil. In contrast to such confusion of good and evil, the Goodness of God surpasses all human conception and stands alone with its unique and supreme standards that cannot be changed by man's opinions. As the Church is called to rise and shine the Glory of God, her only avenue is to know the Goodness of God, operate by the direction of the Goodness of God so she can conquer the world... more

The Ghosts of the Past

by Luigi Pascal Rondanini

Antonio and Giorgio, two old friends, recall their adolescent years when their friendship was interrupted for no apparent reason. They retrace the choices and life paths that led them away from each other. They face old grudges, jealousies, and misunderstandings. On this day of revelations and new awareness, the two friends discover that they have changed and no longer know each other as they once did. Yet, the bond that united them emerges intact, ready to be renewed, if only they know ho... more

The Childgrove

by John Goldsberry

In the summer of 1966, nine-year-old John is thrust into a mystery where his own voice beckons him towards a truth he has carried since birth—a truth with an unspeakable cost. Meanwhile, across the years, in 1914, another young soul named Edward grapples with the haunting family secrets that bind him. Linked by threads of tragedy, redemption, pain, and triumph, their parallel journeys converge, and the bond between the two boys transcends the limitations of time itself, imparting lessons that ec... more

Genesis: The Grail Knight (Footnail)

by AK Howard

What power does the lost Holy Grail hold? In the heart-stopping fourth installment of the Footnail series, Genesis and her team face her most challenging quest yet. New clues emerge leading to the search for the lost Holy Grail. Leading her group to be fragmented into different paths, and the trials that were supposed to unite them have pulled them apart. As Gen confronts the echoes of her fractured team, she discovers a dual battle awaiting her. In her visions, a mysterious white stone... more

Zodiac Pets

by Eric Giroux

In his follow-up to Ring On Deli, Eric Giroux returns to the hard-luck hamlet of Pennacook, Massachusetts, for a comic novel about small towns and democracy. Wendy Zhou has just lost her father and is off to a brawling start in Pennacook, where floods have canalized roads and “dumpster living” is the next big thing. She finds a new sense of mission after joining the other middle-schoolers staffing the town paper, the Pennacook Beat. But when dark forces--includin... more

Talmadge Farm

by Leo Daughtry

It’s 1957, and tobacco is king. Wealthy landowner Gordon Talmadge enjoys the lavish lifestyle he inherited but doesn’t like getting his hands dirty; he leaves that to the two sharecroppers – one white, one Black – who farm his tobacco but have bigger dreams for their own children. While Gordon takes no interest in the lives of his tenant farmers, a brutal attack between his son and the sharecropper children sets off a chain of events that leaves no one unscathed. Talmadge Farm is a sweeping dram... more

An Umbrella Costs the Same Even When It Doesn't Rain

by Walker Rose

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by Gerald DiPego

In these four interconnected tales, residents of a rural Illinois lake town in the 1950s move through deep love, loneliness, great joy and the mystical, as they discover the truths that linger just below the surface of everyday lives. A farm couple, a young newspaper man, an aging sign painter, and a store owner, all carry us with them on their singular journeys.

Hackett at Large: Tales of a Reporter's Life in Paris 1961-1968

by Jack Fitzgerald

"Hackett at Large," is a collection of short stories that takes the reader on a colorful and humorous romp through Paris in the 1960s with the tough, yet tender-hearted fictional American journalist, Benjamin J. Hackett. During his many adventures, he encounters some of the most memorable authentic celebrities from that exciting and remarkable decade: Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, President John F. Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, The Beatles, and supermodel “Twiggy.”

Helen Bonaparte

by Sarah D'Stair

Middle-aged, middling academic Helen Bonaparte has left her husband and children at home for a week-long Italian group tour with strangers. Happy with her home life, but needing self-renewal, she intends to sulk in the corners of buses and museums for a week, indulging in great art but scowling the rest of the world away.

Until, that is, she meets Marieke, the tour guide, who becomes the object of erotic fantasies Helen didn't even know she had. As each day passes, Helen's home ... more

The Book of Izzy

by Ben Gonshor

Izzy’s a writer at wit’s end in life, with love, and on the verge of a complete breakdown with his career in wedding planning. Following an encounter with a mysterious bird seemingly visible only to him, he soon finds himself agreeing to take on the leading role in an amateur production of the greatest play in all of the Yiddish theatre: The Dybbuk, a gothic tale of destiny, possession and the triumph of love over all. But when the play’s director dies suddenly and the theatre is threatened with... more

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