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Max's War

by Libby Fischer Hellmann

As the Nazis sweep across Europe, Jewish teen Max and his parents flee German persecution to Holland, where Max finds friends and romance. But when Hitler invades in 1940, Max escapes to Chicago, leaving his parents and friends behind. When he learns of his parents' murder, Max immediately enlists in the US Army. After basic training he is sent to Camp Ritchie, Maryland, where he is trained in interrogation and counterintelligence. Deployed to the OSS, Max carries out dangerous missions in Occ... more

Grasslands

by Shekhar Khatri

A university student is invited to his friend's birthday party. Over the course of the night, he undertakes a long journey in search of his impossible dream.

The Gambler's Game

by James Darnborough

Based on the true story of the Illinois baseball player who became the only American to break the bank at Monte Carlo playing roulette at the turn of the 20th century. This is a journey of self-discovery. From 1880s rural baseball parks in the mid-west, saloons in the old west, gritty Gilded Age New York, to the glittering high-stakes tables of the Casino in Monte Carlo and affluent Edwardian London. Based on facts, this book is a combination of narrative non-fiction wrapped in a love story tha... more

A 2023 LED ZEP NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS CD: A SATIRE

by Michael Boyajian

A Night before Christmas for our generation whereas worldwide chaos breaks out after a Led Zeppelin Christmas CD is proposed involving a who’s who of pop culture icons. From Jera Studios Publishing featuring Jeri Wagner and Michael Boyajian In Kindle and Paperback formats today. A 2023 LED ZEP NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS CD: A SATIRE “Ah! Now I understand this piece. Creative and funny. Lol… Congrats on your new book…” “That was written by you…that was ... more

Never Touch Down

by Kathleen Morris

This is a crime story. Full of dangerous dealings, untrustworthy people, smugglers and drugs. No, wait. It’s a story about aviation, Hollywood, Mexico, the turbulent 1970s, filled with the animosity of anti-war protests and buffered by the music of Fleetwood Mac and Buffalo Springfield .

Strike that, well, amend it. While all that is true, this is a story about families, friendships, loyalties and love, the stuff that matters, both in the beginning and in the end.

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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 further mayhem. All t... more

When Knowing Comes

by Kelly Green

As young boys in the late 1990s, Atticus "Ace" Elbridge and Roberto "Robbie" Rivelino Santos, share an unbreakable bond and a singular vision, a coveted state soccer championship. But a sexual predator infiltrated their elite soccer club with a different plan that destroys the young athletes' lives. Decades later, California reopens an extraordinary opportunity by extending the deadline for survivors to pursue justice. With the statute of limitations lifted, Robbie resolutely demands that his... more

Botánicos: A Novel

by Alan Meerow

Garwell Sorrentino was a legendary tropical botanist with the Cincinnati Botanical Garden, and arguably the world’s expert on the rain forests of southeastern Peru. Twenty-five years ago, he was believed lost when an ultra-light craft that he was piloting alone above the unbroken forests of the Río Madre De Dios watershed caught fire and crashed. No trace of Sorrentino was ever found. His last graduate student and best friend, Anton Kovac, was fired in disgrace from his botanist position at the ... more

Primal

by The Absolution Train

A brother and sister struggle with the romantic and sexual love between them

Voices Echo

by Linda Lee Graham

The third book in the VOICES series, VOICES ECHO stands alone as a riveting depiction of both the beauty of 18th-century Jamaica and the horrors of plantation life in the British West Indies. When Albert Ross sailed to Jamaica months after they married, Rhiannon Ross believed he'd abandoned her for the sanctuary of his West Indies plantation and complacent mulatta mistress. Not one to live life in limbo, Rhiannon has followed in a bid to secure her position as his lawful wife, and to quell her ... more

The Ways of Water: A Novel

by Teresa H. Janssen

As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her itinerant family through the deserts of the boom-and-bust American West and revolutionary Mexico, she learns that in her life, two things are constant: the preciousness of water, and her role as the savior of her family. After unforeseeable circumstances force her family to scatter, Josie begins an odyssey that takes her from New Mexico to Bisbee, Tucson, Los Angeles, and finally post-WWI San ... more

Girl Braiding Her Hair

by Marta Molnar

Her close friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. As a sought-after model, Paris celebrated her - until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon--a bastard from the tenements--was 15 years- old, she’s been a horse walker, a milliner’s assistant, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story, along with Ellie's, a modern woman a century la... more

Twice a Duchess: Book Two of the American Duke Series

by August Jade Sterling

Regency-era England, 1820s. Anne Roxbury, the newly minted Duchess of Westmoure, is still reeling from the events leading to the shocking discovery of her family’s elite status. Despite their mixed-race heritage, her American son, Sterling, has inherited a dukedom and now presides over his father’s estate in a society where social and economic distinctions separate the classes, and suspicion of people of color runs rampant. The Roxbury family has found allies in the king himself and a handful... more

Husbands

by Mo Fanning

In Hollywood, every pavement star tells a story. Not all of them shine.

Wannabe actor Kyle Macdonald is down on his luck. Working as a supply teacher in an inner-city Birmingham school, he’s single again at twenty-eight, and sleeping in his childhood bedroom beneath a ‘Hard Candy’ Madonna poster.

He gets a call claiming he drunkenly married top Hollywood director Aaron Biedermeier in Vegas six years ago. Rather than panic, he sees a golden ticket... more

Manon Mouland

by Susan Hoffman

This story recounts the events of five transformative years of Manon’s life. The book opens with the death of her father upon which, she discovers the existence of an estranged family. Raised as an only child by a single Dad, having a family is something she always longed for. It is set in Quebec, New York and Connecticut, with richly described scenes placing readers into the spaces that Manon occupies. It is replete with art references, and illuminates the creative process. Readers glimpse in... more

The Equity of Love

by Marcus LaPierre

At a small tech startup in the Silicon Valley of the North, fractious love triangles from the past and present converge and ambitions collide ... with alarming consequences.

In 2004, the death of a prominent businessman sets in motion a series of events that weave together the fortunes and fates of four seemingly unrelated people: Xavier, a son who wants to prove to society he has the entrepreneurial Midas touch his family is known for; Richard, an amateur writer questioning his career ... more

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