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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

Echoes of the Caspian: Stories from the Heart of Azerbaijan (Echoes of the Caspian: Stories from the Heart of Azerbaijan - A Cap

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EL ULTIMO SECRETO DE EVA BRAUN

by enrique amarante

Reseña ‘El último secreto de Eva Braun’, de Enrique Amarante Reseña ‘El último secreto de Eva Braun’, de Enrique Amarante Si algo quedará por siempre en la memoria de Enrique Amarante es cada uno de los momentos de su infancia que compartió con su abuelo, quien le contaba anécdotas y relatos sobre la guerra en Alemania e Italia. Tal era el interés que despertaban estos temas en él que su abuelo decidió entregarle una caja con diversos documentos sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los cuales han ... more

Hair on Fire

by Daniel McKenzie

A collection of short stories: "A Ghost Story" A solo retreat to a small coastal town turns into something else when a yogi suddenly finds himself in the role of guru to a strange spirit trying to find his way out. "The Day the Children Remembered" What if children all over the world began to remember their past lives? How would it effect society and the individuals who see themselves as victims and perpetrators of past injustices? "The Allegory of the Virtual Reality Headset" With t... more

The Last Magdalene

by Donna D Conrad

The Last Magdalene does for the New Testament what The Red Tent did for the Old Testament. The temple of Asherah has existed in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, disguised as a benevolent society for widows and orphans. Within the sheltering walls, priestesses are taught to honor the goddess through rites of passion passed from mother to daughter and from priestess to priestess. Into this world, Miriam of Bethany, is born. Miriam longs to become The Magdalene, High Priestess of Asherah, as ... more

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