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by Michelle Fogle

In Belle Époque Paris, starving bohemian Erik Satie longs to overthrow convention. Expelled from the Conservatoire for his overly unique approach, the frustrated cabaret pianist vows to prove his critics wrong. He finds a kindred spirit in the also floundering Claude Debussy. The duo launches a radical crusade against the entrenched musical order. Enduring ridicule, exclusion from venues, and personal demons, they pioneer an art form steeped in the green haze of Absinthe and mysticism. Yet, succ... more

Proximity Factor

by S.S. Jung

Meet Cynthia Austen, a brilliant 32-year-old PhD neurologist whose career has taken her to the forefront of high-security scientific experimentation within the US Pentagon. Recently promoted to Scientific Project Manager to report and evaluate DARPA's most classified projects, she finds herself thrust into the intrigue and cutting-edge world of arctic region scientific research. Assigned to evaluate a mysterious project gone wrong in the remote community of Gakona, Alaska, Cynthia soon dis... more

Outrage: Sister Molly Cleary vs. The Catholic Church

by Avery Michael

Sister Molly Cleary, a tough, no-nonsense nun from a poor, southside Chicago Irish-Catholic family, understands women’s struggles all too well. Faced with a choice between motherhood and the convent, she chooses religious life but never forgets that her mother died in childbirth after too many pregnancies, leaving nine-year-old Molly and her six siblings motherless. As Vatican II and the women’s liberation movement blow gale-force winds of change through the Catholic Church and wi... more

The Slave Maker

by Kathleen Morris

On any given day in 1883 New Orleans, at 416 Royal Street, you will find a black door and a discreet bronze plaque engraved with “S&H Investigations”, should you need such services. Within, you will be offered café au lait and beignets, and taken down a softly-lit passageway to meet Fiona Shanahan, a pretty young Irishwoman, and her associate, Michael Henley, a gentleman with a hard face but a kind smile. You will leave assured your troubles are in good hands. However, whil... more

Goldberg Variations: The Redemption of the Damned

by Jonathan Taylor

Jamie Goldberg, newly out of the closet in 1980 Detroit, thinks coming out would solve his problems. Yet, allusive darker traumatic secrets seem to linger. He discovers human sexuality is more complex than merely gay vs straight. He also learns the struggles of suicidal thoughts, low self-esteem, and sexual acceptance only begin with coming out. In short, he realizes coming out appears to pose more problems than it solves. Sometimes he is sustained only by his own wry sense of humor, love of mus... more

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by Kat Caldwell

After his band falls apart, Tristen moves back to his hometown with his mother who is still trying to quit drinking while hiding from debt collectors. Tristen's pursuit of his dream is put on hold when his mother is faced with losing everything. Themes of family, addiction, and perseverance in a small, American town.

Some Hero

by Ted MacVeagh

Romance, Comedy, Superpowers. It should be a snap, right? When Jason unexpectedly acquires superpowers, he figures he has it made. He’ll become a superhero, sweep Penny off her feet and earn a mint in endorsements. All while inspiring a great love of literature in his students and leading his pub trivia team to victory. But it turns out that being a hero is harder than he thinks. Even when he's "more powerful than a locomotive," it's hard to find locomotives that need stopping. And his powers of... more

American Graphic

by JoAnne McFarland

Multimedia poetry

The Middle Generation

by M. B. Zucker

The Middle Generation is about John Quincy Adams when he served as Secretary of State. Following Napoleon's defeat and the War of 1812, he wants the US to take advantage of the Spanish Empire's disintegration to become the dominant country in North America. To do this, he must outmaneuver his political rivals, including those in President Monroe's cabinet, and Europe, which is led by the shrewd Prince Metternich of Austria. Adams also confronts the rise of slavery as a crisis which threatens to ... more

Inner Pathways: A Poet's Journey into the Soul

by John C. Winchell

Explore the true depths of your emotional heart with Inner Pathways: A poet's journey into the soul. Author John Winchell helps readers unlock its secret chambers where past-life love stirs, dormant feelings awaken, and solemn oaths of soul contracts are fulfilled. John painstakingly handcrafts every poem, applying ultimate brevity to viscerally expressive metaphor and symbolism. This unique writing style evolved from necessity, as poetry was his primary form of emotional release for many yea... more

Emotional Fissures

by John C. Winchell

During nine months in 2008, author John C. Winchell experienced a broken longstanding love relationship, principal job/housing loss and the death of his youngest sister Elizabeth. Emotional Fissures explores the raw, unfiltered feelings he negotiated during that fateful chain of tragic life events. The breadth of subject matter is diverse and utterly personal. With no intimate support system, poetry became John's primary coping mechanism, creative outlet and confidant. Blending sublime metaph... more

The Remembering: Of Leather & Stone

by Charles Collins

This fact-based fictional account, composed of three personal journals written as if by Collins' ancestors nearly two hundred years ago, contains their intimate, emotional stories, firsthand experiences, and traditions of old-world craftsmanship.

The legacies of these two Boston Irish and Italian families make it a perfect story for fans of historical Irish fiction by authors like Jean Grainger, Andrew Wareham, and Daisy O'Shea, fans of historical Italian fiction by Daniela Sacerdoti an... more

The List of Longings

by Marise van der Boom

Marise decides to sign up for Secret Love, a datingsite shrouded in mystery. Spurred on by her admirers, she gives in to her lust and The List of Longings. Explicit sex scenes!

White Rabbit

by TC Scott

Ultra-social conservative zealot and PTA tyrant Martha Molder runs for public office, but she thinks everyone is against her, including her immigrant gardener Enrique, her progressive husband Jack, her gay son Max, and his pet rabbit. When a domestic terrorist duo who pose as an evangelical cult offer to help her, they use a clueless Martha to rob the bank where Jack is the manager to fund their organization. Meanwhile, Jack is having an affair with Max’s unhinged teacher Miss Tutley to convi... more

Of Woven Fates

by Megan Formanek

A world bound by fate and kin, entangled by the guile of men. Svealand 877 CE Married off by her mother, Astrid finds herself trapped in a life of domesticity, far from the freedom she once knew. Confined to her husband’s settlement, she faces his resentful son, who seeks to usurp authority, and the looming inheritance dispute that overshadows Astrid’s future. Astrid must navigate the treacherous waters of her new reality, contending with the fate the Norns have spun. With her husban... more

The Reluctant Pioneer

by Julie McDonald Zander

Matilda Koontz cherishes her life as a wife and mother on a Missouri farm, but her hardworking husband wants to claim free farmland in the Pacific Northwest. When he suggests selling the farm to trek two thousand miles across the Oregon Trail, she balks. But in the spring of 1847, Matilda and Nicholas Koontz and their sons embark on a grueling journey westward. Fresh graves testify to dangers of disease, accidents, starvation, and a multitude of hazards threatening her family and her beloved’s... more

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