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  • The Faraway Mountains

    by Radu Guiasu

    A dark chapter in human history. The first part of this novel follows the adventures of three young friends during a memorable last mountain climbing trip to a remote area of a country under the control of a ruthless authoritarian regime. During their journey, the young men have to cope with with: bear encounters, venomous adders, colorful locals, dangerous climbs, flooded caves, and other challenges, as the main purpose of their trip is gradually revealed. A second story, intertwined... more

  • Killing Hannah

    by Hailee Taylor
    At just 13 years old, Hannah’s world is turned upside down when her father passes away, forcing her to move in with her distant mother. Struggling to adapt, she soon finds herself ensnared in a nightmarish world of addiction, human trafficking, and homelessness on the streets of California. As she faces nearly insurmountable dangers and life-threatening situations, Hannah's resilience is tested to the limit. With a fierce will to survive, she fights for a second chance at life, discovering both ... more

  • A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists

    by Radu Guiasu

    This is a diverse collection of thirty-six humorous short stories focusing on a wide variety of topics: from growing up under a dictatorship, to the challenges of academic life, hiking in the mountains, exploring nature, encountering bears, analyzing the perils associated with trying to save a little known endangered fish, life on a desert island, the requirements for a successful writing career, cautionary tales of dentists and other health care providers, dinosaurs, running bulls, w... more

  • For the Love of Cards; Ace of Hearts

    by Shelly Dickenson
    It is a coming of age story about Nikkie, a massage therapist. She is following her dream to become an acupuncturist then finds poker massage. She transforms into a confident young lady who falls in love with the game of poker.

  • Strange Tales and Shadowy Beings from Beyond the Bible - Vol. 3

    by Edward N Brown
    A Collection of Short Stories in the Later Life of Saint Paul – Stories that will stir your imagination! Thought-provoking and entertaining! Easy-to-read unusual stories involving heroes and villains from the Bible and beyond – Supernatural Tales, Speculative History, and Spirited Adventure provide high drama!

  • The Sum of All Our Anger: Civil War 2.0

    by William R. Douglas
    In the year 2061, newly elected President Devin Cyrus is determined to sweep away the last remnants of the Old Way in America to pave the way for a Socialist utopia under his New Way policy. 

New Way supporter and 1619 Brigade founder DeShawn King, filled with anger, is more than eager to exact revenge for generations of oppression.

 Meanwhile, followers of the Old Way are determined to keep a remnant of the Old Union intact. 

Their de facto leader, Oklahoma Governor Mary Whitfield, rallies l... more

  • Flies in Amber

    by Jonathan Land Evans
    'Flies in Amber' gathers together 33 short stories chosen from the author's recent collections of short fiction. The stories range from the humorous to the serious, and from the brashly contemporary to a more classic literary mode reflecting settings in the early-to-mid 20th Century in places ranging from the USA and England to Europe and the author's native Bermuda.

  • Saving Vincent: A Novel of Jo Van Gogh

    by Joan Fernandez
    Saving Vincent, A Novel of Jo van Gogh, traces the persistent efforts of Jo van Gogh-Bonger — Vincent's sister-in-law— and her work to save Vincent's paintings from obscurity. When Jo's husband, Theo, died six months after his brother, the young widow and her infant son inherited hundreds of virtually worthless works. Defying tradition to move back to her parents' home, she opened a boarding house to raise her son alone and to promote Vincent's work herself. It took nearly fifteen years of hard ... more

  • Surviving Nuclear War

    by Dayo Oyewumi
    in a world where nations are rising against nations using different kinds of method of war to defeat opponents there is a need for understanding of how to survive in case of nuclear war

  • New American Café

    by Richard Sanford
    In late seventies Chicago, a young musician teams up with an offbeat writer to open a restaurant, and while juggling music, the café, and romance with his tribe of artists and poets, tries to thread the needle to freedom and fame.

  • Intelligence Without Thumbs

    by Michael Schulze
    In this part sci/fi fable, part species-bending coming-of-age story, Earth has suffered a massive human-made Conflagration that has reduced the global population to 1.2 billion. Given that another cataclysm of this sort could annihilate everyone left, many people are now convinced that humans aren’t the superior animal species they think they are and that technology isn’t the boon that it seems. As a result, a movement called Posthumanism has emerged, arguing that DNA’s experiment with oppos... more

  • The Gift (Vintage Vines Series Book 1)

    by C. D’Angelo

    Toni Agosti is having a midlife crisis at age thirty-five. Unsurprising, since she hasn’t achieved her dream job of becoming a cellist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic and, instead, is trapped teaching music all day. She’s also barely surviving in her shaky marriage to former soulmate and new Mr. Condescending, uh…Christian.

    When she learns about her ancestor leaving Italy to reestablish his winery in early 1900s LA, she longs to awaken the freedom-filled family legacy... more

  • Lost Seeds: The Legacy

    by Teresa Mosley Sebastian
    In this riveting continuation of the Brisco family saga, brothers Dub and Tim strive to persevere against their early 1900s post-slavery beginnings—clashing with their history of family trauma and their different coping mechanisms for living in a world that doesn’t accept them. While Dub becomes a respected coal miner and finds prosperity for his family, Tim continues a slow descent into a fog of psychosis, alcoholism, and perpetual joblessness—forced to live an isolated existence on Dub’s prope... more

  • Because I F**king Said So

    by Liam James Leaven
    The toddler years are the hardest, they said. . . Then the precious little monsters began to talk. Soon they embraced this new superpower and discovered the most feared word in the English language—the one that every parent dreads . . . “WHYYYY!?” “Why can’t we stay?” “Why can’t we go?” “Why not right now?” “Why not one more?” “Why, why, why….?” This adult bedtime book is for the parent in your life who’s gripping onto the last threads of their sanity. Because when no a... more

  • Safe Passage

    by Karen Menezes
    The old-growth forest and the borderlands of Capherayna are a mystery. So are its people, the Xaeltik community. They live in a pre-industrial time warp, unable to defend themselves from the dark forces of the modern world. In the heart of the forest, a vortex of death is rumoured to swallow the living, chew on them and spit out the pieces. The Lightbender stumbles into Xaeltik territory after days of wandering the forest. He is welcomed by a macabre sight that changes the course of his destiny.... more

  • Eighteenth and Western

    by Laura Jenski
    Jean Dickey dreams of doing something important for women’s rights. She failed in 1970, but now she’s in her seventies and has a second chance. Her granddaughter, Dani, arrives to help her start a civil rights center on Chicago’s Lower West Side. But when a cold-case crime on the center’s deteriorating property is connected to Jean, and Jean talks about visits from her grandmother’s ghost, Dani faces a difficult decision about Jean’s future.
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