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  • The Reclusive Life of Rita Reilly

    by Robert E. Kearns
    Born into a pre-war and middle class Irish family, Rita Reilly enjoys a comfortable upbringing. Her family live above their newsagent and grocery store which prospers because of a terrific location and regular traffic. Rita has every reason to expect she'll complete secondary school, gain a university education, and continue on a path of her own choosing. However, when a death in the family occurs, Rita offers to stay behind while her parents and brother travel for the funeral. What happens whi... more

  • Ossuary

    by Robert E. Kearns
    In ancient Judea, to the objections of an overbearing parent, a young couple fall in love. When Maria becomes pregnant, they must elope. However, the girl's father wants his revenge and hatches a plot to return them to their home town. In this epic novel, the author takes us on a sweeping journey of love, tragedy and the human condition. Ossuary by Robert E. Kearns is a superlative re-imagining of the greatest story ever told.

  • Embers

    by Robert E. Kearns
    Proctor is a youth with ambitions beyond his station. Quick witted and with an uncanny knack for mimicry, he can impersonate anyone. Spotting an opportunity for financial gain, and an improvement in his social standing, he accepts the position as an understudy to a puritan minister. But, living in the home of his benefactor, he meets and falls in love with a girl he shouldn't. That's where matters take a turn. After a duel with the girl's uncle, he moves away from London, and then on to the Am... more

  • Company of Foos

    by Paul Davidson
    Cameron Murphy just landed the ultimate dream job. Unfortunately, working at one of the world's largest tech companies is a bit of a nightmare. Now, stuck in the Pacific Northwest with his family in tow, he must sidestep corporate politics, avoid the certifiably-insane and develop a product that will change the world of entertainment forever. Easy, right? But with his wife, Jess, struggling to find her own identity in a wasteland of suburban frigidity, and the corporate algorithm out to get him ... more

  • LAST DREAM STANDING: A Welsh mining family finds its heart in WWI.

    by Jill P. Anderson
    LAST DREAM STANDING Instead of their prayers being answered, a Welsh coal mining family in the early 1900’s has their dreams shattered by the birth of their second child. The story eddies around a forced unthinkable choice, a secret too big to contain, and a tragedy of their own creation. This is a tale, both intimate and epic, of dreams—lost, found, and sacrificed—pulling the Ross family forward and into WWI when the truth will reshape them—not to who they used to... more

  • Agent 00: Volume I

    by Ramona Lee Soo-Jun
    During the reign of the Dragon Emperor, an ancient curse falls over the princess. Two generals and a young thief sacrifice everything to escort her to safety, but time is running out. In a parallel universe 2000 years later, three agents and a pickpocket are tasked with infiltrating the treacherous underworld of the Triads. As they delve deeper, they unknowingly follow the path of their Boss's tragic past. Martial arts, action, comedy and destiny collide in a high-stakes battle against an ... more

  • There Are No Rules For This

    by JJ Elliott
    United in friendship for over a decade, four women have weathered multiple challenges. When one makes a fateful choice, it forces the other three to redefine their relationships and question everything. There Are No Rules For This packs an emotional wallop. Author JJ Elliott skillfully delves into the complexity of friendship and explores what happens when tragedy strikes.

  • Hot Berry Punch

    by Bradford Tatum
    Emma May Shinnecock grew up wild on the remote Western prairies in the 1820s. Left free to roam and learn from the nature surrounding her, Emma’s hunger for life drives her to flaunt formal conventions as she discovers the world around her. After embracing her first romantic liaison with a mysterious stranger, she is left with far more than a confusing introduction to love. She is now a Beguiler, a “blood thirster” with exciting new abilities and a deeper lust for life. But her condition come... more

  • Lelya Dorche and the Coney Island Cure

    by David Rothman
    In April 2020, at the height of the pandemic in New York City, Andrew, the assistant director of a funeral home one mile from Elmhurst Hospital, the “epicenter of the epicenter,” meets a legendary Coney Island witch doctor (Lelya Dorche), who makes him an offer that could better his chances of keeping his COVID-positive elderly parents and his severely asthmatic 13-year-old son, Miro, off the ever-expanding list of virus mortalities. To keep up his end of the bargain, Andrew will have to find h... more

  • The Kafka Studies Department

    by Francis Levy
    A highly original, quirky collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect and insight about the human condition. A prism of interconnected and intertwined takes, inspired by Franz Kafka, the stories examine feckless central characters who are far from likable but always recognizable and wildly human. Booklife in an Editor's Pick review described the book as "sharp, incisive miniature fictions that pin down contemporary anxieties."

  • A Brand New Day

    by E O Elliott
    A BRAND NEW DAY continues the tale of Dahlia Ringo as she navigates her new status as a rich, single woman of distinction. There's the city-wide board appointments, her seventeen years as president of the exclusive Jefferson Park neighborhood association, an exciting new career in interior design and of course, 12.5 million dollars! Life for Dahlia looks great on the outside. But behind those beautiful doors on Bennett Street lies a different story.

  • A River Divided

    by George Paxinos
    A River Divided follows Evelyn, a geneticist and amateur archeologist, who discovers a tomb while vacationing in Israel. Believing she has found the remains of Christ, she attempts to revive the DNA found preserved at the site so that she can clone Him. But with human cloning being both illegal and unprecedented, she takes the risk of carrying the embryo herself. Though more a scientist than a zealot, she wants to do everything to bring Him back to the world. If her experiment were successful, t... more

  • The Two (The Faith that Kills)

    by Gabriel Aidan Faulkner
    Two…Islands. Countries. Communities. Faiths. Lovers. Lives. Deaths. \tUpon the death of both of his parents, Daniel discovers that the life he has known is riddled with dark secrets that they took to their grave. \tThis triggers a voyage to a country he has never visited, seeking out the old address he has found. And once there, he learns of his early life as well as the terrifying reason why his parents left. \tSlowly, the past he has never known begins to exert an unassailable hold as he ... more

  • UnMasked

    by Julie Cadman
    What if your parents shared a huge family secret and told your daughter, “Don’t tell your mom!” Would you confront the elephant in the room or do nothing? As the world battles a raging pandemic, three generations of women face a challenge that will forever change their dynamic and family legacy. Jen is overwhelmed as she’s sandwiched between the daily needs of her family and expectations of her parents. Her sixteen-year-old daughter Kylie is trapped at home, missing her friends and her lacro... more

  • Nemesis of the Great

    by Cinzi Lavin
    In this sequel to The Taciturn Sky, Bryce Parnell is forced to reconsider his position as a member of the elite class once he discovers who is actually running things from above. Set in the twilight of America’s genteel aristocracy, he comes to terms with the fact that he and his kind are an endangered species, about to be overtaken by the rise of the newly rich and their limitless money and power. An unintentional spiritual odyssey, an unexpected friendship, and a heartbreaking family tragedy a... more

  • The Taciturn Sky

    by Cinzi Lavin
    An inheritance changes Bryce Parnell’s world in ways he never imagined. As a traitor to his class, he struggles to find his place somewhere between his Old Money upbringing and the uncultivated world he has come to know. Dividing his time between Larchmont, New York and Norfolk, Connecticut, he inexpertly navigates romantic relationships and interacts uneasily with wealthy friends and family, all the while hoping to outrun a reality of which he is becoming increasingly aware: that he is witnessi... more
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