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Bellflower

by Mary Vensel White

From the author of Things to See in Arizona, Starling, and The Qualities of Wood, an innovative, touching, and unforgettable novel-in-moments that invites readers to choose a reading approach.

At a party thrown by his wife's PTA friend, Glen Hanley makes a reckless choice. Terri Moore's life has finally settled after an unexpected divorce, when her son reveals stunning news. Elderly and alone, Mrs. Hallowicz finds solace in her flowerbeds... more

The Qualities of Wood

by Mary Vensel White

The house brought them together, but secrets will tear them apart. When Betty Gardiner dies, leaving behind an unkempt country home, her grandson and his young wife take a break from city life to prepare the house for sale. Nowell Gardiner leaves first to begin work on his second mystery novel. By the time his wife Vivian joins him, a real mystery has begun: a local girl has been found dead in the woods behind the house. Even after the death is ruled an accident, Vivian can’t forget the girl,... more

My Year At The Good Bean Cafe

by EA Luetkemeyer

An unlikely and inexplicable event prompts Adrian Lomachenko to quit his high-paying job in the financial district of San Francisco and pursue a career in writing, his long-repressed true calling. Determined to write a novel that examines the nature of unlikely and inexplicable events and how they impact our lives, he relocates to the quaint artistic community of Jacksonville, Oregon, where he will seat himself daily at 6:00 am at the same table in the town’s eclectic coffee shop, the Good Bean ... more

This: A Simple, Complex Love Story

by Naomi Rivers

Baltimore’s iconic Inner Harbor is known for its historic port, picturesque beauty, and tourist attractions. Can it also be the perfect setting to make a love connection?

Jasmine, a pragmatic social worker, struggles to keep her long term relationship intact. T, an art teacher by day and an elusive artist by night, gave up on relationships a long time ago. When the two meet at the Harbor by chance, their unexpected chemistry challenges their ideas about life and expectations for l... more

Scar Songs: Stories

by W. Royce Adams

SCAR SONGS contains nine stories dealing with male protagonists at various life stages in life who experience events that leave either a psychological or physical memory scar. The stories cover dilemmas such as struggles with family loyalties, guilt after catching a shoplifter, suffering the loss of a loved one, the inability to forgive, and the breakdown of a professor while teaching his class. W. Royce Adams has published over a dozen college textbooks and academic journal articles. His f... more

Mask of Dreams

by Leigh Grant

In 15th-century Venice, Caterina struggles against an arranged marriage to a man her father's age. Powerless, she is consumed by dread. The betrothal fails. A letter meant to manage future suitors goes astray. Out of the violence of the Balkans comes Rade, a lawless, charismatic Slav. Having won the letter at cards―containing a belief that the soul's beauty is reflected in the beauty of the face―he sees it as the hand of fate. Though scarred, Rade attempts through the artifice of a lifelike mask... more

Trintarious - A Prodigal Son Story

by JR Bray

The parable of the prodigal son is familiar to most of us. In Luke 15 Jesus tells of the son that went to his father, asked for and received his inheritance then squandered the money on drunkenness and prostitutes. He then came to his senses and realizing his father’s servants were better off than he was went crawling back only to be embraced by his father who threw a party for him. The brother then became angry and the father had to explain it all to him. It is a great passage and has many teac... more

What Is Wrong With Me?

by Kristin Hammoud

Anna's life is depicted from early childhood adverse experiences and how this leads to how Anna makes decisions around what she has normalized. She starts to learn about her mothers childhood and how patterns are repeating with her own decisions. She rejects a healthier partner and marries someone similar to her abusive father and has a baby. She discovers puzzling information about her deceased mother-in-law and tries to uncover the truth about her death, assuming her father-in-law is somehow ... more

Shadows We Carry

by Meryl Ain

In this eagerly anticipated sequel to Meryl Ain’s award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, we follow Bronka and JoJo Lubinski as they find themselves on the cusp of momentous change for women in the late 1960s. With the United States in the grip of political and social upheaval, the twins and a number of their peers, including a Catholic priest and the son of a Nazi, struggle with their family’s ancestry and how much influence it has on their lives. Meanwhile, both young women seek t... more

Hollyland

by Patricia Leavy

What happens when a seemingly ordinary woman with a passion for the arts falls in love with a Hollywood star known for his bachelor status and quick temper with the paparazzi? Something extraordinary. Dee Schwartz is a writer and arts researcher. Ryder Field is a famous actor descended from Hollywood royalty. On the night they meet outside a bar, their connection is palpable. Ryder’s mother—legendary actress Rebecca Field, half of Hollywood’s golden couple when she died—was kidnapped and murd... more

Islamic States of America: A Novel

by Hassan Riaz

A decade has passed since the U.S. lost the War on Terror, the Caliphate rules America, and U.S. insurgents are the terrorists...

Jamal Stone is a man of the Caliphate. He is living an uneasy existence in the West State when he receives a video of his now ten-year-old son, Khalil, who has been missing since the age of three. Jamal is relieved to learn his son is alive, but distraught by the circumstance of the video—his son is being groomed by East State insurgents as an ... more

What Happened to Annabell?

by A Monday Night Anthology

What happened to Annabell?

She left poor instructions.
She outgrew her manufacturing specs.
She defrauded an international brewing company.
She burned down her house.
She sold her soul to vengeance.
She sent herself to the future.
She never existed in the first place.
She was too stubborn to die.

Annabell should have died long ago—and often did—but there’s more than one way to be immortal.

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The Whom Of Benefit

by Stanley Kov

Wiebke always had a critical eye for the mainstream media, handmade pastries, and her mother’s despotic nonsense. Hoping to live a life of freedom, she moves to the German capital to kick start her career as a bakery assistant only to be confronted by a stranger in a chicken hat who claims she does not exist. As she attempts to persuade him otherwise, she uncovers deeper truths – about the mysterious stranger, life, the world, and herself.

Journey to Holbrin

by Anton J.F.

“On a Saturday morning, Hans Gastop felt what seemed to be a sign of the disease. The fear of being discovered invaded him. How long would he have before they caught him? Could he fool the authorities? Could he resist the illness alone? How should he act from that moment on? The doubts produced in him a hitherto unknown state of anguish, sensing his life would never be the same. A correct intuition, but still very distant from the overwhelming dimension of what he was about to live.”

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Ourman: Book 1

by Gilgamesh Uth

Ourman is the hero archetype turned on its head. It is the dissolution of a man lost among the crowds, compelled to fit in and to find his place in a world that has disappeared his life and love, family and friends, a collection of mysteries that is almost there but never quite. Ourman is the assembled personage trampling this experience, calling him to reimagine his purpose and inevitable influence on others. Ourman is the story of inspiration, the path of leadership, and its surprising consequ... more

Charlotte's War

by J. Lawrence Graham

This epic novel follows one extraordinary American woman as she grieves and triumphs through the horrific realities of three wars that threaten the men she loves. Charlotte Shipwright is in the fight of her life to save her firstborn son from facing a truth she knows all too well—the dreadful impact of war. First, she watched her own brother suffer the destructive consequences of youthful bravado in WWII. Then, she waved goodbye to her husband, a decorated hero, who sailed into harm’s way a s... more

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