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Shadow Dancer A Country Boy Goes To Vietnam

by Cat Shannon

A boy growing into manhood and becoming a dedicated proficient soldier whom accomplishes every mission that he is tasked with and survives through numerous life threatening situations.

Hungry Trails

by Máire Malone

Hungry Trails is a historical fiction story set in Attymass in Co. Mayo. The narrator is sixteen-year-old Julie Foley. It is 1847 and potato famine has impoverished Ireland. Corpses of men, women and children lie strewn across the ditches and fields, having dropped like flies from fever, exhaustion and starvation. Thanks to the generosity of the hedge schoolmaster and his wife, Julie and her family are given a lifesaving opportunity to emigrate to North America. But first they must survive ... more

CDC. The happy years with a very special Computer Phenomena

by Hans Bodmer

The histories of IT companies' developments, success, and groundings could fill books of several hundred pages. This book here concentrates on the relatively short, but exotic life cycle of the CDC. For a long time, this Minnesota founded and later became a worldwide leader. CDC was, for a long time only known to specialists. For normal people, it was just one of those IBM machines. CDC and IBM were bitter enemies. IBM survived. This booklet entitled: CDC contains historical, proven, and n... more

The War on Sarah Morris

by Kathleen Jones

What happens when one day, without any warning whatsoever, your secure corporate job suddenly becomes precarious? And all of your professional duties get taken away, leaving you with nothing but repetitive, mind-numbing tasks? Sarah Morris, a 49-year-old editor at a Toronto book publisher, finds herself in this predicament in October 2010, when Quill Pen Press, the company she has faithfully served for twenty-one years, undergoes a reorganization in the aftermath of the 2008 Recession. Concerne... more

Life As An Almost

by Vered Hazanchuk

At the back of a run-down abortion clinic, the lives of two women change forever. Told through alternating narratives, Life As An Almost follows the separate yet inevitably intertwined stories of abortion survivor, Evie Mission, and her biological mother, Charlotte Anderson. Evie Mission is a survivor. A fiery twenty-year-old woman who grew up in the foster care system, she is just trying to figure out what living a “normal” life even means. When Evie finds out her cerebral palsy dates back t... more

THE SPIRIT WITHIN US...

by JACK GREESON, PH.D.

A saga of twelve real people from two families over the course of time from about 1420 to 1801. Their struggles are depicted from real events, researched and selected to display how the outcomes led to the creation of America. Their backgrounds, personalities, and the struggles they faced are depicted.

Daughter of the Last King

by Tracey Warr

1093. An invasion and a curse. The three sons of William the Conqueror fight with each other for control of the Anglo-Norman kingdom created by their father’s conquest. The Norman Marcher lords are let loose to consolidate the conquest of Wales, pushing across the English border to the east and invading from the sea to the south. Nest ferch Rhys is the daughter of the king of south-west Wales. Captured during the Norman assault on her father’s lands, she is raised by her captors, the powerful... more

Werewolf and Idol

by Lance Tait

This novel of magical realism is set in 1952, in Chitose, Japan. The indigenous Ainu people live with the local Japanese. There is a U.S. army base at the town's outskirts. Captain Gideon Forsberg is a werewolf. There are flashbacks to Europe and World War II; these show 1) how he became a werewolf and 2) his character developing because of it. A small secret clique of U.S. Army officers knows of Forsberg’s lycanthropy, the depravity it epitomizes, and how he has it mostly under control… until h... more

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

by S. Cassadera

Benjamin King is the senior pastor of the megachurch, Mount Zion Tabernacle Baptist Church. He craves power over his congregation and appoints like-minded leaders to carry out his will. While advancing the kingdom, he borrows church funds according to his needs.

Welcome To Opine

by Matthew Marullo

Seventeen-year-old Aster Bottlebrush refuses to be persecuted just because his body naturally resists a side effect of a mandatory gene therapy – the suppression of libido! The literary sci-fi political satire is set approximately nine billion years from now after our Milky Way galaxy collides with the Andromeda galaxy, and rogue planet Earth gives rise to the new Homo Sapiens 2.0. But history progresses with an accelerated twist: Buried deep in the earth by an ancient human, a quantum comput... more

Third Act: A Novel of Buster Keaton

by Kevin Mori

Third Act unearths the forgotten love story that saved a cinema legacy. Buster Keaton had been a child prodigy in vaudeville and a star of the silent screen. But by the age of 40, he had been left behind by Hollywood. His fortunes changed following a chance meeting on the set of The Wizard of Oz. Eleanor Norris was a dancer under studio contract using her classical training in ballet to elevate the artistry of movie musicals. When she became Buster’s partner in life and on the stage, it chang... more

The Grand Promise

by Rebekah Anderson

Published on June 1, 2022, the 80th anniversary of the Grand Coulee Dam, "The Grand Promise" is a work of literary fiction about the real communities that were impacted by the dam's construction on the Columbia River in the 1930’s during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Called “a gripping debut” by best-selling author Jonathan Evison and “an ambitious saga” by Washington state book award winner Peter Mountford, "The Grand Promise" was the #1 fiction bestseller at Small Press Distribution in M... more

GOLDDIGGER

by Kathleen Morris

Nellie Cashman was a woman ahead of her time – independent, resourceful and adventurous, flinging away the restricting conventions of her day. Still, all who met her became intrigued by this determined petite Irishwoman who became known as the Angel of the Cassiar, the Miner’s Angel, the Saint of the Klondike, and few ever forgot their encounters with her. Fueled by gold fever, she traveled the West, and her reputation grew with every restaurant, boardinghouse and store she established to suppor... more

Her Own Legacy

by Debra BORCHERT

A Woman Fights for Her Legacy as the French Revolution Erupts

Headstrong Countess Joliette de Verzat prefers secretly managing her family’s Loire Valley château and vineyards to the cut-throat politics of Versailles. For nearly three centuries, generations of families have toiled to produce Château de Verzat wines, and their homes and livelihoods depend upon Joliette. But ancient laws block her from inheriting property—unless she is widowed. Revo... more

Courting Fate

by A.R. Kaufer

When she’s not working at the bank or playing video games with her best friend, Ana’s nose is in a book. She is comfortable with her simple life until one night, on her way home from work, she is mugged and left for dead. Fate or luck, army medic Rafe was passing by and saves her life. Grateful as she is, she can't shake the feeling she knows him from somewhere. Their lives become intertwined as she learns more about him and more about herself. Is she ready to face the truth? Will it answe... more

Fed Up to Start - A Story of Strength and the Value of you connections

by Robbie Hardy

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