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Domestic Arts

by Annie M. Ballard

The last thing she wants is a boyfriend. The last thing he wants is to take advantage of a situation. Artist Evie returns to Stella Mare with nothing. Having spent years building her boyfriend’s art practice, their break-up leaves her without a career, a home, or a way to make a living. She becomes enraptured with the hooked rugs made by an ancestor, stashed in her father’s attic. But is she just avoiding reality? Stephen shivers through a Stella Mare spring to collect stories and art from ... more

Spirit Level

by Michael Reffold

Lisa’s in trouble again. But she’s never been in trouble like this before. This time, she’s murdered her parents and younger sister and gone on the run. Now she’s found love – or something like it – at the worst possible moment. To make matters even worse, her family are refusing to rest in peace. Their ghosts have taken up residence inside Lisa’s head and they’re determined to comment on every misstep she takes. When her guilt has a voice (actually, make that three voices), ghosts won’t leave... more

The Foreigner's Confession

by Lya Badgley

The Foreigner’s Confession is a dual timeline historical fiction novel set in war-time Cambodia. The two protagonists never meet but become deeply intertwined in a way that transcends time. An unexpected discovery at Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide leads American Emily Mclean on a journey through the country’s painful history and toward personal redemption in this suspense-filled page turner. After a horrific accident shatters her world and leaves her an amputee, American attorney Emily Mclean ... more

Love, Lydie

by Blair Harton

“A winsome love story between a young woman and a single father.” -BookView

“Tender and engrossing.” -SPR

Sometimes the music of tomorrow can play louder than the echoes of yesterday…

Rock star Nathan Roth believes he’s experienced everything life has to offer—until he witnesses a heated argument between a woman and her boyfriend on a snowy street in Greenwich Village. But it’s not th... more

Orphans of Canland

by Daniel Vitale

It's 2088, and the dust has settled on America, decades after an environmental collapse. The eco-totalitarian organization, WORLD, has reconfigured society with the intention of restoring nature. Twelve-year-old eternal optimist Tristan Weekes lives in what he believes must be paradise: Canland, an agrarian California desert-greening project. However, Tristan's life-defining medical condition, analgesia, prevents him from feeling physical pain, leaving his brain's stress centers unresponsive to ... more

Hold Circulation - A Call Numbers Novel: Trial and Redemption

by Syntell Smith

In the book of life, the page must always be turned. Robin Walker is at a crossroads. It's 1994, and he's been suspended from his part-time clerical position at the 58th Street Branch Library. His co-workers are overburdened, even with visiting clerks from other libraries. Still mourning the loss of his grandfather, Robin also pines for Shinju, his former girlfriend and the niece of his supervisor Sonyai Yi. Meanwhile, library page Tonya Brown attempts to reconcile with her cheating boyfriend ... more

All of My Friends Died in Plane Crashes – Fair Dinkum Stories About Wild Aussie Boys (And a Few Wild Sheilas)

by Adrian Zupp

“All of My Friends Died In Plane Crashes” is a collection of 17 urban Australian stories, several of which are based on the author’s childhood and youth in Sydney’s tough western suburbs of the 1960s and 70s. Most of the stories are “faction” (part fact, part fiction). Also included are a pair of historical stories: one set in legendary bushranger Ned Kelly’s jail cell on execution eve (1880), the other about the haunting and still unsolved Wanda Beach murders. "Plane Crashes" is dark, funny (so... more

Seeing Red

by Claudia Ricci

At 19, Ronda Cari gave up a promising career in ballet when she became pregnant by her college professor. Now, 18 years later and the mother of two boys, she gives up her marriage to follow her flamenco-guitarist lover Jesus to Spain, where he has disappeared. Her journey of discovery leads her to unveil the secret behind her lover's departure and renews her love of dance, this time through the magic of flamenco.

The Reluctant Visionary

by Datta Groover

Biracial, living in one of the whitest counties in Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Jess Atwood is plagued by visions she doesn’t want and can’t control. At the same time, she struggles to keep her family’s organic farm out of foreclosure. In 1960s Tennessee, Jess’s grandma Anna Mae has her own visions, which she thinks are divinely inspired. Each woman deals with her own visions differently, but both find themselves in trouble due to following—and sometimes not following—them. Jess must overcome h... more

Hearts of Cotton

by Uliana Domasheva

Anatole Grey (45) is a worldwide famous bestselling author recovering from depression caused by the death of his wife. After 5 years of silence and rehabilitation, Anatole is preparing for the release of his new book, which according to the media, is expected to be better than anything he has ever written. However, Anatole did not write the book – he stole it from his own daughter. His autistic daughter from his first marriage wrote the book to get the attention and love from her father that she... more

Crying Is for Women

by Zafarul Azam

Just published eBook on Amazon, paperback release date is 30 Sept. - A man, out for prayers, is found dead by a river bank and the reader is off to the races in this relentlessly paced twentieth century chronicle. - Human irrationality is front and center in this historical fiction theater. The book’s provocative title is but one example of such, now outdated, criteria formulated by man. - A child of humble beginnings grows up to find himself thrown into turbulent... more

How We Healed: a novel

by Melody Fowler

There is nothing ordinary about the journey we take in life, or the people in it. A tale of starting over and an unforgettable odyssey of healing. How We Healed follows Drunetta Brown, an oppressed black housewife desperate to escape her drunkard husband and small-town southern life. After fleeing with her youngest children to New York City in 1957, she finds unlikely friendship with Sister Rose, a church secretary, and Miss “Raycie” Rayceen, a boisterous bar singer. These women prove to be t... more

Xylene X Band

by Charles Harvey

It’s 1985. Joe Ecks is a rock star guitarist for X Band. He’s a bad rock star, though, despite the fact that he is a musical genius. In an emotional moment, he has a seizure, and his personality changes drastically. The new personality calls itself Mike Smith and is shown to be the direct opposite of Joe’s old personality. For example, the Mike Smith personality loves Joe’s life (including Joe’s wife Angie), and he wants to live it forever. But there’s a hitch: the new personality can’t play gu... more

An Empty House by the River

by Robert Hays

Life has been good in the old Prather house on the bluff overlooking Singleton’s Branch. Then the second “once in a hundred years” flood in a decade brings changes that will affect the Prather family for years to come. Lacy, who sees beauty wherever she looks and expects others to be as good as she is, can no longer count on her big brother to protect her from an abusive husband, and the family learns a hard truth: No one is immune to the quirks of fate, be they blessings or tragedies, and the r... more

FEAR OF THE GUN: A tale set in the New Mexico and Arizona Territories 1849 - 1884

by John Gerts

FEAR OF THE GUN: In February 1849, Lorenzo, a Mexican-American war veteran, walks west from Albuquerque toward the Alta California gold fields. Lost in the Ponderosa Pines of the San Francisco Peaks mountain range, Lorenzo is saved from hypothermia and Cholera by Hanna, a Jewish sheep rancher living alone. Hanna and Lorenzo build a supply station for the surveyors and crews of the Beale Wagon Road, while Hanna schools their three children, Jeremiah, Zachary, and Sarah. Tragedy prompts Lor... more

Marrying Myself

by Christine Melanie Benson

Julia Jones is about to marry her uber-wonderful, uber-wealthy soulmate, ditch her dead-end nonprofit job, and finally focus on her stalled art. But when the wedding doesn't go quite according to plan, Julia's real-life fairy tale is suddenly out the window - leaving her happy ending up to her, and her alone. Looking for a fun, often funny read with substance and a jolt of self-love? Pick up Marrying Myself and fall in love with Julia, with Boston - and, most of all, with yourself.

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