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Sylvia Lennox
by Elizabeth Hamlin
This uplifting novel depicts the lives, loves, and careers of Sylvia, who wants to become an artist, and Jade, who wants to become a fashion designer, over a period of over fifty years.
Utopia Café
by David Hejna
Izzy, an attractive college senior, belongs to an underground freedom movement organizing against a repressive, yet poorly run, Marxist regime. She is challenged by the idea of recruiting Tom, an unlikely choice as a rising young star in the Party. But Izzy heard Tom may have hidden depths and could get inside information as an underground mole. He’s also nice looking. Will their amusing and cautious interactions and gradual revelations develop into a deeper relationship of shared beliefs? Will increasing friction between the two marginally competent Party leaders finally provide an opportunity for the underground to take action?
My Irish Dog
by Douglas Solvie
Spencer knew the trip to Ireland had almost no prospect of remedying his internal dilemma. Then again, he never imagined that a chance meeting with a lost and dying dog named Shandy would change his life forever. Step into the small Irish village of Galbally, where the unwitting Spencer stumbles headfirst into a parallel world that will test his will, sanity, and even physical well-being. Time and promise are running out. Will unnatural forces and events scare Spencer away before he can connect again with the mysterious dog? Will he find his way forward before Shandy meets her inevitable fate? Or will suspicious locals and a nefarious Dublin innkeeper force Spencer from the village before he completes his life-altering mission? Follow Spencer as he races to save a little Irish dog named Shandy. If he only realized that it is Shandy who is trying to save him...
The Aspen Grove
by Jane Fulkerson
The Aspen Grove is a story about a third-generation Irish immigrant family living in Colorado in 1883. Daniel O'Neal, his wife Johanna, their daughter Sarah and their hired hands live a frugal but rewarding life raising cattle. A catastrophic event changes all of their lives forever and their friends and neighbors must come to their aid. Sheriff Nathan Westphal and his Deputy Wilf Bennington, two men who served on opposite sides of the Mason-Dixon Line during the Civil War, seek to bring justice to the devastated family. An unexpected twist takes the story in a different direction.
The Man Who Was Born In 9 Countries
by Tajo .
What if you could live in nine different countries at the same time? This is the life story of the restless, idealist, rebellious Tajo, who was born to a crook of a father and a tormented mother. This book reveals his surprising adventures, struggles and entanglements, from his escape to freedom at an early age to the disaster that threatened the lives of his family. But wait – where does the story take place? After experiencing these crucial moments and deciding events, Tajo began to relive and reimagine his life as it would have been had he lived in a different country and a different society, ''Not as an immigrant nor someone relocating there, but like a native, as I am in my own country.'' (Check price before downloading as free giveaway may end before midnight U.S. time.)
Out of the Rabbit Hutch
by Nanette L. Avery
Out of the Rabbit Hutch transports readers into a period before and after the American Civil War from British occupied Tasmania to the United States. The setting is dynamic and eclectic, putting readers into a society of socialites, slave hunters, warmongers, and opium users. Told in a powerful voice is a world of memorable characters, multifaceted conflicts, and suspenseful plot.
Maison Cristina
by Eugene Garber
Enter the enchanted halls of Maison Cristina, demon-haunted but also imbued with the intense spirituality of three faithful nuns. Which power will triumph? Crimes have been committed. Meet the victim of one, perpetrator of another—young woman, old man. Can these two, one wordless but possessed of powerful will, the other a compulsive but gifted teller of tales, work out their mutual salvation? Or must one rise, the other decline? In the charged atmosphere of Maison Cristina the fierce combat between the powers of light and darkness, salvation and judgement comes to a defining climax.
Catching Mozart
by Benjamin Laskin
''Got Mozart?'' Threatened by financial ruin and the breakup of their team, the three hapless and lovelorn pals of JC’s Lawncare bet everything on one last job—the reclaiming of a mysteriously irredeemable yard. When failure appears inevitable, the chance encounter with a lovely opera soprano launches the three friends on a wild, mind-blowing journey into the ‘Mozart zone.’ Rock me, Amadeus.
Come Back
by Sally Crosiar
Can Vi get out of town again before her secrets catch up to her? Can Nate persuade her to stay? Who knew hope could be so scary?
No Halo Required
by Travis Casey
Isaiah Hightower has everything a forty-nine-year-old man could want: respect as a high school principal; admiration as a leader in the black community; and a wife who would do anything for him.Despite his shining public image, Isaiah's life is plagued with indiscretions. When these threaten to unravel his world, he silences the threat by any means necessary.When his wife, Yvette, witnesses her husband's greatest sin, her life is about to change forever. But it doesn't have to. One lie will protect her lifestyle and save her husband's reputation.
My Famous Brain
by Diane Wald
“My brain was famous, but I was not. Not every gifted child invents a pollutant-free fuel, paints a masterpiece, or finds the cure for cancer.” In this novel that reads like a memoir, Jack MacLeod narrates his story from beyond the grave, immersing us in vivid, interconnected tales from a lifetime of intriguing relationships. The Midwest Review calls it “Impressively original, extraordinarily clever, inherently fascinating, and deftly scripted.”
Mary's Heart: A First Nations Woman in Dawson
by Joyce Derenas
In 1937, Mary Johnnie, a First Nations woman considers marriage with Romeo Poulin, a pioneer and Stampeder turned small mill owner in Dawson. They have known each other for three decades and each has lost loved ones to the rugged territory that defines the Yukon. Mary has felt the sting of loss, burying more loved ones than most. How much grief can one woman endure? She isn’t alone. Romeo has also felt the bite of grief, but he longs for a family, and more than anything, a son. Will Mary agree to wed and someday give him the boy he hopes for? If they wed, will she have to change who she is – a Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin? “We already have a child together. Let’s do things right, let’s get married?” Romeo begs. While First Nations people intermarry and assimilate into the white man’s culture during the 1930s, Mary questions what she might lose if she marries a white man.
Happy Endings: Short Stories
by Elizabeth Hamlin
This recently published collection is ranked in the top 100 short stories on Amazon Australia. Genres of the stories include comedy, romantic comedy, literary, satire, and realistic stories with happy endings. These stories were written for adults but the content is also suitable for teenagers. The stories are followed by the first three chapters of the novel ''Sylvia Lennox'' which is also available as an ebook.
Little Things: A Novel
by Amy Fillion
Filled with love, hope, and promise, Little Things is a captivating tale both heartfelt and heartbreaking that speaks of how one family copes in the midst of an unthinkable diagnosis - focusing not on the diagnosed herself, but on those that love her: a husband who is struggling to maintain his sanity, his finances, his home, and his job; a mother suffering the deterioration of a daughter after already having lost her husband; and a teenage son struggling with a plethora of emotions and eventually coming of age through the unimaginable.
Down Clark Street
by Michael Panno
Illinois, winter, 1958. Eleven-year-old Michael Carmello lives with his parents and five siblings in a small house in Hardscrabble, Illinois. His father ekes out a living driving a cab, while his mother works part time at the local hospital. Michael wants to tryout for Little League in the spring, and dreams of someday being a Major League ball player. But dreams don't find a lot of support in Hardscrabble; that is, not until Michael meets Cornelius (Neely) Brown, a former pitcher with the Negro League, and a terminal patient at the hospital.
A Sparrow Falls
by Vicki Olsen
Doors were never locked, in Tolerance, Arkansas in the 1950's. Everyone went to church on Sunday and the grocer extended credit, never asking for a credit card. Things were good --the age of innocence in America that laid the foundation for the sexual and Cultural Revolution that was to explode onto the scene in the sixties. But for Sarah Jones, a glimpse into the shadows snatched away her childhood innocence. Her way of dealing with the despicable acts committed against her threatened to destroy who she truly was. Can she find the inner strength to overcome her past? Can she see that letting go of the desire to punish oneself is often the hardest act of forgiveness?
This book contains scenes of: sexual violence
Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories
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Is love the most revolutionary of all acts? In this wide-ranging collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters explore their perspectives on love. The stories sweep from sharp realism to heady allegory, haunting fables to sci-fi thrillers, starring teens and drifting husbands, futuristic automatons and talking dogs, gardeners and gatekeepers, a blind girl, a young father, and many more.
Out of the Desert
by Betsy Ashton
When Todd Mathieson, the oldest of four children who grew up on the Mojave Desert, closes in on his 50th birthday, he wonders what happened to the little boy who wanted to be a spaceman. And a famous writer. The desert anchors the book, eventually bringing Todd home to evaluate his life. He wonders what happened to his childhood persona, Toad the Dreamer. Can he unlock secrets of his youth to push him forward to the next stages of his life? Will he decide that his professional achievements are enough, even though his life isn’t fully satisfying? Can he reconnect with a special childhood friend to help him chart his path?
The Bastard's Inheritance
by Dennis Roth
A wealthy man’s dying wish drives those closest to him onto paths of deceit, corruption, and blackmail.
A Story to Die For
by Benny Katz
In this enlightening collection, seven stories come together to create a collage of modern Israeli life. In each, men and women face the struggles of a budding new society. The stories highlight social conflicts such as those between youth and adulthood, locals and immigrants, liberalism and conservatism. Together, these down-to-earth, relatable tales are woven into the story of a society in a constant state of change, facing struggles within and without. The characters represent modern human civilization for better or worse – openly revealing the good and the bad, the past and the future, and the heart’s deepest desires. (Check price before downloading as free giveaway may end before midnight U.S. time.)
Prophecy of Love
by T. Satterfield
Gabe Mendes thinks love will make his life worth living. But by the time he stumbles across Pythia—mystic and high priestess—he’s already failed miserably in love yet again. So in exchange for access to the universe of love he agrees to slay the black ram. But unlucky in love isn’t his only problem. Turns out—love isn’t even what he thinks it is. And the black ram, well, it might just kill him.
From the Moon I Watched Her
by Emily English Medley
Named by BuzzFeed as one of Winter 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Books and Top 10 New Books To Add To Your Reading List! It’s hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office. The Walters are a good, churchgoing family who stand for holiness, purity, grace, and Christian love. Except when they don't. Family patriarch and fanatic preacher, Victor Black, knows many things for sure, including the fact that abortion is murder and should be punishable by death—a position he defends live in a televised debate. Black’s youngest granddaughter, Stephanie Walters, sits in the front row wearing her frilly Sunday dress, listening carefully to every word. But it doesn't take long for cracks to appear in the Walters upstanding family façade. Stephanie's mother, Lily, begins telling unsettling stories about having a baby who died, and her story keeps changing.
This book contains scenes of: sexual violence
I Fall Apart
by Kenzie Hart
“It was just a kiss.” That’s what my friends told me. But they couldn’t really understand. It was a kiss. A kiss that made me feel like I could fly and crash all at once.
Zennfinnity Was Here
by Jeff Pearson
The absurd, the bizarre, the awkward, the magnificent and uplifting: anything and everything eventually happens in this cosmic world of unlimited possibilities. With each tale being an intense, fantastical universe unto itself, Zennfinnity Was Here is an eclectic collection of eleven, short stories which showcases, with humour and poignancy, both ordinary and quirky characters embroiled in circumstances they never saw coming. Sound familiar? That’s life, isn’t it? And in the end? Ya—we all get fooled again.
Anna's Wish: An Immigrant in the Yukon
by Joyce Derenas
HOW MUCH CAN YOU FORGIVE IN THE NAME OF SURVIVAL? A young immigrant is abandoned in Dawson at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. She’s penniless and unready to be among 100,000 Stampeders. Circumstances soon force her to move to the cribs of Klondike City to survive. DON’T YOU WANT A BETTER LIFE? A gold miner strikes it big, and pursues the scarlet lady whose life could change if she gives up her old ways. She is pulled from her dark past for a while but unknown and tormented memories lie in wait as she returns to the bottle for escape. Based on the true-life stories of Joyce Derenas’ ancestors, ANNA’S WISH explores life in Dawson in the early 1900s.
This book contains scenes of: sexual violence
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