The Lonely Hearts Hotel, Heather O’Neill
The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with a difference. Set throughout the roaring twenties, it is a wicked fairytale of circus tricks and child prodigies, radical chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians and brooding clowns, set in an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. It is the tale of two dreamers, abandoned
Father’s Land, Damien D’Soul
Five years have passed since Otis Lovejoy undertook his sojourn to America. He has now returned home to Nigeria, frustrated and disillusioned, to the land where he grew. A small town called Futa Mallon, located in the middle-belt region. A lot has changed since he left. Armed militant bandits have sprung up across the country,
The Beautiful Ugliness of Being, Joe Maldonado
Joe Maldonado invites readers to embark on a soul-stirring exploration of life’s intricate symphony and the profound beauty that emerges. This poetic exploration culminates in a celebration of our innate capacity for resilience, and uncovers the darkness that resides in the depths of our fears. Through the power of illumination, Maldonado imparts the courage to
Alaska Deadly, J.L. Askew
Memphis private eye Race Warren goes to Alaska to find Ron Billings, a client’s estranged husband. Surviving a deadly encounter with an assassin, Warren realizes someone doesn’t want Billings found. Since the fugitive is key to the mystery, the private eye tracks Billings to a remote arctic village where Warren meets Dr. Mark Dunbar, head
Lady of the Plantation, Adrian Heflin
‘Lady of the Plantation’ is the story of a mulatto girl surviving the brutality of slavery in Georgia in the 1800’s. Young Sylvia continues to overcome setbacks as she manages daily life on the Four Willows plantation. Love and roses are the things that help her maintain her sanity during a life of oppression. Crime
Deceit of the Soul, Henry Cox
A fast-paced thriller filled with mesmerizing characters and settings written in March 2020, unraveling the development of the virus to be known as COVID-19 and the ultimate pandemic – that could have been avoided – and the story that cannot be told. For Colonel Li Huiwei the story never ends. Her intellect has always been
The Chronicle Keeper, Wren Kingsley
After waking to find herself imprisoned in a compound miles from civilization, Aislin discovers a note attached to her mother’s locket. Determined to find Destiny, the author who wrote the ominous note, Aislin escapes with her life barely intact. But when Nolan, a cute stranger, rescues her from a couple of ghosthounds, things get a
Soul Scepter, Eric Westergard
Will Donovan’s life is turned upside down when he discovers his family’s connection to a mysterious scepter. As the son of an infamous terrorist, the 16-year-old grew up bullied, shamed, and yearning for a life away from a dark reputation. Meanwhile, people seeking power have been monitoring him for years. A militant organization attacks Will’s
Maverick, Movies, & Murder, Mary Seifert
The bullets changed everything for me. Sometimes I wished I’d taken a bullet too because I lost the most important men in my life. My dad still fought every day to reclaim his confidence, mobility, and wit from the bullet that creased his brain. But my husband of seventeen days took our dreams with him
Before the Fall, Noah Hawley
On a foggy summer night, eleven people–ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter–depart Martha’s Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the passengers disappear into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs–the painter–and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul’s family. With
Blackwing, Ed McDonald
The republic faces annihilation, despite the vigilance of Galharrow’s Blackwings. When a raven tattoo rips itself from his arm to deliver a desperate message, Galharrow and a mysterious noblewoman must investigate a long dead sorcerer’s legacy. But there is a conspiracy within the citadel: traitors, flesh-eaters and the ghosts of the wastelands seek to destroy them, but if they
Master of Music, Marla Himeda
Not long after the Druids came to Eire, the Bards mysteriously vanished from the annals of history, fleeing their native shores to begin life on a remote chain of islands … the Bardic Isles. Over two hundred years later, a village boy is born with a gift of music that hasn’t been seen since the
Pacer Coulee Chronicles, Wayne Edwards
Pacer Coulee Chronicles takes the reader down the adventurous path of the 1990 high school fall sports season in the small, rural community of Pacer Coulee, Montana. Ethyl Coffman, School Board Chairperson and community leader and icon, hires thirty-something coaches Luke Carter and Madison Danielson with the specific directive of returning the town sports fortunes
AYNI, Erin Lucero
Imagine a world where everything is connected, where people work together for the mutual benefit of all living things. Imagine a world full of abundance, love, and prosperity, not driven by scarcity and fear. This is the world of Ayni (AY-Nee), and the people of the Andes have lived this way for hundreds of years.
The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy, Gretchen Cherington
Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author’s paternal grandfather and Hormel’s Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel’s comptroller. Over
Shark Sense: A Simple yet Powerful Approach to Reach Your Goals, Sharkie Zartman
Are you ready to tap into the potential power of a formidable predator? Shark Sense is about learning to use our instinctive wisdom to supplement logic and is a simple, no-nonsense approach to life’s challenges. Packed with shark attributes, entertaining stories, tips, illustrations and written by a professor and former All-American Athlete who also happens
The Shadows We Make, Jo Allen Ash
Grace Irese, sixteen-year-old desert warrior with a chip on her shoulder, is gifted in ways she does not yet realize. Duncan Oaks, teenage member of the Grif-Drif Con-Artist Guild, is a boy who has made one bad choice too many. When they are both remanded to an off-world juvenile facility with lifetime sentences. Grace and
Rites of Passage, E.C. Joe
Rock climbing throughout the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California has been going about quietly for well over a century. The exploits of its pioneers into this beautiful mountain range have been infrequently documented in a few books, alpine journals, and magazines. The tales of these climbers in this area remain elusive in comparison to
The Calm Communicator, Alec Cooper
If you’re sick of feeling anxious and overwhelmed in conversations & want to improve your communication skills so you can talk to anyone, then keep reading… Have you ever avoided a social interaction because you thought you had nothing valuable to say? Have you ever felt the crippling fear that sets in when you first
The Pink Bundle, SJ McGarry
Sandra revisits the place of her birth, which seems like a story from another lifetime. She never has the details right, and it makes her uncomfortable. Fifty years later, she receives a phone call from someone who claims to be her half-sister and learns her birth mother has been searching for her all these years.